79594061. that's 800 is 79594061 >> call now united states of scandal with jake tapper next sunday at nine on cnn >> it's monday, march 4, right now on cnn this morning, the supreme ct signals are ruling could be handled that handed down today, that could impact donald trump's bid to return to the white house, plus >> there must be an immediate ceasefire this will get the hostages out and get a significant amount of aid in pressure on israel >> but is netanyahu's government listening to her and nikki haley winning her first primary, we could find out tuesday if if it will be her last all right. >> 06:00 a.m. here in washington. a live look at the supreme court where again, so much of the action in this 2024 presidential election is going to play out right there inside that building. morning, everyone, i'm kasie hunt it's wonderful to be with you on this monday morning. this week, the rematch that the country seems to be dreading is on former president trump's set to tighten his grip on the republican nomination on super tuesday. and on thursday night, president biden will deliver what could be the final state of the union address for him with millions watching a pair of poles from the new york times and the wall street journal over the weekend show just how tough the road is for biden right now. who voters overwhelmingly say is too old to run again for president but it's donald trump's legal challenges that really make this race unprecedented. and the supreme court has sent a rare smoke signal indicating that they are prepared to rule today. and it could be on state challenges to his name appearing on the ballot under the 14th amendment it's gonna be the first, but not the last time that the court will weigh in on this presidential race. they have to decide whether trump can be tried for his role in the january 6 riot at the capitol, just as the country is set to decide whether trump will take the presidential oath. once again do you think donald trump would follow the constitution if you were elected to a second term >> i don't know i don't i don't know >> do any of us know? >> let's ask to you, mitchell, washington correspondent for the atlanta journal-constitutio n republican strategist, shermichael singleton and kate bedingfield, cnn political commentator and former white house communications director. welcome all shermichael, your laugh and want >> this has been a struggle for nikki haley to begin. she's had every opportunity to be forthright in her criticism of donald trump and it's been pretty meek, intimidates. so i've always asked a question when this is done, kasie wushi ultimately endorse donald trump. i mean, you have to wonder that because she hasn't been as aggressive as many such that she could. and i think if she would've done it a couple of months ago, maybe the support, maybe the momentum would be a lot stronger. some of these primary states, maybe i mean, i mean, look, i that that was kind of a classic moment. i mean, she she was given the opportunity to say what she clearly knows to be true and what we as americans all saw on display when he was the president know he will not abide by the constitution. she continues, that's been part of the problem with her campaign. what shermichael was getting to, you know, she kind of delay eloquently walks up to the line, but then never quite goes all the way. and that's in campaigning that doesn't work. i mean, people you need a sledgehammer message. i mean, people are just going about their lives, are not absorbing the nuance of campaign messaging you got to tell them what you think. and so that was to me that was disappointing answer. but, you know, she's she's clearly thinking about her own future and the republican party and hedging or bet. yeah. i mean, what's an interesting way to think? you have to hit people with a sledgehammer that's i think worth remembering >> real talk. yeah >> so speaking of >> haley, did was also asking this interview about the pledge that everyone had to take two to participate in rnc sanctions debates and said that they would report excuse me, support the eventual republican nominee. watch how helium's would that question >> i mean, at the time of the debate, we had to take it to where would you support the nominee and you had to in order to get on that debate stage, you said yes. the rnc has now not the same rnc now now it's so you're no longer bound by that pledge now, i think i'll make what decision i want to make, but that's not something i'm thinking about >> michael. that's kind of an answer to your question. >> maybe. >> i mean, look, i think she's right. i agree with her former president refused to take the pledge, but you, haley has every right to say like i'm not going to take the pledge either. but again, she's had an opportunity in that moment in that interview to say, you know what, i am not going to support or endorsed the former president's similarly to chris christie, but she didn't, and she didn't have my opinion because i do think ultimately she is going to endorse him because i think nikki haley is thinking about 20:28. yeah. and she said, i mean, she said, she said something like, i'm not a never trump campaign my campaign is about right? never trump. and again, it goes to your she's not defining herself. i mean, she has spent the entirety of the campaign sort of saying like, well, i don't really agree