Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Asking you questions about this criminal matter, you dont have to be sworn under oath. The second that you talk to them and that you lie to them and they can prove that you lied to them, in other words, that you knew what you were telling them was in fact a lie, then they can charge you with that. So thats something thats also been included here in this case. Overall, a 30page indictment, this is a pretty significant step forward in a criminal prosecution. Tom winter, always on top of these developments with the fbi for us. Thanks very much. To help me break down the charges, im joined by liz holtzman, a longtime congresswoman who voted to impeach president nixon. Im also joined by Barbara Mcquade whos also a legal contributor for us an is outside the alexandria courthouse because she has been following very closely the Paul Manafort trial which we are going to get to here in a few minutes. So, liz, i want to star
they thought joe biden was focused on the wrong issues, et cetera, et cetera. they re not in love with the democratic party, and yet by unbelievable margins in this election younger voters were breaking forti democrats. that s one group they can t take for granted and say it is okay we will just run up the numbers for the base, that s not a strategy moving forward. if you are going to win the contest you have to find some of the independents and get them to support you as well, not just your base, right, scott? oh, absolutely. in 2024 the republicans have a favorable map for the u.s. senate. there s a lot of democrat defense to play. if we hit ourselves in the head with a tack hammer again over and over and over, we re going to bleed to death. we have to learn the lesson about candidate quality, candidate appeal, and we also need to learn it for the white house. look, this is a midterm. we elected a congress now. we re trying to take back the white house. the republican party hasn
so there were all of these factors when you re talking about a race that s this close. anything could have tipped it. but talking to republicans today, i ve got to say most of them i m talking to sound like zombies. this put a real scare into them. if they didn t realize that november was going to be tough, boy, they sure do now. there were a lot of republicans who kept telling me, don t worry about it, don t worry about it, it s all going to be fine. not so fine. if you needed this as a republican to know this was going to be a tough cycle, you should be hit in the head with a tack hammer as they said in whatever movie that was. it s just like i don t think anything is different today than it was yesterday morning. tough cycle, first midterm of a have you lost the suburbs? the suburb problem is real. i i think the erosion of suburban voters was real. the turnout was pretty good in this election. there were over 200,000 votes cast. one of the other things i would say from a