people willing to bleed for donald trump and draw blood of police officers for donald trump have been convicted of that crime by the hundreds, have been sent to prison with more of them on their way to prison, and every trump supporter who was unwilling to participate in a bloodbath for donald trump was not more encouraged to do so by watching what happened on january 6th and watching what happens to the criminal lunatics who have been arrested and prosecuted for what they did on january 6. don't let him scare you with the power that he does not have. there will be no bloodbath. and, there will be no 100% tariff, which is to say 100% sales tax on cars manufactured in mexico, which is what donald trump was talking about when he decided to threaten the country with a bloodbath. today, the biden harris campaign said donald trump has shown us who he is time and time again, and released this video. >> now, if i don't get elected, it's going to be a bloodbath. it's going to be a bloodbath for the country. >> but, you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. >> are you willi

on donald trump?ou have that stormy daniels? and e. jean carroll? the republican party says yeah, we are ok with that. the question was, where the media get 2024 right? no. they will continue to go maybe we can have a town hall meeting with donald trump. this will be a ratings get for us. we will cover both sides as if this is a reasonable moment in american politics. i do not know what the right answer is except that, you have to call lies you have to not turn your platform over to someone like this. you cannot pretend that will happen in my hometown in milwaukee this summer is normal political convention when the colt gathers to anoint donald trump. i am sorry. that was somewhat of a long answer. >> you covered a lot of good ground. >> i gave you the short answer. >> a lot of things to jump in on there. one thing i am particularly interested in when i hear you talk about the responsibility of the legacy mainstream outlets. i think a big problem is the silo-ization of the way we consume news. so many

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donald trump is consistently insulting.last week at a rally, he said we don't want you moderate republicans. to win elections, you need to have 50 plus one. so this is -- i mean, i think nikki haley is trying to buy some time because she wants to still remain relevant, right? power and relevance is a hell of a drug, and she has that for right now, but at some point, what is she going to do, she's going to go the same way as ted cruz and mitch mcconnell and the rest of them and sell the country out when she's in a position to say the only way we want to aif democracy and make sure we have real policy decision ss to make sure that joe biden wins the presidency this time around and we can argue about it later because at least he's not a threat to our democracy. she means it or she doesn't. >> it seems as though the national discourse politics as a game has been so cheapened and the talk has gotten so ugly, and i think that 2015 was really a watershed moment for the ugliness of how people speak about each other in politics, and

donald trump was lying about that. his voters were wrong to believe that, but they have forgiven or overlooked every trump lie that has been exposed to at the end of the game, most might still be willing to believe that donald trump is as rich as he has always pretended to be, but donald trump has proved how rich he is not to anyone who can think. the world- famous billionaires have no d- problem coming up with $500 million. jeff bezos has that in his pocket, bill gates has given away more money that donald trump has ever had in his life. bill gates has given away h billions of dollars, and the real billionaire politician, the former mayor of new york, mike bloomberg, who has also given away billions of dollars, never brags about his wealth. he could easily cover $500 million at any time from his current holdings of $106.2 billion. mike bloomberg started with nothing, grew up in suburban boston, moved to new york city,i had to work to make every single penny he has earned, had to do it on his own. donald trump hates bi

donald trump knows better. donald trump has proved how rich he isn't to anyone who can think.he world famous billionaires have no problem coming up with $500 million. jeff bezos has that in his pocket. bill gates has given away more money than donald trump has ever had in his life. bill gates has given away billions of dollars. and the real billionaire new york politician, former mayor of new york, mike bloomberg, who has also given away billions of dollars, never brags about his wealth. he could easily cover a sudden bill of $500 million at any time from his current holdings of $106.2 billion. mike bloomberg started with nothing. he grew up in suburban boston. he moved to new york city. he had to work to make every single penny he has ever earned. he had to do it on his own. donald trump hates billionaires like mike bloomberg who came to the big city where donald trump was born rich and left donald trump far behind in the building of important businesses and the accumulation of wealth that staggers donald trump's poisoned imagination. donald trump has never dared to even pret

sadly, many people who oppose donald trump belief every threat donald trump issues. exactly the way donald trump wants it. that is exactly the way vladimir putin wanted in russia . of flattery putin wants the admiration of people who support him and he wants the abject fear of people who oppose him. ben wikler would not give vladimir putin his fear. this weekend, vladimir putin through another one of his fraudulent elections, has established himself as the longest reigning dictator of russia since the mass murderer joseph stalin. flattery putin desperately wants donald trump to in the electoral college because if donald trump does win the electoral college, then vladimir putin believes he will finally be able to have the bloodbath in ukraine that he has been dreaming about. vladimir putin will do everything he can, once again, through disinformation and possible espionage and all the other activities that were commented in the molar investigation of the 2016 election to try to win the electoral college for donald trump once again. if that happens, donald trump will b

