futures. i m maria bartiromo. ing thanks so much for joining us this morning. today, the stakes are heightening. donald trump in the crosshairs of democrat prosecutors trying to bleed him dry of his money with a new $400 million verdict against him as trump sails to the gop presidential nomination. the 45th president defiant on friday. finish. so this is russia, this is china, this is what you ve been reading about all your lives, and it s happening right here in our country. thank you very much. we will stop it, we will make america great again. you have my word. maria: coming up, president trump s daughter-in-law and the host of the right view podcast, lara trump, on the millions of dollars her family is being forced to pape after a new york judge s verdict and whether she s about to ten up in the rn if c. then, texas senator and judiciary committee member ted cruz on the two application of the law after witness testimony cornerrers president joe biden allege aing briber
maria: the 45th president defiant on friday. so this is russia, this is china, this is what what you ve been reading about all your lives, and it s happening right here in our country. thank you very much. we will stop it, we will make america great again. you have my word. maria: coming up, president trump s daughter-in-law and the host of the right view podcast, lara trump, on the millions of dollars her family is being forced to pay up after a new york judge s verdict and when she s about to step up in the rnc. if then, texas senator and judiciary committee member ted cruz on the two applications of the law after witness testimony corners president joe biden alleging bribery and the doj hits back at a biden whistleblower who said joe and hunter biden were paid $5 million apiece by ukraine. then, the setup exposed. blockbuster details on the biggest political scandal of them all first exposed right here on sunday morning futures on how the fbi and cia set up trump advis
i did everything right and they indicted me. and what it means to set and then immediately break the record for hottest day ever recorded on planet earth. when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. hope you had a good july 4th weekend. we are rapidly approaching the real actual serious for now start of the 24 republican primary. the first rnc debate is next month in milwaukee where the republicans will also hold their 2024 convention. while it s still too early for any real predictions about who voters will choose or how this will play out, right now, speaking as of today, it does look like donald trump is way ahead of everyone else. and that is in large part because florida governor ron desantis, who was initially hyped up is the candidate who could take on trump, has seen his poll numbers tank. just look at the polling averages since the start of this calendar year. desantis line should commit with its own slide whistle. he s almost 30 p
white house meeting in december of 2020. flynn along with a crew of trump s lawyers like rudy giuliani and sidney powell, presented an avalanche of baseless claims of election fraud, while the white house lawyers debunked all of them. at that meeting, sydney powell presented trump with a draft executive order that would have directed the military to seize our nation s voting machines. a lot of that plan would have also made sydney powell herself a special counsel, and could have imposed martial law, and require a re-run of the election. obviously, that didn t, and thankfully, in the happening. the mutinous ideas pitched in that oval office meeting did not exist in a vacuum. they were part of a desperate effort by trump s outside legal team to upend the results of the 2020 election. those lawyers would ultimately file and lose more than 60 lawsuits, pushing bogus instances of election fraud. so, it makes sense that the wall street journal today is reporting that special counse
our first time doing a hand off. i know in your last segment, you re talking about the supreme court. we re gonna pick it up right here at 10:00. i m sure you will, my friend. have a good hour. thanks, ayman. and on the last day of pride 2023, the republican appointed justices on the supreme court in shrine discrimination against lgbtq people in a case deliberately brought to advance conservative interests in a favorable court. of course, it was about a wedding website. it was decided that in the evangelical website design or in colorado would not have to design the website for same-sex couple because it would violate her first amendment right by forcing her to say something she didn t believe. here is the thing, no gay couple actually asked for this evangelical website designers work. the conservative legal interest groups created out of cloth this fever dream that an evangelical wedding website design or what have her rights hypothetically challenged if a hypothetical s