only running for president to avoid prison time. he elaborated on those comments this morning in an interview with chuck todd on nbc s meet the press. take a listen to that. donald trump is a liar. drawn a trump is a national security threat. donald trump willingly knew that he had this country s secrets. he was trying to tamper with evidence to hide that he had that information. all of those things are true. that doesn t matter who the head of doj or fbi s. secretary, at what point if any will be re-see other candidates speaking out against trump at that level? . it s mind-boggling, charles. basically, the people that are during this, like congressman hurd, i know him, he represents part of my own hometown here, san antonio, and also, asa hutchins, and i think they were the two at the lincoln dinner
earlier this week, some people may have heard congressman hurd but they certainly don t agree with him within the at least the majority of them don t. what he is doing is a political kamikaze mission. he s not going to win the republican primary. i don t think he s under any illusion that he will. he sees value in speaking up for what he sees as republican values that aren t being served by president trump and trying to hurt trump. jonathan allen, thank you so much. nbc senior national politics reporter. appreciated as always. coming up later this hour for, you former federal prosecutor cynthia alksne and criminal defense attorney danny civilize joined me for a former president trump s biggest legal issues, you want to miss that and then up next breaking news out of pakistan where dozens are dead after a bomb went off at a political rally. the latest on the deadly blast coming up in just about 60 seconds. conds. wayfair has nice prices, so you can have nice things.
he called the special counsel, jack smith, deranged, a deranged lunatic. of course, this morning coming out on truth social, calling the people who work for the doj and smith himself thugs. what he did is he also offered without any proof that this is all in attempt to rig the next election. and of course, remember, this is all happening as the former president himself is under investigation for his own role to play in possible efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, now already suggesting that there are efforts to overturn the next election. so, richard, more or less, we are just seeing the same when it comes to playing offense, here trying to set the agenda and some really strong, very difficult political minefield for his contenders i will leave you with this one thing. we talked about how former texas congressman will hurd was met with boos on friday. we saw how much of a strong reaction that got from the
has control over the room he is still able to go to iowa and dominate the process there think it s also important to say that you do have some of the candidates for directly going after him give chris christie and asa hutchinson. look at where they are pulling right now look what happened to will hurd former congressman hurd who made that case to republicans an eye when he was booed off the stage the republican base right now is locked under donald trump and they don t want to hear this kind of criticism even though you have republicans who are waving the red flag saying do you really want to go into the 2024 general election with someone facing indictment and perhaps convicted of multiple felonies. are we falling into the same dynamic potentially for a moment consider this charlie what we saw on 2016 and 2020 donald trump raises his arms says anything he wants to pose
are concerned about cooperating with them, working with them arm in arm. and you know, for trump i would be very surprised if he s not on that stage. if you recall, he wasn t talking, he was being very hesitant about endorsing the nominee that wasn t him back in 2016 as well. so, trump just has this hold. we talk about the hold that he has over the voters in the republican party, he has a real hold over the leadership, overt ronnie macdonnell, over the national committee people across the country. the state chairs. they all look at trump as their only chance to win. so, no matter what they say in a written agreements, if these are the, rules anything else they are gonna going to do anything that might undermine his ability to be successful. secretary, only a handful of republican hopefuls have been willing to speak out against trump including former congressman will hurd who recently said that trump was