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campaign, you can tell hes moving forward -- reconvenes the investigation, the alleged hush money paid to alleged -- according to new nbc news reporting, da alvin bragg has dismissed a second letter from house republicans put seeking information into the -- back against republicans, making it their mission to investigate investigators. >> republicans, because they cannot govern on the issues, continue to use fearmongering tactics, red herrings, and playing the consistent victim to a so...

diaz-balart, and there are many people out there, including george santos, and marjorie taylor greene who per your reporting last hour showed up for a couple minutes surrounded by a lot of press. >> reporter: i was on camera with you guys and her suv pulled up and she was literally incased in press as they followed her into the park. i couldnt make a guess of how many folks were there. she was in the park for maybe five or ten minutes or so and then exited the park after a lot of commo...

Indictments, at one poll does that change the contour and landscape going going into 2024? >> so that is a political question. hopefully district attorneys around the country focus on the legal facts of this. donald trump has spent his entire life on stress testing legal and political arenas that hes entered into. yes a history of new york city of -- showing how we can ineffective a lot of regulation -- real estate and politics could actually be no when he got to washington he proved it on a who...

Level to try to occupy something that clearly, if there was a reason for the prosecution, it should be done by the department of justice on the full -- political investigation and we again desperately want to keep the department of justice for meddling in presidential elections. >> this is far from the first time the gop has defended trump. it wont be the last. >> joining me now, national political -- washington post and renee brown, so she had editor for the boston globe. it is good to see you ...

How are they using this moment to sort of workshop possible political strategies and messages as they brace for the fact that they could be facing multiple indictments in other jurisdictions? >> well, the message is nothing new. the messages, well, if it can happen to trump, it can happen to you. although its not clear how compelling this is to the average voter, because i dont think the average voter is gonna be paying hush money to porn stars. the average voter is not busy being investigated f...

But what the republican party is simply doing is defending trump and his legal action that has not yet taken place. the only person who is actually sort of taking a shot at trump over this has been governor of florida ron desantis who has been criticizing alvin bragg and reminding everyone what bragg is focusing on. this is the hush money payment to silence something about their alleged relationships. so in doing the, it is a little bit of a break, but a lot of them are just trying to focus on e...

Its okay for you to go and attack and almost killed people who disagree with you politically. he as -- we heard that when he asked for the people who were in prison for january 6th insurrection, singing the national anthem. thats the republican -- the mamba republican party -- [inaudible] its really scary but trump -- [inaudible] he still has supporters that came from texas to go to the rally. he still has supporters who are going to protest if hes indicted. he still has all the things he needs ...

Could see a republican district attorney somewhere trying to make a similar case about the democratic presidents and candidate. the lack unsupported the, fact that it is not bipartisan, the fact that it is the idea that we are only sealing this through a political lens, this is pretty dark going forward. in terms of what the legal obstacles -- >> aussie, rene, thank you so much for your time and analysis. next, we predict -- that could determine whether abortion is illegal in the states. our col...

Arbitrary factor like politics, some discriminatory reason. but to prevail and that sort of claim, the defendant would have to show that similarly situated defendants were not charged with this crime. i dont think theres anybody on trump can point to to say, youre only charging this against me because of who i am. this is a common charge. with donald trump is really saying is that, i should get special treatment simply because im a former president. and of course, thats not the way the rule of l...

The maps here in wisconsin and in the state legislature, particularly in the state assembly, have been a source of political debate, going back to 2011 when they first went into effect. after the last census, new maps were drawn. with legal imaginations. especially ended up with the repeat of the district that was already in place. we were locked in republican majorities, republicans have been very stable majorities in both chambers of the state legislature. youve done years when democrats have ...