investigations into donald trump should continue. that does include a majority of independents, also even some republicans. but despite those numbers and all of those investigations, the big question this morning still isn t will trump run again, because it sure sounds like he s going to, but, rather, is he going to jump in before the midterms or after? we have new reporting on why some in his circle are telling him to wait. joining me now is nbc news justice reporter ryan riley, our senior national political reporter mark caputo, josh dossey, political reporter for the washington post, and lisa ruben, an msnbc legal analyst. ryan, i want to begin with you. this document posted by the judge this morning, walk us through the reasoning and what that means. yeah, he laid out a lot of what he said in court last week. i think one of the big things i really notice about it, which isn t surprising coming from a judge who signed the actual
this? well, i m sorry for chuckling because trump world is like that joke with lawyers. in trump world you have all of these freelancers out there. christina bobb hasn t be been paid as attorney. she was custodian of records in this case. she showed up at the court. josh and i were there together. we tried to ask her afterwards her opinion on what happened and she refused to comment. next thing you know she s on fox and raising a whole set of new issues. there s this sort of ad hoc lawyer committee that periodically pops up in right wing media and says stuff and they they don t quite follow through with it. it s difficult to say awhat their legal strategy is. one person in trump world told me, one person, strategy? you think we have a strategy? that s not how we operate. that seems to be the guiding principle the trump legal team is operating under. which is there isn t uch of a team approaching this in a
he was worried about a gop presidential primary. now in one poll, he s increased his lead, potential lead over florida governor desantis in the 2024 primary by 10 percentage points. there was a florida race where he was essentially tied in polling of a congressional race, testing the presidential prospects of desantis and trump. before the mar-a-lago search, tied 38, 37, after the search he s up 52-20. his fund-raising is bonkers. he had $2 million days. liz cheney went down in a fiery defeat and he s been gloating about that. they say, you know, the former president is feeling pretty good and the pressure is off him. he doesn t feel like he has to announce before or imminently because he was worried about some of these other folks getting in. now he s once again at the center of the storm, center of the attention, center of the universe and he feels pretty good about that. josh, does the republican party feel as good about donald trump? i mean, he lost the 2020
some folks being explicitly critical of the fbi. the marjorie taylor greens, and folks like mike pence who are saying, you know, let s make a differentiation between the rank and file members, the agents and the political leadership. but you are seeing a significant uptick in concern among law enforcement folks after this raid of the former president s house. just of the projected threats of violence they received and the fears that this could only get worse as this continues to play out. i hesitate to put too much credence into this. i ve been in a position where donald trump has threatened to release surveillance video of an interview i never did with him. even though that video never exists. there s talk among trump world about this surveillance video they ll release of the fbi raid. does the surveillance video exist? is this a real thing, josh? well, they certainly say this. i mean, what we were told is the
coherent faction. josh, let s talk about law enforcement. you ve recently been writing about doj and the concerns surrounding the threats towards law enforcement. do they feel that releasing a part of this affidavit, obviously not stuff that would harm an investigation, but even releasing some information would do more harm than damage to individual law enforcement officers or are is there debate in that world? well, you saw the justice department s position last week in the case. it would still feature investigative steps, reveal grand jury material and could put people under threat if any names were out there. we saw an uptick in threats. you have fbi and doj officials who are pretty concerned about the safety right now. you have two tracks in the republican party.