is all about politics. i was referring to my political opponents in the republican race for the presidency, which i don t think is all that convincing. i want you to respond, if you can, just kind of clarify things because a lot of people have been making something of this and i want to kind of get your take on it. john lauro, i believe, was on fox news after the arraignment on thursday evening. he went to head, essentially, and admitted that the former president of the united states asked his then vice president mike pence to essentially pause the certification of his election for ten days, so they can, you know, as he kind of puts it, clear things up. i think at one point, he said to pause the voting, to allow for states to conduct audits. trump himself was also confirmed this, in many different ways, on twitter, out loud, as well. should we make anything of this moment? has also been making kind of also the media circles, we should say. he s been, you know, making
been now taken off of cmt. but the content itself, as someone who s covered dozens and dozens of trump rallies, it doesn t seem that different from what is in those rallies and what content is put out there for that audience. yeah. i certainly see from the reaction that i ve gotten initially to what i wrote, it was, you know, positive from people in media circles followed by a lot of backlash from trump supporters once candace owen treat 2013ed out something i had tweeted. i immediately started hearing a lot from, you know, them. i understand that there s room for a plethora of opinions in country music. krmt certainly it s not a surprise that people hold some of these views. but i think country music has strived to become a welcoming
uniquely positioned to take on twitter in this way because it has that user base. you and i have spoken about this before, but certainly within media circles, the frustration, the discontent with twitter is well-known but what about its broader user base? has engage ment suffered? a good question. when it was a publicly traded company, i had all the information at my fingertips. now that it is private, i have to rely on third party analysts. but what we understand is that some of the user base has changed dramatically. they had 229 million daily active users before elon musk took over. i don t think that has fluctuated that much. but in terms of engagement, is in the beginning engagement had almost increased because people were tuning in to watch the train crash. now i think that it is starting to level off as users get a little bit more frustrated with all the changes and features, this needs to be paid for to get
determines whether to set a trial date before the 2024 election. i am joined again by my esteemed colleagues, stephanie ruhle, andrew weissmann, and i want to welcome to the desk the great nbc senior legal correspondent laura jarrett. laura and, andrew this questions especially for you, laura. but aileen can, and controversial figure in judicial circles and media circles, and just casual onlookers. how did she get assigned this case? and truly, how much power does she have at this moment to derail it? to hear it from the public information officer down the, this is supposed to be around him assignment. despite the fact that she does has some past history with this case, there is not some related case doctrine that was a civil case, this is a criminal case. this was random. there is some issue about exactly what the pool of judges might be? i know there s some reporting out there that suggested who might be as many as 15, we think it actually might be a little bit smaller than that.
and it will be judge cannon who oversees trump s arraignment next tuesday afternoon, and determines whether to set a trial date before the 2024 election. i am joined again by my esteemed colleagues, stephanie ruhle, andrew weissmann, and i want to welcome to the desk the great nbc senior legal correspondent laura jarrett. laura and, andrew this questions especially for you, laura. but aileen can, and controversial figure in judicial circles and media circles, and just casual onlookers. how did she get assigned this case? and truly, how much power does she have at this moment to derail it? to hear it from the public information officer down the, this is supposed to be around him assignment. despite the fact that she does has some past history with this case, there is not some related case doctrine that was a civil case, this is a criminal case. this was random. there is some issue about exactly what the pool of judges might be? i know there s some reporting out there that suggested