kristen holmes, >> live from green bay, wisconsin. thank you for that. forests >> let's get the white house perspective on this with cnn's mj lee, mj, there is a new biden ad that is specifically targeting trump on reproductive rights meantime, the white house is also focused on florida, where other supreme court there decided that they would approve the wording of the constitutional amendment to enshrine abortion rights in the state. constant the tuition white house apparently believes that will help them potentially when the sunshine state yeah. >> and we've of course seen some pretty blunt language coming out of this white house. president biden saying that this decision by the florida supreme court was outrageous an extreme vice president kamala harris saying that women there now confronts the cruel reality of either putting their lives at risk are having to travel potentially hundreds or thousands of miles to get the health care that they need. the biden campaign kane for its part is obviously using this to make one more fresh push on the issue of a

i'm doing now by kristen holmes. kristen catches up. >> there. there were seven jurors that had been in paneled. are ready. we needed 11 more to fill out that 12 plus the six alternate jurors. one that's already been seeing it is saying she can no longer serwer. >> she's been dismissed. so now we're back down to six. they've brought in the 96 panel to come through and get go through processing once more. but here's what happened. we know that this str called the court essentially said that she was worried about if she could be impartial. she was worried about if she was fit to serve. so she came in this morning talk to the judge. and essentially this is what she says. i want to make sure i get it. she says that she was excused after she told the judge that, quote aspects of her identity have already been out there in the public yesterday alone. she said she had friends, colleagues, and family push things to her phone questioning if she was the jury shield juror, she went on to say that she felt intimated dated, and she wasn't sure that you'll be

and our kristen holmes is on-scene in manhattan with the latest at kristen, donald trump is not a known morning person at what's going on here yeah it gave me well, that's absolutely right. >> no part of the pitch here with me and talking to a senior advisers is that he had to do this because the fact that he is in trials. so here's where we are. we are at the the corner of park avenue where gordon seemed to be jp morgan headquarters as a construction site right now, donald trump is going to be working with talking to some of these construction workers as well as some union members. what are the things we know that he is planning to do in the november election is try and drive a wedge between president joe biden, & a core democratic stronghold union members. now, while the big unions, many of them have endorsed mr. joe biden, his team, donald trump's believes that they have some power over some of the rank and file members and they are trying to get as many votes as possible, particularly in the states where it's it's going to matter, states like michigan, wisconsin, and even pennsylvan

let's bring in students, kristen holmes, who's covering the trump campaign. kristen trump is all over the map on abortion policy historically his latest comments though, sort of casting the responsibility of designing abortion legislation to the state's walk us through those comments yeah four is this really just goes to show you how fine of a line that donald trump has to walk. we know on monday he said that the decision on reproductive rights should belong to the states, but then today, he was criticizing a decision made by the state's here's what he said on that arizona band. take a lesson arizona go to write the governor and everybody else bring it back in. and that will be taken care by the current. >> now when it comes to whether or not donald trump would support a national abortion ban, or whether or not he believed that this should go to the state's his team believed that the better political move for them was to say that this should go to the state it's now that doesn't mean that donald trump is not going to speak out on some of these decisions, but t

let's begin with cnn's kristen holmes and palm beach, florida and kristen donald trump and speaker johnson. they have a history of teaming up to push out falsehoods about the elections at least to the 2020. what can we expect from today's mar-a-lago event? >> jason you bring that up? and i am told that they are going to likely relitigate the election of 2020 in addition to talking about what you mentioned, which is this issue of non-citizens voting. and i will say it is not just the mayor of tacoma park, but also some local school boards across the country. they also allow non-citizens to vote but it is not a wide-scale issue and certainly not an issue in federal elections. something that are the kind of elections that someone like donald trump or mike johnson would be folks now, i did get some pushback after talking on cnn about this issue earlier. from his team, donald trump's team, where they said, this is also about preventing in the you char non-citizens from voting. but again, there is not much data that shows that this is a wide scale problem in any capacity however, we are looking

cnn's kristen holmes is outside court. seven jurors so far we will see where we end up for the next few hours. kristen yeah, that's right. >> so let's talk about what we're going to actually see today. and as you mentioned, donald trump is likely to leave in the next hour and we use expected to stop and speak to the cameras. remember, he is still running a presidential campaign. he is going to use every opportunity he can to paint this trial as unfair as election interference, as we have seen him do for the last several months. so today, we are talking about another 96 jurors being brought into the the courtroom, that means the judge is going to first talk to them. is there anyone who feels like they can't be impartial? that's going to dismiss several people last time, it was more than half of the pool that had comment, then there's going to be conversations about anyone else who feels for some reason they are to fit to serve in this jury that will dismiss another handful of people, then we get to that questionnaire. the qu

