Bennett, Betsy Woodruff and also charlie savage. Geoff, ill start with you. What was going on when the president made that comment about omarosa . The president was in the middle of a photoop there at his private estate in bedminster, new jersey. He was surrounded by Trump Supporters known as bikers for trump. And the voice you heard was that of Maggie Haberman part of the press pool and she asked if the president felt betrayed by omarosa. That is when he leveled that scorcher calling her a low life. But look, this is what the president tends to do to people whom he views as being disloyal. I think it is worth pointing out that the relationship between the president and omarosa has always really been mutually beneficial if not entirely transactional. She was able to use him to increase her public standing with that high profile white house job. And he was at times able to use her for a certain amount of
political cover when it came to some testy issues involving race. You bring up a re
concerned about his candidacy, they are concerned about the threat they will say it poses to our democracy, and they are going to be talking about what his candidacy could do in battleground states in the margins, where there s growing concern and anxiety. monica alba in philadelphia, thank you so much. joining us now, victoria defrancesco. she s an msnbc political analyst. and david drucker. it s not much of a surprise that the kennedy family is endorsing the president. monica was showing us the picture at the white house last month. could this be very important to the president? it s obviously not a make or break. but the kennedy name, the kennedy brand has been synonymous with democratic
news that trump is aiming for an interview with none other than tucker carlson. as a way of counter programming the fox news debate. as of now, nothing is formally set. back with us tonight, victoria defrancesco, the dean of the school of public service at the university of arkansas. and former florida republican, congressman carlos curbelo. victoria, for weeks now, we ve been asking, will he, won t he. i haven t had a single person who said yes he s going to show up at this debate. ivan had a single person who said yes it i think it s a good idea for him to show up at this debate. but now that we re in the moment, where we know definitively he is not showing up, not only is he not going to show up, but he s going to counter program, what does that tell you about where this republican field finds itself? it finds itself with donald trump in the limelight, alicia. the fact that he definitively did decide not to go to the first debate just sets him apart, not just in terms of him being
the other big problem that desantis has, even if donald trump falls apart, donald trump has two big goals. with this republican primary. number one is to win. it he wants to be the nominee. number two is to make sure that donald trump to make sure rhonda sentence is not the nominee. if donald trump does get out of this race for any reason, which i don t anticipate, certainly not anytime soon, he is going to keep that priority of making sure ron desantis doesn t advance. he considers ron desantis to be a traitor. he considers him to be loyal. desantis has a big problem. he really has to get out of the shadow of donald trump if he wants to have a shot at reviving his campaign. thus victoria defrancesco soto, carlos curbelo, as always, thank you both. coming up, many people in maui escaped the devastating wildfires with barely the clothes on their back. we ll talk to one of the helpers on the ground when the 11th hour continues.
economic data. they re going to serve as each other s early warning systems when it comes to supply chain disruptions, and the like. they will better coordinate on long term plans for military exercises, and this is really president biden squarely in his legal house. right on the foreign policy front at a time of international crisis. everyone has hailed his efforts to rally. all the nato allies in response to russia s active aggression and active war in ukraine. the pivot to asia, that s definitely u.s. administrations have tried to make hasn t really happened yet. it s a bit of a foreign policy goal. this is the biden administration s push to try to make that happen. that brings us back also to his original gambit for running for president, challenges abroad, challenges at home. a candidate who is able to take over on day one. john allen, amna nawaz, renato mariotto, thank you so much for getting us started. coming up, it looks like donald trump has decided not to shop at the first