At the white house, right now, President Joe Biden preparing to Face Congress and the American People and deliver a speech that could have huge consequences for his reelection campaign. Theyll soon leave for the us capitol to give his state of the Union Address. Less than 48 hours after his long anticipated rematch with donald trump became a reality. Welcome to a Special Edition of ac360. Im Anderson Cooper and im jake tapper. About an hour from now, President Biden will walk into the House Chamber under enormous pressure to forcefully and successfully sell his vision for america and his argument for a second terme. Mister President Biden needs to take advantage of this opportunity with tens of millions of americans watching to make his case and perhaps, perhaps the most important speech of his decades long career in public life, this will be a critical test of the 81 year old commander in chief. He will try to convince skeptical voters that they have benefited from his presidency, and
within, it s more questions he has to find answers for. confusion and uncertainty in russia this morning after a failed revolt by the head of the wagner mercenary group. this was the most significant challenge to vladimir putin s authority in decades. we ll go over what exactly happened and what it could mean for putin s leadership as well as the ongoing war in ukraine. plus, despite mounting legal challenges, new polling shows donald trump expanding his lead in the 2024 republican primary. we re breaking down the new numbers straight ahead. and special counsel jack smith asks a federal judge to delay trump s upcoming classified documents trial. what we re learning about the possible new timing for that. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, june 26th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin this morning with this weekend s developing news out of russia where the head of the mercenary wagner group launched the most
all right. dana, thanks. dana: have a great show. bret: gogood evening. i m bret baier. breaking tonight, we are following two major stories, first former president donald trump is appealing a decision by maine s democratic secretary of state barring him from primary ballot in his role january 6th, 2021 capitol riot. expecting a similar appeal over colorado s decision to remove the decision from that state s ballot. we begin with claudine gay s resignation as the president of harvard university. the departure comes amid several plagiarism accusations criticism over her december congressional testimony where she was unable to say unequivocally calls on campus for the genocide of jews violated the policy. gay is the second person to resign following the testimony along with former upenn president liz magill. mollie lyon has that story from our boston unit tonight. good evening, bret. harvard president claudine gay making it official announcing her decision with heavy hear
Here. Nastia is sailing ships, she says. Ukraine has been at war all the eight years shes known. I think it will be better without them, she says. It was uncomfortable having them here. Her parents nearby say fear meant their slept in their clothes all the six months. Its kind of strange here to see how almost unaffected so much of this town has been and how life seems to have slipped comfortably back into normal when the russians just picked up and left. And it gives you a feeling of how normality must still reign just a matter of six kilometers away from the border in russia. But normal is never coming back, particularly to here, the borderline itself. Russia retreated back over it but must now live with the hatred it has stirred. The fact that Ukrainian Forces are able to push right up to here, the beginning of the Border Buffer Zone with russia, russia is just a matter of kilometers in that direction, is yet another Calamity Moscow has imposed upon itself. Its opponent in this war
here. nastia is sailing ships, she says. ukraine has been at war all the eight years she s known. i think it will be better without them, she says. it was uncomfortable having them here. her parents nearby say fear meant their slept in their clothes all the six months. it s kind of strange here to see how almost unaffected so much of this town has been and how life seems to have slipped comfortably back into normal when the russians just picked up and left. and it gives you a feeling of how normality must still reign just a matter of six kilometers away from the border in russia. but normal is never coming back, particularly to here, the borderline itself. russia retreated back over it but must now live with the hatred it has stirred. the fact that ukrainian forces are able to push right up to here, the beginning of the border buffer zone with russia, russia is just a matter of kilometers in that direction, is yet another calamity moscow has imposed upon itself. its oppo