night. let me first ask you, how confident you are in the reporting that trump is very seriously eyeing an imminent announcement. we will pay get to a certain date because the stomach trump after all. how certain he is that he is going to throw his hat in the ring here for a presidential bid in the coming weeks? as soon as i can be with the caveat that it is donald trump, they are preparing for it that week of november 14th, whether it s november the 15th, november 16th, who knows. it s also as we put in this story, what happens on tuesday night matters. if republicans have a terrible night in the senate, that could affect the timing. if there s a runoff in georgia, that could affect the timing, but they are targeting that we could november 14th for the announcement, and they re looking a potentially doing it an announcement following by what has been described as multi day event, a role of
now, as a rule, the department of justice does not take over public actions against political figures that run up to elections, but after tuesday, the gloves are off. the new york times now reports that the department of justice hopes to reach a decision on whether to bring charges against former president trump before the 2024 presidential campaign heats up. and he has held discussions about possibly appointing a special counsel to oversee a potential prosecution of the former president. which makes this group today by the very well sourced and jonathan swan exodus, it s why it makes such a big deal. swan reports that president trump was thinking about watching his presidential campaign in today s time, on november 14th. november 14th is also conveniently that day trump has been asked to testify to the january six committee of congress. speaking of which, we have breaking news tonight from the very same committee. president trump blew past today s deadline to produce documents that ha
after all. how certain he is that he is going to throw his hat in the ring here for a presidential bid in the coming weeks? as soon as i can be with the caveat that it is donald trump, they are preparing for it that week of november 14th, whether it s november the 15th, november 16th, who knows. it s also as we put in this story, what happens on tuesday night matters. if republicans have a terrible night in the senate, that could affect the timing. if there s a runoff in georgia, that could affect the timing, but they are targeting that we could november 14th for the announcement, and they re looking a potentially doing it an announcement following by what has been described as multi day event, a role of consisting of multiple political events following that initial announcement. when we talk about timing, you talk about the political landscape, is trump walking into a newly emboldened republican party that is aglow with the winds that they have? are there more hobbled than they ex
georgia. georgia, as, well absolutely, 100%. so it is disappointing. but these are the cards that we were dealt. so we have to do it midterms are always turn out. it is all the turnout, as you will know. so, you know what, it is sounds cliché. but it s gonna be whoever turns out their vote. whoever turns out their vote, i, mean millions of votes. 36 million votes have already been cast. some people would say, oh, that definitely favors democrats. but we just don t know. that is in person voting, that is also mail-in ballots. i want to go to florida. i want what sunshine state. because you talked about president he is getting ready to rally for the incumbent senator, marco rubio against democratic congresswoman val demings in that state. trump and rubio are gonna be on the stage and joined by florida s other senator rick scott. but he won t be there is ron desantis, honey. look, we don t know what is going on there. it all comes as trump has reportedly plans to announce anoth
tolerating with clenched teeth for the last year of 2020, the last year of his term, he was looking forward to him basically going down, never being a political force again to give mitch mcconnell any headaches. they had had a very tense relationship as i ve reported with my colleague philip rucker throughout 2020. they broke up formally when mitch mcconnell said on november 14th that he congratulated vice president, former vice president biden as being the president-elect, rightfully elected fair and square. donald trump called him and said how dare you, what are you doing? you re disloyal, and that was the end of it. on january 6th, finally mcconnell was feeling some elation that he wasn t going to have to deal with this guy anymore because he had ruined his legacy by lighting the match that started the riot in