it's memorial day weekend and everybody is getting in the pool. i'm michael smerconish in philadelphia. why are so many republican candidates now challenging donald trump for the gop presidential nomination? think about it. he's a former president, essentially a gop incumbent, who's consistently polling around 50% of the gop vote in the polls. and we learned in 2016 that given the hard-core support that trump enjoys from some, he's the beneficiary of a large field. remember, in that cycle there

were so many running that debates, they had a kids table. this time trump announced first and then nikki haley and then vivak, larry elder, asa hutchinson, tim scott, and now ron desantis, who by the way is only 44 years old. by biden/trump standards, he's got three more decades to run for president. so why run now? why get into the steel cage with a wrestler who always carries a foreign object? mike pence said he'll soon make a decision. chris christie sure sounds like a candidate. sununu might get in. even glenn youngkin is taking a second look. so what's going on? maybe that they don't think they'll have to beat trump. that that work will be done by a combination of alvin bragg, fani willis, jack smith and merrick garland. this week trump appeared remotely in a manhattan courtroom in connection with the

stormy daniels case. the judge told the parties not to make any plans around the scheduled start of trial, march 25, 2024. trump reportedly reacted by shaking his head. there's still jockeying going on regarding the caucus and primary schedule for next year, but take a look at 2016. that was the last time that we had a competitive republican process. look at that as a guide. in that cycle iowa held its caucus on february 1st. new hampshire voted on february 9. then came south carolina and nevada. super tuesday was march 1. there were six more election days in march. and then in april came wisconsin, new york, connecticut, delaware, maryland, pennsylvania, rhode island, indiana. and in may nebraska, west virginia, oregon and washington state. in the thick of that schedule, donald trump will spend a week or two sitting in a manhattan courtroom facing criminal prosecution. and even without cameras in new york courtrooms, his comings and

goings will all be noted. sketch artists will have a field day. it's going to be o.j. on steroids. and that's not all. last month fulton county d.a. fani willis sent a letter to the county's sheriff putting him on notice of charging decisions that she'll announce in connection with her investigation of georgia's 2020 election. she wrote these words. i'm providing this letter to bring to your attention the need for heightened security and preparedness in the coming months. she noted her timetable was between july 11 and september 1. now, granted there are more individuals than just donald trump whose conduct is being investigated in georgia. but would any of the others warrant notification of the sheriff? of the possibility of unrest? i doubt it. instead, i think she tipped her hand that she intends to indict him. and then there's special counsel jack smith appointed by merrick garland. "the wall street journal" was the first to report this week that smith has all but finished

his work. they reported in recent weeks prosecutors working for smith have completed interviews with nearly every employee at trump's florida home, from top political aides to maids and maintenance staff. "the journal" couldn't determine whether smith has decided to charge trump. but early this week trump's lawyers sought a meeting with merrick garland. common sense suggests there's no need for a meeting unless trump's lawyers think he's about to be indicted. and now "the washington post" reports that two of the former president's employees moved boxes of papers from within his mar-a-lago home a day before fbi agents and a justice department official arrived to pick up classified documents. so there's a serious prospect of the former president soon facing criminal charges in three different jurisdictions and in the thick of the campaign. some will suggest that this is all to trump's benefit. according to his campaign, he benefited financially after alvin bragg charged him in the

stormy daniels case raising $15.4 million in two weeks and his polls went up. i think because at its root, that's a case about sex. and in the 1990s we learned that americans don't see that as warranting a presidential downfall. but whould additional prosecutions have the same impact? would some have enough of the reality show? i can think of several in the latter camp. their names are haley, hutchinson, scott, desantis, maybe pence, christie, sununu, and youngkin too. and if they're right and trump isn't the candidate, does that put more pressure on president biden to step aside showing that even democrats want a change in their ticket. his retort is to suggest that he alone can defeat donald trump. bottom line, none of us have any idea what's about to unfold. but it's going to be riveting. joining me now is elie honig the

