oliveira. minutes ago, ron desantis walked back a controversial proposal. putting rfk jr. at the head of the cdc or fda. that s obviously very different from what he appeared to say this week. reporter: that s right. he s on this bus tour in iowa. these remarks coming moments ago. he clarified saying, of course he would put a physician in that position. he was simply saying that he agreed with rfk jr. on his positions on dr. fauci, on the lockdown. what is worth noting is that ron desantis covid policy is so integral to his whole selling of himself to the electorate here in iowa. that s where he seeks to have a sharp contrast with donald trump. to see him get tripped up in all of that, trying to agree with rfk jr., bringing him on the
that s the calculation that the voters i was speaking to are making. and they re trying to ascertain who that person is. governor ron desantis in the middle of kind of a campaign reset a couple of months into his campaign. we ve seen him shedding about a third of his staff. they are promising a leaner and more insurgent campaign. i asked him about that yesterday, dana. he told me that sometimes, you know, you have to make new decisions, you have to have this kind of commanders intent. and if they re not following what needs to be done, then you have to make changes, and that he s all about substance and that s what he s going to focus on. what he s not doing is directly talking about donald trump on the stump. and aside from asa hutchinson and chris christie, we really aren t hearing any of these candidates directly take on trump. they re really trying to thread this needle with voters that likely voted for trump in the last two elections, and convince them that they are the person to
thing, of course, are these additional new charges against former president donald trump. one of them for the willful retention of national defense information, which is that iran document that we ve talked so much about that donald trump allegedly flashed to a bunch of people with people working on a mark meadows biography. but the other ones are related to this scheme to attempt to destroy surveillance footage at mar-a-lago. and you nailed it on the head when you said that there is a lot of detail in this new superseding indictment. it runs through, at some points, almost minute by minute, hour by hour about interactions from some of these trump employees. walt nauta, as well as this other man who s now a defendant in the case, carlos de oliveira of when the trump org gets a subpoena for these surveillance tapes. it shows that donald trump s attorney informs him of the subpoena. donald trump then makes it clear he wants to speak to walt nauta. walt nauta all of a sudden changes his t
a sitting president that has a situation like this that had documents, but nothing s happening. and he s a well, the current president had documents as a senator. and we should protect him. this is not something to take lightly. i mean, it s always a serious concern. so those last two members had a different tune than the speaker of the house, who represents a swing district from nebraska, is saying he has major concerns about what is detailed in the indictment. he also called it a strong case that the justice department has put forward. mike mccaul, chairman of the house foreign affairs committee, says it is always a serious concern over any allegations concerning mishandled records. you can hear the speaker defending donald trump and pointing the finger back at joe biden even as he did not want to
republican nomination race right now. because we all get press releases every day. it s like how many doors, never back down, and home phone calls have been made. and it s like there s this attempt of a traditional campaign that s happening and that s what you re going to see with these ten-minute speeches tonight at an iowa republican gathering with the faithful. and it s this, like, bizarro universe of a normal campaign then. and then you have this force of donald trump who s facing all of this legal peril, who, you know, the legal peril based on perhaps up ending our democracy and trying to thwart it. and yet he s still 30 points out on that poll and he s such the dominant force that he comes in on a day like this where indictment is all the news and do those other speeches matter? yes, to the half of the republican caucus-going electorate that is open to an alternative, they matter. but a lot of folks are locked into donald trump already. and, listen, they liked him from 2016 as