hand will be scanned digitally, not the more familiar fingerprinting with actual ink. and donald trump will be joined in court by his attorneys, former federal prosecutor todd blanche and the solicitor general chris kise. they spent the last day or so interviewing local florida attorneys, but so far have not found any to join the former president s legal team. and as we wait for donald trump to make his way to the courthouse, we re keeping a close eye on the scene outside. we have not yet seen anywhere near the kind of huge crowds that miami police were bracing for. though that could change as we get closer to the arraignment. no sign of it yet. trump was asked on monday if he had a message for his supporters and here s what he said. just stay strong, stay very, very strong and we re going to bring it back and we re going to win in a landslide. i believe it will be one of the greatest wins ever, much bigger than the other way, because they ve done so poorly. we re going t
6th criminals in an effort to stay in sync with voters. and the house speaker sounding positive as the outline of a debt deal emerges. it looks a lot like a traditional give-and-take. rumblings on the right do raise a question whether speaker mccarthy can make a deal and keep his job. and some new and critical reporting about the special counsel s classified documents investigation. among the revelations in the washington post today trump employees move boxes of papers one day before investigators arrive at mar-a-lago and that trump himself produced a dress rehearsal of moving sensitive materials out of sight. a first for up us, though, ron desantis gets pointed and personal criticizing donald trump on a wide array of issues while trying to sell himself at the same time to trump voters as better than the original. it is an understatement to call this new strategy risky, but the florida governor is all in, issuing a statement this morning with links to 11 different thursday
kevin mccarthy is saying what he needs to say so his speaker joe biden, mike pence, donald trump should not have had classified dumts. when joe biden and mike pence did the work to discover those classified documents, they gave them all over instantly. the president allegedly obstructed. he knew he had loved because he talked about them. he did everything he could to prevent them from being returned to the government. i believe the knight of the documents that were stored at mar-a-lago very, very different. he is sigh inying something he to be profoundly untrue.
us. let s first listen to something he said to our colleague kaitlan collins during the cnn town hall when she asked him did he show them to people. did you ever show those classified dumts to anyone? not really, i would have the right to. what do you mean not really? thought that i can think of. i don t have anything. i have no classified documents. and by the way they become automatically declassified when i took them. the back part we know he did have classified documents and there s a process. a president can declassify things, but to the idea if you know trump s defense. he says he doesn t remember doing it or not really, but if the defense is, yeah, i had these and i just thought it was cool, a keepsake. and i showed them to the guys in my office, is that a defense? that s not a defense at all. what prosecutors have to prove here he had them in his office and had criminal intent.