very good to be with you. i m alex witt in for katy tur. what jack smith s case, that is the question being batted around before judge aileen cannon in court today as major questions about her own role in the trial hang over proceedings. there is still no trial date in sight. instead, to the frustration of many, cannon is hearing out what several legal experts have called another long shot argument to dismiss charges against the former president. yesterday, the new york times reported cannon rejected urges from two federal judges that she not take the case when it was firsthanded to her last june. the question is why, when a huge chunk of her rulings have drawn criticism from the prosecution and legal scholars. is it inexperience, she was only on the bench just over a year. is it potential bias? she has shown unusual favor to trump by intervening in the mar-a-lago investigation before he was indicted or is it simply judge cannon s way of proceeding over such a high stakes h
establishment way that jeb will be the guy that his record is better than marco rubios, better than john kasich s so conservatives will ultimately consolidate behind him. we ll see. that s the theory. latest fundraiser numbers show carson surging as well. his campaign raised more than $20 million and more than twice the amount he brought in over the previous quarter and more than the entire g.o.p. field rates in the same quarter last election cycle. okay. i don t just beating off bernie sanders with 26 million. 31 million for ben carson.
his fundraiser numbers for power. $40 million in the month. pretty good. that in line with the obama auction who announced its april haul of 43.6 million. pretty much the same bid there. they re disenvaluing the report that they re trying to spend more. here s what libertarian presidential candidate gary johnson thinks about this latest round of two-party political power selling. well, how is that for an introduction to the mega panel? karen, susan and jimmy are here.