tech strategy and trump himsel posted fine messages, many aimed at the manhattan da. his former fixer and sta witness in this case has a different idea of what is goin on with his former boss. it goes way beyondscared. way beyond afraid. he is petrified. he could put on whatever big vibrato that he wants, knowing donald trump as we all do, who s not just forget about th fact that he is a germaphobe and so the fact that he is eve going to be in this area i going to sort of make a skin crawl. trump successor meanwhil taking a hands off approach to the news are you reacting to president trump former president trump s situation? no, i have nothing to say about. that i m not going to talk about. it i will talk about th white house no comment strateg and whether they can keep it going in the face of mor criminal cases but we are going to start with this deadly tornadoes that tor through the south and midwes for you. at least 18, as was mentioned, are now confirmed dead afte
declined to comment on the indictment of his 2020 rival when asked by reporters to d so let s bring in nbc s washingto correspondent amy shelf than door from the white house, and julián castro, former secretary of housing in herman in th element. good to see both of. you let start with you at th white house, walk us through why the president at thi moment is saying no commente being silent, at least in term of response and opinion upon the case that it is about to really hit a high point on tuesday. well, as we are continuin to learn more details abou this historic indictment, of former president trump president biden has been consistent and saying he doe not want to comment. this is a white house that doe not want to be seen as meddlin in any sort of legal case that might come before any sort o judge. they really want to make sur that this doesn t look political are politicized. that being said, of course president biden is continuin to face questions. just take a listen to what h