breaking news on donald trump's search for a running mate in which key allies are pushing for each of those three, right there also the hearing today that's casting yet more doubt on the job judge, running the trump classified documents, case two, former federal judges are here to weigh it and questions about boeing equipment delays two passengers only instead of stranding them at ceo pair well, they're stuck in orbit. >> john king here tonight in for anderson, we begin with the breaking news, namely who people close to the former president donald trump wants to see on the ticket with him three. names, each one being touted by a different trump faction two senators, and the governor of north dakota, cnn's alayna treene has more on who they are and what's playing out behind the seeds alaina, tell us, what are you learning? >> well luck as we inch closer to the republican national convention, john, that is the self-imposed deadline that donald trump has set for when he is going to announce his running mate you have an increasing number of people jockeying to be in trump's ears pushing their preferred candidate. and really, we're seeing this from every corner of donald trump's orbit, from his family too. so what does media to his former adviser is all of them pitching different people to donald trump. and so, as you said, i've really been told from my conversations with trump's campaign that the list has narrowed to three people, marco rubio, jd vance, and doug burgum, and also that donald trump has actually taken on a much more serious and earnest approach to looking at this process, which is a departure from the past several months. but each of these men have different people pushing them. so i'm going to break it down for you, jd vance don junior, donald trump, son has long been a close friend of jd vance's. he's been very actively lobbying his father for him to be the running mate. he also has the support of steve bannon and tucker carlson. so a lot of the far-right. doug burgum has been getting the support of fox news corp mandate or excuse me, magnate rupert murdoch, he's been pushing him to different conservative, high-profile allies, but also, we've really seen them get showered with some of favorable coverage from fox news score, like with the wall street journal, the new york post, and then burger or excuse me, rubio has actually been a favorite of the donor class at a dinner last month, immediately after donald trump's guilty verdict in his manhattan trial, donald trump was sitting with a group of dozen or so wall street figures and took a informal straw poll asking everyone, who do you like, who do you like, and the majority of people said marco rubio. now, rubio also has the support i'm told of kellyanne conway, as well as sean hannity so breaking they're a little bit with rupert murdoch, but it's interesting to really see all of these different people really having drastic differences and who they think should be really interesting list. also interestingly, different factions and sometimes the conflict, then those factions who else, who else will the form of prezi, he says he's going to make this decision at the convention. we'll see if he waits that long but who else is in his ear saying mr. trump, i think this is the one and y well, it's interesting because when you actually get down to it from when i talked to a lot of these donors and mainly donald trump's advisers. they argue that sometimes when you are in donald trump's ear, it actually can turn them off more even though, like i said, donald trump, he loves to be on his patio at mar-a-lago all or at his club in bedminster and say, who do you like and try to feel the room for the most part, he sometimes can get turned off when people tried to push certain people on him and that's why actually, many of donald trump's closest advisers and the people actually working on his the campaign, people like susie wiles and chris lacivita, his campaign managers. they are very wary of weighing in. they are trying to let him make the decision. and here's a quote. i just found this to kind of sum it up perfectly from someone close to trump. they said, quote, susie has lasted this long because she provides information that will be helpful. and then let's trump make the decision. so you only other person i'm waiting to hear from who i actually think it's swam is melania trump, the first lady? whereas, out on that road, you come back that hadn't ventilated. >> don't go anywhere, stay with us. let's bring into the conversation bryan lanza, he was deputy communications director on the 2016 trump campaign, also are cnn political commentators and democratic strategists maria cardona and jamal simmons, bryan, let me talk to you first because you've been in trump led so how does this work in the sense that elleithee just with through who he's listening to but does he really listened yeah. >> he likes to entertain them. he loves, he loves the engagement is like, what do you think? you ease the salesman so he makes you feel like you haven't a voice in the process. maybe there's a contribution that's going to come because you feel included. but at the end of the day, the president knows who he's going to pick. he's probably known that for a number of years at this point since he's been running, he's somebody who looks down field watches cable television, watch the audience, and usually does