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With trumps Attorney General, both vilifying his former boss and also voting for him. And hes far from alone. What are revealing conversation tells us about the state of the race and the. State of the republican party. Also a new front and the flash point on College Campuses. As protesters are being told tonight, the time is up columbia beginning to suspend students and police in Riot Gear Making Hundreds Of Arrest across the country are source on this Movement Tonight is Michael Moore and did a potential trump Vice President ial pick just shoot ourselves in the foot. Theres who fall out tonight for south dakota governor kristi no matter her story about shooting her puppy on purpose, were digging into whats bazai behind her latest bizarre defense . Im kaitlan collins. And this is the source tonight an exclusive window directly into the disconnect at the heart of our Current National politics. A window that was thrown wide open by former Attorney General bill barr right here on the source i, think that ive said this all along. If faced with a choice between two people, neither of which i think should be president. I feel its my duty to pick the person who i think would do the least damage to the contrary and i think trump would do less damage than biden thats the rationale from a former Cabinet Member who had a Front Row Seat to the turbulent final weeks of the Trump Administration is donald trump was seeking to overturn the 2020 Election Results an act the bar himself has described and pretty frank terms before should a noisy aid and it is a horror show. He didnt really appear to care about the facts. Someone who engaged in that kind of bullying about a process that is fundamental to our system and to our selfgovernment it shouldnt be anywhere near the oval office bars justification of his support for trump. Now, despite what youve just listened to, their can kind of feel like a dizzying about face. But keep in mind that came after this moment when i asked him about trump flat out mocking bar after he said hed support him in november i have to ask you about something that trump posted about you this week because he responded in response to you saying you vote for the republican ticket wow, former ag bill barr who led a lot of great people down by not investigating voter fraud in our country has just endorsed me for president , despite the fact that i call him, called Him Week Slope so moving, lethargic, got less and lazy based on the fact that i greatly appreciate his wholehearted endorsement i am removing the word lethargic from my statement. Thank you. Bill yeah. Classic trump funny bars, personal humiliation, as well as his embrace of trumps autocratic wishes. Even The Revelation that talk of executions were not rare occurrences inside the trump white house. Barr told. Us all that explains the barrage of headlines you see here launched by that barrier but what also makes it different is from the others that hes done, the one that he did here with us on the source friday night is that we had the opportunity to dig beyond the soundbite, the talking point, and really press mr. Bar, whom i should note is one of the few who individuals to ever serve as the nations chief Law Enforcement officer twice on how he could vote for trump, given his previous blistering criticism of him. And we challenged him on his argument that the Biden Administrations policies are worse than his former bosses attempts to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power parents are losing the freedom to control their childrens education and people cant speak their mind, but that losing their jobs and things like that this is worse than the mccarthy era. Wheres that coming from . Its coming from the right. Those two things that you just noted there you believe are worse than a president of the United States trying to subvert the will of the people by overturning the results dont know. I think i think a country all the things together like were not enforcing our borders, so we have open borders. We have lawlessness in our cities. We have regulations coming fast and furious. So telling people what kind of stoves they can use and what kinds of cars they have to drive and eliminating cars and so and so forth yeah, those are those are the threats to democracy President Biden is not in control of what some School Boards across the country, using the Administrator Argument that the same major changes are being made in our country without without the democratic process and theyre being made by bureaucrats in these agencies. Yeah. Okay. Pause. You can not argue that republicans across the country, and im doing that as well. My own hometown, theres a huge fight at the library forever, which books kids can read. This is not something that is always fight. Do you think there are . I dont you think there should be some limits on what people are able to read very young age. I just think people look at what youre saying and they dont maybe, maybe even republicans who have concerns about whats happening with School Boards or the culture and dont make abortion even dont equate that with, with january 6 and trumps efforts when you told