6th criminals in an effort to stay in sync with voters. and the house speaker sounding positive as the outline of a debt deal emerges. it looks a lot like a traditional give-and-take. rumblings on the right do raise a question whether speaker mccarthy can make a deal and keep his job. and some new and critical reporting about the special counsel s classified documents investigation. among the revelations in the washington post today trump employees move boxes of papers one day before investigators arrive at mar-a-lago and that trump himself produced a dress rehearsal of moving sensitive materials out of sight. a first for up us, though, ron desantis gets pointed and personal criticizing donald trump on a wide array of issues while trying to sell himself at the same time to trump voters as better than the original. it is an understatement to call this new strategy risky, but the florida governor is all in, issuing a statement this morning with links to 11 different thursday
the conservative media ecosystem has built a giant wall of inoculation around everything trump. all our voters have known about trump is he s constantly under attack, so he s got these antibodies built-up. trump has already preprogrammed his base to not listen to those people. ron desantis is one of them or at least he wants them to believe he s one of them. can a trumpy take on trump, i guess? yeah. i think one of the biggest questions is will ron desantis be successful at that something everyone else who has been circling getting into the presidential race or already gotten into the presidential race has decided not to do. he is really the first one who is taking on donald trump in such a direct way, and in some ways he had no other choice, right? if donald trump is going to come after you in the way donald trump came after him right after announcing perhaps he feels like this is the moment to try, but you raise such a good point, which is that donald trump and his supporters, anyo
after them, they re just not conservative. well, trump himself has been going after desantis constantly. if we can show the picture on the republican field the candidates already in the race, on the right side of the screen candidates considering the race. donald trump has said good things about tim scott. he s attacking ron desantis constantly several times a day he goes after him. he calls him nickname ron desanctimonious and we ll see if that sticks. he was asked why s he coming after you, and ron desantis says it s pretty obvious. he understands i ve got a good chance to beat him because he doesn t criticize anybody else now. it s only me. for him to say we re not winning in florida, it s taken a stage from being a swing state to now being a red state in such a dramatic fashion. it is interesting to watch him, and again he s speaking in the conservative eco chamber.
even though they might be open to a potential altrpative in 2024. the question is desantis pushing people off the fence towards him or pushing them away from him of someone so critical but someone they really like. he s raised over $8 million in the first 24 hours since he made since he jumped into the race, and he is going to put that money behind this message, get out in front as many voters as possible and continue to make the case to conservative media, that he is the best person to lead this fight and go into the white house and use the presidency in a way that republicans have been too scared to use it before, john. fascinating beginning of the official desantis campaign. steve, thank you for getting us started. let s bring the conversation in the room with me to share reporting and their insights. i call it a tightrope. the question is is it different?
thursday interviews, all of them in the conservative echo chamber in which he airs a long list of complaints about the former president, a big spender he says, not tough enough at the border he says, friend of fauci, too damaged to win the white house again. there s more as governor desantis looks to use his first days as an official candidate to reset his campaign and the broader contour of the republican race that right now is being run on trump s term. it is a tightrope no republican has managed to walk before. take on trump without earning the ire of his loyal base. this is how governor desantis right here hopes to keep his balance with trump-like promises to urge the deep state and even clean states to insurrectionists. do you think the january 6th defendants deserve to have their cases examined by a republican president? on day one i ll have folks that will get together and look at all these cases who people are victims of weaponization or political targeting, and we ll