good. joyce and picking the people i talked to. i'm not going to say he's leading one particular way, but the insider group that i talked to in trump world, it's all how about jd vance? they think he's the most articulate to talk about maga. he's the one who came from these working class roots, which is a big part of the party now, our its shifting forward. and he's somebody who who rose from this working class groups, went on to get an ivy league education and contributed back to the community. he won a swing ohio was a swing state when he was running. he wanted suburban neighborhoods, he wanted independence. i think there's a lot of value and i think there's some concern with marco rubio. i mean, this is a senator who's choked on a national stage twice. chris christie filleted him at the debate. we all saw it in 2000 then within 16 and then he got really thirsty with the state of the union speech. you can't make those mistakes on national stage. and ruby has shown the propensity to make those arizona national sorry i lana went through the list. brian just made the case there for jd vance comes out of mega, but if you're looking at this strategically, is that what trump needs someone who is omega echo maybe with a younger generation or or is it where, why not a woman on the ticket, he has a problem, sometimes had a gender gap in alaska or why not? what about what happened to senator tim scott and the professor efforts to try to reach into the black community, right? >> now. i don't think jd vance would get him something that he doesn't already have. and in fact, i think that there is a pop possibility i've heard from some in the trump camp, but, you know better that jd vance might actually outshine him when it comes to mug audiences because he is so good on tv and he is very charismatic. and we all know that donald trump it doesn't want anybody out shining him. yeah, he would need somebody else, a woman latino. i don't think maga rubio would fit the bill an african american to get to the communities that he actually is lacking right now independent women, suburban women but right now, the three that you mentioned certainly do not fit that bill. but let's also remember, it could be somebody who's not even on that list, though i suspect that from a vetting standpoint, they would need to have done all the paperwork. >> but who knows? i think you're right. it's going to be whoever he feels that day whoever he wakes up with in terms of a whim. >> so jbeil simmons cup meant to the conversation in this context. normally we spent a lot of time on this when there's an open spot on a ticket because it is important without a doubt and you're getting into the convention. but then usually after the convention, the vp picks don't matter. people are voting for president very little evidence in history that people are voting for vp is this perhaps the exception to the rule? because we have two older candidates for president and we know the trump campaign is going to make a big issue of vice president harris saying a vote for biden is a vote for harris. does trump's pick matter more? >> his pick matters in the way it always matters, right? and which is that the vice presidential pick is the first real act of a president to show us what his judgment is here. the problem with donald trump, we saw donald trump's judgment for four years when he was president the united states ended my turn out so well we saw him in the we pick a president, particularly not just for the economy or where they stand on choice, or when these things, although people care a lot about those things but we pick them particularly in moments of crisis and what will the president do when there's a moment of crisis that we all have to just turn to him and say, or her and say, lita really need to know anymore about donald trump's judgment. and i don't think any of these candidates really helped trump in terms of demographics or geography, or any of the things that like al gore or joe biden helped barack obama worth in terms of substantive effort. but they joe biden was able to bring foreign policy and institutional knowledge to the obama ticket. so we don't really have any of those help, help interesting points. >> another big political is i want to talk about propranolol. go back to your point. you just made a lot of people, especially his critics, things trump it's reflexive. trump is impulsive in picking mike pence, trouble is actually strategic. ted cruz was trying to challenge him at the convention. other forces were trying to its convention. so they picked a middle of the country christian conservative that had supported across the republican base. and it's shut that down. it was a very strategic choice. what's the strategic choice at this time? >> the strategic choices to get the election focus on inflation in the economy and immigration, jd hits those points, jds working class roots can talk about how inflation has devastated the working class community, has devastated the suburban communities, has devastated suburbia. and so you're going to have, if you're looking to highlight somebody who appeals or that group that republicans have never really had in the past, it would be jd vance. >> i think he's for jd vance alaimo, another big piece of news today. and again, i'm often of the opinion that i'll fundraising stories don't matter. but but joe biden for months has had