hello and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you. for sharing your day with us. 2024 revs up ron desantis aligned super pac answers what you might call a sticky add by asking why donald trump is now spending his time attacking other republicans . this week, the florida governor heads here to washington to capitol hill that after a donor defects from his campaign in waiting, plus class field trip tries to turn up the pressure on alvin bragg. house judiciary republicans hold a hearing in manhattan d a s backyard to call him soft on crime and yes to deflect attention from brags prosecution of the former president and a delay on the eve of a billion dollar trial, or fox and dominion, perhaps headed for a settlement, or will it s anchors, some of whom bread, blatant lies on the air have to take the witness stand. but up first for us congress is back today, and lawmakers returned to a very long to do list this morning. the house speaker kevin mccarthy, u
know you have pants and christie and sununu there, mike pompeo over the weekend, saying he will not run. uh the party is trying to get everybody say, say yes. or say no now, ron desantis by not saying yes has allowed trump and his allies to define him negatively. you ve seen him slip in some of the poll numbers and the longer he stays out, the harder it will be for him to define what his candidacy is about. which is why the descent of supporters want him to get moving here. and so his camp, though desantis camp thinks look, there s plenty of time in the race to rebuild those numbers. back up. they ll see some of that support comeback, potentially as as the debates began, and again there. trying to label trump at this point as a gun grabber will see if that will see that sticks. trump indictment. that is part of the quote unquote distraction argument from desantis and others has helped him raise a boatload of money. $15.4 million in two weeks. after just after the indictment, so you can
that s going to keep on rolling. john keep on rolling. sara murray for us in manhattan. appreciate that very much. let s bring the conversation back in the room with our great reporters, uh, sarah noted, the democrats have boycotted other field hearings, just saying it s all politics. we re not going to waste our time going. they did go to this one. jerry nadler, whose district is not far away and where the hearing was today , says look, jim jordans, bio mirror. this is stunt. this hearing is being called for one reason and one reason only. to protect donald trump. it is to use chairman jordan s favorite term a weaponization. of the judiciary committee, jim jordan engages in a lot of political theater in washington, but he should know better than to take his tired act to broadway for people in the middle out there, you know based republicans are with jordan s based democrats are with nether and the democrats for the middle out there, people like what is this ? it is whether you re demo