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
she s allowing several outside parties to have time for arguments at an upcoming hearing about the validity of special counsel, jack smith s appointment phil, i will note she s been tough in the trump case, but this is actually a trend with her when attorney that our teams spoke with said she doesn t like the government to come in and play bully steamroller. so there s that side of it that she s tough on the government, but others have said that she actually seems to be giving trump better their treatment than they ve seen other criminal defendants get. so overall fill judge aileen cannon facing a lot of pressure, a lot of criticism and as this case moves forward, there are questions as to how slowly it will continue to go, especially as it looks like we will not see a trial before election day. yeah. it seems that way very in-depth reporting from our team, cnn, josh snyder, thanks so much. let s talk more about this with law professor jeff swartz. he s a former miami-dade county c