with what he's doing, but also he's he's fine. i mean, i guess he's okay. again, that is not a winner. >> back out. right? >> saying my opponent is all okay. is not usually the winning campaigns. stretch >> so let's, let's talk big picture here with the president at kate set to deliver the state of the union, the polling over the weekend for him was pretty tough. i mean, first you had the new york times sienna college poll looking at what, who was too old to be an effective president, 73% of people said the biden was too old to be an effective president interest, 42%, say trump was. and then in the journal poll, 73% said biden was too old and trump is at 52 they're going to bring tea and in a second, but kate, i want you to kind of set the stage for us here. like what are the stakes for the president on thursday? yeah. well, this will be a significant moment for him. absolutely. because there will be a lot of attention and focus. it's an opportunity for the president to really stand behind the bully pulpit, which there aren't that many opportunities anymore, given how fractured our media environment is. so it is certainly a big moment. it will be an opportunity for the president to lay out both his affirmative vision and how that contrast with donald trump. but also to demonstrate that he is, you know, that he's strong, that he's forceful. i mean, if you remember last year state of the union, he had some great moments where he's sort of essentially spontaneously baited republicans into a back-and-forth on social security. >> i had forgotten. >> it is. there's really there is a great opportunity here for him and the other thing to remember about the state of the union i mean, this is one of the moments that a president really prepares for. there's a lot of, there's a lot of lead up and focus on the speech. there's a lot of rehearsal and preparation, which there aren't that many moments where president has the time to really focus it. so it's a great opportunity for him to lay out his vision for the country a tree, but, but also to do so in a really forceful way, we saw him do it well last year and i think he will just your due to also big picture here we have this ruling potentially coming down from the court on the colorado ballot question. it does seem like the senses the court, when they heard these arguments that they weren't going to touch it, they were basically going to leave trump on the ballot. what do you expect today? >> yeah. i mean, we don't even know for sure, but we think that's the ruling that's going to come down today because it does proceed. colorado's primary on tuesday. i do think we kind of chatter read the tea leaves from the oral arguments about a month ago. it didn't seem like justice we're willing to kind of us cert the ability of voters to choose a candidate and that's very drastic to kick a candidate off the ballot, particularly at candidate who is the leading candidate. and it just yet to be convicted of a client who i've been accused of, many of them >> and also, i think the justices seemed to indicate there were a lot of loopholes in the way the 14th amendment is being interpreted. for example, the officers listed doesn't list the office of the president, things like that. so i don't think they're going to go so far as to say donald trump did not participate in an insurrection. therefore, you know, i don't think they're going to say seemed unlikely to touch the insurrection, a fundamental actual question is wildly, i know that's a really good point, okay thanks to all stick around. we're gonna be back later with our panel becoming up here. philadelphia's head of lgbt affairs and her husband are arrested by a state trooper. why the mayor is calling the incident very concerning plus ceasefire talks in cairo shunned by the israelis and was prime minister netanyahu gets one demand granted. and next, how crippling legal bills have the trump campaign looking to cut costs >> to be a headline was vegas. that's what i want to do >> vegas, the story of sin city next sunday at ten on cnn my name is brian, how fire up and because of tiktok, i have the power to educate people and hopefully played lives. when my son, brian died and drunk driving accident, i put out a video about it and i tried to stop the young people from drinking and driving. >> no other family has to go through what we did. >> tick tock has the power to change society now i think that's where the power of tiktok lies to save one person. that's one more person that can change the world to write >> a perfect 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general election >> staffers. the horror have to use uber x to save cash. cnn's alayna treene green is here with the details. alayna, good morning. good morning. oh, the horror. >> right. >> so but i mean, look, this is a serious story. so what, what are they doing here and what i mean there are a lot of pfk-1 anecdotes like the uber x1 about this. but really it is that they are trying to rein in costs and preserve as many resources it says as possible. and because of that, you're seeing especially the people at the top, people like susie wiles, chris lacivita, the co-campaign managers. they are being very adamant about trying to lower costs. the uber x anecdote that you mentioned there was a staffer who was joking that susie wiles is a miser, something that other people