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earlier i spoke with abc's political director, rick klein, about the sharp divide among voters. obama aide david axelrod said this indictment will help cement trump's base, but it could also cement his ceiling. what do you make of that? is this really beneficial for trump politically at this point? yeah, i think the way to think about it is that it's possible that people rally behind him people that were there already, but it's hard to identify people that were on the fence about him or we're not on the trump train before that are now going to say indicted or more likely toump e support him because he was indicted? i think more likely than that is you have some people that might be so suorrs who are asking, is it worth it? is it worth it to go through this all over again? that said we've seen former president trump used, uh, legal scrutiny and ethics complaints. um anything that's done a short of actual removal from office when it came to impeachment. all that added to his political appeal, donald trump has defied expectations so many times in the past florida governor rhonda sa

abc news political director rick klein joins us from washington. rick, good morning to you.o great to have you with us as always. so former president trump says that he will run even if he's indicted. we know he has a strong base, but he's facing multiple investigations. how does that play into his chances in today's gop? >> reporter: yeah, janai, you're seeing two different republican parties emerge right now. there's the republican party of cpac, the activist base that in the past has had a lot to say about who the nominee will be, and they are very, very trumpy. we saw it all weekend here in the washington area with cpac. the other republican party is the donor class and a lot of elected officials and they are skeptical of trump and willing and eager to look elsewhere. governor ron desantis did not appear at cpac, but he has been in florida at a club for growth conference, a big outside group that plays a big role in republican politics. he'll be speaking later today at the reagan library, and we'll see the first glimpse of him in iowa later this week. a lot of people int

let's bring in our round table, chris christie, donna brazile, mary bruce, and rick klein.or christie, what is donald trump doing, telling the world he's about to be arrested and calling for protests? what's going on? >> the circus continues. i mean, look. he only profits and does well in chaos and turmoil, and so he wants to create the chaos and turmoil on his he doesn't want it on anybody else's terms. jon, you know this well, but in the en, being indicted never helps anybody. it's not a help. now i think this of the three investigations, i think this is the one where people know most, and so because they know the most, they're going to take it less seriously. i don't think there's many americans that donald trump don't believe he had a relationship with stormy daniels, and don't believe he paid her money at the end of the campaign to keep her quiet. i don't think the american people probably see this as a huge crime, but the vision of a former president of the united states being processed, fingerprinted, mug shotted -- >> mug shot. >> what else do you expect trump to sa

let's bring in our round table, political correspondent molly wall, rick klein, pbs news hour white houseespondent laura barron-lopez, and columnist charles lane. good morning toen making that announcement in pennsylvania. that budget basically has no chance of passing, so this really did seem like a preview of 2024. >> martha, this is the 2024 campaign framework in real view. president's budgets never pass, but the president and most of his party is happy to say, look. we can bring you lower prescription drug prices, lower insulin prices and free community college, no cuts to medicare and social security, and yes, higher taxes on the wealthy. they like what this says about the party. i've talked to white house allies who see this as an opportunity. the president will be out west later this week talking specifically about these issues saying, look. this is what we can do, and they particularly like the contrast. they like that they can present something. they know this puts republicans on their heels because these don't have those plans. >> it's baiting republicans for their own plan. >>

we will hear from ragu rajan and aaron klein, and we have coast-to-coast coverage and deirdre bosa with the fallout in silicon valley, and ricktelli is tracking the crazy moves for us and steve liesman has what the market thinks of the fed now. deirdre, let's start with you. >> a collective area, and i've been hearing from founders and will they be able to make bills this week and investors that have been scrambling all weekend to support portfolio companies over the longer term, though, the picture is less clear and it's likely to be more challenging for the tech community. start-ups are likely to face more difficult financing landscape. silicon valley bank occupied a very unique place here and in tech overall providing services, products and flexibility and even just accounts for early-stage companies could not or would not serve many investors acknowledge that the bank, yes, managed its risk terribly and they say its value to the tech ecosystem was unsurpassed. that backdrop could hit start-up valuations further and push some of the biggest fund managers to mark down their private books sooner than they would like to jeffr