but so is donald trump. i mean, we have to reframe the argument when we're talking about joe biden, nobody is cured, nobody's carrying about whether or not he can complete speech on thursday, i heard that being said, but my friend jeff, the question is, what is he going to say? >> i do. >> we have to push pause because we're hitting >> the bottom half of the hour here and i do want to reset. i'm breaking news before we continue this conversation. we continue our coverage now with breaking news >> cnn breaking news >> this just in to cnn, nikki haley expected to exit the presidential race later on this morning. she lost a sweeping loss to donald trump in the super tuesday primaries yesterday. she plans to address supporters in south carolina at 10:00 a.m. we did not hear from nikki haley last night she was in private behind closed doors as these results were rolling in. so this is going to be the first that we've heard from i'm her about what she plans to do next. let me bring my panel back in and we were kin

for donald trump actually?s trial going to last monday through thursday, potentially up to six weeks. donald trump did not have to appear in the courtroom over the course of the last week at all, yet he held no political events. of course, he has the month of april, you know, at least the next three weeks that are open, but there are no political actual campaign rallies or events on the docket. donald trump is campaign cash crunched, as well. not just a personal financial crunch but also a campaign one. donald trump, in terms of the amount of campaign cash that is currently in the bank, joe biden has double what he has. they have struggled to effectively raise funds. those rallies he puts on, those are expensive events here. he's going to need to put in some time for hosting fundraisers. he has, by and large, focused on having fundraisers at mar-a-lago. typically, like we've seen with joe biden the course of the last week -- and in texas, for example, he had three separate private fundraisers. typically, you se

donald trump. there are many americans like myself who believe he is fundamentally unfit and the most dangerous president in my lifetime. yet he is. if you were, if the election were today, he would beat him. that shows the democrats have a problem. i hear this sort of defiant tone from biden of i alone can beat him. a, it sounds trumpian, but it also, he's not, he's not listening to what voters are saying, which is they want virtually any other option. and he's not also trying to to reach republicans who could be swayed to come to aside. i mean, waiting to put off to deal with the border until three years, then that's a major failure or our coalition is harder to hold together the trump coalition is more demographically and geographically concentrated. we've got, we've got to hold together coalition that's eric goes from the never trumpers. did folks who might have marched with antifa, that's a hard collision. >> you agree with me that's what i've done to say. i think that's how broad our coalitio

can she beat donald trump? can she beat donald trump? the map tells you so far most unlikely. >> all right, john, we are just moments away from the first major poll closings on this super tuesday. we're voting ends when voting ends in verse, virginia and vermont and just seven seconds with a combined 65 republican delegates on the line. key race alert it is right now in the states of virginia and vermont too early to call and the republican presidential nomination. cnn, does not have enough information right now to call the virginia republican primary or the vermont republican primary in both of them, it is too early to call. we can make this early projection based on exit polls that cnn and other news organizations conducted with voters in the virginia republican primary. in the second work by first, we're going to talk about the virginia democratic primary winner is joe biden. cnn can project that joe biden will win the democratic primary in virginia. now let's talk about those exit polls because we are now given the information. now t

this is who donald trump is. anybody that thinks they are going to be able to manage donald trump in this process, to say or do anything other than who he is. he is an airplane pilot that doesn't change his flight path no matter if there is a storm or if it is clear skies or there is a blizzard headed his way. he does what he is going to do regardless of what anybody else will tell him the outcome is. >> yes, and the election in 2016, it has been a lose is on for republicans ever since. donald trump on social media said that one of his first acts in office will be the releasing of the january 6 defendants. here's another. he had the chance to pardon all of these people when he was president and he chose not to. how does it serve him now? >> to echo nobody else's point, i don't know if he is operating i think he is guttural and doing what he is doing in front of his eyes and republicans put out the report on january 6th and the congressional inquiry into it and i am guessing trump saw that and was inclined to send

that player is donald trump. we are coming together. >> i have been doing this for a long time, he is a man who wants to get on the ticket. really wants to be on the ticket. the overall point he makes is correct, the rnc and the party have fallen into the hands of donald trump and the question is, what will that entail? we got a hint this week. new hires, new lawyers focused on election related concerns and what they are calling election integrity which i put in quotes because in practice it means finding ways to limit voters access to the ballot box. one of those lawyers is a longtime election attorney who also served as cabinet secretary in the donald trump white house. he is hired as outside counsel. let's give you a sense of where he is coming from. in a tape of an october 2020 meeting where steve bannon laid out the donald trump plan to declare him winner on election night he described this lawyer as the right-hand man of rudy giuliani. the rnc hired the former personal attorney of donald trump who has been

