cpac s dominated this year by trump loyalists, like representative jim jordan, marjorie taylor greene, and matt gates, kari lake a prominent election denier, who lost the governor s race in arizona last december was also a guest speaker. so is steve bannon, and pillow salesman mike redell. key republican leaders like house speaker kevin mccarthy, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, and rnc chair woman did not take part in cpac this week. meanwhile, other possible presidential candidates sat out the conference in favor of a different event this weekend. a sign of how the republican party remains splintered with some of its members trying to chart a new path forward, and leave donald trump far behind. instead of cpac, florida governor ron desantis, former vice president mike pence, south carolina senator tim scott, and new hampshire governor chris sununu opted to attend a private retreat with donors hosted by the conservative organization club for growth. another group has
all. thank you for watching morning joe weekend. happy weekend everybody. it was a busy week, especially in maryland where republicans are wrapping up their annual conservative political action conference. donald trump is expected to be the big headline for the final day today, but many of the party s biggest names opted out of just it means there is a change including, not, they re a florida governor ron desantis senate minority leader mitch mcconnell, and house speaker kevin mccarthy, pretty big names. the conference was, once one of the biggest events for conservatives. so, what happened? we are happy. and here s what our panel had to say earlier this week. there is a way regan would always go, this is where every sort of conservative used to go, then at some point it became obvious that it was going forth and you would have it became a libertarian gathering, not republican or conservative, that is when you have ron paul and rand paul start winnin
hi, everyone i know that we say this a lot these days but buckle up it s 4:00 in new york. we re following breaking news on that monster $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against fox news just a little bit ago we received word of a bombshell of a plot twist during what was supposed to be the last pretrial hearing before jury selection begins. here s that headline the judge has sanctioned fox news and its parent company, fox corp, for withholding evidence in the dominion defamation suit and said he is considering further investigation and censure. he is considering appointing a special master to investigate the fox local team s actions now, the breaking point today appears to be surprise evidence that was introduced in court today when this happened, quote, lawyers for dominion voting systems played recordings that fox news producer abby grossberg made during 2020, which were not handed over to dominion s lawyers during discovery we have a team of experts and friends to help us
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