him the election was not stolen and hes still went out there and said it was stolen and let a lot of people to believe that they dont those things arent equal. It feels like a false equivalency well, i disagree, i think and i think the country is much more susceptible to losing freedoms by the excesses of the left and they have been steadily and that, thats clear people lose their jobs. Kids cant speak out in the classroom. They have to go along with what the professor says in order to get good grades and so forth. Its become like Nation Being Directed by Progressive Elise of Course Mccarthyism was one of the darkest chapters in american history. Its also republican governors who have led the nationwide effort to ban certain topics from classrooms what you agree or disagree with what theyre saying at this very moment, students on College Campuses across this country are certainly speaking out. Well talk more about that in a moment. But six months out from a president ial election, mr. Bars position is far from the only one in his party. Look at this, a new cnn poll shows that 92 republicans believed that trumps first term in office was a success. Four criminal indictments later that is actually higher than it was when he left the white house in 2021. Look no further than what trump himself is saying tonight touting what he says that the fool and enthusiastic support of Governor Ron Desantis trump met with desantis and florida yesterday to talk about how he can help with Trumps Campaign this is the first time theyve spoken since desantis dropped out of that ugly primary race. But we see this paradox echoed by republican, after republican, the donald trump is to blame for january 6 and everything that entailed in that period. If they are still going on to vote to put him back in the oval office. And most certainly they arent casting their ballots for President Joe Biden President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the event of the day that would support the nominee of the party. Whoever that was and i do. You said it is clear the President Trumps rhetoric and add actions contributed to the insurrection. The domestic terrorists who attack United States capital must be held accountable and prosecuted. Do you stand by that statement 100 . Im going to split the ticket. Im going to support donald trump. Trump is not fit to be president if i could start a nationwide writein campaign for dick cheney . Maybe i should do that we begin with a source tonight, who served in the Trump Administration alongside bill barr, Alyssa Farah Griffin was the White House Communications director, and is now a cnn political commentator. And i just wonder what you made of what bill barr had to say i could spend the whole hour unpacking that historic stunning, and bizarre interview with the former Attorney General. I want to say one thing. He made this point that in fact the left and joe biden are more dangerous than the right because a talker seas dont emerge from the right. I would point to viktor orban, who donald trump regularly praises bolsonaro and brazil also came from the right. Its an absurd historically inaccurate claim that hes making. But i dont know bill barr. Well, i served alongside him. I was in high level meetings with him in the west wing. He matteroffactly admitted to you that donald trump talked regularly about executing people . I knew of the one instance i personally witnessed, i had heard of other examples secondhand but he seemed to dismiss it and then goes into this line of like, oh, dont take him literally well, we didnt take them literally when he wanted to steal the election or one hand cited a mob to go to the capital and it turned violent. Its time that people start taking donald trump much more literally at his word i would just also add donald trump has an a masterful job and with i would say, his friends and the rightwing media of Painting America as being in this hellscape right now, we cant survive another four years of joe biden. Weve survived nine, 11 world war ii economic downturns. I dont like joe bidens policies. That is demonstrably true . The board whether its the border crime is down republicans were blocking a border bill right now. We can survive bad policies. You cannot necessarily as democracy survive and anticonstitutional president , again, like donald trump. But when he brought up Gas Stove Regulations and truly was legitimately saying that that is as dangerous as what he personally witnessed and spoke out against an angered trump when he spoke to the Associated Press and december and said there was no widespread voter fraud here in the honestly, the interview felt like a Hostage Video i noticed that he was not regularly making eye contact with you, especially when he was making some of the more bizarre claims like gas stoves, it felt like he was kinda clinging to some rightwing Talking Points that nobody is turning out this election because of electric vehicles or gas stoves, rather than talking about issues that he knows are fundamental. Donald trump was to fire him, his Attorney General had he not step down, you wanted a loyalist in that role who is going to lie about the election and whats going to help them try to