kristen holmes. thank you so much. live for us from west palm beach. jessica, also in florida right now, donald trump's two co-defendants in the classified documents case are trying to get their obstruction charges dropd. they say ey were unaware that they were allegedly moving aroboxes that contain sensitive national security materials. l's special counsel jack smith claims ty tried to help trump hide those boxes from the fed's trump-appointed judge aileen cannon will ultimately decide it this charges stan and it's something the former president's lawyers are certainly watching closely cnn's evan perez is at the federal courthouse there in florida. evan, how is this playing out so far today? >> well, jessica, we're about an hour into this here and that we expect to go on for another couple of hours and right now, you have the lawyers for these togas co-defendants, walt nauta and carlos de oliveira both still currently employed by donald trump at mar-a-lago and what what the argument from these two from the lawyers is is that they did not know that the

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let's get details from received as kristen holmes, kristen, what is trump now saying and what's the reaction? >> well, for the last couple of months, donald trump has privately and publicly been outwardly flirting with this idea of potentially backing a national 15 week abortion ban. now, this gave an opening to democrats who could tie him to unpopular abortion policies as well as attack him over an issue that has really plagued republicans for the last two two years. i'm speaking to senior advisers to donald trump. they felt like he needed to get out there and redefine his stance. he was hearing from people on conservative social, social conservatives who are trying to get him to back this national ban, but also for more moderate conservatives who are very concerned over the idea that he might hurt his chances with independent voters voters, particularly when it came to abortion. so what we ended up hearing from him today was really what we had heard from him almost two years ago, that he was proud of overturning roe v. wade, but also that he believed that all decisions on reproductive righ

kristen holmes. thanks so much >> we'll >> republican insiders tonight, are quietly at odds with their standard bearers over another non-existing threat. and that is fraud with mail-in voting. sara murray as that story >> where the gop's election skeptics, this is a hard sell in the states where ballot harvesting is legal. we are going to ballot harvest where the states have the universal mail-in voting. we are going to run a universal mail-in voting program, especially when the man atop the ticket can't stop bash king vote by mail, we have to get rid of mail-in ballots, give you her mail-in voting you automatically have fraud. mail-in voting is totally corrupt >> republican officials are trying to walk a tight rope, appease donald trump by pursuing efforts to curtail the process while at the same time convincing the base to bank votes early. >> if we want to compete and win, we must embrace early voting despite that embrace the republican national committee is also involved in a flurry of legal chal

cnn's kristen holmes is outside the courthouse 12 jurors selected yesterday. intrigued at the end of the day, i expect there will be more today as well, christi yeah, absolutely. john. so what we're expecting today is to really fill out that alternate box. the judge has said around six alternates are expected 15 roughly five more, but just a reminder that he could change his mind particularly after what we saw yesterday, two of those jurors getting dismissed after they had been seated. i know there is some concern really on both sides that there could be episodes moving forward, not just your typical episode in terms of a family member getting sick, but also with this view of can they be impartial? this is a very high profile case with a very polarizing defendant. so we're going to see today is there are 22 people left of that 96 from yesterday. >> they are going to go through the entire process again to see if they can get one of these five alternate seat. >> they are going to go through the questionnaire, then you're going to see both of the sides question t

i seen as kristen holmes is in west palm beach, florida for us, right near mar-a-lago. kristen, what more do we know about this news conference? and what trump and johnson want to chief >> wael, we are told that part of today will be them relitigating the 2020 election, which of course, as you just mentioned, is not that surprising given the role that those of them took trying to overturn the election back in 2020. but the other thing is talking about these voting noncitizens essentially trying to potentially put forward a bill we're at least draw attention to this idea of non-citizens voting in the election. as you noted, start any kind of indication that this is a widespread problem, but on top of that, there is actually a federal law that bans noncitizens from voting. but this issue has become somewhat of a rallying cry for republicans. we know donald trump himself has actually gone as far as to say the democrats want undocumented immigrants coming over the border or so that they can help them in the 2024 election. we also know that there has been a series of legislat

