Howdy, friends, aloha and Namaste Day. It is 4 p.m. in New York City,'m John Heilman in for Nicole Wallace. We are T

minus 72 hours in change away from the unprecedented spectacle of sitting

American president debating a former American president, the latter of whom, just to spice things up,

also happens to be a 40 time, 34 time convicted criminal.

34 time convicted crook, a scofflaw with 34 scarlet eff's scrawled across his rap sheet.

If Donald Trump, the fellow in question, gets his way, the first and maybe only presidential

debate of 2024 this Thursday in Atlanta will be less Lincoln Douglas or even Kennedy

Nixon than Macho Man Randy Savage versus Ricky the Dragon's steamboat.

Those are wrestlers for the record.

Remember the chain of events that led President Biden to be facing off against a

felon ran through the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse via the hush money case brought against

Donald Trump by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who has received a litany of heinous threats.

Threats that the Manhattan DA's office argued were, quote, directly connected to Trump's

dangerous rhetoric.

Yet in one of the other venues

where the former president is facing grave legal peril,

the wheels of justice appear to be grinding,

spinning very, very slowly, possibly in reverse.

That venue is the federal courtroom in Florida

where Judge Eileen Cannon is at this very moment

hearing arguments in the classified documents case,

including over the question of whether to modify the bond conditions of

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