carry out overturning it. Bill barr knows that. I mean, its its frankly disgraceful that hes doing this about face now what you just mentioned there, you posted this last week and said that on an occasion where bill barr was present, you heard donald trump talk about suggesting executing a leaker, who from the white house we i brought that up with bar and this is what he said. But Alyssa Farah Griffin, who was occasions stricter, posted yesterday and said that you are present at a moment when trump suggested executing the person who leaked information that he went to the white house bunker when those George Floyd Protests were happening outside the white house do you remember that i remember and being very mad about that, i actually dont remember him saying executing, but i wouldnt dispute it i mean, it doesnt sound the president would lose his temper and say things like that. Taotie would have actually carried it out. I dont you know, but he would say that on other occasions you said the president had a i think people sometimes took them to literally and he would say things like similar to that in occasions to blow off steam. But i wouldnt take them literally every time he did it. Why not . Because at the end of the de it wouldnt be carried out and you could talk sense just because its not carried out and you could talk since sen. Tim doesnt that still mean that the threat is there . No. I mean, i think i dont think the threat is there. I can i the thing that i worry about, President Trump is not that hes going to become an autocrat and do those kinds of why not . Because i dont think he would vote the end of the day. Whats the basis for that . That that understanding that you have well i . Just your own hunch thats my feeling having worked for him, seen him in action. I dont think he would actually go and kill political rivals and things like that. I mean, are people that desensitized and the Trump Administration that he was like, oh, its just blowing off steam i mean, maybe in the moment, but with the hindsight of history, i mean, and the moment by the way, he was sitting to the left of the resolute desk. Bill barr was in the conversation was about invoking the Insurrection Act to try to quell domestic lets take protests. Bill barr having been Attorney General during rodney king, was talking the former president out of it, and he then launched into a tirade saying we needed to execute somebody who leaked this. Its treason. I dont know how he couldnt remember that moment. I think that thats lawyer speak for i dont want to answer it, but thats even more shocking if it was something that he didnt even see a significant and didnt file away history. I remember that day because that was when trump was upset that someone had leaked that. Thats why trump did that walk across the white house grounds where they cleared the protesters. He held the bible upside down. I remember all of that i mean, we were told by sources. I think kevin liptak reported trump did that because he was embarrassed that it had been reported. He went to the bunker very much so when there were two at least a dozen other people in that meeting who witnessed that same statement by the former president lets farah griffin. Thank you for your perspective on that also here tonight, as we were talking about this bill barr, at one point in that interview said that the Biden Administration he believes is a real threat to democracy. My next source is republican, who might disagree with that. Adam kinzinger investigated that threat to democracy around january 6, as a member of the House Select Committee and is now also a cnn senior political commentator. Congressman just i want you to listen to how bar tried to equate the threat that was posed by that a period of leading up to january 6 with the policies that are being implemented by President Biden how can you equate the border is a real issue. Ive been to the border. No ones denying that. But is that the same thing . Is what you said recently, which was that . The conduct that was involved with donald trump, you said trying to subvert and prevent the progress, the execution of probably the most important process we have, which is the peaceful transfer of power after an election. Name one thing that biden has done thats worse than that i think hes hello, administration is a disaster for the company is worse than subverting the peaceful transfer of power in did he succeed . Only because Vice President mike pence and now the people who are lining up the vichy again say that they will not do what mike pence did. Look, i was very loud and saying i thought it was a whole episode was shameful. And im very troubled by and thats why its not an easy decision. But i think when you have a hobsons choice, you have to pick the lesser of two evils. You dont see this is the definition of putting party over country no no, not because unfortunately, were having were in a situation where the policy differences between the two parties are very, very vast. Theres a huge gulf. And so in that trump can achieve the policies i think hes gonna have a harder time shaving them, but youre voting for so just to be clear, youre voting for someone who you believe tried to subvert