agree with? it's on the campaign that they've someone would notice or she would notice specifically if a staffers taking an more expensive uber, we have some really fun antidotes as well from chris lacivita, he he privately grumbled a lot about how expensive donald trump's rallies are. he's really made a concerted effort to try and host them at less costly venues. there's also a great quote from one senior adviser about furniture. i want to read it because it exemplifies what i'm trying to say, which is they told us, quote, anyone that's ever worked on a campaign knows that at the headquarters, the furniture should be functional and that's it. mismatch shan functional is the decor of the trump campaign offices. we don't have mahogany desk. and if we do, there are 200 years old and they're falling apart. so there's a lot of pfk-1 in this, but the reality in the more serious part of this is they know they need to rein in spending and part of that is one, a lot of donald trump's top people are very concerned of having a repeat of what happened in the 2020 campaign when trump was the incumbent they were supposed to have this big money operation that was supposed to be one of the assets to his campaign. and then over the summer and into the fall, they've really faced a cash crunch. they burned through hundreds of millions of dollars. in just a matter of months and that left hip them in a dire financial situation in the leadup to the election. and so that's something that worries. i'm in the other part, of course, is the trump campaign itself is already facing a lot of financial struggles because of his legal bills because they wanted out his his legal problems. that's a lot. i mean, it's a huge part of it i mean, you look at the avenues that they have to pay for his legal bills. they insist that they're going to keep doing the same things they have, which is to mainly rely on his leadership, pac save america, which has really been underwriting most of the legal bills, but save america is actually has a lot less money than they had last year. they spent more than $50 million on his legal expenses. so that's something that they're dealing with. they also have another fund calls the legal defense fund. that is what they used to pay for co-defendant's lawyers, as well as his allies who are caught up in donald trump's legal problems. but one thing that is new that we have in this reporting is donald trump himself has begun to pay for his own legal bills. one senior advisor i spoke with said it's at least in the six-figure rain, which is a lot of money. and this comes from a man who we know has long loathed to pay his own legal bills. he has a history of stiffing lawyers, but it's become come to the point where they really need to start pulling on every avenue they can. now, one thing that they insist his campaign that they will not be pulling from is the rnc, which is coming come came as a surprise to a lot of people i think, especially given the leadership changes we're seeing trump pushing for, but one, the rnc had one of the worst fundraising years last year about a debit could do a lot, right? and also they know they need the rnc to help with his 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trouble on the streets is a big boost for the state's water supply and it is a sight to see on those mountain tops. that is your semi national park. it is beautiful. our weatherman van dam joins us now, derek, good morning. what are we got? >> yeah. this is the fifth day of blizzard conditions. i mean, just incredible. this is they punishing snowstorm for the sierra nevada mountain range. and you could see what people have contended with polling vehicles out of snowdrifts that are higher than the suv itself, sugar bowl in california at nine inches, you do the math that's over seven feet of snow and it is still snowing, it is still picking up, or i should say accumulating, but this is what made it particularly dangerous this weekend. the snow was whipped around by wind gusts in excess of 100 and miles per hour, especially in those high elevations. and you start parsing that out. we're talking about a category four atlantic hurricane equivalent with those types of gusts still some winter 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ceasefire in gaza, tapping vice president harris to try to drive home the message there must be an immediate ceasefire. >> this will >> get the hostages out and get a significant amount of aid in this would allow us to build something more enduring to ensure israel is secure, and to respect the right of the palestinian people to dignity freedom, and self-determination >> president biden had teased a possible temporary ceasefire, a deal as soon as today, but it is still far off. hamas is attending today's ceasefire talks in cairo. israel is not prime minister netanyahu demanding that hamas first released the names of all surviving hostages before he sends a delegation. this morning. we are very lucky to have cnn's very own morning person, jake tapper. >> good morning, >> everyone and kick off our coverage. good morning, everyone. this is >> probably you're going to actually see him live >> in honor of your new show. i say congratulations, i'm happy to come in early. i immediately regretted but here i am awake. >> i really am on. it means the world that you're here and honestly there's no one