i m john king in washington. thank you. for sharing your day with us. new developments in the cases against donald trump. top trump aides tell a federal grand jury about the former president s plan to seize voting machines and there s new fallout from the 34 felony count new york indictment. trump attacks the prosecutor and the judge in that case now on a parallel path with the 2024 nominating calendar, plus two big middle election, middle america elections in chicago. a progressive wins at chicago mayor s race dominated by crime and by schools and this wisconsin blockbuster democrats seizing control of the state supreme court that giant proof of the power of the abortion issue, and today the speaker of the house plays host to taiwan s president. beijing reacts angrily even though this meeting is a compromise of sorts of first for us next steps in the 34 felony count new york case against donald trump and some important exclusive new cnn reporting about one of two federal inv
you know the former arkansas governor asa hutchinson has also talked about not attacking the prosecutor respecting the rule of law, but that s getting drowned out. and i think all you need to know about how complicated and unsure the ramifications of this are is the sound of silence from democrats. right schumer, senator from new york, senior senator from new york, put out a sort of a milk toast statement, saying he hopes that he has a fair trial. and that s it pretty much. no other democrat has said anything that tells you a lot. they want to stay away from this and that biden hasn t declared he s running again yet. why would why would you? why would you though ? if you have all of this turmoil going on on the republican side away, the fact that it s months now until the trump team has to file their motions if that calendar stands again, perversely might help him politically, because if you re one of those republicans, you re looking for something to grab onto the turn and say, see, w
not strong. his approval numbers are consistently below 45 or may be brushing 45 but they go from 44 to 42 to 45. that s tough for democrats. any time at a midterm election they are under 50, it s problematic. if you re under 45, it s more problematic. the white house goal is to push him into the 47, 48 range. they have not been able to do that so far this year and when you add on to the problems that he s had, the latest v.a. scandal, it makes it all the more difficult. democrats know that it is a big weight on their shoulders collectively and they are hoping that the president can do something about it but so far he hasn t been able to. well, he certainly didn t the other day when he came out and gave that press conference remarks about shinseki. a lot of people thought it was a milk toast statement that didn t accomplish much. it was not a decisive statement other than i m not going to tolerate this. it was very obama-esque.