Good day, i am Chris Jansing along with my colleague katy tour. This is a historic day for america. A fair and functioning judicial system. Today in two courtrooms, two very Different Cases but with one central character, donald trump and one central question. Will there be consequences for his alleged attempts to break the law either now or in the future if hes reelected. Here in New York City, also even more testimony from david pecker and the Hush Money Trial about the lengths to which he, donald trump and Michael Cohen, went to protect his image during the 2016 campaign. Were going to tell you exactly what he testified to along with a phone call that david pecker says he received from donald trump three days before the 2016 election. Also, how donald trump is reacting and he was reacting. At the same time, in washington, the Supreme Court spent hours hashing out Donald Trumps claims of president ial immunity. The questions of whether a future president is Above The Law threatening
doesn t change anything, doesn t move the needle. but there s a growing group of republicans that supported donald trump in 16 and 2020, like myself, worked with him in the administration, who think he s our weakest candidate in 2024, he s the one most likely to lose, because if he runs in 2024 as the republican nominee, that election becomes a referendum on donald trump. either vote for donald trump or against donald trump. he lost that election under that sort of structure in 2020 and has shown no ability to change that dynamic going into 2024. i believe if he is the republican nominee he stands just as much losing two years from now as he did two years ago. do you think he will be? the smart money is he will be the republican nominee. because while he can be beaten in a one on one race he s going to pull about 35, 40% of the primary voters regardless. if he runs against one person he loses with 35%. runs against five, wins 35.
him? disqualify is a strong word and it was a long tweet. but it s stupid. it s the thing an undisciplined candidate says and it s why we re looking for a better option. we re tired of defending that activity. let s talk about it, former president spent the last few weeks associating with people on the fringing including posing for photos with a qanon conspiracy theorist who believes trump is demantling the deep state of sex traffickers plus his dinner with holocaust denier kanye west and nick fuentes. is this who the leader should be hanging out with? the leader of the republican party right now? no. there s ways to explain it away, if you wanted to or if it was a one-off kind of occasion. my guest he didn t know who nick
thomas, gorsism and alito have been looking for. they ve been laying groundwork since 20 as jessica mentioned, some of the lawyers from former donald trump s campaign pushing it back in 2020. those justices at the far right of this bench raising questions about state courts essentially going rogue, in their mind, and second guessing what the legislatures are doing. so it would be radical and i know that justice kagan touched on that in some of her other comments, too. she certainly did. and she laid out a lot of actually, ben, what you laid out in your amicus brief in this case. the reality is you ve got 30 state legislatures in america now controlled by republicans, 17 by democrats. can you explain for people as kagan did in the simplest turns
think we should throw out the constitution. of course but it puts the with all due respect, it puts the republican party in a bad position because you may have, as you well admit, someone who is running for president on the republican side who has done all of these things and who is sympathizing with anti-semites and such. it does put the republican party in a very tenuous and odd position. sure does. what does the party do? you can t kick him out obviously. and it weighed on the party in the midterms. talk to members of congress in florida who said how wonderful it was to have ron desantis at the top of the ticket. he brought votes for republicans in other office. then you talk to republicans nationwide who say what a drag it was to have donald trump at the top of their ticket and their voting base eroded because of that. he s become a weight on the party nationwide. come back to the same theme, republicans are looking for other people and looking for other people for the ri