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SIDNER: “I’m curious for you, first of all, what this day means to you, and second of all, have both Democrats and Republicans agreed to meet with you?” BANDIT: “Yes, we will be meeting with both Democrats and Republicans. And I‘m really excited to go speak with all of our lawmakers about the attacks that we‘re seeing on our LGBTQ community. It‘s so important to talk about and to discuss protections for our queer community.” SIDNER: “Can I let you listen to the current sentiment that‘s being shared by former president Donald Trump, who, of course, is running for reelection. Here it is.” [Clip starts] Trump: “We’re going to take care of our Capitol. On day one. I will sign a new executive order to cut federal funding of any school pushing Critical Race Theory, transgender insanity, and other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content onto the lives of our children.” [Clip ends] SIDNER: “In those three things, he mentioned what he calls ‘transgender insanity.’ If he‘s voted in as the next president, what will that mean to you?” BANDIT: “We already see so many attacks on our queer community. I already don’t feel safe in my own hometown just dressed in drag like this. And it‘s very scary for queer people to exist in a time where we see this kind of rhetoric being pushed by our lawmakers and the people who should care about other issues that actually affect the American people, other than attacking our community, our LGBTQIA+ community. It‘s very disappointing and I hope for better for our country.”

SIDNER: “I want to ask you about some of the recent polling. Recent polling showed it’s not abortion rights actually, it’s inflation, the economy, and immigration that really tops Americans concerns. Americans polled say, when you look at them, you know, it is Trump, not Biden, that is better at dealing with these two issues. That is an aggregate of polls. You see the Fox News, Quinnipiac and Marquette poll. The same thing goes when it comes to immigration. How do you think Biden can convince the public that he is the one that can handle these two issues? We’ll start with inflation. We’ll start with the economy, where people are feeling like they cannot afford what they used to be able to afford.” Klobuchar: “OK. First on polls, I’ve seen a number of polls showing Joe Biden gaining strength right now. So let’s put that aside because you got one poll after poll. On the economy, you’re going to see a president that’s been leading on the national stage, someone who’s taken us through the most difficult time, the pandemic, when so many people were out of work, getting that vaccine out there to make people — make sure that people have their health care. You’re going to hear the story of that and how the work he’s doing to bring down costs from going after monopolies to taking on the pharmaceutical companies. I can’t tell you how many times Donald Trump said that’s what he wanted to do. It is Joe Biden and it’s finally gotten that law passed in — the bill passed into law, a bill that I’ve led, that said that Medicare should negotiate with the big pharma companies to bring down prices on drugs like Eliquis, drugs like [indecipherable], drugs like a Januvia, Jardiance, blockbuster drugs. And this is the legacy that you’re going to see where Joe Biden is going to be able to talk about the work he’s done on bringing down costs. On immigration, something else you brought up, Joe Biden has clearly leaned into it. He wants those emergency powers to close down the border. What happened? We’re about to pass that in Congress and Donald Trump weighs in and says, no, no, no, don’t do that. And you can see the result. So, I just — I think it is a moment when you have so much noise on the Internet. Every time when there was a big moment Joe Biden has risen to the occasion. At the State of the Union, at Normandy, you’ve seen him rise to the occasion. So that’s why I think this debate, when the people have just that minute, when there’s not the noise, there’s not the interruptions, and there’s just some clear cut questions and the visions that these two candidates have going forward, there’s going to be a clear difference on that stage. And I don’t know what Donald Trump can show up. This is the first time we’ve seen him on the stage since he’s had these 91 felony indictments and 30 plus some convictions. So we don’t know who’s going to show up, but what I do now is that Joe Biden’s the right side of the issues for the people of this country.”

SCHONBERGER: “To your point, Secretary Yellen, what impact would Donald Trump have on our economy if he’s elected?” Yellen: “Well, look, I’m governed by the Hatch Act and I can’t get into electoral politics. I guess I could just make a couple of policy-oriented comments, which is that the signature policy from the Trump years was the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, and it promised an investment boom which really did not materialize. It gave huge tax breaks to corporations and to wealthy individuals and it resulted in an enormous increase in the deficit and lower tax revenues below historic norms. And I think it’s responsible for many of the problems that we face now with our fiscal trajectory. And so, that would concern me to leave all of that in place.”

