apprentice we would have been watching on television. responding to the desantis campaign attack on you, auditioning as an msnbc show, there sing there polling. quinnipiac says 32% of democrats have a favorable view of you versus 17% of republicans, and you re the most favored republican in another poll among democratic voters. that s great for general but is it out of step with where the republican primary electorate is? look, poppy, i had no question about the fact that when you want to tell the truth about donald trump that in the beginning there are going to be people who will react unfavorably to that. and i get that. but over time what people need to understand is i m the only one telling the truth about donald trump. and what that shows you is, and they didn t break out the numbers among independents, which are even better than the numbers you showed for me.
overnight and the campaign trail. that they can pay shop for on desantis is roughly a dozen staffers have been let go. new campaign finance numbers show flashing warning signs for desantis, and most of his cash coming from donors who have maxed out. speaking in florida last night, trump tells desantis to get home, accusing the governor of neglecting states needs as insurance companies flee the state. nbc s garrett hague is joining me from west palm beach and garrett is good to see you again on the sunday here. you were there for trump s speech. are you detecting a new energy in this campaign attack on run desantis? yeah, alex. i do think it is the case. trump and his allies clearly smell blood in the water when it comes to ron desantis and they are not backing off. the speech last night was an hour and 40 minutes and it was mostly focused on education topics and culture war topics. he s speaking to a group of conservative activists who are
sanders is also calling it nonsense that anyone would believe he was hiding details about his health. listen. we wanted to have a sense of what the hell was going on, really. so the first thing we re trying to do is understand what s going on and not run to the new york times and have to report every 15 minutes. this is not a baseball game. i think we acted absolutely appropriately. cnn s ryan nobles is on the story for us. ryan, what more can you tell us? reporter: well, at this point, boris, we re just waiting to see exactly when bernie sanders begins this ramp-up back to where he was prior to this heart attack when it comes to his campaign schedule. as you mentioned, a couple days ago sanders told a couple of us who were here covering the story in burlington that he was going to scale back his campaign attack but do something that s more in line with what other democratic opponents in the field are doing. sanders pushing back on that a little bit in this interview with cnn,
that s right. you were with him up until the day he was fired. that s right. what the heck is rudy giuliani doing in your expert view? as i listen to him that clip, spinning in circles i can t help but look back at this campaign attack that under way saying they were making things up in russia investigation. there was no collusion and here we are in 2019 preparing for another election and he s admitting admit ing on national television they are asking a foreign government to investigate a political opponent. look at the criticism and ask was that warranted when they were doing the same thing they were accused of in the past. i as look at rudy giuliani, it s easier to say he s a former statesmen who turned into a caricature if you look back at his handling, his job was to inoculate the president to get things out there to take away the shock factor. i suspect that may be at play here.
left talking about how, you know, the fbi, how they did either everything right or they re corrupt and crooks and criminals. what i try do is give you the voices of the people actually in there, that were on the receiving end of this campaign attack and take you through that experience. this isn t an endorsement of the fbi s actions. in fact, i m not only critical of the bureau but comey and others in certain times to give that picture. you re giving half the proceeds of this book away to who? thanks for letting me mention that. one thing i wanted to do with this book is use it as a vehicle to help a cause i think is really important. to this day we just passed the 18th anniversary of 9/11 and thr still fbi agents that are dying from illnesses that are now fan festing from the time they spent at ground zero digging through the rubble. and i learned through the course of writing this book there s a fund the fbi association manages that actually takes care of the family members of fa