have to wonder if voters resonate with that in the same way they did in 2020. first lady jill biden certain certainly said a number of times recently she expects him to run. we need to hear it from him. the budget will be released thursday, which has plans to decrease the deficit. since 2000, the debt skyrocketed to just under $6 trillion to roughly $31 trillion today. approximately 460% increase over the past 23 years. according to a report put together by the non-partisan congressional budget office, republicans and democrats bear equal blame for the country s debt increase over the last two administrations. akayla, white house has been pointing to this for a while, the budget announcement. the president will travel to philadelphia to do so on thursday.
a spokesperson for the d.a. s office and hicks attorney both declined to comment. joining us now the founder of the conservative website the bulwark, our friend charlie sykes. charlie, thanks for being with us this morning. good morning. let s get your reaction to what seems to be the latest sign that the legal peril for donald trump is increasing on so many fronts, manhattan, georgia, january 6th, the mar-a-lago documents. let s talk, though, about the political impact as it approaches is it going to hurt or help trump in the republican primary field? well, first of all, jonathan, i am starting to feel like lucy with the football with all these legal issues. like let s wait and see what actually happens. we ve been promised this so many times as you know, but the question you asked whether it will help or hurt, right now given the state of the
not entirely but mostly about the future. he did have the recitation he won the 2020 election and won it by a lot. i think people are over that. move on. you didn t win the election, stay focused on the future. desantis is laying the predicate for a prez campaign. he s not exactly running for president yet. he understands people need to know more about him. and i thought the speeches in california and dallas and houston where he spoke to record breaking audiences for the republican county fund-raising dinners are all aimed at helping deepen peoples understanding of who he is. i think it s a smart move. it s preliminary to becoming a presidential candidate. and as karl rove was suggesting as florida governor ron desantis gears up for a likely presidential run republicans from his home state are already flocking to see him. organizers from the alabama gop s annual winter dinner say this thursday s event is being moved to a larger venue to
never said he d veto it, we never said that. so let s talk about crime. this is a huge problem in d.c. or at least the perception of growing crime as it is nationally. you mentioned it in chicago. in long island and up state new york there was a very big element of crime and the idea the cities, a lot of our cities there s rising shootings, there s rising homicides, you know, the country, especially the urban areas are out of control. and whether it s always backed up with statistics or not, that s the perception people feel right now, a lot of americans feel. so this is going to be an issue heading into 2024, and you ll see desantis or trump play it up. we re obviously a long way from election day 2024, but in some ways it seems the republican prihas already informy kicked off with trump s remarks at cpac over the weekend. we just played when karl rove had to say in which he sort of gave the former president some
talking about his priorities and also suggesting, hey, we need to see what the republicans want to do. this all comes, of course, before the looming fight over the debt ceiling. tell us what you know about what we should expect to hear from the president about his budget and his priorities on thursday. this is something it feels like we ve been waiting for for ages, to finally see what the president is going to lay out in his budget, especially because he said that debt limit negotiations or that we know debt limit negotiations will be hinged on what the white house budget looks like compared to republicans and mccarthy. we already know he s planned to fund medicare and social security. these plans could be insolvent in the coming years. now, he is also keeping with his promise not to raise taxes for americans making less than $400,000 and saying that s how he is going to pay for this. he s also already imposed a 15% minimum tax on corporations that he also says is going to pay for