I almost wanted to encourage him to take a few minutes out of 9 00 to tell the people. Preached the gospel. Its good stuff. Theres a lot in there. Its wild. It really is. Its true and sort of were programmatic policies and people sense of who actually gets them or who was on their side and how they interact. Is pretty interesting. Its like in hindsight obamas total acquiescence to the Label Obamacare seems quite wise as a political strategy. All right, my friend, have a good weekend. You are done now. Thanks to you athome for joining me tonight. Donald trump is facing 91 criminal counts in four different criminal cases. Right now prosecutors in all four of those cases are fighting to get to trial before election day. So far only one of those trials is on track to actually make it. Then handed it attorney alvin bragg is preparing to go to trial this month in the case over the hush money payments to adult film actress. While that case moves forward, the others not so much. The federal el
While that case moves forward, the others not so much. The federal elections case brought by special counsel jack smith suffered a huge setback this week when the Supreme Court stepped in and delayed the start date of that trial. Potentially pushing it back until after the november election, which leads to other trials. Today we got significant updates on both of those cases. Today in florida, for the first time ever, both donald trump and jack smith were in public court together. For the case over trumps handling of classified documents at maralago. Among other things, they were there to discuss when trumps trial in that case would begin. The special counsels team requested that the trial begin july 8th, giving them sufficient time to complete the trial before the election. Trumps team begrudgingly suggested the trial could begin august 12th, which prosecutors were quick to pounce on, saying one thing the parties agree on is that this case could be tried this summer. Trumps lawyers we
to the police union, justice means he should be acquitted and he acted in accordance with what his training was and he did what a reasonable officer would do. if you re from the prosecution position, justice is a conviction. justice is accountability. there s a person dead because you didn t do two things. one, click his seat belt and number two, call for medical assistance. what happened in this jury box? common people too ignorant for a case like this? something tricky? something misapplied during the process? i would never say that. you have 12 jurors. the fact is that people have to agree. it s better this is a very this is the byproduct of our system. it s better we let 100 guilt people go free than convict one innocent person and that means that everybody from different perspectives of life have to come to the same conclusion. it s very difficult to get everybody on the same page. they ll try again. jean casarez made a point coming into this discussion.
happy friday, everyone. i m erin burnett. the million dollar election so far. $35 million have been spent in only four states on the republican side. and 85% of the money that gingrich and romney s super pacs has spent have been on negative acts. gingrich exaggerating, dropping reagan s name 50 times. but reagan mentions gingrich only once. there are a lot of reasons not to elect me. all right. but $35 million super pac damage so far is just a scratch compared to the gash this money will inflict on candidates before november. american crossroads and priorities usa action are two names we all need to know. they re the big super pacs for the republicans and the democrats. and they say they will raise millions of dollars for their candidate. who is bank rolling all of this. you may find out a little bit on tuesday. that s when super pacs are required to reveal their donors. but guess what? there s a loophole and both american crossroads and priorities usa action are exploi