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campaign '24 developments. hello, steve. >> reporter: mike, the former president showing he can still draw a big crowd. pickens, south carolina, population just 3,000 and yet more than 50,000 according to local police turned up to hear nutes at midday in ther 90 sweltering heat. many of them arriving in the predawn hours. they heard the former president take credit for recent supreme court decisions. >> somebody that hasn't done nearly as well and perhaps has not worked nearly as hard will not be taking your place in school, at a college or university, they're in the going to be. we'...

But, you know, this is what happens when you have a party that is not really focusing on issues. like, the republican party at large is trying to create a lot of problems where they don't exist, and they're focusing on wokism and all this other kind of stuff when americans are hurting. like, where are the republican plans for inflation? where are the republican plans to deal with the situation in ukraine? where do you see these efforts to address issues on gun safety, on climate change? they're absent. so in the absence of real issues, you start getting into these character assaults and these ...

But the character assaults on these men who were so deeply admired in the republican party long ago is really evidence of the corruption inside the conservative movement and the republican party in this trump era. >> there is anxiety inside of the west wing tonight. my sources are saying they hope the president is venting by bringing on these new conservative lawyers that are going to go after the institutional value of the investigation. but maybe that pulls them back from actually pulling the trigger. >> are they up or down in the white house right now? >> they're pretty down about the inves...

Theories. the calls to lock up senior leadership of the intelligence community, the fbi, character assaults on both mueller and comey, conspiracy theories around every aspect of this. and so the republican party that has been captured and is in thrall to donald trump and its complicit republican leadership on the hill, everybody has lashed themselves to the donald trump mast and we'll see as this place out. what's for sure is that his firing mueller would precipitate in this country, a country can founded on the rule of law that it would precipitate a constitutional crisis. in the history of t...

>> i'm ashleigh banfield. good to have ali here all week. in the battle over the bush-era tax cuts, playing politics with your takehome pay and nothing hort of the presidency is on the line here. if the two parties can't agree on extending those tax cuts by the end of the year, a typical american family making $70,000 a year could get hit with a tax increase of $3,000. that is a lot of pain. right now house republicans are busy crafting a plan to extend those tax cuts for everyone across the board -- rich, poor and everything in between. this is a plan that cannot get through the d...