without alienating two-thirds of the voters who still like trump and don t have a problem with him without the full frontal attack. how is the argument not resognating? i guess some polls would support some people who don t believe this. this argument that republicans are making that donald trump cannot win the general. republican voters haven t shifted that much in believing that donald trump can t win the general. they think he would crush biden. biden voters still think biden would crush trump. so you see how both sides are so polarized. of course they aren t going to necessarily look for a replacement when they think their guy could win again. elise, vaughn, who is about to take a very well earned vacation. safe travels, my friend. thank you both. hawaiian electric
hill because ukraine was running out of munitions. he says that the munitions that the u.s. will be sending to ukraine have a very low rate. that these munitions will give ukraine the leverage it needs as it continues this counteroffensive. all of this alex happening just days before this next nato summit in lithuania. no doubt this decision as well as ukraine s really fight to just become a member of this nato alliance no doubt will be a major focus during that summit. you re 100 percent right on that, all right allie raffa, thank you. let s go now to las vegas where nbc s vaughn hillyard is following donald trump on the campaign trail. so vaughn, welcome. it seems like candidate trump is leading into his criminal indictment to woo voters. what more can you tell us about his message? right, he s taking his legal parallel on the road, and we should note that this in the vote it will be his first stop as a 2024 official presidential candidate since his november announcement to this
doesn t really make sense, but so does a lot of what he says doesn t really make sense. i am just putting that out there to, vaughn, as you are reporting on him. thank you so much my friend. let s go now to a new report and this headline. trump asked about arresting curry of fbi officials, ex aide says, under oath. joining me now on the phone is the author of that article, michael schmidt. what she correspond for the new york times. michael is also an msnbc national security contributor. welcome, this is a heck of an article, it s a let s get into it here. apparently got this information from a sworn statement. it came from john kelly. we all know he was donald trump s second chief of staff in the white house. what does kelly say, michael, in this statement? joey says that trump brought up i arrested mitigations, investigations of other agencies these were two top fbi officials who were involved in
against? look, i think the biden camp should be keeping their powder dry as it relates to republicans. they really need to focus on their democratic coalition. while there will not be an active competitive primary that president biden will have to run in, he is going to have to ensure that folks want to come out and vote for he and vice president harris. i know julie rodriguez chavez, the campaign manager has a memo out tonight talking about the communities that the campaign is going to target, how they re going to engage in this media environment, so on and so forth, and i think that is going to be important. again, our community s going to feel that engagement. the governor talks about desantis getting on the ground and really going state by state, and frankly, that s what president biden is going to have to do and vice president harris to shore up their base, but also expand their coalition. so vaughn, governor ron desantis just signed these new bills into law last night, again,
grand jury is set to hear from trump s former personal attorney, michael cohen this afternoon. cohen pleaded guilty back in 2018 to making the illegal payment to adult film actress stormy daniels all this as the former president goes into campaign mode heading to iowa today for the first time since announcing his third white house run. joining us now, nbc s vaughn hill hilliard who is in davenport, iowa, victoria defrancesco soto, she is also an msnbc contributor, and tally far had yan weinstein, also an msnbc legal analyst. so vaughn, trump insists he won t be backing down in the wake of any legal battles. what can we expect at his event today? reporter: he s going to be addressing a crowd here in davenport iowa at 7:00 p.m. eastern time his intent is to focus on his