former federal prosecutor and author of "untouchable, how powerful people get away with it." elie, i'm going through the three buckets, manhattan, georgia, the feds. relative to manhattan, march 25th, is that a firm date? will it really happen? and does he need to be in the courtroom? >> so, michael, i would say that's a semi-firm date. usual ly when a judge sets a trial date, you would write it in your date book in pencil. things happen, prosecutors often find more evidence, but this judge made a point this week of telling the parties put this date down, do not schedule anything around it. be ready to go to trial. i do want to highlight that there's a possibility trump may go to the federal courts and say we need to push this thing back because this is going to fall right in the middle of the republican primaries and trump is going to argue i'm a candidate for federal office. i have a first amendment right for free speech to run for

office. to take me out for several weeks where i have to sit in a courtroom is going to interfere with that right. so i think that trial is conspicuously timed and i think there's a chance trump may try to get it changed. >> you know that "the washington post" and "new york times" -- even "the washington post" and "new york times" used the word novel to describe the theory where this misclassification was elevated to a felony. when does donald trump litigate that issue, before or after trial? >> both, michael. he is certainly going to bring a motion to the judge before trial and say this theory under which the charge here is a misdemeanor of falsifying business records, it only gets boosted up to a felony if the records were falsified to promote some other crime and here the theory of the other crime appears to be interference with the federal election, a federal campaign violation but we're in state court so that's the novelty that could be challenged before

trial. if it goes to trial and he's convicted, trump will appeal on that basis. even if this trial goes off in march, and i think it will carry certainly into april, trump is not going to be sentenced for several months after that. even if he is sentenced to prison, which i think is unlikely given the nature of the charges here and given the way new york state law works, even if he's convicted, he's not going to get sentenced to prison in all likelihood. even if he's sentenced to p prison. he won't have to start serving until after his appeals are done which will carry way beyond the 2024 election. >> let's go to georgia now. you heard me say in this setup that i think fani willis has tipped her hand. do you agree with me? >> i agree with you and more. she's not just tipped her hand, ike she's turned it around and put it in front of the public cameras and hyped this up like it's a summer movie blockbuster with about the same level of subtlety. there is little question, no question in my mind that fani willis has every intention to

indict donald trump later this summer, july or august. she has made that entirely clear by her very public letters, not-so-subtle letters to the sheriff and other local authorities. i think the question is will the nature of those charges, which are going to be very different, going to go to the intent to steal the 2020 election, will they be received differently in the political world than the manhattan d.a.'s charges. >> right. i mean you heard me make the case that i think that alvin bragg thus far has helped donald trump fund-raising, the poll numbers. nothing else explains how trump in the last 60 days hassin kroe increased his lead over desantis. okay, let me ask this question. do you think someone from doj is on the horn with fani willis or has been on the horn with alvin bragg, any type of coordination between the three buckets, as i put them? >> so there's no indication of any communication or coordination between those three prosecutors. michael, it's important to understand, ordinarily you would

absolutely pick up the phone if you were any of these three prosecutors and you found out another prosecutor's office was looking at the person as you, we do as all the time as prosecutors. i did that as a federal prosecutor calling over to the state and vice versa. there's a name for this process, it's called deconfliction. i hear you're looking at the same person, where are you? shall we share our witnesses, shall we share our evidence, shall we work this separate? i think the prosecutors are wary of creating an absence that they're coordinating. i don't think they want to be subject to that attack by donald trump and you know it would come. i think they are intentionally not dialing up each other's numbers. >> okay. so to recap, there's a trial date with regard to alvin bragg. we both think that fani willis is going to indict donald trump this summer. relative to merrick garland and jack smith, how about the issue of, we always hear about that

timetable close to an election, don't go doing anything that will impact the election. will smith and garland be up against that window? >> they are, michael. i think doj deserves some blame here. by taking this long, by taking two and a half plus years to get around to any of this, they have played themselves into a calendar corner because there is long-standing doj policy and practice that you do not take actions within depending on who you ask 60 or 90 days of an election. as prosecutors, we try to avoid making moves that are going to land in the public sector and have political impact too close to an election. if we do the calendar math here action even if doj brings an indictment either on mar-a-lago or january 6th this summer, which we are in the summer now, realistically you are not going to be able to get to a trial through all the discovery, through all the appeals until at least a year from now. that puts us in the summer of 2024, which according to doj practice is really pretty darn