Heilemann: “David Jolly, I ask you. The expectation setting that Claire just talked about is pretty incredible. Now, I did an interview for my podcast with Jen O’Malley Dillon, the chair of the Biden campaign, in which she was emphatic and unwavering about not only about the campaign’s likely outcome, about the fact they were going to win this race. Joe Biden is going to win this race. Jen O’Malley Dillon is very confident. But she did not — she made some — she made some comments about Trump. I’ll play one of them in a second, but she made some comments about Trump, but not trying to say, well, he’s obviously addled and he won’t be able to get through a complete sentence. And that is of course, what Republicans have done. I ask you, as someone who understands Republicans to some extent, did they not learn anything from the State of the Union? Where they they basically said, oh, this man will not be able to stand up for an hour up there and he’s going to end up with dribble on his shirt. He’s not going to be able to complete an English language sentence. They set the bar so low, Biden soared over it. But that’s not that long ago. And they got their heads handed to them on the expectations game. Why are they doing this?” JOLLY: “Yeah, well, first of all, Donald Trump’s not Rick Scott. I mean, it is hard to play rope-a-dope with Donald Trump because he won’t take a breath. He won’t shut up, kind of. So you need those moments like you saw from Joe Biden four years ago where he says shut up, man. But he will overperform. Joe Biden does. He always does in every event, it’s unlike the State of the Union. He doesn’t control the microphones and control the entire floor. But Joe Biden is going to do just fine. And it will surprise Republicans. They’ll say, oh, we always expected him to do fine. What I’m looking for is this. If you really want to help shape this race, the most efficient use of time, I believe for Joe Biden is to talk about reproductive freedom. Talk about it as much as you can and as much as you want, because the disparity with American voters looking at Democrats and Republicans is the largest. And I expect we will hear Donald Trump’s most efficient argument be on immigration. He’ll pull a Katie Britt. He’ll throw in the xenophobia and crime and conflate it to black and brown people and try to scare the country. That’s baked in. The other thing I would like to see from Joe Biden and I don’t think we’ve had this national conversation and he can lead it, the economy is doing very well. It’s morning in America again. The stock market is at an all-time high, housing’s at all time — home ownership’s at all-time high, access to healthcare and education. More people will go to work tomorrow than ever before. But we’re measuring the economy by inflation. Now, he’s got a good story to tell on inflation. It’s coming down, it’s under control, etcetera, etcetera. But inflation must not be the number one economic metric that the American people use to look at the economy going into November. Joe Biden’s economy is a good one. Sure, make the inflation argument, but focus America’s attention on the economic growth that’s occurring right now in their neighborhood and in their town. Joe Biden’s going to have a very good night focused on that.”

Heilemann: “Claire, we have a different kind of debate setup here. There’s a lot of things unprecedented about this debate, including the presence of a felon on stage. But these debate rules that both sides agreed to, we have a debate that’s going to be 90 minutes long, two commercial breaks, no studio audience. Microphones will be muted when it’s not the candidate’s turn. That will be run from the control room, I’m told, not by the moderators. No campaign staff interactions in breaks. Closing statements, Biden’s going to go first and then Donald Trump. No opening statements. Tell me what you think of the efficacy or the likely efficacy — we’re getting speculative here, but do you think that this is going to create a better experience for the American people and for, respectively, for the candidates, because of these rules?” McCaskill: “Yeah, I think [inaudible] probably help by and large. [inaudible] the audience reaction. I really think that what Joe Biden says is not as important as how he says it. And by the way, Trump has set expectations for this in a way that really helped Biden. Trump has spent the last six months convincing Americans that Joe Biden can’t walk and talk. He has spent the last six months convincing America that this is an addled brain. And so, Joe Biden is going to show a command of the issues. He’s going to show that he’s not afraid of this guy. He’s going to look strong. He’s going to come after him, just like, you know, stop your yapping and shut up, man. Joe Biden is going to do that. And I honestly think it will be harder for Trump this time, frankly, cutting off the microphones. You can argue that maybe it helps Biden that the microphones keep going, but in this instance, and I just think it’s really important for us to keep pointing out, John, and we got to point this out over and over again. Trump’s lawyers helped pick the jury that convicted him, and Trump agreed to these rules. Trump agreed to these rules. So he cannot say this is a rigged rule deal. He agreed to them just like he helped pick the jury. So I think it’s important that we keep reminding everybody of that. He’ll try after he loses this debate to say oh, it was rigged against me because you know, he can’t ever lose anything. He has to make up sh*t — oh, stuff. Sorry.” Heilemann: “Oh! Here we go. Who would — who had it on the bingo card that it would be Claire, not me, who would drop profanity on air here?”

