the free internet. of course, china's internet heavily censored in. >> will ripley, thanks. the newest continues right here on cnn outfront. >> next, attorney general merrick garland and republicans go head-to-head, flashing over trump's conspiracy theories, including the former president's baseless claim that the fbi was i'm trying to assassinate him. plus breaking news. we are now just hours away from the us mexico border closing after biden issued strict new border rules. but why? now we're live at the border and hunter biden's laptop. and his own words taking center stage in court today. let's go out front and good evening. i'm erin burnett outfront tonight i will not be intimidated. those are the exact words of attorney general merrick garland, who came under withering fire from republicans today. >> these repeated attacks on the justice department are unprecedented and they are unfounded. i will not be intimidated and the justice department will not be intimidated. we will continue to work, do our jobs free from political influence and we will not back down from defending democracy they usually mild mannered garland, standing firm for five hours as he was confronted with one conspiracy theory after the next everyone designed to show garland and president biden trying to use the doj to take down trump conspiracy theory. >> one, trump's claims that garland and biden wearing cahoots with the manhattan da's office? about this in the hush money trial for trump, garland, of course, would have none of that we do not control the matan manhattan district attorney and the fact of the matter is that in 2018, federal prosecutors with the doj declined to file charges against trump that decision in part because of the lingering concerns about michael cohen's credibility as a witness. >> then came conspiracy theory number to trump's claims that the department of justice was trying to assassinate him during the fbi rate at mar-a-lago again, garland would have none of that i'm just saying that the allegation is not true firm, but calm words. and the allegation is not true. in fact, the language in the documents related to the 2022 search of mar-a-lago it's standard and directly from the department manual, it's just paint with just every single case former fbi deputy operations chief robbed emiko told us that the language included his quote, standard language for every single operation bar, none with trump saying is just a disinformation campaign highlighting it for people who don't know but tonight, trump and his allies are turning up the volume on a disinformation campaign to disparage the attorney general merrick garland, and to disparage the investigations into the former president katelyn polantz is outfront live in washington to begin our coverage tonight. and caitlin, i mean, this was a five-hour intense hearing. garland standing firm, but one of the key reasons since he was there is because republicans won him to release audio of biden's interview with special counsel in the classified documents case. and so far we've got the transcript from the doj that's it. no audio and i know to begin, you've got some new reporting on this tonight. >> yeah. aaron. right now, there is a fight on capitol hill today between merrick garland, the attorney general, and the republicans who want this audio tape of joe biden sitting down for this interview over two days with special counsel robert hur, about the classified documents he had in his possession ended up not being charged but that's not where that fight is on its own. it also exists in court. there are more than a dozen media organizations as well as two right? leaning groups. the heritage foundation and judicial watch, who are suing for that tape as well. and the justice department has had to explain in court, just like merrick garland was explaining today, their reasons for not wanting to hand over this tape they say that there are privacy reasons. some of those things include that it's very stressful for someone to sit for an inner her view. and if they want white house officials to cooperate with them in the future for future, just farm and investigations. they need to offer them some level of privacy protection. also, executive privilege, which merrick garland and the president apparently discussed. garland advise, yes, you could assert privilege and the president did over this tape. here's a little bit more about how america, ireland explained to congress today something he has also echoing in court is it your testimony that a white house official would voluntarily cooperate and a criminal investigation only if the justice department promises not to release the audio recordings. >> it doesn't make any sense the longtime experience, so the justice department has also reflected in the declaration that was filed under oath is that witnesses want to protect the confidentiality of their communications with the prosecutors during these sensitive interviews so aaron, that audio tape recording of biden sitting for the interview with special counsel robert hur. >> it is still classified according to the justice department. it's still in a secured facility protected, and it's ultimately going to be up to very likely the court's on whether it will be released publicly in some way. >> all right. kaelyn, poland's thank you very much. and obviously that recording central to this hearing today, i'd front now democratic congressman dan goldman, former assistant us attorney in the southern district of new york, which of course is part of the doj. so dan, i really appreciate your time and congressman, i want to get to caitlin reporting in just a moment about the tape, but first, just what we saw today, the attorney general garland was defiant. he said, i will not be intimidated. do you think that's what this hearing was about? republicans trying to intimidate him republicans have been trying to intimidate merrick garland and the department of justice for this entire congress, they created an entire subcommittee called the