that i'd rather talk to you about the politics of what's going on, especially in israel as an how it relates here. i mean, you heard harris is making that statement. it's hunger in a lot of ways, and the president, well, the policy is the same, right? >> but certainly how she delivered the policy, the emphasis, the setting, the edmund pettus bridge, so that anniversary of sunday bloody sunday, her intonation seemed stronger than what we've heard from president biden, even though word for word. the policy is the same, which is ceasefire as soon as possible, six weeks hostages home aid in, et cetera. but the way she described the stark way she described the humanitarian catastrophe going on in gaza much more stark, right? >> i mean, she thought she was talking about malnourished children. yeah. i mean, in many ways, it's it's the message that the progressive left is using to badger her boss. >> yep. absolutely. and again, i don't think the policies any different us is now air-dropping supplies in to gaza, which is a very remarkable move on. also gets at the lack of cooperation from netanyahu's government when it comes to getting aid in even for the united states. >> but that >> said she gave it with a much more forceful style. >> can we talk a little bit about the dynamics between president biden and benjamin netanyahu delays. i don't think it doesn't seem so. no. >> i think i think that well, first of all, i think president biden's on the record not particularly caring for netanyahu in terms of how he runs his country. netanyahu is he relies on it. it's a parliamentary system. and there are 14 seats that he needs in order to stay prime minister that are controlled by these extremists, right-wing zealots, anti-arab bigots, smoke trich and ben-gavir in israel. >> he >> can't do anything to upset them they are right-wing extremist netanyahu is not popular in israel. his people's about 15:20 percent. if there were a call for a new election, benny gantz, who is in the war cabinet, who is visiting in dc, would likely beat him as prime minister. >> yeah, so hats this relate to the the presidential election because i mean, we saw out of the michigan results these significant feelings that are held by many in the arab american muslim community on your people. >> absolutely. it's not just arab american and muslim americans. look, it's a real muscle flex last, last tuesday during the michigan primary. here's a hunter for thousand of us. you can't ignore us and i would be worried if i were president biden. now, what is the what are the politics going to look like in november? i don't know. well, netanyahu is he'll be prime minister. i don't know. i mean, there are lots of unknowns, but certainly there's a lot of dissatisfaction with the way that president biden as managed this conflict because of all the horrific loss of innocent life we're seeing in gaza >> yeah, let's talk big picture about this week, right? because in many ways it is the kickoff week to the general election. you have trump >> surprising that i am here at ungodly hour. all the requirements upon me, we have set for tuesday tuesday with the state of the union thursday. today, we expect the supreme court announcement when it comes to the 14th amendment. i mean, a lot of stuff. i'm going to have to be wide awake for i know i know will be with you on tuesday night and thursday night. i will be not up as late as you are likely with some b12 shots >> going to need it. thank you. >> but this rematch mean polls show americans really don't want it, but it's going to get solidified. then a lot of people don't even >> like it's rarely streams like a lot of voters still are not convinced. i think it's not going to happen, but this is going to be the ones that i don't know. i can't really i mean, i feel like we've been saying it for quite some time. it's going to be certainly it's gonna be president biden it's indicated certainly it's going to be president trump, former president trump, although we should note kamala harris did win her first primary last night, the one he haley, you mean i'm sorry. it's okay. it's early. yeah. nikki >> nikki haley, wonderful. >> primary >> yes, i'm >> confusing my women in washington, dc right now. you're right. i mean, look the polls that over the weekend to write voters view as the economy or warming. but biden doesn't see it. that's the wall street journal. most biden voters in 2020. so people who voted him, i think for him they think he's too old to lead. i mean, that's the backdrop for his state of the union on thursday. yeah. and also he has he has failed to at least at this date and he's not the one with a competitive primary he has failed to secure his his coalition. i think he has like 80% of the people who voted for him in 2020, according to this new york times, hear paul say there will vote for him. 10% are going to vote for trump. you're losing one at a ten-year voters. that's a trouble now, it's early. i know a lot of skeptics of poles say that new york times sierra college poll is not solid enough, but i will say president biden has a lot of work to do >> so one of the other reasons i wanted to have you here is because i've been watching at your united states of scandal series, which has been airing on sunday nights at nine. yeah, it's awesome. it's amazing. let's show a little bit of this week's episode so this focused on