and we saw that instinct to come to donald trump s defense. and i try to be really specific about this in the piece, that i ve seen this shift before. you know, when trump is in hot water. and like the sort of ambient noise around him is really high, where voters drift away. but they can come back to him. and i think here s my guess. my guess is that he s got qualitative gene, too. he has pollsters, too. and my guess is it is informing some of his desire to get in as early as possible. it s not just his troubles. he wants everyone focused on him. because he know fist he can get everybody talking about him, just, you know, and sort of pushing on those partisan tribal instincts that, a lot of times, he can bring these voters back to his side. and it s something i try to be really clear about. it s not that his support is collapsing. it s not that these voters don t like him. in fact they do like him and the direction he pushed the party. they just have sort of
question of electability really loomed enormously large over democratic primary voters. and you saw discussion all the time, bernie sanders, elizabeth warren, particularly those two, would they be electable, compared to joe biden? and it but i think ultimately it helped joe biden secure in nomination, that calculation. how much do you think republicans are thinking in that boat, and how much can you imagine that coming to play, if there is in fact the contested primary, which looks like there will be? this is like a very key point, because it s not that these republican voters are watching the january 6th hearings, and thinking, oh, i am now persuaded that i don t like donald trump. it s the ambient noise, the cumulation sort of diminishing their sense that he could potentially win. but the other major factor is that there are a bunch of other candidates that day like. they are very enthusiastic
like donald trump. it s the ambient noise, the cumulation sort of diminishing their sense that he could potentially win. but the other major factor is that there are a bunch of other candidates that day like. they are very enthusiastic about ron desantis. they see him, they say all the time, he s like trump. he s a fighter, but without the baggage. they really like rusty noem. they think there are a lot of republican stars who are better suited to beat joe biden, and they really want to win. that s coming through just loud and clear in these groups. so, i guess my deeper question, i think this is gonna be kind of frustrating answer, like, they are not getting done baggage they re not like wow, that was a really bad thing that happened, and that was back for american democracy. the degree to which the committee has really tried to be like, hey guys, listen to fellow republicans, listen to that republican, this other republican, here are trusted
so that s not entirely consistent to me. what do you see as the truth? you never know what s going on with an investigation, right? criminal investigations, unlike political committees, are conducted in secret. and witnesses are interviewed and witnesses may talk about if they have been contacted or not. but the doj isn t going to report on the status of its investigation. well, i ll push you slightly. sure. you do know sometimes about certain search activities we showed. when people are indicted, you know that. and you can tell from some of the ambient noise, at least what mr. weissman concluded, that they re not going big and broad. they re being very targeted, which might miss the proverbial fascist forest from the riot trees, to use an old phrase. i like that. that s a well-said phrase. but no, you re right. i think that we do want to see to me, we want to see a broader investigation that is sort of following what the
29,000 feet, its cruising altitude, in two minutes time, it ran into a chinese mountainside. the wall street journal, a source telling them that the plane did what it was supposed to do because of somebody in the cockpit. now, the question is whether or not that person was a passenger or whether or not that person was a pilot. remember, china eastern insists that its pilots before this flight were in good health. they also had no family or finance drama. what will really be telling is watts on the cockpit voice recorder. that will show the communication not only between pilots and air traffic control, but on the intercom between the pilots themselves and also the ambient noise, and that could be key in determining whether or not there was any sort of struggle onboard. the chinese who are leading this investigation, and the chinese civil aviation authority, and says its investigation will be rigorous and scientific, still a lot more to come out here.