but as the national review puts it, quote, he is a good man, a solid conservative, and is qualified and prepared for the job as anyone in the field, including the current and former president. but pence s cannedsy faces the same basic obstacles of those of nikki haley, tim scott and others, he seems man from an earlier time and little sign for demand of his candidacy. he enters the race 50 points behind donald trump, a man who once categoried him as a coward. a democratic pollster and president of brilliant corners research, john kasic, former governor of ohio and former presidential candidate. cornell and john are msnbc political analysts. great to have you all here. governor, mike pence is a conservative, big with evangelics, no stranger to the cultural wars, all things you would think the party likes, but do his actions on january 6th, the fact that he refused to hold up certification of the election, just negate all of that? well, i what i think at the end of the day
we held the hills of gettysburg. we fought through the wilderness and threw open the doors of richmond s slave jails. all to save the constitution and renew its promise of equality and freedom. we stormed the sands and scaled the cliffs of normandy. we drove tanks through the gates of dachau. we planted the stars and stripes on mt. sarabachi on iwo jima and saved civilization. we marched on washington and won the right of suffrage for america s women. we marched over the edmund pettus bridge and ended segregation. we built rockets and flew them to the moon, leaving the russians in our exhaust, and we built the largest economy, the greatest military in history. and we buried the soviet union beneath it. the american people are always there for one another. when neighbors are hurting, strangers load up their minivans and head that way. whether it was when the towers fell and people rushed across the country to search through the rubble, or whether it was when the winds blew her
machine, according to their report. and the 2020report. four gop field got even bigger. both former vice president miker pence and the very unpopular former new jerseyt governor chris christie. i think he left office with about a 14 percent approval rating in his case, ra. have now entered the race. we have full analysis of all this straight ahead tonight. but we begin with this foth w news alert. sources have now confirmed te to fox, the doj special counsel investigating former president trump s handlingg fo f classified documents has now convened a second grand jury, this one not in d.c.fl, but in b south florida. e samethat would be the same dia where mar-a-lago is and based on what we are hearing, the special counsel is now poised to wrap uiseded tp that . and there are many reports thatb charges could, in fact,e be imminent. at the very same time, we are learning that in an indictment against hunter, biden could also be forthcoming. but don t expect expect hunter s
of morality. televangelist pat robertson, famous for blaming gay people for 9/11, and black people for hurricanes, is dead. but his legacy of shattering the lines between church and state lives on in the quixotic presidential candidacy of mike pence. also tonight, i want to tell you about an under the radar supreme court case that could affect where special counsel jack smith brings criminal charges. as we await the possible indictment of donald trump. and surprise, chief justice john roberts and justice brett kavanaugh come to the defense of voting rights in an important victory for voters in alabama. so what happens now for all the other efforts to redraw maps to marginalize voters of color? but we begin tonight with the supreme court. there was a surprising decision today reaffirming the landmark voting rights act, and we re going to get to that a bit later. but i want to start with a lesser known case that is still awaiting a ruling by the highest court in the lan
i m paula newton. ahead here on cnn newsroom, donald trump s former chief of staff has testified before a federal grand jury as part of a special counsel s ongoing investigation into the former president. both sides pointing fingers over a massive dam breach in ukraine that has forced major evacuations and triggered environmental fears. and the golf world is suffering from whiplash as the pga tour does a 180 and joins forces with liv golf. that s after fighting the saudi-backed tour for the past year. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with paula newton. and we begin this hour with two major developments in the special counsel investigation of donald trump. now first, sources tell cnn that a second grand jury based in southern florida is hearing testimony about the former u.s. president s handling of classified documents. and that panel is expected to hear from yet another witness in the day ahead. this is in addition to a grand jury already meeting in washing