eliot spitzer and then jake, the sheriff of wall street >> and a telltale sign of his hubris spitzer was so confident he would become governor. he started staffing his administration years before the election one time spitzer said to me, there's someone i'd like to interview be lieutenant governor, but i wouldn't want to be rejected. now i realize he's talking about me and he was right i didn't want tenant governor. and at the time, hillary clinton, who was the junior senator from new york. so i said to spits, what if hillary clinton becomes president? you pick the new senator? i would be your god and spitzer said something to me at that point. it was very prophetic. stay out of trouble and you're my god and all i can say to that was physician heal by self some advice from spitzer, stay out of trouble. >> and lieutenant governor, then governor david paterson did stay out of trouble. problem was eliot spitzer didn't stay out of trouble. >> sure. the worst kind of trouble also, the worst kind of trouble. talk to me a little bit about like what it was like to make this. i mean, i saw you interviewed real hunter from the job. >> yeah. we have coming up not this sunday because the oscars this is what the following sunday, march 17, we have jim mughrabi, the governor of new jersey, who had to step down meeting during his whole controversy involving him being secretly gay and putting his lover on the government payroll in new jersey as 2004. were you born >> and then the last one is about the valerie plame scandal and whip weapons of mass destruction writ large, but it's been yeah, we started with nagoya, mark sanford, john edwards, eliot spitzer magris vi and playing. >> what do you learn doing it, like what was your big picture? >> well, first of all, you hear what it's like for people, either the governors themselves, the politicians themselves, or people close to them, what it was like. i mean, you just on its face, you learn their perspective the perspective of rielle hunter, john edwards, girlfriend what was going through her mind and her she said she didn't even want him to run for president. she was the only person who was like du didn't want him to run for president. also, it was very interesting getting the inside look at that when john edwards admitted the affair but denied paternity of their daughter. >> i feel >> like that's the moment issues like we're not in love. >> yeah. >> that was that she fell in love with him that moment. my interpretation, not hers. i mean, you can understand why that might happen. >> there >> human dramas. i mean, we try to glean a little wisdom analysis intellect out of them, but they are human dramas. they are what shakespeare would be writing. were he alive today and they're fascinating and they do tell us something about ourselves as a voting public, and also how we have evolved as a country. >> yeah, i mean, look, i have to say when i think about how to cover politics, how to do this job day in and day out. the one thing i always try to remind myself is that these are actual, real human beings who act in human ways. >> sometimes all too human, right? right. >> i mean with eliot spitzer passing >> anti sex trafficking laws, sex worker laws, and then breaking those very laws may even that day, who knows? >> who knows. okay. you should watch the series guys. it's really good. >> jake. thank you so much. >> again, since i got no, i got to start my de i got show meetings, i got to go to the gym. >> i'm ready. i'm ready. >> hey, if you've got this early, you know, you really going to jump on everybody else. you got to tell you that. >> take thank you. thank you. i really appreciate it. >> all right. make sure you do catch the next episode of united states of scandal is gonna be sunday, march 17, as jake mentioned, 09:00 eastern time right here on cnn up next crews battling those massive texas wildfires, hoping for some cooler weather in the hours ahead, plus a consequential week as we've been discussing for president biden, our own david axelrod is here. we're going to ask acts, anything? almost. and the trump campaign, considering a new strategy targeting muslims in michigan, democratic congressman kildee joins us up next >> new day. >> one were shared values propel us towards for more secure future through august of partnership built upon cutting-edge american, australian, and british technologies will develop state-of-the-art next generation 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president biden, according to new york times, the idea is to run ads in heavily muslim michigan communities, thanking president biden for standing with israel well over 100,000 michigan voters chose uncommitted. instead of choosing biden in the democratic primary last week. let's bring in democratic congressman dan kildee of michigan, a congressman. always wonderful to see you. thank you. good to be here >> and, you know, i have michigan roots myself, so i'm always grateful to have michiganders, michiganders on the show this was a pretty tough message that michigan voters sent to president biden what's going on there? how big is this problem? and is he doing enough to address it >> well, i think he needs to do more. i happen to share the views of many of those folks who voted uncommitted, although i supported the president, their views on israel, hamas war are views that i happen to share