trump set to face off in their first 2024 presidential debate. the stage now set. the candidates arriving in atlanta for the biggest night of this campaign so far. for president biden, his best chance yet to ease questions over his age, while former president trump is taking the stage less than a month after his criminal conviction. the attacks expected over abortion, the economy, immigration, and the mystery over mr. trump s vp pick, the top three contenders all expected to be there. our full coverage tonight. also this evening, the supreme court allowing emergency abortions in idaho for now, a day after the ruling was mistakenly posted online. why the fight is far from over. just in, more than two years after the uvalde massacre, the indictment the now former school district police chief is facing. new storms in the midwest on the heels of catastrophic flooding, and deadly weather slamming the northeast. in gaza, 20 critically ill children in desperate need of care.
i ll see you back here tomorrow for more supreme court decisions and post debate analysis. chris jansing picks up your coverage right now from atlanta. good morning. it is 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i m chris jansing in for jose diaz-balart, and large here at georgia tech, the site of pretty intense georgia tech matchups, but all the media assembled here waiting for matchup with pressure about as intense as anything we ve seen in a presidential debate. in just a few hours donald trump and joe biden will go head to head for the first time in four years. tonight s face-off marks a critical opportunity for both candidates to shake-up this stubbornly static race between two men in an all-out war for a second white house term. and tonight tonight they mark the most important battle. new polling from just the past 24 hours continues to show a race with no clear leader. poll after poll after poll within the margin of error, so tonight the opportunity to break out not
reporting that the court mistakenly posted its opinion yesterday on a major abortion case in idaho based that s right. that was really a shock development yesterday. and actually the high court did confirm that a document was inadvertently posted to the court s website, and this was reviewed by bloomberg news and this was involving the case about abortions and idaho. and according to that document that was uploaded and we should caution this could change depending on what officially comes down from the high corporate and this was a 6-3 opinion you had three conservatives siding with three liberals and it essentially allows for abortions to happen in the state of idaho. in the case of medical emergency these not just when a woman s life is at risk. and so that is what the idaho abortion ban initially allowed for was just when a woman s life was at risk of doctor could perform that abortion. so that law is essentially on hold for now. and just to put this in perspective, when
we fell in love i got along great with president putin. i liked him. he liked me. that s a good thing, not a bad thing. imagine the fomo from trump, the two dictators he admires and praises, and trump s not there to join the party? hmm? election interference 2.0, roger stone s plan to retake the white house even if trump loses again. good evening and happy juneteenth. i m michael steele in for joy reid. we begin tonight with an earnest question. what on earth is wrong with the republican party? the grand state of the party was on full display when donald trump held a particularly unhinged rally where he spent 90 minutes, folks, spewing a combination of lies, vitriol, and rambling word salad. joe biden s formal granting mass he s going to formally grant a mass amnesty to millions of illegal aliens. less than four years ago our border was secure, inflation was nowhere to be seen, the world was at peace. in 2016 we won. and then we did much better here in 2020, b
that saw the highest number of votes in u.s. history. we re also following the latest on the capitol riots. two men now facing charges of assault in connection with the death of capitol police officer brian sicknick. why did it take more than two months to arrest these guys? and why aren t they charged with murder? we ll have more on that in just a minute plus, the latest on the covid pandemic. numbers continue to go down in the u.s. but they re spiking over in europe, leading to tighter restrictions in several countries. to make matters worse, the vaccine rollout is on hold in several places in europe after officials stopped using one of the approved vaccines. we re going to dig into all of that. but we have to start with breaking news connected to one of the big of the trials in recent memory, the trial of former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin. as we speak, the judge is gaveling in and he s got a big question on his plate, whether to even move forward or put t