Politics the former president s pardon play. Donald trumps lawyers make a hail mary request for an april 2026 start to the 2020 Election Trial and try to make sure the case never sees the inside of a courtroom. Plus a game of risk. New reporting outlines how republicans plan to conquer a trumpless debate. How another republican warns his party appears poised to fulfill the textbook definition of insanity. President biden invokes the whole enemy of my enemy is a Friend Theory of Foreign Policy today pushing two neighbors to put aside a generation of bad blood and send a message to the country a couple blocks away, china. Im Phil Mattingly in for dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and inside politics. Were going to start with this up first. Two questions. Do you know what youre doing on monday . Do you know what youre doing in april, 2026 . The answer is no for me on both of them. Donald trump, though, has plans for both. More specifically mr. Trump knows where he wont be on monday
decisions that you may have made or not made and if you are not willing to do that i think people are not going to look kindly on that. for reasons i haven t quite figured out yet, the super pac aligned with the desantis campaign posted a debate prep memo and hundreds of documents creating another set of headlines for him. probably didn t appreciate it in the long game here. in terms of the moment and the meaning of that moment for desantis, what do you think it is? i don t think the ron desantis campaign appreciates the never back down super pac posting information in such a manner. i don t think they appreciate the reporting that gives up all his tells on the debate stage. he is very much nervous. we do on the political home page have a very deep, inside look into brett o donnell the so-called debate wizard who has been prepping desantis. whether prep decides to be on stage or not his shadow will loom large over the debate stage