from msnbc world headquarters here in new york, welcome to weekends with alex witt. developing this hour, the white house is working to get its $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package through congress as it now heads to the senate this week. senators on both sides of the aisle are giving insight into how they plan to approach it as we watch to see if it can pass. we need to get the massive covid bill passed, and we know that we re going to have to do it without any republican support. there s an easy answer to this which is let s make it bipartisan. covid relief has never been a partisan issue. it just doesn t make any sense. a number of things in here that have nothing to do with covid relief. it s not targeted. meanwhile, in just over two hours donald trump will make his first appearance since leaving the white house when he gives a speech at cpac. that statue creeps me out all the time. according to experts trump plans to declare the republican party is united and
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48%, a huge lead over nikki haley in second at just 14%. ron desantis is a close third at 13%. south carolina senator tim scott is in fourth place at 10%. joey: as gop hopefuls gear up for next month s debate stage, donald trump hasn t committed to joining them, and 59% of iowa gop caucus voters say that shows weakness and nearly the same amount of south carolina gop voters agree. so you see that there. i don t know it will be interesting to see how much it matters, if he s in the debate or not. i think it may help clear the field of who is left but i don t know that it will hurt him. pete: these polls reinforce the argument that donald trump is making right now, if i have nearly half of 46 to 48% in south carolina and iowa, considering the prominent south carolina senators that are there and considering the amount of time other candidates are spending in iowa, he has a commanding lead, half the republican party in both of these key states. so why submit yourself to being
updates by whisker priscilla alvarez at the white house, and this is cnn. you live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin the hour with major damage control underway inside the u. s intelligence community right now , the pentagon is trying to assess the fallout of leaked classified documents. 21 year old jack tachira and air national guardsman is in custody and charged under the espionage act. the documents he is accused of leaking are considered highly classified and include eavesdropping on adversaries and allies alike. cnn s jeremy diamond joins us now over at the white house, jeremy, what more? are we learning about this damage assessment that s underway. well, jim, we re talking about dozens of highly classified documents that were leaked online allegedly by this 21 year old airman jack teixeira . and now the pentagon is working to assess exactly what the damage to u. s national security will be of some of these documents. and if you look at the brea