weaponization of the federal government. >> so they could weaponize congress in order to undermine the rule of law, undermine democracy, and undermine most importantly, every single investigation now prosecution against donald trump. that's all this is about. this is the republicans doing the bidding and the dirty work for donald trump they don't like the prosecutions against donald trump, but they have no problem about prosecutions against anyone else, including democrats, including hunter biden. it is hip-hop foresee at its zenith and this was all that it's about and has been all that it's about this entire congress. >> and of course, just to put an emphasis on one thing you said there it is, of course. present biden's doj, which is currently bringing a case against hunter biden. so important to note in that context, i want to play something today, congressman, that happened between attorney general garden, guard, garland, and the chairman of the judiciary committee, jim jordan. and so in this exchange, they're talking about jack smith, who obviously is the special counsel prosecuting the two federal cases against trump. and here's part of their exchange did he ask for the job this is not a job. >> i don't think anybody asks for. it's not that sorry. no, but that's not the question i asked you. i said, did jack smith asieh not asked me for the job? no. >> did did he convey through someone else that he wanted the job? >> i would be surprised if that were the case, but well, you don't know? no, i don't know so he may have i can only tell you what i know. i chose him because he had a record of impartial career experience as a prosecutor. that's why he was chosen so that entire line of questioning was obviously to make it look like jeff smith, jack smith had lobbied for the job and was given it as some part of some conspiracy to take down trump congressmen. >> what was the real purpose of this hearing? >> well, look, ostensibly the purposes that the judiciary committee is supposed to do oversight of the department of justice and the department of justice makes its budgetary requests through the judiciary committee. but of course, that's not what jim jordan and the republicans want to use it for the purpose of this hearing. is it is with just about everything related to the department of justice is to undermine the confidence in the department of justice in the fbi. to undermine the rule of law because donald trump has been charged with multiple different crimes in multiple different courts. >> that's the the only reason that the republicans object to anything going on in merrick garland's department of justice or in the manhattan da's office, or in the atlanta, georgia da's office. and don't forget aaron. >> this the arguments you start hearing about the manhattan da trial, that this is something how politicized that michael cohen is a terrible witness that michael cohen was the reason the southern district of new york didn't charge donald trump the fact of the matter is like our constitution requires an allows for donald trump's lawyer had three days to cross it examine michael cohen. >> he had ample opportunity to show that he was a non credible witness. the jury heard it. the jury heard all the other evidence, consider all the other evidence and decided unanimously that he was guilty. >> this is how our criminal justice system works. >> and merrick garland is operating the department of it's justice in the true true, timeless fashion that our democratic values have been founded upon and, and also to add to that, of course, the doj did not bring that case, that they had nothing to do with that case was of course, brought by the manhattan da. >> i want to ask you what caitlin about caitlin is reporting a congressman do and that is is about this audio tape republicans are focused on the audio tape of biden's interview with special counsel in his classified documents case media organizations want this audio as well, including my own here's one exchange where the republican congressman dan bishop tells garlin that he thinks the audio is important because it will let people here biden's presentation, his demeanor and evaluate his mental capacity. here's the exchange you know what demeanor evidence is, don't you, sir? i'm sorry, i didn't demeanor evidence. >> you know what that is is that on the bench for decades you i know what demeanor evidence i know what demeanor evidence is, and i've not been shown any reason why audio evidenced of demeanor would make a difference in any legislative purpose that's what demeanor evidence is. >> are witnessing an observing a witness as they testify and what can be done by this committee is to observe the audio recording of the president testifying to see whether it comports with the transcript or whether it reveals things about his capacity or his veracity or anything else that comes from his demeanor as he as he is interviewed congressman, do you think the audio should be released absolutely not. >> it is a preposterous proposition to say that congress has some legitimate legislative purpose to obtain the audio when it has the substance of the interview in transit script form. >> they cannot enumerate any reason for congress not necessarily the media, which is a separate issue, or the special counsel who obviously had the audio and was the one who was evaluating his demeanor to make the decision the prosecutor and he had concerned about he had concerned about the president's mental capacity. so that's why people want to see. i mean, you're democratic colleague in the senate, mark warner, just told the associated press, i quote him, you've got to release the audio now there's there's no legal basis to release the audio the department of justice is absolutely correct. >> now, remember aaron joe biden voluntarily sat for five hours of an interview that is in direct contrast to donald trump, who refuse to sit for an interview with special counsel muller and. then he submitted a written answers to questions and was known was asserted