close, arguably too close to the general election. especially when the defendant is one of the candidates. >> elie, final thought then, a little game theory here. it sounds like it's possible that the only case that could get to trial, if, big if, there are actually three cases is the alvin bragg/stormy daniels case where we've seen in the last couple of months it's arguably to the benefit of donald trump. theoretically trump could get a trial date in the midst of the primary season and regardless of the outcome have some wind at his sails. the other two cases don't get resolved until after the 2024 election. true? >> yes, absolutely. this is the world we are living in, michael, where we could have a leading candidate, perhaps a presumptive nominee for the presidency, on criminal trial just a few months before the actual election. we could have two other pending indictments that are sitting there unresolved without a trial on the date of the election. and then if trump wins or a

republican wins, we could be looking at the potential for pardons. there's no way he's going to be tried if he wins and goes back into office. he's not going to get tried while he's in office. if he loses, the question is are we going to have these trials in 2025 after he's lost two elections now? >> holy smokes. >> so there's a lot of different things in play. we are heading into historically up precedented territory. >> that was excellent. we're trying to see around corners. thank you so much, elie. enjoy the weekend. what are your thoughts? hit me up on social media. from the world of youtube it looks, can't they fast track things and get all three to trial during 2024? christopher style, probably not. you can't make an argument like, hey, let's hurry up and get to trial. remember, we have this conversation every cycle. just think of comey and wehner and reopening that. the feds are not supposed to do

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question, should a sports announcer's mistaken use of the "n" word lose his job. a long-time announcer was let go after he used the "n" word on air. during a pregame show in kansas city, glenn kiper was talking to colleague dallas braden about their trip to the negro league's baseball museum which is in that city but kiper mispronounced the word "negro" and instead used the slur. >> we had a phenomenal day today. [ bleep ] league museum and arthur bryant's barbecue. >> at the time either kiper or braden offered any reaction. before the sixth inning kiper told his audience this -- >> a little earlier in the show, i said something that didn't come out quite the way i wanted it to, and i just wanted to apologize if it sounded different than i meant it.

>> he was then suspended by nbc sports california and ultimately fired. the network said in a statement, quote, following an internal review, the decision has been made for nbc sports california to ending its relationship with glenn kiper effective immediately. we thank glenn for his dedication to bay area baseball over the years. a person familiar with the investigation told the associated press that the decision was based on a, quote, variety of factors, including information uncovered in that internal review. we invited glenn kiper to come on this program today but he declined our offer. in a written statement he called the slur an unfortunate mispronunciation. on that day i chose to spend my personal time by educating myself and learning more about mlb's history by going to the negro league museum. i spent nearly three hours there in an effort to better understand and appreciate the difficulties and social barriers african american players endured in mlb's early years. when the subject of the museum visit came up in the pregame show i was excited and eager to

share what i had done and seen that day. in my excitement, i rushed through the word "negro" resulting in my very unfortunate mispronunciation. i sincerely apologize to everyone who was hurt by this. it was a terrible, but honest mispronunciation. i take full responsibility. he added, please know racism is in no way a part of me. it never has been and never will be. i wish they would have taken into consideration my 20-year career, my solid reputation, integrity and character. but in this current environment traits like integrity and character are no longer considered. then the president of the museum, bob kendrick, created a bit of a ruckus when he tweeted out a statement that says my heart is one of forgiveness and he hoped others would find it within themselves to do the same. i recently spoke with bob kendrick to ask him about that. >> mr. kendrick, what struck me when i watched the tape is he said he had a phenomenal day. obviously it was in praise of

