to meet with the mexican president. will a new plan emerge to stop the unprecedented number of illegal border crossings. plus a new survey shows voters associate donald trump with words like revenge and dictatorship. and the gop front runner seems to be bragging about it. it s time to say good-bye to 2023. we have a countdown of tbiggest political stories of the year. i m phil mattingly. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. at this hour, secretary of state antony blinken and the secretary of homeland security are meeting with the mexican president about the crisis along the southern border. the goal, convince him to action to stop migrants before they reach u.s. territory. cnn s priscilla alvarez leads us off from the white house today. what does the administration hope to get out of this trip from a policy perspective? reporter: simply put, they want help to drive down the number of border crossings. that officials have been seeing creep up over the l
trump of spending more time and money attacking him than supporting republicans. we have a lot more to do. i ve also been attacked more than anybody as you know, will. you know, donald trump has spent over $20 million attacking me. that s more than he spent supporting republican candidates in last year s midterm elections. at the end of the day, people do want to win, though. you can t win with just republican voters. i think we showed in florida, you know, if you want a big victory, you got to win independent voters. you got to win people who haven t voted for our party in the last several cycles. i ve shown i can do that, and i think we can do it nationally. okay. here to discuss the latest gop feuds and what s happening on the democratic side, we have jessica washington of the root, and our political commentators bakari sellers and scott jennings. scott, here s an interesting paradox about ron desantis. his poll numbers have been flat, basically haven t budged for several weeks.
can do it nationally. here to discuss the gop feuds. we have jessica washington of the root and sellers and scott generalings. been flat, hasn t budged for several weeks, yet his fundraising, he raised $20 million in the 3 weeks he has announced. so is there enthusiasm for him or not? well, there is enthusiasm for him and he is in a different class than the rest of the people running. the problem is trump s core hasn t moved. let s rough it out. half the party wants to do trump and half wants to do something else. the half wants to do something else, he has the biggest chunk, but he hasn t been able to dispatch the other people in the race. having a war chest means super money and money they brought in from florida. that should help him move these people along in theory, but my
atoer attorneys are in touch with the justice department about getting security clearances after judge aileen cannon ordered all the lawyers to start this process now. let s bring in our panel. we have jessica washington of the root with us. also republican strategist jason osborne and former nixon white house counsel john dean. okay. so for all the people who worried that justice cannon was going to slow-roll this somehow or show some partiality to donald trump, that is not happening right now. she has already set deadlines and in fact the trump attorneys are complying with that. i think she gave them the deadline of tomorrow to have to already be in touch with the doj and get their security clearances. so john dean, let me start with you because i think you know what this entails. how long will it take to get security clearances so that everybody will be able to deal with and talk about these highly classified documents? and what will that process look like? well, the first thing t
moves in the trump class of a document case. and cnn s exclusive reporting about the flood from the pool at mar-a-lago that flooded the room where the surveillance video logs were kept. our panel is here, we have jessica washington of the root, jon sale is back, republican strategist joe pinion, and rolling stone columnist jane michaelson. great to have all you jay named people here with me tonight. okay joe, you are not buying the pool conspiracy theory. look, pools flood, that s just a reality of life. i think anybody who has been convinced that the trump family is effectively a crime syndicate that latched itself on to the oval office will say, there we go. they have of course flooded the entirety of the compound for the purposes just one room, don t go overboard. water metaphor, go ahead.