and she s so amazing thanks so much for joining us this afternoon. it ll be sad to say goodbye to pat sajak, but you can say hello to jake tapper is the leader starts right now the themes of the 2024 race today, democracy and revenge, the lead starts right now starkly different messages from two starkly different men, president biden s warning about democracy on the world stage, while donald trump to gain much more personal approach, plus a dramatic turn in the hunter biden gun trial defense scrapping. it s witness list on some level, leaving one major question about the case, yet to be answered. and the judge presiding over one of the most consonant sequential cases in america described as isolated in an experience with judge aileen cannon is really up against as she takes on the criminal classified documents case against donald trump welcome to the lead. i m phil mattingly info jake tapper. it s friday. we start with our world lead and president biden today drawing on the
the outcome. number one, in terms of the outcome will never know whether having a better defense plan might have actually won that case, but they didn t really have one. and maybe it wasn t winnable anyway but there s a difference between being upset about the outcome of a case and saying, therefore, i m going to go after everybody. number one, you have to have bases for crimes who can t just go and manufacturer events. number one, the argument against manhattan cases that the law was contorted in a way to make it possible what he can do is he can order the justice department to open various investigations. again, they would have to have grounds, but they could do that. what is allies are calling for right now is that state attorneys general or local republican district attorneys who might have some overlay with the aspects of current investigations into trump or his allies should therefore open investigations into the investigators. and that is something that we have seen before. reme