To stay in the 2024 president ial race, even if he gets convicted. It has been just over 24 hours since we learned the Justice Department added three new criminal charges against him in a classified documents case. Tonight trump was in iowa for the first big gathering of gop candidates, and he claimed the governments allegations were really about his race for the white house. If i werent running, i would have nobody coming after me, or if i was losing by a lot, i would have nobody coming after me. Trump is now facing a total of 40 counts related to his handling of classified material after leaving the white house. Nbcs Garrett Haake has more on the case against the former president. In the new charges the Special Counsel alleging mr. Trump sought a coverup to conceal classified documents at his maralago home by deleting Surveillance Video. Now charging a new defendant, maralago property manager Carlos De Oliveira with two Obstruction Counts and with making false statements to the fbi.
okay, but the thing is, they are not even going after one another, which is what david suggested, ron desantis ray, he is running in the republican primary, tim scott who is also running in the republican primary, has been criticizing desantis for his florida education policy. what does desantis? new does he take a swing back at him scott? no. heat it goes after kamala harris, how does that strategy work? well it shows you who they are really scared, of and concerned about. i watched a number of those speeches tonight from the lincoln dinner, and a lot of folks on that stage mentioned the vice president. i think, frankly you know, tim scott did barely strong words for one desantis, and his policy, i think that they could have been and should have been stronger, this comes on the trail, but everything that all the people in they are going to have to get support on the debate stage. you hit back that on the first
is not, easy but david, isn t that what you sign up for when you are running for president? stephanie, one desantis is uniquely bad at retail politics, he s uniquely unlikable, and all of this dark around the rhonda santas doesn t need a reset, he needs a re-brand. the problem with iran desantis campaign, tonight is ron desantis. he has not liked, his message is falling flat. he is angry, his paranoid, he presents america in these large shades. even donald, trump mr. american wants to make america great, again understand testers out there every day, saying americas coming for your children, and you are not a strong enough parent so my state are going to protect your kids from the world is this creepy ethos that he has all, there and there is a ceiling to it. so rhonda santas might be probably too late for understand, is because he needs a full re-rant of this problem is, you spent five years so cementing the xenophobia and masaji and
president ages in just four years, that they are already at that age, where does that leave us with? simone and, david still with, us i know you both have unique perspectives on, this david, you served in congress, what do you think? i think we have to be careful as a nation framing this around age, and instead focus on fitness, capacity, and judgment. because, that is not always a factor in age. if youthfulness was the qualifier, lauren boebert at 36 should be president of the united states, i think it is a terrifying prospect. i also think in addition to fitness, capacity, and judgment, important to consider whether or not a legislator, or president ideology, is contemporary with the times. joe biden was born in 1940, two but the republicans that want to take us back to the cultural norms of 1942. so biden wants to move us forward to be the nation that we are not exactly the old people, so the question of age is 84 that times, but i think
about fitness, and i think the reality, is that the president specifically, acknowledgment that the fact is, president biden is all. president biden looks all, and he has a quiet voice, so they are taking that head on now, in a way that i think is absolutely necessary, because it is a that his potential contenders have, been and will continue to try against them. and i think in the recent months, years, or even weeks even. the man is definitely on top of it. all, right simone, sanders david, julie thank you both for being with us, tonight i appreciate it. great to see you both. when we come, back it has been a hell of a week. we will pull up a split screen, one between the current and one between the last. we will look back on all of it with our dear friend michael