maybe donald trump is the problem? >> said you still think she's eventually going to endorse him. >> wolf, we could sit here and we could watch video all day of horrible things that ted cruz said about donald trump ever horrible things that marco rubio said about donald trump of horrible things that lindsey graham said about donald trump and i could go on and on. we could literally sit here all day. so do i think it's still possible that she endorses donald trump? yes. i think nikki haley's going to do what's best for nikki haley and preserving her options. and the republican party. and in her political future, let me bring you shermichael singleton and get his reaction as well just yesterday. sure. michael trump was tearing into nikki haley calling her crazy and a very angry person. listen to this >> she's gone crazy. >> and i've >> never seen anything like that. she holds up a piece of paper which is false, tells a lot of false things. she is, she's gone haywire. she had as it lost too many elections, i guess and she

caller: where donald compass getting this money from, -- donald trump is getting this money from.is running for president, not running, but could win. the people who just gave him this money in theha hi ifix in this country and we need to pay attention to the people that we are putting in office. i hopehost: thank you. want to give more information thatnt to give more information, donald trump secures a $90 million bond for the definition case. he also had a notice of appeal in the case. it says former president donald trump has secured a 91 mil billion dollar bond for his defamation case brought by e. jean carroll the appeals body from the virginia-based federal insurance company totaling $91 million to the $83 million judgment and the case plus interest according to a court filing friday morning. a notice of appeal of the judgment to the united states court of appeals second court circuit. paying the judgment or pos a full amount was required for him to move ahead with the appeal. let us go back to your calls mary is in fort washington, maryland, on our democratic line. what is

this will not be a pull from donald trump. it will be a push from joe biden they believe to the degree that the nikki haley voters are gettable for donald trump. >> kelly, let's talk about that. president biden is already reaching out to haley voters, posting on x, you don't have to agree with me on everything to know maga extremism is a threat to our country. we need everyone on board. join our campaign. how does he find common ground? where are the biggest opportunities for the president? >> reporter: he is seizing the opportunity with the change on the republican side. expect to hear more of this. where they see overlap, they believe that some of the people who have supported nikki haley include suburban women in the republican party. how can they get at them? certainly, trying to talk about issues like reproductive freedom, concerns about the moral conduct of the former president and how the current president is trying to set a different tone and have a different approach to leadership, looking for ways there. more broadly

donald trump won.njoyed the race i'm going to reattach with my family and i'm worried about my husband over in africa. those are some of the intriguing things. >> ainsley: whether or not drops out. everyone was suspicious of this. i will at least stay until super tuesday and didn't schedule any other events after that. then they released a statement last night just saying we were watching with all of our staffers as the results were come in. we're watching from the charleston area. they call themselves happy warriors the staffers. they say the mood is jubilant. she has a house can i what you island charleston. wanted to be home. reflect everything line have to walk hire criticism of it donald trump. now she has to pick up that difference and the census say why donald trump is better for the country vs. joe biden. and it may take some time, some healing. but, again, this is the fastest that we're getting to the general election. >> brian: have an answer for you. in her statement after winning vermont, y

even with donald trump's endorsement in 2022. but in these kind of races and i think what you are alluded to, in a three-person race versus a two-person race, the candidate who ends up having donald trump's endorsement does matter. and now it becomes incumbent upon moreno to unite his party and you already end up seeing that dolan ended up congratulating him and saying he is going to do everything he can to help republicans to defeat sherrod brown in november. >> so, simone, nbc news exit polling in ohio shows nearly two-thirds of republican voters there say president biden did not legitimately win the 2020 election. how do we deal with that as we barrel toward another presidential election? >> look, we have to continue to just tell the truth and speak the facts and the facts are that joe biden did win that election in 2020. as did every house member and every senate candidate on the ballot. right? you can't say joe biden didn't legitimately win the election but all these other seats are valid and i think that is some of how folk

