hello and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. volodymyr zelenskyy s tour ends with a promise of more missiles and more drones but ukraine s big skiz still tbd. he wants fighter jets. plus ron desantis plays the every man in iowa while neither snow more rain nor heat does not apply when it comes to scheduling a trump rally. the former president does find a way to remind us who he is and what he believes. and real or not real. the white house sounds hopeful about avoiding a debt ceiling cliff and the president calls the negotiation a negotiation. a first for us, though, two pleas from ukraine s president to the west. the first for patience and for trust that a big counteroffensive is coming. we will be ready, you know, in some time. i won t to be honest with you, i can t share with you some days. i just don t want to prepare not for our friends, secrets from our friends, but secrets from our neighbors. the
trying to tell people about his rust belt roots. it looks like team desantis is calculating what s going to work and how can he elevate his national presence outside of what he s been doing in florida. we saw trump in our cnn town hall and still mocking desantis with nicknames. trump said the weather was too bad to come to his rally but he did give an interview where he again depose after desantis. i m a loyal person. if that happened to me i would never run against the guy that did that. therefore, he supported desantis for governor and, therefore, desantis shouldn t run against him. ron is not a winner because he s got no personality, i don t think he s got a lot of political skill. there s your trademark trump which tells me they re still worried. well, let s talk about living rent-free in someone s mind. his team is very well aware that it s early and that desantis hasn t yet entered the race and there is an opening for another
sides like this fight? absolutely. when we talk about both sides, let s make clear one side of it, the radical left right now, is the squad. i m not sure how much pelosi likes this fight or presidential candidates like this fight. but right now this is a back-and-forth that lets the president gets his message out and these four congresswomen get their message out. and that seems to be where we re at right now. i know on the president s side, he s capable of putting anything out on twitter in a limousine or in the oval or in the residence. the next moment that i m going to be watching for in this back-and-forth is his next rally next week in cincinnati august 1st. this radical left argument is going to be a continuous one for him. whether he will whether there will be another send her back chant and what he ll do in response. it s trademark trump as he continues fights and tries to shift the terrain of the fights. he s calling them very racist. he started this with a tweet that
resignation to the president effective seven days from today, effective one week from today, earlier this morning. now, this comes as president trump also trying to distance himself from his one-time social relationship that he reportedly had with epstein, acknowledging that he kicked jeffrey epstein out of his mar-a-lago club, saying that he had some sort of unspecified falling out with epstein. so president trump trying to put some distance between him and that relationship as well. this comes after president trump requested that acosta do that press conference earlier this year to come out and explain the details of that case. although it certainly wasn t enough to persuade those who had been calling for acosta s resignation that this was an okay deal, and obviously we know what happens next. now the president will have yet another vacancy in his cabinet with high-level across his administration at the moment, kate. and now mounting. thanks so much. joining me right now the cnn
trump s sole challenger for president. the governor of massachusetts. thank you. a million things to ask you about today. first on mueller, you know bob mueller. if i m correct, he worked for you. he was my deputy in the justice department. in the 80s. when he testifies, if it s next week or beyond that, do you think there is anything that is going to come out in testimony that he is going to say that will actually cut into that will change republicans minds? absolutely. i think his testimony is going to pack a wallop because all a member has to ask him is, mr. mueller, did your report conclude that mr. trump instructed the director of national intelligence to lie to obstruct the investigation? yes. and did your report conclude that he instructed a national security to lie.