i today, a judge in delaware will decide whether a jury needse1 t get involved or whether he can weighlp in on aspect of the cas alone. granting a summary judgment. as he deliberates, another lawsuit. last night a former fox news producer says fox lawyers tried to coerce herñr into giving fal or misleading testimony ine1e1 case and she says sexism and discrimination were at play. joining me now is nbc s senior digital reporter. summary judgment. what s the judge considering today? judge is consideriuh a number of different parts of this. both sides have essentially argued the same thing, that the evidence is so convincese1 thatt doesn t need to be put to a jury, that the judge could just decide in eachok party s favor today. each party has argued they re completely ini]q the right.
committee and ask them very tough questions. whetherq or not there s specqx■ evidence of wrong qdoing, that what they re able to uncover. saying look at this, doesn t it look like it s out of the ordinary? but where is the evidence that it s illegal or improper or a violation of any sort of code of ethics. that s sort of the mountain they have to climb that they ve been unable to reach. i want to get you on one other thing.lp inquiriesxd into jared kushner ó comer seems to admit it s politicallyçó unsustainable to look intoçó kushner. he took a long pause and replied i don t disagree with whate1ó[r said. what could he look into with kushner? sure. well, you know, comer and the republicans say their top concern is influence peddling. particularly foreign entanglements with foreign businesses. points of their investigation
role even in a republican primary. if donald trump s support doesn t grow after this, say the protests and anger surrounding him potentially getting indicted doesn t materialize, does that give republicans broadly another opportunity, another off ramp tq donald trump>!s to support somebody else? well,1again, it s kind of the fascinating window that we re just already seeing from the 2024 republican hopefullpe1 candidates. normally, as chris christie said recently, ançó indictment is no helpful. that s anq evergreen statement. but even these would be candidates who want to take trump out in a republican primary are really grappling with how doi]w3 they handle■k w should be a clearxd vulnerabili. christie is the only one who s potently attacked him. you have nikki haley who s remaining silent5a■ and some pee
like mike pencet( actually goin out and deuo&ding trump. so you re seeing a republican party that doesn t quite know what to do with it yet, but to your original question about the voters, there s a portion even in a republican primary who are just exhausted with the chaos and this might be another nudge for them to consider5a■e1 a tru intñ another problem wiuc the b.■ party, there is that knot of support donald trump has a hold over and if you anger them, you can t win a primary and anb■e1 generale1 election. plus the independents and republicans who areñr tired of donald trump. it s a hard thing to try to build on. ashley, garrett, vaughn, thank you guys for starting us off. joining me now is former senior member of robertq mueller s prop intoe1 2016 election e1intezfvr1
that, underneath that the appellate court and the district courts. so many decisions are made that are so, so critical. abby, you heard in manu s report mitt romney saying those endorsed by donald trump was the kiss of death. what will it mean going forward? i think now it s just a question of how badly do establishment republicans want to push trump out? i don t necessarily think that trump s support among republican base voters has shifted all that much, but there s a recognition that that support doesn t really go much further than that. so right now republicans need to make a decision. how are they going to address trump? trump is running he s already declared. there are other people who want to run but what s the strategy for dealing with that. is this going to be a repeat of 2016 or are they going to come