BRZEZINSKI: “Why is the race so close?” Harris: “These races are always close. It’s — it’s the election of the president of the United States, and everyone in an election for president United States will critically examine all of the issues and make a decision.”

SCARBOROUGH: “Sick? No. They don’t like losers. They don’t like losers, Donald. I know you like losers. You like losing. You’ve lost seven years in a row, I don’t know if you know, but because of you your party lost in 2017, your party lost in 2018, you party lost in 2019 your party lost in 2020, your party lost in 2021, your party lost in 2022, your party lost in 2023. If the past is prologue, your party is going to lose in 2024. So yeah, there are a lot of people in the south, southerns like myself, we don’t really like naming forts after losers. That’s not transitioning. That’s like we want to name Ford’s after American patriots who win wars. Donald, maybe you should see the beginning of Patton where George C. Scott stands in front of American flag and says Americans don’t want and won’t abide losers. They want winners. And so yeah, we don’t want some loser who tried to overthrow the federal government so slavery could continue another 100 years or so. We like winners. I say that as a southerner. OK? Little worried about Alabama Crimson Tide. I mean, support going to be as good as Saban? I don’t know, but if he’s not, the firing. Because that’s — that’s how we think in the South. That’s how we think in America. So yeah, you — you want to name forts after losers, after confederate soldiers, confederate generals that rebelled against the United States of America. Reverend Al, I’ll take a Fort Sharpton. It sounds nice. It sounds nice about America, about a military moving towards a more perfect union, and not stuck in its slaveholding past like poor Donald there wants us to be stuck in the mid 1800s.”

Steele: “‘Are you worried about going to jail, Mr. President?’ That’s a fair question. After all, the debate is on Thursday and Trump’s sentencing for 34 felony convictions is exactly two weeks after that. So let’s hear the answer.” [Clip starts] Trump: “No, I’m not worried at all. You know what, it doesn’t bother me. Nothing bothers me. We have a corrupt group of people. And you know what, it’s really working out the other way. We just got the highest poll numbers we ever had. (...) They cheat so much that 10 points is not enough. We have to get more. Because if we don’t win, our country is finished.” [Clip ends] Steele: “Allow me to translate: ‘If we don’t win, then I’m worried about going to prison.’ And he kind of should be worried. Because as serious as the New York convictions are, the much more serious charges are still hanging out there, they’re right around him. And for all of his talk about a corrupt system, he’s sure getting a lot of help on that front right now. Just take a look at exhibit A in The New York Times this week. After Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon was assigned to the classified documents case last June, two of her more experienced colleagues on the bench urged her to pass it up and hand it off to another judge. Judge Cannon refused. Since then, as the Times puts it, she has exhibited hostility to prosecutors, handled pre-trial motions slowly, and indefinitely postponed the trial. It’s almost as if those judges who encouraged her to decline the case knew how all of this would play out. In fact, Judge Cannon has proven herself to be so biased in Trump’s favor, she is effectively putting the prosecution on trial. On Friday, she heard a challenge by Trump’s defense team claiming that Special Counsel Jack Smith’s appointment was — get this — unconstitutional. And if that argument sounds far-fetched to you, you would not be wrong. As many legal experts would tell you, it is the kind of longshot challenge that would be thrown out by any other judge. It is without basis in law, it’s without precedent, and it has been shot down by similar judges in many other cases. But apparently, Judge Cannon just had to have a hearing about it. It is the last delay tactic from a judge who has wasted countless months on frivolous motions. She has all but refused to allow Trump’s case to go to trial and still, still has not even set a date for the trial to begin. So when it comes to the help Trump is getting from the bench right now, that is exhibit A. But then there is exhibit B, which, of course, is the Supreme Court. It has been two months since the court heard arguments on Trump’s ridiculous claim of presidential immunity.”

