. today on inside politics, a courtroom stunt. donald trump is stepping away from the trail and choosing to sit inside a new york city court right now. the reason is pretty simple. he thinks it s the best place to boost his campaign. plus, four days left. nikki haley and ron desantis are crisscrossing iowa after facing off in our heated cnn debate. they were quick to fire off attacks on each other, but did they spend enough time taking on the far and away front-runner? and hunter biden is heading to a los angeles courtroom today to be arraigned on federal tax charges, as the white house worries his legal troubles could lead to more political troubles for his father. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. we begin in new york where closing arguments are under way in donald trump s civil fraud trial, with hundreds of millions of dollars and the future of the trump organization on the line. the former president is inside the courtroom right now
language to one audience and another to another audience. the day before, he was sending out fund-raising emails talking about i m going to be your retribution. he s what social scientists call a big fat liar. a ph.d. to learn that? and listen, i m sure he will go back to this language of being the retribution because it works for his very rabid base of supporters, even the dictator line. i think he felt like at least in that moment he wanted to clean it up. we obviously talked a lot about the debate and about what happened on another network, but real quick on chris christie dropping out. biggest upshot is this does help nikki haley potentially significantly in new hampshire. if you look at the base of support that christie had in new hampshire, it was significant. double digits in most polls. almost exclusively, moderates almost exclusively. people who voted for biden in 2020, according to cnn s