strategic ways regardless of what we see tweeted in all caps, that operates as a campaign should. so what they re saying is let s focus this over there and not where christie wants it focused on. candidates want to talk about what they want to talk about and have their opponents talk about what they want to talk about. steve, do you think there s a lane in the republican party or even with independent voters if he can get them and get to a vote that includes them where chris christie resonates? potentially so. we know how talented christie is. the question is when he has that moment, can he ride that wave on a lane and talk out other republicans along the way as he hopefully, in his mind, does battle with trump. steve, show me what the polling says about chris christie. to start with a monmouth poll from a week ago that asks republicans who do you want to be your nominee.
in this battle with trump s defense attorney. it s going to go on into the afternoon, the cross examination i would suspect. there s redirect for some point to come. this is the construction of the case. it s her story. she s telling it and they re trying to pick it apart. for the last three days and perhaps another day or so going forward, this is what we ve got. this is the whole case. it boils down to does the jury believe her story. charles, that said, does the defense here, joe tacopina in particular, run the risk of that aggressive questioning back firing against a jury. remind us again what the jury is deciding here and how the burden of proof is different from a criminal case? absolutely, lindsey, this is something that could very well, and i suspect is going to backfire on joe tacopina. when you have witness whose can be sympathetic or you have sensitive topics in front of a jury, you have to be very delicate as to how you ask these
it is. [ laughter ] [ applause ] kat, are you surprised the rumors that desantis is running? no, i think everybody is kind of expecting him to run. i think that the way he sort of handled trump so far has been super interesting because he just has not. trump will go after him and he does not address it, which if you try to get into a verbal battle with trump, you are probably going to lose because he ll get really mean and, you know, he s funny. like trump is funny and ron is like not doing it. i wonder what that would look like if it was between trump and ron and ron kind of refuse to let it be that way. yeah, that s definitely going to be interesting. do you think it is a problem? i hear it a lot. is desantis or
friday, i don t know what month it is. [ laughter ] [ applause ] kat, are you surprised the rumors that desantis is running? no, i think everybody is kind of expecting him to run. i think that the way he sort of handled trump so far has been super interesting because he just has not. trump will go after him and he does not address it, which if you try to get into a verbal battle with trump, you are probably going to lose because he ll get really mean and, you know, he s funny. like trump is funny and ron is like not doing it. i wonder what that would look like if it was between trump and ron and ron kind of refuse to let it be that way. yeah, that s definitely going to be interesting. do you think it is a problem? i hear it a lot. is desantis or
you absorb some blows from trump, they re less effective than they used to be. ultimately, you see your opportunity to respond and attack politically, you ll do so, it s smart of desantis, smart of haley, not to get in the battle with trump. donald trump does his best when he has an opponent. not responding at this point, you re denying trump that oxygen he thrives on. we ll see. we re a long way out, but the pot is starting to boil, i should say. doug, thank you very much. thank you. and in case you were wondering because it s been out of the headlines, now you did not miss an announcement on the debt ceiling, there s still no agreement between republicans and the white house. also no agreement among republicans on what exactly they want to cut, only that democrats do need to cut something sings they re the ones to blame for all the spending. a brand new new york times analysis of voting records and fiscal forecast shows that s not entirely true. in fact, republicans are at th