er good evening chris, book bans, just saying the phrase book bans. very understandable, doesn t seem to pull well, like so many things, desantis is overseeing the state of florida. it is a mystery to me how he does not think this is an absolute kryptonite in terms of a net national bay. more kryptonite, further goes on, i found the washington post finding that there are 11 people who are filing. okay, that s cancellation, 30 million. i think the rest of folks are like, i don t need to go through every book in the kids libra. please make me less involved. that s what i say. enough emails. anyway, that s one of another show. thank you, chris, as always. thanks to at-home for joining us this evening. today, for only the second time in american history, a former president appeared in court as a criminal defendant. the first time, last month. when donald trump is arraigned on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. in the manhattan district attorney s case again
so it s really the second time in american, history the former president appeared in court as a criminal defendant. the first time as last month when donald trump was arraigned on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. in the manhattan district attorney s case against him. now, today, mr. trump appeared in that courtroom again, virtually. by video conference from mar-a-lago. the reason for this hearing was that the judge in this case needed to explain to former president trump why he is not allowed to post any of the evidence from this case on social media. which seems like it was probably quite necessary. because donald trump has a real tendency to post about his various legal entanglements. this weekend, for example, the former president went on a truth social tirade, the radical left democrats will step up their fake investigations on me because they they now see they can t win at the ballot box. trump hating special prosecutor jack smith, whose family and friend
findings. the press and fbi gave a penny somewhat of professionalism and took up the cause of vengeance. the real story here from the fbi s perspective is what an abomination that this was, this so-called investigation. it wasn t a witchhunt, it is a good imitation of one. let s bring in kim stross all who is following this story and then right from the beginning and their skepticism about the russian collusion narrative. what was the most important thing you learned from the durham report? i think the most important thing is what you touched on. it never should have been opened in the first place. the reason it was was in part because the fbi skipped all kinds of preliminary steps. they didn t do any interviews or try to corroborate or look at their own intelligence databases. if they would, they would ve seen there is no evidence held by any government agents that the agency trump engaged in any collusion. this was a decision, this is important, made by the higher ups
so the lesson is, is that people respond to leadership. people were were moving to florida because we were going a different way during covid just as your governor did, standing up for kids, being in school, protecting people s freedoms and jobs. but you know what? we had a lot of folks in places like miami who had been democrats and had voted for democrats, and they voted not only for me, but now they re registering as republicans. so don t buy this idea that we can t expand our base of support. of course you can do that. yo you can t win big with just republicans, and we proved that. but here s the thing, we didn t do it by rim thing our sails, we didn t contort ourselves to be anything that we re not. we led boldly. we led conservatively, and we delivered results, and people responded. so that is a lesson from iowa with what governor reynolds has done and florida with what we ve been able another. and at the end of the day, governing is not about entertaining. governing is
we ll have another vote at noon. you ll see some progress. i think there is light at the end of the tunnel. if that happens, hopefully that progress snowballs and members who are holding out feel pressure in their districts or from others to unify with the party and do the right thing and elect a speaker so we can work on the issues that matter. bill: brand-new hour begins now. david spunt has the duties in d.c. hi. two hours until the house is back in session. a lot of people think it may be a safe bet we won t see a speaker elected at least right away. members elect will vote for the seventh time on the speaker of the house issue. kevin mccarthy hopes the needle moves in miss his direction. mccarthy ended his day with 201 yesterday. they voted for byron donald, a two year congressman from southwest florida, naples. this group some call the gop rebels led by matt gaetz, scott perry and lauren boebert. here she is last night. isn t it time for you to pack it in and