Trump: “We saved the world with from those forts and now they decided to take the names off and what do you see ultimately what happens with those names? They did, I call it a transition, like transitioning. They have a transition name before they name it. The Reverend Al Sharpton Fort. (Laughter) Fort, Fort Rev, Fort Al Sharpton. Now you can just — you can just imagine, you can just imagine, but this is a transition. They’ve done a couple of transitions. These people are — they don’t — they’re sick.”

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: Hearing from him. >> So I‘ll just say my colleagues, Jake Tapper and Dana Bash have acquitted themselves as, as professional as they have covered campaigns and interviewed candidates from all sides of the aisle. I‘ll also say that if you talk to analysts, have debates, previous, that if you‘re attacking the moderators, you‘re usually losing. So I really want to focus in on what these two men are going to do and say, when they stand on the stage. Now, now we have a little bit of what Donald Trump, your boss has said in trying to set expectations for this debate, I want to play a sum of a series of his comments and then we‘ll talk about to watch maybe a better off losing the debate I‘ll make sure he says I lose it debate on purpose. Maybe I‘ll do something like that. I assume he‘s gonna be somebody that will be a worthy debater. Should I be tougher, nasty and just say you‘re the worst president in history or should I be nice and calm? And let him speak so he‘s basically saying there, well, will I let Joe Biden when it does seem as though many Republicans have set the bar very low in terms of arguing that Joe Biden is basically senile. >> Now, you have people like Doug Burgum burgum coming out and saying, well, President Biden‘s very accomplished trying to set expectations in a different place. What do you expect that from Joe Biden well, first of all, it‘s to take someone five minutes to Google Jake Tapper, Donald Trump to see that Jake Tapper hi, ma‘am. >> Consistent offers interview if you‘re going call adolf hilter, man I‘m going to style if you to attack my colleagues I would like to talk about bodied and Donald Trump, who you work for. Yes. If you are here to speak on his behalf and I have this conversation I am stating facts that your colleagues have stated in the package. Now, I‘m sorry, we‘re going to come back or Carolina, they very much for your time. You are welcome to come back at any point she is welcome to come back and speak about Donald Trump and Donald Trump will have equal time to Joe Biden when they both join us now at next, early, later this week in Atlanta for this debate, are thanks to Caroline John, that of course is something that we are going to see from the right, right. It‘s going to be attacks on how this debate is conducted. As you know, our colleagues Jake and Dana have played a role in our conversations throughout which they have interesting viewed candidates on both sides let‘s talk though again about the candidates and what they are going to do. >> A look, what you just heard there. It as part of the strategy and it always has been and it works for Trump with his base. Does it work for Trump with the small slice of people he needs to get to win Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona, I would argue, let‘s deal with policy. Let‘s do that with that is part of their strategy. Look again, this is a remarkably consequential moment for both of these men. If you look at this trolley cook of the cook political report about two weeks ago, wrote a great article about how this has been the most static race of his lifetime. And you haven‘t seen big swings in the polls often as you go through the summer, Kennedy a proposes something and the pole swing three or five points, Kennedy beak returns to that and the pulse swing back and forth. This race has been remarkably static, right? Slight advantage Trump Biden‘s come back a little bit after the convictions. Why hasn‘t it moved? Because so many people are unhappy with both choices. So it‘s not like you‘re going to jump back and forth a lot because you‘re just like if you‘re soft for Biden or software Trump you like. But I would argue from my travels to just beneath that static, are all the ingredients of volatility there‘s economic anxiety, there‘s the, there‘s the abortion question, there‘s the character of Trump issue. There‘s people who just don‘t

BARTIROMO: “There is a memo that’s been going around at the border. It’s in Spanish, okay? I want to — I want to show you this memo, because at the bottom of the memo it says, ‘Don’t forget,’ in Spanish, ‘Don’t forget to vote for Joe Biden. We need another four years of him.’ This flier, the woman’s name on the flier is Gabriela Zavala, but she says she was shocked to see the memo because she didn’t write the memo. What can you tell us about this memo? Because she says she didn’t write the memo, and yet there’s a memo at the border which the illegals are reading in Spanish and it says, ‘Go vote Joe Biden.’ What is this memo all about?” PAXTON: “Yeah. Look, the memo speaks for itself. There’s no doubt that this is the plan. It’s to encourage these illegals to vote. They give them phones, they connect them to Social Security numbers, they connect them to voting in these states, and their job really is to come here and vote. And they’re putting them in the right places, the right states. We don’t know where they’re putting the illegals, but I guarantee you it’s in the crucial states. Joe Biden can’t win this election without the illegal voting. This is the biggest threat to our democracy, our republic, that I think we’ve seen since who knows when.” BARTIROMO: “This is unbelievable. You’re the attorney general, I want to know what you can do about it.”

