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National tour, now international tour, that he is doing it is early, but right now, to ed's point, trump's lead is growing. you know, despite this also increased legal peril, the party itself finds itself talking to a smaller and smaller piece of the elec electorate if trump is the guy, it'll be a hard case to make come 2024. republican primary and general election, very different things. >> right again, you look at the poll, and people have their headlines, oh, this is bad news for biden bad news for biden-trump re-elect you look at generic republicans beating joe biden. then you look at joe ...

Comfortably. republicans know this. they know they lose in a democratic election. that's why they're so anti-democratic in so many ways. now, they're trying to stop the one person, one vote reality that this country was supposed to be built on, ed here's the perfect example of it they know in ohio, they put this up for a referendum, they lose just like kansas >> kansas. >> yet, they now are working as hard as they can to subvert the will of the people in ohio >> so my theory, sort of grand theory of republican politics, is that the big funders, the koch brothers, now the koch brother, ken grif...

>> yeah. well, we can talk more about this, but to your point, in the latest nbc news survey, 68% of gop primary voters say the investigations into trump are politically motivated and that they must support him in 2024 to stop his opponents from winning. that, too, is this ecosystem that i was talking about on the flip side, 26% say the party should nominate someone other than trump who isn't distracted by legal issues and can make defeating joe biden their sole focus overall, trump is still the top choice of 46% of republican voters ron desantis is the second most popular option with 31%. all...

Bachelor, decides that for her >> yeah. >> and her family. >> you know, this really follows up on what i said earlier this morning, about the fact that, ed luce, republicans know they've lost america seven of the last eight presidential campaigns, they lost the popular vote. they were in the minority. you look at madeleine albright's p funeral. what do you see there? you see candidates there, and you take al gore, as well, and, you know, they won in -- well, they won in '92. bill clinton won the popular vote in '92. in '96 al gore won the popular vote in 2000 barack obama won the popular vote ...

The african continent. we see that problem growing. we see cells metastasizing at the end of the day, there's a humanitarian tragedy that is occurring, but also, i think there is a worry about another failed state and what that means in the counterterrorism arena. something the u.s. government is going to be watching very closely. >> all right former cia officer marc polymeropoulos and former u.s. special envoy for the horn of africa, jeffrey feltman, thank you, both, very much for helping us break down this developing story. ed luce, thank you, as well, for being on in the past hour. it is ...