could she knows. don't tread on that. no. go they could have rows. there was room for jack. alright. believe jake tapper right now a long-awaited update on the health but if princess kate, the lead starts right now new information from the princess of wales saying she's making good progress after her cancer diagnosis. >> and the big plan she announced for this coming weekend. there remains one outstanding mystery, however, plus hundreds of comedians walk into the vatican. this is not a joke, actually happened earlier today. what pope francis told fallon colbert, conan, chris rock, whoopi goldberg, julia louis-dreyfus and others in the star studded cast of characters. but first, the us supreme court ruling on several major cases today, but not on the january 6 immunity case, which could have a big impact on the upcoming presidential election. how this frees up donald trump to focus on debates and running mates i welcome them to lead. >> i'm jake tapper. we're going to start off in the 2024 leads. so let's queue some election music there it is the election jam. >> there are now 144 days left until the presidential election and just 13 until the very first presidential debate between president biden and former president trump, which will be we here on cnn and any day now, we could get a major decision from the us supreme court. the justices are weighing whether former president donald trump is immune from prosecution for his actions while he was in office. that ruling is critical. if trump wants to clear the remaining legal clouds hanging over him those clouds including the investigation into the january 6 riots, as well as allegations over what he may have done with classified documents he took with him after he lost the election. and while we are watching to see what the highest court in the land does, trump's main opponent is across the atlantic ocean, president biden, just moments away from leaving italy after the b7 summit of world economic superpowers. after wrapping up meetings with other world leaders and a private conversation with his holiness pope francis former president trump has spent the last few days surrounded by house and senate republicans. they sang happy birthday and presented trump with a birthday cake a day before the birthday. and he received this early the president a handshake from senate republican leader mitch mcconnell, one of his most vocal critics within the republican party mr. trump also indicated to a fox reporter that his vice presidential pick was probably someone who had been in the room with them you're pick for vp in that room with you probably hear the prep book. >> i don't want to go, but probably i think we'll probably announced it during the convention. do you know who your vps i have sort of that idea when some really talented people that president trump's 78th birthday, i want to go straight out to cnn's kristen holmes, who has been morning on drawing for years and has live in west palm beach, florida. >> kristen, how is trump celebrating his 78th birthday? i know he's done a big fan of that number, 78 yeah. i mean, he's very aware of the fact that that's just right behind joe biden, that most of america believes that both candidates going into november are very the one thing he doesn't want to focus on it. >> all you almost never hear donald trump talking about biden's age only instead of attacking his mental fitness for office. but donald trump trump is spending this day like he spends most days surrounded by people who really support him. this is called trump 47. this is the club of some of his biggest supporters in florida but and jake, i do want to add one piece of new reporting that we have just gotten it and it's how he spent the de before his birthday, you mentioned that upcoming debate. we did learn while he was in dc, held a quote, unquote, policy session with close advisors, as well as senators marco rubio and eric schmidt. they are not saying this was debate prep, but acknowledged during that's sessions like this will inevitably help donald trump when it comes to that debate. one thing on the agenda that they spoke about yesterday talking about democracy and what they believed to be the inevitable questions around january 6, his role, the attack on january 6. so clearly, trying to put in some of the legwork here, again, donald so trump's team saying this is not debate prep that donald trump is not going to prep for that debate in two weeks and steady is going to sit down for interviews, hold these policies sessions as well. let's take questions from voters. jake all right. >> kristen holmes, thanks so much to breaking news and the law and justice lead. now the justice department just announced it will not seek to prosecute the head of the justice department us attorney general, merrick garland. this decision not surprising after this week's dramatic house vote holding garland in contempt of congress for not handing over the audio president biden's interview in the special counsel's classified documents investigation of him. let's bring in cnn's evan perez, evan walk us through the decision well, jake, the decision by the department to not turn over the audio from president biden's interview with rob, her last october is based on the fact that the president has asserted executive privilege. >> and for that reason, the department today notified notified speaker johnson that the justice department is not going to take any action. i'll read you just a part of what what what the letter says from the justice department. it says this is a long-standing position and uniform practice to department determined that the response of the attorney general to the subpoena's did not constitute a crime, and therefore will not be brought to a grand jury. and there will be no prosecution. so not a huge surprise as you pointed out, j but what happens next? we don't know, right? the congress could try to do something like inherent contempt, something that was done in 1934 where they locked up a former member of the cabinet to remember him, a member of the administration at the time, and they locked him up in the willard hotel could they do that with attorney general merrick garland? we'll see what they tried to do next, but for now, right now, this is the final answer from the justice department alright, evan perez, thanks so much so spring and panel of our political voices and our political journalist away him. >> and let me start with you, olivia, i believe weavers from politico. welcome this. your first time in the league. the first similarly all right, welcome. >> good to have you here. >> so let's start with the fact that i think the chairman of the house judiciary committee, congressman jim jordan, also failed to comply with a congressional subpoena, right there's a lot of hypocrisy on the hill and we saw that with steve bannon as well back when they were looking into the russia investigation? republicans tried to get him to come in. he refused and we went through democrats tried to get democrats refused, and republicans were mad about it at first and then they said, oh well that's sort of the tack that you take on the hill in this situation. they're not done fighting yet. it might just be a pause because they're already hinting that they're going to be going through a legal recourse to try to get that audio. and that will take time. so it's quite unlikely that they will be able to achieve that by the time the election rolls around in light of republicans claiming that the department of justice has been politicized what are your reactions to all of this? you're michael is really a lot of republican voters actually believed that if you spent some time talking to folks in the act of his base they will tell you what they believe are some of the charges and cases against the former president are weaponization of the government. >> they would say this is political warfare, if you will, and that's why you're seeing some individuals connected to project 