the devastation that the tuition and the desperation of the people here also ahead, psychologist mary trump's analysis of her uncle's obsession with the strong man syndrome. >> it is really no laughing matter when at that point the leader of the free world is being described as a pre-pubescent child, then the horse race and an age-old dilemma why the obsession over biden's age, mrs. the point i wonder whether paying people are as aware of trump's authoritarian plans as they are of biden's age. >> also, this hour, troubled waters. the death of two chinese fishermen, spot confrontation off the coast of taiwan there is conflict. both sides would be devastating >> and from my archive civilians under siege in sarajevo dodging sniper fire to feel if their families, a father holds a half rotten apple for this year's risked his life welcome to the program, everyone. i'm christiane amanpour in london. the impact of the war in gaza is ratcheting up on israel, on the united states and on the people of gaza, them selves. more than 30,000 an hour dead, close to half of them children. the unthinkable tall

president, who is also a clinical psychologist, mary trump.rprised or true that your uncle showed such sympathy for people like orban, ilsi, or putin. one of the things that should concern everyone about donald is that he has never developed. further than the type of person he was in his youth. and this is not at all surprising, because he grew up in a family where everything was subordinated to authority, and thanks to the fact that my grandfather was an outright sociopath. donald became the favorite son and knew what he needed to do to remain in his grandfather's good standing, so he is very comfortable in this environment, and it is extremely important for him to benefit from communication with such powerful people as orban and putin, but also don't be on their side. recently the australian prime minister spoke about him and putin. i met with trump and putin. trump is in awe of putin. when you see trump with putin, as it was. several times, he looks like a twelve-year-old boy who came to school to meet...

the incident, according to mary trump, left donald trump visibly upset that his father had succumbedsh in an interview around the same time. he told playboy magazine in 1997 that seeing his father suffering from alzheimer's disease made him think out loud about the meaninglessness of life. today, as seventy-seven-year-old trump seeks to return to the white house, he is using dementia as a political weapon, claiming without medical evidence that eighty- one-year-old president biden has cognitive impairment. trump has publicly boasted that passed the montreal cognitive test with flying colors. a baseline test that screens for signs of early-onset dementia, but through a spokesman, his campaign declined to release his test results or say when he last took it. our man on capital hill live, dmitry melnikov, our staff correspondent in washington, dmitry, what kind of technological, political science game is this, that is, if one has dementia and the other, then it turns out, in any case... there will be a sick president , hello, colleagues , well, indeed, alzheimer’s is probably better tha

>> mary: trump continuing to try and challenge that case, mary alice, thank you. >>> and there is lated tonight concerning pope francis after leading a solemn good friday service at st. peter's basilica today. the pope is skipping the good friday procession at the colosseum in rome. the vatican says he's trying to preserve his health for easter sunday. >>> tonight, american journalist evan gershkovich marking one year in jail in russia, the kremlin accusing him of collecting state secrets for the u.s. the biden administration says "the wall street journal" reporter is being wrongfully detained. the newspaper paying tribute to gershkovich, leaving a blank space on its front page with the headline, "his story should be here." >>> and we learned today that actor louis gossett jr. has died. a trailblazing actor, the first black man to win the oscar for best supporting actor for his role in "an officer and a gentleman." including the ground breaking series "roots." here's abc's steve osunsami. >> the winner is louis gossett jr.! >> reporter: in an interview published earlier this year, the

>> and mary trump tweeting, "not only is stewart's "both sides are the same" rhetoric not funny, it's disaster for democracy." >> jon: it was one [bleep] show! it was 20 minutes! i did 20 minutes of one [bleep] joe! but i guess, as the famous saying goes, democracy dies in discussion. but look, i have sinned against you. i'm sorry! it was never my intention to say out loud what i saw with my eyes and then brain. i can do better. i can has good learning. i can has it. but i don't even know where to start with that. where do i go to study the particulars of unquestioning propaganda? i would need mentorship! >> we're in moscow tonight. we're here to interview the president of russia, vladimir putin. >> jon: saints be praised! for professor tucker aloysius mayflower kennebunkport backgammon carlson iii has arrived. professor! tell me, what is step one in delivering world-class fealty to power? >> here's why we're doing it. first, because it's our job. we're in journalism. >> jon: lie about what your job is. >> we're in journalism. our duty is to inform people. >> jon: lie about what your

