Good evening and welcome to Joe Scarborough presents. As we move closer to the primaries, donald trump remains the dominant frontrunner, according to the Morning Consult tracker. He is nearly 40 points ahead of his closest rival, Florida Governor ron desantis. And there is real apprehension about what a second trump term might look like. This morning, the New York Times published a frightening article that gives us the best look at how far donald trump may go with his obsession with authoritarians and personal political loyalty. According to the times, trump and his enablers plan to, quote, alter the Balance Of Power by increasing the president s authority over every part of the federal government. If trump wins, they plan on stacking the government with trump loyalists, regardless of their personal or professional limitations. Its going to look a lot more like 2019 than 2017. They will bring independent agencies like the fcc and the ftc, quote, under direct president ial control. The
Good evening and welcome to Joe Scarborough presents. As we move closer to the primaries, donald trump remains the dominant frontrunner, according to the Morning Consult tracker. He is nearly 40 points ahead of his closest rival, Florida Governor ron desantis. And there is real apprehension about what a second trump term might look like. This morning, the New York Times published a frightening article that gives us the best look at how far donald trump may go with his obsession with authoritarians and personal political loyalty. According to the times, trump and his enablers plan to, quote, alter the Balance Of Power by increasing the president s authority over every part of the federal government. If trump wins, they plan on stacking the government with trump loyalists, regardless of their personal or professional limitations. Its going to look a lot more like 2019 than 2017. They will bring independent agencies like the fcc and the ftc, quote, under direct president ial control. The
Quality now in the world. Smoke stretching from New York City to philadelphia to washington, d. C. As far south now as georgia. Smoke from hundreds of canadians wildfires blanketing the u. S. , pushed in like a Conveyor Belt tonight the system driving all of this with millions of americans including residents of New York City now being told to stay indoors. Sporting events canceled tonight. The smoke delaying flights at major airports. The white house today pressed on the situation, calling it another alarming example of the Climate Crisis. Tonight, the very real health risks and how long this system is expected to stay in place. Trevor ault reporting and rob marciano timing this out. Meantime the race for the white house tonight. Mike pence officially running anime right out of the gate taking aim at his former boss. Arguing donald trump should never be president again. Rachel scott in iowa. Meantime, the Special Counsel investigation into former president trump. News coming tonight.
Single Campaign Event since lawning his Reelection Bid and theyre reporting bidens staff intentionally tries to keep his schedule light. That report reads in part in private some officials acknowledge that they make they may want to consider reasonable accommodations, interesting word, not to physically tax an aging president , his staff schedules most public appearances between noon and 4 00 p. M. And leaves him alone on weekends as much as possible. Interesting. Anyone can trip at any ager but for an biden is the Chief Executive and just embarked on campaign asking voters to keep him in the white house till age 86 and polls show trouble of enormous anxiety and donald trump did rallies in a day and sometimes past midnight and most president s do events before noon and after 46789 most president s have the competency and stamina to do so, kaylee and jim garaday wrote a really nice analysis and sharpest and strongest communication tool by this administration cents is the president himse
From the 2024 primary ballot under the 14th amendments insurrectionist ban. It is a decision that differs from the one that was reached by the Colorado Supreme Court last week. Trump responding in an interview he was not surprised by the ruling. It is very bad for colorado, very, very bad for colorado, but we just had the big win in michigan today and that was a good one. And we have 33 wins and this isnt a loss because well have to see what happens. This is not a final determination. So trump also demanded wednesday that the Secretary Of State in maine recuse herself from a similar Ballot Eligibility Case over her past statements about the january 6 riot. She is said to issue a decision in the coming days. This is all as doj prosecutors in the Subversion Case moved to block him from using the court as a forum to sow disinformation. Lets bring in eugene scott. Good morning to you. Hope youve had a wonderful holiday week. So lets talk about these dueling decisions about trumps eligibili