to be false and obstructed. justice because he lied in his written answers so when the attorney general says we want to encourage people to voluntarily cooperate if congress is going to get hold of these videotapes. so that donald trump can use them as part of his campaign because that's really the only reason they want it, because they cannot establish a legitimate basis. >> just one file go in. >> the reason everyone's asking for it, i think from the media perspective, the american public is because special counsel, her concluded that there were issues with biden's memory right? i mean, that's the reason is that actually counsel, her well special counsel, her said that he also said in the course of the interview that president biden has a photographic memory and ultimately you have the transcript. >> so if you have issues with his memory or with what he said, you have the trench, would you have the substance of it? the only reason for the audio is for political partisan purposes to help donald trump. >> all right. what congressman goldmann, i appreciate your time and thank you for the conversation thank you. next, we have breaking news. president biden's new immigration crackdown is about to take effect. so shutting down the southern us border at midnight. but why now plus the jury in hunter biden's case hearing, the president's son in his own words, speak out about the grip the drugs had on him i was a bloodhound on the set like everywhere else i'd butt crack what was the jury looking as they saw heard that? and a chilling warning tonight for the head of the the fbi about the number of threats facing america tonight wet it's hard besides pain means pause on the things you love but green me go cool the pain with bio free and keep on going bio freeze. >> green means go. >> were you stationed working or living at campbell as yoon between 1953 and 1987, if you or a loved one have suffered from a severe illness, you may be eligible for a settlement offer ranging from 100,000 i wasn't to $550,000 without a court filing, morgan and morgan is already helping over 15,000 veterans and their families and the fight towards justice for more information, call the number on your screen or visit www. dot campbell is yoon it's coming i found another, body. >> you're recognizing. >> never seen him before. >> he all vs theory is an alkyl or use the flood to cover their tracks i'd be careful if i were you pizza night, just got better. >> introducing the black stone pizza oven for fast, delicious restaurant quality pizza, writing your backyard it's never been in easier with blackstone's patented dual stone technology. the bottom stole automatically turner's the pizza for you, while the top stolen blazes your topic what, 900 degrees of krispy melting power giving you a better pizza experience. your pizza, give me ready and under to me minutes with your own hand-picked fresh ingredients with the push of a button, you can bring the seer to anything sizzling steak kristie wayne savory, salman. now, that's live in right. make it fast, making yours and make it better. go to your nearest. watch. oh, retailer or blackstone products.com. now and make everything better on a blackstone a heart attack. >> do they have life insurance? 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the un aaron, would that migrainous saying in essence is that he believes that biden's border policies going to work, that migrant since are going to return back to their home countries. but i can tell you from the years that i've spent covering the border and talking to migrants, i usually hear that they've been persecuted, that they've lost everything, and that's why they've come to the united states. >> that their country is in shambles. take venezuela. so it's very difficult to believe that that would be the case, but, you know what history will tell us, aaron and in what i can tell you back based on my experience, is that usually when law enforcement is enhanced on the border, migrants use riskier measures to cross, which usually means more deaths rosa thank you very much. on the border tonight and outfront now, the mayor of the radio texas, victor trevino, he met with the president earlier. he was at the white house for biden's immigration announcement. america vena, i'm so glad to be speaking with you again and obviously a very significant de by in signing this order that would immediately cut southern border crossings by a third, is this a game changer as you see at mare yes, it isn't. >> thank you very much for having us it's a matter of fact, the as we were invited to the white house by the president so he could discuss the executive order that he did regarding asylum seekers basically saying that asylum seekers that cross illegal inter-country will not be eligible. and asylum seekers, i can actually get on the app and get, get their asylum appointments do. but the other thing is that if that number of asylum seekers gets to 2,500 that'll put a pause and to asylum seekers. the other thing is that once it gets down to 1,500, then he will reactivate the application for asylum seekers. >> do you think as laredo is the largest? >> for venturing into the united states, do you think that this announcement is actually backed up by what it needs to be backed up by border patrol, law enforcement, whatever is needed to actually hold these numbers down. yes, it is because once immigrants are migrants know that if they cross illegally, there will not be eligible for asylum that would put a decrease and these people coming in. and the other thing is that word gets around and the people that transfer them to the border. we also find out, and that'll be one of the things that i think will cut the amount of people coming in to our country. >> so us border patrol mirror trevino says there have been nearly 7 million encounters at the southern border since president biden took office, nearly 7 million are you worried about the long long-term impact on the country at large because you see it from the very