good day from msnbc worl headquarters in new york welcome to alex witt reports i m lindsey reiser developing this hour, a ne poll suggest that donald trump s indictment may b causing political damage a majority poll think th former president intentionally acted illegally. 20% believe he did nothing wrong. now just 25% of will be 61%, unfavourably. earlier today, trump s lawye in another probe said th former presidents legal team will likely fight to dismiss the manhattan da s case. we ve been through this if there s an actual legal basis for disqualification they will pursue it. i think there will be some ver well placed motions to dismiss based on the legal frailties o this kind of mental gymnastics indictment that allen is tryin to piece together. new today, to tennessee state democrats could be on path to reinstatement this wee after being ousted b republicans. it comes as followed grows ove their obstacle shun, and despairing of their whit colleague for protesting g
motivation behind it one of those very well could b to try to fray this alliance that has been built up in th last year plus, because of the war in ukraine okay, courtney, let s go no to the news in taiwan. chinese military jets an warships are and circling th islands and military drills. give us the latest how alarming these moves might be while the two things that are particularly alarming here today, lindsey, number one, yes, as you mentioned there are nin chinese warships that have bee circled the island they re simulating a naval blockade, which of course, i an active war. it s very concerning, not just here, but outside the region the implications of china were to actually carry out a real blockade on this island. both imports and exports would be impacted. today, we saw the chines carrying out these precision airstrikes practices, wher they were demonstrating, o they were simulating attacks o specific each are gets in an