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: RADDATZ: “And Jon, I want to go to you. As you said, you have informally advising the president. How big a difference do you think that will make?” MEACHAM: “I think it will be huge because it actually — what President Biden’s done is he has successfully child-proofed the debate stage for former President Trump who is responsible for this uncivil tone on the stage. Let’s be very clear here. This is not a both sides issue. Martha, you’ve moderated debates with President Biden — vice President Biden in them. There has been as Daniel Patrick Moynihan pointed out, we have defined deviancy down, and that is not President Biden’s fault, and I think what he has done is rendered a public service, he and his team in bringing some constraints to the debate to actually allow there to be a conversation that is not simply performative. American democracy is not a reality show, and Donald Trump has treated it that way for almost 10 years now. So let’s not — let’s not kid ourselves here. This is a vital election. Both sides are not equally at fault. President Biden seems to me, what he has to do is show people that he is fully in command which I believe him to be, and remind us that there is a way in which the presidency should operate, that is — once dignified and decent, and delivers for the American people.” RADDATZ: “I think I know the answer to your next question — to the next question then. I know you’re advising Biden, but if you were advising Trump, what would you say? He needs independents. This is about getting votes. He needs moderates, but he is a hard guy to moderate, so what would you say?” MEACHAM: “I think that may win the understatement of the week award. Donald Trump’s hard to moderate. I don’t think President Trump would welcome my counsel, but I think you just answered the question. If he can begin to show that perhaps his illiberal, anti-democratic impulses are, in fact, in check, then perhaps that reaches people. I have to say — look. I’m not a Democrat. I’m not a Republican. I voted for candidates of both parties. I have a personal — as does everyone here — devotion to as I may, the Constitution, the constitutional order that Doris has written about so beautifully for so long. That’s what’s at stake here. It’s not just a set of policies here and policy there. This is not about marginal tax rates at this point. It’s about which vision of America, and a vision of America where we are, in fact, pursuing a more perfect union, or is it about conceding that one party, one interest, one man should be in control of everything? And it’s not a choice that we faced before.”

EMHOFF: “She’s the toughest person out there — “ BRAVER: “She’s tough?” EMHOFF: “Oh, she’s so tough, it just bounces right off of her.” BRAVER (voice-over): “And as per second gentlemen Doug Emhoff, he is not California dreamin’.” BRAVER: “Do you ever think, well, you know, if things don’t work out, we could always move back here and be just fine?” EMHOFF: “We’re going to win this election. We have to win this election. Literally, our country, our world depends on us winning this election. That’s what’s gonna happen.”

Ocasio-Cortez: “What’s up, everybody? We are just a few days out from Election Day, our primary election on Tuesday, June 25th. But the good news is that the polls are open right now. And we are here for our brother, Jamaal Bowman. We want to turn out the vote. I don’t care if you live in NY-16 and are turning out to vote for him. I don’t care if you live outside NY-16. We are texting our friends. We are turning out. We are calling our friends in Tuckahoe, in White Plains, in New Rochelle, in Yonkers, and telling them to vote for Jamaal Bowman.” Bowman: “Ceasefire now, y’all! That’s what we’re doing! Ceasefire now, let’s get it poppin’! The polls are open today. The polls are open tomorrow. Make sure you get out to vote. Election Day is Tuesday. Let’s go. We need record turnout all across the district, especially in Yonkers, Mount Vernon, New Rochelle, Co-Op City and Edenwald. Let’s get it poppin,’ and let’s change the world. It’s the many versus the money. We’re going to win. Let’s go, baby.” Ocasio-Cortez: “We’re going to win. We’re going to take on AIPAC and we’re going to kick some Wall Street ass. So let’s go!” Bowman: “Stop the bombs!”

