nature of the slur that he used, of course, a italian is his second language but i'm clearly, if he did use intentionally homophobic words and homophobic slur, then that would undermine the popes great efforts to be more welcoming to gate catholics. he is, of course, the pope who said early on in his pontificate, who am i to judge when talking about gay priests, he's also offered the possibility of blessings of same-sex couples and called for the decriminalization of homosexuality so if the pope did intentionally use this slur, it would undermine that and threaten his attempts to really shift the church's position on this christopher lamb. >> thank you so much much more to learn here for sure. thank you. john oh, is next hour and say that new several says count

down the we attack that israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is now calling a tragic error. >> could this be the final straw and us support for the war in gaza? urgent manhunt underway after multiple inmates escaped from the louisiana jail after sliding towards gap in the jail yard fence i'm john berman with kate bolduan, sara sidner is out today. this is cnn news central history in the making today is closing arguments get underway and donald trump's criminal when all try the former president charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal hush money payment to stormy daniel's in just over an hour from now, trump's defense let's attorneys will

kick things off with their closing argument. >> there are expected to really focus in on savaging the credit credibility of michael cohen and continuing to power in there. and also ask why other key figures? here's in the telling of these alleged crimes were not called as witnesses prosecutors then go second and have the final word, if you will, expected to spend hours focusing on the evidence but in to prove that trump broke the law, regardless of michael cohen's credibility, they're also going to dig into the testimony from the 22 witnesses that took the stand 20 of them called by the prosecution two of them by the defense in the end, the burden of proof remains on prosecutors. they need a unanimous verdict to convict donald trump, the defense needs just one juror they have enough doubt to block conviction, scene as brynn gingras is outside court for us, as she has kindly been all along the way. brynn, this is the big moment. how are they approaching at all today?

>> i came less than the critical ending to these five weeks of testimony. i can tell you that there were people actually tented out by the courthouse this morning wanting to get inside. there was now a line that stretches all the way around this giant park outside this courthouse. people are anxious to see how this trial ends, how both sides wrap up their arguments, as you said, we start with the defense, who is going to really highlight michael cohen saying he is the prosecution's star witness. he's the only one that the prosecution ties. these allegations to donald trump. and how could he be trusted they say he is a liar. they're also going to highlight the people that the jurors did not hear from, but were mentioned by other witnesses. this case, people like keith schiller, trump's former bodyguard, people like dylan howard who worked for ma a mine held broker. those deals. and also, of course, the former cfo of the trump organization, allen weisselberg, when it's the prosecution's let's turn they are saying listen to cohen is not our star witness. we have 20 witnesses that we brought

forward that tie this whole story together. and oh, by the way, we also have the receipts. we have the 34 allegedly fraud or what they say is fraud documents. they have the business vouchers, they have the checks and they have the invoices, all that evidence and witness testimony that they are going to highlight and sort of show the jurors their entire case because of course, the burden is them. now, we he understand it's possible that these closing arguments could last the entire day today and could even go into tomorrow once closing arguments are done, though, then there is another part of this case, of course, that's so crucial and that is the jury constructions. we have not seen what those jury instructions look like. remember, they are being debated at the end of the last time jurors are rather lawyers were inside the courtroom. and that'll take about an hour. and then once because are done with the deliberations, begin to decide guilty or not guilty on these 34 counts for former president donald trump, guys. >> all right. friend. thank you so much. 34 counts hours ahead

of closing arguments, it will be fascinating to see how they present this to i really want to see how they lay out the complete story both sides here it will be interesting something we haven't seen exactly just yet so donald trump put out a flurry of social media posts railing against the judge and questioning why his defense team has to go first and the closing arguments, that is the way it works in new york work states and in steve contorno is with us now on the venting by donald trump's see yeah, lots of posts from donald trump in the last 24 hours ahead of this critical point in his trial, he started the de with a memorial day message to the quote, human scum, that is working hard to destroy for this country. and from there he continued to lash out, rally against the gag order and rulings that have been against his allowing the use of certain witnesses in the trial. he said, quote, the was no crime, but if there was, it should've been brought seven years ago. and then he posited

this question in on truth social that is getting a lot of attention this morning. he asked, why is the corrupt government allowed to make the final argument in the case against me? why can't the defense go last big advantage? very unfair and the answer to that question, john, is, as you mentioned, this is standard operating procedure in cases there are going to be trials all across america today where defense is going first to prosecutors go second. that's how the american justice system works. but clearly a window into donald trump's state of mine heading into this final week of his case or potentially final week of his case? >> all right. so you could hear you. thank you so much for that coming up for us a manhunt is underway and louisiana for two escaped inmates. >> how officials discovered the jailbreak. we have more details on this and we are learning new details. also this morning about the suspect accused of stabbing stabbing four young girls in a movie theater, and also two more people at a mcdonald's and they were

