that's just one of the political headlines we want to discuss with cnn senior political analyst, ron brownstein. he's also senior editor at the atlantic. so ron trump's truth social platform, got the go ahead to go public, but even if that happens, it would still be months before he could see any money for it. definitely not days. and it has also been suggested, but i see no evidence has actually happened that he might seek funding from a foreign source like china or russia. what do you think of those concerns? >> yeah, we honestly don't know where that where he's looking for the money or if in fact he is listening foreign governments, but there are, there are a lot of indications already of entanglements of his finances with foreign countries and foreign interests. i mean, his family, jared kushner multi-billion-dollar investment from the saudis, trump benefits thing from the saudi investment in the creation of a competitor to the pga. the report that showed foreign government spending about $8 in trump properties, particularly his hotels and particularly the government of china while he was p

ron brownstein it's great to see both of you. ron, i want to start with you and zoom out big picture for just a moment and ask you, do any of these rulings today and anything that's happening today actually change things politically for donald trump. >> yeah, i think jessica, there is something of a disconnect between what is likely to move the last voters who will decide this election and the focus on all of the legal troubles. it's understandable former president facing unprecedented legal challenges, but short of a trial i'll on the january 6 riot and the efforts to overturn the election after 2020. i'm not sure any of these other legal proceedings are really going to move the needle that much. i mean, a conviction in the new york case obviously would not be beneficial to trump. >> but when you think about who are the the biggest bulk of voters that are movable here i think in the next seven months are, might black and hispanic voters without a college education, primarily men, many of them are living paycheck to paycheck. and

with cnn economics and political commentator catherine rampell and cnn senior political analyst, ron brownstein. all right, catherine? yes. 25 consecutive months with the jobless rate below 4%, its longest stretch in more than 50 years, yes, wages are outpacing inflation. president's would kill for those numbers, right? so how do you explain the disconnect on the ground as we see some of the purchasing power of individuals being pretty challenging. >> it has been a puzzle for a really long time about why the us looks so good on paper. and yet consumers have been relatively grouchy about it for awhile. i mean, it's consumer sentiment has been as low recently as it was in the deepest, darkest steps of the great recession right? when we were coming out of the financial crisis and unemployment was around 9% i will say that in recent months, consumer sentiment, consumer confidence, other views of economic optimism those have been improving. there's still not great, but consumers are getting a little bit rosier in their outlook. look, even if it is not actually in objectively a rosy outlook. outlook,

thank you uh, joining us now to discuss cnn, senior political analyst ron brownstein. so ron, i wanted to talk about the economy get there in a second, but let's just pick up where priscilla left off there, right. so you see the president really pushing this message of protecting democracy, which is important, and it's priscilla said she spoke with voters before and after they get that easily winning message though, in 2024 if he's going to win, i think rights and democracy are, is going to be the message that gets him over the top. i mean, he is trailing substantially as we'll talk about in a minute on questions of who can better handle the economy and probably the best he can do is narrow that gap. i suspect that on election day, more people are going to go into the voting booth believing that donald trump is better for managing the economy than joe biden really, no matter what happens over the next eight months. and if biden is going to win, it's going to because it's going to be because some of those voters think trump is better on the economy, still so won't vote f

so let's bring in ron brownstein, cnn senior political analyst and senior editor at the atlantic. always good to have you with us hi rosemary so both president joe biden and donald trump kicked their general election campaigns into high gear with those dueling political rallies saturday and the critical swing state of georgia, what are the polls show about which man? is dominating and what their weaknesses and vulnerabilities might be in swing states >> yeah, well right now, the weaknesses of both candidates are more apparent and even visceral than their strengths. and we were talking about too likely virtually certain nominees at virtually certain rematch in which 55% to 60% of the country says they have an unfavorable opinion of each of them. i mean, the basic construct is that you have broad dissatisfaction with the direction of the country, somewhat improving consumer competence. but jenin thoroughly, joe biden's approval rating is still at a level where previous incumbent presidents have all been defeated. george hw bush, jimmy carter, trump himself on the other side of the l

