Week but theres no question overall two big things stuck out to me. First of all this week was an extraordinarily reminder of just how much legal trouble the legal president is in. Its really something to have all eyes glued on the courthouse in washington, d. C. Watching what jack smith is going to do, waiting for an indictment in the investigation and his attempt to overturn the 2020 election, only to have a new separate Superseding Indictment Draft in the investigation into his mishandling of classified documents. All happening within the span of hours. You really cant make this stuff up sometimes. And put 1 figure on this mountain of legal trouble, just last night the Washington Post came out with a new piece detailing the more than 40 million trumps Political Group is spent on legal costs to defend not just trump, but his advisers and others in the first half of this year alone. The first half of this year alone, at 40 million from Trump Supporters all across the country footing l
we need to take some action because there should be no other child that should suffer the way my son and all the other parents here have lost their children. we need to get that bill passed. the parents of tyre nichols calling for action as their son is laid to rest. we ll have much more from yesterday s service and the push to pass police reform. plus president joe biden and house leader kevin mccarthy take the first step to finding common ground on the debt ceiling. and also ahead, another day, another scandalous headline for one george santos. this one involves the fbi. we ll tell you what the feds are investigating. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, february 2nd, ground-hog day. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin this morning with the investigation into president joe biden s mishandling of classified documents in another consensual search of one of the president s homes by the fbi. a personal attorney f
Wolf blitzer in the situation room. Ill see you tomorrow. Happening now, the first day of Donald Trumps Civil Fraud Trial wraps up with the former president in the courtroom to fight charges that could potentially decimate this family business. Trump attempting to turn the trial into a platform for personal and political attacks. Also tonight, republican hardliner matt gaetz takes his threat to House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy to the house floor, but stops short of any action yet telling americans to, quote, stay tuned. Were tracking the intense gop infight right now after mccarthy worked with democrats to avert a government shutdown. And californias governor appoints a democratic activist to temporarily fill the senate seat of the late Dianne Feinstein. Well take a closer look at Laphonza Butlers potential impact on d. C. Politics and on californias high Profile Senate Race in 2024. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situat
to my tune. i hope you keep dancing to it the way i want you to. i mean, people have been confiding to johnson that he needs to keep trump in the loop on each of his policies going forward, on the ukraine funding bill, keep trump close so he feels like he s party to what your decisions are or else you ll lose the speakership. that s really where that party is at this moment. keep your friends close and your enemies closer is the old saying. governor, what do you think? do you think speaker johnson can survive? yeah, he might. here s the thing. we know this, chris. he will survive for sure if the democrats decide to support him. we got into this position because, you know, mccarthy, they didn t come to mccarthy s rescue, then of course mccarthy got elected after how many ballots. it s a mess down there. but what s going to happen, remember i said it here, it keeps going this way, democrats are going to win the house.
interview on cnbc mccarthy rushed to make clear his loyalty to the former president, saying in another interview with breitbart that he believes, quote, trump is stronger today than he was in 2016 and accusing the media of taking those comments out of context. of course mccarthy has a fragile majority in the house. he won his post as the house speaker after a bruising 15 rounds of votes in part by agreeing to a snap vote to oust him at any time. with us now for perspective on this is colorado republican ken buck. congressman, thank you for joining us today. i wonder what you made of what speaker mccarthy said there about whether or not trump is the strongest candidate to win in 2024. well, i think he is the strongest candidate right now to win, and i ll tell you why. he has run three times for president. the other candidates have not run yet for president. that gives him strength by itself. he also has a persona that he s willing to take on the tough issues. he s willing to take on t