caucus day, and it has some beef with new hampshire s primary. he is sidelining it, why? congresswoman barbara lee is here to read between the lines for us. and there is a nationwide uptake in swatting s across the country. what is behind these criminal hoaxes, and how do we rein them in? i am a man with a dean, let s do it. after months of speculation, polling, punditry over the 2024 race for the white house, we are now hours away from the first contest of the election season. tomorrow at seven pm local time, about 24 hours from right now, voters in iowa will be asked to brave what appears to be the coldest caucus day in decades. and according to the last and final poll before caucus day, a new nbc news des moines register poll shows donald trump maintaining his commanding lead over his rivals. that is not unexpected. right now, 48% of likely caucus goers say the twice impeached, and quadruple indicted ex president has their vote. that is an almost 30 point lead over forme
also hit by swatting at his home in maryland. now, while swatting is not necessarily a violent action, it is a form of intimidation. it is, in short, a threat. so, why are people doing it? why is there an uptick now? your guess is as good as mine. but, within the past week, donald trump has made several threats of his own suggesting olence could wrapped if the supreme court rules against him in his ballot eligibility dispe, or if his federal election interference case proceeds. he has warned of, quote, big, big trouble and bedlam in this country. it s ominous language. but the truth is, we kind of know that when donald trump speaks, his flock listens, and they act up if called upon. cautions in a new piece for the waington post, trump isn t explicitly demanding s supporters literally fight for him, these comments, quote, allow his supporters to
federal law enforcement from making any kind of statement, putting their tmbs on the scale in an election like this. i always ask you about what stage we re at in the mueller investigation. do you have any reaction or waington post reporting that mueller was asking cohen-related questions in the past five calendar days? you know, i don t have presh reporting on that. but i think what we can take affr away from that, brian, is that cohen and mueller are not separate. we ve been saying this for a long time on your show. although there was part of this probe that mueller kind of spun off and handed over to the southern district of new york and said please take a look at this, those were the people responsible for those raids on cohen s apartment and hotel a offices, he always had a hand in this. mueller has been in the driver s seat on this. so it makes sense that he s asking those questions, particularly as it might pertain