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infrastructure to speak of. officials on the ground in top swing states are not panicking but the disparity with the widened campaign is stark. this month alone, biden open 100 new offices and added more than 350 new staffers in swing states from arizona to georgia to pennsylvania. that's in addition to the democratic president existing battleground state staff of 100 that was already in place. and the last presidential campaign with pennsylvania as a must win state, this program turned repeatedly for guidance to our pennsylvania campaign expert, the senior senator bob casey who is running for reelection this year. his republican opponent mccormick has endorsed trump, tonight, senator casey released this ad on what he calls, greed inflation. >> chicken prices 35% higher. toilet paper up 10%, profits increased 100 million, corporations raising prices five times faster than inflation, bob casey calls it greed inflation and he is fighting back. >> my plan gives the federal trade commission the power to punish corporate price gouging, let's roll back the huge corporate tax breaks putting money in your pocket instead. that's why i approved this message. >> joining us now is senator casey, the longest-serving democratic senator in pennsylvania. he is running for u.s. senate in 2024. senator first of all great seeing the pennsylvania map behind you, that's the way you've guided us through this four years ago. what does it mean to the biden campaign, what does it mean to you to see the biden campaign opening a campaign office in lancaster? >> lawrence, i saw a good bit of that this week. i was all across the state. i was traveling across those northern tier counties, red counties, mccain county, warren county and erie and allegheny county where pittsburgh is and in erie, we opened an office there. and there's a lot of energy and intensity because i think people are ready now to be able to the liver a message about how democrats have delivered. when i go to these counties i tend to list all the things we got done, and by name and by project, infrastructure projects, investments we made in families with the child tax credit and so many things we've done to lift up communities and families, but these offices and places like lancaster, and as you pointed out earlier, that's been a red county for a long time. even more so the counties behind me that i mentioned in the northern tier, and these are places where, i think we can cut into the margin by translating what has happened over the last couple of years, to lift up those counties and to lift up families but we've got to have the resources to do it and it's going to be a challenge but we will get there. >> so for the biden campaign, to win the state, it does not mean they have to suddenly win lancaster county but the idea is if you can just get more votes there, the, biden already won pennsylvania, so if he can add to his vote count, that abstinence is likely winning margin? >> no question about it. and i'll tell you, no matter where you go, and the red counties that i was in this week, 5 to 6 of them in a row, they are counties where the former president was getting in the race against president biden maybe 74 or 75% of the vote but this question of lowering the cost to families, lowering costs for families, and talking about "greed- flation" and shrinkflation, people get it. they know that corporate america's profits were up five times the rate of inflation as we mentioned in the ad and they know they've been getting ripped off where corporate profits were going to the roof, right after these big corporations got a gross, obscene corporate tax break in 2017 because trump and republicans rammed it through without a single democratic vote and they took the tax cut and gave shareholders, then jacked up the prices of food and household items, we've got to expose it, pass a price gouging bill and rollback the corporate tax cuts. the only way for us to make this argument of course, is to keep the ad on the air so i hope people can go online and help us pay for these ads. >> i know you can't get through a day of campaigning in pennsylvania without talking to republicans. it's one of those states where it's densely populated by both parties. in your conversations with republicans, are you finding a liz cheney affect, nikki haley effect, where you can detect, there are republicans who have voted for trump in the past but simply will not vote for him this time, they have moved into the liz cheney or nikki haley camp? >> i get some of that sense, lawrence, it's often unspoken, it's not like they run up to you and declare their independence from moderate or the extreme right, in fact i had a unique experience, i won't say what county so as not to get them in trouble but to republican county commissioners came to an event for us, and the event was billed as a campaign event and they showed up, if at one point it was over and they were doing videos and they were 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trial be held before that deadline. if trump should win the election, he will become immune as president from criminal trial for at least four years, and perhaps forever by seeking dismissal of the federal case with prejudice or testing the efficacy of granting himself a pardon. the justice apartment can accordingly hold uphold the public interest in deterrence and accountability by seeking the prompt conviction of the leader of an insurrection. joining us now is andrew wiseman, he's