as well. marc thiessen, andy mccarthy, nicole parker and juan william following along as we watch this play out in real time live this afternoon as we wait for the president to finish and to come out. first to mark meredith live there outside the courthouse in miami. hello there. hi, mark. martha, hello to you. the story at this hour is two very different scenes. the former president with his legal team and across the aisle the special counsel and the justice department ready to begin this long and lengthy process following the indictment unsealed last week. shows the former president will face 37 different felony charges as a result of allegedly holding on to classified documents and not turning them back over to the government. that s what is happening inside. outside the federal courthouse in miami a different story. you have a media spectacle where you have trump supporters and trump critics out here ready to make their opinions very well-known. we ve seen a couple hund
republican idea, 80s 1776:00 deal. we re in a moment where people are hungry for that. that s why i m in this race. martha: what is your fact that president is ahead by 38 points over ron desantis at this point? these things don t seem to hurt him at all numbers-wise. if anything, they may be helping him. i could care less for the politics. martha: but you want to win. for the near term numbers. before the first debate, none of this matters. where trump was in june of 2015, that s where i am today. the debate stage will be critical. it will force the other republican candidates to come out and say this is what we stand for and why we stand for it. if we disagree, let s have it in the open so we can define our agenda. my strategy in this race is that we want to be leading the way in defining the agenda. me prediction is that s what the the voters will reward next year. following a similar track as trump did. that s my prediction. i think it s going to be a