Do you see . My first step is shipping houston. Second championship oh, my god hello, again and welcome. Hey, its time to break down the big stories with some smart people. Today, were asking thank after days of salacious details, was porn star Stormy Daniels testimony and let Trump Hush Money Trial, crucial or just cringy then Perception Problem resident bidens as the economy is great. But with most americans not feeling it can flip the script and convince voters before the alliance upshot. And named che. Well discuss whether the Boy Scouts Rebranding deserves a merit badge the gang is all here and ready to go. So sit back, relax and lets talk about it up first. The intimate at a Times R Rated testimony from important star Stormy Daniels dominated the headlines this week and Donald Trumps hush money trial but once you get past that spanking and silk pajamas questions remained whether the prosecutors are making a convincing argument so donald trump railing against judge juan merchan after he refused to lift the gag water and allow trump to speak about porn star Stormy Daniels testimony. It gets whatever they want. Im not allowed to say anything about anybody. Daniel spent six hours laying out sometimes in graphic detail her alleged encounter with the former president at one point, trumps lawyer said, you have a lot of experience of making phony stories about sex appear to be real daniels responded the sex in the films is very much real, just like what happened to me in that room. Mr. Daniels is clearly no shrinking violet, the Salacious Testimony Made Headlines with daniel sang, trump was in boxer shorts and tshirt and called their sex brief is a disgrace. However, a Process Computer is still need to connect our trump allegedly falsified Business Records to pay daniels to keep quiet happened on our prosecutors have not established a direct link, something trumps they have no record out. They have nothing on books and records here with me today. Podcaster and author kara swisher righthand, salam, president of the Manhattan Institute and National ReviewContributing EditorNew York Times journalist and host of the podcast, the interview, lulu garcianavarro goldberg, columnist for the la times and editor in chief of the dispatch. Welcome back, everyone ri khan was Stormy Daniels testimony, crucial or was it just cringy it was certainly cringy. It also was not germane. Its not exactly clear but donald trump is being prosecuted for here you have me and my fellow new yorkers Spending Millions of dollars on a trial that seems absolutely meaningless. Other than as an attempt to embarrass the former president oh, good. Good its crucial and cringy, it can be at the same time this is a fraud trial thats all it is. And so they have to bring if its about hush money to a porn star, they got to bring in the porn star. Theres just no way so prejudicial though, the details about the encounter that they should have declared a micelle as was pointed out to the defense, they could have objected several times and they didnt which was a surprise to a lot of people. And they could have kept a lot of that out. You know, shes a porn star. I dont know what else would she talk about. Its a sexual encounter that was paid for to keep quiet, theyve got to talking about the details and part of the problem here is that this is actually the defenses fault because what theyre saying is that this never forever happened. And so if youre saying it never ever happened, then you want to bring someone in that says no, actually, it did. And then of course, you want to understand if this person is credible. She went into minouche detail excruciating detail on your persuaded by know i mean, the reason they were object, they Doron Objecting in the moment is because it was totally inappropriate to have this person take the stand with regard to the fundamental question of whether or not this was a some kind of felony i think that this is just crazy to have a judge who should if recused himself in the first place. This is someone who has a Campaign Contributor to the incumbent president , his daughter is literally worked for President Biden for a Kamala Harris and for various other democratic shes the democratic operative, disparate is she provides the motive. The whole case is based on whether or not he falsified id records to pay her off. Shes got to be there to show it was a bad story and there was a reason to play a role is also explicitly said, that she wants to embarrass and shame this guy, right . So i think that thats certainly witnesses ever have an ax to grind. Well, in this case, shes explicitly said things that are prejudicial, didnt happen i mean thats what thats what this is about. Do you think that didnt have think its irrelevant . I think that the reason how is saying it didnt happen. She has to be there. Theres no other ones. All right enough about that because i want to bring joel data, the key government witness, Michael Cohen is expected to testify monday. Hes the person who the prosecution says can directly link the Hush Money Payments to falsified Business Records. Jonah is cohen to compromised as has he told too many leinz to be a credible witness to a jury . I think hes not at all credible by himself. I think the prosecution has probably done a lot of homework and i relate a lot of groundwork to link his assertions and accusations to provable facts. And so thats the only way you can have cohen do it because his youd think theyd laid the groundwork . I think they think they have. I mean, im much more with ryan on this. I largely think the trials of fars, but they need to have cohen in there and they need to have they need to button up anything that he says and connect it to other facts. And thats one of the reason i think the thing as far as i dont know any reasonable person who says, regardless of whether these 34 misdemeanor is equal a felony and all the bootstrapping that