an msnbc legal analyst and co-author of the new york times best-selling book, the trump indictment, the historic charging documents with commentary. andrew, liz cheney certainly shares your view of this. what can the justice department do, given what we presume to be the schedule of the supreme court here? >> well, there's nothing we can do about the fact that the supreme court has been lollygagging, that it really has delayed when it would hear the case, so it's now hearing the case on the last day of this term, so that's april 25th. so that is set in stone but what it can do and what ryan and i tried to write about was what can be done at the oral argument to crest the conservative justices who i think are putting their thumb on the scale for a delay, and to press trump's counsel on why there is no legal, legitimate grounds to delay a ruling in this case in other words, that the ruling on immunity should come forth with, and we spell out all the reasons. you lawrence, have heard me repeatedly talk about on the show how the public has a right for a speedy trial. here, we not only talk about that but we point out that donald trump's only interest here, the only issue in the supreme court is the one of immunity, it's not the trial date and on the issue of immunity, anyone who has claimed immunity has an interest in having that decided quickly. after all, what they are telling the court as they should not suffer a criminal case one day more because they are immune from that. so that means they would have every interest in that case being decided quickly indeed, donald trump, as you recall, set in the trial court that the gag order was interfering with his ability to actually campaign for office, that's one more reason that he should have the court decide quickly. so what we are trying to do is arm the fair-minded justices, those who are looking at this dispassionately and we think there should be a group of people who fall into the category about why this case should be decided quickly because otherwise, as liz cheney is warning, this will essentially be de facto immunity for the former president. >> your suggestion and hope is that, in the actual presentation of the arguments, to the supreme court, that jack smith's side specifically asked for basically, as fast a ruling as possible. >> absolutely, they asked for that, and that they press the court to point out to them that there is no legitimate grounds for a delay here. after all, remember the reason this is being heard now is, this is very much out of turn, when you have a claim with immunity, the court says, this is so urgent and important that we will decide this before the trial, not after the trial. the normal rule is all of these issues get decided after a trial takes place. so that's one more reason that they really should be pressing for a very quick decision because after all, if they delay the decision here, that will make it almost impossible for there to be a trial before the general election, which is something that as we point out, the public has a right to. >> it would be fascinating to see if they could get the court to actually engage, get members of the court to engage on the issue of how quickly can you issue an opinion to possibly here, you know, ketanji brown jackson say something about how quickly it could be issued and then, gorsuch or someone else or alito say well, no, surely, it would take months for us to figure out and it would be fascinating to hear that particular point engaged during an oral argument. >> absolutely because i think it would have the salutary effect of those people who may not be looking at this in good faith, having to actually articulate the reason for delay here, that is in just what they are really trying to do, just trying to avoid a trial. they may decide in flowery language that presidents are not immune from prosecution but at the same time, what they will really be doing is saying, presidents in general are not immune but by delaying this trial in this case, this former president is immune. >> one of the other issues that should be easily clarified in oral argument? >> there are people who say that there should be some small area where a president may be immune from criminal prosecution, for instance, in conducting foreign relations, that might be an area where it's hard to have normal rules with respect to criminal prosecution and it seems to me that you could have everyone saying, you know what, that may be the case and that may be a debate worth having but this is not the case to do it. because in this case, what is before us, is somebody who is charged with insurrection, and in that situation, you know, everyone should be able to agree, whatever the parameters are of presidential immunity in a criminal context, it does not encompass this case. so that's a standard way in which courts proceed which is deciding the case before it and they don't need to decide this sort of outer perimeters of that where there might be an argument because this, surely, if there's any case where there's no argument for presidential immunity in a criminal context, it would be somebody who illegally is trying to stay in office and remember, the court has to take the allegations of the indictment as true in deciding this case. >> andrew, i want to squeeze in a commercial break. and when we come back i want to get your reaction to what a federal judge said about donald trump's attack on the family of the trump 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participate in this and