mary? >> trump continuing to try to challenge that case, thank you. >>> there is late word concerning pope. after leading a solemn good friday service, the pope is skipping the good friday procession at the colosseum in rome in what is a typically demanding week. the vatican says he's trying to preserve his health for easter sunday. >>> tonight, journalist gershkovich marking a year behind bars in russia. the newspaper paying tribute to gershkovich, leaving a plank space on its front page with the headline, "his story should be here." >>> we learned today actor louis gossett jr. has died. a trailblazing actor, the first black man to win the oscar for best supporting act arer for his role in "an officer and a gentleman." including the ground-breaking series "roots." here's abc's steve osunsami. >> and the winner is louis gossett jr. >> reporter: in an interview published just earlier this year, the one and only louis gossett jr. explained that this moment, when he won the oscar for best supporting actor in 1983, gave him the ability to choose good parts in movies that wouldn't have necessar

let's welcome the former president's former niece, who is also a clinical psychologist, mary trump.e you ever been surprised or really? team, my hero, it's really creepy, if russia takes over ukraine, will it affect you in any way? i do not have any problems. no with russia at all, i have problems with ukraine, it is corrupt. i think it’s just funny when people think that putin is some kind of enemy, he’s doing nothing wrong and does, he just wants to return what was his. but he invaded ukraine, and thousands of people died because of him. i don't care, i don't care. as a veteran, are you concerned about russian aggression extending beyond ukraine? i don't think the problem is putin, i think the problem is zelensky. why? most american voters also believe that the economy under president donald trump has been much better than under joe biden. the results of the survey are published by cbs. nearly 2/3 of voters said the economy under trump was not bad. only 38% of respondents share the same opinion about the economy under... the current american president, while 59% of respondents sai

mary. in fact, there is no evidence that donald trump knows who mary was. know who stormy daniels is, he is now trying to get out of a criminal trial about his payoff scheme, claiming that the supreme court's consideration of donald trump's legal claim, that he and all presidents are immune from prosecution for any crimes they may commit during a presidency, it should delay the hush money trial until after the supreme court has decided that issue. turning our discussion now, former fbi, he is the cohost of the podcast, prosecuting donald trump. co-author of the new best- selling book, the trump indictments. the historic charging documents with commentary. with us also, joyce, or feser at the university of alabama's school of law. they're both msnbc legal analyst. andrew, the judge has given the prosecution until wednesday of this week to respond to donald trump's request to delay, to block the trial about the hush money payments. what are you anticipating as a result of this? >> a denial. there is no question that the judge is going to retract at this. the o

i don't think he's going anywhere because as mary trump has said many times that donald trump eats so many preservatives he's literally p here with us. so michigan and wisconsin should democrats be worried about polls. they're okay so right before christmas, i put out something on my blog the cycle on substack you can access it for free if you want to. it's also you can sign up and pay if you but but mostly just the information's important. i was like, i can't let people go through christmas. this they're all going to be unhappy. they're not going to be able to like have the holly jolly because all these polls. so i'm going to put out something to give people the amount of modicum of that i can offer you. and what that is is we have severe limitations with polling data due to lots of reasons and some of them you're probably aware of response rate and sampling and internet, the phone and all these other things. but the biggest problem that we have is that the electorate is flux right now. it's declining and realigning especially along education and you to at the end of the day when you

and president biden's invitation to donald trump tonight. mary bruce is there. she also has breaking news tonight involving donald trump, after the supreme court said it would take up trump's immunity appeal. tonight, special counsel jack smith and what he's now requested. >>> the horrific scene in gaza. what we're learning. more than 100 palestinians killed and 700 injured amid israeli gunfire, a stampede. as much-needed food was arriving. what the israeli military is now saying tonight. tom soufi burridge in the region. >>> here in the u.s. tonight, the horrific images coming in, the fires raging. and they've now turned deadly. the smokehouse creek fire now the largest in texas history. matt gutman is there. >>> the fiery moments on capitol hill. defense secretary lloyd austin grilled about why he kept his hospital visit from the president. martha raddatz reporting. >>> vladimir putin's stark warning tonight to the u.s. and nato allies about any western troops on the ground, and the risk putin says of nuclear war. james longman reporting. >>> back here at home,

