welcome to prime time weekend. i am nicolle wallace. let s get right to the weekends top stories. in the study of criminal minds it is actually not uncommon for an arsonist to knowingly return to the scorched earth he or she so brazenly torched. what is uncommon though is the arsonist not just being applauded by the victims upon its return to the scene of the crime, but being celebrated. today, donald trump played the arsonist in the trump run republican party and showed with senate republicans this afternoon three blocks from where trump was arraigned last year in connection with his efforts to overturn the 2020 election he lost, comes to washington, d.c. today abounding to equal parts chest thumping, america bashing, and more bizarre incoherent ramblings about dating nancy pelosi today. press spin for today was a trump engaged in forward- looking discussions of policy, hannibal lector kept coming up, including donald trump successive animosity toward the department of
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win-win situation for him. if he s not gagged and jailed, he can disparage prosecutors and witnesses with impunity. if he is jailed, he can portray himself as a victim of persecution. what does it say about us, for those who support trump, does it say theydon t support the rule law or they value personal freedom over political prosecution? for those who support the prosecution, does it mean they believe in politically weaponizing the prosecutor s office or does it mean they value the rule of law? so many americans seen locked into one camp or the other unwilling or unable to recognize theest merits to the other side is perhaps the greatest and longest lasting threat, one which corrodes our body politic and our justice system. joining me now to discuss is francesca, assistant law professor at vapder bill.
investigations are an attack on penal like me rather than 21% say that it is about upholding the rule law. in that kind of environment, there is not a lot of wiggle room there for republican political figures to be on other side of voters in this context. well, and i think that that is very obviously reflected in the behavior of republican politics, including trump s rivals would have really been weary of frontally taking him on. of even saying things like you lost the 2020 election. and i think that is one of the reasons that they ve been struggling because they re in this trap. if they do that, that is going to be unpopular in the short-term. if they don t do that, then they re not allowed to make the fundamental electability argument which is this guy has already lost. ron desantis tried, let s put it this way, he tried this week to thread that needle. here is what he said about the
i hope he doesn t get charged. i don t think it would be good for the country, but at the same time i ve got to focus on looking forward. would you trust a president desantis to go ahead and enforce the rule law? look, based on what he just said there it gives you concerns, doesn t it? i mean, look, no one is above the law, and the fact is that what s damaging to the country, i think this is where ron s getting it wrong is donald trump s conduct. remember he was complaining about the last indictment and a number of people in my party, but you can t complain about the indictment and not acknowledge that the conduct where you lie to your lawyers, where you show around classified documents regarding our intelligence activities and our military activities. wolf, what that does is potentially put our troops at risk and potentially put our intelligence officers at risk and we re out there doing dangerous things around the world. it s hurting them when he does that. and what i look, i a