and we have the host of americast anthony zurcher to answer some viewer questions.re going to you. tat�*s a really interesting question. the judge is aileen cannon, who was a trump appointee, she's been involved in this. the trump legal defence team search to her, reviewing the documents that were taken at that search. she appointed a special master to look at all this and kept away from prosecutors so they could look what they found at mar—a—lago for a period of time until she was reversed by the 11th circuit court of appeals in a pretty firm ruling saying that she had misinterpreted the law but a lot of people look at the decision and some of the moves during that initial review and say she is sympathetic to donald trump, and donald trump is very lucky to get her as a judge overseeing this case, which has led some people for her to be recused. she owes herjob to donald trump. it will be interesting to see how it plays out i think donald trump was my teams have to be feeling very fortunate to have her as the one sitting in the chair as this case goes to trial. we h

and yet it only seems to be making him more popular with the republican party, as anthony zurcher, onemerica correspondents, explains. well, you know, the polls certainly seem to indicate that donald trump is a prohibitive favourite right now. if you look at them, he's at about 50% approval, support from republican voters in primaries. and that is a serious advantage. i think more than that, though, there's about 30% of republican voters who are going to live and die by donald trump. that's his base. and they're going to stick with him through thick and thin. even if some of those other voters peel off, 30% is enough to win a lot of primaries in a crowded field. and you talk about all the riders. well, the more people there are in the field, the more that vote is divided and the easier it will be for donald trump. but he's coming into this kind of like an incumbent, really. and that's partially because a lot of republican voters view him as the incumbent. they think that the election was stolen from him in 2020, without any kind of evidence supporting that. but that's what they believe

and yet it only seems to be making him more popular with the republican party, as anthony zurcher, oneorrespondents, explains. well, you know, the polls certainly seem to indicate that donald trump is a prohibitive favourite right now. if you look at them, he's at about 50% approval, support from republican voters in primaries. and that is a serious advantage. i think more than that, though, there's about 30% of republican voters who are going to live and die by donald trump. that's his base. and they're going to stick with him through thick and thin. even if some of those other voters peel off, 30% is enough to win a lot of primaries in a crowded field. and you talk about all the riders. well, the more people there are in the field, the more that vote is divided and the easier it will be for donald trump. but he's coming into this kind of like an incumbent, really. and that's partially because a lot of republican voters view him as the incumbent. they think that the election was stolen from him in 2020, without any kind of evidence supporting that. but that's what they believe. that's

going to allow them to wreck the presidential election of 202a. 0ur north america correspondent anthony zurcher was supposedly about whether the republicans of that state could draw the lines of the congressional districts in the congressional districts in the way that gave republicans an advantage. the north carolina supreme court said they could not interpret the state constitution but that didn�*t really matter because conservatives took over that state supreme court and wind and changed in any way. the supreme court, the us supreme court continued to look at us and consider the case because the republicans in north carolina had a defenseless idea of the independent state legislature theory and that is because state legislature have sweeping powers and cannot be changed by state supreme court and cannot be checked by the governor and federal courts and state constitution and people speculated particularly on the left of this could be taken by the trump supporters in 2020 dissidents state legislators could throughout election results and whatever they want or ignore state addicts to see how t

(biv anthony zurcher has some of these were labelled top secret.reaction from us republican nominee hopeful ron desantis. he said: "a desantis administration would bring accountability to the department ofjustice." meanwhile, the house speaker, kevin mccarthy, tweeted: "i, and every american who believes in the rule of law, stand with president trump against this grave injustice." earlier, i spoke to bob costa, the chief election and campaign correspondent at cbs news and, based on conversations with donald trump's inner circle, he shared the former president's reaction to the news. he did not necessarily believe it would happen. there was so—called happy talk in his inner circle from some of his lawyers, some of his advisers, that special counseljack smith would not move forward in such an aggressive way with seven such charges, and maybe it would be a wait—and—see moment as the special counsel investigated not only classified documents, but trump's conduct in and around the january 6 capitol attack. he's in a legal war but also a political war. h