bihar was trump's niece, mary trump also suggested this on x as well, about this possibility of when jared got 2 billion in investment fronts from the saudis. i mean, it's not wild absolutely. i mean, i mean, the idea that some foreign person or even some domestic person would want to, the cost of this nor to have leverage of the next president. i don't think is ridiculous, and i think the idea of foreign interference is justice serious as domestic interference. what happens if some billionaire also wants to have a favor once trump's nib office, here's the thing. look, >> there's a lot of wrongdoing on the part of donald trump here. but the fact that his attorney and his supporters are having to defend nonsense by joey bay har joy bay heart and his i'll just make the same you sit your i actually first heard from john dean, who was the nixon white house counsel. has you notice about criminality? and he's one who first raised this when i talked to him, >> i think the campaign knows full well that the consequences of that, there's no way i could see them actually doing that because it w

bruce for us in new york today, thank you, mary. >>> former president trump was also in new york today, but his georgia election interference case was again before a judge. trump's lawyers argue the case should be thrown out because the former president is being tried for political speech protected by the first amendment. prosecutors responded that trump's words and actions seeking to overturn the georgia election were part of a pattern of criminal conduct. no decision from the judge just yet. >>> when we come back, newly released video of the deadly school bus crash in texas. the school bus sideswiped by an oncoming concrete truck, knocking the bus onto its side. >>> and a frontier airlines flight evacuated before takeoff. a strong sew dodor forcing passs off the plane. i don't. cascade platinum plus has me doing dishes...differently. scrub, soak? nope. i just scrape, load... and i'm done. platinum plus is cascade's best clean ever. with double the dawn and double the scrubbers, it removes the toughest grease and food residue for an irresistible clean and shine. rewa

it should never be forgotten as we vote in november. >> no trump amnesia here. maryord, those were not the only things he said last night, calling letitia james a low life saying d.a. bragg was in his office to get trump and made fun of fani willis' name and relationship with nathan wade, but he tried to brush all of the cases off as, quote, local cases. right? ignoring the fact that all of these cases have national impact. these are not local cases. yes, the venue may be georgia, but he tried to undermine the national election. >> that's right. even the new york case involving the payments to stormy daniels, a type of election interference in the 2016 election, to keep the information that would have been damaging to him as a candidate, to keep that from the public, there's a national significance. he was a presidential candidate and didn't want the information to come out. as you indicated, the georgia case is a rico case about the effort, focused on the efforts in georgia, but the effort to overturn the vote of the people in georgia, which, of course, would have b

mary. it is unlikely donald trump's criminal defense lawyers and donald trump know the words. s who mary wise. he does know who stormy daniels is and is now trying to get out of a criminal trial about his payoff scheme claiming that the supreme court consideration on his legal claim that he and all presidents are immune from prosecution from any crimes they may commit should delay the hush money trial until after the supreme court decided that issue. he is the cohost of the podcast prosecuting donald trump and co- author of the new best-selling book, the trump indictments. historic charging documents with commentary. also with us, the former u.s. attorney and professor at the university of alabama school of law. they are both msnbc legal analyst. the judge has given the prosecution until wednesday of this week to respond to the request to delay or block the trial about those hush money payments. what are you anticipating as a result. >> there is no question the judge will request this -- reject this. it is worth noting that this motion is way out of time, meaning the schedule i

his criminal cases, ohio gop senate candidate bernie moreno is locked in a three-way primary mary and trump hopes to turn the tides in his favour. >> meanwhile, president biden is plenty to hit the road. this week to make appearances in key battleground states. he's doubling down on his message of this selections importance, saying, at last night's grid iron dinner, that freedom is under assault but trump has a dire warning of his own if he's not elected. here is cnn's alayna treene with a look at trump's ohio visit >> good morning, amara and danny donald trump came to ohio this weekend and really it was his first formal event that he held since securing enough delegates earlier in the week two effectively declared there him, the republican presidential nominee. but look, his visit to the state was not necessarily for his own campaign. both donald trump and his team think ohio is a state that they will likely win come november instead, this speech was all about boosting has endorsed primary candidate for senate in ohio, and that's business this man, bernie moreno. moreno is currently locked

and president biden's invitation to donald trump tonight. mary bruce is there.