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officials admitted the jail was unaware. any of them had escaped until they concerned citizen contacted the warden, cnn's ryan young is with this year with the very latest ryan, what are you learning? >> we'll talk about a detail that stands out, john, the idea that this jail did not know that these inmates had escaped until someone gave them a phone call on sunday. it's quite a head-scratcher at this point from what we know, these tangible inmates were inside that facility and on saturday, two of them escaped and then apparently, i guess the word spread throughout that facility to more escape. now, for their part, the jail saying that this is a lack of supervision, that they didn't do a head count. the wire on the yard was actually weaken by corrosion. so at some point they were able to evade that, go under offense slide and then jumped over to fences and there was also a lack of race as a wire. so get you normally don't see a lack of when you talk about a jail facility, but listen to one of these correctional officials talk about the problems that they're going through at this point the wall wouldn't have a

gap in it. you wouldn't have to get over the wall or onto the wall if the fence wouldn't had the corrosion where they were able to take him physically break the wire and work at loose you wouldn't been able to get to the wall to go under it? john, this isn't a movie, this is actually something that has played out in these two men are still on the run right now. but let me just also talk about this. not only did they get away, but someone called in and once they were called in, they were able to track two of them and dow, who were hiding in a dumpster behind $1 tree. now at this 0.2 of them in a in hoffman and jeremiah stefano are still in the run. police are looking for them as we speak, they're hoping that as we put these mug shots up, there's someone in that community might be able to focus on these two men's picture and help capture them because obviously there was some time between sunday and monday before they realized that they were gone. now, obviously, they're probably make some changes at that jail, but at this 0.4 different men were able to escape. they

weren't noticed until that phone call came in to have been captured so far, but a lot of questions to be answered at this point with all that facility issues in terms of not only the rays of light and everything else someone is going to be answering some questions pretty soon. >> oh, yeah. i'm sure the fact they didn't know they were gone. that's something. all right. ryan yuk. thank you very much for that a teenager plummeted more than 400 feet down the sayyed of a canyon and sustained only minor injuries. >> we've gotten details about the rescue a new importing from politico, the democrats are in a quote full blown freak out about president biden. why hide level party members are anxious? about his reelection prospects russia is we're trying to spy on us we were spying on them pretty frightening this is a war, but secret was, secrets and spies, a nuclear game. premier sunday at ten on cn.

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especially through that ladder round that we anticipate getting later on this afternoon, guys, it has been a brutal stretch of whether allison chinchar. thank you so much for that so one of the four remaining americans under arrest and turks and caicos, will learn his fate today. >> tyler wenrich have pleaded guilty after bringing ammunition to the island while on vacation. he now faces a possible sentence of 12 years behind bars for violating the country's strict firearms laws. one rich though is hoping for a similar sentence as american bryan hagerich was given. he was given a 52 week suspended sentence and a fine. but most importantly, was allowed to return to the united states last week, cnn's carlos suarez has more reporting on this and carlos bryan hagerich is also speaking out for the first time since coming back to the united states, we're seeing video right here from friday upon his return yeah, that's exactly right. >> brian talked about just all of the months that he spent in turks and caicos, as well as a

brief time that he was in jail as he awaited and all of this legal process really played out. okay? really gonna get a sense of just how the remaining cases may play out later today when two of the accused, a four americans, will be in court. as you said, tyler wenrich is expected to learn his fate when a judge, a hands down his sentence, the 31 year-old, just like the other americans, is accused of bringing ammunition and to the country. and a fellow american wine ryan watson, rather he is also going to be in court. he's expected to decide whether he is going to plead guilty to his charges or if he's going to go to trial. now, both of these appearances come days after heydrich was allowed to return home, after a judge handed down that 52 weeks suspended sentence, and issued him a fine. now the 40 year-old, he boarded a flight back to pennsylvania on friday, just hours after that, judge ruled in his case and found that there were quote, exceptional

