distorting the truth. it began with court documents revealing fox s tucker carlson was privately skeptical of election lies, contempt youts yous of the former president, texting someone saying i hate him passionately even as he indicated to viewers the opposite. a dominion voting systems lawsuit, carlson was on the air lying about january 6th. reporter: the crowd was enormous, a small percentage of them were hooligans, they committed vandalism. you ve seen their pictures again and again, but the overwhelming majority weren t. they were peaceful. they were orderly and meek. these were not insurrectionists. they were sight seers. that spectacle using cherry picked footage house speaker mccarthy released only to him was just the beginning. the former president claimed that city, state and federal prosecutors are practicing good old election interference, all caps, and then there was something else that happened that didn t get as much attention, but is important, it involves
everybody in this field can complain. i can finish it. i asked this to kirstjen, i wanted to ask you, scott, do you think these candidates know, do you think the world knows how to campaign against donald trump from a republican standpoint? because i mean, mhere we are al these years later and we re still talking about should ron desantis directly attack him or not? we have a whole field of defeated candidates, jeb bush among them, marco rubio, who tried all different ways and none of them worked. no, i think all the republicans from 2016 forward are like the will smith character in i am legend kwtsz they re in the lab and testing all the serums out, and the rats keep dying. maybe, maybe ron desantis is the one to solve it, but we don t know yet. the theory he s going to test out is to put results up against rhetoric and put a younger generation up against an older generation. we haven t seen this particular
his state of tallahassee. they just began last week. they will continue for the next 60 days, and at the end of those 60 days, he is likely to make a decision, although i am told by my sources that it could be as late as june before he officially jumps into the race. i appreciate it. thanks so much. governor desantis certainly got a rise from the former president who posted on his social network, quote, very small crowds for ron desangt moan yus in iowa. uasa, columnist, kirstjen powers, senior commentator scott jennings, former assistant to president george w. bush. we heard the governor take a thinly veiled shots when he talked about how there s no drama in his administration, something he said before. how long do you think it is before the tension between the two of them actually becomes direct? well, i mean, obviously donald trump has been openly attacking him and the question is how much ron desantis wants to really seriously engage with that. i don t think it s really in his
the reality of crime that is making our citiesless safe. that s where we are now. will president biden deal with the reality that there will continue to be obstruction, there will continue to be resistance, there will continue to be misinformation, the big lie, all of it, there will continue to be that. people are locked in their positions because they have been fed so many misinformation they don t know what s true, what s not. they re just they sit in front of the television locked into one channel that feeds them bs. in a few months, the american people will decide whether the administration is living in the real world that they see every day. let s bring in now cnn senior politics analyst, kirstjen powers and max boot. hello to both of you, thank you
raising interest rates but biden has an problem here. i would also argue we have a real crime problem in the country. we should listen to people like abi abigail spannenberger. many people looked at biden and thought he was a transitional figure, not a transformational one. said this has been a misreading of his mandate and the numbers have only gotten worse for him. i don t see an easy path forward and democrats are going to face really tough times as long as his approval ratings remain as low as they are. kirstjen, let s talk more about polling here. this poll also shows a 34% see biden as a leader, 66% have some doubts. this is what the president ran on, leadership and bringing a grownup back to the white house, as charlie was saying, right?