it is not just whether they vote for trump. >> mary? >> yeah. i think it is huge and this week, i had jayapal on my show. i was shocked at how honest she was. she was like this reminds me of 2016. by the way, i'm behind joe biden 100%. i'm like how are you squaring this right now? and it is all because of turnout. >> and the whole time, the media and they ran like 57 pieces about how biden is old. the guy is pretty sharp. i have been in this white house, i have talked to people. i see what they're doing. i think he's pretty sharp. and they would be like no, molly, you are just a partisan. i was in a staff meeting like he really seemed sharp to me and everyone was like no, molly. so when he was sharp, i was like yeah, hello, he's sharp. so i think a lot of this, there was a narrative that the gop brilliantly got the mainstream media to run with. >> the enthusiasm factor, and this is why i do think there's two things. i mean he does have a gen z issue. and gen z was really the historic turnout in 2022 and a part of the success story. i will say th

trump's statements. i don't think his immunity defense at this late hour is going to save him. >>> another hail mary that donald trump is trying to do is he is trying to buy some more time in the mar-a-lago classified documents case. he wants 10 more days which is more time than the federal rules of criminal procedure allow. but to the gamesmanship that comes from trump legal in terms of his defense, they as in the trump legal team is saying you know judge trump needs more time because he is going to go to trial in new york on march 25th but in the same breath and out of the same mouth they are now saying we want to adjourn that case. how much coordination or paying attention is going on between the judge in new york and the judge in florida. ? counsel has filed opposition to that motion for more time in the classified documents case. >>> great question. the judges are not monitoring each other's dockets. but you can be sure that the prosecutors in both cases are watching all of those other cases. pretty extensive team working with the district attorney brag opposite of special counsel is a substantial t

some of these nikki haley supporters said they're not going to automatically vote for trump come november. bring in mary bruce. because you have new reporting that president biden within the biden campaign has said he with need to go much more aggressively after donald trump. biden supporters out there looking at those battleground numbers where trump leads in every one of those states have got to wonder what is this campaign doing? >> the campaign really sees this as a pivotal point as the kickoff for the general election, and we have seen the president really ramping up his attacks against donald trump, taunting him as a loser. the president trying and relishing to get under trump's skin. and the campaign feels that voters really haven't registered yet that this is likely to be a trump-biden rematch, so they want to use this match to outline what is at stake, really crystallize the key differences between these two and of course, david, the president will have a big chance to do that later this week during his state of the union address. >> david: we're back on the air a short time from now. rick klei

host: last call, mary out of tho say that trump put us a $.3 trillion debt.opl trump runs the rlican an wants,s it. so done that he wants to get done because johnson is too far up heiney■éso trump wants us to■a, everything. pensions, social security and everything because he wants to■g to save us, but he's not. to take down america and i wish american people would realize that and they wish that your reporter would report things about that. and it has nothing to do with the democrats not wanting to rk. host: got your point. ononald trdn speaker johnson dynamic. guest: i mhat the caller is saying, that is shidget sidet mocrathave definitely pointed out. they were still also significant spding under trump. speadynamic,ohpportive of trumpc between mcconnell and trump. would like a second trump term. sure what else to divulge their. host: a lot going on this week in track it all from super tuesday to state of the union to budget negotiations, the hill newspaper. appreciate the■b from columbia university's school of inwah ve today at 3:0. eastern on c-span, c-span

the president running behind trump on both. >> that was mary bruce reporting.ate of the union address tonight. his campaign is organizing watch parties around the country. you can watch the event live right here on abc. seven. covers starts at 6 p.m. >> san francisco mayor london breed will deliver her state of the city address at 11 this morning. that event will be live streamed. london breed is up for reelection in november. an ex-google engineer is facing a federal indictment this morning accused of stealing artificial intelligence secrets from the company. >> and it's a troubling accusation, given how given how delicate and dangerous this emerging technology can be. abc seven news south bay reporter lauren martinez has a closer look at this case and the risks it exposes. you know, one of the reasons we got interested in ai from the very beginning is that we always viewed our mission as a timeless mission, the race to dominate artificial intelligence between the u.s. and china is well underway. >> a former software engineer at google is being charged with st

