gathering where his base has seemingly seized control. and the man who tried but failed to overturn the 2020 election results appears to be his party s front-runner at least for now according to recent polls. late this afternoon, cpac released its very own nonscientific straw poll. trump crushed the politician seen as the biggest rival for the nomination, at least at this point, florida governor ron desantis, 62% to 20%. cnn s kristen holmes joins us from the cpac gathering. how s it been going so far? what s the former president saying? reporter: so former president trump still speaking. we re at the 90-minute mark. we expect him to go for a little bit longer now. he is really appealing to this crowd. a mix of old and new. he talked about how he wants to take on the establishment, particularly the republican establishment. he talked about how he got rid of political dynasties, he said the party would never go back to being the party of karl rove, paul ryan, and jeb bush. h
Hi there, everyone. Its now 4 00 in new york. We have major developments both here in the u. S. And abroad. In just a few hours, President Joe Biden will deliver an address to the nation from the oval office about the hamas Terror Attacks in israel that killed more than 1,400 people as well as the ongoing war in ukraine. It is his second address from the oval office since becoming president , and it is part of his push for a 100 billion aid package. Well have much more on that later in the broadcast, but we begin with the dam breaking and perhaps the most criminal prosecution of the expresident s alleged criminal enterprise, that plot to overturn the 2020 election. This morning in a courthouse in atlanta, georgia, trumps attorney, peddler of the big lie and importantly trumps codefendant Sidney Powell pleaded guilty to six Misdemeanor Counts in that sprawling rico case brought by Fulton County District Attorney fani willis. Here is that moment. How do you plead to five counts of conspi
Reviewing it. We are also expecting additional comments from the white house. The Daily Briefing happens a little later this hour with john kirby, so we will get new information we expect then. The other big story were following, just about 15 minutes, testimony will resume in Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial. It has been quite the morning. The jury spent it hearing from jeffrey mcconney, a former Top Executive at the Trump Organization. He handled the reimbursements to Michael Cohen for paying off Stormy Daniels. There are a pile of documents were seeing for the first time, including these checks. If youre familiar with Donald Trumps signatures, those are checks that were signed by donald trump himself after an explanation about the difference between a trust, which was an account for the company, and a, essentially, private account for donald trump. Well, mcconney detailed how he kept notes and Bank Statements related to cohen stored in a locked door and how the Hush Money Checks had t
The party including donors, including other strategists, and even those working with some of the folks who are trump supporters say, we want to win, yes, we like trump, but is he the best person to help us get across that finish line? yeah. there s a huge disconnect now between the donor base and the maga base. molly, it seems trump is positioning his presidential run as kind of a revenge tour. i think we have sound from trump s speech. i think this is one that is going to be making a lot of headlines. let s listen. in 2016 i declared i am your voice, today i add i am your warrior, i am your justice. and for those who have been wronged and betrayed, i am your retribution. i am your retribution. i am your retribution. he said it twice, molly. yeah. i mean, look, this guy is out for blood. and i think the problem with all of these more normal calculuses
Calculuses about what they need to do and not much gets done here in washington legislatively. and there s a debt ceiling coming up. there s stuff that has to happen. kristen, when of the things that kelly and scaramucci had in common they have both spoken out very strongly against the leaks that come out of the white house. scaramucci had made that or said he was going to make it his top priority, the basis on which he went after reince priebus. what where do we stand with this? is this white house leakier than prior administrations or are they all kind of leaky? it is leakier than previous administrations, no doubt about that. however, having said that, i think there s an important caveat to that which is that a lot of the officials here are simply giving the press information they need to do their jobs. understand the president s thinking better. for example, having said that, i think the leaks that kelly wants to crack down on are leaks of classified and sensitive information