he lost the green bay, wisconsin this our scene as kristen holmes is therefore us, kristen, what is trump's message today in these two bid western? swing states >> i by the way, earlier it was all about immigration. we were told that today, tonight and green bay, wisconsin, it would be a mix of immigration, the economy but so far it is again just been him doubling down on his anti-immigration rhetoric and promising these expansion of these hardline policies. if he is real elected, now it tends to be going over well with the crowd because we've just heard the crowd stop him, chanting, build the wall over and over again. remember this messaging on immigration propelled him to the white house in 2016, and he's hoping it does again in 2024. now, earlier today, we heard him in michigan going further repeating his claims that immigrants and send migrants were animals, would take a lesson >> the democrats say, please don't call them animals or humans. i said no, they're not yemen and not yam is their animals nancy pelosi told me that she said, please don't use the word animals or when you're talki

cnn's kristen holmes, outside the court, within an hour things can get very interesting, kristen yeah, that's right. >> and actually donald trump did a campaign stop earlier this morning. he stopped by construction site where he's talked to construction workers as well as union members. and i asked him particularly about david pecker. when was last time he spoke to a beggar. remember the two of them used to be very close. he wouldn't answer that question. i asked what he thought of the testimony so far all he would say is that he believed that pecker was a good guy, that he's been nice to him. and then essentially walked away after answering that question. so we'll see if he takes any other questions in the hallway, if he stops to speak or if he got his filled during that campaign style but the other thing he commented on it was he was asked if he would pay the fine, if it was founding violated the gag order. here's what he said hello, i have no idea. >> i have no idea. they've taken my constitutional right away with a gag order. that's all it is. it's election interference is whole t

former president claiming he would testify during the proceedings which begin on monday cnn's kristen holmes is joining us right now from trump's mar-a-lago estate in palm beach, florida. kristen, give us the very latest >> well, that's right. we just heard from a joint press conferences speaker mike johnson alongside president, former president donald trump. and it was really build as an election in 20, they wanted to talk about this issue impacting elections, but the real news came after the fact during the question-and-answer session with reporters. and i will note, first of all, i will get to the trial, but one of the biggest moments came right at the top when i asked for i, president trump, if he stood by speaker johnson at the time where he is facing this motion to vacate by marjorie taylor greene. take a listen to what he said >> were getting along very well with the speaker and i get along very well with marjorie we have a speaker. he was voted in and it was a complicated process and i think very it's not not an easy situation for any speaker. i think he's doing a very good job. he's

cnn's kristen holmes joins us now from west palm beach, florida, this should be quite a show. we know about this news conference? >> well, i we're heard those are going to talk about two things. one thing is that they are expected to re-litigate the 2020 election, which isn't that surprising since both of them tried to overturn that election, johnson was actually key behind the scenes, trying to get these congressional signatures on a lawsuit and texas that would have tried to overturn the election in various the a but the other big thing that they're going to be talking about is this idea of non-citizens voting. there's been a conversation about whether they're going to present some kind of bill, but we know that they're going to put unquote draw attention to this issue. now, i want to be very clear. gym. there is currently a federal ban on noncitizens since voting in federal elections. so that is a non-issue, but we'll see republicans really use this as a rallying cry starting with the former president himself. he's actually gone as far to say that democrats want undocumente

inflammatory rhetoric on multiple fronts, even as he prepares to return to the campaign trail, cnn's kristen holmes is joining us now from green bay, wisconsin, where trump will campaign tomorrow. kristen, give us the latest of what trump is doing and saying as he begins a critical month in his legal battles well look donald trump has been railing against not only the judge, but the prosecutor and the judge's daughter. this has been a technique that we have seen him use time and time again and he has no plans of stopping anytime soon. >> donald >> trump is set to return to the campaign trail tuesday with visits to the critical battleground states of michigan and wisconsin. but his focus appears to be on his impending criminal trial in new york, which is all about election interference, pumping his combative rhetoric, trump spent the easter holiday attacking perceived enemies in a series of social media posts, writing, quote, happy easter to all, including crooked and corrupt prosecutors and judges, and going after the judge, overseeing his new york hush money case and his daughter by name, as he se