continue to see classified information given the kind of accusations and charges against them. >> you were already running ahead in the polls, before tammy murphy decided to drop out but you now seem to be pretty much on your way to the democratic nomination in new jersey. what do you need to do the on that? is it possible that senator menendez could run as an independent? >> one thing i've learned in my three previous races, you don't take anything for granted when it comes to politics and yes, senator menendez has said that he might run as an independent which could complicate matters and so, i'm going to make sure that i'm going out there and earning every single vote, making sure that we are engaging and it's not just about my race, it's about making sure we can lift up democrats all on the ballot, i hope people are excited about what i'm trying to do and if they want to support, they can go to andy kim online. >> new jersey is not a guaranteed blue state in 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>> you have these incredible performances, by the way. all the entertainers listed there really got the crowd going and you're wondering, how are they going to top that? so they introduced the voice of god, these three presidents in your looking at the stage waiting for them to come out. they don't come out from behind the stage. they come up from under the stage. the crowd went wild so it really set the tone for stephen colbert than to begin a conversation you don't see every day. in fact, i can't remember anything like it, three former presidents -- two former presidents, i should say in the sitting president, this unique fraternity of the presidency that only they can speak to. >> was there division, bill clinton, brock obama? >> this event tragic accomplish a number of things for the biden campaign, first and foremost, bringing in money. but, when you think about president biden's vulnerabilities in this election, you see it on the streets outside of our building right now, the protests over gaza, and in the fact that voters are not feeling what the economic data shows us, and both former presidents tackled each one of those, one of the time. it was a very clear preparation for the fact that there might be disruptions from the audience and there were. there were multiple, and barack obama took the opportunity to not just speak on the substance of what president biden has managed to do and tried to do to bring some clarity to this impossible situation, but then he at one point scolded some of the protesters who tried to interrupt him to say it's good to have moral clarity. >> the protesters were about gaza? >> almost all of them, about gaza. but, he said it's one thing to have while clarity, but the presidency, he said, as only he could say, is a lonely seat and it's not enough just to have moral clarity. you have to be willing to listen to the other side, to try to tackle all the complications of this issue, and actually get results and that is what president biden, with his decency and tries to do and when he got angry at the protester, the crowd got angry with him. they were also, in their own way, heckling some of the protesters. now, you turn to bill clinton and the economy. stephen colbert asked that question. remember what they called him in 2012? the secretary of explaining stuff in bill clinton, 77 years old, very slowly and methodically describe the problem. he said there had been two shocks to the an economic system in this country and the psychic -- psyche in this country. 2008, donald trump disrupted the progress they were making and he said covid disrupted even more. he said the president cannot do anything about inflation other than get us into a depression but everything he has done is get us on the right track in the crowd really did eat it up, we have to say and i have to say this is a member of the white house correspondents association. i would love for us to be showing the clips of what they said tonight, to get that message across and share more of that with you. we were not allowed to have video cameras in the room but i expect we will see some of those clips from the campaign. >> at one point, the response to the protesting turned into a standing ovation. >> that's right, when former president obama really did deliver that lecture and it was a lecture. it was stern. it was forceful. the crowd erupted in applause after he finished his remarks so i think this is sort of a cathartic moment for a lot of democrats who are frustrated. yes, they also want to see more prompt progress in gaza but they're also not happy to see people protesting the person who's trying to fix the problem. >> so, how did they wrap it up? >> they started coming up from below stage. they finished with, and this is classic biden -- stephen colbert put on his aviators. joe biden put on his aviators and sure enough, brock obama, bill clinton put on their aviator glasses, as well. >> by the way, it is the biggest room in the world, is 6000 people, there is nothing like being in that hall. it is always bigger than you remembered it is. >> it is the stage -- i don't think we're going to see another one like this and i think this is something i actually read into julian chavez rodriguez, the biden campaign manager, on the way out. i said how do you top this? >> she said it is all about momentum and this is part of an effort to build momentum into this election fight. >> thank you, mike. that is tonight's last word. the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts now.