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During an appearance on "CNN This Morning" to discuss the odds of someone other than Donald Trump being the Republican Party's 2024 presidential nominee, Republican New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu suggested that not only will Trump not be the nominee, but he expects Joe Biden to handpick a replacement at the Democratic convention.

That elicited a stunned "wow" from host Poppy Harlow.

Without getting into the details of why he thinks Donald Trump will be denied the nomination, Sununu claimed Biden will gather up delegates throughout the Democratic primaries -- and then step aside.

Noting that Hunter Biden's legal problems are a drag on the president, he switched gears and declared, "I'm going to tell you, I don't think Joe Biden is the nominee in '24. This is just --."

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"You don't? Who?" host Harlow interrupted.

"No, I don't. I think he's going to go through the primary process. I think he collects all the delegates and I think you're going to see a wild convention where he and his people start steering the delegates somewhere else," he continued, "I really believe that sincerely."

"I think it is a health thing, the Hunter Biden thing," he elaborated. "They're doing everything to make sure that he doesn't have to testify and sit there in court and open all this other stuff, the whole book gets opened up if that process happens. So, look, I don't know whether it's a grand scheme, I'm not a conspiracy theorist by any means, but I just think that is the way it is playing out."

"I don't think Trump or Biden are on that ticket," he added as the CNN host blurted out, "Wow -- wow!"

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During an appearance on "CNN This Morning," the IRS whistleblower at the center of the Republican Party's obsession with the Department of Justice's investigation of Hunter Biden was repeatedly fact-checked by co-host Poppy Harlow and then had his central argument dismantled by legal expert Elie Honig.

According to Joseph Ziegler, who believes the DOJ hasn't done a thorough job investigating and charging President Joe Biden's son, a special counsel is needed to take over the case that has been headed by a Donald Trump appointee, U.S. Attorney David Weiss.

With Weiss writing in a letter this week that he is willing to testify at a congressional hearing this fall, Ziegler attempted to make the case that he had questions about Weiss' work and that a special counsel is required to an unfettered job.

That led CNN's Harlow to stop him more than once and point out the limitations of a special counsel -- who must report to Attorney General Merrick Garland -- as opposed to Weiss that has free rein without any undue pressure from above.

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"What I'm asking for is we need to have someone with independent authority with full authority, that special counsel authority that can charge that in venues outside of the district of Delaware," Ziegler demanded.

"The one thing I would say about special counsel so people understand the difference here is David Weiss is a Trump-appointed U.S. attorney has the authority to follow leads where they will take him and his team," Harlow interjected. "A special counsel, the way that that operates, they have to operate within sort of the four corners of what an attorney general sets for them, and if they want to expand the investigation they have to go back to the A.G. get permission to do that."

"There is the argument to be made that, actually, David Weiss has more independence here," she added.

"You have taxpayers who are right now in New England that were charged -- these are fishermen -- it's a fishermen case -- they were charged with misdemeanor and felony tax charges for failing to file tax returns," he countered. "I'm sure that those people would like the same agreement that Hunter got in this situation, and that's my argument is we have to treat people the same in our investigations and how we move forward those investigations."

"And to the point that you're making, the allegation that they were blocked by other U.S. attorneys, that has been contested by their office," Harlow told him.

Asked for comment after the interview ended, former prosecutor Elie Honig backed up his CNN colleague.

"A couple of quick things," the attorney began. "First of all, what the judge said yesterday really doesn't touch either way pro or con on what special agent Ziegler said. The judge did not say this is a sweetheart deal that I can't countenance, the judge said the parties haven't agreed on what this deal is."

"What about on the special counsel?" Harlow pressed. "I think we're going to -- I asked because I think we're going to hear that a lot more. I was sort of trying to explain that a special counsel doesn't always give more leeway."

"There's nothing all that special about a special counsel," Honig explained. "It's essentially the same thing as a U.S. attorney like David Weiss. In some respects there is more freedom to explore those avenues. The question that special agent Ziegler amply raised is were those avenues followed."

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Gabriel Sterling, the Republican chief operating officer of the Georgia Secretary of State's office, made a fresh plea to Trump supporters in the wake of former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani's admission that he made false statements about Georgia poll workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss.

Writing on Twitter, Sterling said that Giuliani's admission should make Trump supporters realize that they were fed nonstop falsehoods about the 2020 presidential election, which former President Donald Trump lost decisively to President Joe Biden.

Republicans have focused their agenda around exposing the so-called "Biden crime family" -- with hearings led by Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and James Comer (R-TN) -- but they're starting to notice that's not really connecting with voters.

Donald Trump is pushing House Republicans to impeach President Joe Biden over alleged crimes committed by his son Hunter Biden, whose plea agreement fell apart Wednesday in a case involving tax and gun charges, but some GOP lawmakers and operatives want to tap the brakes on the matter, reported Politico.

A pollster at Harvard University pointed to a persistent sense of precarity in the lives of young voters as a key reason behind new data that shows Americans aged 18-29 have significantly more progressive views than young people did even five years ago.

Data analyzed by the Harvard Youth Poll, which releases survey results focused on young voters every spring, found that a clear majority take a progressive outlook on what John Della Volpe, director of the poll, called the "big four" political issues that respondents are asked about: LGBTQ+ rights, economic inequality, climate action, and gun violence.

As the clock ticks toward a likely third criminal indictment of Donald Trump, the GOP has been working practically around the clock trying to distract from yet another major hit against their party’s unofficial 2024 presidential nominee, with the top-ranking Republican trotting out what is tantamount to going nuclear: threatening to impeach the President of the United States of America.

For what? A years-old conspiracy theory that was debunked long ago.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) floated launching an impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden this week, but at least one key House Republican is now trying to pump the brakes.

In an interview with NBC News, Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC), who happens to be the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, says that "no one is seriously talking about impeachment right now," despite the fact that McCarthy floated the idea during an interview with Sean Hannity.

Former President Donald Trump is currently facing the prospect of being indicted yet again, this time for his efforts to illegally remain in power after losing the 2020 election to President Joe Biden.

However, a new report from Rolling Stone claims that Trump is having a hard time finding lawyers willing to represent him in this case for a simple reason: Namely, he "wants to use a Jan. 6 trial as a platform for his election lies."