marie. >> jarred hill in new york. thank you. >>> presidential candidate donald trump is facing backlash for incendiary claims that the democratic party hates israel and jewish democrats hate their religion. trump made his remarks during an online interview yesterday durdwith radio host sebastian gorka. response to a question about senate majority leader chuck schumer's call last week for a new election in israel? any jewish person that votes for democrats hates their religion, they hate everything about israel, and they should be ashamed of themselves because israel will be destroyed. >> schumer called trump's remarks hateful rants. the an i defamation league says, quiet, accusing jewish people of hating their religion because they might vote for a democratic party is patently false. >>> trump has failed to obtain a $454 million bond needed to cover the judgment against him while he appeals the ruling in his new york civil fraud case. his team calling it a practical impossibility after he was unable to reach an agreement with more than 30 underwriting companies. if he can't secure the bond in the next week, new york

awards, and host jimmy kimmel jabbed back at former president donald trump after he criticized him on a post on truth social. anne-marie thank you very much. sounds like a great show. >>> this week both president biden and former president donald trump could win enough delegates in primary contests to secure their party's nomination. the two 2024 frontrunners have already pivoted toward a general election rematch holding dueling rallies over the weekend in georgia. cbs news correspondent naomi ruchim is joining us now with the details on that. how did it look this weekend? >> reporter: good morning to you. here we are on the eve of another round of primary contests. it's clear the choices for american voters are pretty much set. now president biden and former president trump are working to win over voters in swing states with plans to spend big money to reach those who are still undecided. >> get out the vote -- >> reporter: stumping in georgia over the weekend, president biden and former president donald trump previewed their likely general election rematch, trading barbs while pushing voters to the primary polls tomo

absolutely, this was really the court throwing donald | really the court throwing donald trump a hail maryady registered the judgment in the assets. she had already registered thejudgment in the new assets. she had already registered the judgment in the new york suburb of westchester so she could have easily started the process to go after his trump national golf course there, seven springs estate there. she could've also gone after some of his iconic properties here in new york or his bank accounts, his possessions. what this court order means is she can no longer do that while his appeal plays out. instead, donald trump has been allowed to pay this much reduced amount — a bond for $175 million — and by all accounts, we do expect he will be able to get that bond, he had expressed to his legal team is concerned with securing a much larger bond of $464 million. but that bond will pause any collection efforts while his appeal plays out, donald trump in a statement that he greatly respected the appeals court for that decision. tbs. greatly respected the appeals court for that decision.— for t

ing a majority poll taken this month -- maris poll shows former president trump leading biden in northmocratic senator tim kaine who represents neighboring virginia insists he believes midterm voters or voters on the sidelines will see a stark difference in the candidates by election day. >> i believe the american voters will embrace pro-democracy rather than pro-authoritarian. and that's the stark difference between joe biden and donald trump. i'm confident in the american electorate. i think we're going to get it right in november. >> reporter: trump was in north carolina himself ahead of the state's primary which he dominated in. trump is also probably going to be heading back to the state fairly often because he's backing the lieu ten governor, mark robinson, in this closely-watched gubernatorial race. the vice president will also be making the trip down to raleigh. there's an event focused on health caring democrats trying to make that a key issue. there's a campaign fund raising event, so the idea is to also a raise some money while they're down in north carolina. stu. stuart: ma

trump podcast. good evening, mary and i find this a little hard to follow. to come up with, i don't know, draft jury questions or instructions about matters relating to donald trump's claim and i didn't know that happens and it doesn't happen a lot in law and order but make sense of that. >> judges do ask parties for proposed jury instructions and they don't do that many many months before trial that hasn't even been scheduled yet. they do that when we are on the eve of trial and often they do that in the middle of trial and they ask the parties given how the evidence has come out to proposed jury instructions. this isn't even about the proposed jury instructions. she has made this clear and it will be a later time for this. this is an exercise. she is putting the government's and mr. trump's attorneys to like hypothesize with me here. these two competing scenarios and neither one of which has any basis in law. but they make us wonder if she isn't trying to push decisions that she should be making, legal decisions that she should be making right now and push

and mary mccord forming acting assistant attorney general at the justice department. >> also the co-host of a wonderful podcast prosecuting donald trumpal analyst. welcome. >> so mary, kyle, it seems like the only accountability we're going to get for some of these other people who were in the trump world and allegedly orchestrated some of these election interference schemes is going to be through these professional disbarment procedures. what can we learn from these procedures and what are the kinds of findings that the judges are making here and what can they tell the american public about the events of january 6th and those who are alleged to have been responsible for them? >> well, you know, they don't have the fanfare of the criminal cases and the criminal trials we've been anticipating. but you know, in a way, these are the trials of what happened leading up to january 6th. the trial of donald trump's attempt to overturn the election. there's some -- there's some granular testimony happing in some of these cases where you are seeing people, you know, john eastman, for example, he spent over months of testimony putting his theori

