folks have booed. ron desantis and other republicans are now trying to a little bit of separation from him. this is a tough reality they have lived in. kevin mccarthy and other republicans on capitol hill, not defiantly speaking out about donald trump, has led to this moment. so few thought that donald trump would run for office, let alone remain in good standing with the events that transpired after the 2020 election. michael was talking about the reaction from florida. are they telling you one thing publicly and something else privately? are they living in such fear of trump, they don t want to talk about this? since the beginning of the campaign and before the campaign started, it was clear that ron desantis would have to walk a fine line.
support donald trump now. his base is locked with him. the candidates have no way to get around that. is that something you re hearing on the campaign trail? something you re hearing from voters in where you are? regardless of what happens, they are going to go for trump, come hell or high water. i couldn t tell you how many conversations i had with republican voters in the last 960-something days, since january 6th, 2021, that donald trump is not directly responsible for the violence that took place. some of the folks also make the case it was actually antifa or black lives matter that caused the events of that day. to michael s point, a great share of the republican
before the mar-a-lago indictment, this case that i m here to cover here in ft. pierce, florida, there was reporting that mr. trump s lawyers were notified he was a target. he didn t tweet that out. he didn t tell the world back then. i m told there s no reason to believe, that an indictment would come as soon as this week. we should be watching for it. that s what this target letter means. how usual or unusual is it that what we re seeing play out right now, in breaking news on msnbc, what is it this four-day possibility that the former president has, to go to the grand jury? what is that all about? and how common or usual is it? a target letter is an advice of rights, essentially, to someone who is now in the sight
will give a hint of how she fells about it. they will talk about the thorny issues around classified documents in this case. there s a question whether things can be kept from the jury under the classified procedures act. there s going to be special handling rules and lawyers have to get clearances. but the schedule is the thing. the evidence is overwhelming against donald trump. his number one tactic is to delay until after the election. now, we find out if the judge who has been favorable to him in the past will go along with that. ken, on the classified documents case in ft. pierce and separate this other issue, that we re finding out about this morning, after the former president said on sunday, he received a letter from the
prosecutors, that tiny fraction of them have talked their way out of an indictment, i would suspect the vast majority still get indicted. and of course the government would love it if a defendant or a prospective defendant came in to tell their side of the story. we will wait there with pencils and pads ready to take down notes, because they might get something useful. so donald trump benefits himself not at all if he were to go in and talk to federal prosecutors. instead, he would prefer an arena where he controls the narrative, like a rally, like going on fox news, like doing a town hall. where he can control whether he chooses to answer questions or not. but as i hope his attorneys have explained to him, and i m sure they have, anything you re going to say at a town hall, at a rally, are words that can be written down in transcript form and used against you, and believe me, if the government can, they will use those words against you. barbara, just looking at the track record of t