kristen holmes down to the courthouse. this is an unprecedented de great to have you there. thank you very very much, kate. >> i'm going to keep a close eye on all of the live pictures for you joining us right now is former manhattan prosecutors, jeremy's land is good to have you back with it. we'll talk about this part of the process. i i'm fascinated by jury selection when it comes to the first and the unprecedented nature of just all of this, how long do you think this takes? >> it's not measured in hours or days, it's measured in a week two weeks is certainly plausible. this is not an easy process. a misdemeanor case could take hours, sometimes even a couple of days, a lower-level felony that's not too complicated, can take days unequivocally with everything that's at stake far, far longer. what's the >> approach or strategy that you think prosecutors should have as they begin this process today when it comes to the jury, both parties wanted that out. anyone who has bias, anyone who has an agenda, especially someone who might be hidden in that crowd to get into that jury

and i'm joined now by kristen holmes. so here's what's happening now. 12 jurors, one alternate seated, five still needed that number. could of course, change and we know that the jurors aren't going to know that they are the so-called alternate, right the whole premise have an alternate is they have to be able to stand in and deliberate at the end of the trial, should they be to do so until they're alerted in advance that you might not be needed grabs, it might not lead since the same extent, but this is going to be a very significant moment if we have the entire jury today that's right. so that's what they're doing right now. so we know already there were 22 people leftover from the 96 panel that was brought on yesterday. they are going through the questionnaire process, right? this second, we are told that both sides, they usually get 25 minutes to go back and forth. they're going to 30 because last time it was only 18 people in the box. now at 22, they've asked for a little bit of extended time when they are questionin

. >> cnn's kristen holmes is live outside court this morning where history really will be made crystal that's all right, john, and we do expect donald trump to stop by those cameras in the hallway. remember this campaign stop he's had in several days. he was supposed to have a rally in north carolina over the weekend where he could likely air his grievances as he likes to do. however, it was canceled due to bad weather as we know, he is using these various trial appearances as campaign stops because he effectively has two. he is in court four days a week. so what do we know about what we're going to see too? today? of course, you're going to have those opening arguments by both sides talking about what the details are of the case laying out their version of the case, but we also have leard who that fir witness is going to be. that is a man by the name of david now has been friends with donald trump for decades. he ran the company that owned the national enquirer. he is known to have bought & buried damaging stories about donald trump, meaning that people would come to him. he would buy

again, kara scannell and also kristen holmes, who have been following the story. look closely. you were inside the courthouse. what is the latest right now? have there been any other juror dismissed or any returned? >> so one of the jurors this morning that was missing, he didn't show up today. he just came back into court. and the reason the judge asked him that command is because prosecutors rais some questions about the honesty of an answer he gave on the questionnaire as they were doing things, some of their own due diligence. so that's one of the seven who'd already been set. >> is that okay. i think that's right. that's one of the seven who had been seated as a juror, who was not expected to come back until monday, at least, but the prosecution had said that they found some material in this man's history about his wife having some kind of non-prosecution agreement with them then hatton district attorney's office way back in the 90s, and they said they were not sure if it was definitely him and they were not sure what that set about the honesty of his answers. so that juro

now, let's come into the studio with my all-star panel today, cnn's kristen holmes, cnn's manu raju, and laura barron-lopez of the pbs newshour let's just kind of look and talk about all of this that is happening. they'd picture, i mean, we have seen protests pop up here and there over the last six months. but this is different. and this is expanded and this is caused this to bring it back to inside politics. and what it means politically. this is causing a major headache and it's very, very nuanced, difficult thing to navigate for the president and four other democrats. >> yeah, no question about it. and the question is, what does the president decided to do? eventually he's going to have to be more addresses, more head on that he has at this moment, particularly, this continues to grow. we'll see what happens in the summertime than it was when college students will go back home for break while the building is we get around the conventions and then the fall, there were still in this the heat of this war and we're still, things have not changed. how much does it? grow as we head into

kristen >> holmes, worse in west palm beach, you'll be there. is that all plays out this afternoon? thanks so much. >> and joining us now to discuss, we have former republican congressman of illinois, joe walsh and also sarah matthew. she served as deputy press secretary during the trump administration. joe, i mean through there to promote election integrity and without irony, no, no less >> yeah. >> brianna and jessica, can we just for a moment, pause and not brush by this and get into the politics like, what does it mean that speaker johnson's down there by his side? johnson's down there with trump to talk about election integrity donald trump tried to overthrow an american election. he's been indicted twice on his efforts to overthrow an american election brianna i'd add this donald trump on the stump at every one of his rallies so far this year is telling his voters, again that either he will win or the election will be stolen from him so all ready, he's undermining our election. we cannot become numb to what this is >> sarah, it's worth noting and kristen touched on this. there