the museum, right? >> it was. i had met glen and his broadcast partner, dallas braden, here at the museum. we had a wonderful time. i'm telling stories as i traditionally do, and particularly satchel page stories because of the connection to the a's, of course here as a member of the kansas city rays when he was 59 years old and pitched three shoutout innings to the boston red sox giving up one hit to a young carl yastrzemski so we're having a great time telling me all these stories. he told me they were going to eat barbecue and head over to the ballpark to get ready for the game. >> what do you make of critics who say the word was just too accessible. too much on the tip of his tongue? >> i understand what they're saying. and, yes, it does sometimes

maybe make one believe that it's a word that maybe has been used before. i don't know for certain. so i understand that point of view. but again, that doesn't mean that it was deliberate. it doesn't mean that in this case i felt that there was malicious intent. it was an awful thing to say, we acknowledge it as such. we don't condone what the use of the word was. but i certainly believe that it was a mistake. and i've been criticized because i felt like it was a mistake. >> i was going to ask about exactly that. what has been the reaction to your forgiveness? >> well, number one, one would never think so much hate would come along with forgiveness. again, as i said before, i understand to some degree the emotional anguish that something like this can generate.

it's a horrible slur to have happen, so i understand that. now, was i surprised by how much vitriol had come my way? absolutely. but again, that is the nature of it. >> i hope the silver lining is a boost in your attendance. candidly i didn't know the museum was in kansas city. i'm not going to come back to kansas city without stopping in for a visit and i hope others do likewise. >> i hope so too, because, michael, we had just announced our plans to build a brand-new 30,000 foot stand-alone negro league baseball museum just a few days before this happened. so i was riding a tremendous high. this notion of building a new museum even though it's going to cost us about $25 million to build it, appearnd i've gotten of congratulations on having to raise $25 million in order to do this. but i understand people were

excited and i was excited. then this happened and you find yourself embroiled in something that was not your doing, but again, it comes with the territory. i do think a lot of people have learned about the negro league baseball museum and i hope we continue to see a lot of people who make their way here. as we record this, the washington nationals are walking through this museum right now. >> awesome. >> it never gets old. we always enjoy when young athletes come here. >> all right. everybody get out their checkbook. thank you, mr. kendrick. >> oh, man, it has been my absolute pleasure. thanks for having me. >> thank you. social media reaction now to this segment. what do we have, katherine? >> horrible word, i cannot force myself to say it. how he thinks he can get away with it, i do not know. but doyle, in context, right? clearly he's bringing it up in praise of the museum that he's just visited. if his record is as he

represents, it's a 20-year clean track record and no history of any related type of an issue, then i think firing was too strong of a punishment. and by the way, so does bob kep d kendrick. one more. no, clearly a mispronounceation. nothing else leads me to believe there was any malice intended by him. kelly, if you heard an announcer used that word in the midst of a broadcast and that's all you knew, you'd say you've got to fire him, of course. nothing is worse than the utterance of that word. but to watch it and to know how he spent his day, three hours, wants to come on air and share the experience, that's what changes it for me. up ahead, is the answer to the labor shortage teens? several states are passing or considering legislation to loosen child labor laws. would you be okay with a 14-year-old serving you alcohol? and with americans seemingly unhappy with the prospect of a

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does america need, does america want a third lane in the 2024 presidential race? listen to this, according to a new cnn poll, 66% of all americans say a biden victory would be a setback or even a disaster for the country. 56% say the exact same thing

about donald trump. which is why a nonpartisan group called no labels is threading together a safety net for the american electorate in case the vast majority of voters aren't satisfied with a biden versus trump rematch if it comes to that. the group aims to gain valid access across all 50 states and the district of columbia for a third-party candidacy hoping to appeal to independent voters with a unity ticket made up of one democrat and one republican. so far there's no access getting in oregon, colorado, and alaska. they're trying to get a candidate in key battleground states like florida, north carolina and nevada. 600,000 si hopes to raise $70 million. according to their chief strategist, they're about a third from reaching their goal. nominating a third-party candidate is of course controversial. critics argue the groundwork no

