joel was saying, o professional prosecutors they are analyzing the evidence they are looking at the law. they are thinking about what i in the public interest at this particular moment. my guess is they hav considered and anticipated all of these things prior to thi moment so of course they are listening, and of, course they are paying attention. but i don t think at this point, be in that any effect on wha the ultimate outcome is rebecca roiphe, jill wine-banks, thank you both ver much for being part of our continuing coverage this morning. joining me now, michae beschloss, nbc new presidential historian michael, i have to tell you, i thought waking up to the new of donald trump social media post was a bit of an earthquake, deserving of the rolling breaking news coverage we have been underway with for the las three and a half hours but the tweet backing him up
responds orwellian, it s dangerous, and we ve got to stand up agains it continually i have to say, i ve never heard the united states of trumpists down, but i will use that and attribute it to you and let s move to the new poll which comes leaning biden 49 t 45% in a hypothetical matchu between the two. the president in a virtual dea heat though between desantis look at that, 40 7:46, tha does fall within the margin of error. have you interpret the numbers for democrats. is president biden bes position to beat republicans well, i mean, we have shown the american people this, in 2020, when he won the election against donald trump and he also showed in th midterms that it was not thi big red wave that folks were anticipating, because why? because of the president policies president biden s policies are very popular with the american people, and, coupled with, the republicans attacks on our fundamental freedoms on embracing the diversity o america, embracing the
actually directing house committees to look into this that s right, he s directing house panels, many of whom are already set up to do this kind of work, like the weaponizatio committee, to get involved i something that the local district attorney may or may not do against the forme president of united states, wh is currently a private citizen he tweeted, quote, in part he s directing relevan committees to immediatel investigate if federal funds are being used to subvert ou democracy by interfering and elections with politically motivated prosecutions now marjorie taylor greene, wh is one of the most fervent allies of the former president one with political ambitions t potentially be his running mat in 2024, she has been tweeting in defense of the former president all morning and sh actually responded t mccarthy s directive praisin him for doing this saying that he quote prove again that through his leadership, the hous republicans will not tolerat
desantis it isn t even declared yet and that may not mean much t most of your viewers, but he i somebody who is quit influential in the ideological right among the hous republicans. so he s out there alread encouraging iran desantis to run. and so if more and more ba news comes out about trump, do more and more people start t go to desantis you, know it could rally the democrats around him but i could also see after six years of this turmoil, that ther could be a breaking point at least some segment of the part is looking for someone else. we have been saying that fo a long time, luke, barb, giv us the technicals. let s say there is a trump indictment what happens he is a former president does he appear in court with secret service yeah, you know, it is a fascinating question i do think he would be allowed to self surrender. you know, if you have an concerns that a person might flee or might be dangerous, yo would arrest them. but i think in the case of
what is happening on capitol hill are lawmakers worried about ho fragile things are yeah absolutely there is a lot of hand reading right now in the halls of th senate about what to do abou this a lot of senators on the democratic side of the aisle are talking about the feelings of regret about allowing som of the dodd-frank regulation to be rolled back under donald toronto. and there is talk now abou whether those can be reinstate again. they are gonna have a hard tim with the republicans on that the house is controlled by the republicans obviously and yo need ten republicans in th senate to go along wit