the deal in its current form. so now ahead of his father s re-election run, no less, the politics just got messier. it is giving republicans a new reason to keep pounding on their investigations and to cry foul over the alleged sweetheart deal that the president s son allegedly received. now i want to begin by bringing in former justice department prosecutor, former trump white house associate counsel, cnn political commentator and cnn political commentator and former republican congressman charlie dent. joseph, i want to start with you because this is so confusing, i think, for the average person. usually you think it s a plea deal. they have hammered it out in advance. they go into court. it gets more or less rubber stamped and they go about their business. that did not happen today. why did this fall apart? but really why did it fall apart now? it is funny. there is one lesson i was told when i was a junior prosecutor.
lies. donald trump lays out a platform for his re-election run, but can he get voters to focus on 2024 if he s still clinging to his lies about 2020? and the u.s. military going to war with a republican senator whose actions they say is putting u.s. national security at risk. we ll explain that coming up. but we start a little more than ten hours away from the 11:59 p.m. deadline, that s when title 42 expires and with it the ability for dhs to swiftly expel migrants at the border under that covid era health policy. we are keeping a close eye on the white house because any minute now secretary mayorkas will take that podium and outline the administration plans for the road ahead. already, though, hundreds of active duty u.s. troops are monitoring the situation at the border with more expected to come later this month. this policy shift exposing the broken immigration system and
democrat party and also republican voters that are wondering about the future of their party and the best candidate that they think is out there to beat joe biden. it s a lot. a lot can happen. joe biden thinks he has the nomination wrapped up. the white house is not concerned about the polls. they were negative for the mid terps but they picked up a seat in the senate. the white house has a theory of the case. to let the president be presidential and to have a rose garden campaign and that s the strategy that they re going to run. they re going to run against kevin mccarthy sandra: it s eerily similar to his run during covid. we re looking forward to this announcement coming tomorrow. we re told it s going to be a taped announcement. doesn t seem like the major splash one would expect for a president to be announcing his re-election run.
was at that meeting, new york governor kathy hochul. governor hochul, thank you for joining us on a busy day for you i m sure. thank you very much. governor, this week the president delivered her state of the union address. a lot of people are saying this is also laying the ground work for a 2024 run. yesterday you were a part of a group of democratic governors saying you fully support a biden re-election, but i wonder what more does biden need do to win over some democrats and we know based on the polls there are some, who are still skeptical that he should be the nominee? well, president biden absolutely laid the foundation for a re-election run. he will make that decision on his own timeline. he has tremendous supports among the democratic governors, and i believe the people he represents. what he talked about at the state of the union and reinforced to us as state leaders is that we have to keep focusing on ways we can create more jobs, whether it s
defeated will cause the american people no longer to trust these storied institutions. it will also threaten the american way of life. john: strong words from senator chuck grassley of iowa. the hearing will continue and we ll keep watching it, and get back into it for anything newsworthy. sandra: and former communications adviser and spoke person for chuck grassley will be coming up on a political panel. meanwhile, at this hour, president biden on the road in florida taking aim at republicans. john: the president has yet to pull a trigger on a re-election run, democrats cast doubt on his ability for a win. democrats i m sure as you know are saying we wonder about his age. does it give you any concern? watch me. that s all i can say. i mean you know, it goes from