and i think it's important that the president here, those voices. i do think there's a pretty strong distinction between the way president biden has approached these issues in the middle east and donald trump, i hope at the end of the day that reality will sink in. but in the meantime, i do think that the president needs to engage more with the arab and muslim immunity to talk to them, to hear from them face-to-face their concerns, and hopefully have those concerns inform the us position as we go forward on this, do you think that if the president doesn't change the policy that we have as a nation right now towards the war in gaza, that president biden will lose michigan in a general election well, i think it's a challenge. i think, you know, even though much of this was expressed at the ballot box, this is not a political issue for the arab and muslim community. this is a matter of life and death. so i think it's a mistake for anyone to view it through a purely political lens. having said that it's something that the president will continue to have to address. but i think at the end of the day, eight months from now when this decision is made michiganders are going to make a choice based on a whole variety of factors. and the contrast between donald trump and joe biden couldn't be more stark. and i do believe that as michiganders sit around their kitchen tables and make a decision about who's best for them. it won't be much of a question. joe biden will be their choice. so fair enough. but i mean, look, these two papers, the wall street journal, new york times, they're both topped with polls that honestly have some warning signs in them for the present, the journal poll, the top lines are closer together. some people are questioning whether the spread in the times poll is really as big as it says. but they both reflect deep concerns, especially around president biden's age and how that comes across. i mean, most biden voters who voted for him in 2020, according to the times, think that now now that he's too old to lead is it possible for the president's with these questions to rest? >> i think so. i mean, we're going to have the state of union later this week. i think that's an opportunity, but the president getting out there and being among the american people, talking about his vision for the country look, i think there's a bit of a double standard here when you see these criticisms of president biden, in the meantime, you've got donald trump out there giving speeches that are unhinged, deranged. he can't distinguish nikki haley for nancy pelosi. he couldn't pick his own former wife out of a photo lineup. so to be president has pushed back on that and saying he was referring to the wife of someone else in the crowd. i just want to throw that out there, but i think he always has an explanation when he does something completely ridiculous. and my point being though is that look, donald trump is no spring chicken. donald trump can't remember what day it is. and the criticism of president biden, i get. it's ultimately going to be measured on performance. what joe biden has done, no matter what is ages, what joe biden has done is really remarkable for this country. i mean, look what's going on. unemployment is down the stock market is up. everything is going in the right direction under president trump, what do we have? complete chaos and i think at the end of it, that's really going to be the measure of these two candidates. >> so this morning out in the new yorker, evan osnos sat down with president, with president biden in a rare oval office interview. and the president was pretty apocalyptic about what he expects from former president donald trump in the event that trump wins, the general election, he said, quote and again, this is from the new yorker. >> i just think >> hill trump do anything to try to win if and when i when i think he'll contested, no matter what the result is. >> that is a >> pretty stark statement from the president saying that he believes that donald trump will try to steal the election if joe biden does, does win in november. do you agree with the president >> well, i think the evidence is there. donald trump does not connect with reality. he's interested in his own power and i just started reading liz cheney's book. i've been reading a lot of these books. >> liz cheney and i serve together. we certainly don't agree on a lot of the issues just pay attention to what conventional republicans are saying about donald trump and what he will do to stay in power or, or to gain power, it ought to be frightening to every american >> what would you like to see president biden focus on in the state of the union address this week. >> well, i think a couple of things. number one, making the point that his policies are working we are restoring american manufacturing. it's making a difference in the lives of americans. number one, secondly, i do think it's important to begin to signal what's, what's next. i know the president has a focus, for example, on housing. housing is a challenge in this country. it can't just be a referendum on what we've done, but also look to the future. trust us. you've seen this president do the hard work and it's living for the american people. trust us to continue to do that work. and i think if he lands that message, i think that's going to be a game changer >> what do you