against them. and a secret service agent involved in protecting one of president biden s granddaughters opens fire in response to a car break-in. and the response. and senator tim scott drops out of the presidential race, and his staff didn t even know. who might be the next to go. i m john berman with kate bolduan and fredricka whitfield is in for sara sidner. this is cnn news central. happening right now, donald trump jr. has just gone into the courtroom in manhattan and soon he is going to be taking stand, again, to testify, and this time, it is going to be as the defense team s first witness. still at stake, the fate of the trump business empire as you remember the judge in this civil case has already found the family liable for fraud, and so what is donald trump jr. going to try to do to tip the trial in favor of he and his family, and these are the live pictures that you are looking at of donald trump jr. sitting and waiting for the proceedings to get under way.
the voters say, fate de compli, and he did a good job, and i will vote for him again. and they are criticizing him for not debating, jackie, and it is not debating him for the core of issues that sarah was bringing up, but chris christie is spending money with his campaign in new hampshire with that issue, and listen to this ad from chris christie. i have an admission to make, eight years ago when i decided to endorse donald trump for president, i did it, because he was winning and i thought that i could make him a better candidate and president, and well, i was wrong, i made a mistake. it is interesting to hear that kind of message and whether or not you think that chris christie has a chance there, you don t normally hear something like that from a political candidate. it is true, and he has been saying that in the interviews, and the fact that he has been saying that jackie and sarah, please
constitutionally called to do the right thing. i hope people can divorce the political and it is going to be a challenge for some in tough seats, but why are you here? if you are here only to save your seat, and your vote reflects self-preservation, i d say get a new line of work. i respect the path that you are on, ma am, congresswoman madeleine dean, and congratulations on the 2-week-old and 7-week-old grandchildren. that is the best. thank you. and joining us is natasha bertrand and natalie, and you just heard the conversation, and what is your thought of hearing congresswoman dean? well, i would say the judgment of the senators of how the trial is going to go on. the fate de compli. yes, the difference of mitch
the country, and many of them in trump country, and as michael steele points out, there is a political dimension for the checkdown for president trump, and the primary one, but the substantive one is that the white house does not have much of the legislative agenda absent from the border security issue in part because the democrats control the house. in many ways, this border wall is the only game in town for donald trump, and now you have government workers who are being in effect held hostage by this overall debate. garrett and michael steele, what about the republicans? garrett, will susan collins and cory gardner and others, others follow them and put more pressure on mitch mcconnell to bring it up and present it to the president with a fate de compli and dare to veto it? it is possible, but it is more pressure on mitch mcconnell to fundamentally change the calculus here. among the senators, there is not a particular appetite for this
republicans who are writing trump off yet, and most are operating under the assumption that he is running for ree ek shu re-election, and that not a fate de compli, and many are saying that the 2020 is barreling ahead here, but some of the people who i know who know the president very well, they just don t believe it to be a sealed deal. joining us now is nbc news white house correspondent geoff bennett on the north lawn, and we wanted to get to you to talk about the questions around the homeland security secretary kirstjen neilson who is an ally and friend of john kelly who is rumored to leave. yes, and these two stories dovetail, because the only thing standing in the way of president trump firing his homeland security is john kelly who is a long time champion of kirstjen neilson s position.