Today on inside politics, the United States investigator vus donald trump. The grand jury meets again and the nation is on pins and needles. Plus a new National Poll shows donald trump and Joe Biden Running even and as of now, criminal indictments have not tanked trumps chances of become ing the once and future president if hes on the ballot. And its the Vice President on the line. A former Business Partner tells congress that hunter biden put his father on speakerphone 20 times. Democrats say it was part of an illusion. Republicans see it as a biden lie. Im dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and inside politics. Up first, we are closely watching for any indicators that a federal indictment against the former president is coming. The grand jury that will make that decision whether or not to charge donald trump with january 6 related crimes is back in today. Cnns Katelyn Polantz is live outside the federal courthouse here in washington. What are you seeing there at this hour . Reporter this courthouse is collectively holding its breath to see what happens with the grand jury today. The grand jury that has been investigating january 6th and the 2020 election with the the help of prosecutors from the special counsels office directing all those witnesses and evidence before the grand jury for months and months, they are in today. This is two weeks after donald trump told he was very likely to be indicted for his activity after the election, as he was trying to maintain a grasp on the presidency when he had lost the election in multiple Battleground States and ultimately the Electoral College vote. So theres a lot of anticipation here. Theres been a lot of momentum in the previous weeks putting the grand jury in a position where they are very likely to be asked by the Justice Department to look at that indictment that they prepare d against donald trump and to potentially approve it and send it into the court system as formal charges against the former president. We do not know what the grand jury is doing at this moment. Only that they are here in this building. We have not seen any prosecutors from the special counsels office on the ground yet. That doesnt mean they are not here. They have plenty of ways to get into this building. And the grand jury thmss operate in total secrecy when they are convened. So we will not know exactly what comes from the grand jury until theres a choice made by both the Justice Department and the court to make public an indictment, but we are waiting to see not just what happens with the grand jury, but what exactly the Justice Department wants to do here with a possible case against donald trump related to the 2020 election. The investigation has been sweeping and theres a lot of ways they can put a case together, whether its against donald trump or many others. So we need to keep our eyes on the court today. We are glad you are there to do that. Appreciate it. Now to the raw politics and a raw morning if youre sitting inside bidens reelection headquarters. The New York Times confirms the current reality. Donald trump can win a rematch with joe biden, the top line number, biden, 43 , trump, 43 . The dead lock race raises questions and the impact of indictments on the former presis in a potential General Election. The poll finds both men are unpopular with american voters. 41 hold a favorable opinion of the former president. Only 39 currently approve of joe bidens job performance. The poll does show modes improvements for biden on key metrics compared with a year ago. Last yr only 13 said the country was on the right track. Now that numr is 23 . A better but still deeply unsettling number, if you are the sitting president is who is asking for four more years. Were going to talk more about this. Theres a lot to unpack inside this poll. Generally about the political climate. Cnns niamalika henderson is here, David Chalian and jackie california cynic. Good to say you all. I can hear you ringing in my ear. Thats just the vibe. This is important. This is a National Poll. It is a snapshot of the National Mood. This is not how in America President s are elected. President s are elected state by state. So the feeling of voters in these key states matters more as we get closer to the election, but having an idea of what the National Mood is very instructive. Lets go a little bit deeper into this particularly as we were referring to Katelyn Polantz being outside the grand jury and trying to get a sense of whats going to happen there to look at the potential impact when it comes to the national sentiment. Donald trump committed serious crimes. 51 , threatened democracy, 53 . A majority saying two things. Donald trump committed serious crimes, a majority of registered voters saying he threatened democracy, and yet its a tight race. Not only is it effective, its instructive, its not irrelevant, its also a National Poll 15 months before an election. So theres a lot of time here. I would note one more thing about this poll. Its not particularly new information. It shows a remarkably consistent picture for months now. This has been a margin of error race. This potential rematch between biden and trump. This is yet another poll in a litany of polls that have suggested that. So the question is then why . Why did all the Economic Indicators are so good for the Biden White House that inflation is easing, that the fed is going to pause on the Interest Rate hike. Donald trump is the leading republican nominee. They think donald trump and the matchup against truch makes for extremism. If thats working in bidens favor and still a dead heat race, you have to ask the question about why. If you look at biden, he does well on the web as youre talking, i want to put the data 7 to help bolster the point. Suburban women he does well among black voters. Slipping a lite bit among latino voters. And so those are the coalitions. Some of the differences have to do with how people see this country. Are they comfortable with some of the changes that are going on in this country in terms of the racial changes, the expanded rights of lgbtq americans. That is sort of the fault line that we see in this country. That explains this sorting between the two parties. And we just said we dont know entirely why. One of the potential clues is if you look at the president s colt polls, right now, 50 say they would be okay with Somebody Else. But if you look inside those nurnls numbers about why that is there, what is so interesting is the age number. Thats the biggest Contributing Factor to the question of why people inside the Democratic Party if they want Somebody Else, what the reason for that is. Which is why you hear P Percolating people who say i would challenge him if he couldnt run. Which you heard from the congressman last week. You hear that kind of around the margins. But this idea of bidens age, any democrats you talk to, they are worried. But one of the interesting things in the times write up was how many voters are saying i dont want to vote for joe biden, but im not going to vote for donald trump. But another thing thats interesting, not even from these numbers, when you looked at the smalldollar donors, the enthusiasm gap, thats going to be the issue in a General Election. When you get down to it, how many people want to run out and vote. Thats not the case that were seeing. They are not excited about this. The other thing thats interesting in this poll is what we refer to as the double haters. Those that are just not interested. 