6th criminals in an effort to stay in sync with voters. and the house speaker sounding positive as the outline of a debt deal emerges. it looks a lot like a traditional give-and-take. rumblings on the right do raise a question whether speaker mccarthy can make a deal and keep his job. and some new and critical reporting about the special counsel s classified documents investigation. among the revelations in the washington post today trump employees move boxes of papers one day before investigators arrive at mar-a-lago and that trump himself produced a dress rehearsal of moving sensitive materials out of sight. a first for up us, though, ron desantis gets pointed and personal criticizing donald trump on a wide array of issues while trying to sell himself at the same time to trump voters as better than the original. it is an understatement to call this new strategy risky, but the florida governor is all in, issuing a statement this morning with links to 11 different thursday
that detail that he had people in his office and showed them to people at times. first of all, he knew those documents were there. i don t think there s much dispute about that, but you have to establish that. second of all that he disseminated that information. he showed it to other people. no, he didn t post it online, but he had people visiting who were not clear. and third in the clip you just played he essentially lied about it to kaitlan. why would he say not really he showed it to other people. and that shows his guilty knowledge, and that s what you need to prove to show criminal intent. trump and his aides also carried out a dress rehearsal removing thing uzfrom his office even before they received the subpoena. the idea that there was a dress rehearsal again get you to the idea of intent and understanding that these were sensitive not
really truly saying this has got to get done. but again, the question is how mad does this make conservatives who are never going to sign on? and can they thread that needle? and to his little shrug there, that s exactly where we re at. the other side of the coin is what is the disappointment among democrats. this is one leading democrat who says number one i keep hearing the president has work requirements, at least open to negotiating some work requirements. she says a nonstarter and listen to what else she said. i regard work requirements as an issue in these efforts as a nonstarter. it would be good if they were to leave the negotiation in the hands of the four women who are appropriators. we know how to do it. a little swipe there at the end. it is the president s budget director there, his legislative director is a woman, but the president, the speaker, she saying get out of the way, guys?
slate of bills going back to last summer. they passed a bipartisan infrastructure package going to as well as investments in climate and as well as investments in semiconductors. the challenge here is when you have when much of your legislation will take time to actually be implemented, you know, how often do we hear at the white house we re in an implementation stage right now, and how long will it take people to feel the impact of that implementation, and until then will they look at things you haven t done, whether it s voting rights, police reform, what have you while still feeling the immediate impact of the economy as well, and yes inflation has subsided at at high rates, but people are still feeling that. so that is the challenge here and also really highlights the importance of messaging and how you describe some of those achievements. as you watch it play out it s clear and people will say at home you re picking on the president, no his numbers just weakened.
the conservative media ecosystem has built a giant wall of inoculation around everything trump. all our voters have known about trump is he s constantly under attack, so he s got these antibodies built-up. trump has already preprogrammed his base to not listen to those people. ron desantis is one of them or at least he wants them to believe he s one of them. can a trumpy take on trump, i guess? yeah. i think one of the biggest questions is will ron desantis be successful at that something everyone else who has been circling getting into the presidential race or already gotten into the presidential race has decided not to do. he is really the first one who is taking on donald trump in such a direct way, and in some ways he had no other choice, right? if donald trump is going to come after you in the way donald trump came after him right after announcing perhaps he feels like this is the moment to try, but you raise such a good point, which is that donald trump and his supporters, anyo