Nominee. How it could influence the race to replace the republican leader. And the record busting billions that president ial campaigns will pour into buying a mountain of negative ads. Can all that money buy a winning message or is it just so much white noise . Msnbc chief political analyst chuck todd will join me to talk about that, and why it may takes weeks to get an answer. We start with today, the official start of the rematch most voters say they didnt want. Joe biden versus donald trump, an unprecedented race in extraordinary ways. To candidates, older than any in history, both extremely wellknown yet deeply disliked facing a polarized electorate and toxic political climate, and yet they have essentially cemented their partys nominations even before they have the delegates to make it official. Trump is now the presumptive nominee, after this morning nikki haley suspended her Campaign Congratulating but not endorsing trump with a warning that seemed to directly target him. Our c
biden s backlash. gratuitous, inaccurate, inappropriate. the president takes on the special dcounsel after a scathig report. how dare he raise that. how it will impact 2024. we have a sick and corrupt two-tiered system of justice in our country. do i know better than anybody? plus, lashing out. trump warned allies he would push russia to attack. i would encourage them to do whatever they want. and mocks haley s husband serving in the military. what happened to her husband. and gop revolt. mitch mcconnell s republican foes. a republican leader should actually lead this conference. after a tumultuous two days for the gop this is maga week on capitol hill new details on the backlash of the republicans who ousted kevin mccarthy. inside politics the best reporting from inside the corridors of power, starts now. good morning. welcome inside politics sunday. i m manu raju. the special counsel report found that there were secret documents. they a
when they put me in prison, i heard they were recruiting. serve six months and they pardon you, he tells me. so he signed up with storm z, a unit made up of convicts attached to the russian defense ministry. after only two weeks of basic training, he was shipped off to the frontlines near bakhmut. [ gunfire ] after days of intense shelling, with only rainwater and no food, he heard ukrainian troops outside his foxhole. he assumed they would execute him. i thought that was the end, he recalls. i switched my rifle to single shot mode and thought, i ll shoot myself, but i couldn t. this video, shot by soldiers of ukraine s assault brigade, shows the intense moments when he and his comrade surrendered. the ukrainian troops told them, unlike russians, we don t kill prisoners. we spoke to him and another soldier in a jail in eastern grain, concealing their faces and not using their real names. the third assault brigade granted us access to the p.o.w.s, and two of their soldie
appear voluntarily and answer a whole variety of questions. he did not contradict the testimony of other witnesses, and i think we did learn a few things, which we will be rolling out in hearings to come. during pivotal moments, cipollone was in the know and very much in the room, including the oval office on january 3rd shooting down trump s plan to replace the acting attorney general with an election denying doj lawyer. and two sources say he was with trump during the riot itself watching it unfold on television. with me now is former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york elie honig who is also a cnn senior legal analyst. elie, let s be honest here. neither of us were in the room for all eight hours, which would have been great for news, but less good for actual having a life. that said, we have gotten bits and pieces from our reporting from our team at cnn about what pat cipollone was asked about when he may have said. what s your biggest takeaway
mastriano, who did march a at the capitol is going to be the projected winner. any mandates are gone on day one. on day one, any jab for job requirements are gone. this isn t a shot across the bow of joe biden and the democrats. this is a shot right amid shaft and they are taking on water. we re going to have a sexual get together at one of our homes. you should come. i m like, what did you just ask me to come to? you know what i tell you. there s been a strike carried out by the old establishment wing of our party. a blow in north carolina. congressman madison cawthorn will not be returning to congress. an endorsement from president trump appeared to put dr. oz in the driver s seat. i want to thank sean hannity. another delay in election results in pennsylvania. thing is well within recount territory. recount for toir is where we remain. this is the beat. we are joined by steve kornacki working the big board. i want to start where we always start at tim