circumstances. now hagrid maintained he told officials all along that he did not know that the hunting ammunition was in his luggage when he visited the country earlier this year. now, here now is hagrid and his wife on just all of the uncertainty that really played out on friday remember, he was facing the possibility of spending 12 years in prison he sent me a list of everything that he would have needed for prison. and we write down the green suitcase and that was the they're not good suitcase. >> doomsday. doomsday suitcase literally had two suitcases backed, one for home, no one black suitcase was home. the green suitcase was doomsday all right. >> so heydrich's attorney is also representing a watson, the american who was set to decide a later today if he's going to take this plea in the case now, over the weekend, his wife told

cnn that his attorney plans on essentially presenting the same argument here, which is that watson did not know he had the ammunition in his bag and that the judge should use discretion when handing down that sentence. >> some of these us officials that have been quite critical of the officials in turks and caicos for how they've handled this really applauded the judge's decision on friday to allow hagrid to return home after paying that fine? >> so the hope is that these other court cases are going to see a similar a judgment. kate. >> yeah, i'm still something of a long road ahead for wine. ryan watson, his family, he spoke with us last week and hearing their story was heartbreaking as well as are seeing with all of these, it's good to see you, carlos. thank you so much. >> so ahead for us. >> a tragic error that is how israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu was describing the strike that killed dozens of civilians and rafah with us military terry is learning now about the israeli assessment of that strike and what the white house is also saying. there's going to show you live pictures outside trump tower as the

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and width that in mind, the biden campaign is getting some help ahead of time from january 6, police officers, some of the very officers who defended the us capitol against the rioters will be mobilizing now in swing states to talk about what they see as donald trump's threat to democracy in 2024, cnn's kevin lip tack, is that the white house for us? he has this new reporting. kevin, what more are you learning about this? >> yeah, this is just another example, kate, of the biden campaign really working to sharpen that contrast with former president trump. and they really do view this moment with the hush money trial coming to an end. and as an opening to start reminding in some ways, re-introducing voters to the chaos and what they say is that antidemocratic tendencies of the former president. and that's exactly what we'll see. >> he's three police officers doing when they hit the campaign trail, all three of them were in capitol on january 6, and they have talked previously about their experiences and i think they

will really start to drive home this idea of the january 6, ryan as an example of trump's tendencies towards anti-democratic ideas. >> and these officers will hit states including arizona in nevada. just this week, they will then go on to states in the so-called blue wall, pennsylvania, wisconsin, and michigan. and we did talk one of the officers, harry done, who told us that if i can tell my history 1 million times, he will. and if i can do that, i'll just be doing my part to save democracy garcia. now whether that message breaks through amid all of the other issues that voters are looking at this election, i think remains to be seen. but when you talk to the president's advisers, they really do believed that this is a resonant issue, and i think they're challenge is bringing it from issues of democracy in the abstract and putting something concrete hi dan, and that's what these officers will do by relaying their own experiences in the capital on

january 6, this is a message that the president will start to ramp up over the coming weeks. you'll see him traveled to europe in the next two weeks for the 80th anniversary of d-day, he'll also be at the g7 and i think the issues of protecting democracy, maintaining democracy very much on the agenda. there we've also seen him really sharpening his language about president trump's mental state after the 2020 election, saying that in his view, trump's snapped after he lost, that he couldn't accept that he had lost the election, and that that is part of what led to january 6. so you really see a toughening of the language, a toughening of the rhetoric. all culminating in that cnn debate on june 27 yeah, it's great to see you, kevin. >> thanks for the reporting. >> jump right. in the meantime, we're less than an hour away now from closing arguments in the case that could make donald trump a convicted felon, or perhaps give them a huge political boost with us now