expect from the house speaker mike johnson in terms of moving forward on ukraine aid, i mean, is there a sense among democrats of how to handle if in fact there is a republican proposal that johnson's willing to put on the floor on ukraine aid. how democrats would handle that? >> well, we can't figure out exactly what speaker johnson's agenda is. i mean, he first wanted to connect ukraine aid to border security. we gave him what he asked for and then he turned away from that there's a real problem in the republican conference. there seems to be a pro-putin caucus within the republican conference. the sooner mike johnson recognizes that and realizes that the functional majority that will stand for america's national security, a strong border, ukraine et cetera. that functional majority is made up of almost all the democrats and a really good percentage of the republicans north of 300 votes for any package that would address those issues. sure. >> if he's going to continue to cater to the dozen or 20 most extreme members of congress. we're not going to get any of this done >> all right. congress it's been dan kildee. thank you very much for being with us this morning. i really appreciate it. >> all right. 15 minutes past the hour time for your morning round of jack teixeira, the air national guardsman accused of posting classified documents online, expected to plead guilty to share. it was just 21 when he was charged with six counts of willful retention and transmission of classified information. he faces decades in prison. if he's convicted strong winds and higher temperatures are fueling wildfires that are spreading across the texas panhandle. it is the biggest fire in texas history a colon the front is moving into the area today, which could provide some relief for firefighters. and in utah, a major league soccer game happened in the middle of a snowstorm, real salt lake one, it's home opener against the loss angeles football club, three to zero. i'll angeles as head coach called it, quote, disgraceful that the game was played in these conditions >> i don't know. i thought it was kind one of the deal with soccer >> all right. now, it's time to ask acts, anything >> always with joe biden for the past, we get and he wiped me out. >> okay. so you feel he's up to the job then? >> i was just with him and behind closed doors, he's a dynamo. joe went into beast mode he said, we're going to tighten this border. look how easy i can cross it. then he par cord up to the top of the border wall. you flipped into the rio grande and came back up with a fiction, his mouth all right. our panel is back and now we are joined by. the one and only david axelrod, who has graciously agreed to regularly. let us ask x anything within reason? of course acts i'm so grateful. thank you for being here. sure. great to see you. early birds. >> we really appreciate it. we've had, we've had a number of non morning people this morning, so thank you. i actually want to ask you acts to start off with this and this is just breaking this morning. there was a rare oval office interview that the president gave to the new yorker's evan osnos? yeah. >> and he talked about what he believes former president will or won't do when he went and if he, if biden wins the election losers who are losers are never graceful. i just think he'll do anything to try to win if and when i when i think you'll contest it, no matter what the result is. first of all, do you agree with the president and what do you make of his decision to say this out loud at this point? >> well, first of all, i don't even think that is a debatable scenario. i mean, we've already seen a tested donald trump has two, there are two scenarios for donald trump in an election. either he wins or it was stolen. he never acknowledged is the third option that, hey, they just weren't into you, which is was the case in, 2020? that is not in his parlance. that's not in his re range of understanding. so i expect that he would contest any election but at least we're now alert to the fact that that is a likely scenario if he were to lose the election we're being a little light about it and i just will say i was at the capitol january 6. it's not a laughing matter. serhly. all right. our panel has questions for you too. kate bedingfield. what's yours for acts. okay. x what do you think the president? what kind of public events do you think president biden should focus on? what do you think gets him the most bang for his buck if you're laying out the rest of this campaign for him and his team, what sort of public events should he be doing? okay. i feel really weird asking, answering this question coming from you >> let >> me just say that because you spent years thinking 24/7 about this very question, and i should actually turn the tables and ask you, but look, i think that being a strategist it's like being a coach of a team. you want to maximize your team strength. you want to maximize your quarterback strengthen. you want to minimize their weaknesses. so put him in situations where he is likely to score the most and that is for him, it's i think in places where he can show his empathy and connection or informal settings where he can interact with people. but i do think kate and i think you'd agree that he also needs to show urgency and advocacy and action moving forward here, got a good chance this week at