the latest seems to be around this classified documents, what he knew, when he knew it. what he was sharing, whether it was on mic or not. and more of these could come out and i m just wondering, with some of these sort of backing up, does it affect the candidate running for president? you know, it doesn t look like it, neil. about 10, 20 years ago i would have said absolutely, how could someone run for president while under indictment or the threat of indictment. look, welcome to 2023. neil: you re right. and i think that donald trump says he s going to forge ahead, damn the torpedos, and see what happens. and whether they ll indict, the georgia, the same thing. we ll see this presidential campaign play out among the back drop of what are likely to be criminal proceedings against
felony. but we really the key here and the devil is always is in the details. what are those counts? are they all 2016 payments dealing with mcdougall and daniels? or did they find other business or tax-related issues that they can charge? that s going to be the test of history for both trump and bragg as we look at the weight of this prosecution. now, he obviously has three torpedos in the water. one hit, this manhattan charge. he also has georgia coming out of fulton county. i have some question about that case, if it s based entirely on a conversation he had to find additional votes. if it s based entirely on that, i m somewhat i find it somewhat dubious, but that s a fact question and so those questions tend to go to trial and may be difficult to dismiss
federal offense. but that s another weird aspect to this coming election. people could be voting on whether they want to allow trump to self-pardon. voting on whether they believe these are political prosecutions. that s why this is going to be rather grotesque. it s really disporting the election process. the case that i think the one i would worry about if i was defense counsel would be mar-a-largo. that has well-established crimes and the fbi has indicated it believes there was obstruction. of the three torpedos in the water, that s the one i would be most worried about hitting. neil: classified documents. again, to self-pardon, you have to be elected president to do that. you have to that s correct. neil: you d have to be president again. thanks very much. a lot of possibilities here. wild at that.
going to use right now on the battlefield. more concerning is what s going on on the actual battlefield in bakhmut and with the foot soldiers, more likely that something s going to come there with a spring counteroffense we had talked about before, jonathan. lara, as putin makes his escalatory mover he s s what donald trump had to say about those countries dur higgs rally in waco on saturday. if you saw the other day with president xi smart, top of his game, president putin, smart, very smart people, standing there talking about the world order for the next 100 years. that s one of the saddest things you can imagine. s trump with praise for both putin and xi. we don t hear that much from other american politicians. laura, your analysis here from defense officials used to be
vis-a-vis taiwan, but the growing assertiveness it is showing with the navy and the air force and the intention of the biden administration s intention to counter that. and so in the first phase, the alliance will counter with submarine conventionally armed so think torpedos, cruise missiles and special operations can use these submarines, but crucially not ballistic missile submarines and the administration has pointed that out again and again, and then in the second phase the process of the more advanced submarines by