to talk about this is senior cnn senior political analyst and senior editor for the atlantic, ron brownstein. ron, hey, abby, because you were so senior, i am going to i'm going to go straight to your great analysis. you have a headline in a piece tonight that says, can biden begin a reset tonight? do you think he did that? >> i don't think he did as much resetting as many people in the party might have liked. >> i think what he did was show that he had a lot of vigor and energy to deliver a case against trump, but i think it is pretty much the case that he has been delivering. >> and i you know, i mean, three big elements. trump's a threat to democracy. trump's a threat to your rights, particularly on abortion and i'm on your side. and he's on the side of the rich and powerful, i you know, he did not do some things that he might have done tonight, like talk more directly, as you were noting to the governor, to americans who feel squeezed in the economy, despite all the good news that he legitimately highlighted, you know, the basic necessities of life do cost more on groceries and rent and

. >> our senior political analyst, ron brownstein is joining us right now. ron, what are the campaigns need to do as they pivot to this general election >> yeah. what can we take one second and just reflect on the magnitude of this moment. both of them likely to become the nominees officially tonight cross the threshold of delegates first time since 1956 we got our rematch four years later. that was stephens in an eisenhower first time since 1912 with teddy roosevelt, we've had a former president on the ballot again. and the first time since 18 92, we've had a rematch between a sitting president and the man who ousted out of the white house four years later. so certainly an historic standoff. and then when you add to that the magnitude of the gulf between them on all the big issues that we're facing. tax and spending. immigration. beck writes abortion, democracy with trump promising just the other day that one of his first actions would be to pardon the january 6 many of the january 6 rioters. if you've got trump basically making a simple hey, things were bet

cnn senior political analyst and atlantic senior editor, ron brownstein is joining us right now. ron, you just wrote an excellent article for cnn.com as we watch voters head to the polls today, how do you see trump's grip? fundamentally? the changing the gop. >> yellow. >> i >> need the primary so far have sent us a important dual message about the state of the republican coalition. as you say, the clearest message is that this is donald trump's party. his coalition is the largest faction in the gop. and if you look at the way of life acted officials are behaving especially the younger ones elected since trump's emergence. it's likely that he is going to be the dominant figure in this party for a while. for example, virtually all of the republican senators elected since 2018 voted against the aid to ukraine or rejection of the reagan era you about america's role in the world symbolized by mitch mcconnell, who is stepping aside. but having said that, what the primaries are also showing is that there is a meaningful slice of the gop coalition that remains resistant to this vision a

and let's go now to ron brownstein, the senior editor for the atlantic. alyssa farah griffin, former trump white house communications director, and the former democratic congressman, max rose so ron, this crucial question, because it really everything could matter and then you layer in those third parties, where do haley supporters go >> well, look, the republican primaries taught us two big things are made, two big things clear. one is that trump's coalition is the dominant faction in the party. he's going to win more more primaries and caucuses than any non-incumbent republican president ever. in fact, we probably should be thinking of him as a quasi-incumbent, but that haley's coalition, this kind of hold-out coalition is substantial. and not only is it significant in its size, it's significant in its consistency. i mean, demographically, it is the same people from state after state and it's the same people that we've seen pull away from the republican party in the entire donald trump era, white-collar suburban voters focus probably more on economics th

years joining us now a cnn senior political analyst and senior editor at the atlantic magazine, ron brownstein and former vermont governor, the 2004 democratic presidential candidate, howard dean to both of you. thanks so much for joining us on this important day ron, is this possibly the most important speech of president biden's presidency? >> i think the convention speech will be, but this is right up there, wolf. and i think the challenge for him and the task for him is very clear. you know, we saw in 2018, 2,020.22, there is a big audience for arguments against donald trump and biden is not going to have to reach far to find pressure points that are going to concern people about what a second trump presidency would mean. i think his bigger challenge is to convince people that a second biden term would mean improvements in their lives. i mean, you know, he is looking at an approval rating right now that is in the level of presidents who were defeated for reelection jimmy carter, george hw bush, donald trump himself. there are a lot of voters who will say they're disappointed in biden, but

