As the debate night draws closer. Both Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are preparing in their own ways first though Trump's legal team faces a federal judge in the election interference case while the vice president gets a key endorsement from a Republican NB C's Alice Barr has the details from Washington drama colliding with the campaign trail today as attorneys for former president Trump and special counsel, Jack Smith's office faced off for the first time since the Supreme Court's presidential immunity ruling that forced prosecutors to remove key elements of the election interference case against the former president. The hearing ended without a trial date set though it won't happen before the November election. It's very clear that Donald Trump's lawyers have one goal that's delay. The special counsel has a very different goal. His goal is to limit the number of additional pretrial appeals to just one and then hopefully he will get to try his case. The presiding judge Tanya Chatin is still tasked with determining what is official conduct, deserving of immunity and what is not in the revised indictment that charges former President Trump with the same four counts including conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruct an official proceeding for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Mr Trump addressing his legal battles today and without evidence blaming his political rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, she and her party are censoring speech, weaponizing the justice system and trying to throw their political opponents in jail. And they always have to remember that two can play the game overnight. A top conservative Trump critic, former Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney calling him a threat to democracy because of the danger that Donald Trump poses. Not only am I not voting for Donald Trump, but I will be voting for Kamala Harris. The vice president is preparing in Pittsburgh today for next week's big debate. The rules are now set for Tuesday's debate including muted mikes while the other candidate is speaking something the Harris campaign had opposed and back on the legal front. Judge Chutkan said today that as she's considering trial dates, quote, this court is not concerned with the electoral schedule in Washington, Alice, Barr NBC News.