desantis officially joining 2024 presidential race as the gop field fills out. with us today is ashley davis, former j w. bush white house official and west front strategies founding partner also al motor partner and democratic strategist. welcome to you both. thank you for being here. ashley, i will begin with you, the desantis campaign says in 24 hours after announcing they brought in $8.2 million. so with that in mind, let s take a look at some polling here. these are new fox polls. gop presidential nominee preference among republican primary voters former president trump is at 53% and ron desantis at 20%. now keep in mind that trump back in february was at 43%. so he s come up and ron desantis has gone down, what does that tell you? well, i think governor
disagreement with the fbi, then nothing really matters. i remember during the bush white house that to be able to circulate freely in the west wing you had to have a badge. you had to have a certain level of clearance. certainly the staff secretary had the highest level of clearance and would not have been in that role on some kind of temporary right. they wouldn t place that person until the full clearance. if you re the ceo of a public company, hiring would be through a process, an hr. think about how he fired and hired. he doesn t have to answer to anybody. why would he behave any differently? all right. when we come back, the number three at d.o.j. is out, brand-new nbc news reporting on the departure of the woman who would have overseen the mueller investigation if trump were to fire mueller and his deputy. make something for dinner.
declassified, so, it s fine. that aside, i m trying to conjure what it would be like for all of us to just digest a hillary clinton administration where chelsea clinton s husband was handling mid east and all these different hot spots around the world with a partial security clearance, and she had a wife beater who also had a partial security clearance. what that would be doing to donald trump somewhere or the rest of the republican party. exploited by now. donny, i want to ask you a serious question. we talk about how abnormal this is. one thing that makes it abnormal, i was in the bush white house. the democrats ran oversight. as it pertained to enron. this is one of the places where having a congress that essentially functions as a lap dog to this president is covering up for unprecedented sort of exploitations of norms,
stott ard, columnist for real clear politics. donnie deutsche, brett stevens, op-ed columnist and msnbc contributor and elise jordan, form former aide in the w. bush white house. kim is still with us. a.b., what do you think? i think that we have to in the end find out what actually was going on, who lied, or what the fbi might have withheld. we doubt that they did withhold anything. when people learned what, just for some sense of accountability, but it s clear that this administration, this white house, this west wing, they play by their own rules, and partial security clearances are fine because the president s son-in-law has one. and there s no more glaring example than the fact that president trump never separated himself from his businesses. they have their own set of rules. so, it s unfortunate to a lot of
or make me feel like i m not really there. talk to your doctor, and call 844-234-2424. judge jeanine: alive look at hanoi, vietnam were president, will be speaking any minute. you will take your life. turning the now with my reaction to the latest on the president s trip retired green beret and former counterterrorism advisor for the gw bush white house, colonel michael walt. colonel, talk to me about the president s trip so far. what you think? i think he has covered a lot of ground. he has put out some real markers out there and i think whether it was his speech in south korea which i think is one of the best