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I never heard of it. never saw it in operation. never knew anything about it. the president never said anything to me during 17 months there. i just think it s a complete fiction. feds are questioning trump staff from the national security operation about that as a kind of defense that seems to be just evaporating in real time. for that story, we want to add to our conversation the washington post columnist gene robinson. good to see you. we wanted good to see you. i wanted to bring you in on this part. there s this legal question around the search. we covered that. we have more on that. national security is always a huge deal. the president has powers here that are different from everyone else in government. what you see here seems to be a clash between what the president at the time, trump did, what he took with him, whether that was illegal, the doj says it was, whether or not they want to charge anyone for it, so they got it back under a judge warrant. then the actual way ....
Half of republicans don t want trump to run again. according to some great cnn polling, the majority of republicans think he acted unethically on january 6th, and that he didn t do enough to stop the violence. and so we actually do have a lot of evidence that even main stream republicans are questioning trump s role in the party and not sure if he should be the future of the party. so you could argue that the extremists are the smaller portion of the party, and that a lot of republicans really want to see if this is the best direction forward, and a lot of them want to win. so it might, in fact, be representative. i guess i would imagine a steve bannon type sitting at the table. there will not be a steve bannon. why? should there be a margie taylor green seat? i don t know. here s my concern. we don t have those voices on main stream network tv, aren t we missing what s happening in the grassroots? it s dangerous to spread ....
I think that s even the more fascinating one. because you essentially have two candidates going mano a mano. both of them are new to statewide electoral politics here. carrie lake who has endorsed donald trump. fellow election denier. on the other hand, you ve got to hurt karen taylor robeson is a former real estate consultant. she s endorsed by the likes of former vice president mike pence. and swift current governor doug doocy. this is ultimately going to be for republican voters to decide which path they want to go down. there is folks can say, desantis, pence, name off other republicans in 2024 who they like to see their nominee. but ultimately, it comes down to voters. i think this is going to be a strong indication of where republican voters at least in the city of arizona still live because you ve also got a secretary of state race with the trumpet candidate. you ve got an international race with the trump backed candidate. there is a strong potential that trump s picks for ea ....
No place in him for politics though it is now. now i ve heard that same sentiment even from republicans who say that this race is gotten so tight and really so competitive that it s also forest this candidate to go further and further to the right. if you put up some 0.4 republican it shows you just the state of this race and this poll that was conducted in june, it shows that vicky hartzler at the moment was up. eric rains was second and then eric schmidt was third. a lot has changed and how most people that i talked to see eric schmidt is actually the one who had the upper hand here. so we ll have to continue to watch this race. it s a tight one. it s an interesting one. i also should say it s a microcosm really of all the issues going on in the gop because there s election integrity. there s coastal issues. and of course, there s the ads attacking all of the candidates at this time. all right. my thanks to both of you. there is trouble for trump endorsed candidates in the stat ....
Especially as it appears increasingly likely that trump is going to declare reelection again for 2024. when we talk legal ramifications, not just political winds. tim o brien in the last hour, he thought georgia could be the most worrying for trump. what s say you? i think georgia is certainly something that the former president should be worried about. fani willis has managed to convene a special grand jury, they re to proceed with our investigation. that seems to be something that will bear fruit. i don t think we can rollout the doj is stepping in here, and the january 6th select committee in the hearings that have been protected over the course of the summer has, as jacqueline said, allow the public to see all this information that it is a matte. but it has also put some pressure on the burden of justice to connect these dots, in holding individuals who had been surfaced wasn t players who are accountable for their actions leading up to january 6th. that is an important one as ....