the peaceful transfer of power that can even achieve his own policies that lied about the election even after his Attorney General told him that the election wasnt stolen. And as the former chief Law Enforcement in this country, youre going to vote for for someone who is facing 88 criminal counts look, the ada criminal counts, a lot of those are ten of them are accurate he answered the question is yes. Im supporting im supporting the republican Ticket Congressman i mean i just the only person happy about that interview was probably kris and new knew because he actually looked worse than him because sununu was doing the same thing. I just i cannot. When you ask him, isnt that the definition of putting party over country . It absolutely is the definition of putting party over country, not because he got to come back and said, well, look, if i was going to vote on the economy, like i agree with republican economics more than democratic, i can economic. But he was talking talking about who was a bigger threat to democracy to democracy. Look, you can have an outofcontrol border, an outofcontrol border does not threaten the peaceful transfer of power. Because what we saw on january 6, what we saw, frankly in the intervening period before that, including when the person that succeeded mr. Bill barr was told by the president at the time, just say the election was corrupt, just say it was corrupt. You dont even dont prove it. Just say it, and then leave the rest to me and the republican congressman implying that he will put enough doubt in peoples Minds Overthrow it. This is the definition of a threat to democracy and bill barr to go through his litany of things, stoves, theyre trying to get rid of cars, which is the most insane thing ive ever heard. Nobodys trying to get rid of cars. But he is trying to convince himself and you can see it in real time. Because hes struggling there he didnt want donald trump to be the republican nominee. I mean, he made that pretty clear when we spoke to him eight months ago and this show he was scathing, downright scathing, and his criticism of donald trump. I mean, without asking you to kinda i mean, only bill barr can explain his position now on this, but what do you think is behind the change its easy, its easy to just go with the republican nominee. I mean, trust me as somebody thats kinda been kicked out of a tribe. If you want us try to stay in your tribe and your whole identity is based on the fact that youre a republican or hes a former republican and thats how hes going to go make money now thats Everybody Knows him. Its much easier just to say, im just going to default to supporting the republican nominee because theyre both bad people. It is hard to turn around and say, im gonna vote democratic even if i dont agree with the policies because of the threat. And thats what youre watching in realtime him wrestling with that and he made the wrong decision and hes frankly ought to be embarrassed that interview was a great interview. You did, but he ought to be embarrassed for his answers. He certainly was not. He stood by them. Adam kinzinger. Thank you for your perspective on this tonight. You bet up next the other big story that we are following here tonight on the source, students have been suspended. Hundreds of people have been arrested across the city. 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I should note, Virginia Tech or rusting over 90 people, including 54 students who have all been charged with trespassing. Cornell and columbia, suspending students students who refuse to leave in that have been put on their campus. Columbia gave protesters until a 2 00 p. M. Deadline today to vacate an encampment on their school grounds. This is how a Student Leaders responded we demand divestment. We will not be moved on left by force. This is a movement, an Antiwar Movement i source tonight, Academy Award winning filmmaker Michael Moore, who is documented nationwide protests and has also been a part of them himself and michael. Its great to have you back on the show. I just wonder, you know, is weve been covering this and you really saw it hit a high point today at universities all across the United States from coasttocoast how do you think that these schools should be approaching these protest in the opposite way that most of doing it. I mean, this whats great about democracy and free speech freedom of Assembly Freedom of not having a state religion. This is what every, those who came here, the white people came here wanting to escape that and so the Lesson Teaching the children of today in this case, gen z that we will, we will teach you. He will be, you we will call you if you want. None of them are committing any acts of violence. None of them are destroying the university worst, maybe in some peoples minds are doing is Holding Signs lets say, free palestine or from the river to the sea. This is the one that is constantly being thrown out there. Oh, look at this, this, the sign is frightening all the students from the river to the sea and its like, well, why dont you talk to them . Because actually, first ball large numbers of these seats are jewish students who are with the palestinian students who together