we now have a start date for donald trump s manhattan. it s right in the heart of primary season. the lead starts right now. the former president just learned he will be back in a new york city courtroom for the stormy daniels hush money case, and like i said, it will be right in the middle of the presidential primary season next year. trump says he understands he s not allowed to talk about certain parts of the case. then the charges now facing a 19-year-old accused of driving a u hall into the security barrier at the white house. inside the truck, according to the secret service, duct tape, a backpack, and a nazi flag. plus, well, that s going to give them something to tweet about. florida governor ron desantis turning to one of the most controversial ceos in world to help officially launch his 2024 presidential bid on social media. i m jake tapper. we begin in our law and justice lead. today a new york judge gave donald trump an official trial date, march 25th, 2024,
first, the mar-a-lago classified document investigation. our reporting is that special counsel, jack smith, is going to be home stretch on that. then there s the hush money payments to stormy daniels. that case is set to begin in march of next year, right in the middle of primary season. then there s the georgia investigation into efforts by then president trump to overturn the 2020 election. but even with all of this, the deck is stacked in donald trump s favor for the gop primary. john avlon is here to explain. governor ron desantis plans to seize the gop spotlight tomorrow with a big announcement, it involves elon musk. kara swisher is gonna join our panel to share her thoughts. when is enough fame and money and success enough. lebron james playing the will he or won t he retire game. we ll see what happens going forward. i don t know. i don t know. i ve a lot to think about, to be honest. a lot to be thinking about, to be honest. just for me, personally, going forward w
billions of dollars you can burn a lot of it to turns out. alex wagner tonight starts right now. good evening, alex. i odmean, listen, between th two of us, buddy, one of us tweets a lot less than the other person. i like to tweet. i m a poster to my veins. but t if i may i think i have a little more self-awareness than elon musk. a little bit. okay, okay. it sy, cross talk so we can t really get into it. oh, i can t believe you re not agreeing. i support the self-awareness and certainly the conversation. thank you as always. and thank you for joining us this evening. so summer plans they re often up in the air, but you can go ahead and you can circle this date in pen june 1test. that is the deadline for congress to reach a deal or the u.s. is plunged into financial catastrophe. it s an importantan day, and, m, it is really coming up, really around the corner. there was some hope the debt ceiling deadline couldth be pusd off through financial hocus-pocus, but no s
good evening and welcome to a special edition of outfront. i m erin burnett in new york. tonight, along with my friend wolf blitzer in washington. former president donald trump is set to arrive just moments from now at his first town hall of the 2024 election in new hampshire to answer voters questions. former president looking to broaden his base as he attempts to win back the white house. he s leading all the other declared and nondeclared republican primary contenders by a wide margin in what are extremely early polls. but it comes at a time when trump is facing mounting legal troubles. this town hall comes just one day after a jury found trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation forcing him to pay some $5 million to the writer e. jean carroll. and just one month ago, the former president was indicted by the manhattan district attorney. the stakes are very high tonight for the former president of the united states. let s go right to cnn s kristen holmes who s at th
cnn, which once defined cable news, is now under fire after this week s trump debacle. underilities new ownership, it s now just one more outlet for the libertarian billionaire point of view. also tonight, the unserious caucus, jim jordan continues to carry trump s water, pursuing a pointless investigation of manhattan d.a. alvin bragg. as james comer more or less admits he s got nothing on the bidens, but he s going to keep pretending he does anyway. and we begin with the continued clean-up on aisle five at cnn in the wake of widespread criticism over its decision to air a town hall with the twice impeached civilly liable for sexual abuse former president donald trump on wednesday night that played out more like a pep rally or a maga version of the jerry springer show. on thursday, cnn ceo chris lict mounted a defense of the town hall during the network s morning editorial call. insisting the spectacle served the public well despite the widespread condemnation even fro