expanded its blast radius over the weekend to a premium outlet mall in texas where that state s republican leaders are today striking a pose of complete impotence in the face of both deadly forces, the 199th shooting took place in allen, texas, a suburb of dallas, texas, eight people were murdered including a 5-year-old boy. six others were injured. unimaginable. unthinkable carnage unfolded as a man armed with an ar-15 style rifle opened fire. here s how one eyewitness who rushed to the mall when his son said shots had been fired outside the store where he works described the scene. the first girl i walked up to was crouched down covering her head in the bushes so i felt for a pulse, pulled her head to the side and she had no face. and so when i rolled the mother over, he came out and asked him are you okay, he said, my mom is hurt. my mom is hurt so whether than traumatize him anymore, i sat him down, he was covered from head to toe like somebody poured blood on him. th
Today on inside politics, winning was easy. Governing is harder. Hardliners get the outcome they want, Kevin Mccarthy is no longer the House Speaker. But they forgot to figure out what happens now. Plus the race is on. Jim jordan says he is running for speaker. Others are already doing Temperature Checks with members. Ill talk with two republican congressmen and ask who they would back. That will be in minutes. And a warning. Donald trump is instructed by a judge to stay silent and say nothing about that judges staff after the former president posts and then deletes an attack on a judicial clerk. Im dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and inside politics. Up first, speaker for hire. The republican rebels may have succeeded in kicking Kevin Mccarthy to the curb, a very real question now is who can lead an unruly chaotic republican conference. And that puts its money where its motion to vacate is. You can apply now on the Job Site Day Book for Kevin Mccarthys old job. The title and s
so the fact that he s gonna be on trial the day before super tuesday. in a way, it s narrowed it perfectly. and the biden team are supposedly not going to focus on trump s legal issues at all. do you think that is a smart tragedy? if i was advising, i would say if they wanted to talk about focusing on the legal issues. one thing we learned during the election was the red wave did not materialize because there were plenty of independent republicans who got upset that someone would try to steal an election. a fairly democratic leader was trying to have a coup against another democratically elected leader. i do think very much the fact that going into super tuesday, you have candidate trump, the primary candidate leading the race for the republicans. he whence. and then you have to take a look at, what does this mean for the republican party? he s gonna be able to galvanize a base that is radically so different from the rest of democratically elected nominees in the past. really is go
he s raising money, his support is unwavering. but it s not been enough support to win elections since 2016. from a campaign perspective, truly, how are they going to deal with the trial immediately before super tuesday? how is that even going to work logistically? well it s a good question and we don t obviously have any thing to point to, but what it means is that he s gonna be campaigning from from the courthouse steps. you can picture him day after day coming out of the courthouse to make statements and roads and to use the phrase that we just used, from the courthouse steps and that s what is his campaigns about these trials and everything he s talking to his based bout how he s being persecuted. he s talking about issues that are concerned to the country beyond his own legal issues and that s what s dominating the conversation. that s what s dominating his campaign at this point. he s running his primary campaign in effect from the courthouse steps. and we saw
do you think that is a smart tragedy? if i was advising, i would say if they wanted to talk about focusing on the legal issues. one thing we learned during the election was the red wave did not materialize because there were plenty of independent republicans who got upset that someone would try to steal an election. a fairly democratic leader was trying to have a coup against another democratically elected leader. i do think very much the fact that going into super tuesday, you have candidate trump, the primary candidate leading the race for the republicans. he whence. and then you have to take a look at, what does this mean for the republican party? he s gonna be able to galvanize a base that is radically so different from the rest of democratically elected nominees in the past. really is going to hurt the ability for other, more centrist candidates to be able