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
2012. we still have four weeks until this election. move ahead to the next one, kyra. check out the brand-new poll of gallup and shows what i guess a lot of people saying. right now in the early stages of the race, names matter. right now, the big names people you remember. mitt romney that ran last time at 19%. sarah palin. you remember her. huckabee at 12% and gingrich at 9%. this is what they re saying about a hypothetical race. nobody s announced yet. that s still to come. talking about 2012, obama verse clinton? we did that already. that s so 2008. but you know what? outside chance that maybe the secretary of state wants to take on the president in the democratic presidential nomination challenge. probably not going to happen but gallup asked the question anyway among democrats, 52% said they would back obama. 37% said they would back clinton in a very, very, very hypothetical matchup. people saying maybe clinton and