Another loss in court today for Donald Trump. The lead starts right now.

The former president just minutes away from a campaign appearance in Racine, Wisconsin as the New York

hush money cover-up case comes back into play and now an appeals court has

weighed in. The decision did not go in Mr. Trump's favor, and Senator Bernie Sanders is going to join me live.

What he wants to hear from a big pharma CEO about the high cost of Ozemphic, plus his response to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's scathing criticism

earlier today of the Biden administration and even more explosive fires and a brutally

hot summer. I'm going to talk to a

governor leading efforts on the front lines.

Welcome to the Leon Dick Tapper moments from now.

Former President Donald Trump will be speaking to voters in battleground Wisconsin,

but you know what he still cannot talk about without facing fines or jail time at least, witnesses and the jury

that convicted him in his criminal hush money trial, or the daughter of the judge who

works for Democrats because today New York's highest

court in the land has or the highest court in the Empire State rather has declined to hear his

appeal on the gag order Judge Mershon imposed on him in that case.

Trump's legal team is today vowing to fight the gag order saying it's unconstitutional

because it violates Mr. Trump's First Amendment rights of free speech.

Trump's appearance today, just south of Milwaukee,

comes a few days after he reportedly behind close doors,

called that city horrible because of its crime.

But Mr. Trump will be in Milwaukee in less than a month

for the Republican National Convention where he is set to become the party's

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