the gloves are truly off tonight in the republican race for president. john king in for anderson tonight. thank you for your time. even if you re just paying a little attention to the republican race, it is hard to notice ron desantis and the former president openly throwing haymakers. never mind the old 11 d commandment. donald trump, of course, has never bought into that, and now it seems his fellow floridian doesn t either. over the last 48 hours, governor desantis has gone straight after the gop front-runner, most recently today on this conservative talk show. he s been attacking me by moving left, so this is a different guy than 2015/2016. 2 million illegal aliens he wanted to amnesty. we both faced covid-19, and we both responded in the way we did. he responded by elevating anthony fauci and really turning over the reins to dr. fauci. under the trump administration, he enacted a bill, basically a jailbreak bill. as for mr. trump, there s this, and, yes, listen close
saying he feels closer to a deal today than he has before, but not everyone in his party is as optimistic. one top republican negotiator warning the deal is still teetering on the brink and could fall apart entirely. meanwhile, the national deficit continues to soar to new heights and treasury secretary janet yellen says there are only eight days remaining to pay america s bills. is everyone on board? reporter: we ll see about that. he came in to the capitol this morning and told reporters he s feeling optimistic and thinks progress has been made and really they re focused on a few remaining sticking points for this deal. i am told the goal is to have a deal announced by the end of today. we ll see if they can get there. we have new reporting about what the outstanding issues are. one of them is a provision to impose new work requirements on some social safety net programs. i m told they made some progress on that in negotiations last night. we re going to see today wheth
captions by vitac www.vitac.com the gloves are truly off in the republican race for president. john king in for anderson t pay little attention to the republican race, it is hard to notice ron desantie former president openly throwing hay makers. donald trump, of course, has never bought into that. and now it seems his fellow floridian doesn t either. over the last 48 hours, governor desantis has gone straight after the gop front runner, most recently today on this conservative talk show. he s been attacking me by moving left. so, this is a different guy than 2015, 2016. 2 million illegal aliens he wanted to amnesty. we both faced covid-19, and we both responded the way we did. he responded by elevating anthony fauci and turning over the reigning to dr. fauci. he enacted a bill, basically a jailbreak bill. as for mr. trump, there s this. and yes, listen closely, he s deliberately calling the governor rob, not ron. rob desanctimonious and his poll numbers are dropp
primary. they want to divide us so they can quietly buy the white house for crooked joe. so, let s talk about all this. two of our favorite cnn commentators, mia love, ella stuart is with us as well. and the new york times campaign reporter. nicolette me start with you. this is a big shift for the governor. he was much more nuanced, much more gentle when it came to donald trump. why have they decided he s soft on covid, he s soft on crime. why? he i mean, soft on trump. he barely mentioned former president trump by name until he got into the race. so, this is very much seeing governor desantis unleashed. i think it surprised a few people. he you know, he s in this position where, with mr. desantis, where he needs to stay on the good side of a lot of mr. trump s base, while
hurt him in the end. now that he has done that, was that always planned or was it because the last couple of months have been tough for him? and you know his skill set better than most. donald trump has been on his case for days and weeks. now he s on his case in a trumpy, by the hour kind of way. does he have the skill set to handle that? governor desantis, like any politician, i think, does not like being attacked and having to sit on his hands. i m sure that was very us frustrating for the last few months. and now he really sees an opportunity to differentiate himself from president trump on policy. and i do think we got some internal audio tape from the governor s donor meeting yesterday, where his top campaign staffers were very much saying they were going to run to the right of mr. trump, and paint desantis as the real conservative in the race. and yes, i do think that requires the governor to make