Today on inside politics, a burden of proof and politics. The trial against donald trump takes shape as a federal judge sets a date to decide when prosecutors will present their case. A timeline careening into a campaign. Now the former president issued a plea to the Supreme Court. Plus Kevin Mccarthy a auditions for supporting role in the trump defense. The House Speaker unloads an angry tirade over the special counsel indictment, Sidestepping The Former president ials election lies that led to a deadly attack on the capitol where Kevin Mccarthy serves. And made by bidenomics, new cnn reporting spotlights the strategy to make sure americans know their roads, dams and ports and jobs attached to them are thanks to joe biden. Im dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and inside politics. Up first, Donald Trumps anger and anxiety triggered by a looming trial for alleged election crimes. The former president s public posture is defiance. Today donald trump made a demand that the Supreme C
the california republican falsely equated donald trump s 2020 election conspiracies, which led to his supporters ransack ing the capitol to actions taken by hillary clinton and al gore. i would say the same thing hillary clinton says about her election she lost. i can say the same thing about the 2016 race. i can say the same thing about those in the democratic party from the leadership on down about george bush not winning that al gore did. but were any of them prosecuted? were any of them put in jail? were any of them held with no response? the answer is no. so yeah, you can raise that that someone raised a question. in america you are entitled to raise a question. you re entitled to question whether it was honest or not. that s the unique nness of the first amendment. that s the uniqueness of america. put you know what? you shouldn t be prosecuted for your thoughts. he is right.
mounting legal troubles that he is facing. and you could see some of that yesterday. some of our great reporters, including those on your panel, were inside the courtroom and noted this he did appear somber, he did appear dejected. i also picked that up when you could see him speaking with reporters before beoarding his plane. he likes to normally be defiant when he s speak ing publicly. he likes to seem energized, even though we know he s very concerned and frustrated about these charges, but he didn t really give a lot of that off yesterday. and he is going to alabama tonight. he will be addressing republicans there. i do think he s going to try to go back to using the defiant rhetoric and the bravado he tries to use when he s talking to supporters. but it s starting to weigh on him. you re starting to see that bleed into the public a little bit more. i also just want to point to some things he s been say iing today on truth social. he s been railing against these
because one of the political rules of thumb is that if you re opponent is in trouble, you kind of step back and let them continue to be in that state. it sounds like house democrats are getting involved, or at least trying to. there s a number of house democrats who sent a letter recently to the judicial conference asking for a change to the statutes, as it relates to having cameras in federal court argue ing that the latest is a moment when we should start to see cameras in the courtr for this case. they are asking for an i just want to read you part of the letter. it says if the public is to fully accept the outcome, it will be vitally importanfor it to witness as directly as possible how the trials are conducted. the strength of the evidence, and the credibility of witnesses. we should say cameras are not allowed in federal courtrooms when it comes to a criminal trial. so asking for this exception