are forming these encampments. I dont know if thats been covered very much. How much i saw this one instance where the palestinian students inviting the jewish students into the encampment and then the next day they had a Little Nighttime Entertainment in the encampment and the palestinian students decided to do a jewish folk dance for their fellow a protesters who are jewish students yeah. Can i ask you that because there are some people definitely sitting at home right now watching this who say, okay, but ive also heard jewish students on air here at cnn and another interview saying, well, im hearing antisemitic rhetoric at this, and its not all just a cauda kumbaya thing that it is. There are moments where do as students have said, they felt harassed, they felt on safe on campus going to going to class. I mean, i think thats the question of where is the line in . Yes, at some schools like yale where weve seen a jewish student who wrote for cnn. Todays saying he was sitting in with a propalestinian protests are but wheres the line between protesting and free speech, but also jewish students feeling safe coined a class right . Well, first of all, the protesters who were there supporting the Palestinian People and their right to be free i would guess probably 98 of them are not saying anything thats antisemitic because they dont believe in antisemitism in part because the Palestinian People are semites so to be antisymmetric would be if you speak against jewish people and yes, md anderson antisemitism is i think one of the most horrific things that the way people would be able, jews have been suffering as victims of this for 5,000 plus years. And Everybody Needs to stand up against that and fight it and speak against it. But whats going on . And i noticed that there was a report thing. I read the la times today and also on abc news, where there were interviewing students and they were being harassed and the hamas flags are flying. And abc and the la times did their own investigation trying to find at these College Demonstrations one hamas flag that the protesters were carrying and the word none. This is all a madeup thing, just like like i said, the river to the sea. I just i wanted to just read this is from the charter of the likud party. Thats the Rightwing Party that netanyahu is the head of 1977 getting direct quote from the charter of the likud rightwing israeli party. And it says the following. The right of the jewish people to the Land Of Israel is eternal and indisputable. Between the sea and the jordan. There will only be israeli sovereignty thats their own charter. The likud party. Thats where this river to the sea, because the real victims in these last decades have been the Palestinian People not being able to have their freedom, not being able to live in a democracy, not having their rights and why so many jewish students are joining with palestinian students because they know whats wrong. Two, thats why the majority, i think of israelis certainly want netanyahu out of their your own polls have shown that, well, i would and i think im glad you brought it pulls one i should say that it is happening on some campuses. We saw the one student who was barred from campus after he said in a video in january that all zionists should be killed, or that scientists should be killed. That was something that was spread around and i understand, obviously, its complicated in schools clearly are grappling with how to handle this knucklehead. And hes now apologize for it. Ive been to Giant Stadium where i cant tell you how many times ive had to listen to white people shouting negative using negative words about black players using those epithets. Does that mean all players are one thing or another or white people are . Well, we know theres enough of them bad stuff is set in this country constantly because we have had a historic problem with bigotry, with racism, with all kinds of bad things said about minority groups and putting and especially jews. And that is not allowed and all the organizers of all these demonstrations, ive talked to a lot of them. Theyve been in touch with me and i have to tell you they are the salt of the earth. They are kind and generous. They want to work with whos they want to live in peace. Yeah, they do not or my toolbar seventh exactly capturing the nuance here at a complex nature of this is one thing that you brought up a poll about israels leadership, but youre wearing a michigan hat right now, one, i wont hold you against that because im when alabama fan, as you know, but but to there theres a cnn poll that showed today 81 of voters who are under the age of 35 disapprove of help President Biden has been handling this war. I mean, were seeing it on campuses. There is a question of what were going to see in november. I wonder what you think he should be doing differently to change those numbers thank you for asking that question. Kaitlan, this is why i was so when i got the call asking if id like to come on tonight, i really was coming on. I know were speaking to millions of people, but id like to speak to one particular individual that is President Biden i wanted to say this on your show tonight that his chance of not being