thank you, anderson. good evening, everyone. thank you for joining me. this is war. and that may actually be the nicest thing that donald trump has said in the last 24 hours about his former friend and now foe, ron desantis. both of the men crisscrossing the early voting states today. desantis has been on a blitz in new hampshire, and trump was in iowa. but here is a taste of the back and forth that has really escalated over the last 24 hours on everything from the debt ceiling to ron, as i call him, ron desanctimonious for a reason. i think it s so petty. i think it s so juvenile. i don t think that s what voters want. and honestly i think his conduct, which he s been doing for years now, i think that s one of the reasons he s not in the white house now. when he says eight years, every time i hear it, i wince. i think it s a project that will begin on day one, and it will require a daily grind for not just one term but i think for two full presidential terms. but
the news comes after a string of attacks or threats of violence against lawmakers and federal workers. just yesterday a man waving a bat assaulted staffers at the office of democratic congressman gerry connolly. his father says the suspect s father says he was suffering from skins fren ya. in march, one of republican republican rand paul staffers was stabbed in washington. in february, democratic congresswoman angie craig was assaulted in the elevator of her apartment building. and the most severe attack so far occurred in october, a man demanding to see then speaker of the house nancy pelosi broke into her home and attacked her husband with a hammer. joining me now, cnn congressional correspondent jessica dean along with l.a. times columnist l.z. granderson and former trump campaign adviser. thank you all for being here. jessica, i want to start with you. how did this happen? the secret service didn t notice this when it was going on? that s the big question, right? he g
look, willie. can you imagine? no. like, waking up every morning there. what a view mika has. again, i don t know about the satellite dish, but, you know, when she sees a ram, she goes out and moves it a little bit west, picks up, yeah. some people have the red zone package. mika gets out there game to game. if the team gets to the red zone, she turns it in that direction. you can watch the end of the game. okay. i ve never been invited up there. wonder what it looks like. i haven t either. sometimes she lets jack go up to move the satellite dish. jack, upstairs, downstairs. no. oh, ms. mika. funny with the two of you in new york city saying all this. ridiculous. are you up there? she s up there, straight up. no, this is not. do you see the cup? 15 years of this, 15. 15 years. you know what? it keeps getting easier every day, baby, doesn t it? no. wow, just wow, okay. look at that, the sun. i want some cat stevens. morning is broken, come on, l
but he will have to appear in court will be fingerprinted and such and there are going to be pain there will be they will make painstakingly make sure that he is treated like any other type of defended. he will be photographed. he will be provided a room to talk to people in he will be brought before the judge will be read his charges. his lawyers will then be able to enter a plea for him, which by all indicate haitian, it appears he ll say he is not guilty and that he is going to fight these charges. and then of course, though, there is always the political side of this and the scene, it is manhattan and there s always a question of what donald trump and his supporters will be doing in there and to keep the focus on that proceeding in the courthouse, atlanta do we have reporting on what the mood is inside trump world? we do alison . i mean trump s team is scrambling day had been expecting potentially an indictment at some point, but i spoke with some of his advisers tonight,
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