wisconsin since 2022, but there was a lot of enthusiasm in the room for him here tonight. >> kristen holmes. thanks very much. now the ongoing drama the democratic side of the ticket were concerned in wisconsin and elsewhere is rising over the role third party candidates could play november, especially with robert kennedy jr. and the race more than that tonight from cnn's jeff zeleny third-party candidacy is two. my opinion or an unacceptable answer in the 2024 election? no. >> mike cruelty is at the helm of his liberal talk radio show in wisconsin, where the question of the day is one that many democrats are stewing over any appetite for robert kennedy jr. for this fall >> wisconsin is one of the titus battlegrounds of all made clear again, tonight as donald trump return for a rally in green bay but in the rematch with president biden comes a new wildcard in robert f kennedy jr. he's playing spoiler and i'm not clear why i am i'm fearful of a second trump term. there's only one acceptable voting that's for joe biden and you don't got to love them, but you do have to vote for them come this

which is why the former president is in wisconsin tonight was in michigan earlier today, seen as kristen holmes is in green bay for us, we're a trump rally wrapped up a short time we go we heard a lot of dire warnings from trump on the campaign trail >> yeah. anderson, most of the messaging today, he was in michigan first and then here in wisconsin was all about immigration and doubling down on that anti-immigration rhetoric he referred to the border crisis as biden's border bloodbath. he talked about immigrants as animals at certain points >> talked >> about violent crimes, linking that again to immigrate, to be painted a really dark picture using violent rhetoric of what a second biden term would look like. take a listen treasury will be raped, plundered, and rob to bear to pay for welfare free health care >> free housing, food stamps, medicaid, and countless other public benefits. >> one of the things we really heard from donald trump again, doubling down on was this idea that immigrants were linked to violent crime. and of course, as we have reported, the data shows that immigrants and migr

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my favorite stephen sondheim song, kristen holmes, great to see you outside the courthouse. thank you very much. okay. that exactly how it went joining us right now, a criminal defense attorney and former federal prosecutor, seth waxman. thanks so much for coming in. that's based on how things went yesterday. how long do you anticipate jury selection to last? whitman, would you venture to guess that they're going to seat a single juror today? >> now, that may not happen. i would expect this jury selection process to go on for at least another couple of few days to a week, or maybe even more. some people estimate we could still be looking at this by the time memorial day rolls around more than half >> is kristen and john burgess talking about >> more than half of the first group of perspective jurors dismissed almost immediately saying that they could not be unbiased and hearing the case did that surprise you? i've i've gotten mixed reactions from this. it's either quite rare to have a fail rate of over 50% or this is just part of the process and this is a high-profile case.

cnn's lauren fox on capitol hill, also cnn's kristen holmes is in west palm beach, florida. lauren, i wanted to start with you speaker johnson travels to florida. he's going to stand side-by-side with trump, but it's kind of a delicate time for him to do so, right >> yeah. it's a delicate time, perhaps it but perhaps it's also the best time for him to do this as there were a lot of questions swirling around whether or not he is going to continue to keep his speaker's gavel as he continues to try to pass several priorities in the next couple of weeks, what we are seeing today is this fight over fisa, the federal intelligence surveillance act renewal happening on capitol hill. and just a few hours ago even before this votes starting, you saw marjorie taylor greene. you can see are there on the bottom left of your screen width speaker mike johnson, they had this very lengthy you back and forth. it's unclear precisely what they were talking about, but i asked johnson about it later and said, you know, wishy applying pressure to you. what was she trying to ask? for >> any said th

wolf all kristen holmes in palm beach for us. kristen, thank you very much. there's more breaking news. we're following right now. attorneys for donald trump have just made a new request of the judge overseeing this hush-money trial only three days before jury selection is set to begin monday morning. >> let's >> bring in cnn's kara scannell. she's got the latest information for us, cara, what is this last-minute request? >> so trump's team wants the judge to alter some of this one main question that he's posing to the jury pool. the judge said he would ask all the jurors when they commented, assemble of right off the bat, if anyone thought that they couldn't be fair or impartial or for any other reasons such as travel hello, religious commitments, be unable to serve on the jury. anyone who puts their hands up, the judge said he would excuse saying that polling people individually is time-consuming and doesn't generally yield any different outcome. trump's lawyers are asking the judge to separate those questions. they want to know who says that they can't be