seen in legal analyst, jennifer rodgers and former prosecutor jeremy solana, in jennifer, i want to start with some of the details that we are learning about what might be in these closing arguments. >> cnn has learned that the defense might focus on who did not testify in this case, allen weisselberg, the cfo of the trump organization and keith schiller, trump's body man how would you bring them up and closing arguments? what would you do with them and what's the risk reward? >> well, the defense says, you heard we heard about this allen weisselberg, michael cohen is the only person who tells you that trump was in the know that he knew about the reimbursement scheme, but he says allen weisselberg, also new. so where's allen weisselberg? prosecutors didn't bring him to you? where's he wears? keith schiller. they came that keith schiller was on the phone. they were talking about these payments and so on. where's keith schiller? i mean, that's the way you do it, which of course implies that prosecutors could have brought them and should have brought them and didn't bring them. and then the question is we were talking about this before. what kind of instructions do prosecutors

get? about keith schiller who either side could have called if they wanted to. they'll probably get a missing witness charged with respect to him. but with allen weisselberg, who of course is in prison for perjury, having lied to protect donald trump at a previous trial, and who also would presumably invoke the fifth, right. and of course has the severance agreement where he's agreed not to voluntarily cooperate with law enforcement or he forgoes $2 million. so there are lots of reasons he's not there. the question is, if the defense raises it like that, i have to assume the judge gives an unavailable when it's charged saying to the jury he's not here. he's unavailable. neither party can call him. you are not to speculate as to why and then just leaves it at that. >> what is the prosecution du with that or how much do they care about how the defense uses allen weisselberg in closings? >> well, i think the prosecution has to bring it back to really the meat and potatoes here, which is the four corners of the charges. this is a falsifying business records case. you heard from michael cohen, you heard from stormy daniels. they gave you the back macron, you're from hope hicks. hear from david pecker, you have the handwritten notes, you have the

call logs are so much evidence that you don't need michael, pardon me, that you don't need weisselberg. those notes are so critical, they really poked the dots are put the dots together and connect it all together. but at the end of the day, whether you're not, you have weisselberg you have the case. if you believe and the evidence, i think when in very very well and constantly, what the defense is going to try to do is make this about missing information about lai's and about blackmail. and every time they do that, although it's not back-and-forth anymore, the prosecution has to bring it back down to really the meat and potatoes they use that term again, this is really a simple case of falsifying find business records. not about sex torsion, not about whether you'd like michael cohen and not about where michael lights or weisselberg is, which side is gonna do more horrid thing in the closing argument two, which is to say, where might we see more passion? because as jeremy lays it out right there he's suggesting the prosecution you go second here and the closing arguments may be relatively dry and say, just look at the documents here. >> yeah, that's how it usually goes, right. prosecutors have to take the law as the judge

will instruct them, and then put the evidence in for each each element of the case and say, this is how we proved it. it tends to be pretty dry. i mean, hopefully they'll have some dramatic flourishes here and there to keep it interesting. but the whole ramping in the faux outrage and all of that definitely comes with a if that's they're the ones who saying are poor guy is on trial here. this is an outrage. he is the president all of that we'll get more from the defense for sure. >> and the jury won't get their jury instructions until wednesday, likely tomorrow, right. tomorrow, which is one we will be learning about them for the first time. but the lawyers here, they know, don't they? so what's in these jury instructions at this point? >> i absolutely. and when they do, their summations are going to keep that in mind. they're going to make sure they hit the elements of the crime. they're going to make sure that they identify any issues that may come up with those jury instructions. so for example, if there is a risk of of a witness, isn't going to show up and there's going to be an instruction as to a missing witness, which probably won't happen. they're going to get to that in their summation. they know they're going to telegraph it and they're going to answer it before it gets to the jury.

>> i mean, to the point it's almost like when you get an assignment to write a history paper, but x, y, and z, you literally in your introduction when you're in high school, say those words x, y, and z are the lawyers here mapping their closing arguments based on the jury instructions. so it's like mesh together prosecutors do. >> defense lawyers tend not to remember prosecutors want it to be organized and focused and tight. i mean, before powerpoint was such a thing, we used to even have our paralegals put together like a poster board, right where you'd put the elements of a simple offense and you would check it off. here's the evidence that proves this offense. check. so on defense so here's wanted to do the opposite. they want to say this is messy, this is complicated. i don't expect that they will do it like here's what evidence fits with this. instead, they'll say this is all over the map. there's so much reasonable doubt that's the sort of thing defense does. >> what percent of the defense closing arguments and again, nagel first very shortly. how much of it will be about michael color if i say 75%, you take the over the under, i take i think the over, i take the over. i think if the defense

