legal analyst formert federal prosecutor elliot williams, also former georgia lieutenant governor geoff duncand to have you both, gentlemen. and geoff, i want to ask you a question. we've seen this not just with kevin mccarthy but other republicans who try to toe the line to some degree on donald trump. and i wonder, do republican voters reward flip-flopping? do they buy it? are they impressed by it? or do they respect some straight talk? >> well, unfortunately, it feels like right now that's what they are gravitating towards, right? this is a short-term sugar high. and listening to kevin mccarthy yesterday, i mean, it sounded like a freudian slip. right? he spoke his mind, like he did shortly after january 6th. and then fell to peer pressure and turned back to supporting as loudly and publicly as he could donald trump. i think it's a mistake and it's really what's put us in this juxtapose right now. we've got donald trump leading the polls in the primary against what is quite honestly the least most popular president ever. 7 out of 10 americans don't want joe biden to be president again but y

joining us former obama special adviser van jones and geoff duncan, also cnn chief political analystat does governor christie believe his lane is. >> we always talk about these lanes and i asked his senior adviser and he said, chris' lane is going through trump. it is the only way someone can win. and as you saw today, what chris christie did was take him on fr frontally which quite frankly the other candidates are not yet doing in a way that chris christie is doing it and remember how he took on marco rubio in 2016 in that infamous debate and kind of destroyed him. he may have destroyed marco rubio but he also destroyed himself in the process and i think that's a little bit of the danger here. because he's not really popular with the republican electorate at this point, so he has to engrash yacht himself to republicans while taking on their favorite soldier. >> lieutenant governor duncan, do you think he has a lane? >> i certainly do. what i heard tonight was somebody who wants to win but not afraid to lose. i think that's a dangerous combination for somebody like donald trump to ha