congress racing now to defend the 2024 republican front runner. kevin mccarthy leading that pack. the republican house speaker tweeting, it is unconscionable for a president to the leading -- joe biden kept classified documents for decade. i and every american who believes in the rule of law stands with president trump. our great reporters are back at the table. i guess at the predictable in the polarized time that we live in, but speaker mccarthy is a constitutional officer of the united states, third in line to the presidency after the president and the vice president. he has not seen this indictment and yet he knows it's horrible. where are we? >> well, i think the tell was the line in that statement that you highlighted, calling him not just the former president, but the leading candidate for president in the republican party. and that is where they are hanging their hats and that is sort of the political frame through which they're looking at it and it certainly feeds into the idea that, sure, i mean, does donald trump want to be president again? of course. >> but it accepts trump's argument that joe biden did this. >> there's that. >> whether it was donald trump