if donald trump wins, then justice loses. if donald trump wins, human decency loses. if donald trump wins, then all is lost. and as of tonight, most american voters know that. joe biden is going to win millions more votes than donald trump, but this is the country where you can come in second with the voters and still become president. still win. thanks to the perversion of democracy the founders called the electoral college. and as of tonight, not enough people in a handful of so- called battleground states who will decide this election understand the stakes of this election. not enough people in those few states yet understand what they will lose if donald trump wins. and so, we begin tonight with what is now the most important of those stories that we will be covering this year, because it will determine the outcome of the rest of those stories. we begin with the presidential election. last night's presidential primaries, joe biden was the first to win enough delegates to secure the democratic nomination for president. hours later, trump won enough delegates to sec

donald trump. ms haley said it was now up to the former president to earn the votes of those who had not supported him. the united states says it will continue to hold yemen's houthi movement to account after at least two people were killed in a missile attack on a liberian owned ship. the houthis, who have claimed responsibility, say the crew had rejected its warning messages. and a russian missile strike has hit the ukrainian city of odesa during a visit by the greek prime minister. russia has confirmed it carried out an attack on odesa, saying it targeted a maritime drone facility. good evening. nikki haley has announced she is suspending her presidential bid. this is cnn breaking news. nikki haley will announce today that she is exiting the presidential race. and we are beginning with some breaking news for you, nikki haley is suspending her presidential campaign today. breaking news this morning, i nikki haley will be delivering remarks in charleston, _ south carolina later this morning. it is

but not donald trump. likewise, the supreme court hit the pause button in the election interference case so they can take up the absurd argument that it president should be able to do whatever he wants, even assassinate a rival. justice for trump in that case is delayed indefinitely, the people who listened to his lives, have faced prison sentences. hundreds of them. but not donald trump. back in new york, a trial date was circled today, that was a big deal. and the trump strongly rejected their arguments to delay. we were supposed to be covering the start of that trial today, and we are not. so now trump is not the victim of a two tiered system of justice in this country. he's been a beneficiary. there's one system for the powerful, wealthy, and well- connected like donald trump, and an entirely different system for everyone else. joining me now is michael cohen who is a former attorney for donald trump and a key witness in the manhattan case. he's the host of the mea culpa and political beat down podcast

we know who donald trump is. donald trump's not going to change.s not like tomorrow he's going to wake up and say i love nato and i'm going to be a nice person now. we know who donald trump is. we've seen him for ten years now, longer for people who are in new york. and so i don't -- to me that was her leaving the door open for saying, oh, you know, donald trump's turned over a new leaf and he's earned it because he made this concession. i worry about that. that's what i heard, and i hope that the friends that ali's talking to say it's a righteous fight as well. it would be nice to have dean phillips and nikki haley and everybody messaging. >> and my crack political staff just told me in minnesota his home tate, dean phillips got 19,800 votes, third after joe biden and uncommitted. >> not a good performance. >> no. >> thank you so much. i love having you here. in 60 seconds, the race is now on for nikki haley's supporters, a donor for her campaign will join us live next. r for her cam join us live next. >> tech: cracked windshield? make it easy and

jean carroll was raped by donald trump according to the verdict rendered by donald trump in that civilling, they asked the judge in the e. jean carroll case, luis kaplan for, quote, an unsecured's of execution, and quote. knowing how unlikely that is, the lawyers went on to say, even if the court doesn't grant an unsecured stay, it shared the very least -- should grant a partially secured stay in an amount substantially reduced from the 91 point $63 million otherwise required. the amount of bond donald trump's lawyer suggested instead of 91 million was 24 million. joining us now is andrew weissmann, former fbi general counsel and former chief of the criminal division of the eastern district of new york and coauthor of the new book the trump indictments, the historic charging documents with commentary. andrew, i want to begin with the weisselberg guilty plea. that was the breaking news of the day. there were indications it might be coming, but here it is. >> listening to your description right now, you are sitting there thinking, wait a second, this person is running for president and i

the trump campaign understands that they can't stop donald trump from being donald trump and this iterationmp campaign led by susy wilds, who gave an interview to my colleague john allen, made the point that it's trump's campaign. if he wants to go out and say all of these things that we just aired it's his prerogative to do it. they would argue in a primary context it's worked for them. the biden campaign looks at it much like peter just described. if trump wants to go out and say these things to people who have no -- no longer follow him on twitter, don't see him on facebook, don't see him on the news every day and have very comfortably moved on with the idea donald trump is no longer part of their lives, the biden campaign is perfectly happy to remind people that donald trump could very much be part of their lives again on an everyday basis as president of the united states if they don't vote for joe biden. there's a lot of consternation when trump makes these remarks unfiltered, when he is sort of platformed, as they say, when we kind of put him on the ash to talk through all of these t

