Pictures coming in from that the lead with jake tapper starts right now cnn Breaking News and welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper and we begin today with multiple breaking stories. All of which will have wideranging impacts on the 2024 election and moments from now and florida, former President Donald Trump will welcome the House Speaker mike johnson. To his maralago resort. The two men are holding a Press Conference in which they will discuss. They say election security, though we should note the last time the two teamed up on this issue they worked to try to undermine the 2020 election. So skepticism may be warranted. We are told the two Republican Leaders are expected to highlight the issue of non in citizens voting in federal elections. And if youre thinking, doesnt federal law already van, noncitizens from voting in federal elections, you would be correct. It is true but some municipalities allow noncitizens to vote in some local elections, like the mayor of tacoma park, maryland. But that said the Republican Party is seizing on this issue to try to make a larger political issue for the runup to november. We shall see how allegiant to the facts of the matter, mr. Trump and mr. Johnson will be this one. Maralago meeting comes as both men are staring down their own political challenges. Speaker johnson facing a threat to his leadership from some of trumps most loyal followers on capitol hill, the maga caucus, and trump well, on monday, mr. Trump is set to become the first former president in the history of these Uniteds States to face criminal trial. Mr. Trump allegedly tried to buy the silence of former Adult Film Star and director Stormy Daniels to cover up a dalliance. He tried to do that before the 2016 election. Hes accused of. He denies this but after months of trying to delay a trial for falsifying the Business Records to cover up that payment. It appears that mr. Trump and his legal team are running out of options. The Biden Campaign for its part, will also during our show today, go on the offensive. They say over what they believe will be a winning issue for the president who is struggling in the polls. Abortion rights, Vice PresidentKamala Harris today has been dispatched to arizona to slam a ruling earlier this week by the States Top Court that revived a 160 yearold neartotal ban on abortion. The period that this law was passed was a period when women could not vote, or in many places in the United States owned property, its a period when historian say the age of consent in arizona was ten. We will bring you all of these events as as they unfold today. Lets begin with cnns Kristen Holmes and palm beach, florida and Kristen Donald trump and Speaker Johnson. They have a history of teaming up to push out falsehoods about the elections at least to the 2020. What can we expect from todays maralago event . Jason you bring that up . And i am told that they are going to likely relitigate the election of 2020 in addition to talking about what you mentioned, which is this issue of noncitizens voting. And i will say it is not just the mayor of tacoma park, but also some local School Boards across the country. They also allow noncitizens to vote but it is not a widescale issue and certainly not an issue in federal elections. Something that are the kind of elections that someone like donald trump or mike johnson would be folks now, i did get some pushback after talking on cnn about this issue earlier. From his team, Donald Trumps team, where they said, this is also about preventing in the you char noncitizens from voting. But again, there is not much data that shows that this is a wide scale problem in any capacity however, we are looking at in an Election Year, an Election Year in which immigration is a top issue. And we know that donald trump and republicans are seeking to stoke fear around this issue. They are say that it is connected to both crime and now the election as well, donald trump has grown as far as to say that democrats actually want to have undocumented immigrants coming over the border so they can help them. In the 2024 election, all the republicans have put floors, lawsuits or legislation and various states and they dont want noncitizens voting. But again, jake, as we have said, its not a widescale problem this does seem to be an opportunity for johnson to appear sayyed by side with donald trump at this time all right. And Kristen Holmes, well come back to you. Thank you so much less the scope of their panel. And jaime, todays maralago visit reminds some of us of something this is not the first time a House Speaker has gone down to florida and a display of loyalty is this event is Kevin Mccarthy for those at home who are not watching, are those in their car picture of Kevin Mccarthy with donald trump throwing him a lifeline. Is this about johnson needing trumps help . So he can stay speaker more than anything else. Do you feel . Yes to quote . He era. I think were back to deja vu all over again. You really have to wonder what Kevin Mccarthy is thinking today as he watches. Now Speaker Johnson making the same pilgrimage down to maralago to Kiss The Ring and yes, theres this issue that theyre going to have this Press Conference and bad. But the reality is at the end of the day, mike johnson says he doesnt want to talk about his private conversations with donald trump. But if you want to stay in power, you need donald trump. And thats why hes there today. But the key difference between that moment and this moment that was at a moment of weakness for donald trump. Kevin mccarthy going down and yes, on bended knee, wanting to be in his good graces and understanding that trumps still had power in the party in the aftermath of january 6. But that moment of Kevin Mccarthy doing that actually helped build up donald trump in that moment here, i think the power dynamic is a little different. I think it is Speaker Johnson whos looking draft off a donald trump, who is actually sitting atop the party in a very powerful position right now within the republican ranks. And its interesting, sarah, because right after Speaker Johnson won the speakership he had a press, conference with a bunch of House Republicans and a reporter asked him about the fact that he had led the charge in the house to overturn the election. Just for simplicity sake, lets put it that way. And they that reporter was, was heckled by the republican members of congress. They didnt want to talk about it. They wanted to move on. They didnt want to talk about the election of 2020. It was a new day so whats going on . If you want donald trump to appear beside you for an extended period of time and talk about how great you are. A good way to do that and say, you know, we should talk about, we should talk about what you like to call election integrity. And if you want to burn up how the 2020 election was stolen from you, i will stand next to you and i will support you in that. I think that this is a good indication of how much Speaker Johnson needs donald trump right now, i also think that there is a real possession and the Republican Party, theres a realization among members of congress, donald trump is not going to stop talking about this. Donald trump is going to keep talking about this. Hes going to talk about issues like noncitizens voting that are not actually real issues that are widespread problems when what republicans would really like him to talk about is mailin ballots and how theyre okay this time around and maybe republican should actually mail those backends so that we have a shot of beating joe biden this time around, spelling out what donald trump is going to say today. I think that there is a belief among republicans that this is just what life is going to be so there was a study in 2016 or the study was 2017 of the election of 2016, the Brennan Center, which is a progressive group, but they did an analysis of 23. 