ron brownstein and rob. what i want to talk about here is there's a discussion about what he said, what he meant, what probably matters most people is what he will do if he's elected president again and you've got a new article out in the the atlantic where you have this discussion. >> yeah, >> look, i mean donald trump across a broad range of issues is running on a much more militant agenda that he ran on 16 or 20. and when you look at the civil liberties and civil rights area, personal freedoms, they really are three broad buckets where he is pursuing potentially major changes in the way americans live their lives. one, he's talking openly about weaponizing federal law enforcement to go after his political enemies to, he's talking about nationalizing many of the rights rollbacks that have been underway in the red states to impose them on blue states as well, bans on transgender, gender, conforming care for minors for transgender kids. national abortion ban their republicans in the house who had proposed na

ron brownstein and defense attorney and former federal prosecutor shan wu. >> shan >> posting a violent image of a sitting president is, that legal answer is it depends. >> but what >> would normally happen if any regular person like me, are you posted that is we would get a visit probably from the secret service. the visit itself isn't bringing charges, not an arrest, but they need to do with threat assessment. and certainly the people who created the image and those displaying it are deserving of such a visit. now, the biden administration's response, i thought ron has picked this very political response. of course, they can't tell doj or law enforcement to do something because they want to up your hands off. but really doj should make an inquiry. they should make sure that these things as are being checked out. and frankly, they could talk to the former president's campaign and say, hey, this kind of thing is very dangerous, doesn't mean they're investigating him, are bringing charges but that's a proper thing for them to do to keep the peace. >> ron, why isn't the secret service pay

thanks to ron brownstein for your analysis. appreciate it as always >> he was vice >> president kamala harris is set to sit down with israeli war cabinet member benny gantz in the war in the hours ahead, the meeting coming amid an urgent us push for more humanitarian aid and a temporary ceasefire in gaza. >> the threat of hamas poses to the people of israel must be eliminated and given the element's scale of suffering in gaza, there must be an immediate ceasefire but so far, there's no sign of an imminent deal and israeli official tells cnn that israel is not sending a delegation to cairo for ceasefire talks after hamas failed to respond to two key demands and hamas source says the group has its own sticking points. >> joining me >> now is journalist elliot and golf kim live from london. good morning to elliott. so what do we know about why benny gantz is in dc, especially in light of the ongoing talks and ramped up pressure from the us for a ceasefire rosemary benny gantz, as you say, as a member of the israeli war cabinet. so

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>> ron brownstein, what kind of a political impact of trump's former vice president saying he can't endorse him. what kind of political impact do you think that could have on this 2024 campaign? >> i think the real issue is, does it open the door for others to follow, you know, as gloria said, pence positioned himself as someone upholding the reaganite flame against the trump populism and isolationism in the republican party. someone else who ran in that mode in that lane was nikki haley and there are obviously a number of national security officials from trump's first term, from john bolton to mark s for who have come out and said that they do not believe the fit to be president. again, does pence provide room for these kinds of people two, in a more coordinated way. make that case to the public. the reason why this is so significant politically, i think is that primarily because of inflation it is highly likely that joe biden will not match his 2020 numbers among working in class voters of all races, including black and hispanic voters. and that means to make up for it, he needs the cuyun

thanks to ron brownstein for your analysis.reciate it as always >> so we're in washington, a >> key member of israel's war cabinet is set to take part and high level talks amid growing calls from the us for a temporary ceasefire in gaza. benny gantz is expected to sit down with us the secretary of state, antony blinken on tuesday and vice president kamala harris, in the hours ahead. but even as these meetings are set to kick off, israel has decided to skip ceasefire talks in cairo and israeli official tells cnn that israel is not sending a delegation to egypt after hamas failed to respond to two key demands. and hamas sources, the group has its own sticking points. all this seeming to dash hopes of an imminent deal. still the us is ramping up its push to address the dire situation in gaza. >> the threat of hamas poses to the people of israel must be eliminated. and given the immense scale of suffering, in gaza there must be an immediate ceasefire >> joining me now is journalist elliot gotkine. he is in london. good to see you.

