Never been in before to watch someone run for president , nonetheless a former president facing several indictments and several court dates during the process leading up to the election. Mike to that point, martha, you had the republican candidates on your program, his former Vice President mike pence on yesterday. What about the challenge for the other candidates to stay on message, get on message, whatever you want to call it, when the former president is constantly the story . Martha its rough, obviously. These campaigns all are raising money, they are, you know, putting ads out there, trying to make their mark, trying to break through, which you know, has been they are basically in a pretty tight heat in the polls and the 10 to 6 range, some at 3 in the top, and those are the top candidates. The former president is more than 37 points ahead of his nearest competitor who is ron desantis, supposed to come on to the scene and make a big splash. But i think even the former president ,
i don t mind being taxed more but the idea soak the rich billionaire tier that sell that elizabeth warren you are everything wrong with politics. 24 hours ago and coming bang and getting northerly big win. he is a hell of a player and now i m in the semis. will that s the fun stuff. this isn t. suspected of live shooting. carley: cam page comes just days after police found the body of billionaire heiress and missing mom eliza fletcher and as they hunt for another kidnapping suspect. steve: that s right. griff jenkins who knows memphis very well here to give us all the details on this thursday morning, griff. good morning, steve, carley and brian. a terrifying 24 hours as memo feigns were told to shelter in place as he carried out serial shootings four dead and three injured across eight crime scenes. it ended in a high speed crash after he crashed the car that he had carjacked. the worst part of it all he should have been behind bars, not out on the street carrying
gillian: pun intended, you know. martha: that s what i m referring to. we have all the issues, right. china, ukraine, you have questions of the future of the country, questions about the validity and the credibility of our most secret institutions when you look at these situations from the doj and raise questions about what s going on, why is there constantly kind of a charge against the former president, days after you see all of this information leaking about hunter biden, joe biden and all of it. i think that it s fair to say that every piece of evidence that has come out recently draws the current president more closely into an understanding that his son was involved in these business deals. i think we now often it s clear there could be an fara investigation into hunter biden as i mentioned before, the documents case is still open with the special counsel, a separate special counsel investigating what the vice president was doing with those documents. he acquired some of tho
indictment was going to happen as we believe it did today. what would tuesday look like since it s not washington, d.c. where this is happening. it is not. it s florida. right. that s one of the concerns, the security folks, the law enforcement folks, kaitlan, were not told in advance. they knew that jack smith obviously was holding this very tight. and they were not going to be told until after the former president was notified. so, at this hour, we know that the secret service is trying to get its resources together. they re going to have a meeting with the former president s team to arrange for how he gets down to florida, how he gets down to that courthouse. the u.s. marshals, of course, are in charge of securing that building, securing the judges. the fbi is involved in the overall security situation. all of that work is now ongoing. none of that stuff was done ahead of time because, again, there was the concern of the information leaking. so, what we know is that on tuesday
secret service is trying to get its resources together. they re going to have a meeting. with the former presidents team, to arrange for how he gets down to florida. how we get down to that courthouse, the u. s. marshals are in charge of securing that building, security and judges, the fbi is involved in the overall security situation. all of that work is now ongoing. none of that stuff was done ahead of time, because, again, there was the concern of the information leaking. , so, what we know on tuesday, we expect there to be a pretty robust security cordon around that federal court. downtown miami. we expect that the former president will be brought in, there s a secure way to bring him into that building. and then he ll be hiller the charges, it s possible we may see them unsealed before them. again, that s all of that is now being worked out by justice department security officials.