Republicans roll into Iowa State Fair for Deep Fried Tingys and a chance to deepen a connection with voters. It maybe the only chance to see the front runner, whose Debate Stage Decision is still tbd. Plus lifestyles of the rich and connected. Yachts, vip pass, ranches, hospitalers, private jets, Clarns Thomas got it all on someone elses dime. Who paid for what and how many times the justice may have broken the law. And a Cnn Exclusive, joe bidens Campaign Manager joins us for her first interview here in minutes. Im dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and Inside Politics. Up first, new reporting. A source tells me that nikki haley just signed the Loyalty Pledge required to punch her ticket to the first debate stage. Haley is the third republican candidate to do so. More on that in a few minutes. Were going to start in iowa where candidates hope to turn a state fair into their own field of dreams. The fair is a tradition drenched in butter and opportunity and risk. It give candidate
of the first time i saw kim kardashian s butt in person. see, that is me right there. [laughter] greg: i m behind her and to the right and you can clearly see my eyes were laser focused on that thing, and that thing was so big it kind of felt like it was staring back. now this happened in 2016 at the white house correspondent s dinner. i haven t gone since because how could i top that. this weekend s version of the event also reminded me why i haven t been back either. main stream media sucks and it s worse than a tux because the coverage reminds us of what it really is about. something i call ego affirming care. it s where members of the so-called free press can inflate their self-esteem like chinese spy balloons. and like every award show artificially created as a reminder that they matter. it s where they can saver shrimp cocktail al with the smell of joe biden s lingering farts. they smell like butterscotch. that s what happens when you main line werthers. to say dc is
what if the main goal of all of this was just to get that stuff out of mar-a-lago? well, i think that s a question that s on everybody s mind and certainly from where the justice department sits, this was these are these were top secret, classified documents, some of the nation s most, you know, privileged, sort of secrets about national security and military matters and the justice department s top priority in this case was just getting those back. and it s sort of an open question where the investigation heads now but we know that investigators are just beginning to sort of look at the stacks of documents that they have, they have more than 20 boxes to go through so this is going to be a process that takes quite some time. sand it would make sense that they were so worried because this is not really a secure facility. you have had arrests there of foreign nationals who were up to questionable activities. well, you know, one of the main questions that the justice d
ministry meeting. and of course, the geopolitics at play mean that all these seven members don t necessarily always agree on everything including sanctions and things like that. that meeting that last roundtable is wrapping up right now and we re expecting to see antonio tajani, at least foreign minister make a few statements, have a brief press conference that will be followed by a press conference by secretary blinken. now, we can expect some self congratulations usually, these summits focused on the positive and the negative and that will be seen as a success that they were able to put pressure on israel to show restraint in there retaliation. if in fact that s what that it s finished in that restraint was shown so we re expecting that, but there s still so much so many things that is these foreign ministers have to deal with yet including ukraine, including getting some funding to them. and so i suspect we re going to hear more about the successes than the fifth failures and we ll
to taka look at small-dollar donors in iowa. the new york times had this today. there s no flood ofs rushing to support ron desantis. just 17 iowans had given h campaign $200 or more. nikki haley had 25 such iowa donors. while trump had 117. mike pence just 7. what does that tell you? it tells me it s early for the grass the roots work in iowa. and i don t know what the baseline is of what small donors was four years ago, but i do think we re seeing time and time again the political contests are being nationalized. small donors in iowa are more important as an indicator of grass root support than anything else. but i also think we re dealing with a 25time where there s a l of cheering and self-congratulations about the rise of small donors a decade