reelected, i think at this point is so great because of those numbers. Because the hes losing the youth vote. Hes lost the Arab American vote in michigan so even Michelle Goldberg and a column in the New York Times last month said that you lose michigan, you lose the election i am fighting to make sure that doesnt happen. Im trying to save joe biden because as soon as he does the right thing, as soon as they and if youre listening, watching mr. Biden, fellow catholic although some will say recovering in my case, but still we are we are catholics and the pulp is right on this. We need an immediate ceasefire. It is wang, a Mass Slaughter of innocence of children, of women, of the elderly is a sin it is absolutely against what we believe in. I know, you know, that too. I know thats why youre not really happy with what netanyahu has done here. And you can stop the killing tonight. You pull the plug, it closed the bank is shut it down, doesnt mean were not going to support israel. Israel absolutely. All but, but its not whats going on here is a smashed slaughter. It is a its so its madness. President biden and you know, this, and i speak to you as a fellow saman ariane, to the catholic priesthood. Thats me that this is wrong. This is not what we believe in and i think after the world war ii, were all, were All In The Shadow of the holocaust. We are all Sons And Daughters of that era. And what did we want to do . We wanted to make sure that no jew would ever have to suffer again or be killed again. And so everybody that behind the idea that they should have this home. But the home, the land wasnt taken from the nazis. The germans, we didnt give them bavaria we took land from people, people who want a single palestinian built and oven at auschwitz, not a single palestinian historically ran the Spanish Inquisition A Single palestinian turned away. Boatloads of German Jewish refugees that tried to dock in boston New York Miami prohibited, tried to escape before they were all exterminated and we turn them away. We, the United States and its, its im just saying its your right to be as you say, your hair and you love the jewish people. Obviously, yes. But not this. This is, this is massive extermination when you carpet bomb a civilian poppy by thats our tax dollars and my tax dollars. That means we funding this way, are responsible this and we have to but im sorry, kayla, i just want to make this because People Democrats are going to dont be sad. We got to win the election but were going to lose the election. Were going to lose michigan if we dont turn this around and President Biden doesnt turn this around. That is going to do more to put trump back in the white house and i refuse so have donald trump back in the white house. So what do we all going to do how are we going to fix this . Theres a simple way right now to try to bring back some of the young people i know were out of time. Thank you for letting me say that and speak directly to the president you know, what i hope is watching. You know, we love, we love having you on. Well have you back. Michael moore. Thank you for that. Thank you so much meanwhile, tomorrow here in new york on the Witness Stand and inside that courtroom, as we have been watching this so closely, porn stars, hush money, Election Interference youd be forgiven for thinking that is what the trial is all about. 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But its easy to lose sight of what the alleged crime is here. Its all about documents, legal fees, Business Records that will really be what determines Donald Trumps fate. My next source tackled this topic today in a New York Times oped piece, writing, its not surprising that the lawyers on both sides are trying to make this about something sexier but she goes on to write the case as up preventing wealthy people from using their businesses to commit crimes and hide from accountability. Joining me now is the author of that piece . Former assistant District Attorney in the manhattan das office, rebecca roy phi, along with jennifer rodgers, former federal prosecutor, and cnn legal analysts, and also arthur aidala, a veteran new york trial attorney. Rebecca, let me start with you because we often just say this is the hush money case. Alvin bragg, the da says is the Election Interference case. Youre saying its neither of those, right . Its the boring old documents but i think its important to focus on that in part because it just simplifies the case a huge amount and there are these promises with all of these stories that things that dont need to be proved are going to be proved. And that has the potential of confusing the jurors once you boil it down to the case, it looks a whole lot, lot more simple, a lot more like things that are normally done in the das office, and therefore more legitimate and other youve kind of argued about what the crime alleged here is. I mean, you pointed out that this is pretty fairly common, actually in new york. I think it was 10,000 cases that have been prosecuted for falsifying Business Records. I mean, what does that say to you about what you what this is actually going to get to when we hear Jury Instructions they use simple difference that everyone can