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
2004 campaign. kick us off here, dasha. let s talk voter mindset as we head into this debate. you talked to a group of voters from battleground pennsylvania. what did you hear from them? reporter: yeah, we talked to a very specific slice of voters in that critical battleground state. and in a critical county, erie county, pennsylvania, where we re following voters very closely. we talked to republican voters who went out and voted for nikki haley in the pennsylvania primary. now, that happened months after haley dropped out of the race. so these voters went out, voted for a candidate that was no longer in the race. they did it to send a message, ana. and those haley voters, we went to see what they re thinking ahead of november. some of them are going to come back home, to their republican party and vote for former president trump. some of them are considering voting third party, still persuadable, they don t like either candidate, they don t know what they re going to do.