run out of these disaster relief funds it makes it more difficult for them to prepare for disasters because oftentimes these are funds that are used for people and for things to get to places where they anticipate there could be a hurricane, there could be a tornado so that they re ready for that recovery without those funds it just pushes everything on the back end and that is the concern. sara? and yesterday we talked to the spokesman for spokeswoman for the white house who said they have already spent $2 million in hawaii alone just at the beginning of the disaster. i know you will be all over this. thank you from the white house. coming up for us, he is accused of being the architect of the 2020 fake electors plot, also one of the 18 people charged in the georgia indictment. a new cnn exclusive of where kenneth chesebro was on january 6th. and in georgia today many of the candidates not named donald trump are gathering to make their pitch just before the first republican de
bridge when i get to it. neil: let me step back, attorney general and get your sense of this race, the republican party, what they re going through and threading the legal needle on how far they can support him and will support him because many are deemed to be afraid of him. the candidates a couple speak out, chris christie, congressman hurd, what have you. very few. there s great peril in doing that. do you think if the former president is convicted of anything, across any of these cases, that changes and they might feel more emboldened to take him on or to question him? i think you d see more people peel away. i don t think they re afraid of him. they re afraid of losing his supporters. there s a hardcore voters, probably i d say, 30% of the republican party, that will be very hard to persuade not to support trump.
down. after you think about it for a moment, if i were the former president and i was up against these other candidates and i have this durable lead, i would like to be there on stage with them. obviously this is a topic that will come up. each of them in the eye and say, don t you agree this is wrong? that i have been wronged? get them all on camera in front of him? make them look him in the eye and say it? i would want to be there. neil: i can imagine if chris christie said i don t think it s wrong at all. he might. neil: you built this for yourself, not us. he and maybe former congressman hurd if he makes the cut. you re not going to see a lot of them doing that. and maybe vice president pence. he s been more vocal and assertive in the last 48 hours. you saw that hahn the story
not from the stump. if you re a candidate and waiting for trump to employed, these numbers just don t so that. one in four of that poll, one in four republicans have that appetite who are truly anti-trump. so if it s so also of the electorate, you could see why some of these candidates would be hesitant to go after trump directly. when you speak to republican voters, that doesn t seem what they are interested in hearing. to your point i think will hurd is another name you can throw in that list. they re not really doing that well in the numbers. do you see a viable path for republican outside of donald trump? i think we still have a lot of time yet. we haven t seen the first debate. so, you know, let s give all of these candidates a hearing, but in terms of the strategy of going directly after trump, like former congressman hurd has
least not at this point, jonathan. will hurd i m not familiar with the word, richard. i don t believe it s not in his dictionary, very well said, jonathan. one republican who is trying to go middle or moderately, will hurd, who spoke with our colleague on meet the press earlier today about being booed at a gop campaign event in iowa for saying donald trump is running in order to stay out of jail. listen to that and then we will get your reaction. i was there to talk to the people that believe in personal responsibility, that believe character matters, that believe service matters, that believes the united states has a role in the world and it s important to us back here at home. those were the people i was trying to speak to. and also to prove to the rest of the field that we are running for an election, if you are afraid to talk about donald trump or talk about his baggage, then you are not ready to be president of the united states. jonathan, will that work from herd? i t