Today on inside politics, a burden of proof and politics. The trial against donald trump takes shape as a federal judge sets a date to decide when prosecutors will present their case. A timeline careening into a campaign. Now the former president issued a plea to the Supreme Court. Plus Kevin Mccarthy a auditions for supporting role in the trump defense. The House Speaker unloads an angry tirade over the special counsel indictment, Sidestepping The Former president ials election lies that led to a deadly attack on the capitol where Kevin Mccarthy serves. And made by bidenomics, new cnn reporting spotlights the strategy to make sure americans know their roads, dams and ports and jobs attached to them are thanks to joe biden. Im dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and inside politics. Up first, Donald Trumps anger and anxiety triggered by a looming trial for alleged election crimes. The former president s public posture is defiance. Today donald trump made a demand that the Supreme C
fed just might be able to achieve its goal of a, quote, soft landing for the economy. for joe biden, that is another reason to celebrate. the american people, however, they remain pessimistic about the economy and his handling of the economy. we have some brand new rep by kayla toshi showing us what she is hearing about the lebts the swhous going to try to communicate with the american people about what they are doing. kayla joins the panel now. first of all, welcome. thank you. a formal welcome to cnn. this is great reporting. let me show our viewers what you have inside this reporting. we re final ly getting the kind of clearing that we need for people to hear that message and see what we re doing. i think communication in this day in age is always tough. it s a fracture d media environment. that make it is even more necessary for us to keep repeating it. they are going to be repeating it. they have been repeating it. but the administration, more
this means for the evacuation process as this operation winds down right now? jeff, you hear the swhous preparing for the end of one phase here, the military drawdown ahead of that august 31st deadline. and then eventual transition to much more uncertainty on many levels what happens without the u.s. military presence when trying to get out any americans and afghan partners that remain. in terms of the former, the drawdown of the military presence, this is a very sensitive period. you heard that from a number of officials both at the white house and the pentagon. you heard the white house press secretary last night i asked her about the potential of exploding some of the equipment that remains here from the americans. she would not confirm. that you heard from the pentagon press secretary early her that as they get closer into the critical period over the weekend, they re going to be giving less details, frankly, because of the sensitivity of the operations at this point. but psaki d
0 evacuating more people from the country over the coming days and completing the mission to the 31st, and what it means to move to retrograde phase is that there is a rereduction of numbers through the coming days and we will tell you twice a day to show you how we are evacuating the people over the country and the numbers will be going down in the next couple of days and you should anticipate that as part of the retrograde process that needs to take place and the force protection is front and center and vital to the mission. one more, president biden told reporters in oval office when meeting with the prime minister about booster shots, and can you tell us about the information of what is the information about that projection well, let me be clear, the president would rely on guidance of the cdc and the health and experts, and that guidance continues to be eight months. that has not changed, so i want to be clear on that. if they were to change their guidance based on the data
dead too? apparently akrording to the president the directive of the president is to stop talking. what they re paid to do is continue to talk even though we re pretending not to be talking. . . as far as i m concerned tharn de their dead. you can t kill people to put yourself in a better negotiating position. they have been posting about how hard they have been hitting the taliban in the last ten days or so. the challenge for the swhous to get everyone in the administration on the same page on afghanistan because there are clear fault lines between john bolton and mr. pompeo. we ll see who what extent they think they can draw down troops