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Normally when we sit back at this moment in time, who everybody thinks the front-runner is, isnt the person who gets elected. the issues we elect the next president on, probably not the issues today. there will be other challenges for that time. >> house speaker kevin mccarthy not yet taking sides in the sharpening political lines being drawn in the race for the white house. over the weekend, former president trump issued a threat to his political enemies during at cpac vowing call out one poten...

His truth social account, when i presented him the opportunity over this weekend, asking him whether he would make ron desantis his number two -- at least according to polling and the cpac straw poll, there is only one major threat to donald trump as of right now, and thats ron desantis. folks here who ive talked to said they want to see a trump/desantis ticket. i threw the question to him. take a listen. >> would you consider asking ron desantis right now to be your vice presidential pick? >> i...

Residents writing "help us" in the snow. fire and brimstone at cpac. former president trump delivering a dark and at times bizarre speech before a sparse crowd at the annual conservative conference and vowing political vengeance against some of his enemies. >> i am your warrior. i am your justice. for those who have been wronged and betrayed, i am your retribution. >> he also appeared to have a message for his potentially biggest competitor, florida governor ron desantis. what trump managed to...

I am the retribution. >> these liberal states have gotten it wrong, and why? i think that it is going back to the woke mind virus that has infected the left. former illinois r representtive is joining us now. and you say that this is where the activists are, and is that base large enough to ensure us that donald trump is going to be in fact the nominee in 2024? >> erica, absolutely great to be you, either to nominate trust or someone like donald trump. look, what we saw at cpac this weekend is...

Speaker to john boehner and paul ryan, now an msnbc political analyst. interesting that desantis himself didnt attend cpac. hes not officially running, but the straw poll had him in second place behind trump. talk about the growing political tension between the two. >> this was very much of a trump show here. donald trump has spoken at cpac consistently ever since ascending the the presidency. he built up a conservative grassroots back here. person after person i talked to over the course of the...

The former president recently ripped the Murdoch media empire for turning its back on his election fraud claims. Meanwhile, members of Trump’s circle reportedly say that Fox News has put him under a “quiet ban.”

James O'Keefe, a self-described “guerilla journalist” who some have likened to the late Mike Wallace of "60 Minutes" fame, described his work exposing wrongdoing among powerful companies as part of a battle between “good and evil.”

About cpac. you used to go with trump to cpac. how surprising was it to see him winning that straw poll, giving the headliner speech, despite all of these investigations into his actions before, during, and after his presidency. did you think that he would be at this point right now? >> by the way, its like going to a bingo parlor, youre the only one there, and hey, i won bin go. hes the only one thats there! i mean, other than nikki haley, who else hads announced? cpac right now is not the cpac...

Trump’s speech, nearly two hours long, was devoted to a combination of obsessive self-praise and virulent and repeated attacks on socialism, Marxism and communism.

The Montana Republican was photographed outside the U.S. Capitol smiling alongside white supremacists Ryan Sanchez and Greyson Arnold.