as we await the former president and others who turn themselves in, yes, this is a jail that is under doj investigation. a jail where they ve seen sechbl inmate deaths this year. where they have issues with overcrowding, bedbugs, you know, according to one report, shanks being fashioned out of the crumbling building. now, it s a poor mistake that it is highly unlikely that the former president will spend any time inside that building once he s processed. typically, if someone were to be processed, just a normal person, that could take upwards of 12 hours. getting in, booking, if they make bail. now, certainly that process is going to be expedited for the former president. when you ask what preparations look like, i m told they re still underway. plans have not been finalized yet, including which day this will take place. whether it s thursday or friday. but the other questions of course, what will that expedited process look like and what way is he going to enter the jail.
they were moving on to tax reform or in the near term trying to maintain the government s open status through april 29. that remains what s happening right now. let me takes you behind the scenes. according to multiple people with direct knowledge. over the course of the weekend, how it s been described to me is the white house had a pan hik moment realizing how big a failure this actually was. as such, they started reaching out to individual members, seeing if they could spark movement on those issues. the members also had a panic moment as they got home and recognized that the thing they campaigned on for sechbl years, election cycle after election cycle dissolved into nothingness over the 24-hour period. they also want to work on something. here s the reality. in a perfect world they would come together and try to figure out a solution to the problems they couldn t solve last week and bring that to leadership.
to literally tens of millions of people in the united states one way or another? is this going to be the focus versus the bigger picture of the real crisis that exists in this country about immigration? i think as long as the republican party and the republican presidential field is going through this spasm, you know, induced by donald trump in this sort of nativist debate around immigration as opposed to real substantive issues, and real substantive debate on the issues, yeah, this is what we re going to be seeing. i continue to think about the republican party s own autopsy of the 2012 election and it was all about inclusion and having substantive debate and bringing minorities and bringing people of all ethnicities into the party and how the debate we re having now, these candidates are having now is pretty much the opposite of that. andy and mark, thank you both for being with me this morning. we re following sechbl new developments in the ashry
be decided by self-proclaimed moderate republican voters, i would say i would like to sell you a bridge, but what i would like you to do is take me to meet some of these people. the last five years of national politics tells me those people do not exist. the top of the field in terms of the republican presidential nomination is stark and clear and by many measures it is amazing. republican voters may yet change their mine. right now if you ask them who they ll pick to be president, they are going to pick donald trump with an explanation point and a megaphone and a helicopter and a beautiful tower and a casino and the top of the field is very clear. one truly dominant front-runner. the bottom of the field is muddy and inchoate, still sorting itself out, or it would be if the republican party didn t decide this year, sechbl months of the iowa caucus, they ll kill