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the gloves are truly off tonight in the republican race for president. john king in for anderson tonight. thank you for your time. even if you're just paying a little attention to the republican race, it is hard to notice ron desantis and the former president openly throwing haymakers. never mind the old 11'd commandment. donald trump, of course, has never bought into that, and now it seems his fellow floridian doesn't either. over the last 48 hours, governor desantis has gone straight after the gop front-runner, most recently today on this conservative talk show. >> he's been attack...

saying he feels closer to a deal today than he has before, but not everyone in his party is as optimistic. one top republican negotiator warning the deal is still teetering on the brink and could fall apart entirely. meanwhile, the national deficit continues to soar to new heights and treasury secretary janet yellen says there are only eight days remaining to pay america's bills. is everyone on board? >> reporter: we'll see about that. he came in to the capitol this morning and told reporters he's feeling optimistic and thinks progress has been made and really they're focused on a ...

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com the gloves are truly off in the republican race for president. john king in for anderson t pay little attention to the republican race, it is hard to notice ron desantie former president openly throwing hay makers. donald trump, of course, has never bought into that. and now it seems his fellow floridian doesn't either. over the last 48 hours, governor desantis has gone straight after the gop front runner, most recently today on this conservative talk show. >> he's been attacking me by moving left. so, this is a different guy than 2015, 2016. 2...

Hurt him in the end. now that he has done that, was that always planned or was it because the last couple of months have been tough for him? and you know his skill set better than most. donald trump has been on his case for days and weeks. now he's on his case in a trumpy, by the hour kind of way. does he have the skill set to handle that? >> governor desantis, like any politician, i think, does not like being attacked and having to sit on his hands. i'm sure that was very us frustrating for the last few months. and now he really sees an opportunity to differentiate himself from president trum...

Get to president biden. and, look, he is smart by, in the primary, showing that he is just as conservative or republican or right as donald trump or maybe even more to the right as donald trump because we're in a primary. but the reality is, big picture, there are probably a lot more alike on policy than they are different. and desantis has one big difference that donald trump doesn't have. and that is he won re-election. and if he can focus on the fact that he has won re-election, donald trump is the culture of losing, that is a goodwining message and a reminder to rational republicans that i...