no real problems around the courthouse, right? reporter: no, and i ll tell you, so if we think back to the arraignment in april of 2023 when former president donald trump was first arraigned, this area was filled with protesters. if you remember marjorie taylor greene came to this area as well. she was kind of swarmed by press along with protesters showing her supportth for the former president of the united states. that was probably the biggest crowd that p i had seen in this area since this whole thing began. day one there were a significant or a more so significant amount of protesters in this area. i would say maybe 50 protesters are so. since then, we have seen a depletion of protesters in the area in which this individual eventually set himself on fire just about five or so minutes ago. maybe on tuesday there were possibly 10 to 15 individuals. in the last few days since we ve been here, chris, today maybe one, two, or three stragglers with flags in support and/or
In these kind of conditions. This is different even for iowa it is cold and the wind is no joke. Daniel, what do you make of the expectation managing that we have seen from Trumps Team in the sense of what this could look like . Nikki haley was putting out a Video Today of how many times he said he was up by 60 points in iowa . With trump i look at who he is attacking and when. He has offered a little spring on everyone. What that indicates to me at least, he knows that there is some ground gaining a both with the santas and haley and he wants to well that as quickly as possible. He wants to see as Big A Win in iowa tonight, to just put the perception back that the primary is over, these are all stragglers and that there is no chance at all of any kind of
here. i need to do the right thing. so we have seen that now in that case. and so it seems to me that anyone who has good counsel, you know, anyone who has separate counsel from trump, is really in a position where wouldn t you advise i know you re a former proscurement, but if you were one of their lawyers, wouldn t you say, yeah, sing a song. sing out loud. sing out strong. sing! yeah, one of my former colleagues used to say, don t ever do anything wrong because if they come asking me questions, i m going to sing because i can t do time. it s something we use to keep ourselves in check. yes, and in fact, i think it seems likely that among these 30 unindicted coconspirators who are described in the georgia indictment but not charged, are likely people who have cut a deal. and so these were the stragglers who were stubborn. but sometimes it takes one more step closer to the judgment day for people to say, oh, wow, i guess this really is serious. this really is happening.
republican and one democrat, or is it bath because the idea of an alternative has potentially never been more appealing than it is right now. years of polling show public interest in something different is there. almost 50% of americans believe that both democrats and republicans have been doing such a poor job that a third option is needed. so is 2024 the year? is the exhaustion at the thought of a trump-biden rematch enough to sway voters for the first time in history? or would it just siphon off the stragglers and if itdoes, which party benefits, democrats or republicans? we re going to get into the calculus. because for the candidates, it is a calculus, including for whomever is on the would be ticket, which we may get a glimpse of for the first time in new hampshire. who s going to be there. in arlington, virginia, nbc news correspondent, ali vitali, and