You are live in the cnn newsroom. Im in washington. We begin this hour with news that the Florida Republican party has scrapped its own loyalty oath requiring candidates to pledge support for the partys eventual nominee. It is a promise donald trump has flatly refused to make all along. It is seen as a major defeat for trumps closest rival in his own state, Florida Governor ron desantis, and a big win for donald trump. Meanwhile, as trumps legal woes consider to pile up, the judge has been asked to place a limited gag order on trump. They want to continue to block his ability to make continuing attacks in the federal case. Trump still leads the republican pac by more than 40 Percentage Points in the lowest cnn polls. Jeff, were about four months from the iowa caucuses. Youre at a key event tonight in des moines. What do you think well hear tonight . Reporter jim, the rest of the republican rivals will be gathered here on stage one by one reaching out to evangelical voters. A key constituency here. The candidates are here, everyone except former president trump. Hes largely been campaigning in far less robust way than he did before. The other candidates are trying to make their case, trying to find that opening. When you talk to republican voters, there is indeed a large amount of open minds. Really, to a person, weve been speaking with throughout the day. People like the policies of the former president but also many want to turn the page. Nikki haley was addressing a couple different events earlier today. One key theme came out. That is age. What has Congress Done for you lately . Nothing. It is why we have to have term limits in washington, d. C. They dont know when to leave and it is time for them to be gently pushed out, right . And thats the second reason we need to have mental competency tests for anyone over the age of 75. Reporter of course, shes been talking about that for quite some time. The age is something that is resonating. Im going to lower my voice because theyre playing america the beautiful. The person driving this race, the command of this race, is not here tonight. I wont put you in that position to talk over america the beautiful. Thank you. Really appreciate it. Lets discuss now with political commentator and strategist maria cardona, and republican strategist alice stewart. The cohosts of the podcast hot mics from left to right. It was always my fear if i was on the Campaign Trail doing a live shot and the National Anthem is playing or Something Like that. You were kind to him. I think i may have asked you to be quiet a time or two. You may have. In all circumstances, yeah. What do you make of, lets go back to this Florida Republican pledge. That was going to be a requirement to appear on the candidate for the primary in that state. And this looks like a real rejection of ron desantis in his home state in an appeasement to donald trump. If any person supports a particular candidate on any party and they dont see whoever the nominee is should have the full endorsement of the party, then thats a problem. Those are supporters of a person and not a party. I think if you are running on the republican ticket or the democratic ticket, whoever is the partys nominee should have the full support. I do understand there are Many Republican whos understand if the former president were to be convicted of a crime. That brings a whole new ball game. The position of Many Republicans, not just in florida but across the country, whoever is the nominee, it is incumbent upon republicans to coalesce and unite behind that person to take on whoever the democrats choose. It is to unite on the issues that bring us together and not the personalities that divide us. Let me ask but the other headline. Special counsel jack smith asking the federal judge to limit the former president s comments on this election subversion case. Lets listen to how hes responding to that. Deranged jack smith. Hes the prosecutor. Hes a deranged person. He wants to take away my rights under the first amendment. He wants to take away my right of speaking freely and openly. What do you make of that . It is good to hear the former president extol the virtues. You dont always hear that. No, you dont. How likely is he to abide by any judges order to not talk about the case . Not very likely at all. We have seen that donald trump is certainly not one to do something that he is told to do, to follow the rules, to follow any regulations, to even follow the laws which is what put him in this situation to begin with. But i do think it is an opportunity to underscore how dangerous someone like donald trump is, in whatever role. Even in a role of someone who has been convicted of frankly, or has been accused and possibly convicted of several crimes. The fact that jack smith asked for this, even a limited gag order, i think is a realization that donald trump is somebody who is a danger to our whole justice system. Weve already seen how he and then his supporters can ruin peoples lives just from one thing that donald trump says about something. The prosecutor witnesses, i think is what theyre mostly worried about. It is a Downhill Battle from there and thats why i think jack smith is doing everything he can to protect the justice system. Alice, im jumping around a bit but i have a lot of topics to cover. We talked about the Impeachment Inquiry in the house, going after President Biden. Im sure you saw this. The Freedom Caucus member, ken buck, the republican of colorado, has a new oped in the washington post. He is going after his own republicans and this effort to impeach President Biden. He wrote in 2019 it was a disgrace to the constitution and a disgrace to americans according to ken buck. The gop in 2023 is no better. We need to look at the business at hand. What does Congress Need to be doing . Passing spending bills, talking about appropriations, making sure that we avoid a government shutdown. That should be priority number one because that impacts people across the country. For any of the republicans in the house to basically hold hostage these important budget talks for promises of furthering this Impeachment Probe is completely wrong. Im a Firm Believer that members in washington can walk and chew gum at the same time but were running up against the spending line. That needs to be the first priority. They can move into the inquiry of President Biden. And i do think there is reason for inquiring into the Business Dealings that hunter biden did and whether or not President Biden was involved but that should not be priority number one for members of congress. Maria . I dont think there is any reason to go into an impeachment. And i think it screams about the desperation of somebody like Kevin Mccarthy and frankly, donald trump said