good evening and welcome to a special edition of outfront. i m erin burnett in new york. tonight, along with my friend wolf blitzer in washington. former president donald trump is set to arrive just moments from now at his first town hall of the 2024 election in new hampshire to answer voters questions. former president looking to broaden his base as he attempts to win back the white house. he s leading all the other declared and nondeclared republican primary contenders by a wide margin in what are extremely early polls. but it comes at a time when trump is facing mounting legal troubles. this town hall comes just one day after a jury found trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation forcing him to pay some $5 million to the writer e. jean carroll. and just one month ago, the former president was indicted by the manhattan district attorney. the stakes are very high tonight for the former president of the united states. let s go right to cnn s kristen holmes who s at th
attract independents. and the republicans need independents to win. so, which is crucial here when you take what this actually means, right, the gop has a big choice in their primary of who to nominate. you told me the last time we spoke that you thought the justice department charges could come as early as this month in the mar-a-lago documents case, classified documents cases. and i should note at that time people weren t talking very much about the e. jean carroll case, which could end up being very significant with very important voters. do you think it s still the case, though, that the doj decision on mar-a-lago, and i m making that point separate from january 6th, could come this month? yes, i think it could come any time. they are tieing down, as we learned today, they re tieing down or yesterday from some of your good reporting that they re tieing down the tapes, the handling of the tapes, the movement of boxes, arguably, at trump s direction. those are the kind of det
they gave up on republicans because they couldn t enact their promises the last time they were in congress. but isn t that the other, perhaps the one we re ignoring but it s still hanging out there, to these tea partiers, the unanswered question. health care reform was sold to them as the akoch lips. the end of freedom, the end of america, the pulling of the plug for granny, death panels for everybody else. and yet there hasn t been any republican who has proposed repealing any of those things. they ve not put it at all in those terms. the burr version of this is essentially tweaks. they haven t. and you can t really promise to repeal something that s not going to exist. that s the problem. this is one of the white house s fairy tales that got born out, now that the bill is passed, republicans are focusing on things like companies that say they re going to suffer when this goes through. and that is not quite as scary as tieing down grandmother and making her take it s it s