but, donald trump knows better, and donald trump has proved how rich he isn't to anyone who can think. the world's famous billionaires have no problem coming up with $500 million. just razors has that in his pocket. bill gates has given away more money than donald trump has ever had in his life. bill gates has given away billions of dollars. and the real billionaire politician, former mayor of new york michael bloomberg, who has also given away billions of dollars never brags about his wealth. he could easily cover a sudden bill of $500 million, at any time, from his current holdings of $106.2 billion. mike bloomberg started with nothing, grew up in suburban boston, moved to new york city, he had to work to make every single penny he has earned, he had to do it on his own. donald trump hates billionaires like mike bloomberg, who came to the big city where donald trump was born rich, and left donald trump far behind in the building of important businesses , and the accumulation of wealth that staggers donald trump's imagination. donald trump has never dared to even pretend that he is a

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trump or consider donald trump.the donald trump that you met her came onto the political scene in 2016 2016 and the donald trump of 2024 are wholly different people. in 2016 the kind of rent on this optimistic message of make america great again. what is the campaign message and out in 2024? all about retribution. it's all about himself. not about you and proving her everyday life and makingyo policy changes in that way. it's literally about him wanting to consolidate power in the government to weaponized that part to enact revenge on his political enemies. >> building off of that, he is a man that prioritizes or to rule over our of law. and we cannott let somebody like that near the nuclear codes. we cannot let somebody we cannot let somebody like that get reelected to the white house. i know that if one day hopefully unfortunate enough to have children of my own but i don't want to have to explain to my children that we all were bystanders as the greatest democracy in the history of the world is crumbling and we a

look, i will defeat donald trump fair and square. but i want him on that ballot. >> reporter: republican voters in 15 states, casting ballots tomorrow, with more than 800 delegates at stake. many in when or take all states where the former president is likely to claim key pictures. new polling shows him leading president biden in a head to head matchup within the margin of error. both men, unpopular. unlike 2020, polls show more americans now have an unfavorable view of mr. biden of mr. trump. while in colorado, which holds its primary tomorrow with former president trump on the ballot, both trump supporters and detractors shrugged off the supreme court's ruling today. >> trump, staying on the ballot, it is good because, you know, he has a tough hit. >> my biggest thing about president trump's i think he's a terrible example on how to treat people, but i don't like the idea of people -- of the government saying someone can't run. >> we have a lot to get to tonight. on the political front. you are in luck, we have a panel of experts h

the question is whether or not the question of donald -- how much responsibility donald trump bears for what happened on january 6th, and then the aftermath of the 2020 election will be resolved before we get to another election and that's not a situation that, you know, a lot of folks thought they would be in in the aftermath immediately after january 6th when there was a lot more, i think, temporarily political unity about the events of that day, and just the fact that they were bad for democracy. >> laura, you and i cover the supreme court together when they issue the opinions that often drop, you know, sometime in april and beyond. >> last week of june. >> the bigger the issue, the more we have to wait and the anticipation builds, and the supreme court has a lot on its plate this term. >> yeah. >> how significant is it that it's having to devote so much of its time and so many of its efforts to trump? >> it matters, and it certainly matters because these are ones that cannot wait. this one couldn't wait until the end of june. knowing that all these other states sort of had the cases

this is our future with donald.s why we must stand up behind and with joe biden right. now and make sure that he wins this election. , and that he has the push from us to ensure that he's the most pro-immigrant, pro-border security, pro solution president. that we've ever seen. part of the reason we have the problem that we do right now is administration, after administration has kicked this can down the road joe biden is trying to get a hold of the situation. we need to support him in doing. that and draw this contrast so clearly between him and donald trump. >> pretty, much for your whole life, the issue at this debate a different volumes has been going on in washington in the southern border and issues of the southern border for you, and others who have lived there is there something missing from the debate that you all when you're at the coffee shop, shaker heads about that they just don't get it? >> i think we've been missing from the debate that the folks actually live on an experienced border date and day out

if donald l hypothetical. if donald trump... crosstalk. if donald trump... crosstalk.nald trump on the front runner status, that she would be the one who would get donald trump's delegates. it would be an open game and i think you would see other stepup to the plate but let's be realistic. it's going to be a donald trumpjoe biden race, donald trump is going to walters convention, if nikki haley comes through with few hundred delegates on a convention for that, they might scream and yell and make a protest but more establishments, they are less likely to scream and yell. fiend likely to scream and yell. and so the question _ likely to scream and yell. and so the question becomes... crosstalk. we will come back to talk about what happens next in 'ust talk about what happens next in just a _ talk about what happens next in just a moment but we do have to check— just a moment but we do have to check and — just a moment but we do have to check and now with helena over out our— check and now with helena over out our special watching because she has information there — because