starting point. but for the country at large of nearly 7 million border encounters since biden took office there's a country even know the magnitude of what's really happened well, we that live and work at the border do see that impact and we know that there has to be steps to improve immigration reform. >> and i think this is a first step to do so. there's a lot of other things that have to go into doing it. immigration reform. and that is because the laws are so antiquated, they'd been antiquated forward 20 years. so we need to focus on reform and that i think would be more impactful situation. >> so what happens tomorrow in laredo? >> well, what happens tomorrow in laredo if people that are coming in illegally apply for asylum, there will be returned back to mexico with a denial for asylum and this will give the message to other people that if they really is seeking asylum, they have to apply hi, through the after cbp app or go directly to the offices of cbp on crossing on the ports of entry. >> all right. well, america vino. i appreciate your time. thanks so much. i'm glad to talk to you again. >> thank you. thank you for having so as of midnight, you come in, turned away, sent back to mexico, denied asylum. i want to bring in ron brown seen are senior political analyst and van jones political commentator on of course, the former special advisor to president obama. all right, so glad to have you here to talk about this and run this is consistently one of the top, if not the top issues as americans rank them of what they care about for the election, biden consistently polls far below trump on the issue of immigration. >> but you just heard a lot of presley, even from the left of his own party. he's being slammed for this. >> is this going to help them? >> i think it will actually some immigration public opinion tends to move in the opposite direction from immigration policy. that's been my experience running about this since the early 1990s when republicans are in, when trump was in, there was pretty broad resistance to a lot of the harb hard-line measures that he pursued. separation, obviously, of kids and their parents at the border what are remain in mexico under biden, there's a broad sense that it's too tolerant. and there is now much more support for many of the harsher things that trump wanted to do. i don't think biden can close that gap. yeah, entirely in given all it's happened in the last few years, but i do think that adopting this, which was kinda the sharpest tool in the armory hurry of that bipartisan senate bill gives him more ground to stand on to say, look, i'm taking reasonable steps to secure the border and this allows them, i think also a stronger position to criticize some of the things that trump wants to do in a second term. peculiarly, mass deportation. and then mostly what does, especially with this is obviously not targeted as the base whose party it's targeted at model all right. >> city needs to win, but van, while biden says he's doing this because republicans wouldn't, as i pointed out, there's been more than 400,000 people cross the border since that bipartisan bill failed, 200,000 migrants have come into new york city since the spring of 20,020 of 2020 to 200,000 van i mean, i'm just curious and as i said, nearly 7 million since he's taken office, do you think they and that people are going to see this the way biden wants them to, or are they going to say, look, all these people come in and came in under biden's leadership and he owns that 7 million it's hard to know how the public is going to see it. but i think now he's being accused of playing politics with immigration when the problem is that there's republicans have been playing politics with immigration. the last thing biden wants to do was to move on his own and to use executive authority that the courts have raised an eyebrow, add biden it's not somebody who likes to do executive orders that he thinks the courts aren't going to approve. that's why he waited so long the reality is republicans have a strategy here they scream fire at the border they spread the fire around by shipping migrants all over to blue cities and then went to my tries to bring a fire firehose like biden, they step on the firehose, a, don't let congress act. and so he's got a little pail of water on his desk. he's trying to throw it on the fire because that's all that's left to him. but this republicans who should own this last chunk because republicans had a chance to do something. they had a chance to solve the problem. they wouldn't even support their own bill. they would rather hurt biden and help the country. and that's the real problem here. that's real politics here. >> that run. though when you look at democrats i mean, you've got some that are happy, the biden's doing this. but you have some who are slamming it. in fact, for what you say, because they're saying, oh, it's like trump did and they actually aren't okay with that. i mean, here's just two today i'm disappointed that the president has sort of gone into the same frame as donald trump at a very time when we need to make a distinction between donald trump and joe biden votes. the point if no tempts returned to the same policy them improvement to fail and the feb administration you know they're going to not vote for him though, right? well, from the point of your biden ministration, the fact that ruben gallego, who is running starts from the left, but is running for senate in arizona, supported this. r. >> kelly's loudly support, but it's probably more telling what biden has tried to do on immigration without a lot of success is basically say we're going to expand legal pathways and we are going to try to shut off the illegal pathways to try to steer people that direction. >> in fact, even in this, even in this plan, 1,500 people a day can still come in under that cbp. one app that the mayor was talking about, the best thing biden has going for four min holding the left on immigration, is that trump is serious about pursuing a