labels is laying down will only catapult trump back into the white house. but the bipartisan group is saying an insurance plan for the 2024 race is needed. my next guest is ryan clancy, the chief strategist for no labels. ryan, thank you for being here. you heard the polling at the outset. 66% say it could be a disaster for joe biden to be re-elected. 56% say donald trump would be likewise. if those are the numbers and biden and trump are the candidates, would that trigger what no labels is planning? >> well, michael, we think there's an opening today. if it looks like this a year from now, there could be an opening. but to nominate a ticket, we've got to clear two pretty high bars, which is the major party nominees need to continue to be really unpopular, but a unity ticket needs to have an outright path to victory. >> so speak to me about process. what is going to take place a year from now, if that's the timeline? >> well, we're going to have a whole procession of events coming up, michael.

look, it will start this summer. so after july you will see us release something called our common sense agenda. these are our results-oriented ideas the vast majority of the country will want based on extensive polling and research we've done. it's something two major parties refuse to give them. so that will put definition around this and work backwards from our convention in april in dallas. that's the latest point where we decide whether to nominate a ticket. >> let's talk about the criticism. i have a colleague here at cnn who runs the washington bureau and we go back and forth on the issue of how does this all play out. i'll put on the screen six or seven states where the margin was three points or less in 2020. third way says even a paltry third-party performance would put 79 biden electoral votes at risk. you've heard the argument. what's your response?

>> michael, the problem with that argument is when everybody looks at past third-party candidacies, nader, gary johnson, jill stein, those were protest candidates. no one who ever voted for those candidates thought they were voting for a president. we will only nominate a ticket that we think can win. by the way, based on the polling we're looking at today, an independent ticket is polling evenly for both sides so we are not seeing an advantage for one major party candidate or another. >> ryan, you know, of course, that if nobody gets to 270, the magic number to win the election, then the house of representatives gets to make the decision and each state delegate is given one vote, meaning alaska and california, your equals. many say the composition of the house is republicans would have the edge and consequently could be expected to vote for the republican candidate. what's your answer to that? >> well, the current composition

in the house doesn't matter because the house that would determine a president if it ever went there would be the one seated in january 2025. that's number one. the second thing is there's actually an opportunity even before the house meets in the electoral college where there's actually a surprising number of states that don't have bound electors, so a no labels ticket won some electoral votes, they could use that as a bargaining chip to get some support from one of the major party nominees. in the end we're preparing for that because you've got to do all your diligence. but we won't nominate a ticket unless we think it can win outright in the electoral college. >> how about the old adage, you can't beat somebody with nobody. how do you know that there will be quality candidates who will step forward and be willing to accept the no labels ballot position that you secure? >> we don't. and that's why we always talk about this as an insurance policy. we are 18 months out from the election. we are a year out from having to

make a decision. the only thing we know with any certainty, michael, is what you said at the top. two-thirds of the country doesn't want the election the two major parties are about to force them to get. so we think a year from now if there's an opening and people want this ticket, people are going to be very happy that we have laid the groundwork and got the ballot access where there's at least another choice. >> people like to mention joe man manchin, kyrsten sinema, others like to dream of admiral mcraven. thoughts? >> all the names you've heard is names other people are floated. no labels is not talking to candidates or speculating the names of candidates. we are head down, working to get ballot access, working to put definition around what this kind of ticket could stand for when we release our common sense policy agenda shortly after july 4th. it is going to become very clear to people when you look at this agenda that there is a lot that

the public wants that the two major party nominees simply refuse to give them. >> well, the polling data today supports what you're saying. ryan, thank you so much for being here. >> thanks for having me, michael. more social media reaction now. what do we have? no labels is a donald trump re-election pac. all it will do is fracture the vote, but trump's most loyal will stick to him like glue. anyone who thinks otherwise is delusional, says the real doctor. really? you're disbelieving of all that data? how about the fact that -- and i discussed this here recently. a plurality of americans are neither rs nor ds, we are is. 49% of the country says i identify as an independent, not as a republican or democrat. who speaks for us? you know, maybe it's the election where finally the numbers are backed up by candidates who want to seize that mantle. do we have, katherine, the map?

