republicans who are refusing to take action on an issue they clapriority. and asked the question whether they re smart enough to get away with it, which i actually, you know, started thinking over the past couple days. you ve got all of these republicans who are following this guy from louisiana, who just sort of stumbled into the speakership and doesn t seem to be that effective. this guy is now putting around the republican s political neck an open border for the next eight months and all that that brings, the collapse of ukraine, to former soviet kgb agent s invasion, and the refusal to fund israel in its time of need. so you have all of these republicans in the house, a lot of them who want to do the right thing but they re blindly following this young, inexperienced speaker who is blindly following there you go. a guy with 91 counts against him. that s the important point right there. yes, it s speaker johnson voicing this, but he is a vessel for what donald
his mountain of legal troubles. new reporting from the new york times revealed the ex president has spent a staggering $50 million of donor money on his legal bills and he has a lot of legal bills to pay. he faces 91 felony counts in four cases. a lawsuit that threatens to take down his family business. not to mention the millions he owes e. jean carroll after losing two lawsuits. from that new york times reporting, quote, mr. trump has used funds in his political action committee known as save america to underwrite his legal bills. the account was originally flooded with donations that were collected during the period immediately after the 2020 election. he was making widespread and false claim of voter fraud. with save america s coffers nearly drained last year, mr. trump sought to refill them through a highly unusual transaction. he asked for a refund of $60 million that he had initially transferred to a different group. a pro trump superpac to support his 2024 campaig
rnc meeting which shows the maga elitism problem the party faces. this is behind the closed doors. the r fl rnc meeting has a behind the doors closed meeting. this is a departure from the past. you can see how it used to look in the old days. take haley barbour, 94 rnc chair or michael steele who so many people know from the similar meeting they held when he was chair to the closed press secret meetings. this is a file photo that shows the contrast over the years, the tightening secrecy. why is it a secret? the rnc is clearly trying to duck any further pressure, scrutiny or efficacy to end the employ primaries which would have tried to declare the primaries over and trump the nominee. the rnc said haley should drop out, trump has to be the winner. this morning nikki haley did something unusual, something trump hasn t done, which is face questions from a different and more adversarial set of interviewers. she went, just like biden has, to the breakfast club and took the que
take a listen. what do you make of the fact that yesterday, this jury said he has to pay $83 million to e. jean carroll? yes, i m disappointed. she waited 30 something years to say that she was sexually assaulted, what do you hope to hear from him today about that? i hope to hear from him that he s going to have it repealed. you want him to appeal? yeah,. appeal . and you know, the things these folks here really tell us, they want to hear him talk about today are the economy, the border wall, the immigration, they say that these trials, this decision yesterday is going to have no impact on the election, and it s just going to fire up his supporters,. alex interesting, let s pivot to democrats, liz, who are focusing on las vegas as well. what we know about vice president kamala harris s trip there to sin city? yeah, so she will be here as well today after a campaign swing the last three days in california. today is the first day of early voting in the f
sandra: as the top of the 2:00 hour on the east coast, a live look at the white house where we are expecting karine jean-pierre will take questions after texas governor greg abbott accuses the president of dereliction of duty. it is a big day for the border. we are watching all of this happening. it s happening live. hello, welcome everyone, sandra smith in new york. great to have you here today. gillian: good to be with you, gillian turner in for john roberts. a major battle over a stretch of land the biden administration has allowed migrants to traverse for three years now, texas says enough is enough, they are alleging failure by the administration to enforce the law justfies their right to stop the federal government from removing the concertina wire. the authors of the constitution knew there would be times the federal government would not live up to its duties so empowered article 1 section 10 the right of self-defense. biden administration has truly abdicated its