larger scale deportation than we've ever seen in american history. and the question of whether moving to the center at the border will drive away people if they know the alternative is deporting up to 1 million or more people a year. i think biden has more room on the left and it might seem and van when are we going to know what people think well, i mean, we'll see in the polling data, but i also want to point out that you have mayors, like the mayor of denver, democratic mayor, denver democratic mayor, chicago democratic mayor of new york park saying we just ca't handle it. >> yes. just too much. and so it's you have you ever revolt inside a bag party that's mainly revolt of the center saying, we'd literally can't 15 a house democrats saying, we can't take anymore. everybody has got a number that's too many crossing the border. some it's one, some it's 1 billion. but that number has been crossed democratic party, it certainly has. and as i said again, maybe biggest at home, 200,000 migrants to new york city just in these past two years. thank you both very much. next incredible new details from inside the hunter biden courtroom today. >> we're learning this is very different than the manhattan case. >> jurors are struggling to stay awake while prosecutors went through biden's text messages, videos, and photos. so is this a problem for the government's case? 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>> well, to have hunter biden's voice filled out courtroom, you could see the jurors were playing playing pain very close attention. they were taking notes. they were deserving every single thing that was coming from that audio book but prosecutors also spent hours going through a text messages, photos, video from his icloud and fbi agent was on the stand trying to explain their efforts to try to to try to verify that these were indeed he took text messages from hunter biden where he's talking to his drug dealers, talking to people who were around him, and you saw some of the ron motion from at least one juror who who was wiping away tears and seemed overcome with emotion at some of the explanations from some of the, some of the explanations from abbe lowell the defense attorney for hunter biden, his point here is that people who are struggling with it, with addiction have periods where they're not using drugs you can see during a period where he was trying to get the fbi agent to acknowledge that despite all those text messages, the prosecutors do not have any evidence to show that hunter biden was using drugs on october 12, 2018 when he bought this gun, which is what we're here for. and you can see this 11 juror three in particular, she paged through her notes and she shook her head as abbe lowell was trying to make that point. so erin, look, it's clear that the prosecutors have a lot of evidence it is clearly they have a strong hand to work with here, but it does happen that prosecutors overplay their hands. juries, juries have their own way of dealing with things. and we'll see how this works for that. >> all right. evan, thank you very much. and ryan goodman, outfront legal expert is with me now, so you hear evan he was in the courtroom today, so we heard that audio. you saw the jury's reaction to that. >> so you also heard that him talking about the one juror who was tearing up, right? >> obviously, people have personal connections to issue she's like addiction. >> so how do you think that plays with the jury hearing his own words, reading a book which they could read excerpts are so excerpts, but hearing him i think it can be very powerful. >> so just to take an example of the recent case of manhattan, what the prosecutors they were able to do is actually play an audio of the defendant, donald trump. that's very hey, powerful. and to also speak about, or have somebody read from donald trump's prior books. this is even better than that because the prosecutor is actually have the defendant and his own voice and it sounds like therefore, an audio recording of the defendants. so it's one step below having the defendant take the stand, which prosecutors like but, they're. presenting the defendant in therefore, the hearing him actually talk about and his own addiction, which is an element of the crime, which of course, in the book is also where he admits to buy. that's what the whole case is hearing mr. buying the gun and the book. so i guess they're now trying to use that to show their sayyed of the story as well evan also said he didn't mention it there, but it did say during some of the presentations a technical presentations text messages, videos, photos from the icloud from that laptop, that some of the jurors did seem to struggle to stay awake obviously, we didn't i didn't see that ever in the courtroom here in manhattan. so this is a little bit different in terms of what we're seeing here. what does that say to you? >> not good for the prosecutors. i mean, they want their jurors to be paying attention to the evidence, especially in the very first day that they're presenting evidence to the jurors. yeah. you'd want them to be paying attention if they're not if they're struggling to stay awake means they're basically not fully awake. so they're not absorbing the information means more of a weight is carried by the prosecutors in summation, but this is not what they want to hear, but i guess they'll have a better run at it when they have live witnesses on the stand. right? right. i mean, no doubt they noticed that today, too. all right. ryan, thank you very much. and harry enten joins me now to go beyond the numbers because harry, ryan's talking about the reaction of that one juror that evan referred to, who grew emotional as abbe lowell hunter biden's attorney was talking about and addiction. we know that they're jurors who said that they have have dealt without are a family members who have and they are far from alone. >> they are far from alone. two-thirds of americans either personally or have had a familial connection to someone who has