the state of the union speech, which i think is going to be more important for president running for reelection in any i can remember. >> that's really interesting. sure, michael, what's your question? so ax i have a question for you. i think that the trump campaign is going to have a hyperfocus battleground state strategy. so with that in mind, president biden won georgia by 12,000 votes, arizona by 10,000 votes nevada by 33,000, and wisconsin by 20,000. considering those numbers as some of the fractures we're seeing within his coalition, how worried and concerned should his reelect campaign. >> i think this is a rhetorical question you raised an important point that i think we gloss over when we're doing the math, we look at these national there's no poles, these national polls or are meaningful, but they're not they're not completely prescriptive about what's going to happen because we elect by electoral votes, joe biden won by 7 million votes last time, but really by the margin of 44,000 votes in the three closest states. and that's how presidential races are run. 40 before states are going to watch this year in six states are going to determine who the president of the united states is going to be. and yes, i think right now, put in polling on the average, he is even or a little less than even in a lot of these states, some states he's trailing in those six states and that is going to be the focus of the campaign. and there'll be a lot of data analytics and a lot of focus on how to prioritize those states and had a prioritize resources and how to prioritize where the focus should be. one thing i want to add, by the way, to my last answer. to hey, one thing you do when you're quarterback, maybe can throw as far as he used to, maybe can scramble quite as well, but has a lot of experiences. you use your supporting cast, you've thrown to the other players, you hand the ball off to other players. i think the president needs to use his surrogates a lot more aggressively than he has so far. and that is certainly true in these battleground states. >> really interesting, tia, what's your question for acts? >> all right? my question is since we're on the eve of super tuesday, i want to ask about the early primary states. we know the democratic party. we did the calendar. they said they wanted to have some of those earlier states more reflective of the electorate. but it was also interpreted as a way to make some of those earlier voting states friendlier to president biden. my question is, did it matter? did it work? what what was the actual effect of this rejiggered primary calendar? >> yeah. i'm not sure that it mattered at the end of the day. when he when that was announced, my thought was if anybody was thinking of challenging the president, this would be a daunting calendar. he, as you remember, he didn't do particularly well in the caucuses and primary and iowa, new hampshire, last time he did very well in south carolina that's where he wanted to kick off the campaign as it turns out, i'm not sure that it will would have made that much of a difference. and you look at new hampshire where he didn't do particularly well last time and there was a there was an effort on the part of congressman phillips to challenge him and there was a right and that was pretty successful. i don't think at the end of the day it made that much of a difference in terms of who the nominee if the democratic party would be probably got him off to a better star. >> acts where we're about to wrap up here. but very briefly, i mean, you mentioned passing the ball to other members of your team. i mean, these two headlines on the post and the journal. all right. excuse me, the times in the journal respectively where 70 plus percent of voters are saying they think biden is too old i mean, is that surmountable? fundamentally? >> well, look, elections are a choice and they're not, they're not a referendum. and i think part of the challenge for the biden campaign is to get out of the referendum mode and really focus on donald trump, who is an epically flawed candidate. but so, yes, i think it can be overcome as you can see, these it's polls despite everything are very, very tight, but it is a problem and there's no doubt about it and there needs to be a lot of thought about how to use him, how to present him, and then had to shift the focus to donald trump because we haven't seen anything quite like this before. >> we sure haven't. all right. david axelrod. thank you. you're such a great sport. i really appreciate it. >> guys. have a great day. >> come back soon. you too. thank you. >> all right. i will leave you with this iowa hawkeyes superstar caitlin clark has gone were no woman or man for that matter, has gone before this for college college basketball history just amazing. she's >> on the court all by herself for that. she is now the nc doublet is all-time leading scorer in basketball period, not women's basketball, not men's basketball. basketball, and guess what, they beat ohio state. >> i'm a michigan fan, so that's great. kaitlan past hall of famer pistol pete maravich's record when she did this, her career total now 3,685 points and it'd be hard for almost anyone to be humble about this feat. but after the game, kaitlan once again proved, and this is what makes her part of what makes her so great. she's just built differently a record is a