ron brownstein, thank you very much. good to see you tonight >> no shrinkflation out. our panel is back with us. let's talk about the other person who was in that room tonight, speaker mike johnson. and one thing that we noted earlier president biden has delivered three addresses to congress. this is the third house speaker who has been behind him because first she was nancy pelosi last year was kevin mccarthy. and tonight, there was speaker mike johnson over his left shoulder. you'll he was someone who urged his conference to tab to khorram earlier for in the room. you watched his face and his expressions. i think he only stood one time. what did you make of how the new speaker handled this? >> i mean, that's a difficult seat to be sitting in when all eyes the eyes of the world are on the president. and i think did a good job. i think i might've seen one or two times when it collapsed didn't realize oh, i should not be clapping and put his hands down. but i think he is a man of great character and integrity and really, i think it was wise of him to encourage his repub

joining me now as cnn senior political analyst and senior editor of the atlantic, ron brownstein, heart ron trump, again doubled down on his anti-immigrant language and vowed more mass deportations. let's take a listen to what he said. >> there's so many people being hurt so badly and being killed, they're sending their prisoners to see us. they're sending, or they're bringing a right to the border. and they're dropping them off and we're allowing them to come in and these are tougher than anybody we've gotten the country. these are hardened criminals and we've got hundreds of thousands of them. they are destroying our country. i'm telling you >> how do you expect that to play with the voters that trump is still according not the base, but the hearts and minds that he needs to win ahead of november yeah, well, it's a fascinating dynamic, i think because if you look at polling today, joe biden is running very >> close to his numbers in 2020 among white voters, his winning numbers among white voters, both in national polls and in the key swing states. the reason trump is ahead in most pol

arrows backwards, as well as cnn senior political analyst and cnn senior editor of the atlantic, ron brownstein and cnn political commentator, s. e. cupp guys. thank you so much and sea ron for sticking around for a few extra minutes. while we heard from the attorney general, they're a kari, i did wanna go back to you just very briefly because i asked care of this at the top of the show. >> the >> prospect that we could see padlocks on doors at trump buildings in manhattan? >> i think it's unlikely point. i think it's unlike i think we're not there yet. i do think the attorney general of new york is going to push things as far as she possibly can. so she might try to go in that direction, but i think the big question here is kara had reported earlier is what the appellate court will do and whether the appellate court will give the former president the opportunity to see his appeal through before he experiences what genuinely objectively would be the real harm of losing his actual properties. >> yeah. and asieh, no surprise, trump is trying to fund raise off of the situation. and this is his pla

. >> if he can't pay up ron brownstein is cnn's senior political analyst and the senior editor for the atlantic. he joins me now from los angeles to discuss this and much more. >> ron, what will >> happen if donald trump card or refuses to pay the bond? >> well, i think we have seen from the new york attorney general that she is going to be very aggressive about using all the legal options that are open to her and i would expect her to begin the process of seizing assets if he simply is unable or unwilling to post the bond, there's no indication she is going okay do anything to try to let him off the hook and we'll see how far the court's let her go in that direction. if it comes to that >> turning to congress, bipartisan efforts and shot a government shutdown was averted. i mean, it's absurd to think that the us kelvin congress can even get to this point. president biden, he said that the agreement was quote, a compromise and that neither side got everything at wanted. so i guess who are the winners >> and its >> 1.2 trillion dollar spending package? >> yeah, the winners is kind of th