theyre doing as a legal case. Hes obviously guilty of the actual acts, right . I mean, he did have sex with this porn star. He did do this double booking entry thing. He one is telling the truth about all of that its the legal question whether adds up to the kind of felony crime that theyre accusing of. I think all they want to do is get the conviction and they dont care that itll get overturned on appeal mean will been hall the judge refused to lift the gag order, even when trumps lawyers said, well, shes already been on the stands. Stormy daniels had terrible things about item let them respond to it now. And i guess the question is, lulu is it unfair to keep the gag order in effect particularly the middle of a president ial campaign particularly about a witnesss already testified. But what the judge said is that because donald trump has proven himself to be so over the top when he goes after people. So prejudicial that it is actually important to keep the gag order on. This is based on Donald Trumps own actions and what he has previously said, this isnt something that the judges simply doing to be punitive to donald trump i think they should with a gag order on all of them. I have to say i think they should put it on. Cohen has been all over that. I actually daniels. Yeah. I agree. Thats fair and in fact, the judge gets everywhere on friday, he did say he didnt tell the Prosecutor Telco under shut up and he said, i dont have any control over kelvin at ay. Then theres the Classified Documents Trial in florida. Judge Aileen Cannon postpone that indefinitely, Straightening Finalization Of A Trial date at this juncture would be imprudent an inconsistent qarrah is the docs judge, in front corner i cant tell if shes incompetent or in his corner. I think shes very slow from a lot of the reading. Ive done, im not a lawyer. She seems to be slow rolling this thing and it may be because theres all these reports about inside of her courtroom and her her clerks and things like that is she doesnt know what shes doing. So part of its incompetent, the other part is trying thank to take trumps sayyed on most things. It could be incompetent. Well, i want to pick up on that ryan because they understandably, the trump people are putting in all kinds of motion. Some of them like was jack smith legally appointed to the job . And she seems to be taking an inordinate amount of time in dealing with these. And it seems whether intentionally or not to push the election at, but the trial past the election. Well, id flip the question and say this why would we be in such a rush if we were not intending to have some political effect that is, if this were anyone else, someone who is not running for president wouldnt you . Want to take a very thorough and careful look at these legitimate legal questions regarding how the prosecution has been handling this case. So i think that thats whats odd here. It really does seem as though jack smith is operating on a political timetable. And otherwise theres no real explanation for why you would rush this because he might self pardon himself, i think i everybody is on a political timetable on this. I think okay President Biden, as trouble of his own on the border, he took action this week to deal with the crisis. But is it enough to satisfy voters . Plus the gender gap, the intriguing split among a key group who helped trump, id Rather Biden Win the white house. But may now be turning towards trump and lighter just for a mom will find out the best and worst mothers day gift ideas and i have a story. You dont want to mess i have any other day gift stories i brought in a juror max protein with 30 grams of protein. 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The president also trying to change perceptions of his handling the border crisis in and then i think this week announcing a new rule to crack down on Asylum Seekers while considering more sweeping executive actions, both democrats and republicans want, but it must be for this administration can do ri khan can biden change voters perceptions. Their minds, or opinions on the economy. I dont think he can at this stage, partly because the big fundamental problem is that a lot of americans, they want to buy a home President Biden has advanced a series of policies that have ensured that homeownership is way further out of reach than it was before. Why . Because he came into office while we were in the midst of a recovery from the covid crash and then he spent a massive amount of money, a lot of which went to his political allies. And instead of actually delivering a recovery what it did was delivered massive inflation, which in turn translated into massive Interest Rates that have locked a lot of folks out of owning homes. Five and i would argue its more than that. But on the same point that is problem biden this problem, those things cost a lot more than they did under trump. The cost of food, the cost of gasoline. And yes, a home mortgage. Democratic strategist, david axelrod, things biden makes a mistake talking up the economy thats not the way people are experiencing the economy. Theyre experiencing it through the lens of The Cost Of Living and he is a man whos built his career on empathy where, where is why not lead with the Empathy Qarrah is ax, right . I think he is two and a the prices are the, are the big problem, the inability by right now because the deficit which was runup also very much so under trump, were going to have high Interest Rates for a long time. Its going to going to stick around. And so theres not enough def on the market and keep the prices are high. So i think yes, hes going to hes going to suffer for that because hes president right now when this has happened, although there were spending in the freezer, was it a mistake to say . Well, i think i think the thing that he announced with microsoft that was on the foxconn site that never happened. I think thats importa