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election fraud in jor r jo. today we learned he s planning, as of now, to skip next week s republican debate on fox in favor of a sitdown with tucker carlson. criminal defense considerations play into his decision, we start with kaitlan collins on new reporting on the politics driving it. she joins us with george conway and cnn contributor john dean, who served as white house counsel in the nixon administration. so, what is do we know the reason he s backed out? of the debate or the yeah. debate or press conference, he s not showing up to either. the debate, he had been keeping people on edge this week, asking people should he go. a lot of people he asked that to said they don t think he was really considering it. he hasn t done any formal debate prep to prepare for this. they didn t expect him to show up. it would have been a big difference if he had decided to go. obviously monday with the news conference, that s a legal
public. he consistently does it. i m sure that the prosecutors are monitoring it. they probably have staffers who do nothing but follow what he s doing and saying. so, i think it s high exposure, and it appears that somehow a lawyer got through to him, or he is now dawned on him that he might be in serious trouble. so, he s backing down a little bit. it is interesting, kaitlan, that a guy who was once the president of the united states is not willing, at least for this debate, to stand on a stage and take the punches and, you know, show himself to the american people in a debate format. and it s not like he s staying home. he s going on, you know, tucker carlson, who has been, you know, supportive of him all this time. i think that it s more of the idea he s angry with fox news, who has been picked to host the debate. he thinks that they are covering his challengers in a more favorable way than they are him.