weaponizing its attack line on donald trump, but he appeared to have given them plenty of ammunition. let s get the latest from rich edson in washington. rich? good afternoon, neil. much of the respect presidential field has criticized the department of justice over this. they re also taking issue with the former president s alleged behavior. his campaign says it raised roughly $2 million last night at a fund raiser in bedminster, new jersey just hours after the former president appeared at his arraignment in a courthouse in miami. as his federal indictment dominates the gop race for president. i don t think that most republicans support the conduct that is detailed in that indictment. it s reckless, it s harmful to the american national security and it doesn t show the judgment that you need to be an effective president during difficult times. former vice president mike pence told the wall street journal, these are very serious allegations and i can t defend what is
january 6th, and attempting to overturn the last presidential election. in a sealed legal filing, donald trump is appealing a federal judges order in washington d.c. for donald trump s white house staff to testify. to jack smith s grand jury. the order, the judges order, requires donald trump s last white house chief of staff, mark meadows, to testify to the grand jury. along with donald trump s last director of national intelligence, john ratcliffe, and donald trump s last national security adviser, robert o brien. along with other trump white house officials, the trump appeal is trying to claim executive privilege. to block that testimony, we are always lucky when we have neal katyal appearing on this program, we are especially lucky on appeal news nights. because former acting solicitor general the united states, neal katyal, is one of the top federal appeals court practitioners in the united states. in a moment, neal katyal will give us his assessment of the prospects for
states supreme court. we begin tonight with investigation news. the latest legal development of the day is the news that donald trump has launched another delay tactic. in special prosecutor, jack smith, federal grand jury investigation of donald trump s activities leading up to an on january 6th, and attempting to overturn the last presidential election. in a sealed legal filing, donald trump is appealing a federal judges order in washington d. c. for donald trump s white house staff to testify. to jack smith s grand jury. the order, the judges order, requires donald trump s last white house chief of staff, mark meadows, to testify to the grand jury. along with donald trump s last director of national intelligence, john ratcliffe, and donald trump s last national security adviser, robert o brien. along with other trump white house officials, the trump appeal is trying to claim executive privilege. to block that testimony, we are always lucky when we have neal katyal appearin
i think listen, the democratic party is not supposed to be the party of war. i m campaigning against us being the party of war. we re not supposed to be the party of fear, censorship, of pharma, of wall street, of the neocon s dictating our foreign policy. we re supposed to be the party of the american middle class. right now most of the american middle class feels that they re being ignored. neil: well, a lot of progressives might not entirely be in lock step with everything r.f.k. jr. is saying, but a good many of them would like to see him debate the president of the united states. and include mary an williamson in the mix. the fact of the matter is, r.f.k. jr. telling me a couple weeks ago that he doesn t think that will happen. it didn t happen for his uncle ted kennedy back in 1980 when he too was challenging an incumbent
i don t think you d actually notice much of a difference. only us insiders that actually a little difference, she would still be on the side of pharma, she d still be on the side of private equity, she d still be on the side of big corporations. maybe they would notice it on paper, in actuality, she s been voting with republicans for quite awhile. to be fair, to senator mcconnell, who knows an awful lot about them workings of this stuff and senator romney does, the article indicates that senator mcconnell isn t going for this idea, at least as of now. let s take a look at a paul that is a three-way poll that shows you, ruben gallego, democrat, in the lead with 34%, senator sinema now an independent, having left the democratic party, getting only 19%, running third to kari lake, republican running second at 26%. that is a very possible version in the order, anyway, a finishing this race.