can make this about michael cohen, they can succeed. that has to be their objective. is not about falsifying business records. the offense, it's not about anything other than a black male or six daughter who has an agenda and a bad dude who you wouldn't want to be with your sister or your or your beer? and your families, your brother-in-law, or anything like that, you wouldn't want it to be your door neighbor, walk your dog, you can not trust him and make it about michael cohen. that is their objective forget the falsifying business records because if you make it about him, you can potentially win that case are hanging the jury. >> hang the jury. one juror just takes one to hang the jury. so are you making if you're the trump team has been looking at this during for 5-6 weeks. are you making the case to one or two specific people? >> well, you have to think about your viable arguments. you make it to as many of them as you can has different things resonate with different jurors, like there's some technical issues around the enhancement, right. around whether you can enhance the falsification of business records to conceal another crime, right? if you think that the technical folks like the two lawyers on the

jury are amenable to an argument that that's bogus, that you can't make that out, then you direct that argument to them. you're picking all the arguments you have that might stick to the wall and saying we may have five or six of these folks that might be the one we're gonna learn a lot about what's in the jury instructions today based on how these attorneys argue the case and closing arguments. so a lot about to happen. jeremy, select jennifer rodgers. thanks to both of you. appreciate it. okay? >> former pop star nick carter and his late brother, aaron carter are the focus of an explosive new documentary series that just released a four-part series, focuses in on the rise of their music careers, their public feud, as well as a sexual assault allegations against nick listen carter, family dysfunction is made worse by money jealousy, being part of a famous family. >> it's hard to get to the truth i guess the best word you describe it would be lawlessness it was like

watching a roller coaster become unhinged. >> and it just got worse and worse and worse 34 year-old was it's found dead. carter faces. do allegations of sexual assault to be scared of seen elizabeth wagmeister has much more on this is joining us now is with what more you learning about this documentary and what's coming out of it this documentary is explosive, as you said, this documents the rise to fame for nick carter and his younger brother, aaron carter. but it also dives into to really the troubles that this famous family in dirt for a years, this is largely a documentary about the sexual assault allegations against nick carter. now, these are not new allegations. these were previously unveiled from the accusers themselves, and also from three separate lawsuits. that by the way, nick carter

has countersuit all of his accusers will get back to that in a minute. but in this documentary, these three accusers, these three women, they sit down and they detail there accusations from the civil suits on cameras. so to see them go through their emotional allegations of sexual assault, they all say that they were heavily intoxicated at the time that they allege they were assaulted by nick carter. this is really the first time that we are seeing them on camera in this way. now, we all know that aaron carter, he tragically died at the age of 34 back in november of 2022, he was found unresponsive in his bathtub and this was after his lifetime really up struggles with addiction and mental health. but at the end of his life, he defended his own brothers, accusers, and there was a large rift. so the documentary also gets into that kate because nick carter responded to this documentary yet he he has so

the documentarians, they say that nick carter declined to be interviewed for this documentary, but we reached out to an attorney and we heard back from him, cade, i want to read you what he told d us t cause all of these claims outrageous and says, these are exactly the same outrageous claims that led us to sue this gang of conspirators. >> that's what they call his three accusers they go on to say those cases are working their way through the legal system now. and based on both the initial court rulings and the overwhelming evidence, we have every belief that we will prevail fail and hold them accountable for spreading these falsehoods. now, in the documentary, they also say there's a website with all of these court documents for viewers to look at as well. >> elizabeth. thank you so much for bringing us that reporting reminder. you can stream this documentary, this latest documentary, nick carter documentary on max, right now, jump all. right. incredibly lucky to be alive and 19 year-old who fell 400 feet down

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coming in, there are some new pictures we want to show you coming in showing a view into rafah from the gaza border. you see it there, smoke billowing on the horizon. this is also that as there is new reporting into cnn of eyewitnesses saying they have seen idf tanks moving into the city center, develop grid and gather more details on that as they come in and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is calling sundays deadly strike on rafah, a tragic error that strike killed 45 palestinians, injured 200 others in a nearby displacement camp, seen as not of a share is following all of this and joins us right now. now, what more you learning about this strike now we have seen widespread condemnation not only from humanitarian organizations and

