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welcome back to the cnn newsroom. i'm jim acosta in washington. just minutes from now former president donald trump will be less than ten miles from the u.s. capitol, addressing a crowd of his adoring supporters as for all intents and purposes the front-runner for the 2024 gop nomination. despite his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, trump has been loading in several polls of republican voters as he delivers the keynote address at the annual cpac gathering later on this afternoon, even though other gop contenders are warning the party to move on from trump. his maga faithful hav...

hello and welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king in washington. thank you for sharing your busy newsday with us. president biden hits the road as we hit 12 days till election day. a handful of key senate races are a toss-up. republicans increase will go i confident about capturing the house. early voting way up, some democrats do see some hope there. plus, get this quote, security is a joke. we have some new cnn reporting shows millions of your tax dollars earmarked to protect election workers have not been spent and it leaves the people who count your votes vulnerable to threat...

Are blooming about the voting process. >> not a shortage of money. how much available? ballpark? >> over a billion in these grants. these grants aren't just dedicated to election security but a range of crime fighting programs. there are other programs that have funding for this but we took a look at how the federal government was able to adapt to threats and this is what we found a paltry uptake. >> you get complaints from state and local officials saying these programs, it's not clear, it's not clean, getting the money but you have the michigan secretary of state telling you it's also someti...

Back. >> we have been abiding by federal law for quite some time before jeff sessions became attorney general, we'll continue to abide by federal law and u.s. constitution. and we're hoping that the federal government will also abide by the u.s. constitution. which gives my state, the right to decide how to do public safety. reporter: what is at stake for jurisdictions that find themselves at odd with federal law, $20 million for california, and $4 billion for other cities and countries in country, they would go toward crime fighting programs. back to you. arthel: we'll be right back. thank yo...

Policies to state senate leader kevin daly on essentially: the trump administration saying it has become abundantly clear that attorney general sessions in the trump administration are basing their line or his policies on white supremacy not american values. attorney general sessions called those remarks despicable and also some republican members of the california legislature agreed with one republican calling extreme language ridiculous. in california alone, $20 million is at stake for crime-fighting programs and the other a cities and counties also have until june 30th to prove in writing t...