14 do not choose a side. They wouldnt vote or look for a third party option. And when you look at those, because of everything you were just saying, they found that maybe slight advantage biden with that group of the ones that are displeased with both. Because of compare me against the alternative and thats what you hear. One says to the New York Times, biden is not going to harm the country as much as i believe trump would. Then another, its basically like i dont have another choice because i dont feel comfortable not voting. Another, joe biden seems less mentally capable age wise, but trump is just evil. These are really good bumper stickers. One talks about not necessarily be enthusiastic about biden, but shes going to vote any way. A vote still counts the same. Everybody standby. We have more to talk about when it comes to 2024. The cash dash, donors with deep pockets are boosting 2024 hopefuls and their bids for the white house. But Donald TrumpsFundraising Committees are struggling to keep up. They are burning through donor cash, as his legal troubles mount. Well talk about that next. So today lets stain, with behr, the 1 rated stain. And make youour deck, yours. Behr. Exclusively at t the home dep. And i lost 75 pounds with golo. Oleh, i went from a size 20 to a size 6. Before golo, nothing seemed to work. I was exercising for over an hour every day. It was really discouraging. But golos so easy, the weight just falls off. I will be a travel influencer. Hey, i thought you were on vacation . 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The pro trump save america pac started with 18 million cash on hand, but as of last month, the group has less than 4 million remaining. After paying lawyers, trumps pac is nearly broke. Our great reporters are back with us. Its a lot of money hes made, but a lot of money spent. A lot of lawyers. This is a continuation. This is like debt, taxes, someone else to pay his lawyers. The rnc doing it while he was president , but it doesnt seem like donors are cutting him off yet. Perhaps they are look ing at ths as an invest the toward him making it back in, but certainly, this is going to become a problem, being able to keep it full. You have seen the Pac Claw Back money from the superpac 60 million because they have spent so much. Money they transferred there. So clearly, theres an issue. Just think about why they transferred 60 million from these are all con stillcitylati trump worlds. They are but why did they transfer 60 million . It was supposed to be for Television Ads and investing in the campaign. The Leadership Pac spent money on all these legal fees. Can i just also add one more thing that the pac spent money on . It looks like they spent money on a stylist forelania trump. 108,000 went to a stylist for Strate Consulting in the form of six payments of 18,000 a year. How do i get that . This is one of the reasons why im sure donald trump want ed to run for president. Facing these legal indictments hanging over his head, its convenient to have this. How Melania Trump is involved here, i dont really get it. I dont know what that company is, i dont know if shes consulting them. I dont know whats going on there. But i do know she doesnt seem to be involved in the campaign that much. I think you have some of Donald Trumps opponents making this an issue, this idea that heres this guy thats a billionaire but looking to ordinary americans who are spending in their 20 or 50. And they are paying his legal bills. Its not really booking in terms of Landing Folks or preventing them from sending money. Totally. Theres so many fascinating subplots when it comes to this race. And some of it is born out in the cruxes to various candidates and their pacs and superpacs. Were mentioning donald trump. His soninlaw has given money to his entities. As has his father, charlie kushner. Chles was somebody who was put in jail by Chris Christie, look tt. Chris christie got money from the kushner. Murray is Jared Kushners uncle. And hes also somebody who helped Chris Christie put Charles Kushner in jail when crhristie was u. S. Attorney. He was a key part of that investigation. And basically, not flipped, but just helped christie get his brother nailed. The Family History of the kushners and crhristie is just fascinating. Jah ved kushner ask christie had to navigate each other, but he was operate ing in the trump ort adviser. Red kushner was a senior theres no love lost. If it we put that back up, i dont want to leave the mooch out in the cold. Scaramucci was a supporter at the beginning of the Trump Administration and hes now giving 100,000, a big check to the christie superpac. I want to move on to the cash on hand, when we were looking at the overall amount of money that these superpacks and these are the big organizations that can raise unlited nmoney. They are not supposed to coordinate with the campaigns themselves, but a lot of these candidates are relying heavily on them when their own money is sort of dwindling. That definely is true for n desantis. His superpac is sitting on a lot of money. 97 million, and its interesting that youre seeing his campaign now attending events. Hes a special guest sponsored by the superpac as his Actual Campaign is starve ing for cash. Right. You had this bus tour in Iowa Sponsored by the superpac. Thats who they are leaning on because he also had quite the burn rate because of all the staff they employed. But were just going to see more of this. One of the more impressive tim scott was down there somewhere, but its another measure of how strong a candidates going to be. They have these other entities spending on them. Youre seeing it with some of the other candidates to keep their name out there, even if thr not pulling in the same money from their individual Leadership Pacs. Because you can give Unlimited Money f youre a wealthy person, ron desantis has been able to raise a lot of money just from four entities. Thats part of that story there. Standby. One witness, two very different tales of what happened Behind Closed Doors. Both guarantee that hunter biden will stay in the headlines. That story is next. Woman why did we choose safelite . Vo for us, driving around is the only way we can get our baby to sleep, so when our windshield cracked, we needed it fixed right. We went to safelite. Com. Theres no one else wed trust. 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