potentially multiple federal indictments. it s not a sure thing. i m like, oh, really, you really think biden can beat him? nothing s a sure thing. but it s also like if you re trying to get the least popular figure as your nominee, donald trump is definitely that. that s just what the data say. that is what the data says. all right, my friend, have a wonderful evening. and thanks to you at home for joining us this evening. if you are a republican running for president in 2024, there is one question that you know you are going to have to answer. what do you think of donald trump being indicted on federal criminal charges? and you would think at this point that anyone entering the race with the republican nomination would be prepared to answer that question, and you would be wrong. today miami mayor francis suarez announced he is joining the pack of candidates running for the republican nomination. he gave his first interview to good morning america, and that inter
have a longer interview soon. we really appreciate it. and that does it for this edition of andrea mitchell reports. chris jansing starts right now. good day. i m chris jansing, live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. for donald trump, it has been a winning strategy his entire life. when you re in legal trouble, go on the attack. so, can a criminal court judge convince him to change course, keep quiet and play by the rules? that question at the heart of a court hearing less than 90 minutes from now. plus, a missouri teenager charged with threatening to kill or harm president biden after plowing a u-haul into security barriers near the white house. the latest on what the secret service says the 19-year-old was trying to do and the disturbing evidence they found inside that truck. and speaker mccarthy reportedly telling house republicans they re nowhere near a deal on the debt limit. that as a sense of pessimism begins to take hold among some lawmakers and the cale
our borders and being humane. and just the departure from what we re seeing now just on both levels, one, it s not a serious effort to solve the crisis. it s not as if greg abbott is say i m going to work with other governors and share the burden. i have to imagine that s someone you can call up and cut a deal with, with texas, say, hey, we can share some of the burden. this is not an effort to solve the problem. it s a total troll, it s a troll because unfortunately the reason why this has changed in the republican party it is what republican voters want. and the more relevant experience i have, unfortunately, alex, it s not the jeb campaign but last year during the mid-term going to a kari lake and masters event in arizona, the desantis migrant stunt, was the biggest
at all. you re not hearing a lot of people saying that about donald trump if he goes after desantis, which he has every single day. yeah, meanwhile, jonathan alan points out that team trump plans to stick to the let trump beat trump strategy, but in the general it didn t work. but when you look at these two approaches, is it possible in a primary, which is where ron desantis and everyone else is to get into the news cycle, to make a mark if they re going to let him have the oxygen? no. i m having trouble flashbacks to 2016, having the conversation, chris. this is the same thing that the rubio campaign was thinking, the jeb campaign was thinking, we had those conversations, the ted cruz campaign. so without giving anything away, tim, what was your thought process then? because jeb bush and, again, as you point out, he was like so many other people who were in
jansing asking you, what do you think about the latest crazy thing trump said? he has to decide every day whether he will agree or disagree with what trump said, and the base will want him to agree nine times out of ten. that gets you in trouble with the mainstream volters voters that moved away in the mid-term. it s doable, but not easy. yes, i did cover the jeb campaign, but you never held those questions against me, did you, tim? no. if trump voters are holding out for a fight over the mid-term ballots, and kari lake might be willing to give it to them. it has been 14 hours since nbc called the governor s race for katie hobbs, and lake has not conceded. but she tweeted this, arizonans know bs when they see it. what exactly does that mean? is she going to concede?