understand those cases does that what they were within the Statute Of Limitations. They werent outside the Statute Of Limitations, which is whats going on here. And now theyve got to figure out a way to get around this whole Statute Of Limitations issue on top of than the second prong, which is he violated some sort of election law. Is it new york State Election Law . Is it federal election law . Thats still isnt very clear. They may not legally have to make it clear what a juror, a common sense juror wants to know what the former president and possibly future president in the United States actually did. That was a cron. Jen, i mean, how do you see that . Well, you know, ive been talking to people who were atas, which i was not, but its analogous to burglary when you charge burglary, you can make it a felony by proving that they went into do another crime, but you dont have to specify what the crime was. If you prove the Breaking And Entering was to commit another crime, you dont have to be any more specific than that and thats exactly whats happening here. You prove the falsified Business Records as rebecca is talking about, and then you prove that there was an intent to commit another crime. You dont have to say it was this federal crime, but it was this state or the legend lets use your example because ive used that example as well, but lets talk about New York City jurors. They want to know what the burglar is four, is he going to commit larceny . Probably. Why are you going in some sense, youre probably go in in there to steal something. Juries want, even though you dont have to prove motive i dont approve what that thing is. They know the pressure on them. Theyre going to say donald, guilty. They want to know what does he guilty of and did not having them. But the point is they dont have to answer. My view is its just not all that hard to prove intent and they are suggesting what his intent is the problem in my mind thank is too much emphasis on that because yeah, it looks like theyre using the State Election Law as the crime that he was intending to commit. The State Election Law makes it unlawful to try to suppress an election when youre doing so and unlock with unlawful means, the unlawful means are all sorts of the tax problem the contribution differently. I think they just need to scale back a little bit on the emphasis and focus a little bit more on what this case is really about, which is simple old falsification of Business Records, lying in your Business Records. And why would you go to so much trouble as to falsify what was at 34 different records i mean, its pretty easy to use just circumstantial evidence to show your intent wasnt to just do that for fun obviously, you are trying to do something unlawful and theres all sorts of theories and theres all sorts of evidence of what those other unlawful things are. I dont think the Statute Of Limitations the issue is so hard because the state law has a kind of conspiracy element that would bring those in to the State Election Law problem. But none of that has to be proved with the kind of detail as if that were the actual crime well see what happens when gary farro, Michael Cohens banker gets back on the stand tomorrow. Thank you, everyone for being here. Well have special coverage tomorrow night. Of that next day in court. So be sure to tune in next year tonight, were going to go inside Donald Trumps private meeting. 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He could sort of silo in his own state and do his own thing. But i think trump needs ron desantis. He needs fundraising, needs money, he needs a florida operation. I think he can lean on ron desantis for that, but its real funny how quickly everybody forgets all their insults and how much they hate each other when political expediency is on the line. Yeah, trump posted today . No nicknames. Were spotted are jokes about his is clothing, but jamal, there is this new cnn polling that came out over the weekend that i was looking into it and basically trump is farai is ahead of biden in this. And obviously a poll is a snapshot. It is not a predictor of whats going to happen make that clear for telling me talk about a poll. But i wouldnt or the white house is looking at this that donald trump is polling ahead of joe biden. I think its frustrating to people to see that donald trump is still ahead of biden. But i think they also feel very confident that the fundamentals of the Biden Campaign are in far better shape than the fundamentals of the Biden Funding was the Biden Campaign the Trump Campaign the Biden Campaign is putting people on the ground and key states, they are raising money at an incredible clip. They are they figured out some social media tactics over the last yearandahalf while people were complaining about whats the Biden Campaign doing, they were actually testing a lot of things. So he figured out how to talk the voters. They need to sway and so if, you look at the voters, theyre trying to get those voters do care about democracy. They do care about abortion. They do care about the economy and inflation in housing. Absolutely. But they care about these other issues. I think theyre focused on trying to target those voters