cnn's kristen holmes is following all this for us in palm beach florida, kristen trump and johnson set to begin speaking in moments. what do you expect any new here >> well, i am told that they are likely to relitigate the 2020 election, which isn't surprising since both of them were part of the effort to overturn that election. but i'm also told that they are going to highlight this issue of non-citizens voting now, to be very clear, there's already a federal ban in place that would stop non-citizens from voting in federal elections. however, there is some nuance here. there are some cities in some states that allow non-citizens to vote in local elections, like the school board election or certain mayo or phil elections. >> but it >> is not an issue in terms of widespread fraud. however, i got some pushback earlier today from advisors to donald trump who said this is also a way to prove it. then that from happening and looting to the immigration crisis at the border, talking about this influx of migrants at the border, this is a way for donald trump speaks for johnson to talk about an

kristen holmes joining me now, i think paul r3 is going to join us as well. kristen, can we start with the reframe that we have heard from donald trump, often where he blames this as all being orchestrated and coming from the biden white house. there is no basis for those flames >> well, there's absolutely no reason. also, remember, we're in court new york right now. this isn't even when the department of justice cases where there is some link to the biden an administration because the department of justice falls under the administration. again, there's only two biden and any of these cases, however, this is a new york state case. he is entering the courtroom in new york that was brought by the district attorney in new york. this is nothing to do with president joe biden, but as we have heard, time and time again, donald trump has really tried to take control of the narrative here to make this about politics, to make this about quote, unquote election interference, essentially the messaging being that president biden does not want him running again stem in nov

she didn't say kristen holmes joins us now with more. so what's the goal here with this press conference? >> well, depends on who's goal you're talking about because i've not going to impression that there's any goal for former president donald trump, that every, the big goal here of logs to speaker dogs. and just so you know, i've talked to one senior adviser to donald trump who called this quote, unquote johnson's thing. another one told me that it was johnson's team that was running point on this press conference. and if you really look at the timing here, you'll johnson going down to florida to stand next to donald trump at a time when he really needs his support to talk about something that matters to donald trump, that donald trump wants to talk about. i'm adria talked a little bit about this. they've actually number of drugs and allies who told me that they have encouraged trump to either support johnson on friday a or just stay out of this altogether. and i will also remind you that marjorie taylor greene is very, very close to d

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in former trump payroll corporation attorney bill brennan defense attorney, can woo and cnn's kristen holmes and jamie gan gao. thank you so much for being here. let's review some of the more headline grabbing moments of the last hour or two obviously what is important here for the prosecution to prove is that not only these payments were made not only. were the business records covered up, but it was all done in the furtherance of what the prosecutor is calling election interference. in other words, keeping information away from the public perhaps the most salacious part of today's testimony came when keith davidson, the attorney for stormy daniels, and karen mcdougal, was testifying about the access hollywood tape being released in early october. he says he texted national enquirer editor-in-chief, dylan howard, quote, trump is eft and dylan howard responded wave the white flag. >> it's over people. >> davidson then mentioned that stormings allegations had already been made public in a blog post to which he responded yet, but he's talking and taking blank is the final nail in the coffin, b

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that's where we find cnn's kristen holmes specifically in green bay, where trump's event is scheduled to start in less than an hour. kristen trump trying trying hard to win back some voters he won there in 2016 but lost in 2020. what sorts of opportunities as he looking for >> what we're going to hear from donald trump and his campaign is essentially sweden painting the status quo of the country under president biden know so terrible that it re-energize is republicans to come out to the polls in november. now, they are very aware that there is a section of republicans that are particularly critical in a state like wisconsin, which he narrowly lost in 2020, that just didn't show up to vote in 2020 because because they were exhausted after four years of donald trump, what he is doing economy, immigration to try and re-energize some of these reports publican supporters. you we heard him just now in michigan. he gave a speech on bloodbath. he stoking fear der out gration thsame way here did in 16. but he might have a little t mo hel th time around giv the fact that vots rank immigration a

cnn's kristen holmes joins us now, christian, donald trump has not outright come out in support of speaker johnson. and so you have people like marjorie taylor greene and others criticizing him, threatening to topple him the timing of this press conference friday, therefore, it seems to me, and maybe i'm just skeptical, not a coincidence. >> so it certainly doesn't seem like a quiz. let's talk about what's actually happening here. you have speaker johnson, who washington dc, louisiana, flying all the way down to mar-a-lago to give a press conference on an issue they're talking about election integrity. this is something donald trump cares deeply about and to stand next to him a lot >> and quite quickly. >> elections, right? but i would say they referred to it as election integrity. that's something billed as. so obviously an issue that donald trump wants to talk about at a time where he really speaker johnson really needs donald trump's support and i will tell you, i'm being told that speaker johnson's team, even though they are here in washington, is running think point on this press conf