and out now, ron brownstein are senior political analyst ron biden's really cashing in here $25 million. i did a lot of money, millions more than either trump or biden brought in in all of last month, where should bind be concentrating this >> well historically, briana, the feeling has been that cash advantage and a presidential race is probably less important than another races because voters have so much other information and they're making their decisions based on big verdicts on how things are going in the country. but this year you know, kind of test the limits of that, of that observation because biden certainly is exercising an enormous financial advantage over trump, whose diverting a lot of money toward his own legal the fence and is putting on a lot of ads in those key swing states without much pushback from republicans. so we'll see whether the historic argument that television advertising is not that critical in a presidential race still applies because certainly biden is racking up a significant advantage as evidenced by events like this tonight >> yeah. >> interesting when

seize trump assets and properties if he can't pay up >> earlier, >> cnn senior political analyst, ron brownstein touched on how foreign investment may factor into the republican presidential candidates financial dilemma we obviously don't know where where he's looking for the money or if in fact he is listening foreign governments, but there are, there are a lot of >> indications already of entanglements of his finances with foreign countries and foreign interests. i mean, his family, jared kushner and multi-billion-dollar investment from the saudis, trump benefiting from the saudi investment in the creation of a competitor to the pga. the report that showed foreign government spending about $8 million in trump properties, particularly his hotels and particularly the government of china while he was president, that when counterintelligence experts are looking for weak links, they are always looking at the people in the national security apparatus who are financially strained. and here we are looking at something we haven't seen before. a president, a potential president, who is facing this kind

time to get this done kevin liptak, cnn, washington now earlier, cnn senior political analyst ron brownstein weighed in on who he thought was the winner after the adoption of this 1.2 trillion dollar spending >> package here he is neither side is really going to win the when is not closing down. the government with striking about this is that house republicans, for decades had been operating under what they have turned the hester rule named after a former speaker in which they would only bring bill to the floor if it had support from not only a majority of the house, but a majority of their own members, they had to abandon, they had to abandon that. again to pass this as they have really on every major kind of housekeeping bill they have past to kind of keep the lights on to avoid debt defaults and so forth. a majority of republicans voted against this they needed democrats to pass it and it is just a measure of the chaos that has engulfed this very small house majority, house republican majority as its majority continues to dwindle with another republican, a young talented committee chair i

a cnn senior political analyst, ron brownstein and republican strategist matt gorman all right. ron, you tell us what are the political ramifications of this ruling is you see it >> well, i think the main implication is both at it pushes back the case in all likelihood. and it gives trump and his supporters and reason to view this as illegitimate i don't know if that extends beyond the trump days and that is always really been the question for me. i mean, all of these cases are looking less likely to render a verdict before november, but whether they go to trial is also really significant. trump's retrospective job approval has been rising in most polls now, he has a higher job approval. retrospectively, people looking back at his presidency, then he had an any actual point during the presidency, and i think one of the questions is whether any of these cases, particularly ones related to election interference, are underway by the election in a manner that like the january 6 committee reminds voters, particularly those who are pretty tuned out that last 10% of voters don't pay a l

post saying, quote, trump is regularly inciting political violence cnn senior political analyst ron brownstein says trump's move to post that video featuring that image of present biden tied up is yet another instance of the former president using dark and violent imagery in his campaign messaging. here is many institutions in american life are hesitant about fully grappling with something we have not faced in our political history, which was the >> leader of one of art, the undisputed leader of one of our two parties regularly routinely and seemingly as part of his strategy encouraging political violence when he says he's going to pardon the january 6 rioters and he calls an atrium and hostages. he is sending a very clear signal when he tweets what he has about, but various judges and law enforcement officials involved in his cases, he is sending a very clear signal. and as we know from january 6, it this does not all just disappear kate, into the air. there are people who will hear this in a very specific way. all of this is a reminder to voters that there is a lot that comes with donald tru

