Time, to borrow from star wars lexicon, there is a disturbance in the force there. Like, he is shaken. I mean, heres the front page of the daily news, Talking About Poor Donald. Of course, theyre talking about him coming off the forbes list. If you want to understand donald trump, weve said this from the beginning, just understand the money. The money. I still think a lot of these criminal investigations and the possibility of going to jail, too abstract for him. But him sitting there, the possible of losing his businesses, losing trump tower, having to pay 250 million he doesnt have, i think thats getting to him. Look at a clip of Attorney General in New York State that i think has just kind of had enough. This case was brought simply because it was a case where individuals have engaged in a pattern and practice of fraud. And i will not sit idly by and allow anyone to subvert the law. Lastly, i will not be bullied. So mr. Trump is no longer here. The donald trump show is over. I will
emissaries, having to do with shalanda young and steve and others. they were up on the hill, i believe, this morning for an in-person briefing with house democratic leaders. we haven t heard about specific outreach from the president himself. i don t know if we re in that territory yet where he needs to make the outreach himself to get people over the finish line. both sides feel comfortable about the margins. if they start to do their whip counts and there s a sense they could be in some level of trouble, in the senate it requires 60 votes, not just a 51 majority. perhaps then we get into that territory. right now, there isn t, you know, any smoke signals that the president has been forced to make that specific direct outreach. speaker mccarthy has just scheduled a 9:15 press conference, indicates he s probably confident this is going to get done by then, and get passed. jake, i asked congressman johnson about all of the rumblings about the motion to
thinks he has the votes, but, as we remember from his speakership bid, his conference is fractured. expect a number of whip counts over the weekend leading all the way up to the vote next week with majority leader schumer pouring water on all of the anticipation promising that this package is dead on arrival in the senate. bret? bret: all about the numbers. aishah, another democratic bill capturing some headlines would prevent border patrol from detaining lgbtq illegal aliens? is that right? yeah. this was actually first introduced back in 2021. it is back again. this would create a special rule that would exempt anyone that s deemed vulnerable from dhs detention. and that vulnerable category, bret, in this bill includes people who are gay, lesbian, transgender, among other qualifications but, bret, this is large lay messaging bill. it would never get through a republican controlled house. bret? bret: okay, aishah, thank you. a coalition of liberal groups is
day or two or three, they have to have a plan b. i think that we re about to get to that point. they are getting on the phone right now over the course of the last few minutes. members have started dialing in. we ll hear what we hear as it goes. there is a mind set that i have heard and that i knowshake has heard that this is a moment they need to show these discussions actually mean something and they are moving people in mccarthy s direction. i also think it s important when we talk about these other names, they all have their own problems atached to them. there are unofficial whip counts for these folks too that don t seem anymore promising than the one that kevin mccarthy himself is dealing with now. so i think that s a really important thing for us to keep in mind as we start exploring theoretical alternatives, though at this point, mccarthy is extremely dug in. i think this 10:15 call is going to jog a few things loose but
obstructive behavior by this president that goes right up through his refusal to comply with subpoenas or send aides to come testify in the impeachment investigation. but there are other democrats including some of those from more closely fought addictdistr more moderate districts. they re concerned that anything outside the scope of the ukraine scandal itself makes the vote look more political and a harder vote for them. they may be looking at some kind of goldilocks option to keep the obstruction charges related to mueller in one big bucket with obstruction charges related to this matter. the speaker has made it clear she s going to be involved in these articles and does not intend to be surprised at any point by their content. i don t think speaker pelosi has been surprised by vote counts, whip counts, or any of these decisions.