world leaders, but also of course, from the united nations, which has we described to be a horrific incident. >> and we have also heard from the un humanitarian chief martin griffiths issuing a statement directly in response to the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, who characterized at the attack as a tragic era in his words, according to maslow griffith statements, he said whether the attack was a war crime or a quote tragic mistake for the people of gaza. there is no debate what happened was the latest and possibly most cruel abomination and the un security council is expected to hold an emergency meeting in the next few hours, focused on the attack on sunday evening, which killed at least 40 five people left, more than 240 wounded, as we know, this was an area densely populated with civilians sheltering. this is not believed to be one of the areas that was issued with an evacuation order. in other words, this should have been a safe area for civilians. and of course, there is mounting concern around the warnings of perhaps let's try it's now moving in. we have heard, as you mentioned, from two

eyewitnesses in rafah saying that they have seen israeli tanks and armored vehicles moving into the central part of the southern city, which once was a safe haven. if you can call it that in gaza amid this war, again, this hasn't been confirmed yet by the israeli military. this is according to eyewitnesses on the ground. and of course, there is questions around the us response, what reaction we might see at this un security council meeting later today, present biden has previously warned the israeli government, the israeli military, against moving into rafah has previously told cnn that if israel were to go into rafah, that the us would not be providing support but in the form of arms, it remains to be seen whether this latest attack and the further escalation of israel's military offensive in rafah. will in fact be a red line for the biden administration nauta. >> thank you so much for the reporting. john. >> right. so if you've been on social media in the last ten or 15 minutes, you've seen a story is getting a huge amount of buzz right now politico is

reporting there is a quote, full blown freak outmong democrats over president biden's reelection prospects cnn's harryette and is here with me now. >> so there's that hairy, but there is something in the polling that's a feature that democrats might be happy about it. >> yeah you know, you, you spoke about, i believe last week a little bit and it's essentially this right now. we're looking at polls of registered voters. but of course, you have likely voters and those will actually turn out and vote. and if you look at the registered voters donald trump's ahead by an average of two points. but look at likely voters right now, what we see in those poles, those same exact polls, but among likely voters, is a tie. and this is a very unusual pattern because normally what happens is the broader universe of all registered voters is more favorable to democrats than those folks who actually vote. so back in 2020, joe biden won registered voters or let amongst them in the post-election polls by five points. he of course, only one by four, go back to 2012. what

do we see among all registered voters? we saw baraka a bomber would have won that group by six points. but of course he only one by four. so this is a very different thing that we see going on here. when you look at all registered voters, you get actually a more favorable environment for donald trump than if you look at those folks who are actually likely to turn out. again, this is a flipped from what we've seen historically. >> are there any states this matters more than others? >> yes. so we're looking nationally, but of course things are determined in the electoral college and one state where the poles have consistently shown the new york times sienna cultural. i've also seen a little bit in our cnn poll when i dug another cross tabs a little bit where we see this massive jump from registered voters. look at this donald trump at 49%, joe biden at 42% go to likely voters look at this a well within the margin of error contest in which joe biden actually scores 47% to donald trump's 46%. he is doing significantly better among likely voters in michigan then among registered voters. and part of the belief for that reason, john is because michigan has very lenient voter

registration laws, a lot of automatic voter registration in the state of michigan she got that explains michigan overall what might be contributing to this trend? yeah. so we spoken a ton about joe biden's problem with young voters, right? look at the 2020 results. we see joe biden in those exit polls and in the post-election survey from the pew research center, winning young voters, those under the age of 30 by 25 points, right now in the paulus look at that joe biden's up by just a single percentage point. my goodness, gracious. what a decline for joe biden, but there is of course, an age reversal going on here that i don't think get spoken about nearly enough, which is in those exit polls in that pew research center post-election survey. donald trump by five. now we have joe biden by six points. and of course, older americans are much more likely to vote. so this is an hey traverse like think joe biden will take, you want these are the voters who show up generally speaking, but that's a huge swing it's something historic, john. >> all right. harriet, and thank you. thank you let's talk about this joining us right now as republican congressman byron donalds from florida congressman.