2020. he five have stated that 25 is a bunch of conservatives talk, basically laying out like an almost 1,000 page outline for what they would like to happen. and that's why many have stayed he did that. they will would argue are unelected bureaucrats making it difficult for the executive to do their job. so, so this posturing from the elected officials, it's coming from the voters, it's why i think you see many politicians down the republican side taking the positions that they're taking. i'm not so sure it's coming from voters as mentioned, it's coming from donald trump, who probably in that closed-door meeting we emphasize that he wants them to do everything they can both in the senate and the house to make life miserable for the biden administration. and that the goal here having been serving the client administration, know this very well right? every time you're getting those requests for information or documents, right. it means you have to stop what you're doing and you spend half of your day dealing with that, right? and so in this instance, they are bound and determined to try to get this dark audio, which i think they believe will make president biden look bad. i think there are some who believed that they don't want to set that precedent. obviously, i'll be honest. lots of administration's hide behind the precedent arguments. i'm not going to go defend or decry that attorney general, bill barr also, correct? >> absolutely. i obviously disagreed with his decision, but that's a different story. anyway but now i think this is more about the performative nature of what we're gonna be seeing between now and the election where congress is going to do everything they can. republicans to make the president look bad, to make, to go after members of his administration, if they think they can leverage that to in some way go after the president rather than actually doing their job. so trump made his first trip to capitol hill since he left office, and certainly since january 6 to project unity among republicans since nikki haley dropped out of the teresa, we should note she keeps racking up votes and primaries, including double-digit totals in swing states. arizona, almost 18%, georgia, more than 13%, pennsylvania, 16.4%, wisconsin, 12.7% do you think should michael that donald trump has made an effective enough case to when those voters back because i know that the biden campaign, i don't know how effectively they're going after them either, but the biden campaign, things that they could pick up some of those nikki haley voter. i mean, i think some of the nikki haley voters voted for president biden in 2020. >> if you look at the data, they're going to vote for him in november of this year. i think a part of the former president strike strategy by coming to capitol hill was a showcase that party leadership is indeed coalescing around him, including members on the senate side who are far more skeptical of the former president than individuals on the house. i think the party is going to have to start making direct efforts at trying to articulate some messages to some of those more moderate leaning suburbanite republican voters. jurors who certainly don't want to vote for president biden again, some of them are open to donald trump. are there wondering if the posture and is going to be what it was four years ago. and i don't think the campaign is that enough to do that. >> you think that the biden campaign has done enough to go after nikki haley voters? i do. and there's actually a lot that's going on not on the not publicly, but underneath if the service serve surface to have caused the plot thickens wonder but look, i mean, to have private conversations with different groups of voters to say to explore their interests in more publicly supporting the present. one point though quickly so supposedly this was about unity, but then ironically, whereas president former president trump has said, oh yeah, don't worry about us on contraception and ivf. and yet yesterday, republicans blocked a vote on codifying ivf last week, they blocked a vote on codifying access to contraception. so there are actual cracks here in terms of where they stand on different issues. >> so olivia, you've been reporting on what advice republicans on capitol hill are giving donald trump about the running mate he should pick. other than it should definitely be one of us actually, you did actually get that with some of the ones who are considered vice presidential contenders. >> nikki haley's name came up a lot, and some of them said, i still think she has a chance, but if she doesn't, we want someone who pulls in voters that she attracted tim scott was a name that we heard a ton, but they acknowledged that it could be other people as well. >> byron donalds, really out there making the case for himself on cnn this morning. >> and he he was the one who made the same joke to me that it should be him he donalds is a little bit more conservative and leaning into the populist wing, then i would say the nikki haley voters, he's freedom caucus. and he has had its moments of being a rebel in the house with speaker mccarthy, haley, i think was a little bit more mainstream. >> i would predict that if he names byron donalds, joe biden, kamala harris will win because black voters are not going to you're bullish on your former boss, dr. ben carson, still i saw there was an article in the new york times saying saying, don't count it out and included in quotes march interview with him on stage and in the union, but also it said like the person who keeps on bringing a ben carson is donald trump. >> well, he likes dr. carson. have a great relationship. they talked pretty regularly and actually this weekend, they will be together. so let's just see what happens. jake it tell us more parson's chief of staff that are michael they're coming up. >> thanks so much and thanks again for 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launched the stop project 2025 taskforce in here to explain what's going on, is congressman jared huffman, a democrat from california, who is part of the stop project 2025 taskforce. you've said project 2025. agenda. we'll hit like a blitzkrieg. what is exactly? what, are you concerned about here everything if you read this manifesto, it's almost 1,000 pages. >> you say to touches every part of the federal government touches are individual liberties. it touches all of our institutions. he touches democracy itself so these are the most inner circle thought leaders of donald trump's world, telling us that they're going to roll this out on day one, they hope to have it all done within the first hundred and 80 days of a trump presidency is so i think you're right at the top of this segment. jake, this a case where offenses the best defense and that's what this task force is going to try to do. >> so has president trump officially said that this is his blueprint? this is his agenda because as i'm sure you recall, he didn't actually even have a platform in 2020 when he when he ran for reelection, he doesn't need to say it was charge of russ von. is that the guidance or reservoir is one of the authors, but you've got stephen miller, you got peter navarro. i mean, it is a who's who? so i've trump's inner circle and over 100 conservative groups. so this is not an idle threat. that is what steve bannon and others call their war plans. yeah, it's there. they believe in this. it's almost 1,000 pages as you note, tell us if you can narrow it down what is the one item or two items that you are most alarmed by? >> it's hard because so much of it is alarming. but let's just take the innocuous sounding schedule f, civil service reform. what they propose to do is to fire tens of thousands of government employees across all federal agencies. and to replace them with people that come through these ideological boot camps, they get on these databases maintained by the heritage 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