donald trump. i want to show you some polling though out there from the new york times poll on the general election. right now biden is trailing former president trump by 43 to 48. also you have conversations out there we've got mr. trump's winning 97% of those who say that they vote for him four years ago, you look at that -- 2020 vote. talk to us about the work that you see right now, and sort of moving the needle within that orbits of influence for the president, from 83 to higher 90s. and what does it say right now about where the country is, relative to the president, and why they look at him given the strength of the economy is handling of some pretty gnarly matters the way he has, and they're like well that's just not enough. >> let's be clear that super tuesday is going to be the starter pistol for the general election. we have not yet seen the contrast really put forward to the american people and it is a stark contrast. we are talking about a president who has stood up for the middle clas

of course, because racist donald trump is also coward donald trump. he would not dare say that directly to the attorney general. instead, he said it to his followers online. in another desperate request for their money. in his "unhinged" post. here it is. we printed it out. donald trump says, insane, radical, democrat, attorney general, leticia james, wants to seize my properties in new york. this includes the iconic trump tower exclamation point. there it is. right there. okay. couple of things about trump tower. there's nothing iconic about it. it is a plain and boring office use that looks like every other plain and boring office building. no, no, get those pictures down. that's not trump tower. do not put up those pictures. those are iconic buildings. don't put those up when we're talking about trump tower. trump tower looks like every other boring box that surrounds it in midtown manhattan. iconic buildings in new york. of course, include the empire state building. the chrysler building. there they are, whose profiles are known around the world.

donald trump is 70 years growing old.and that is exactly why he can't play three-dimensional chest or play checkers. he plays hopscotch and falls off the course because he's unsophisticated, self-absorb, and he doesn't see consequences when they are rushing at him because he thinks he could get around him. and i think one of the things we're seeing now in this litigation is this myth that donald trump has always been able to evade the long arm of the law. i think that has been the sort of mythic thing that people are wondering why he has nine legal things. and he has never had prosecutors, determined trying to expose him before. that could still run a ground drown in motion right now. but at least in this case, he has hold himself very well. and it is long overdue. >> tim o'brien, thank you very much for joining us about your expertise on trump's businesses. >>> up next, donald trump's lawyers filed a brief with the supreme court today, claiming a president cannot function without committing crimes. >>> and that it was ju

if donald trump wins, justice loses. if donald trump wins, human decency loses. if donald trump wins, then all is lost. as of tonight, most american voters know that. joe biden is going to win means more votes than donald trump. but, this is the country where you can come in second with the voters and still become president, still win. thanks to the perversion of democracy the founders called the electoral college. as of tonight, not enough people in a handful of so- called battleground states who will decide this election understand the stakes of this election. not enough people in those few states yet understand what they will lose if donald trump wins. so we begin tonight with what is now the most important of those stories that we will be covering this year because it will determine the outcome of the rest of those stories. we begin with the presidential election. last night presidential primaries, joe biden was the first to win enough delegates to secure the democratic nomination for president. hours later, donald trump won enough delegates to secure the rep

so you're right, donald trump is donald trump. and i think we see the man in full, but the story here has been the absolute serial failure of responsible republican to stand up against him. and as brenden noted republican voters don't want to return to normalcy, they like it. >> i l do wonder, brenden, beina creature of congress what you thought of mitch mcconnell predicating his announcement saying it should come as no surprise. this is person who with stood withering personal attacks on him and his wife from donald trump. and the public humiliation of mitch mcconnell by donald trump was so embarrassing even for people who weren't republicans, and yet it should not be surprising in the words of mitch mcconnell he's endorsing donald trump. what did you's make of that? >> so when mitch mcconnell went to the senate floor last week and announced he's going to be stepping down, he had a great line. he said i have many faults but misunderstanding politics not one of them. i think that is absolutely trueo mitch mcconnell cares about one

while he didn't mention nikki haley, here's who donald jooe b mentioned, donald trump.ns, once we get closer to the fall there is a lot that could move and change >> are they going to want to debate >> are they going to want to debate >> yeah. >> oh, big question. >> we haven't seen donald trump do it. >> donald trump hasn't debated in the primary, that did not hurt him his poll numbers just kept going up with each primary debate. the biden team has effectively said we'll look at it. so there's a lot of tension there. my money's on the likely debate. but we'll have to wait and see how it plays out >> the other interesting piece donald trump had, listen, there's not many humongous audiences on live tv super bowl is one. state of the union is one. but he has this opportunity carried live by broadcast networks to make his case. >> we have to say nighty-night to kristin, but we're just tucking they may have to peel off voters. what struck you? >> here's what we know helps former president trump his voters are motivated they want to vote for him. they showed up to the polls.

