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analysis with california state university and pepperdine schoo of public policy dave peterson. welcome to you both. in q4 coming on, and ray, we appreciate appeared the common theme on social media today was his voice sounded a little bit weird, we know he felt yesterda and it all falls into this thin where ages become a big factor and this election and its relevant, right? it is, especially when you get into these multiple responsibilities that the president has pretty fell on th stage at the air force academy commencement, but he s got to b involved in the negotiations around the budget deal. i think kevin mccarthy is the speaker of the house comes out looking much stronger after these negotiations for its. makes a good point because it s not just his voice it s no just the falling it s that he i making decisions that will affect the history of the world in you wonder maybe it s a stumble here or some kind of decision that is not properly
history. but it was harry belafonte s mother who taught him how to really use his voice she would say to me, neve go to bed at night knowing tha you have spent the day and wha you have done nothing. to try to change injustice born in harlem, raised an jamaica, and they re age 17 he enlisted in the navy durin world war ii after the war, he turned to th stage. his star power quickly exploded receiving a tony award for his broadway debut in 1953 then, to hollywood but in 1956, belafonte would become known as the king o calypso. his album, calypso, who ha spent 31 weeks at the top of the charts but his powerful voice transcended music, films, an the stage. a civil rights champion, belafonte also marched along his framed and confidence, dr.
because i am concerned about the people of new york, he still would not answer the judges order, telling him that by april 20th, which was thi last thursday, he had to say yes or no, he still has no given him a straight answer. on that point, what is your impression of the impression that team trump made on th stage? team trump is an evolving team, let s start there. this case has been through b my count, at least fou different teams of lawyers in fact, on thursday, they added a new lawyer fro missouri who i had never heard of before, and i don t believe has had prior involvement with the trump world. god knows what he is in th case but that is not something that you usually do. it s like a baseball game, you don t at a new player to you roster in the ninth inning, an the trial is really like a ninth inning at the baseball game but to your point, i think joe
and very few people can feel the stage. even running for governor of a state like florida, it s i comparable to running for presidency right, now desantis is not feeling the stage. what i m puzzled by is he is trying to kind of out hate, ou maga trump i don t think that s necessarily his lane it s going to be fascinating t see. that being said, i still think fox, rupert murdoch, mos republicans believe desantis somehow gets by trump, he is the stronger general electio candidate, maybe just becaus of generational difference with biden we will see, i don t think the gave that up yet but the vultures are circlin desantis again, it s wildly early but so far he has shown no evidence he s ready for th stage. that is what is fascinating to me the hype cycles in both directions are nuts. we were giving up for the obama i say this to my staff al the time the american prospect cove story, the month before iowa was basically, or a month or two, why hasn t obama been abl