a huge advantage over donald trump. suddenly, since the conviction, donald trump sometimes defies gravity, right? bad news becomes good news huge fundraising walk us through the numbers and what they mean. >> yes, absolutely huge. and honestly, i mean you're right. joe biden has been out raising donald trump for months now, and really we're starting to see the trump campaign and his political operation begin to erase that cash advantage. so this was a second month in a row. may was the second month that around i should say that donald trump's team raised more than what joe biden brought in in may. donald trump's team brought in 141 million. that's compared to the 85 million that biden's campaign brought and 85 million is not a small number, but compared to 141 million, definitely lagging behind and tens of millions of dollars of that 141 million number was raised in the aftermath of his guilty verdict. and so there's been a huge boost and boon for donald trump's campaign. and really, i mean, we've also seen donald trump go to many of these fundraisers with wealthy donors, really focus on aggressively trying to catch up to biden's war chest. and it seems that it's paying off a week from tonight. >> the conversation will not be about fundraising numbers that will be about the first president so natural debate which will be right here a week from yesterday, thursday night on cnn. so jamal to you first, you're not in the studio, so you get you get you go first year as you look at this debate, what do you think is the single biggest imperative for president biden? >> oh, he clearly has to show people again why we picked him in the first place, which is that he does have the judgment to be present and he's somebody who's focused on what the american people need and not just the past and what he's done in the last four years with incredible amounts of legislation. but what he wants to do next and how he's going to make the country better going forward. and then contrast that with donald trump, who again, we saw his judgement in 2020. it wasn't that great. he prolonged covid and made it worse while, while joe biden was able to get us out of the funk, we were in and covid and start the country back on a path maria, what is the biggest weakness the president has to deal with? is it concerns about the cost of living? is it questions about his age? is it something else? >> i think that the president has got to be ready and i know that they are making sure that he is for donald trump to come after him about hunter biden. >> and we know that that is something that is so personal to president biden. >> and i think that trump is going to do it to try to get him off his game, to get the president off his game. but yes, i agree that he actually has to come prepared and now he is for that too. talk about the economy, inflation numbers have actually been good recently. wages have been up, and those inflationary pressures are coming down. economists have said that donald trump's plans would actually explode inflation and lose jobs. so i think that's a great contrast to make, especially for years ago, this economy was in a tailspin and that i think is a great contrast for presented by mhc, the protest vote for nikki haley and then late primaries. and i have it out the road, tuck into a lot of these odors these are republicans who they say they have doubts about donald trump. lot of the voter form in 2016, then voted biden or third-party in 2020, there republican dna says, i'd like to vote for him again, but they've raised temperament questions. they raise january 6 questions. what is trump's weakness? if you're looking at the trump coalition of what he needs to win what does he need to do in the debate? who is he talking to most was i think the biggest thing he used to do is talk to you all of the voters he needs to say, i have a right record. us president joe biden has a record as president. let's compare them month by month. >> you know, you talked about inflation, joe biden, his own team has picked a target of inflation of 2%. >> he failed to hit that number number for 38 months. so for 38 months, the number one concern to the american people has been inflation. and joe biden has fallen short of that. gold has a goose egg. so i think when you're taught, when tresind trucks talking to the public, he needs to talk about the economy. he needs a taco inflation, he needs different patients will be relatable. it needs to remind people that even though joe biden had a target to bring inflation 2%, he has failed for 38 months. >> i would glove for that for you guys to come and compare month to month with joe biden's economy versus donald trump's economy. those four years. oh, my god. biden would eviscerate donald trump i would love i would love for them to debate the issue and i know that's what all the voters out there, i've been talking to the road would like debate the issue is not get into all the personal stuff, but we shall see alayna treene, bryan lanza react cardona jamal centers. appreciate your time. and i thank you. up next details on another most unusual de in the trunk, classified documents case and more questions. yes about the judge's judgment also trump's already been convicted, so why do prosecutors in new york want the former president's gag order to continue the dangerous they cited? 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