i think that donald trump is gonna be donald trump there's gonna be no surprises from donald trump. he is going to push forward and he's going to we continues saying whatever the hell he wants to say if he thinks it's going to help them get elected. and the reality is, we've got to accept that. and then how do we deal with that in the media and just call it for what it is >> i think we're setting ourselves a trap as we sit here on this panel today, because we're talking about particularly donald trump voters. there are two things i want to say. one is about joe biden in the first is about donald trump. we're talking about donald trump voters is if economic anxiety is the real driving motivator. and i think we've realized that that is not the case. that economic nx is not really what is driving those voters. that doesn't is not the true motivation is a cultural anxiety. it's a fear of being replaced. i mean, tucker carlson has done replacement theory episodes and segments. that's a very real thing. i mean, when i was listening to the other panel talk and they were talking about the e

he ended up supporting donald trump. also, you never would have expected mike pence to be somebody to team up with donald trump. could be an unlikely pairing. i think what is most important to donald trump this time, unlike 2016 when he needed somebody to balance him out, now he needs a successor. who is the next person to lead this movement. more likely to be someone like maybe sarah huckabee, elise stefanik. tim scott is another clear choice. but i would not be surprised, anything and everything can and will happen when it comes to donald trump. so you never know. >> neil: yeah. builter rivals can join forces. great seeing you again, lee. eric levine, an early backer of nikki haley. he was there to the bitter end. he didn't say after one race i'm out of here. so your disappointed. >> clearly. >> neil: it's donald trump's republican party. will you support him? >> the starting port, does he want my support. if he convinces me that he's the right guy, then perhaps. >> neil: what does he have to do? >> the first thing he

in his administration, and no one has criticized the people whom donald trump hired more than donald attacked everyone of those best people who are now saying donald trump is unfit to be president, because they saw him up close when he was president. one measure of how good you are at hiring is how many of the people you hire go to prison. the correct answer is supposed to be zero. but in donald trump's business, his longtime chief financial officer has already served time and is now accused of other crimes. michael cohen has served time in peter navarro is the first trump administration official to go to prison with steve bannon on track to be the second once his appeal is exhausted, for the same crime peter navarro committee, defying a subpoena. in georgia, trumps last white house chief of staff, mark meadows and jeffrey clark could be on their way to prison at the end of that case, as could donald trump's legal team including rudolph giuliani who illegally try to overturn the presidential election. joining us now is andrew weissmann, former fbi general counsel. he is the co-author

the government documents in donald trump's possession belonged to donald trump. they argue the presidential record's act allows the president to designate as personal. some documents in donald trump designated all of them. according to his lawyers. judge cannon said i'm not seeing how any of that leads to a dismissal of the indictment. we have andrew weissman, former chief of the criminal division. and bradley moss is with us. national security attorney who represents people working in the intelligence community. and andrew, let me just go to your reading, the encouragement with which they bring up this issue again. >> this was the worst possible outcome for the government. because if the judge had simply said. the government could have appealed it. that is something that this judge is trying to avoid at all costs. but, she also did not want to rule in favor of the government. so what she did is why don't you bring this up it here. she flagged that and there will be a lot of complications if she deals with this after a jury is sworn in this case. because that is

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i think that donald trump is gonna be donald trump. there's gonna be no surprises from donald trump. he is going to push forward and heal he's going to continue saying whatever the hell he wants to say. if he thinks it's going to help them get elected. and the reality is, we've got to accept that. and then how do we deal with that in the media and just call it for what it is i think we're setting ourselves a trap as we sit here on this panel today, because we're talking about particularly donald trump voters. there are two things i want to say. one is about joe biden in the first is about donald trump. we're talking about donald trump voters is if economic anxiety is the real driving motivator i think we've realized that that is not the case. that economic nx is not really what is driving those voters. that doesn't is not the true motivation. it's a cultural anxiety. it's a fear of being replaced. i mean, tucker carlson has done replacement theory episodes and segments. that's a very real thing. i mean, when i was listening to the othe

donald trump believes the job of president is to take care of donald trump.esident is to fight for you, the american people, that is what i am doing. >> the campaign has also announced a month of action where president biden and vice resident harris will visit every battleground state by the end of march to kick off. president biden made his fourth visit to pennsylvania. a state he won in 2020 by 80,555 votes. while in pennsylvania, president biden, reiterated his call for congress to pass pennsylvania senator bob casey's legislation, that will penalize corporations for selling smaller amounts of their products, while not lowering the price. >> too many corporations raise their prices, charging you more and more for less and less. that is why we are cracking down on corporations engaged in price gouging. it looks like companies wouldn't notice, they thought you would not notice. they give you the same size bag of potato chips, about 20% fewer potato chips. that is not a joke. some of you may have seen a tv thing on a snickers bar. same exact price, 20% less b

