currency. that was last year. this year in january, trump also said that he was going to be against a central bank of digital currency. those are just some examples of where the trump campaign has maybe taken a page or two out of the desantis florida playbook. sophia chi, always interesting. thank you. cormac in moments, capitol hill reaction to a new notion about some black voters and whether they are really swinging towards donald trump. good day to all of you from ms nbc world headquarters in new york. dq welcome to alex wood reports. we begin with decision 2024. 11 days before the president debate. president biden is starting to be prepped this week. he is leading california tonight with a record-breaking $30 million in campaign cash after weighing in on donald al trump s consistent threats of retribution, telling supporters, quote, this is the united states of america, did you ever think you d ever, ever, ever hear anything like ev this? meanwhile, steve bannon is pr
precipitant, you know, for these kinds of activities. how that gets punished legally is a question, frankly, that remains to be answered. but i am interested mostly in how this war room at the willard hotel enters into the discussion, led by rudolph giuliani and steve bannon was there. now that we have merrick garland forced to present this before the grand jury, it will be interesting to see how that room s involvement becomes more clear. eugene, what do we know about that supposed war room? not a lot. what we do know is that that was something where a lot of apparently the coordination was happening. and the jamil is 100% right when he s talking about the what happened in that room is going to tell us a lot about what happens next. steve bannon and his involvement. he was not working in the white house and had not been for so long, right.
lithwick at figures out how legal things and prosecuted issues should work. he s dead on the money here. but i don t i would caution people not to overread garland s statement. he is simply referencing the prosecutor s bible, the federal principles of prosecution, and saying that his team will follow those in making a decision about whether or not to prosecute bannon here. my take on those principles is similar to dahlia s, that prosecution is essential. it s critical. this is a strong case where the national interest requires doj to go ahead if congressional oversight is going to continue to have any full force. eugene, i m curious, are you hearing from other democrats that they want to see garland move faster, with more urgency that they want to see communicated on the part of doj? absolutely because what they want to make clear is that if you do not come to congress when we subpoena you, if you do not
come before us, there will be consequences. and there will be speedy consequences, and there will be public consequences. so, you are hearing from democrats on the hill, democratic strategists that they want to see this administration move quickly on those things because that doesn t always mean that that gets to the doj. the doj is going to move as fast as everyone wants because these are people who work quickly usually. but that is what you re hearing from a lot of democrats. joyce vance, thank you so much for joining us. eugene and jamil, you are still sticking around. i m going to ask debra ross what s at stake if federal legislation is not passed to protect voting rights for all. and new information about the gun and the staff involved on the set of a movie in new mexico. a movie in new mexico pack . [coughs] dayquil severe for you. and daily vicks super c for me. vicks super c is a daily supplement to help energize and replenish your body with vitamin c and b vitamins.
jamil smith, political contributor eugene daniels. eugene, this is a fast-moving story. tell us where we are right now. right now we know they re still negotiating, like we say. but it is we really eugene we need that puppy cam you and i have talked about where we can look in and see read the body language and see how things are going. we started with that working list of the things that could come or that could go. my sense is that today s conversations really zeroed in on paid family leave and whether or not we ll see that medicare expansion. is that your understanding as well? no, absolutely because that was one of the things we knew going into it. joe manchin could kind of do without the federal paid leave. it went from 12 weeks. president biden kind of shocked a few people last week saying that it was now four weeks.