suffered from addiction from drugs or alcohol. and this is something that goes across party leinz, right basically just as many republicans, 68% democrats, 66% of a personal or family experience with drug or alcohol addiction. so whether or not that helps hunter biden wait and see, but that juror i think speaks for a lot of americans. >> it doesn't an incredibly bipartisan, where do you see a number that i mean, every single group and the same. obviously this trial puts president biden under the microscope. he has spoken out and saying, of course he's not going to comment on it, except for as a father, jill biden was in the courtroom yesterday how to voters feel about president biden's role in all this? yeah, let's see, five months to election day here. >> yeah. look, i think that they recognize joe biden try has been trying to fence set it right where he's saying, look, i'm not necessarily defending my son's action since by defend my son. >> right. i want to be a good father and among many americans see it that way when it comes to joe biden and hunter biden, look at this, is joe biden being a good father by supporting hunter, the clear majority of americans say yes, if 54% no, at 25%, and i think therefore this is a sign that joe biden's probably playing this back how does best as he can politically speaking? >> well, the outcome of the trial affect the race when numbers you say no, not really, you know, essentially voters were asked, you know, okay. >> does this make you any less likely to vote for joe biden, a clear runaway answer here is no impact at 58%. yeah, 23% say less likely to vote for joe biden. but you know who those voters are, those are voters to weren't going to vote for joe biden anyway, there are overwhelmingly republicans. >> all right. thank you very much. very important contact, especially as you look at these back-to-back historical, historically precedent setting trials in back-to-back weeks. well, next the head of the fbi, with an alarming new warning tonight about an unprecedented number of threats facing the united states of america right now and we're going to take you to a key battleground state tonight where there are new warning signs for both biden and trump tonight my grandfather's run my or the header for over 75 years now 99 99-years-old and he come five days a week. >> if we let them shape his grave to college, nice. well, lid for your bathing finding the exact date on ancestry at that our family business was founded really struck a chord with my grandfather. >> i have never seen this before look at it. what from all the stories that he's been able to hand me throughout the years for me to hand him that information. you don't get that moment every day were you stationed working or living at campbell's zhun between 1953 and 1987, if you or a loved one have suffered from a severe illness, you may be eligible for settlement offer ranging from 100,000 to $550,000 without a court filing. >> morgan and morgan is already helping over 15,000 veterans and their our families and the fight towards justice. for more information, call the number on your screen or visit www. dot kappeler, zhun the best things in life. they come into two scoops of ice cream two thumbs up and now by any bone, when you switch to consumer cellular and get two months of service free that's right. >> two months free. >> all with the same fast, reliable, nationwide coverage as big wireless make the switch today, the call go online or visit a store near you there's two times the daily and our best deal of the year deep down, i knew something was wrong since my fatigue and lightheadedness would come and go. >> i figured it wasn't a big deal. then i saw my doctor and found out i have a few and that means there's about a five times greater risk of stroke symptoms like irregular heartbeat heart racing, chest pain, shortness of breath, fatigue, or lightheadedness can come and go. but if you have a fib, the risk of stroke is always there. if you have one or more symptoms, get checked out, holding off on seeing a doctor won't change whether or not to have eight-fifths. but if you do making that appointment in help you get ahead of stroke risk contacted dr. and learn more at no time to wait that curl i've got good news is a murder walking i'm sorry what? 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in well, that conviction weigh in on your choice at all in november no no. no. it won't. unless he's right to jail i guess. but if he's on the ticket is on the ticket wisconsin is once again an essential stop on the road to the white house. >> a bellwether that went for biden in 2020 and trump in 2016, i think at the end of the day that that conviction last three helps puzzled on trump, tony duker believes the felony convictions may rally republicans, but he doesn't believe that alone is a path to victory. >> i think economy, which would include inflation, i think that's the barber situation. i think it's the crime i'm situation. all of the things that historically a president as judged by in an election year. here in suburban cedar berg, where biden became the first democrat in a quarter quarter-century to win duker proudly planted a trump sign and its front yard. >> i won't be intimidated in my support. for president trump. >> a few blocks away. the opposing view from a republican against trump, no one was home where a flag bearing the name of jack smith special prosecutor in the federal probe against trump, waived in the breeze how much democrat should dwell on those cases is the subject of considerable hand-wringing after biden mocked trump this week as a convicted felon, i would probably say you should really get more emphasis on policy than you should on trashing the opponent. but there are other people that would disagree with that. >> tim i king or as a loyal biden supporter, but believes inflation and economic challenges threaten his reelection. do you believe he'll win or do you worry he could clues? 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