are and now, new cnn reporting, tension in trumpland. donald trump wants house speaker kevin mccarthy to expunge the two impeachments against him. the idea came up in a phone call between the two men last month. that phone call came after mccarthy suggested trump may not be the strongest candidate in 2024. now, mccarthy said he would try to gauge support among house republicans. that is according to a source. but he did not make y promises, and here s a little bit more about the new reporting to help n y he didn t make those promises. multiple sources tell cnn that calling a house vote to expunge the two impeac against the former president would be a fool s errand, even ifarthy indicated to trump he would do it, it s unlikely votes would be there, likely further inflaming tensions.
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out. there s a bunnen of report bunch of reports of anonymous people from trumpland that are saying how bad this is. another example of why he s completely unfit to run for president. howard: yes, some of his advisers seem upset. kristin, the can press is saying even if he didn t know about fuentes, he didn t say anything about his views, and most republicans chris christie and others who want to run against him have been silent. he said the guy gets me. i don t understand why you would announce you re running for president and hen invite somebody to dinner like kanye west and not know who else howard: trump said he was trying to help him with his business problems. okay, fine. he said that a couple days later. it makes no sense to take a meeting, you should know who that is. again, just judgment there is so lacking. howard: very briefly, with the media being highly critical, you think that s deserved? i think it s definitely
trumpland and what is the meaningful impact on that in terms of this investigation. yeah, i meanof first thing, donald trump had a rally against the fact that he no longer controls the justice department and these are no longer his appointees anymore and normal investigative step, the kind of steps a prosecution takes when presented with a claimut when ty are investigating somebody, they want to make sure it was true, they would try to vet it, that s not unusual. itth seems unusual, because of e way that trump had been, treat in the past, or because of the perception of his power, or his visibility, and what is truly unusual, that all of these things are happening, these questions are being asked, ofng former president. yes. i mean i think there is a sim question, of why trump took them, right? i mean we don t know why he won t give them back. we re not exactly sure why he took them in the first place, but maggie haberman, your colleague at the new york times had an interesting,m
right? he doesn t today at mar-a-lago have the power to pardon anyone. despite what he might say, i think one of the reasons this is interesting is because of all the other rhetoric that s coming out of trumpland, vis-a-vis these documents at mar-a-lago, right? we know that trump is the person that s saying he had sort of unilateral capabilities to declassify information and that all of the things he took with him to mar-a-lago were things that he had declassified. effectively, i ll read the statement, president trump in order to prepare for work the next day often took documents, including classified documents, to the residence. he had a standing order, standing order, that documents removed from the oval office and taken to the residence were deemed to be declassified the moment he removed them. boom, i can declassify something by virtue of the fact that i m donald trump. someone who thinks he has that power to just boom declassify things, could also maybe think he has the power to