and get to them. And Say Something they are worried about. And i think all democrats are, its whats happening on these campuses whats happening around gaza . This is something that is kind of a free flowing thing because theyre worried is spelling trouble for november. Yeah. Look at the numbers and we look at where donald trump is with republicans hizon, the 90s, joe bidens in the 70s when it comes to democrats and when it comes to young democrats, hes nowhere near who is these five or six points blow where he should be at this particular point. So he has got to find a way to get those democrats back home. And that will close the gap. I mean, we were all in washington this weekend. Ive never seen protests outside the correspondents dinner, certainly not enlarged numbers and there were over these protests over whats happening in gaza exactly the antisemitism and thats not to characterize all the protests, but the antisemitism on the left is a big problem for the left, its a bad luck and youve got a large amount of democrats who are dissatisfied with joe biden and the white house stance on israel. Hes going to have to contend with that for sure. My dad was the antiwar protester in the 60s around vietnam. I asked him about this. He said at the same time, they had people who showed up at those protests who would try to hijack the protests, but extremist messages. And they had to confront those people, shut them down and get them out of the way. Thats what these young people need to do. And they find people who are having that kind of extremist rhetoric, get them out of the way because not doing anybody any favors separately also asked you about democrats because what the concern that i heard also was watching rfk jr. And what ballots hes getting on. He just qualified if hours ago, his Campaign Says for access in california were seeing both trump and biden go after him, trump saying hes a democratic plant and a wasted protest vote. But clearly you are seeing concern in both campaigns yeah, he is hes a problem. The name of a man is a problem on the left, right, if if his name was like robert f condyle, like, i dont know if anybody would care, but his name is kennedy and thats the thing people are focused on. Robert f. Klondike, jamal so im going to keep that one in my head up next its why we are seeing a bunch of democratic governors pushing pictures with their dogs. Its a dig to south dakota governor. 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It was not that long ago that mitt romney arguably part of the narrative about mitt romney he that prevented him from winning the 2012 election was that he had put his dog seamless, whose name i still remember on the roof of his car for several hours while driving on a Family Vacation in 1983. This is a lot worse than that. I think Animal Rights activists would agree. I think whats what about is shes defending it today. Its saying and if she believes it shows that shes like a quality of grid, but this wasnt investigative reporting. This didnt come from a political opponent. She wrote about this in her own book. Thats coming out next month. I cant figure out what the strategy was. I guess theres one school of thought that she was getting out ahead of the story that perhaps people knew about this. And if she is truly a vp contender, as people think that maybe she wanted to try and tell the story on her own terms people do do that with all sorts of negative information that they they assume will come to light or shes sort of pitching herself. I mean, trump doesnt like dogs. Famously, maybe she was trying to pitch yourself as a sort of sarah pale and ask Country Woman whos capable of committing acts of horror against animals. I dont know. It doesnt really make a lot of political sense. Animals are the kind of one thing that are a unifying idea most people, regardless of party, in favor of this, i talked to Newt Gingrich earlier tonight who won hes fascinating guy, but he made a 2012 attack in that primary against mitt romney over the dog story. And so i was just curious, hes a famous animal lover, even if they dont always love him back, he to get bit by a penguin ones and he said it was terrible and horrible. I thought it was interesting things havent changed that much, at least as it relates to animals in republican politics. Thats injured youre saying he was critical of it. I mean, because weve heard yes or even conservative media has been questioning why she did this. One guy is saying on fox news that you basically his like eliminated her, her any consideration is being vp, even some people didnt take that seriously. I mean, whats your sense of what trump world, how theyre viewing this . Daily beast reporting that there was some freak out and that they felt among the trump advisers that said disqualified her. I think trump is maybe write that he could shoot someone on fifth avenue and get away with it, but he could not have shot a dog and gotten away with it. People feel very strongly about Animal Protection in this country. Did they do . And so do i. And instead of y, definitely blessed anyone think differently olivia newsy. Thank you for always. Jordan on the most bizarre of headlines. And thank you all so muc