5 million votes in 42 jurisdictions to look at what kind of a problem this was, because remember donald trump was saying that even though he won the election, the only reason he lost the popular vote by two or 3 million votes was because of all the undocumented immigrants that had voted. And the Brennan Center found that in this sampling of 23. 5 million votes, there were 30 instance, 30 of suspected noncitizen voting. So that is a rate of 0. 000, 1 of the votes cast. So whats not nothing, its not nothing, but it is not a problem, but it is not a problem that is exactly right. And today they are trying to put forward if they have any solutions will see in search of a problem i mean, i think to sarahs point until interesting is yes, appeal to donald trump and say, hey, ill come and talk about this thing. You love talking about not only that lets try to, uh, it in to the issue that you do that you talk about every day immigration, which is of great concern to voters. So if we can find a way so that were not just talking about the 2020 election, looking at the past, but actually tie it to an issue that youre trying to fuel your candidacy with this time round. Imagine how appealing that could be for trump, but jake, the statistics youd 0. 2 are significant and i think this gets lost all the time. When were talking about voter fraud or vote problems in voting, what we should be talking about is where that is widespread and has actual impact on outcomes 0. 00, 1 is not that, thats not an actual problem. Thats just human error on the smallest possible scale. Yeah, youre not, youre not upending somebody elses right to vote because those 30 incidents of 23 million filled bump extrapolated this out. So at the rate of 0. 0, 1 that would mean in 2020, 200 noncitizens vote, right . Good, not enough to throw anything, but also, theres a reason that youre not seeing a bunch of noncitizens go try to vote. One. Its against federal law to its against state law. Three, if you ever want to try to become a citizen of the United States when you go through that process they check to see if you have ever tried to vote before, and theyre going to hold that against you. Youre not going to become a citizen of the United States. You can be fine. You can go to jail, you can be deported. These are all things that consequences that you can face if you try to vote as a noncitizen. And when you talk to places like the Brennan Center, which as you pointing that are more progressive, they say a lot of what weve seen in cases like this where its noncitizens who do go vote, is that they have been misled or that they have misunderstood and for whatever reason, they thought that they were eligible to cast a ballot. So lets go back to what Speaker Johnson back when he was just congressman john on sunday, i did he during the period of december 2020, when donald trump was trying desperately to hold onto power the Texas Attorney general filed an amicus brief saying that for states that biden coincidentally happened to have one should have their electoral votes cast thrown out and Speaker Johnson, congressman johnson, i had an amicus brief. Right. Any rallied support for members of congress now you got an early exclusive copy of former congresswoman liz cheneys book she wrote about that moment and she said, quote when i confronted him with the flaws of his Legalal Argument Johnson would often concede or Say Something to the effect of we just need to do this one last thing for trump. So i guess it wasnt just one last thing though. Its never one last thing. And thats what were seeing here this afternoon. And its never going to be just one last thing as long as hes in control of the party Mitch Mcconnell thought that trump would fade away. A lot of republicans did. That has not happened liz cheney said one other thing about my johnson, which i think is worth repeating. She said, the amicus brief episode reveal the side of mike. I had not seen before. He appeared a especially susceptible to flattery from trump and aspire to being anywhere in trumps orbit. So this is just going to go on and imagine if trump wins again, we should probably also know what the Supreme Court did with that texas ag lawsuit. They threw it away exactly what in an address. One other last question i have for you, david obviously the border is actually a problem in this country and there are too many undocumented people in this country. And its sapping all sorts of resources and cities and counties, et cetera. So im not belittling that but how much does this play into this white Replacement Theory . That a bunch of people have put out there. This racist and antisemetic theory that a bunch of dvz jews are in corp, bringing in brown people is this is not my view to replace the white populace of america. You hear this among racists in this country, you hear this from donald trump. In this country. How much is todays Press Conference . How much of that dovetail into it . Well, sure its dabbling in those waters, right . Its its trying to have a little bit of titillation for those that want to put forward that Conspiracy Theory and thats what i mean by using this. As you said immigration is a real issue for millions of americans. And donald trump is going to campaign on it hard. But when you do this like narrow slice to appeal to all this fringe stuff or stuff that has been proven not to be true. Youre trying to peel pieces from all the components of these waters of conspiracy that helped fuel the energy inside trumps support base of support, the crimes committed by an undocumented immigrants with ms 13, that is a serious problem. This bogus voting thing is not a serious problem. Everyone stick around, we have a lot more to come. Were standing by for whatever comes down in maralago. We are also following fastmoving Draw Elements with Donald Trumps legal cases as he faces his first criminal trial. On monday, an attorney on his legal team is now gone and Cnns Kaitlan Collins, who broke this initial report will join us next to discuss cnn saturday morning starting tomorrow at eight on cnn if you have wet amd you never want to lose sight of the things he loved week some things should stand the test of time when long lasting i leah hd could significantly improve your vision and can help you go up to four months between treatments. 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