michael smerconish is here.ichael wonderful to see you. >> i'm just going to you saw that what do you think i think we're more inclined to vote on the size of one's hands than we are. the relative merit of democracy. and what a sad commentary that is in this election cycle. but we know because when president biden has spoken of the events of january 6 and tried to use that as a campaign issue. it hasn't resonated. so i'm not surprised as as concerning as i find it, that people aren't troubled by the prospect of the loss of some of their, their democratic printed suppose and responsibilities and opportunities. it's not going to be a big issue in the election. >> well, michael, i mean, i have to push back a little bit on that just because i think we did see some evidence in the midterms in 2020 2022 that democracy wasn't animating issue for some voters. and we just see it in the polling. they will say they are are concerned about it and they were instances you if you look down into some of these, like secretary of

now, joining me now, it's michael's smerconish, the host of cnn's smerconish, of course, a cnn political commentator, michael good morning. i've been looking forward to hearing your thoughts on what we saw last night. >> can i pick up on what john stuart just said, which is with all that debate preparation, you roll tape you analyze tape. it's it's like nfl football preparation i was shocked and i just knew from the outset they must never have shown the president what a split screen looks like and what he looks like kaci, i've looked at myself over the years on tape with mouth open and looking foolish. and it's only when you analyze the tape as they should have done that you realize, oh, wait a minute, that can't cameras always going to be on me and i'm going to want to have a particular expression on my face. i said yesterday that delivery was going to be more important than substance and that's exactly what came true. it's all about the lack of delivery from president biden and no amount of fact-checking of donald trump because i'm sure that debate was littered with falsehoods from tru

michael smerconish. great to see you. thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you, abby. >> and you can catch michael show tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. eastern time right here on cnn also tonight, conservatives are resurrecting one of history's villains as a victim, just take a listen to former trump official and thought personality, monica crowley at the faith and freedom coalition conference she was defending joseph mccarthy senator joe mccarthy was right. >> and he was trying to ring the bell in the 19 about communists infiltration in our government. and the same deep state that is now going after donald trump. the same deepstate that removed richard nixon, the same deepstate that went after ronald reagan and anybody else who stood up to them that deep state became very insidious. and in the 19 smeared and attack jim the carthy for speaking the truth about godless communism in very halls of our government i'll let my next guess get into the history, the real history of mccarthyism, but it is worth noting mccarthy's chief couns

michael smerconish, david urban van jones such a battle of the animal still off the top.would say it was like open auditions for the king and i right now, i appreciate being part of that. thank you all for being here. >> dress polo is the official this show here on out. >> we'll get one it's blasphemous that you don't have it word tie but you're really comparing fashion with him, david. let's go okay. moving on. coming up still for us. it's a homicide case that launched 1,000 theories at boston jury is headed back into deliberations today to decide the fate of a woman charged with killing killing her police officer boyfriend lawyers though say she's the real victim of a police cover-up. and also new this morning, boeing is now blaming that mid-flight door plug blowout on missing paperwork. if new details on that as cnn goes behind the scenes one of the company's plans as it tries to bounce back from that string of safety scares tonight, the stage is set for the most anticipated event of this election biden trump, the weight only cnn can bring it to you. >> the cnn preside

>> i, michael smerconish in philadelphia. this week came to different events that might forecast the outcome of the 2024 american election. first, the elections in europe that leaned right. and second, the arrest of eight foreign nationals believed seem to be affiliated with isis, who entered via the mexican border. i have amazing expertise on hand to discuss each kurt volker, former us ambassador to nato at richard clarke, former adviser to three us presidents. first to the eu elections last weekend, which saw right-wing populist parties score big wins driven in part by board what or politics and inflation? far-right parties won 134 of the european parliament's 720 seats forming a substantial block against mainstream parties, assembling coalitions that are needed to pass laws. the right gain significantly in the union's three biggest countries, france, germany, italy, in france, marine le pen's rn party won more than 31% of the vote, more than doubling president emmanuel macron coalition party, which had only 14.6% of the vo