>> thanks for coming in. what harry and john were talking about. you're also new york times also had an analysis of this let's kind of registered voters versus the likely voters conundrum. i'm calling it. and as the new york times kinda put it, as part of their analysis, it says to an extent that hasn't been true in the new york times, sienna college pulling in the last eight years, disengaged voters are driving the overall polling results and the story line about the election they are the disengaged or the low, low turnout voters. they're the voters that are less likely to actually decide to show up and vote on election day. with that in mind, how much does, does that kind of this conundrum, if you will, concern you regarding donald trump, his campaign efforts, him trying to win real election, hidden, trying to electron once again with really turning those voters out well, first of all, it's going to be with you this morning. >> i'm obviously i'm not really too concerned. here's why this election is going really going to come down to a

choice between two presidents, two 45th 2406 and i think that when you have a lot of voters registered, likely whatever the case might be, when a really take stock of the job, both of these men have done. they're going to sit there and say, donald trump was a significantly better president. it's not even close. look at every metric look what's happening around the world. the world was safer inflation was lower. our border was secure. everything i think that truly matters in the lives of the american people was better under donald trump when he was president. so at the end of the day, i think that's what's going to really shake out at the only pull that matters on november 5. >> one thing we learned this morning is that the biden campaign is gonna be getting some help from three former police officers. will three police officers who were there on january whereas six names that have become very well-known for speaking out about what happened to them on january of six, how they defended the capital on january 6, and the biden campaign is going to be using them, getting help from them in swing states. two, in their view, speak about

the threat that donald trump poses to democracy christina, in 2024. i mean, they carry an interesting story and interesting personal story. how do you counter that i countered that with the fact that joe biden has been a disastrous president and he has all, he's been a threat to democracy. >> check this out. he has suppressed a free-speech of the american people during covid-19 teen he, for some members of our military to take the covid-19 vaccine when they did not want to. now that all the facts are out, they destroyed their military careers he's ignored the supreme court not once, but twice when it comes to the student loan bailout, he is ignored federal law leaving our borders massively open. so if you're going to talk about who's threat to democracy is without a question, joe biden has been that threat violations of separation of powers, violations of the first amendment just because he wanted to get his way. that is not good for an american president who just uses and changes the law based upon his own whim, his own desires, his

own politics. that is wrong. and so i think if you're going to try to bring out what happened on january 6 versus the four years of joe biden's presidency. joe biden is the one who's not been protecting our institutions. he's not been protecting our constitution. he's actually been a major detriment to the very pillars of our nation this is part of the argument you are trying to make on the campaign trail for donald trump nikki haley is now says she's gonna vote for donald trump, which has some suggesting that shubi perfect running mate for him. do you think she would be a great running mate for donald trump? >> all that remains to be seen, donald trump is going to make that decision a lot of names, obviously out there, but at the end of the day, he's going to decide who he think should be in that second seat to get our country back on track, clark she would be great because of the voters that still the voters that she could bring along. >> you don't you don't do would you be opposed at seeing her as running mate i don't

think that's really the case today because donald trump is has been president. >> he is a former president. it's not like you have somebody running who has to bring a constituency along to help that person to elevate that person on the national stage, donald trump is known throughout our entire country and like i said, this is going to be the pepsi taste challenge for the presidential election of vice president. in my view, a vice presidential pick is not somebody who needs to bring a block of votes. i think it's somebody who helped can help expand the voting population and a voting map four president trump, but i don't think he needs nikki haley, frankly, doesn't really need anybody else. he's going to pick somebody that is going to help him really expand the map and expand his ability to get back to the white house where you're saying it's kinda the same thing, bringing block of votes and expand the map. it's bringing voters and being attractive to voters to help the president. your name is among those being mentioned as possible, vp contender. would you like the job i've said

that i've been on a record for that multiple times my quotes have been out there a long time at the end of the day, are you saying yeah, almost support whatever he does i'm focused on the i'm focused on the country you're focusing, so yes. you saying that you you'd like to have it up i've said it before, of course. like who would say no? that's the bigger question. oh, who out there if he calls you and says, hey, i want you to be the vip, you say no that's a very that's an incredibly shortlist. so i mean, yes, obviously, that would be the case. but right now focuses the convention is coming up in about a month. we have a campaign strategy to get a lot of voters out in support of president trump. that's the first, second, and third job. the vice presidency, that's a decision he will make and knowing him, he'll make that decision alone. >> congressman byron donalds. thank you so much for your time today erase, continue. oh, yeah. >> heating up to say the least yeah. all right. it is a big day here in new york, closing