mary. marino was endorsed by donald trump, and matt dolan is backed by the republican governor, by rob portmanblican senator. dolan had run in 2022, and that race, if you will recall, donald trump also endorsed a dolan opponent that year, and it was was j.d. vance, and now the significance of this ohio race and who emerges as the nominee is this, if the democrats are going to have any chance of hanging on to the u.s. senate this november, this is a must-win state. by itself it will not hold the majority, but they cannot afford to lose it. they are saying marino is the weakest one, so they have spent money trying to help mareno win that seat today. they are blue if they are currently held by democrats or red if they are held by republicans. these are the numbers. right now the republicans have a 51-49 edge in the u.s. senate. ohio, a blue state when it comes to the race, and it's a red state in presidential elections. trump carried ohio twice by eight points. so sherrod brown, to win the election in november, brown is going to need to get trump voters to vote for him in the senate race, to spli

this is not a turn of the light switch and they're suddenly going to donald trump. >> mary, let's comeyou. i understand that statement just came through from the biden campaign. >> the president commends nikki haley for having the courage to run and make the direct appeal to her supporters saying donald trump made it clear he doesn't want nikki haley's supporters. i want to be clear there is a place for them in my campaign. he says he knows they won't agree on everything, but on the fundamental issues of preserving american democracy, he believes they can find some common ground. >> mary, while i have you here, just to follow up on that. the biden campaign has been saying from the beginning this was going to be a rematch. polling suggests many americans did not want to see this rematch and recently, in recent days the polls have even shifted in trump's favor in a head to head matchup. how is the biden campaign addressing that and looking at that trend? >> they know this will be a very hard fought campaign. harder and probably tighter than they had hoped, had expected. but they view thi

trump has to post in the civil fraud trial. >> he has more time to come up with money. >> he has 10 days and i call this idea hail mary but sometimes they pay off. the courts have lowered the bond to $175 million from $450 million and trump has 10 more days to find the money. his lawyers were told they did not have the cash on hand to cover the full bond and could not find anyone to lend it to him. bonds are not punishment but a way to guarantee future payment and to be clear the court is not reducing the amount of money he has to pay as punishment, as a fine for business fraud in the state of new york but it is reducing the amount of money he is set aside for deposit, sort, as he appeals the case. if 10 days from now he starts to pay the fine or post a bond, and the state of new york is cleared to start seizing has properties. it won't be as dramatic as someone slapping a padlock on the trump tower, the state attorney can simply put a lien on the properties which would give her financial control. this is not his only problem this morning as he is also in a new york court where he was this morning, for a hearing in his first crimin

mary out of the buey are on. >> caller: i just want to say trump plus 8.3 trillion in trump.american people. heuns t■epublin and whatever he wants, johnson does it do so biden can't get anything done that he wants to get done because johnson is too far to want to work with the american people so he wants us to go into a recession which he said for america to lose everything, pensions, social security and everything because he wants to come in and act like he's going to save us, but he's not. he is going to try to take down america and i wish the american that your reporter would report things about that. it has nothing to do with of the democrats noto work. >> host: got your point. but the caller is saying that is something that at least on the budget side is something that democrats have definitely pointed out. there was spending and speaking it's quite different from things like the dynamic between mcconnell trump. republicans would like a second trump term. i'm not sure what else to divulge. >> a lot going on in washington. a good place to go to track it all from super tue

