.aturday night tom: lately i ve been trend spotting looking at what s going on in the world wondering why s some things get hot and nothy bein sg an influencer is, n obviously, a trendot especially now that pretty much anyone can do it. these days, this is what an influencer looks like back in my day if you want to be an influencer you have to look likt this oh farrah fawcett influenced me i had fonzie socks or this, okay. this guy was in the a good role model but at. least back then they werd roe selling something- i m not sure what these guys are selling. l i regret my tattoo but not this one. because this is actually not a real tattoo. tom: now you can major in beinge influencer in college yeahal tht thing g that is distracting millions of kids from doingti their school worngk is now their school work. this is from the syllabus atscho southeast tech technological university bachelor of arts degree has students chance to turn screen time becoming experts in theory and
and she s so amazing thanks so much for joining us this afternoon. it ll be sad to say goodbye to pat sajak, but you can say hello to jake tapper is the leader starts right now the themes of the 2024 race today, democracy and revenge, the lead starts right now starkly different messages from two starkly different men, president biden s warning about democracy on the world stage, while donald trump to gain much more personal approach, plus a dramatic turn in the hunter biden gun trial defense scrapping. it s witness list on some level, leaving one major question about the case, yet to be answered. and the judge presiding over one of the most consonant sequential cases in america described as isolated in an experience with judge aileen cannon is really up against as she takes on the criminal classified documents case against donald trump welcome to the lead. i m phil mattingly info jake tapper. it s friday. we start with our world lead and president biden today drawing on the
concerns about the 81-year-old president revealing the clear signs of his cognitive decline becoming more obvious during private meetings. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. bill: i m bill hemmer. good morning. the white house quickly firing back at this report in the wall street journal calling the claims false and politically motivated. that long story, however, it is long, it includes interviews with dozens of high ranking officials and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle who all agree behind closed doors biden shows signs of slipping. dana: former secretary of state mike pompeo will join us in a moment. first white house correspondent peter doocy is traveling with the president. good to have you have on from paris. good to be here. and despite that wall street journal item that they say sources information from 45 different people detailing what these folks are saying is basically questions about president biden s acuity, here in pa
actually okay with or happy if they could. be fair. and we re talking about a very complicated notion when it comes to a former president who has a secret service detail. but now i do not think donald trump actually wants to be in prison and he s okay with it. one of the allies, former allies, coronado is never totally sure that was calling fresh bhushan, steve bannon, like he s headed to jail as woke as for the question, i always have which is how in the loop is he right now, how directly connected to the former president is c. it s a good question. so a couple of things. i mean, i think steve bannon is still hoping that there s going to be some kind of supreme court intervention in his case. so we ll see if that happens. but if not, he is supposed to report to prison on july 1. bannon has both direct contact with trump and during for contact with a lot of people around trump. so he has a bunch of different inputs. but bannon s biggest influence right now comes from his, his p
concerned about not just terrorists but these people from these nation states that do not like us. that want to do us harm. north korea, iran, china, russia, venezuela, cuba. we re allowing them into this country. chinese nationals and releasing them. they try to gain entry to our military bases. i ve responded to calls where chinese nationals are trying to get onto naval air station coronado. it is real and happening. we don t know who these people are and it falls into the category of gotaways with the border patrol calls gotaways. people we know got away but didn t catch them. we don t know who they are. that s in the hundreds of thousands. i think people should be very, very concerned if anything happens with russia, with china, taiwan or anything, bad things will happen to this country, to our infrastructure and it s nation states. we re not talking about the terrorist organizations potentially hezbollah, hamas and others that want to do us harm. and they are coming into our