have a longer interview soon. we really appreciate it. and that does it for this edition of andrea mitchell reports. chris jansing starts right now. good day. i m chris jansing, live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. for donald trump, it has been a winning strategy his entire life. when you re in legal trouble, go on the attack. so, can a criminal court judge convince him to change course, keep quiet and play by the rules? that question at the heart of a court hearing less than 90 minutes from now. plus, a missouri teenager charged with threatening to kill or harm president biden after plowing a u-haul into security barriers near the white house. the latest on what the secret service says the 19-year-old was trying to do and the disturbing evidence they found inside that truck. and speaker mccarthy reportedly telling house republicans they re nowhere near a deal on the debt limit. that as a sense of pessimism begins to take hold among some lawmakers and the cale
at all. you re not hearing a lot of people saying that about donald trump if he goes after desantis, which he has every single day. yeah, meanwhile, jonathan alan points out that team trump plans to stick to the let trump beat trump strategy, but in the general it didn t work. but when you look at these two approaches, is it possible in a primary, which is where ron desantis and everyone else is to get into the news cycle, to make a mark if they re going to let him have the oxygen? no. i m having trouble flashbacks to 2016, having the conversation, chris. this is the same thing that the rubio campaign was thinking, the jeb campaign was thinking, we had those conversations, the ted cruz campaign. so without giving anything away, tim, what was your thought process then? because jeb bush and, again, as you point out, he was like so many other people who were in