Politics the former president s pardon play. Donald trumps lawyers make a hail mary request for an april 2026 start to the 2020 Election Trial and try to make sure the case never sees the inside of a courtroom. Plus a game of risk. New reporting outlines how republicans plan to conquer a trumpless debate. How another republican warns his party appears poised to fulfill the textbook definition of insanity. President biden invokes the whole enemy of my enemy is a Friend Theory of Foreign Policy today pushing two neighbors to put aside a generation of bad blood and send a message to the country a couple blocks away, china. Im Phil Mattingly in for dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and inside politics. Were going to start with this up first. Two questions. Do you know what youre doing on monday . Do you know what youre doing in april, 2026 . The answer is no for me on both of them. Donald trump, though, has plans for both. More specifically mr. Trump knows where he wont be on monday
Trump cant quote, turn back the clock on climate progress. Also, things are getting weird in ohio. What voters are saying about the increasingly angry and now kind of strange gop Senate Primary. Let us get to the reporters starting in arizona. Vaughn hillyard is in maricopa county. Bring us up to speed on arizona. Reporter i just talked to kari lake, who is a u. S. Senate candidate, a close ally of donald trump. She just voted at this location behind me for donald trump. Of course that is the only thing on the ballot here in arizona. The next big primary is when she is on the ballot come this august. But you know, i was able to put the question to her about why donald trump and her would be able to pull off wins in november and she said she believes the choice will be stark between her and rubin gaego. I want to let you listen to some voters we talked to today who took part in the republican primary despite donald trump having the nomination wrapped up. Well, for one thing, i dont beli
Manhattan, no word yet on whether that might be on the Auction Block for the former president will have to put up four and 54 million in six days to make good on money that he has to pay upfront in that fraud case back what is remarkable about this is donald trump has tried and stretched stretched far and wide to get some help on this but he is getting zero help on this. Welcome everybody, im neil cavuto, this is your world. The score right now to eric showing outside the trump tower on the pickle hes in and help he needs. Reporter it is a pickle can a big pickle, 450 million worth and donald trump has six days as you say next monday, the coming monday is the deadline for him to come up with that billiondollar half A Billion Dollar bond a potential or potentially lose this gleaming power behind me, trump tower. This of course all comes back to the case that was the Civil Fraud Will in which a judge Arthur Engoron ruled that the former president and the Trump Organization had to fork ov
Heads for boundaries of a Protective Order issued friday by the Federal Judge presiding over the julk by attacking the Special Counsel and judge over the weekend. But it was Star Treatment for the former president at the Iowa State Fair this weekend. Upstaging ron desantis and the rest of the field. Plus, Hunter Bidens attorneys main prosecutor and the plea deal. They say a trial for him could still be avoided as controversy grows over why the Attorney General grows. And the overwhelming tragedy in maui has victims furious with the rescue and recovery as the death toll nears 100 in the deadliest wildfire in a century. Where were you guys . No. Where were you guys to try and get us out, evacuate us . No. Were mad. Were mad. We lost homes, towns. Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell In Washington Where Former President Trump is already testing u. S. District judge Protective Order against him, lashing out on sunday in a string of social media post, slamming jack smith as a Quote Low Li
Think youre going to have another election in this country if you dont have one where we win. Certainly not one thats meaningful. More rhetoric by donald trump over a rally in ohio over the weekend. Well bring his incendiary remarks straight ahead. And it comes as mike pence takes a stand against his former boss. Well show you what pence said about his former president and january 6th. And, meanwhile, President Bidens campaign is reporting one of its strongest fundraising months in almost a year. Well look at whats driving the large hauls of campaign cash. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this monday, march 18th. We hope you had a nice st. Patricks day. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day and week with us. And we begin this morning with a race for the white house where donald trump delivered another divisive speech over the weekend, this time while stumping for an ohio senate candidate. Just outside of dayton, the 2024 republican nominee kicked off the rally on