. >> and she is cohost of a wonderful podcast prosecuting donald trump and an msnbc legal analyst. welcome. >> so, maryy we are going to get for some of these other people who are in the trump world and allegedly orchestrated some of these election interference schemes is going to be through these professional disbarment procedures. what can we learn from these procedures, what are the findings judges are making here and what can they tell the american public about january 6th? >> they don't have the fanfare of the criminal cases but in a way, these are the trials of what happened leading up to january 6th, the trial of donald trump's attempt to overturn the election. there is some granular testimony happening in these cases where you are seeing people. john eastman for example. months of testimony putting his theory through the ringer. testing them. testing his claims of fraud. down to the very specific minutia of them and picking them apart. and the judge looked at them and said what you said here in pennsylvania was false. this piece of information you relied on in georgia, you should have known bet

trump. want to go back to mary bruce. good morning, mary. >> reporter: good morning, george. the president tonight has to sell skeptical voters on his accomplishments and show the american public that he is up for another four years on the job. i'm told the president is going to reflect on his record, tout those accomplishments and also hit on some of the issues that pose the biggest challenges to his campaign like the economy and immigration. it is still unclear whether he will go after donald trump directly by name. but what is clear is that the president is going to highlight and lay out their very different visions for the future of this country. meanwhile, donald trump now the presumptive republican nominee. also gearing up for a fight. he's already challenging the president to debate any time any where any place. the bottom line here, george, and guys. this is the biggest audience that the president is likely to have this year, his best chance to try and change perception ahead of the general election, as that fight kicks off. michael, the pressure's on. >> as you said,

mary bruce in for linsey davis. we begin with the race for the white house and former president trump's campaign now on the defensive, after his fiery rhetoric at a rally in dayton, ohio, on saturday night. trump warning while discussing the economy that there would be a, quote, bloodbath if he's not re-elected in november. this after the former president kicked off the event by paying tribute to those who attacked the u.s. capitol on january 6th. president biden's campaign swiftly denouncing those comments as threats of political violence. but even republicans like mike pence who says he will not endorse trump are defending his bloodbath comment, saying he was referring to imports hurting the automobile industry. maryalice parks leading us off tonight from washington. >> reporter: tonight, republicans forced to defend former president donald trump's controversial comment while discussing economic tariffs, that there would be a bloodbath if he lost the 2024 election. >> we're going to put a 100% tariff on every single car that comes across the line, and you're not gonna be able to sell those guys, if i get elected.

supreme court has, frankly, given trump exactly the hail mary he was hoping for. they are continued delays have created a real possibility the american people will not know definitively as a matter of law whether one of the presidential candidates on the ballot is criminally guilty of trying to overthrow a democracy. of course that is just one of four pending criminal trials of the ex president. the case in york about trump's hush money payments to silent silence adult film actress right before the 2016 election, says she had an affair with trump, is set to become the first to go to trial on march 25th. and today there were key hearings in both of these other two cases. the one in florida and the one in georgia. so in georgia, a fulton county judge her closing arguments in an effort to disqualify district attorney fani willis from the case about donald trump's attempts to steal the 2020 election in georgia. trump and some of his 18 codefendants claim, willis has a conflict of interest the should kick her off the case because of a romantic involvement with the lead

it's also worth noting here that hours before judge marie shan or issued this order, trump has not only attacking him, he was also going after his daughter i'm joined tonight by a pair of the source regulars, the tire california superior court judge law doris hazard, chordal, and also former federal prosecutor, jennifer rodgers, judge, let me just start with you. i just wonder if you were in judge marie sean's see here. would you have issued this gag order? >> oh absolutely. this judge did absolutely the right thing since 1976, the us supreme court has said gag orders are constitutional if they follow certain guidelines. so this judge, by the way, just issued this gag order to one person only, and that is the one person that the judge fields. and this is from the judge's words in the opinion presented an imminent risk of harm that is now paramount so this judge looked at what trump has done in the past and other cases and said, i'm not going to wait anymore. so this order is directed to him alone and it'll be very interesting thing to see what happens when and i don't, i'm not saying if

well, donald trump has a lot of legal issues, and we have two special guests to break this down. our legal experts, lisa marieweissman. first, i want to give an update on some serious money that donald trump is forking over. we've heard a lot about, will he do this? will he follow that? it's not up to him. he owes a lot of money in that defamation case with e. jean carroll. he filed an appeal today. we show you the rough breakdown with the interest of the fraud case, the fraud loss, the defamation case, and the bond cost for that. now he also needs a bond for his half a billion dollar judgment in that fraud case. trump's lawyers saying he might have to sell some of his properties to pay the penalty, which means he is not an elon musk level billionaire, if he's a billionaire at all. you would not see someone with 100 b having to sell anything to post bond. >> how close are you to securing the bond or what you need for that? >> i have a lot of money. i can do what i want to do. >> so, you're not worried. >> i don't worry about anything. no, i don't worry about the money. >> we are here with our guest, professor

