former president donald trump officially kicking off his 2024 campaign with his first rally in waco, texas. that is expected to get underway at any minute. do not worry. we will not be bringing it to you live. tonight s event comes after a tough week for trump, as a multiple criminal investigations have been intensifying. learning his top aides will be forced to testify against him, trump exploded. on friday, a federal judge ruled ex chief of staff mark meadows and many other trump officials must speak to the grand jury and the january 6th investigation. now, trump is of course expected to appeal that division. meanwhile in new york, manhattan da alvin bragg is receiving hundreds of threats from trump s supporters, notes containing powder minutes ago, on hour ago an hour, downplaying this threat. he claims trump did not share an image of himself waving a baseball bat next to the da s head. i understand it was not his photo. it wasn t an article he re-posted it. but
reason, rhonda scent is it s just not the inspirational or angry person that has let up the republican base for the last six years. and so there are two sides to the same coin. one is ron desantis is disciplined and clearly many of these lines, as you point out, are prepared. but the flip side of that, he s untested on the international stage. and it s weird to think of the governor of the state of florida have been untested. but truly, this is someone who sat down with a boat who doesn t engage with the press. everything he does has been crafted. and you simply can t maintain that posture when you are running for president. and certainly not against trump. so, trump has hit desantis pretty hard. you ve seen that ron desantis fall by double digits in the last 60 or 90 days. and if you ve been through the last week around trump, we re starting to see that in fact, these investigations for now at least maybe helping donald trump. molly, you are talking about trump in waco right now, hi
not trump are in a bad situation, right? trumpism doesn t scale, as kari lake, she is knocked up despite what she thinks. and you know, these people are in a bad situation. now, they put themselves in the situation, so i have no pity for anyone. but basically, you know, the idea that you could beat trump by being a elect for trump, who just tries to stay out of trouble is completely impossible. and you see this because remember trump is not a normal campaigner. he s not going to disappear. he s going to keep going, and he s gonna even if he didn t win the nomination, he would still run as a third party. molly jong-fast and david jolly, thank you so much. at the top of the hour, trump is in the hot seat from his speech in waco to his former top aide being called to testify. we re gonna break it all down. and racism, antisemitism, and death, and destruction, all that rhetoric, coming from trump ahead of a possible indictment. and later, more on the deadly tornadoes that tore through
extremists that they are welcome in the mainstream of his campaign and his base. fernand, go into waco, a dog whistle or a bull horn? it s not a bullhorn, it s like opening night on broadway. why not go to the with taking the cult followers to their death and defying law and order and the federal government. that is the message donald trump is openly saying. i just don t understand why there s so much shock and surprise that trump is acting this way. this is how he s acted from the moment he went down on the golden stairs. it was also, this also led to an insurrection on the capitol. trump is just being trump, and he continues to do these very provocative talks and images because he s frankly simply got away with it. and if justice is delivered to folks, it s gonna keep acting this way. and his supporters are gonna
former president donald trump officially kicking off his 2024 campaign with his first rally in waco, texas. that is expected to get underway at any minute. do not worry. we will not be bringing it to you live. tonight s event comes after a tough week for trump, as a multiple criminal investigations have been intensifying. learning his top aides will be forced to testify against him, trump exploded. on friday, a federal judge ruled ex chief of staff mark meadows and many other trump officials must speak to the grand jury and the january 6th investigation. now, trump is of course expected to appeal that division. meanwhile in new york, manhattan da alvin bragg is receiving hundreds of threats from trump s supporters, notes containing powder minutes ago, on hour ago an hour, downplaying this threat. he claims trump did not share an image of himself waving a baseball bat next to the da s