he gained three points on the margin relive to biden since the indictment s happened. so this idea that donald trump can t win a general election against joe biden, in my mind, is total fantasy looking at these national polls right now. so, ron brownstein wrote an article saying how could it still be tied like that, how could it still be 43-43 when you look at a three-times indicted ex-president. and still this country is split evenly. cbs news d a fascinating poll question that says what is more concerning to you about the trump indictments, either a that they re politically motivated or that trued to overturn the 2020 presidential election result. 30% said it was more cceing that the indictment was more politically motivated. that is what s going on. 24% both. to really just add another 12 to each. it s dead even on this.
twice-impeached, indicted ex-president. gasoline can create useful energy, but it can also simply burn, and by 2023 it seemed clear that the power of this new social energy had been to destroy any institution from the media to the political establishment that it touched. those of us who work in media, politics and technology were largely concerned now with figuring out how to hold these failing institutions together or how to build new ones resistant to the forces we helped unleash. joining us is ben smith, author of the new book traffic, the co-founder of semafor. joining me is donny deutsch. . / i scooped you on ben. what i love about this, it s not defensive. it really is here is what s going on, here is my role in it
hi, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york, an extraordinary and historic moment unfolding today in a manhattan courthouse where a jury of six men and three women ruled that the disgraced, impeached, indicted ex-president and now also liable for sexually abusing writer e. jean carroll inside a luxury manhattan department store in the mid-1990s. trump was also found liable for defamatory statements he made toward carroll including calling her claims a hoax and a con job. in total this jury awarded the former journalist nearly $5 million in compensatory and punitive damages. the jury did not find trump liable for raping e. jean carroll. it s the only claim on the ten count verdict that went in his favor. while the jury s unanimous verdict was decided in less than three hours it carries no criminal implications for donald trump, it is nonetheless a
new york chris jansing picks up our coverage right now good day i m chris jansing live at msnbc head quarters in new york city this is where donald trump is headed right now, we re watching from the airport, west palm beach, florida, you saw it right here literally just seconds ago, donald trump departing from manhattan. the start of a whirlwind 36 hours in the city where trump bit his empire and once held court. he s now heading into court, as the first indicted ex-president. former president trump, as we said, taking off, a trip he s probably made hundreds of times, but never, of course, like this. his arraignment, the first of its kind in american history, will take place just over 25 hours from now in the meantime, everything is heightened from the political and legal stakes, to the security across lower manhattan. maybe especially to the anticipation surrounding exactly what s in the trump indictment