seize trump's assets and properties if he can't pay up early as cnn senior political analyst ron brownstein touched on how the republican presidential candidates financial dilemma may make him more susceptible to foreign interests any of our colleagues who are the national security alumim, who come on, the shows would tell you that when counterintelligence experts are looking for >> weak links, they are always looking at people in the national security apparatus who are financially strained. and here we are looking at something we haven't seen before. a president a potential president who is facing this kind of financial crush, even if it might be relieved down the road by this truth, social public offering turning to another of trump's legal cases, district attorney, fani willis is defending herself after she recently avoided being dismissed >> from prosecuting trump's election subversion allegations here in the state of georgia is cnn's rafael romo fulton county district attorney, fani willis spent her saturday at an easter egg hunt. the event was put together by wave on organization of l

i want to read part of a new story out today from our colleague, ron brownstein >> the >> headline is the unexpected dynamic that could decide that trump biden rematch. the more important question may be whether trump can sustain whatever level of support he now has among non-white voters, both national and battleground state public polls consistently show trump at this point, drawing more support from black and hispanic voters than any republican nomination. since at least 1960 >> and we've talked a lot about the realignment of the non educated white voters are working class white voters and college educated white voters. they flipped right in modern elections where those non-college educated working class white voters have gone to trump and now you're we're starting to see where he is chipping away at the working class black and brown voters. and that's where he's drawing voters away from president biden and also especially young black men and young latino, man, that is where he seen in, in, in that with those voters. and that's something that president biden clearly has to address

ron brownstein, david, he suggested that trump is likely to win more states in the primaries in any other nonincumbent in republican history while that may be true, it is that actually a sign of some enormous strength or is it just the circumstances that he finds himself in? >> yeah. i mean, i think it's the hard thing to compare donald trump to other non-incumbents reagan in 1980 mitt romney in 2012, george w bush in 2000. those were people seeking their first nominations as the republican nominee. and you know what else they weren't former president. so you have a former president united states, who is now let's path to be a third time in a row, republican nominee yes, we can say he's a non-incumbent, but he's unlike any other nonincumbent in our lifetime. i just don't think it's a apples-to-apples comparison. >> i just wanted to hear you say that i feel like we'll talk about this all the time. yeah. and that is the reality of he's run for president before he's been president before. but alencia, as this happened, the rnc wasted literally no time. they sent out an email saying he is the

>> discuss this end war with cnn senior political analyst and senior editor at the atlantic, ron brownstein. we also have with us democratic strategist and former senior adviser to bernie sanders, president central campaign. chuck russia, and cnn senior political commentator and former special advisor to president george w bush, scott jen script. >> oh man >> okay. pretty beat you >> chuck, what do you believe adding former president's obama and clinton to the mix? how will that move the needle if at all >> well, it moves the needle in people's pockets. you can start hearing all the chimes going up on the slot machines right now because all it means is it's going to be a lot of money. there's one thing that's the power of barack obama is still very popular. the base loves him. people always reminisce about the obama days he is just a fundraising juggernaut and the one big advantage democrats have over all the republicans, especially donald trump, is a advantage and no matter if you're a democrat or republican, you've been running campaigns for two days or for 20 years >> money is the mother

will feel it maybe by november, but definitely in another four years, like the one thing i heard ron brownstein has said over and over again, it really sticks out to me, is that nikki haley throughout the republican primary, has left breadcrumbs for bread crumbs for joe biden all in her trail where joe biden could pick up some more voters, some support white-collar suburban voters, moderates. do you agree? >> i would agree with that, but but i think to the point that asks you is just making i think there is some serious discontent with joe biden and his ability to penetrate that discontent. i haven't seen it yet. >> i mean, yeah, the numbers appear to be good on the economy. sure. people are employed but i have a job, but i'm not making enough cost of everyday goods have increased the prices of gas. it ebbs and flows. and so those are very real things that people may say. i'm not excited, i'm not enthusiastic. i may sit home or i may vote their party and i think the president has to figure out a way to recover. >> what do you break through on the fact versus feeling? >> were, you know, one thin