i don t think it serves us good to have a presidential election focused on what happened four years ago in january. and so i want to focus on looking forward. i don t want to look back. i do not want to see him. i hope he doesn t get charged. i don t think it will be good for the country but at the same time i ve got to focus on looking forward and that s what we re going to do. governor ron desantis speaking exclusively with cnn. let s get more reaction right now, republican reaction. joining us here in the situation room, the former chief of staff to vice president mike pence mark short who testified before the federal grand jury investigating 2020 election interference. mark, thanks very much for joining us. your former boss, then vice president pence, has said, and i m quoting, history will hold donald trump accountable for january 6th. would an indictment be a step toward holding trump legally accountable? well, wolf, i think there s a lot in that question, whether or not ther
election. and we have to look at what this means big picture. the fact that special counsel jack smith made trump a target and i think it s fair to say likely an indictment is going to come means that he thinks he has a very strong case. it also means that the attorney general, merrick garland, who has been briefed all along the way also thinks that they have a very strong case. it s said that prosecutors can indict a ham sandwich is the expression, but a conviction is much harder. they would not be moving toward indictment if they didn t think they could get a conviction. that s really important. elliott, prosecutors have heard from several key trump allies and state officials targeted by trump. what could they charge trump with right now? all this flows around the january 6th efforts to upend the 2020 election, leading and end
beginning? yes. we thought everything was on the up and up, i think that was shown when we showed arizona that is the point. however, he shared debate strategy with the trump campaign and confidential information about biden s ads? i think there s two ways to look at what we re looking at. what is a legal case, so whether dominion has any legal action against fox and whether they went. but outside of that, this exposes fox news for what it is. in this case we re seeing now that murdaugh was seemingly willing to help jared kushner and the trump campaign have an edge over biden. we saw in the previous filing, where he said do whatever you can to help in the georgia special election. i m assuming that doesn t mean helped emma crowds. so it really has exposed fox for this gop propaganda arm that it has been for some time but we ve never seen the evidence like this. we ve never seen it from the horses mouth. not fair and not balance clearly now an interesting lee in 2000, and that presi
with the democrats, angus king of maine is an independent, he caucuses with the democrats. but the senate majority leader, chuck schumer, says she will continue to have all of her committee assignments. i thought his statement today was really interesting and revealing, because he said, first off, that she had asked to stay on the committees and he had allowed her to stay in her committee positions. that signals that if democrats are empowering her to be on the committee she s on, that that doesn t practically change the operation of the senate in a 51-49 majority. it means that in the committees you still have more democrats than republicans, that gives them power to issue unilateral subpoenas, it gives them power to advance nominees more quickly through the committee process. that s all what was most important to schumer, when he was celebrating on the hill on wednesday after the georgia special election. that s a good point. abby, over on the house side, kevin mccarthy s fight f
official announcement is certain, leaving the specifics up to trump s speech while many republicans support the former president they re keeping their 2024 options open. if he is the nominee i would into you that as stickily support him. if he chooses to run there is going to be a process and debate. what we need to do is recognize that the republicans have a big bench of leaders and then we will wait and see which ones are going to get into the election and people will make a choice for themselves. if trump does announce, he central to file as a candidate with the federal election commission it. would also restrict how his associated political action committee spend their money. many republicans have advised trump to wait at least until after the december 6th georgia senate runoff to avoid democrats trying to make another race a trump referendum. across last week s midterms, trump s success rate in highly competitive races according to those called is 13 poor 37 or 35%. trump wo