joining us now, former aide to the george w bush white house and state departments, elise jordan. columnist and associate editor of "the washington post," jrue eugene robinson. you have a score to settle, you and lemire, softball? >> i was cheering on the team. my husband also played in the softball team. i think mike lupica might have been disappointed. >> this was the game last year that defines lupica's season, his year. >> he is the manager. >> yeah, it's a charity game. >> quite a coaching presence out there, third base. he's into it. >> last year, the writers squad, we had a remarkable, historic comeback victory. >> led by you. >> i may have played a significant role in that. >> yeah. >> this year, we fought, but our comeback bid fell just short. >> fair enough. >> yeah, but lupica is already working on next year's game. you should expect a phone call. we should use your bat. >> you'd be a good player. >> my phone is right here. give me a call. i can kick one deep. let's talk about some new
there is no room for him to do that with this particular case. so, a, you see the seriousness of it, right? recall victor earlier in the week he was supposed to have this press conference at bedminster that he scrapped as well. so it shows he is taking it very seriously. >> and if quisconvicted in new those state charges he would not be able to do away with either. if we can stay on the politics of this, he didn't make a speech, but they made $34 t-shirts that they are selling. we've seen after every indictment his polling goes up. does it go up more now? >> and that is what they are counting on. he's blurred the lines between how he fights his legal battles and how he wages his comeback bid. about an hour or so before he turned himself in, text messages that his campaign sent out saying that this is my last message to you before i'm arrested. it was a fundraising appeal. going back on x which we know is one his familiar cudgels in a
it's unprecedented a former president is trying to make a comeback bid. very popular with the base as shelby said. he's trying to give the sense that this is inevitable, his nomination. the primary is essentially over. it's time for him to pivot on joe biden. that's what he's saying, debates plural essentially. >> it's interesting. even though trump is not going to be at the debate, he's going to have a strong presence. he's having a bunch of surrogates showing up. marjorie tailor green, matt gaetz, kari lake. jason miller, steven chung will show up. even though trump himself is not going to be there, you can expect his team to be all over the air waves. >> some defenders maybe on the stage, too, if you look at some of the memos coming out as suggestion for candidates. >> that's a good point. >> the desantis strategy. cnn's reporting yesterday on
place, and now they realize they can't handle it. well, when you create this situation where you're willing to accept, people are going to come and people are going to send folks there. and so that is what has happened, and now they're overwhelmed. they're spending upwards of $4 billion of taxpayer money including $1 billion from new york state to handle this crises. the governor and the mayor have been an absolute disaster. they've failed to coordinate and communicate with local officials outside of the city. and it has created a calamity across the board. will: i want to is ask you about your seat. former democratic rep month dare jones is set to launch a comeback bid for congress, and he's looking to go up against a democratic primary opponent who would eventually end up the winner of which facing you. once brooklyn, now back to manchester. the campaign says i've never been washington's choice because i stand up to corruption, i
welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king in washington. thank you for sharing this important news day with us. target trump, the former president's legal team gets official notice he could face charges in the federal investigation over classified documents. this is an unprecedented legal and political moment as one piece of the special counsel investigation nears its end just as trump's 2024 comeback bid gears up. plus new cnn reporting on a critical building block of the case. a career government expert interviewed by prosecutors detailed exactly what trump knew and was told about the classification rules. and the political impact of trump being named a target, the former president rolls out a familiar playbook, where he's a victim and lies are plentiful. his 2024 rivals now must decide what to say. this as mike pence's cautious choice. >> if that is something that
hello and welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. a major dam destroyed in ukraine. there are mass evacuations and plenty of blame as russia and ukraine point fingers at the oh. trouble for trump as one lane of the special counsel investigation nears its end. jack smith attended a meeting with the legal team and a bizarre plot twist. cnn learned it led to a flood of suspicion from prosecutors. and chris christie makes his 2024 entrance. the former governor is also a trump friend turned trump critic who sees himself as the best republican hope of derailing the former the president's comeback bid. we begin with a major
now trump could have picked anywhere in the country for this event, he might've focused on iowa, where the first republican presidential caucus is going to be held. he could've stayed close to home, in florida, and ribbed ron desantis a little bit more. but instead trump chose texas, a state that really doesn't appear to have much strategic significance for his comeback bid. and he didn't choose houston or dallas or austin or any of the highly populated cities the texas has to offer. trump chose the 24th largest city in texas, skipping 23 more logical choices to land on waco. a city of just 140,000 people that is famous nationally for just one thing, a 1990 3:51 day standoff between federal law enforcement and a religious cult that left four federal agents dead and around 80 members of the colts 25 of them
constitution. i'm laughing because that is the cliche of elections, it is all going to come down to turnout but we are reading again in georgia it is all going to come down to turnout. talk to me about enthusiasm. where does it lie right now considering that this is a runoff. >> yes, and you're right, it is a cliche, but it is always the true cliche. but look, democrats are confident right now, because a number of developments have appeared to have broken away. they believe that control is no longer on the control to help warnock's case and trump's comeback bid energizes the democratic core of supporters and he is also raising a lot more money than herschel walker. we saw this in today's filings, $50 million over a few week span. so he has tens of millions of dollars left for the homestretch. add to that some of the recent gaffes from herschel walker and the some of all of that is cautious optimism for democrats that they will come across the
pointed out there is always speculation when it comes to donald trump, but very hard to say what exactly will be the reality, if and when he does or evenif reality, if and when he does or even if he does make an announcement of that sort. there has been speculation as well that one of the reasons why there have been these rumours are swirling about a possible comeback bid in 2024 is because he is looking to draw attention to this rally. you can see there the camera zooming into the stairway. in anticipation, i imagine, of seeing donald trump walk down the stairway. just to remind you, he is not on the ballot on tuesday, but he has weighed in on almost 200 races, backing republican candidates in the senate, the house and top state offices across the united states. ohio used to be a swing state, but it has been more conservative in recent years.
candidate. we understand his plane has landed and those steps are where we expect him at some point, to proceed down the stairway and make an address to supporters that have gathered there to see him. he's been a huge draw for republican supporters in the us mid—term elections. quite particularly noticeable, i have to say, on the campaign trail, holding something like four rallies in the last five days leading up to election day, including in iowa, florida and pennsylvania. he has also been hinting heavily that he will soon launch a 2024 comeback bid for the white house, with one or two reports suggesting he might declare very soon. we were just talking to our correspondence about that, and he rightly