no better example of that and this week s conservative political action conference, cpac, once a platform for leading conservative thinkers, now a extremism. cpac attendees are doubling down on trumpism ahead of the 2024 race for president. this afternoon, trump got to the cpac florida governor ron desantis trailing with just 20% of the vote. results fueled by cpac s growing devotion to the former president. a columnist for the washington post writes, quote, year by year, cpac has become less and less of a wonky conservative movement networking event and more and more of a circus. the guest list features fewer and fewer policy experts debating the correct path for conservatives and more and more telegenic faces who usually populate the fox news green room. one after another, at cpac, serving up red meat. the tone is now indistinguishable from one of trump s campaign rallies. in a set of talk for a economic solutions to help american lives, cpac mainly focus on a politics
presidency, also new details in how fast the trump administration did intel on the current president. as you expect, democrats are fuming. plus, immigration and child labor, the latest in the msnbc exclusive investigation into how and why migrant kids were forced to work and slaughterhouses across this country. and later, tending to the whole flock. we ll speak to a bishop working to make sure that lgbtq community has a home in his church. this is american voices. we begin this hour with the story of donald trump and how he transformed the republican party into his own image. no better example of that and this week s conservative political action conference, cpac, once a platform for leading conservative thinkers, now a extremism. cpac attendees are doubling down on trumpism ahead of the 2024 race for president. this afternoon, trump got to the cpac florida governor ron desantis trailing with just 20% of the vote. results fueled by cpac s growing devotion to the former pr
after the u.s. military shot down that chinese spy balloon off the south carolina coast after it flew across the united states. we have more breaking, news now, the fbi has discovered an additional classified document with former vice president indiana s home. the search comes as former vice president mike pence was subpoenaed by the special counsel, investigating donald trump s efforts to stay in office after the 20. 20 election, as well as his role in the january 6th attack on the capitol. earlier today trump s former personal attorney michael cohen told msnbc donald trump should be worried about this. i think he is panicking. however, what he is very good at is hiding it. anyone that is in the room with him would be able to attest to things that i had seen in the past which is donald really losing it. but, in front of the camera, he is calm, cool, and collected because he is a sociopath. we ll have more on this breaking developments and that object shot down by u.s. mi
happened. that there are a lot of low level people who showed up on january six for whom there has been accountability. for the man himself, there has not. we re still sitting here talking about him as a contender come 2020 for every time he s out one of these events. i don t know about you alencia, but what it reminds me is that that accountability has not yet been delivered. i completely agree about the lack of accountability for the former president donald trump. i would also bring him to light a lot of bad actors in the republican party are not being held accountable. we are just hearing that george santos is going before the house ethics committee. this is a party that absolves themselves of any kind of accountability. you have equal and leadership position where literally part of the january 6th insurrection. something that will go down in history books where generations after will be like, how did this happen. how are these elected official still in office and not even charged
out of thin air in 2016. they re gonna cannibalize each other through this primary and we will see who is left standing at the end of it. i wonder, one, how democrats get it a jiu-jitsu of this idea of the former president somehow being an outsider. how you undercut that messaging and i want to come back to i don t gratuitously show donald trump on this program. part of the reason is interesting to me that he is standing up at cpac as a free man. it s as a reminder that accountability has not yet happened. that there are a lot of low level people who showed up on january six for whom there has been accountability. for the man himself, there has not. we re still sitting here talking about him as a contender come 2020 for every time he s out one of these events. i don t know about you alencia, but what it reminds me is that that accountability has not yet been delivered. i completely agree about the