trump has haley with 47. and president biden has secured 493 delegates. so let's talk more about super tuesday with corey cookl executive vice and provost at saint mary's collegeorey, it's always a pleasure to see you. a big a big day. as we mentioned, results pouring in from today's and former president trump, as i just mentioned, continue to rack up these wins, really sweeping the delegate count so far. but but corey, this is today. it's abouo november. >> and so one of the things is e voting patterns in the primary elections shaping up. meanúin te general election? it's pretty clear at this point these are spthe two presumptive nominees. neither two presidential candidates are going to get enough delegates tonight to declare victory. but it's getting awfully close. and so i expect in the next couple of weeks that we will see the spelection effectively wind down and then we'll focusúon the general election. okay. >> so trump racking up winsúin at least ten of the 15 states. vermont primary really too close to call. explain for us the fun one right i know, and but explae reasonc why why we're seeing vee does well in states that allow independents to vote. and

this was something to mary keith said yesterday or monday on politics monday, that is what the trump campaign is trying to put out there. he did not mention even intimate anything about his main republican opponents, nikki haley. there is a reason for that. one trump source tells me that is intentional. they are trying to leave room for nikki haley to get out of the race with respect. they do not want to be throwing punches at her. that is what the trump source says but i have a haley source saying wait a second, there are other reasons as well. as you are saying on the panel, the trump campaign realizes they need haley voters. they do not want to do anything to put bad blood in the water right now at this moment where they feel they are about to clinch the nomination. >> laura barone lopez also joins us. our white house correspondent. she's been following the results. what are you hearing from the biden harris campaign about the results today? are they saying anything in response to the warning signs we been talking about? >> the biden campaign told me they are watching the voters t

right now, a judge is weighing new pretrial motions by donald trump in the georgia election, subversion case, cns, sara marie has details on today's hearing and the very conspicuous absence us district attorney fani willis >> the criminal case against donald trump in georgia, this whole witch hunt should be put out of its misery and dismissed immediately. >> engine ahead today, trump attorney steve stayed out arguing the indictment against the former president should be tossed, claiming trump's efforts to overturn the 20 he 20 election, like his call to georgia secretary of state, brad raffensperger. >> i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 loads were protected under the first amendment statements, comments, speech, expressive conduct that deals with campaigning or >> elections has always been found to be at the zenith. of protected speech. >> take out the political >> speech, no criminal charges. >> prosecutors, a batting back at those arguments. >> what is not allowed to do is employ his speech and his expression and his statements as part of a criminal conspiracy to violate georgia's rico statu

insults to mock his wife and now trump thanking mcconnell for that endorsement and looking forward to working together. >> let's get right to white house correspondent mary, and the state of the union address, the president knows this, the white house knows this, the stakes could not be higher. >> reporter: they could not. you've already seen the president reaching out to supporters and this is a pivotal moment for president biden and this white house and his campaign know it, trailing in the polls to donald trump and facing those persistent concerns and questions about his age, the president tomorrow night has to sell skeptical voters on his accomplishments and show the american public that he is still up for another four years on the job. now, i am told he will reflect on his record and hit on some of the biggest challenges that are being posed to his campaign, issues like am gracian aimmigra economy and no word yet on when he will call out donald trump by name and this one of the biggest audience all year and the best chance to change perceptions before the general election. david, no question the pressure is on. >> mary bruce at white house. thank yo

and we're also just getting word on the republican side thatúdonald trump has, in fact, now won the prize. marythese late developments with our political analyst david mcewen, spa political science professor there atúsonoma state. okay. i want to begin with with with trump and battle. two, really facing off in republican races all the way from california to maine. i just told you what happened in virginia. if today delivers a significant blow to haley's campaign, what do you think is her next step? >> to south carolina to kind of mull what comes next. usually that's a barometer of at least thinking about dropping out of the race. there will be a tremendous amount of pressure on her. if she doesn't win a state,úif sher 20 points in every state that's contested, both of those things spwould lead up to a big push to get her out of the race. she said she won't leave, but we can't take what she said. for example, over the might be at by tomorrow. againl there'll be a lot of pressure. one of the big whether nikki haley stays in or stay or gets out, there will be some speculation about her as a third