i never got to it with ryan. put up the map that no labels presents. they say we're not in it to be spoilers, we're in it to win it. here it comes. they have a scenario where they think there are 25 states they think they can win. there it is. i don't know, who the hell knows? i said at the outset the only thing any of us knows for sure is that we have no idea which way this is going to go. i've been paying attention for more than 30 years. i've never seen a cycle with the unpredictability as the one that is commencing now. in any event, go vote at smerconish.com on this week's poll question. here it is. i want to know if you're open to the idea, are you open to the idea, i'm not asking are you going to vote for because we don't know who the candidates are. but are you open to the idea of voting for a no labels third-party candidate? go check that in and out. still to come, in a controversial move many states are relaxing child labor laws saying it's a way to tackle the shortage of workers.

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emma, thanks for being here. when i was 15, i lied when i applied at mcdonald's because i was so eager to work there but they only hired 16-year-olds. they figured it out and i came back when i was 16 and worked the next two years. i wanted to flip burgers. i was not going to work in a meat packing plant or do some mining operation. what are your thoughts about the trend i've just described? >> so i think there's actually been a lot of hysteria around these bills. when you look at the text of what's actually been enacted, they're really quite moderate, even milquetoast reforms, maybe letting teenagers work a little younger or a little longer, but nothing really crazy. and you mentioned increased child labor violations. i think there's been a bit of a bait and switch. a majority of these child labor violations involve migrant children working illegally in places like commercial farms. these have nothing to do with

that. that kind of labor will still be illegal under these reforms. so i think instead of panicking, we should be celebrating because there are so many positive outcomes associated with working as a teenager. >> the one that i saw that was -- i agreed with the propriety and lessons one learns from having a job as a teenager, for sure. the one that troubled me the most that i read about was not the booze, it was the hours of working during a school year, up to six hours on a particular day. for me that's too much because i think you've got to prioritize the school work. i wanted to ask you this. is this really about american kids or about migrant workers? >> so i think these bills are actually about american kids, right, making it easier for them to work because there are a lot of really positive outcomes associated with working as a teenager. a lot of them are self-evident. responsibility, learning to show up on time. teenagers themselves like working. they like having their own money and not constantly hounding

their parents for cash. there's been research that teenagers who work part-time earn more later in life than those who didn't. there's one study that looked at teenagers that worked part-time during their senior year. those who worked six to nine years after dprgraduation were earning 20% more than those who didn't. so i think we should be celebrating and encouraging places that are making it easier for teenagers to get jobs. >> emma, if we build it, will they come to quote the old line? are we sure the teenagers will fill these voids that exist if all of a sudden the rules are loosened? >> so i think it depends, right? so i think when we're looking at the areas that teenagers like to work in, fast food and food service is a good example. so there's been a lot of fear mongering about the laws that are loosening, the age that kids can serve alcohol. a lot of these once they had a bill that was very clear about saying you can't bartend until you're 18, so mostly this will just be 14 or 15-year-olds work at a place like an applebee's

that serves alcohol. i think teenagers might fill those positions. if we're looking at places that -- sectors that teenagers don't want to work in, i don't think that's the solution to the labor shortage. i think the solution to the labor shortage is liberalizing our immigration laws and making it easier to work here if you're not a citizen. >> i have to move on but before i do, i know you just graduated from uva. congrats. what was your first job? >> when i was 17, i was a nanny. and i had a really great time doing that. i learned a lot of skills that i took with me into my adult life. >> thank you, emma, appreciate it. >> all right, thank you so much. social media reaction, what do we have, katherine? from the world of youtube, it's important -- oh, jamal, hello, jamal. it's important to protect people but we put entirely too much emphasis in putting kids in bubbles and preventing -- look, we don't want kids to be exploited. somewhere in here is the proper balance. six hours on top of a school

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