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: Months effectively lowering expectations for Biden. Trump also said yesterday that he does expect his upcoming vice presidential pick to be with him in Atlanta on Thursday. It‘s been a who‘s who of vp contenders that are going to be tuning in together at a debate watch party in Atlanta that includes my next guest, one of Trump‘s top contenders to be his vice president Republican governor of North Dakota, Doug Burgum and Doug governor, it‘s great to have you here. Obviously, this debate is going to be huge. It‘s in four days from now, how critical do believe it is for Donald Trump to have a strong performance? >> Something that America is very excited to look forward to. And I‘m sure it‘s gonna be very good debate and congratulation to CNN for having this historic debate. >> There has been a real effort on the Biden team to try to lower expectations, but I think we have to look at the guys, run for office more than a dozen times. >> Times. Imc has been campaigning since the president Nixon was in office. This guy has got the ability and we‘ve seen it. We‘ve seen him in debate of four years ago. We‘ve seen them in the state of that the State of the Union this year, that when he needs two, he can step up, but I think this is a real opportunity for CNN most trusted name in news to ask some tough questions, including the one because this is a rematch. And when we add this debate just before the election four years ago, Joe Biden looked into the camera and said that Hunter Biden‘s laptop was a smear campaign, Russian disinformation called it garbage. And now we know that None of that is true. And I think this does an opportunity that America is waiting. I mean, CNN‘s got an opportunity to ask the tough questions of both these candidates. >> Safe to say there‘ll be tough questions for everybody, but it‘s interesting that you say Biden is lowering expectations because it, Trump has also been doing that you yourself have called Biden and firm. I mean, you‘ve been setting the bar pretty low for President Biden. Is that a mistake? >> Mistake or not. I mean, I think there‘s a I think America is it looks at the state of the state. He stood up and he spoke strongly for over an hour and then when we‘re with a group of governors with him at the back in February, we were limited to two questions. One Republican governor, one Democrat, each got to ask a question. 40 governors we get to questions. Were the president of questions had to be submitted two days in advance? That‘s a far cry from from standing in a debate for 90 minutes. So I think we‘re all anxious to see which Joe Biden is going to show up. But you think that Biden will be formidable? Well, I think he really knows how to do this. And like I said, he‘s he convinced America that that laptop was fake so strongly at that last debate that then the news agencies and social media then started shutting down even the ability to post about that story. And if he‘s that if he was that good, that about lying about that for years ago, I guess the question be when did he know that the laptop was real? And what might he do this dialogue convincing. >> From the intelligence officials. I mean, we‘ve asked them about that sense and obviously the whole issue of social media was before the debate, but I want to ask you about something that you‘ve been saying repeatedly about President Biden. Take a listen to this talk about being a

[AOC dancing to Cardi B’s ‘Enough’] Ocasio-Cortez: “Let’s go, Bronx! Are we ready? Are we ready? I can’t hear you, The Bronx! Let’s go! Are you ready to fight?! Are you ready to take this borough back? Are you ready to win our state back? Are you ready to win this country back? And are you ready to fight for peace on Earth and ceasefire in Gaza and the end [inaudible] AIPAC influencing our politics? I don’t know about y’all, but I am ready to fight. Let’s hear it.”

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: Scott: “You know, Chuck, it’s just astounding to me that anybody thought letting the borders wide open would be not a big deal when you read about these cases and you hear about these young people whose lives have been snuffed out. I am just at a loss for words.” MARINO: “Look, the overwhelming majority of Americans in the country are at a loss for words. They need to turn that into action during this election. The president and Secretary of Homeland Security are directly responsible for all the catastrophic events that are happening around the country where Americans are being victimized and losing their lives in more recent cases. It’s a matter of math as the numbers continue to climb and are allowed to be processed into the country. Americans are going to have more interactions with criminal aliens that are being freed out onto the streets to go wherever they want and commit whatever crimes they want to commit. It is a big problem. It’s a very dangerous situation.”