the quiet part out loud the last couple days in some of the interviews. He said, well, if they hadnt gone after me, perhaps this wouldnt be happening to joe biden. That right there underscores just how political this move is, and frankly, Kevin Mccarthy should be ashamed of himself. Hes not only betraying how much of a puppet he is of donald trump but how much of a denigration. Hardly anyone in the Republican Party respects the constitution. Just a few moments ago, did you want to jump in and Say Something . Yeah. I wanted to say with all due respect with regard to this inquiry into President Biden, look, they changed their narrative on this when there was just initial questions about whether or not the president had any question, Hunter Bidens dealings. The administration, the president , all along had said he knew absolutely nothing about any of these dealings. Then they changed the narrative to, he wasnt in business with hunter. When you change the answer to the same question, it does bring about im sorry. That does not yeah, but that does not meet high crimes and misdemeanors. For five years under president trump, they tried to investigate hunter biden and all of these experience Business Dealings, and they found no connection whatsoever. There is nothing there. There is no evidence. No data. No facts, no nothing. Their own people that they had to testify, supposedly was going to blow open everything that joe biden had done, he himself, devin archer i believe, is his name, he himself said what he was talking about pointed to zero wrongdoing on behalf of President Biden. So again, this is simply puppeteering by donald trump. Desperation by the Republican Party. Alice, do you think its possible that this could back fire on House Republicans in the way that it did with the impeachment clinton effort . Ultimately, at the end of the inquiry, if there is no there, there, it could certainly back fire on republicans. I think we need to, as we do with any of the investigations and probes, lets follow the information and the facts that we have and then make a conclusion at the end. I think it is wrong to prel judge any investigation or any inquiry and lets let the facts play out. If there is nothing at the end of the road, then yes, it will be problematic for republicans. It is certainly worth inquiry. I think it is a waste of time and i think it will back fair on republicans. They cant help but overreach but you know what . Bring it on. Let me switch topics. As jeff was reporting, donald trump is not in iowa this evening. He was in d. C. Last night. Listen to what he had to say about the 2016 election. The country is very divided. And we did it with obama. We won an election that everyone said couldnt be done. We beat hillary clinton. I used to call her crooked hillary. He seem to be saying there, alice and maria, that he beat obama in 2016. And there was another moment during the speech last night. Maybe he was tired or had a long day but another moment in the speech whether he indicated that hes not made president again, there might be world war ii. World war ii already happened. Alice, theres been a lot of talk about joe bidens age. Donald trump is only three years younger than joe biden. He seemed to be having some trouble last night, getting the words out. Look, i think when you make a mistake here and there, people are talking all the time. There are cameras on you all the time. If it is once in a blue moon, i think thats perfectly fine. Im not as concerned with trumps age or bidens age but their ability and agility to do the job and thats what is most important. I think we need to get past the talk about peoples age. Who has the best policies to turn this country around . Right now we know it is not President Biden. He doesnt have the support of even Many Democrats and across the country, his Approval Rating is around 40 . I think it is time to start looking at the policies and get away from the Personality Conflicts and look at who can get the country back on track. Policies and accomplishments are exactly what joe biden has already proven he can deliver massively and historically for the American People and american families. Thats what he will run on. The contrast will be something that i believe in the end he will absolutely win. You think it will be biden and harris. No question. No question that it will be biden and harris, as it should be. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. All right. Thanks. Still ahead, an update on where talks stand in the unprecedented autoworkers strike. Plus, why Hunter Bidens legal problems may be far from over after being indicted this week. And booted from beetlejuice. What Lauren Boebert is saying after being kicked out of a musical. 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The union met with ford this morning and a source with uaw told our cnn team, quote, we had reasonably productive conversations with ford today. Reasonably productive, certainly not a deal but frankly, given the hostile words that weve heard between the sides over the last couple days, it is a big step in the right direction. We know that the union was set to meet with stellantis and General Motors today. No update on those talks. As of yesterday, the head of the auto union said 80 of the demands had not been met in a single offer that they had received from the automakers. None of the three. Until a deal is reached, this is what well continue to see. Picket lines like this one here outside the stellantis jeep factory. These workers, 13,000, nearly 13,000 across the country, including roughly 5,800 here in toledo are on strike, making about 500 a week of strike pay. I want to bring one in. Tab tabitha, can i talk to you . Uhhuh. I want to talk to you. You work for stellantis but it is the first sign of progress that weve gotten. What is your reaction . Hopefully we get everything we deserve. Hopefully, they are reminded that we are the ones doing all the footwork. We are the ones taken away from our families and being here six, ten hours a week. There is been no progress before the recent talkthrough. Before then. So hopefully we make it through. We dont want to be out here. We would rather go to work. Reporter thank you so much. Good luck to you. Again, were waiting for word on any progress this afternoon in those talks with selltellantis. Any sign of progress is positive right now given the words that weve been hearing between all sides. From all sides, i should say, over the last couple days. Absolutely. Any progress is welcome at this point. Thank you very much. Still ahead, hunter biden indicted on drug charges this week and the Special Counsel investigating the president s son could bring more changes. 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