What well garland do. Im Michael Smerconish in philadelphia, Attorney General Merrick Garland may eventually make a singular decision that determines the outcome of the 2024 election, whether the doj will continue to push for donald trump to be tried before election day in the federal case, premised on alleged Election Interference for months. Here, ive delivered commentaries focused on the timing of this particular prosecution because i think its most perilous to trump, and ive often done so with the assistance of elie honig will join me again in a moment. Heres the issue on wednesday, scotus granted cert and announced that the high court will hear Donald Trumps Immunity Defense i dont think the ultimate outcome is in dispute. I think trump loses that claim. In my opinion, its unlikely its illogical that the court will provide Blanket Immunity from criminal prosecution to an american president more important is the process, the timing of the courts Decision Garland told cnns evan pere
party. the report says the goal was also to undermine confidence in the u.s. election and to further divide the american people. let s go straight to our senior national security correspondent alex marquardt who is working the story for us. alex, this very detailed, lengthy, declassified report says proxies linked to russian intelligence and to putin directly pushed misleading, you be substantiated allegations against now president biden, pushed those allegations to american media organizations, officials, prominent individuals, including some very close to the former president. reporter: that s right, wolf. it says russian intelligence at the behest of vladimir putin, the russian president, targeted allies and people close to trump and hits administration. this is the most comprehensive report we ve gotten about the 2020 election and foreign intelligence by the intelligence community and it makes clear that this massive russian influence campaign was designed, orchestrated
Halperin and dorian warren. dorian, i want to start with you. in the protests from ferguson to new york, is it fair to say that the story of the cops might have gotten lost? yes, but i think if we were to go back to look at the footage and statements, especially from activists, i think not to draw the circle and say everyone was in one group no. but it s clear that this is about practices and policies and policing the police. you hear the chants and you hear the hatred on both sides and you hear right now recognize in response to this and that cycle doesn t help at all and perhaps even promulgates the kind of violence we ve just seen. it s not just that words matter i agree with you. policing practices lead then to someone that is, everyone realizes is a murderer. i don t think we can say that those legitimate criticisms because then the question is
Perry or michele bachmann. what happened, specifically what happens more generally in these presidential campaign that is crowd out very qualified people. i saw a few observations. the process and the cycle doesn t repeat itself every four years. we know this. number one, the early decision makers in the early states are the most committed folks. on morning joe and more broadly across the country and in the group of republicans, the folk who is show up and make the decisions are perhaps the most passionate, committed, dedicated folks in the country in terms of the political process and the broader audience doesn t show up. they have a different slice of candidates. more intense