hand will be scanned digitally, not the more familiar fingerprinting with actual ink. and donald trump will be joined in court by his attorneys, former federal prosecutor todd blanche and the solicitor general chris kise. they spent the last day or so interviewing local florida attorneys, but so far have not found any to join the former president s legal team. and as we wait for donald trump to make his way to the courthouse, we re keeping a close eye on the scene outside. we have not yet seen anywhere near the kind of huge crowds that miami police were bracing for. though that could change as we get closer to the arraignment. no sign of it yet. trump was asked on monday if he had a message for his supporters and here s what he said. just stay strong, stay very, very strong and we re going to bring it back and we re going to win in a landslide. i believe it will be one of the greatest wins ever, much bigger than the other way, because they ve done so poorly. we re going t
comments about the indictment. we haven t yet heard from him. job thune is there. we re going to go there once they start speaking about the indictment because again, we haven t heard from minority leader mcconnell about this. it will be interesting to see how he frames up this indictment and whether he takes the same tactic from mccarthy saying what about hillary clinton, et cetera, and not focus on what donald trump, the man, the former president, has been accused of. andrea? i want to take this opportunity to bring in joyce vance. i just noticed something the attorney general of new york staid in an interview in a podcast. she suggested somewhat surprisingly to me but perhaps not to you, you know the 11th circuit so well, that her case, the civil case involving donald trump and his finances and his
pawlenty, mitt romney, possibly job thune, and, some others get into the race and i think you will start to see more movement in the spring and possibly for some of these guys not until summer and possibly early fall. eric: you made a good point. in the past. only al gore and george mcgovern were the ones who announced first and did end up on top for november for the race. correct. and, don t forget, in 2007, mitt romney was in extremely early. and, and it didn t end up doing him much good. we had a front-runner, john mccain, who was then left for dead and all of a sudden was the front-runner again when it counted and everybody is trying to get the timing right, and, they are trying to position themselves correctly, and, trying to see what everybody else does. and, there is not an exact science, it is like an art form and if you are a known quantity, and, some of these people are, they are going to be able to raise the money they need to be, to be competitive in the