podcast. watch and listen for free wherever you get your podcast. you can also catch the velshi content on youtube. stay where you are. charles coleman picks up our coverage on the katie phang show. it starts right now. good afternoon, i m charles coleman junior in for my friend and colleague, katie phang. live from msnbc headquarters in new york city. and we have a lot to talk about. here is the week that was. let s start in florida where judge aileen cannon held a hearing yesterday. over donald trump s motion to dismiss is classified documents case. now his lawyers are arguing that special counsel jackson his appointment was unconstitutional. trump s legal team is going against president and arguing that a special counsel must be appointed by law and is subject to senate confirmation. judge cannon, however, appeared at least somewhat skeptical of trump s position, specifically taking issue with the notion that jack smith appointment was akin to a shadow government. while
campaign trail and a brand new cnn poll is revealing he is leading the large field by double digits. 29% of voters say they ll back the former bp in 2020 an increase of seven percentage points from june. senators bernie sanders and elizabeth warren basically stayed the same. but support for senator kamala harris had a big drop, 12 points since june. that s down 5%. nbc news road warrior garret haake on the road joins me now from des moines. it has been a week since biden was out campaigning and he seems to be going all in in iowa. reporter: it s not an accident joe biden is returning to the campaign trail here in iowa. it ll be his sixth visit to the hawkeye state. he has been as open as anybody about the fact this state is the lynch pin for his primary plan here. he needs to win in iowa, start off strong. he has been making the argument all along that he is singularly strong enough to defeat donald trump particularly in the midwest. so that s why we re back in iowa. to that end the