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Implications. >> shes outspent her opponent by a significant amount. maybe not too much of a surprise expected here for us tonight. melanie on capitol hill, thank you very much. and trump versus desantis, its still a hypothetical matchup but it has republicans bracing for a bitter primary. the florida governor and former president have stayed out of each others way but that could change soon. "the washington post" zoomed in on the tensions between the two camps writing, as some republicans lou...

Attempting to identify whether he has an attorney. he is held according to court records on $2 million bond as investigators work to piece together what happened here and why community members of all faiths here in los angeles and around the country have been expressing anger and grief over the brutal killing of this bishop. >> josh campbell in los angeles thank you for that. and up next for us, the 2024 matchup that isnt even official yet is defining the republican primary so far. well tell y...

Elections, races, folks have said ill let someone else attack trump, wait and attack trump, and youve covered this, what has happened really is trump has emerged victorious. too late or the attacks didnt land. theres a little bit of dynamic here. if you look at 2016, the last time trump was in a contested gop primary, he had wall-to-wall media coverage of his rallies, twitter microphone, he had a personality that was new to the american public in a lot of ways and his image was a lot different. ...

Desantis to enter the race. so desantis has been basically trying to ignore trump for the most part, going and doing his stops all over the place. trump is starting to dip his toe into some counter attacks, just a few minutes ago, attacking him over his stewardship over the state of florida. how bad could this get and how quickly? >> right. well, its not quite counter attacks. desantis isnt doing anything. hes made implicit criticisms of him saying well get a margin of victory. hes been extraord...

And he has windfall honda cells are now, so hes in florida. if it is biden versus desantis, and i am going 50 steps ahead. what does that look like? >> desantis leads and the polls right now. the fact he is going after desantis because if you look at the primary polls, what you see is basically donald trump, ron desantis and its everybody else. mike pence is at 2% of the polling, nikki haley at 1%. if you match desantis up against trump individually, what you see is that desantis is leading, get...

>> the very idea that a senator from florida wants to put social security and medicare on the chopping block every five years, i find so outrageous. so outrageous, that you might not believe it. >> lets go right to phil mattingly at the white house. phil, obviously, hes referring to scotts proposal, every federal program up for five years, then up the exceptions to it, so that missile security. you have new reporting on just how intensely president bidens focus not just on sentence -- desantis b...

Landing so this is less popular than a wild conspiracy theory. >> how far can you take this, as he? >> i think hes hoping for a very long new cycle on this and let me tell you, the biggest tricky is pulling off here is that he is forcing republicans to talk about policy. its not what they wanted to. they want to talk about culture wars, want to talk about wokeism. >> especially desantis -- >> especially the santa suit occasionally creates policies to solve invisible, imaginary problems. he does ...

♪ i gotta good feeling about this, yeah ♪ ♪ im with it ♪ ♪ i gotta good feeling about this ♪ ♪ yeah, ♪ ♪ so lets get it ♪ ♪ im feeling good vibes ♪ >> it tonight, biden calling on voter governor and possible rival on desantis. >> over 1. 1 million people in florida would be eligible for medicaid if governor santos said i agreed to expand it. this is not calculus. >> but there is another republican in florida, senator rick scott, who biden is really zeroing in on.

I think that would be the kiss of death. you know how many politicians have been on the cover of magazines to find their star falls by the time it comes around? im guessing he wont be person of the year. >> i dont think he cares. >> he could care less. >> martha: when we were kids, it was a big deal. the cover of "time" magazine. not anymore. >> i worked for senator jesse helms. i showed him an article that criticized him. he said son, i dont care what "the new york times" says about me. thats w...

Going into vote for you. you are the only democrat i am voting for today. that is just wild to even think that the only democrat that theyre voting for is 23 years old, wears a hijab, is indian american. somehow just, being able to communicate with people and talk to them very generally about how much i care about this community and this district. it seems to resonate. and people who i didnt expect to support me are supporting. >> thats incredible. that actually makes me smile. especially when w...