The candidates are out on the, stop with several rallies planned. Nikki haley is speaking today and raleigh, North Carolina. Donald trump also will speak in greensboro, North Carolina and rich burn, virginia. A new poll of registered voters showing President Joe Biden facing political headwinds. Trailing both trump and haley in hypothetical match ups. Even as a majority of voters say they think trump has committed serious federal crimes, as haley expresses doubt about what trump would do during a potential second term in the oval office. Do you think donald trump would follow the constitution if he was elected to a second term . I dont know. I dont know. I, mean you always want to thank someone will, but i dont know. You know, when you go in and you talk about revenge, when you go and you talk about vindication, when you go and talk about, what does that mean . Like, i dont know what that means. Only he can answer for that. Trump is capped off a week of legal maneuvers in his push to delay his federal criminal trials until after the election. The showdown over those trial dates is looming large as the Supreme Courts intervening in a d. C. January 6th case. With no final decision in florida after a day of hearings there, in the maralago classified documents case, just yesterday, the analysts were standing by to go over todays developments. I want to first go to ryan riley, nbc news contributor and author of the books hunters, how january 6th broke the justice system. And dan ehrenberg, attorney and palm beach county. Thank you so much, ryan, start us off with florida and what it came to that is nothing. We thought we were gang gonna end the day with a date set and or judge cannon was going to say its indefinitely delayed because of whats pending in the Supreme Court hearings, april 22nd. Neither of those happened. There was a date proposed by jack smiths team of july eight. Trumps team said august 12th, but really, we dont want to happen until after the election. Where are we on things . It seemed like a lot of people had written off this trial potentially happening before the election, given the judges maneuvering here previously. Her previous rulings, you know, in this, case just the entire way they approach this case has left people skeptical about what actually happened before the election. They thought maybe this could get on the books like what happened with the other jack smith case given that thats going to get bumped back. You know, i think the trump team pretty reluctantly brought forward that august date potentially. But i was skeptical about that actually being operational, if theyre actually going to get before the actual election here. I would echo that sentiment, considering i was in palm beach yesterday. With, that dave, im coming to you spending some time in your neck of the woods. So, there was talk of the 60day rule. Just for folks to really understand what this is, it was in court yesterday, urging prosecutors that could affect the outcome of the election. Jay brad brett had gone through this with the doj. This was not about a trial. This is about, essentially, an indictment. The indictment, for instance, were to be brought before the former president at the 60day margin before the election, that would be problematic in influencing the election. But going to trial does not apply to this rule. Correct. It was great having you in our community, yasmin, please come back and spend your dollars there. It was great. Nice and warm. Very warm, very nice. But dont expect to see the mar alago documents case to be tried before this election. And that was never going to happen once judge cannon was assigned the case, shes, knew shes inexperienced, shes given a lot of rulings in the past a complex matter, dealing with federal law involving classified documents. This thing was always going to be slow walked by the new experienced judge. As much as the doj wants this to go, and the fact that jey brad said, we will try, it even six days before the election, it really is up to the judge. The judge gets loss of discretion on the calendar. This aint happening. Which, is a shame, because as a prosecutor, this is the strongest case against donald trump. I found it interesting that there was a moment in court yesterday, david, which trumps attorneys said okay, the fbi is part of the Prosecution Team. The Prosecution Team stood up and said yeah, the fbi is part of the team. They were the ones who initially sees the documents. So that is kind of part of the course as to how we operate within our justice system. They went one step further though, they alleged the entire Intelligence Community is part of the prosecutions team. And the person who is in the courtroom for us said that it seemed like if judge cannon was possibly thinking about holding a hearing over this very accusation, can you talk to the merit of an accusation made like that . This is the stuff that Team Trump Says on rightwing media. This is for the Public Opinion. In a court of law, it gets dismissed, it gets rejected. When youre dealing with the judge, and judge cannon was bent over backwards to accommodate donald trump every step of the way, and as, such im not surprised she wants to have another hearing about it. Other judges would have never had a hearing or rejected it outright. But this is what i mean by judge cannon slow walking, give donald trump every bit of deference to delay and delay this matter. That was up to trump he would set this trial for the 31st of never wary. But at some point it has to be tried. It wont be tried before the election though. And you saw clearly exactly why judge cannon is not trying this anytime soon. Reporter