No, he was making fun of himself there. You have to wonder if the former president is feeling the heat. I expected him to sing myway and with the scarves wipe the sweat off his face and its hard for me to as Special Counsel jack smith turns up the temperature in federal court, amid the back and forth over the protective order in that case. Theres new reporting this morning do you think hes well . No. Im just saying, him sweating that much. Do you think hes in a million different ways, i dont think hes well . Do you think hes unwell . Marco rubio didnt sweat that much. Ron desantis doesnt sweat that much. That was a lot of sweat. Yes. New reporting on a secret memo that laid out the plot to overturn the 2020 election. Were going to go through that Major Development in just a moment. Meanwhile, were getting a better idea of the timing for the next possible indictment for the former president by 2028 . No. The case down in georgia. Can she delay this any longer . I think its coming. 2028,
good. and cnn this morning continues right now. suspicious letters were sent to election offices, potentially laced with fentanyl. just bringing fear to these election workers who are just trying to do the right thing. this is domestic terrorism. speaker mike johnson is struggling to come up with a plan to avoid a government shutdown. i think there s a honeymoon period here, might be shorter than we thought. the house is out of session, the senate is out of session. nobody is here. these folks represent the eyes and ears of mar-a-lago. just regular people working these kind of day jobs. the former president went, quote, ballistic. a political decision was made by a very politicized department. if i m a prosecutor, this is the best case scenario. the shakeup that could very well shift the entire balance of power in the senate. i will not be running for reelection. we ll see where he goes from here. democrats have no margin for error. joe manchin doe
boeberts. vaughn, i want to ask randomly, kari lake was talking about jumping into the arizona senate race. with or without kari lake, that s a fascinating race. you look at some of the numbers and see it s split three ways. we don t know if sinema is going to run in that race. talk about arizona, and a lot of different pieces of the puzzle and the senate race. governor doug ducey still lives in arizona but has shown no indication or desire to jump into this race. there s a sheriff running for the republican nomination. this is kari lakes if she in fact gets into this. it s important for folks to remember, kari lake lost by 17,000 votes here, she has a firm base of support still in the state of arizona. a long time conservative state. kyrsten sinema has not announced
without mentioning a couple of things that happened while people were maybe otherwise occupied with their turkey dinners. in arizona, two election deniers lost in court of the long holiday weekend. kari lake lost and so did the man who ran to be the state s attorney general is there a clear message here? look, you can file anything you want but if you lose, the courts are going to uphold the decision of the voters yeah. i think one of the real keys to pushing back against donald trump s efforts to steal the election was 61 out of 62 courts that completely rejected his legal claims the one claim he won was not involving fraud. it was provisional ballots we are seeing that continue against election deniers like those in arizona so i think the courts seem to be perhaps, at least at this
and the fact that kari lake lost does not mean that there was anything untoward about the election. i will never forget reuben die ago a we could go saying to chris hayes, she was really good newscaster. but really damn about everything else. [laughs] it was a great compliment to people in the news. amy, democrats got a lot done during the first two years of president biden s administration. what do you think the next two are gonna look like? in terms of congress? are gonn well, unfortunately,u know, the house is now owned by the republican party. and i, you know, i don t think there is gonna be much done legislatively. there is the moderates in there. there are. you know what, i always have hope. you know, we could see something like that, a coalition take place. but i, you know, under kevin mccarthy i don t have a lot of hope. speaking of not a, hopeless allen weisselberg. yes, this trump s new trial. is this really a trial? allen weisselberg was out there doing his very bes