Joining me today. Ill see you back here next saturday at eight Easter Smerconish starts right now a republican and an independent walk into a libertarian establishment. Youre going to have to wait for the punchline. I, Michael Smerconish in philadelphia. Thank you for joining me. This Memorial Day Weekend in an unusual move tonight, former president donald thatll trump will address the Libertarian National convention in washington, dc and independent rfk junior spoke there on friday after having flirted with running as a libertarian earlier in the cycle this morning, the Drudge Report leading with his appearance saying rfk jr. Slams trump locked down standing o from libertarians. He spent a lot of his hourlong speech criticizing both president s trump and biden President Trump said that he was going to run america like a business. He closed down 3. 3 million businesses with no due process, no just compensation in violation of the Fifth Amendment with a lockdowns, the mask mandates the
news babes might win again, we ll see see some good form out there. look forward to hearing about the results. the lead with jake tapper for starts right now, go press the stages set the stakes, could not be higher. welcome to the lead live from cnn s campus and atlanta, georgia, where final preparations are underway for tomorrow s historic presidential debate. right here you re on cnn, i m phil mattingly, info jake tapper, president joe biden, and former president donald trump will be here tomorrow night. and the most important event of this election cycle. so far. here s a glimpse at the stage where the two men will face off the first time in history, a sitting president and a former president will debate. i just walked the debate stage and i ll bring you an insight. i d look and just moments, but first, we re going into details about how those last-minute preparations are actually playing out. cnn s mj lee and kristen holmes start us off here and lana in jake, let s start
night? next four years behind closed doors, president biden is huddling with advisers at camp trump were that s according to some of the sources we re talking to for his part, trump s debate prep appears to include posting on his truth, social official account. consider this rant that says, quote, drug test for crooked joe biden. i would also immediately agreed one that s from the former president and club. it s the latest bizarre and baseless suggestion for trump and his allies that biden will need some sort of performance enhancing drugs for the cnn showdown, recovering both campaigns this morning with cnn s kristen holmes and kevin lip tack. kevin, let s begin with you. there s a new ad from the biden campaign. what s it say? yeah, i think it does give you a preview of the economic message that they re going to focus on the debate because as you mentioned and as is typical, the president and his team are getting a lot of incoming from democrats. they re concerned about t
prices new every day, hurry. they ll be gone in a flash designer sales that up to 70% shop gilt.com today today on inside politics, the stage is set. one week out from the cnn presidential debate, and we re getting breaking details about, about what it will look like. who will talk glass and how he was all settled plus supreme suspense the court just issued for opinions, but they gave the country reason to keep paying attention by holding back blockbuster opinions on donald trump, executive power insurrectionist, and abortion. and new fear unlocked to us officials, warn all out war between ally israel and terror group has belonged, could render the iron dome a scrap keep manu raju in for dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside police first, brand new information next week cnn debate. and i ll everything well, look when you turn on cnn one week from today, president biden won a coin flip this morning to determine who stands where on the stage he chose screen, r
resistance to that message. all right, well, we re out of time, but we will continue the beit. i m sure it was walking the great. all right. thanks a lot. battle. thank you for joining us. i m on a rodgers cnn news central starts right now uncontrolled and dangerous rather across the country in the west, wildfires turned deadly and very destructive buildings going up in flames as thousand because if people fleeing for their lives at the same time, a brutal heatwave is hitting tens of millions of americans as the atlantic seasons first potential tropical storm is brewing in the gulf. just 342 votes. that is, don t razor thin margin in a bruising report public and congressional primary, one of the most conservative members in the country be punished for not endorsing donald trump. brand new surveillance video of the time surrounding justin timberlake s dwi arrest with new details are emerging about how officers say he was behaving. kate is out. i m john berman was sarah sid