journalist evan gershkovich and his freedom after one year in russian custody. the wall street journal has a powerful front page. we will go to baltimore to break down the major operation to reopen a major economic waterway in the coming months. hello and welcome. i m ryan nobles in for andrea mitchell in washington. the battle for the white house heats up on the heels of president biden and former president trump s split-screen visits to new york yesterday. more than $26 million was raised by the biden campaign at last night s star-studded event and radio city music hall. former presidents obama and clinton joined president biden in his trademark aviators. it wasn t all lighthearted, especially when the moderator ask the president about the election. how would you describe what s at stake in this election? i think our democracy is at stake. we are at a real inflection point in history. this guy denies there s global warming. this guy wants to get rid of not only
presidents in town. biden, obama, and clinton are all here for a fundraiser, they re just around the corner. a $250 a seat, gets a lot higher than that, get together at radio city music hall. some seats going for $100,000 if you want a photo op. trying to pile up enough cash and excitement to keep the other guy from getting back in the white house. that other guy is donald trump. he s here to attend the wake of a new york city officer, shot on the job in queens earlier this week. while donald trump didn t know the officer. it is expected he ll use the event to hammer joe biden on crime. while violent crime across the country is down, here in new york city, there are acute fears about safety, both on the subway, and now on the streets themselves. here s a part of a report by my colleague stephanie gosk on a rash of seemingly random attacks. reporter: the stories are harrowing. i was literally just walking and a man came up and punched me in the face. oh, my god, it hurt
the world. just ahead on cnn newsroom, drummer unfolds on two cases as the case against president trump and his allies enter a new phase. plus an emotional vigil in jacksonville florida after a hate motivated mass shooting that took the lives of three people. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rose marie church. thanks for joining us. in just a few hours from now the first courtroom hearing on the charges against donald trump and 18 others will get under way. a federal judge will hear arguments from mark meadows a codefendant and trump s former white house f of staff. he s pushing to get s case moved to federal court or everyone thrown out. willis is expected to lay out the legal arguments in his racketeering case against trump. meadows and 17 other codefendants. georgia s secretary of state who trump pressured to find enough votes to win the state has been subpoenaed to testify. separately we ll also likely learn the trial date for the federal election int
sets the scene for a dramatic day in court, which politicos kyle cheney has dubbed a, quote many trial. the second key answer that we should have as soon as tomorrow when we could expect to see donald trump on trial in the federal election case. also at ten, am judge tanya chutkan who is overseeing the doj s election interference case against trump is set to hold a hearing. which she is largely expected to decide a trial date. it follows teams trump s request to postpone the trial until at least april 2026. that is nearly a year and a half after the 2024 election. over concerns that they would need years to wade through the governments 11 million pages of evidence. now, federal prosecutors quickly push back against that outrageous proposal, claiming trump s lawyers were exaggerating the burden. even after we get answers to those two key questions, there are still another major issue that is looming large over trump s campaign. the legality of his bid for the white house. here
thank you so pruch for letting us into your homes during these truly extraordinary times. we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now. welcome to the beat. even as some convicted trump aides also threaten putin-style attacks on opponents if they actually get trump re-elected. now, this big news comes as a california judge has ruled against trump lawyer john eastman today who also separately awaits a criminal trial in georgia. and these mounting legal setbacks for eastman are significant because he was the legal mastermind and architect of key planks of the coup plots as those january 6th hearings showed. adopt a slate of electors yourselves. he started to ask me about something dealing with georgia, preserving something potentially for appeal. i don t think it s just your authority to do that, but quite frankly i think you have a duty to do that. did eastman admit before the president it would violate the electoral count act? mr. eastman acknowled