eastern smerconish is up next setting the bar i'm michael smerconish in philadelphia, thursday here on cnn is the first of two scheduled debates between president biden and trump. >> jake tapper and dana bash will moderate the debate will last 90 minutes with no live audience. there will be no opening statements, answers will be two minutes rebuttals will be one-minute closing statements will be two minutes based on a coin toss, trump will go last. >> there will be two commercial breaks and perhaps the biggest wrinkle microphones will be muted when it's not someone's turn the stakes are high. >> the racist tight weather measured in national surveys or by battleground states. so the debate is a very big deal and opinions as to who won will no longer be influenced by expectations advantage joe biden. >> and here's why call it, be careful what you wish for in the last two weeks, president biden traveled overseas to participate in a commemoration of the 80th anniversary of d-day then he came home on june 10. he attended a juneteenth concert on the white house lawn, and it'll widely circula

i'm michael smerconish and philadelphia donald trump is the first former us president to be a convicted felon. but will the verdict help or hurt is 2024 campaign non-white voters may have the answer. here's a part of what some of the callers and the popular morning radio program, the breakfast club had to say after the verdict faster, like trump's 30 trust the system at all. i feel their railroad and body system and you see that when she walked in the courtroom to be guilty, you gonna be guilty? how can anybody blackboard provide it trump? were you i'd rather have president wright, who's going to be honest and show me a whole, then have a president who's going to allow me to try to get me up, to get my vote breakfast club, host charlemagne, the god is going to join me in just a moment in the most recent poll of battleground states, which included third-party candidates, biden had only 49% support of registered black voters. >> and in a two-way race, biden had 63% support with trump getting 23 if these numbers were to hold up by election day, trump would have the highest level of black s

have seen ends and smerconish and a cnn i'll, cnn political commentator, michael great to see you.here. there's morning. so give me this summer carnage take of how you see this debate playing out? >> manu, it's great to be with you. i think that fox news and donald trump's campaign has been at cross purposes all week long, every time they show those videos on a loop with the intention of portraying president biden as being infirmed. all they're doing is lowering that bar. and i think these debates are all about expectations that bar r is now been set so low for president biden, that he'll probably be easily able to exceed it much like you did in that state of the union address yeah. >> i mean, it's funny. you say that because we actually had played a comment from trump earlier where he said that biden is a worthy debater. he was actually said that he's now changing his tune and actually wanted to listen to what he had to say. this is what trump's had to say i watched him with paul ryan and he destroyed paul ryan. >> so i'm not underestimating him. i'm not underestimating him. i ass

this is a special edition of cnn newsroom is smerconish is off this week and michael will be back next. so week. >> we start with breaking news this morning, there is rejoicing in the streets of israel today after the idf announced that four hostages who have been in captivity the october 7 attacks have been rescued earlier, the idf spokesman offered these details into their rescue this was a high risk complex mission based on precise intelligence conducted in daylight in two separate buildings. >> deep inside gaza while under fire under fire inside the buildings, under fire on the way hat on the way out from gaza, all forces rescued our hostages israeli forces have been preparing for this rescue mission for weeks. there on the went intensive training. they reached their lives to save the lives of all hostages one of those freed noaa are good money would last been seen a being kidnapped by hamas fighters on a motorcycle. now the idf says the four are in good medical condition. they've been transferred to a medical center with us now, a cnn senior international correspondent been wiedem

eastern and smerconish up next robert hur warned us, i michael summer cornisha in philadelphia thursday night was not just another poor first debate performance by an incumbent president, reagan in 1984 or obama in 2012, they both rebounded from rust nor was it a kinda president ford who offered a single poor response about soviet domination of eastern europe or papa bush looking at his watch. >> in other words, this was not a one-off. instead, what ails joe biden cannot be fixed and eventually it comes for us all before the debate, i said that delivery would matter more than substance, meaning how things were said would matter more than what was said. after the debate, others confirmed my prognostication, including the washington post editorial page which wrote this debate may not be remembered for what was said, but rather for how it was said. the part of my prediction that was wrong was in thinking that trump and his enablers had so lowered the expectation bar for biden that he could easily exceeded he didn't trump littered the debate stage with falsehoods cnn counted 32 biden's nine