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: Scott: “Going to Philadelphia to try to rally some support. Is that tilting at windmills for this former president? Or is he in a cause reverberations?” SEAT: “I think he could make a lot of headway at this rally today because of where it is located. He won Pennsylvania by less than one percentage point in 2016. He lost it by less than one percentage point in 2020. What he has in 2024 that he did not have in 16 or 20 is a surge in support from black voters. We are seeing this across the country. The high water mark so far has been 23% support for black voters. No Republican presidential candidate has seen that since the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This is because of the economy and inflation. And disappointment with the Democratic Party. The Democrat Party is playing to identity politics to generational loyalty. The expectation black voters are going to vote for them because they have always voted for them. We are seeing it play out that will not be the case in 2024.”

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: Somebody and has gone bankrupt six times and that is something that the people have to think about about the wisdom, character and judgment of the person that they’ll appoint to lead America not only at home, but also to the rest of the world. >> For so many Americans both with the economy and inflation, despite limited signs of improvement, voting consistently show Mr. Trump over President Biden when it comes to handling the economy. How do you change the minds of those Americans that say they are still not feeling the progress that you promote. >> Are very important and they’re real. To remind people when President Biden took over the country was in the midst of Covid, in the midst as you now know of an insurrection and a cataclysmic downfall. While President Biden came to the rescue he passed the biggest pieces of legislation that was seen in our country’s history and he’s created 15 million jobs and the problem is that all of those benefits are not flowing down to everybody as quickly as possible and that’s why Joe Biden every day is fighting to save people money by fighting for lower prescription drug costs and fighting for health care and fighting for people to have access to housing and big oil and big companies are not

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: CAPEHART: “Leah, listening to market, I’m thinking the legitimacy, if the court does what mark is predicting, the legitimacy of the court will be supremely no pun intended, supremely in question. And I want to come back to something you wrote in The New York Times where you said this whole thing is rotten in terms of the delay in the immunity case. What is the evidence of something rotten? And does it get to the overall problem of the legitimacy in the eyes of the public, the legit is legitimacy of the court?” LITMAN: “There is so much wrong, and I don’t want to take up your entire program, but in cases that benefit Trump and the Republican Party, when you think to win challenge came to vaccine program, they managed to get that one out. Even if there is disagreement that does not explain why it is taking a much longer and again they managed, the timing and ways that you can benefit one side versus the other.”

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: CAPEHART: “Thank you very much for both for coming to the Saturday show. Leah, you wrote in The New York Times, there are of course explanations that have nothing to do with politics for why a ruling still has not been issued in the presidential immunity case. What could those explanations be?” LITMAN: “So, possible good-faith explanations include the cases argued in April, the Supreme Court still has cases outstanding from when they heard arguments in December, just yesterday it resulted case that was argued in November, so it’s not surprising a case in April would fall to the bottom of the barrel as far as cases that end up being resolved closer to the term, but there are many reasons to think insufficient to explain what’s going on here given how quickly they were solved with Colorado ’s case in favor of Donald Trump. There they quickly restored Donald Trump to the ballot in time for super Tuesday, and they did so within 50 some days of deciding to hear the case, and here, it’s been over 100 days since they decided to take the immunity case, and Jack Smith asked them to take it up two months before, so they have been delaying this case and acted much more quickly and many others.”

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: Sharpton: “David, as Trump looks to raise more money, there are stories that suggest he’s often swayed by the last rich person he spoke to. According to Politico, Trump has shifted his positions recently on issues like TikTok, crypto, and green cards for college graduates based on input from wealthy donors. Do you think this could hurt him with his MAGA base or are they locked in regardless of his positions?” JOLLY: “Well, I think it’ll get him in a pinch sometimes between now and November, but the MAGA base we know is super loyal. But it could get him in a pinch with persuadable voters. I think it says several things we largely know about Donald Trump. One, he’s ultimately transactional. He’s devoid of idealogy whatsoever. He does not care about a platform. He does not care about governing. He cares about people giving him money. But I think what these donors should realize is he’s incredibly disloyal. If he would take my money for one transaction and then change his mind based on somebody else’s money, that’s somebody you can’t stick with. That it’s real danger, because Trump in the White House listening to the last rich person or the last person on TikTok or the last person on Twitter is a very dangerous chief executive. No new information, I think, in this reporting other than to remind the nation of a danger of a president Donald Trump.”

