of snow preparing for more. we start in new york city. we were talking about this story. there is now a possible indication that former president trump could soon face criminal charges. now, this is not guaranteed. we should note that. the new york times is reporting that the man district attorney s office is signaling charges against trump are likely over the hub money payments to stormy daniels. prosecutors have offered trump a chance to testify next week before the grand jury hearing evidence in the case seeing some of his former closest allies go before them. such offers usually indicate an indictment is potentially likely. this case is not a slum dunk. it could pose a challenge for prosecutors. paula reid has been tracking this case with us all morning. we know that trump s attorneys have gone in and met with the district attorney, but the idea that he, himself, is going to go in and testify seems incredibly unlikely. it does seem incredibly unlikely. but over the
the polls show that only sanders and biden, these two guys are at double digits, and it s far from a slum dunk for biden in this race. his entire legislative past as a senator is slowly being relitigated in the press. for a new generation of voters, it s the first they ve heard. and his candidacy might run directly into a party-wide generational shift happening at the very same time. and to that end, beto o rourke is headed to iowa on thursday. he has several days of events planned in the early caucus state. nbc news reports he plans to announce his decision by the end of the month. washington post sums up the impending beto/biden matchup this way, quote, the popular former vice president and the charismatic former texas congressman share one key characteristic, a more centrist brand of politics that could appeal to an untapped portion of
prize. explain why. i do, pete. i think actually it s a slum dunk to be honest with you. think about it like this for a second. we gave, you know, president obama the nobel prize for essentially doing nothing, for being president obama and not being george w. bush. if that s the case, you have to give the nobel prize to donald trump. considering the fact how far we ve the come with the north korea crisis. go back to january when we wer talking about, you know, a bloody nose option with north korea. we were actually staring down the precipice of a nuclear war. millions of people would have died if that happened. considering how far we ve come and we re on the brink of something historicall his histo. critics should say what if it all falls apart, what if it goes sideways, what if the nuclear ambitions ramp up, what if? we re still in a good position. the president s maximum pressure campaign is the old cold war play book of containment.
beginning of the week, it seemed like a slum dunk for the prosecution. they had a great opening statement, filled with a baker s dozen of lies george zimmerman told. the defense with the terrible knock knock joke. it seemed they turned the tables today, anyway, with this witness, but i have to stress there were other residents that said the exact opposite right. that said that the people that the person on top fit the description of george zimmerman. so the basic point is if everybody is contradicting each other and themselves and in various testimony in depositions is that enough for reasonable doubt? right, glorp yia, fascinatin. jonathan good was a good witness. i watched it live, consistent and compelling and compare what he said in the first statements and today and find a few interesting things. for example, he originally said he heard the person on the