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israel in a rare saturday session. it could cost republican house speaker mike johnson his job. now democrats may have to help save him from the likes of marjorie taylor greene in his own party. california congressman robert garcia and punch bowl reporter join me live to discuss the stakes. trump on trial. opening statements are set for monday in donald trump's cost money election interference case. we take a closer look at the jury that will decide his fate, whether trump will testify and the tough questions he will face if he does. and, 25 years since columbine. the deadly high school shooting in colorado still haunts america today. dr. jonathan mezzo is here to discuss what has changed and what has not since the fateful day on april 20th, 1999. i'm jonathan capehart, this is the saturday show.
weapons transfers that have been asked for. so, people need to understand that it is not just a shipment of all kinds of weapons and money to israel. it is a lot of other things, as well. >> and this is why it was so important to have your voice. not only are you on house foreign affairs, but to have you explain to our viewers that it is not just a blank check that is being filled out to be written to be able to send this aid, that it has been thoughtfully done. congresswoman susan wilde, i know you are busy, my thank you to you for joining us and getting us started. >> thank you, katie. >> thanks. coming up, trump on trial, the jury is ready to go in donald trump's new york election interference trial. new york southern district of new york joins us next for what to expect on monday's opening statements. there is so much more to come this afternoon on "the katie phang show", only here on msnbc. msnbc. getting a brick and mortar in new york is not easy.
you back here tomorrow at 5:00 p.m. eastern for another live our of politics nation, the saturday show starts right now. finally, the house passes critical aid for ukraine and israel. but it could cost mike johnson his job. now democrats may have to save him from the likes of marjorie taylor greene in his own party. robert garcia and andrew join me live to discuss the stakes. trump on trial, opening statements are set for monday and in the election interference case. we will look closer at the jury that will decide his fate, whether trump will testify, and the tough questions he will face if he does.
court. will trump follow suit? and just in, police releasing new surveillance video showing the jacksonville killer moments before he opened fire, targeting black shoppers. this as we're learning more about why he was forced to abandon what may have been an original plan. and prepare for evacuate. warnings now up for florida's gulf coast as tropical storm idalia rapidly intensifies. it is expected to be a major hurricane by the time it makes landfall. let's go "outfront." good evening. i'm erica hill in for erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, trump on trial. a federal judge announcing his 2020 election interference case will begin in march of next year. that is two years sooner than trump's team had requested. they wanted it pushed out to april of 2026. judge tanya chutkan saying it will actually begin in six months on march 4th, to be exact. that's one day before super tuesday. and while we're keeping track
thank you so much for joining us. cnn "primetime" with abby phillips starts right now. >> that's a fascinating story. we'll have a little more discussion about that this hour. good evening everyone. welcome to "primetime." the first hearing in georgia's election case is going to get started. he and it could be a preview of what this whole trial might look like. plus the country singer to dethroned taylor swift on the charts. his song, "rich men north of richmond" was playing at the debate, which we were just discussing but there is more to the story than you might think.
in a state of trial, they may get it. the judge has already set an october date. do you think they are rightfully trying to gain a tactical advantage ear here or is this a miscalculation? >> in federal rico cases they are often split up into smaller trials with individual defendants or groups of defendants so that doesn't strike me as terribly unusual. if i were in the position of being a defense counsel here, i would be thinking separating myself from the tar pit of meadows and giuliani might be to my advantage and to try to indicate differences between my positions, my interests, the defense i would like to make and that of trump and some of the others. they may be right, they may be wrong. a lot of people speculated that cheseboro's lawyer thought they
do with their presidential responsibilities. it's like if trump would have robbed a bank while he was president, that's not part of his presidential responsibilities. that's what meadows' papers confuse here, i think. >> do you think that meadows is a ring leader in this whole scheme? and if he doesn't face consequences in the state of georgia or at the federal level, he wasn't charged in that federal case, do you think he should face consequences. >> i think we need to see more of what the facts are. i wouldn't be at all surprised from the testimony we've seen in the january 6th commission, from media reporting and my own experience in several administrations, if the chief of staff weren't heavily involved with the president on this, i don't know what else he would be involved with. >> we're learning today also that sydney powell is joining kenneth chesboro in looking for a speedy trial.
going to do. he's going to find any way to take these cases out of the calendar year and push it to the election. frankly, i think the case in new york, i would expect that's going to get pushed. i think the hush money case, even dave bragg has suggested he's willing to move that later. that case is the least important of the four. i think judge khanna seems not quite inclined to move them forward and the document case may have issues. if a judge is not redityady to a case, it's not ready to go. i think we can look forward to monday and see the date judge chutkan sets. if it's perhaps january, february or march, if she sets that date, it's likely we'll see president trump on trial next year. >> so, chris, sydney powell down
>> it's your right to demand a speedy trial. it's always -- >> i was going to say a little bit calling the prosecutor's bluff here saying, okay, you ready? >> there's a mechanism for that to get their date. >> we'll see how that turns out. jessica and markus, thank you both very much. >> thank you. i want to now bring in former trump national security adviser and former u.s. ambassador, john bolton. thank you for being here tonight. mark meadows is now claiming that all of these actions that he took after the election, calling folks in georgia, et cetera, were all part of his official job. i wonder, do you think he is o overreaching here or does he have a chance in actually succeeding in making that argument and moving this case over to federal court? >> well, i think his argument is incorrect because the president, from whom meadows' authority derives, doesn't have any
in georgia, she joined kenneth chesebro saying she wants a speedy trial and she may get it. less wrenn to what a former trump lawyer, ty cobb, just said a little while ago on cnn. >> now, i'm not sure i agree with that but, you know, it is a strategic move and i admire those. but now he's in a situation where he may have to go to trial with sydney powell, which i have to say of all the defendants in this entire case is the last person i would want to be alone in a courtroom with if i was another defendant. because, you know, everything -- the problem she has is everything that she did was a lie. >> to be fair, i think a lot of them have that problem about the lies. but, i mean, yeah, what do you think? i mean, going together in a trial with sidney powell, does