who s in erie, pennsylvania. for us. we have this new charges, what are we hearing from the former president trump? and what about both his rivals and supporters? yeah, so, last night really in illustrates the tricky minefield that gop rivals and contenders are facing right now. this is the iowa republican dinner, this was last night, just a day after these new charges dropped. the former president, as you about, here was both defiant and deflected. listen for yourself. they want to weaponize the irs, just like they weaponize the justice department and the fbi. by the way, if i weren t running, i would have nobody coming after me. if i was losing by a lot, i would have nobody coming after me. they wouldn t be coming after me. right after that, and throughout his time on stage, he was met with applause. you see all 13 of those candidates that took to the stage at various points last night. including some of them, florida
sent that was four days after he sent mr. trump a letter notifying him he was a target of the investigation. trump is now fund-raising off the likely indictment. he called it the single greatest witch hunt of all time. if i weren t winning in the polls, they wouldn t be doing it. if i weren t running, they definitely wouldn t be doing it. this is planned election interference of the highest magnitude. they don t go after the people who cheated in the election. they only go after the people who report on or question the cheating. this will go down as the biggest disgrace in american history. ken dilanian is at the justice department. ken, is it looking like today? what are you hearing from your sources at the justice department? reporter: i think you laid out some of the very important signals that today could be a big day. perhaps most important, the fact that donald trump s legal team
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