new york chris jansing picks up our coverage right now good day i m chris jansing live at msnbc head quarters in new york city this is where donald trump is headed right now, we re watching from the airport, west palm beach, florida, you saw it right here literally just seconds ago, donald trump departing from manhattan. the start of a whirlwind 36 hours in the city where trump bit his empire and once held court. he s now heading into court, as the first indicted ex-president. former president trump, as we said, taking off, a trip he s probably made hundreds of times, but never, of course, like this. his arraignment, the first of its kind in american history, will take place just over 25 hours from now in the meantime, everything is heightened from the political and legal stakes, to the security across lower manhattan. maybe especially to the anticipation surrounding exactly what s in the trump indictment itself i want to bring in nbc s garrett haake. charlie savage, the n
The house of representatives the honorable Hakeem Jeffries of new york. Mr. Speaker, you may agree with this. But we are back here 22 days into this republican manufactured chaos and House Republicans have brought us to the exact same position that we were back then. All of the infighting, all the disarray, just to end up where we were three weeks ago. These past few weeks we have been left wondering if republicans were truly intent on solving our issues, reopening the house of representatives and rallying around someone to lead this chamber. Or has this been about Something Else . Has this been a focus of House Republicans to find the person who can pass their extreme litmus test to oppose marriage equality, enact a nationwide abortion ban without exceptions, gut Social Security and medicare, and support overturning a free and fair election. A fair question. A fair question. Nowhere in that Candidate Questionnaire is it about growing the middle class, helping our communities, keeping
Elections. Even after top u. S. Security Officials Say this our adversaries are trying to undermine our country on a persistent and regular basis. Our democracy itself is in the cross hairs. President trump says this. Now, were being hindered by the russian hoax. So hoax or threat, what does the Trump Administration want us to believe . My guests this morning, republican senator roy blunt of missouri. Democratic senator Amy Klobuchar of minnesota and Nbc News National Security analyst clint watts. Also, the trump loyalty test. Hugging President Trump has become the republican goto strategy. Then mr. Trump said youre fired. I love that part. It works great in the primaries, but will candidates pay a price in november . Ill ask long time republican adman mike murphy. Joining me for insight and analysis are robert costa, moderator of Washington Week on pbs. Helene cooper, pentagon correspondent for the new york
a seriously low iq person. The fake news media. Democrats are obstructionists.
Outside manhattan. there are more than a dozen republicans who sit in districts that president biden carried in 2020 that includes don bacon in omaha, george santos in long island, and then there s the category of modestly republican leaning districts where democrats argue that the candidate, that the incumbent is too extreme. that includes scott perry in pennsylvania, and of course lauren boebert in colorado who won her election last time around by just hundreds of votes. it s early and a lot of factors are going to come into play, of course the state of the economy, of course presidential approval, and you know, the question of who is at the top of the ticket. let s put the statement up from the executive director, julie mers about former president trump getting indicted facing criminal charges she tells me, quote, if house republicans want to spend their time in battle ground districts, defending nominees on top of their failure to govern and deliver anything helpful for working fam
They still produced more overall votes in those battle ground districts. ohio, they paint a complicated picture as well. the democratic turnout increase was greater than the republicans but republicans still held the advantage in the raw number of votes cast in ohio. in fact, in four of that state s five battle ground congressional districts, democrats saw a bigger increase but in all five, it s the republicans that still had more votes cast overall. potential sort of buffer there for the gop. now, let s go to iowa. this may be the most interesting set of numbers we have seen. the democrats saw a massive increase in turnout. 152%, and republicans saw a steep drop, 35%. now republicans want to argue that this was because of a lack of contested races down the ballot. let me tell you, privately, some iowa republicans are muttering the word tariffs as the explanation for dampening rural turnout. look, all of which is to say this. the primary bump for democrats