stephanie s one-on-one with two time winner of rupaul drag race james monsoon. her message for those attackin members of her community 11th hour gets underway on thi friday night good evening. i m alicia menendez in for stephanie ruhle. we might be just days away fro finding out whether donald trump will be indicted by grand jury in manhattan. tonight, nbc news has learne exclusive state and federal la enforcement are preparing for possible indictment as early a next week. five senior officials tell nbc this involves conducting preliminary security assessments and discussing potential security plans nbc s laura jarrett has more no charges have bee announced but behind the scene officials are focused on how t secure the area around the criminal court building in lower manhattan for what could be an unprecedented moment - a former president in cour arraigned before a judge nbc news reached out to all of the agencies involved. all have declined to comment the crux of the gr
desantis, a lot of people sa he s doing this to win the primary. i don t know if that s going t work he has to be his own man he has to have every politicia having their own brand, thei own identity you re not going to win a race by being a copycat victoria, i was struck that he got in the donald trump lay in on ukraine. that seemed like an opportunit to differentiate himself your reaction to this moves in florida what she is calling bash he s going to point to florida and say this is the succes story. how is that going to go over i the rest of the country? i think ron desantis, lik the rest of the gop, they don know they know that trump continues to be a force. they are trying to figure ou where things are shaking out i mean, fox was such a pilla for donald trump in 2016 he has been walking away you see the court systems whic were establishment republicans
to fail. there is a lane for someone to come in and say, you know what we re going to inspire the american people! we re going to talk about what we are for we re not going to rely on fea and anger. we might talk about what w disagree with democrats on wha we re going to talk about ne ideas in ways to bring the country together there is a lane for that i don t know if anyone has t creative nest or the courage i don t know what to call it anymore. i think courage is a pretty good word. i m coming back to you, florid man, on ron desantis vicky, you ve got trum downplaying the russian threat saying that our greatest threa is, quote, ourselves what s the strategy here i failed to see how it works i see it as a division, right? dividing and conquering. russia, ukraine, it s so far away even though we are concerned about it especially for thos
who have loved ones in the military, that s a very real fear this is very much affects us it still is thousands an thousands and thousands of miles away trump, effendi thing, is a master marketer he understands which messages w react to he knows that by focusing on the messages which react t what s going on at home an division work, that is a winning combination for him. carlos, i do want to talk t you about desantis he has a florida problem republicans in his state are investigating desantis is preparing to sign six-week abortion ban. what are the things in nevada, in arizona, in states who ar going to be critical t democrats holding on to this i heard from a lot of voters who might define themselves as being a political. they certainly were not hard partisans. they would just say that it all just going too far it s too extreme and that is
the thing that is turning me off. when you see desantis talkin about a six-week abortion ban, a ban before most women even know they are pregnant, i just wonder if that hurts him potentially even in a primary, much less than a general you know what there is an irony here donald trump is certainl obsessed with ron desantis i think the opposite is also true ron desantis is trying so hard to out trump donald trump that he is making a number of critical mistakes which i don t even know if they re going to help them win a republican primary you can t beat donald trump. you can t beat donald trump by beating some cheap imitation o donald trump or by following donald trump you have to distinguis yourself sure, you can talk about how you might agree with him o some things, but you can t jus walk down the path of donald trump and expect the people ar going to say, well, we re goin to choose you and said