A judge told Trump's lawyers today, quote,

this court is not concerned with the electoral schedule, unquote.

The lead starts right now.

A dramatic day in court as Donald Trump tries to get the federal election interference case against him thrown out.

Coming up, the Stern rebuke from the judge and how this case is still moving forward with the

election only 61 days away. Plus another different election interference case

this one about this year with Russia in the middle.

The Justice Department says right-wing social media figures were used by the Kremlin trying to influence your vote,

where these influencers do... trying to influence your vote?

Were these influencers dupes?

Were they useful idiots?

Or are they victims as they claim?

And new details about the tragedy at a high school in Georgia.

Authorities find disturbing writings by the suspected gunman about other school shootings.

Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper, and we start with a big day in our law and justice lead today.

With a heated hearing in Donald Trump's federal

elections case in Washington DC relating to his actions on January 6th 2021.

This is the first since the US Supreme Court handed down their landmark presidential immunity ruling in July.

This is the case where Trump faces charges for his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, which culminated, of course, in the Capitol Riot.

You will recall, perhaps last week Special Counsel Jack Smith narrowed the charges he was bringing against Donald Trump so that the case would

still qualify even with the US Supreme Court's immunity ruling. Today in the

hearing, Trump's lawyers offered two key arguments, one, that the

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