weve had this conversation a lot, and that, is why does donald trump show up to these hearings when he doesnt need to . Hes gonna have to be in new york for six weeks or so when they are overseeing the hush money case. But he didnt have to be here and he was. And i certainly took note of the fact that when he arrived he was waving, he had lots of supporters there, they were chanting trump, trump, trump. Im sure that gave him an ego boost emits it all. It was, as its always, been somewhat of a Campaign Stop for him. I want to play some of the possible explanations to why the former president decided to show up yesterday. I will have you react to this. He was there the entire time, basically as a compliment or a wave to her. I think he recognizes that most of the litigating world where you, know shes really gone out of her way we and it got hurt rebuked by the 11th circuit, to favor trump in these proceedings. I think he wanted to repay the favor by showing up. Its interesting, its speaking, dave, to what you are just talking about. But when you look at the trials of judge kaplan, overseeing the e. Jean carroll case and judge engoron, when it comes to the case in which now the former president has to pay 450 million plus, there was a lot of outpour from those courtrooms. There was a lot of talk back in those courtrooms as well. There were gag orders in those courtrooms, even for this day in which the former president had to sit all day. He sat very calmly. He did not speak back at all. What do you make of this explanation . He understands that because he used to work for donald trump, trump is transactional. Trump, for example, in his words about the Supreme Court, he said look, those are my justices. I appointed them. Im sure theyll do the right thing. He does believe that you give something and you get something in return. He appointed judge cannon. So, yeah i think the reason why he showed up in judge cannons chambers was just to be there to remind her that hey, im the one who appointed. You he didnt have to say it out loud. Hes hoping for great deference from the judge. So far she has given him a lot of that. Now, as far as other doctors, he may show up to play to the court of Public Opinion where he goes outside and blasts the judge as being a Liberal Democrat who is out to get me, each judge he treats differently. Interestingly, not surprisingly, the one judge he has never condemned, never criticized is judge cannon. Quickly, try, and i want to talk about this d. C. Election case. We are now going to be with hearing about the oral arguments on april 22nd, the hearing on that on the immunity appeal. It is really going to push this timeline way down the road. What is the likelihood this thing even goes before the election at this point . Its really tight. The biggest holdup is frankly that judge chutkan, when she first schedule this, set out this idea that she was going to give the trump team a full seven months to prepare. Basically, that froze the timeline where the appeal took place in december. Essentially, whenever this ultimate ruling comes down, if it does, they say that the president is not a king and he doesnt serve Blanket Immunity for trying to overturn the results of an election to stay in power. As i think most legal minds expect of the Supreme Court ultimately to do in some fashion. That means that the 88 days is going to start then. So then it really becomes more complicated, about whether or not chutkan can shorten that or whether or not he cans guinea down this case. There is also the question of the four charges that he is facing, two of those charges are also sort of pending before the Supreme Court in terms of the instruction charged. Thats a charge that is also apply to a lot of january six defendants overall. More than 300. So i think that, you know, thats a complex part of this too. Theoretically there is a world in which they really narrow this down and ultimately only go with two of the four charges going forward. Trying to speed this up, bring down that window of how long they need for the Prosecution Team. But i think that, you know, this is really up against the wall here before november. Yeah, to say the least. Nbcs ryan riley, thank, you dave aaron, thank you as well. Later on this hour, folks, we are going to talk about us real moment during yesterdays fani willis hearing. It involves lawyers for the donald trump defendants using Michael Isikoff and dan clayton s new book, michael was watching it all unfold on television and hes going to explain what the attorneys got so wrong later on this hour. Up next, new aid for gaza, raining down from the sky today. Some key questions need to be asked about this. Why airdrops . Why did it take so long . Were back in just a 60 seconds. 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Officials have said that this was done in cooperation with the jordanians. Theyve been conducting their own eight drops into gaza ever since early november. So according to u. S. Central command, it was three transport planes that delivered 38,000 meals. These are much needed supplies, yasmin, the gaza strip has already been suffering from what age agencies call famine. We saw incredible desperation among palestinians. Many International Organizations contributed to the stampede and israeli Mass Shooting in gaza two days ago you just mentioned. The death toll, for that instance, it is going up to 118. It is still the most single lethal incident about against civilly and since this began. Now aid agencies have also been saying that this american a drop is not enough. Some even warned of the lying on a drops, which the Aid Community considers