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.