the polls. i mean, look back to the debate last night. one of the things the candidates agree on is weaponization of the doj being a kind of calling card for this version of the gop. it s being a rallying cry for base republicans. i think that mugshot, i think that photo, i think this case specifically will continue in that vain. we have seen over and over and over base republicans rally around him. even the ones who think he may not be the best candidate for the pofuture will say i don t think these things should go on. that s been ingrained in the republican base here. the stakes of this, legally and politically, couldn t be higher because it actually fuels the reason donald trump feels like he can get back to the white house. the political strategy is the legal strategy. yeah. again, another historic day the polarization and intensification of the polarization worries me as a prosecutor. if people feel stronger and stron stronger both ways, that s your jury pool ultimately.
this. i hope the judgments over the president s action around january 6th had been left to the american people. i don t know whether the 14th amendment applies. i read an article the other day that in the justice department s pleading they didn t even reference that kind of a charge. so i m skeptical about that. but, look, we ll make sure the president has his presumption of innocence. no to one is above the law. what i welcomed last night, and it took a little while for some people, was for every aspir ant to acknowledge on january 6th i did my dut ity under the constitution of the united states. frankly, for me over the last two and a half years to have donald trump and his allies continuing to repeat the falsehood that i had the right to reject or return votes that no vice president in american history had ever claimed or ever should claim, i think it s
yes. aging me. elie, help us understand the news that happened we reported moment ago, a lawyer swap for trump. yeah, so it s a smart move. you need a local lawyer. this case is going to play out in georgia. it s smart to get someone who knows the court system and who can relate to the jury. juries look for that. they can sense is this person from here? are we going to belief them? that s a factor. donald trump has to make sure he has four pending cases. he has to get his legal team in order. you can t shuffle out lawyers on each case on a whim, you know, the way some white house staff were shuffled in and out on a whim. this is different. those lawyers will spend hundreds, thousands of hours getting to know the nuances of this case. if you just cashier one to another, you are setting yourself up for failure. if i was advising him, pick your lead guy on each case, stick with him, let him do thinks job. john miller, to you.
ellis, they have their mugshots taken, they have been arrested, fingerprinted. they have their bond agreements, rudy giuliani actually yesterday went to a boil bondsman, sew lengths i, to get the loan to put up his bond terms for the court system. so he was able to be released. they have all been released. as we await donald trump to come into town and to also be arrested, we are waiting for two other very recognizable figures in american politics. jeffrey clark, the justice department official, who had been wanting to or had been considered by donald trump to become the attorney general, to try to overturn the georgia vote, the popular vote after the election, he has not had his bond terms released if he had them negotiated, he has not been arrested yet. mark meadows, the chief of staff from the white house. they were trying to hold off their arrests and a judge yesterday came in and said, no, that s not going to be possible.
just hold on. as you saw there, most of the republican candidates on that stage in the debate in milwaukee last night vowing to support president trump even if he s a convicted felon, despite trump s absence, there was no way for his republican rivals to ignore that strong support despite the legal troubles. the melee in milwaukee was like a prizefight that lacked the reigning champion. at best the debate turned into an audition in second place on a race that looks likely to catapult trump to his third conservative republican nomination zchlt any of the candidates do anything last night to slow him down? let s see what new hampshire s republican governor chris sununu thinks. he joins us at the table. would you have raised your hand to that question? look, i think what we saw last night was the republican party without donald trump. first time in six years.