expensive and inefficient, normally just used as a last resort. They become a distraction to what they say should be the real diplomatic goal, which is getting israel and egypt to stop their siege on gaza, and lift their let blockade and let in much larger amounts of aid. President biden said yesterday that more aid is on the way, heres what he told reporters. The truth is, aid flowing to gaza is nowhere near enough. Now, innocent lives are on the line, and childrens lives are on the line. We will stand we will not stand by [inaudible] we should get hundreds of trucks in. Yasmin, israels limits on food aid are becoming a worsening problem in gaza. The u. N. Has not been able to get aid into Northern Gaza for more than a week. Yasmin . Can you talk to me about where we are with Hostage Negotiations . Thats a big story, President Biden said last week that he hoped the deal will be finished by monday, two days from now. Just today, nbc news heard from egyptian officials who said that high level delegations from hamas and israel will visit cairo tomorrow to discuss the deal that might see a 40 day pause in the fighting over the holy month of ramadan. The deal could see the release of israeli hostages and palestinian prisoners. But yasmin, these negotiations have been going on for months. Theyve seen a lot of false dogs. Yasmin . Matt bradley for. Us thank, you matt, we appreciated. We want to bring in democratic congressman, we madeleine dean, a member of the house foreign committee. Thank you for joining us on this. Lets start with these airdrops , if we can. Usually airdrops are used in situations in which to avoid hostile actors. Technically, israel is an ally of the united states. People in gaza desperately need this aid right now. Is there a sense that the president is somewhat losing a grip on his influence over Prime MinisterBibi Netanyahu by using these instead of getting more trucks into gaza or humanitarian aid . I dont think so it all. What i think is that its a recognition of the desperation on the ground. Mr. Netanyahu has been dishonest about it. I happen to just come back from israel. We were in tel aviv, we were in the west bank. We were in jerusalem. We met with officials from unrwa, who were on the ground and gaza we, had a meeting with them. These airdrops are so critically important. But they cannot replace what is desperately needed, and what mr. Netanyahu is responsible for delivering, and that is the hundreds of trucks of aid. Take a look at what happened, 118 people dead, desperate people trying to get food. What we met with the head of unrwa in rafah, where he was, he said that three days that week, no trucks got through. He said we were out of everything. We did not have a single thing left to distribute. And we asked, how many trucks a day do you need . He said we should be having 600 trucks a day. 300 for commercial purposes. 300 trucks for humanitarian aid, including unrwa. It is unconscionable what is going on in gaza. These people, the palestinian people, they are trapped and desperate. And mr. Netanyahu and his Coalition Must fix this now. That is why i have called what this for a bilateral cease fire. The suffering has to end. The humanitarian aid needs to come in. The hostages must come home. Dead and alive, sadly. Mr. Netanyahu needs to come to the table and make that happen. How do you make sure the president puts more pressure on netanyahu . How do you make sure that netanyahu and his conservative cabinet listen . Well, i believe the president is already working very hard on this, but to your point, what do we do as legislators . We deliver a statement, the six of, us we just returned from israel, we deliver a statement to call for a twostate solution, to call for an end in hostilities with and on the ground. The unrest folks and the u. N. Folks described incredible desperation, famine, people eating animal feed, if they can get it. Going back into their destroyed homes to try to reclaim bags of flour, sacks of flour, if they can get it. Trying to clean through filthy rice, if they can get it. It is unconscionable what is going on. I also, yesterday, called the white house and spoke to a representative there, a Chief Counselor of the president. Just to convey the serious things. And she assured me, and i know this to be true, from speaking with the president and Secretary Blinken and others, the president believes the very same thing. He will continue to do the efforts but why not outright say it . Why arent we hearing more from the president . From the Secretary Of State for netanyahu to stop . To allow this humanitarian aid in . In addition to the airdrops, why hasnt their language changed more consequentially . I dont know the answer with obviously youd have to ask the white house that, except ive spoken with the diplomatic secretary Secretary Blinken. They respect the diplomatic effort. What has to happen here is a future, a twostate solution for two peoples with not just security, but also dignity. What i believe is, the president is using his diplomatic fort to travel to the region, to work with the region, because this end of hostilities is not just going to be between mr. Netanyahu and hamas, it has to be a regional peace. It has to be structured. Peace and security for both peoples. In the meantime, mr. Netanyahu is killing innocent civilians, indiscriminately killing innocent civilians and keeping them in southern gaza, where they have no outlet and insufficient food, water and everything else. So you are watching this humanitarian devastation happening in gaza. We and then we see how it is affecting what is happening here at home, the political fight ahead