today on inside politics, hunter in the house. the president s son making a surprise appearance on capitol hill to watch a house committee meeting called to hold him in contempt of congress. chaos, shall we say, ensued. plus, it s debate night in des moines. get ready for nikki haley and ron desantis to go head to head for the first time live on cnn. the stakes incredibly high with just five days left for the top trump alternatives to chip away at his massive lead. and demanding answers. multiple investigations are under way after the pentagon waited weeks to reveal the defense secretary was battling cancer. why was even president biden kept in the dark until yesterday? i m manu raju in for dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. first up, capitol hill meets reality tv. a wild scene as house republicans were starting to move toward punishing hunter biden for refusing to sit for a closed door deposition when the president s son showed up. hunter b
congress refused to apply with a congressional subpoena with the january 6th select committee. now ultimately it is going to be up to the doj to determine whether to prosecute hunter biden over this. that s assuming that this resolution passes the full house, which we re hearing could happen as soon as next week. but just a remarkable showdown here on capitol hill today between congressional republicans and the president s son as republicans continue to try to pursue an impeachment inquiry into president biden. circus on capitol hill. go forward. in the middle of all of it, thank you for that. i want to bring in my round table of reporters on this afternoon. cnn s casey hunt, laura lopez of the pbs news hour, and the atlanta journal constitution s tia mitchell. what a morning. what an an afternoon. what a morning it was. what do you think about what happened here in hunter biden s decision to show up? clearly he knew no one knew what, this was a surprise actually, the last
trump still way ahead. we want to talk about state polling. this morning, the ajc has one. that was national polling. ajc has a new poll out this morning, georgia after everything that s gone on. after the mugshot and the booking and everything else. donald trump still enjoys a 42-point lead over ron desantis in the state of georgia. what convinces you, governor, that that dynamic changes over the next several months, that, somehow, voters who have stood by donald trump and, in fact, in some cases intensified their support as they bought his case that he s a martyr and victim in all this, what changes that dynamic? i think what you re seeing right now. all of this stuff beforehand, willie, in terms of the impact that his conduct and the subsequent charges are going to have on the election have been hypothetical. now, people are going to see what they really mean. they re going to mean that a candidate can t be out there campaigning.
did is serious, but likely i m going to vote for him anyway. exactly. we spent a chunk of our at the ajc calling poll respondents who said that. they are worried about these charges. they think he did wrong when he called raffensperger and urged him to find exactly the amount of votes to overturn the defeat. at the same time, they re willing to support donald trump in the primary. that is going to be the difference here in be georgia. the atlanta journal constitution s greg bluestein, always plugged in. great to talk to you. we appreciate it. ken, let s put the calendar back up. put yourself in the shoes of a trump attorney navigating this. we have the trials. mix in the e. jean carroll defamation suit. the pyramid scheme, civil action suit january of next year. we re waiting to see where georgia falls in terms of starting the trial there. first of all, how did the
requires, you first have to show you were fulfilling a federal function, right? so it s not so much, is it relevant to the conspiracy. it s, is it relevant or can you prove it to get your case to federal court? but, of course, the reason meadows wants to be in federal court in the first place is so he can advance the argument ken was referring to, which is this presidential immunity question. he is arguing that because he was a federal officer acting as the direction of the president or in cahoots with the president, it d be improper or unconstitutional for fani willis to prosecute him in state court. the constitution has supremacy and, therefore, he belongs in a federal court. that s a vehicle to get rid of the case entirely. let s go to the state of georgia as we bring in greg bluestein. mark meadows, the first time we ve had a witness effectively sit and testify and we could hear so much of the evidence, really to see where he is and