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: GIGOT: “All right, karl. Biden’s, I think, going to hit the felon point all the time. Biden is also going to talk about January 6th. Biden is going to talk about you called these rioters heroes.” ROVE: “Yes.” GIGOT: “He’s going to talk about the four charges against him. And you know Jake Tapper, Jake Tapper is going to do the same thing. Can Trump really not address those, or are you saying he ought to just say, look, you know, you guys are both running existence me, and I’m going to pivot to — against me, and I’m going to pivot to that I care about you, voters, not about all this stuff that Biden cares about.” ROVE: “Exactly. Yeah. I think he’s got to do two things, teally conviction, short and — steely conviction, short and to the point. This is all going to be tossed out on appeal because this was a bogus deal, and I know what you two are trying to get me to do, I’m not going to fall for it. I’m going to talk about the things we care about which is the cost of living that people are finding it hard to keep up with, the crisis at our border, a sense of the decline in public safety in our cities. I’m going to talk about, you know, the fact that we’re no longer energy independent, I’m going to talk about the things that people are thinking about around the kitchen table, and I’m not going to get suckered into talking about this. It’s going to be tossed out on appeal because it was a bogus deal.”

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: WITT: “Joining me now, deputy assistant secretary of state and spokesperson for Hillary Clinton. He played Donald Trump during Hillary Clinton’s debate rehearsals. Good to see you again, felipe. Let’s talk about debate. It is usually shrouded in secrecy, all the prep. But we know the president is surrounded by multiple advisers, some of whom you know very well. Describe what you think is going on in that room in camp David this weekend, and how do you expect Biden is preparing for Thursday’s debate?” REINES: “Well, I will start with the clip you just showed. Because they are starting from a point of saying exactly what vice president Harris said, that it is a contrast and she laid out the argument perfectly. It is being led, the debate camp at camp David, by someone that is probably the best at this, the president’s first chief of staff. He has done this for Biden in the past, for Hillary Clinton, for President Obama. The other hand for this, there is someone there who, while Kamala Harris, imagine if while she was speaking miko is just yelling at her, every couple of seconds saying that is not true, what are you talking about, I didn’t say that. I didn’t do that. That is the challenge here. Now, obviously there are some technical formatting differences to try to mitigate that. But I think the easiest way to think about what is going on at camp David is mostly conversations between the president and his advisers, where, probably a fair amount of do I really have to do this, why do I have to do this, can I get out of doing this. You have to remember, it has been 1400 days since these two men have been in the same place. We talk about them all the time as if they spend day in and day out on the campaign trail together. They have not. They never see each other and they really don’t like each other. There’s a certain amount of grounding that has to take place, where you come out and you have to remember, there are 90 million people watching, or 100 million, or 70, whatever it is. There will be no bigger audience between now and Election Day. That means you have the opportunity to say to the American people what you are trying to say every day of the week, but to the largest audience ever. You are trying to do what Kamala Harris said. You are trying to say hey, look at me. This is what I want to do. Look at him, this is what he did. That’s interesting, because this is the first time in 134 years we have had two guys that have served back to back. So it is not a hypothetical about if this guy is president. It is remember when that guy was president, this is what happened. And when I am president now, this is what’s happening. A very different dynamic. But the very basic idea is you are going through scenarios, whether it is talking or whether it is at the podium, with, I believe, Bob Bauer, one of the president’s advisers who is pretending to be Donald Trump. And it is not an snl skit, it is more serious event. What you want the president or, in my case, Hillary, to get used to standing next to this roman candle of anger that is going off around you while trying to keep your head, and speaking to the camera, to people. It’s very hard.”

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: WITT: “And to that point, in the hush money case, the Manhattan da says that all line threats, saying people who remain unnamed in the filing should be in witness protection, choice, can any of this impact Trump’s sentencing on July 11th?” Vance: “It absolutely can, you know mark has indeterminate sentencing for nonviolent crimes like this, the real issue in Trump’s case is whether he will receive a sentence of probation or custody and sentences of probation are typically reserved for people who the judge believes that they can comply with all of the conditions of release, so this place is whether the gag order will remain in place and what other conditions might be involved in a probationary sentence. In other words if you are Donald Trump and you are playing smart, this is not the time to continue to threaten people.”