kristen holmes, is that that trump rally in green bay? kristen trump's team knows that every single vote in a state like wisconsin, is crucial. so what are you learning about the strategy there? >> absolutely critical battleground state one senior adviser actually calling it a must >> donald >> trump to go back to the white house and 20 you mentioned rfk. i will tell you. i met a voter yesterday in green bag, told me they were coming to this rally tonight, that they were supporting president donald trump former president donald trump but that they had been very interested in rfk while donald biden de, as you said, aware that every >> single vote for help, they don't want to lose any single votes to rfk. now what they're doing to court voters here in wisconsin particularly is trying to paint the status quo under president biden as so terrible. they want to energize voters the show about the polls in november, they are very aware that in 2016 he added energized based donald trump. but in 2020, there were a number of people, republicans who s

i want to bring in right now the kristen holmes, he's got some breaking news for us about what at least one juror is saying about the pressure. kristen, what are we hearing? >> yeah. this is really fascinating because it goes to show you just how intense this process is for some of these people. they believed that they could be fair and impartial. they believe they could sit on this jury. they have set through rounds of questioning and now we have one juror who was waiting to see if they would become an alternate. and this is basically the prosecution is now doing their questioning the 30 minutes of questioning she began crying when she was handed the microphone during the questioning and said, i'm sorry, i thought i could do this. i wouldn't want someone who feels this way to judge my case either. they went on to say, i don't want to feel like i've wasted someone's time. this is just so much more stressful than i thought it would be. and this is really indicative of what we are seeing here and just how pride profile this case is and what it means to some of these jurors to be sitting i

cnn's kristen holmes is in new york, zach cohen is in phoenix, arizona and supreme court analyst joan biskupic is of course, standing by in washington, kristen, let's begin with you before the former president headed heads to court, he actually made a campaign stop first yeah, that's right game. he went to this jpmorgan building it soon to be the headquarters. >> he met with some of the construction workers, some of the teams are members here it was both rank and file teamsters, union members, as well as just some working class voters. this is something that donald trump has been trying to effort in terms of his election been with joe biden, but it's also a good reminder that donald trump miss all of his legal issues is still running for president and still campaigning, or at least trying to against president joe biden crime two year in new york city is city that webb or joe biden by huge numbers, uh, tried to make campaign stops and talk to various for you as groups that might be more favorable to the former president. now we didn't get a chance to ask them some questions. i raised d

identity as a juror cnn's laura coates is near the manhattan courthouse along with our colleagues, kristen holmes and kara scannell, laura this is really an important de we're technically on day three now of jury selection, we began the day. ladies, having seven jurors seated thinking that would be that most close to the covenant, 18, including the 12. >> and then of course six alternates, then you have the step backwards from one person being dismissed, excused because of the compromising of her anonymity there's a lot happening in the courtroom, but the questions in the questionnaire, once again, a very key role here. >> yeah. so we are now in the throes of this after the pool was whittled down by those who felt they couldn't be fair and impartial. they've gotten nine jurors currently in the jury box, and that means that nine of them have gone through those 42 questions learning a little bit about them. there's the number for people who work in finance, there's an attorney of a stay at home. mom, and they're just given the biographical information at this point? now, once they fill up to anothe

about that with pbs newshour is laura varone susan glasser of the new yorker, and our very own kristen holmes. thank you so much, everybody. i want to just kinda pick. up where. manu left off, which is the notion of of why this is happening. and what it really means this is happening because republicans are trying to find every avenue that they can to highlight and politicize the very real border problems. but put it on joe biden's play and this is a way that they have done it in the house by actually impeaching the homeland security secretary. but now that the question is, how the trial will happen, how quickly it will happen? is whether or not they can use it against these vulnerable democrats in the senate you know, dana, i mean, donald trump sees immigration as the reason he won the white house in 2016. it is at the core of what he's trying to say. he has. in fact used the house controlled very tenuously by republicans as almost an extension and an arm of his campaign. so i would see this in the context of the 2024 presidential campaign, but there's a reason that this has only happened on