lead starts now welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper this hour, the disturbing evolution of the so-called all right? in there years since that notorious deadly marched on charlottesville, virginia, i m going to be joined by an award-winning cnn journalist who has just written a book and we ll explain how their jokes and their ideology and their violent tendencies are becoming hidden influences. 2024 elections plus we re just one week from the start of the republican national convention. and today a key party committee approved the new platform with changes made to reflect donald trump s views on we ll issue. so what exactly is in these plans for the gop and leading this hour quote, i m in this race to the end, unquote president joe biden telling supporters today, democratic law makers and the american public, that he has no plans to drop out of the 2024 race. instead, his team is going on offense, which today included joining a call with top donors owners to his reelection
who has just written a book and we ll explain how their jokes and their ideology and their violent tension vinci s are becoming hidden influences and the 2024 elections plus or just one week from the start of the republican national convention. and today a key party committee approved the new platform with changes made to reflect donald trump s views on multiple issues. so what exactly is in these plans for the gop and leading this hour? a quote, i m in this race to the end, unquote, president joe biden telling supporters today, democratic lawmakers and the american public, that he has no plans to drop out of the 2024 race. instead, his team is going on offense, which today included joining a call with top donors to his reelection campaign where the president said he is still the only democrat who can beat donald trump. the growing number of democratic lawmakers, however, are calling on biden to drop out of the race, including congressman adam smith, the highest ranking democ
not apply to the other co-defendants. we re seeing a request that the trial go forward starting on october the 23rd. i want to get to our reporters and our legal experts now. to make sense of this because this is my interpretation of it which could prove to be entirely incorrect. but i got glenn kirshner. this came out about a minute before the show started. so i don t know if you had a chance to read it or make sense of it. but tell me what you know. i had your producer read it into my ear just moments ago, ali. so i think i understand what is going on here. so under georgia state law, a speedy trial means that a defendant should be taken to trial during the present term of court or the next term of court. that would be the end of october. we already know that defendant ken cheesebro has been set for october 23rd. we know sidney powell made a speedy trial and we assume she ll be batched together with ken cheesebro. that is the natural thing to do. batch co-defendants toget
blind. now that s a lofty standard but americans have long believed in fairness and most people administering that system have been good this country has lived up to its core ideal 250 years. but the populous surge of 2016 changed everything. washington felt more threatened by more than voters than by any foreign adversary. donald trump to them seemed more dangerous than isis and they panicked and in their panic our leaders decided to turn the american legal system as well as intel agencies and if necessary the u.s. army against their political opponents. they felt they had no choice in the doing this they abandoned the ancient principle of equality under the law and replaced it with a loyalty oath. opponents of the regime became enemies of the state. that s a huge state. you re seeing the results of that change tonight. 24 hours after a manhattan grand jury indicted joe biden s rival in the next presidential race another jury convicted douglas mackey do. his crime was mockin
administration. kentucky, the kentucky legislature overrode the governor s veto, a bill that restricts aspects of trans youth, gender affirming care and the use of bathrooms. i know the white house released a proclamation for trans day on visibility. there s a march happening tomorrow to commemorate this day, also to protest these types of bills that are continuing to be passed in advanced in legislatures across the country. what is the white house s message to these lawmakers that are passing these bills and those taking to the streets to protest them. we support peaceful protest. we think it s important for americans and people just across the country to make their voices heard just as long as its faceful. we ve been very clear about these anti-lgbtq bills in legislatures across the country, the anti-trans bills as they attack trans kids, attack trans parents. it s shameful. it s unacceptable. as you mentioned, tomorrow s trans visibility day on a day that we should be