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carley: the republican presidential field is officially a two-candidate race with ron desantis dropping out just before the new hampshire primary. you are uch watching fox and friends first. todd: just before the start of football yesterday. twitter is talking about ron. i d todd piro. it appears that 62% of desantis supporters say trump is their second choice over haley in a new poll. brooke singman will wrap things up before polls open tomorrow. brooke: ron desantis said he didn t feel right asking his supporters to. clear upgrade over biden and right party. he has my dorsement, we can t go back to repackaged corporatism that nikki haley represents. brooke: former president trump thanking the florida governor for his support. he worked very hard. it s a tough go. he worked hard, his wife is a terrific woman. he dropped out and endorsed me. i appreciate that. somebody said what are you going to do with that name desanctimonious? we are retiring that name. ....
Fourmonth trial time line. Also raising what might happen if any or all of the motions to remove are granted or appeal to the 11th circuit. For the first televised hearing regarding the attempts to overturn the 2020 election, it was fascinating, if a little complicated. Were going to begin with georgia. Please dont go anywhere, there is also news out of the Special Counsels classified documents case. More on what one of Donald Trumps lawyers said on tape, warning the former president , what the government would do if he did not comply. Lets start, though, in georgia. Joining us now is nbc news correspondent garrett haake, and outside the Fulton County courthouse for us, nbc legal contributor, katie phang. I was surprised how quickly he denied the motion to sever from kenneth chesebro. Reporter we were pleasantly surprised ....
yeah, it is ironic. but rico isn t reserved only for mobsters. you re quite right. it has been traditionally used for mobsters. but there is a famous case, i m sure patricia knows it well, in fulton county, in which members of the atlanta public school system, teachers and administrators, were charged under rico, the georgia version of rico, because they inflated test scores. the criminal enterprise for purposes of that prosecution was essentially the atlanta public schools, not mobsters. so, that s how we think of it. you re quite right, ana. that s how it was conceived. that s why it was enacted. but its application can and in georgia has been broader. and, patricia, there are some names we recognize, giuliani and so many others in this indictment. and there are a lot of others that we really don t know at least on a national level. what can you tell us about some of the more local ....
Should it be should the democrats be morally incumbent to be the only functional part of our democracy? of course not, but they are. if they don t beat this stuff back at the national level and state by state, we re going to end up in a place that s not a democratic country. that s the clear intent for republicans now. that s the only answer now. there s no question about what has to happen. it s unfair that democrats will bear that burden. life is not fair and politics have never been fair. it s time to play this game in a more hard core way. nick, can you give me the national picture? i know the brennan center for justice reported there are more than 400 voter suppression laws. a lot are modeling after the georgia version where they change who does the counting and include opportunities for voter null if i indication. ....