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jean carroll was raped by donald trump according to the verdict rendered by donald trump in that civiley asked the judge in the e. jean carroll case, luis kaplan for, quote, an unsecured's of execution, and quote. knowing how unlikely that is, the lawyers went on to say, even if the court doesn't grant an unsecured stay, it shared the very least -- should grant a partially secured stay in an amount substantially reduced from the 91 point $63 million otherwise required. the amount of bond donald trump's lawyer suggested instead of 91 million was 24 million. joining us now is andrew weissmann, former fbi general counsel and former chief of the criminal division of the eastern district of new york and coauthor of the new book the trump indictments, the historic charging documents with commentary. andrew, i want to begin with the weisselberg guilty plea. that was the breaking news of the day. there were indications it might be coming, but here it is. >> listening to your description right now, you are sitting there thinking, wait a second, this person is running for president and is actual

what does it say about donald trump?it's the first time a major american party in a democracy will nominate somebody who worked so hard to undermine democracy. ever since he lost in the 2020 election going all the way until this last week and when he claimed he won that election which is a lie that disenfranchises 81 million people. this isn't just a nomination of a person. it's a nomination of a set of ideas which we've seen over eight years since donald trump has been on the scene that basically the rule of law democracy, facts are valid only when they work for donald trump. there were hints of that of course in 2016 for the party has now decided that's what we are signing up for which means the voters have this choice. not just which canada can handle the surprises of the job, the issues but which of them believn facts, that law should be follot democracy and free and fair elections are important. those are three things a president has to believe in to get anything done. >> norah: we saw tonight the exit polls or peop

donald, you are sniveling coward.alone. >> i'm proud to endorse donald trump for president. i support him enthusiastically. >> i want to be a good ally for the president of the united states, and redeliver him to the white house. >> i disagree with the president's rhetoric numerous times when it comes to how he addresses women. >> i'm proud to be the first member of congress to endorse president trump for re- election. the first. >> trump and i have had a hell of a journey. all i can say is, count me out. enough is enough. >> i've come to like president trump, and i'm going to help him become president of the united states. >> the president bears responsibility for wednesday's attack on congress by mob rioters. he should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding. >> can he count on your support? >> yes. >> that's an endorsement. >> i will support president trump. >> i believe we need to hold the president accountable. i hold them accountable for the events that transpired, for the attack on the

that is donald trump's message. that is donald trump's message. and i will say fox news talks about how america sucks or newsmax talks about how america sucks. they are liars. they are liars. they will find a trans athlete that competed in a race two years ago, run it all day, and forget to tell everybody that jobless rates are lower now than anytime -- >> or that donald trump has been indicted. >> -- anytime since the 1960s. or they won't talk about the surveys. they will say oh, my god, they let smsh read a poem on a ship which defied a war and then ignore one study after another after another that shows, let me say it again, the united states militarily, far from being woke and weak, more powerful relatively to the rest of the world's militaries than anytime since 1945. that is crazy thing. donald trump's campaign is based on so many lies. to me the most offensive is that we're a third world country, that our economy sucks, that our military sucks, that our democracy sucks. when in fact just the opposite is true. we are the greatest in the worl

>> well, obviously a big win for donald trump. he had to go in there at the last minute and do a rally for bernie moreno to push him over the finish line. it's not often that the trump- endorsed candidate needs to feel backup at the last minute. but it's a risky play. everybody in at least established in republican circles thought were perhaps the better positioned to win. this is a critical seat. republicans are banking everything on taking back the senate now. i think they are going to take west virginia. so you've got 50-50. every other seat on the map is basically a pickup opportunity. and ohio is a critical one to take. sherrod brown is obviously someone who has been able to buck the trend of the state in ohio, moving red. but you have bernie moreno who is basically trying to be a trump-like candidate. and there's a are have poor track record, of people trying to be trump-like who aren't donald trump, and succeeding in an election. >> just an hour ago, with lawrence o'donnell. watch this. >> bernie moreno always looks out for