Today on inside politics, a burden of proof and politics. The trial against donald trump takes shape as a federal judge sets a date to decide when prosecutors will present their case. A timeline careening into a campaign. Now the former president issued a plea to the Supreme Court. Plus Kevin Mccarthy a auditions for supporting role in the trump defense. The House Speaker unloads an angry tirade over the special counsel indictment, Sidestepping The Former president ials election lies that led to a deadly attack on the capitol where Kevin Mccarthy serves. And made by bidenomics, new cnn reporting spotlights the strategy to make sure americans know their roads, dams and ports and jobs attached to them are thanks to joe biden. Im dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and inside politics. Up first, Donald Trumps anger and anxiety triggered by a looming trial for alleged election crimes. The former president s public posture is defiance. Today donald trump made a demand that the Supreme C
him, i think in the same way they do to other places. however, it s still such a steep climb for anyone. and yes, desantis is doing better with college educated voters. but he s going to have to do a lot more with a lot more people. i want to put up a tweet from bob vander plats who is a veteran strategist, an evangelical in iowa who does not likeonald trump. he insists while all these polls show donald trump is the front-runnering i see no evidence on the ound to support. my early hunch is he gets beat in an iowa caucus. did good, can t win, time to move on, need to win. in fairness, he s not a neutral observer. he s made his view on this known and clear. but i think it is i ll do if thing that needs to be said, which is a poll is a snapshot in time. it is not predictive.
gulf of mexico? good question. for more, i m joined by the hardball round tonight. former director of strategic communications and as of today, this very day an msnbc contributor, congratulations and a republican political consultant. you have to do the front page u.s.a. today. so how does the race look as far as participation? for the first time in history we re going to have more candidates than toes. more than 20. and i think the previous record is 17. but you can count two dozen credible democratic candidates and it s hard to see any of them not running. there s no sense of question about whether kamala harris is running. she s runnering. it seems to me no matter what we say about equality of opportunity, there s going to be polls.
democrat patrick murphy and republican david jolly. they re considering runnering for governor and lieutenant governor of florida as a bipartisan ticket. i like this. i like it. let s start with kornacki. steve is anything going to happen that any of us should care about. on friday, willie had people reporting from the royal wedding and everybody on set was going you know, nobody watches that. it was cute. is there anything tonight i should care about? it depends how much of an election junky you are, if that s a way to sell this. if you re like me, you ll care about a lot of this. what do you care about the most? i think there s two interesting stories i m following tonight. number one is this choice that democrats have in georgia statewide for the governor s race this year. it s a strategic choice and you ve heard this debate nationally and democrats in georgia will weigh in on it tonight. it s this idea of is the strategy in the trump era and going forward for demo
longer the elephant in the room, governor rick perry announces he s joining the republican party for president. he may be the republican front-runner but he was not feeling the love at the iowa state fair. he got heckled and laughed at over three words he said, words he may come to regret on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com ing. oh, thank got it s friday. wait a minute. i ve got to move my stuff. good morning. happy friday to you. it s august 12th. welcome to american morning. up first, texas governor rick perry, the elephant in the room, is about to go on for 2012. perry says he s ready to toss his 10 gallon hat into the ring. we re going to have an announcement at 1:00 eastern time over in south carolina and then hop in an aircraft, come straight to new hampshire, and i hope you ll be watching your television set and listen to however you re picking it up on the internet or whatever. we ll have our announcement to give our intention