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says the d.a. must indict. he is here to explain exactly why to you. plus, ron desantis in a new interview calls trump attacks background noise, predicts he can beat biden. this of course from a man who has not declared that he s even running. and a judge tearing into fox news accusing the network of knowingly providing false information as tucker carlson s private texts were shown in a court. we re going to show you what tucker carlson said. let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, blow up our country, those are the words of a gop senator who warns an indictment against the former president trump, which could come as early as tomorrow, would be disastrous for america. it s going to blow up our country, and this is a bunch of b.s. now, in just a few hours, the grand jury in new york investigating the $130,000 payment that trump s fixer michael cohen made to stormy daniels, the adult film star, will meet. the grand jury s goi ....
So, and it potentially taints the other cases. today, kevin mccarthy was saying, you know, it starts here and it s going to go from here to and that s what trump and his supporters want to do. they want to use this case to taint the other cases that are, in my view, far more serious and go to the heart of democracy. one final question, david. governor ron desantis dismissing the, quote, desanctimonious, a nickname given to him by the former president, saying he can t even spell it, and he s not sure what it means, which is not true. you can call me whatever you want, just as long as you also call me a winner because that s what we ve been able to do in florida. desantis is calling a possible indictment of trump political. but he s also taunting. here he is. i don t know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some type of alleged affair. i can t speak to that. ....
it s very clear. and as someone who has seen their share of democratic meddling in republican primaries, this is an easy way to rally the base and to show that, despite maybe the former president s slipping influence within the republican party, at least in the eyes of democrats, he s still the person to go after. and i think that centering we re going to continue to see. the democrats spent about half million in my primary to boost my kind of further right challenger. this is a great example of a way in which they are trying to, again, kind of elevate the candidate that they think has the least chance of success in the general, which is, frankly, former president trump. so, speaker mccarthy also dismissed this possible indictment of trump as political. the indictment itself. and i just wanted to play for you what he told our manu raju. here he is. this was personal money, this was seven years ago, statute of limitation. and i think in your heart of ....
so, he said hush money and porn star twice before he defended trump. what do you make of the defense? right. the defense he is walking the same mine field in some ways as peter meijer. he s trying to satisfy the base and separate himself a little from trump. but i think there is an argument that he and other republicans can make, should make, which is there is so much noise around donald trump, there is such a circus around donald trump that no matter how much you like what he may have done as president, it s just a big, big burden to take into an election. and i think this issue about whether he can win is going to become much larger as time goes on here. all right david axelrod, thank you very much. , and next, putin wining and dining xi jinping, putting out the luxury and the opulence as the fighting ramps up in ukraine. plus, new reporting on putin s surprise trip to ....
Where the party has gone way far right. in fact, an election denier who is running for chair and supported by trump was beaten by someone to the right of him. and, so, peter is trying to navigate that. and so he has to signify in some ways that he is sympathetic to some of the concerns of the base. this is an opportunity to do it. and this particular case, i would have liked to hear him expound on some of these other cases. because having voted for impeachment, certainly he must think there s merit to the case in georgia, to the case that the special counsel is looking at relative to the insurrection. and the danger here, this is my concern about this case in new york is that if this is viewed as a politically motivated as frivolous, any time you have to use the word novel theory and porn star in the same sentence, it raises questions. ....