The Welcome to Pot Save America, I'm John Favra. I'm Dan Pfeifer.

On today's show, Joe Biden tries to make the race a contest between Scranton and Park Ave.

The Pennsylvania Senate race is set between Bob Casey and another out-of-state rich guy who says dumb shit.

And later, George Stephanopoulos talks to Dan about covering 2024 in his new book

full of untold stories about the White House Situation Room.

But first, Dan, Donald Trump doesn't seem to be having much fun

at his criminal trial.

He doesn't?

No, he's not having fun.

Unlike all those other people who have fun at their criminal trials.

He's complaining that the court isn't allowing his supporters to protest outside,

which isn't true.

It's just that less than a dozen have showed up.

He's complaining that the courtroom is too cold,

that he has to sit up straight for too long and mostly he's complaining about his gag order

Which he seems to have violated multiple times though we are waiting for a ruling on that from Judge Mershawn which could come at any moment.

Trump also had to sit through testimony from the prosecution's first witness,

former National Inquirer, publisher David Becker,

who testified that he personally spoke to Trump and Michael Cohen about a

catch-and-kill scheme where Trump would pay Becker to bury political damaging stories about

him and publish politically damaging and often false stories about his opponents.

Trump's defense is that he didn't know about any of this and didn't have any affairs,

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