Today on inside politics, more problems, more money. Donald trumps donors foot an enormous legal bill and the trump coconspirator accused of trying to destroy evidence for the boss sees the inside of a federal court. The polls. All of them. All for donald trump. Republican voters fall in line behind the frontrunner as ron desantis reasons for running appear to fall flat. And the president corrects how he counts. Joe biden acknowledges his Seventh Grandchild for the first time and now he hopes it returns to being a private matter. Im dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and inside politics. Up first, Saving America or saving his skin. Today we see on paper how much money from donors donald trump spent on legal bills. Sources put that number north of 40 million for his own defense and the defense of those who are sticking with him. This morning, cnn cameras captured the glimpse of one of those individuals Carlos De Oliveira, the man federal prosecutors say schemed with mr. Trump and w
let us start in ohio. 1.1 million pounds of vinyl chloride was released into the air, following the derailment of the northern suffolk train two weeks ago, a chemical that can cause dna mutations and lead to long-term cancers, according to a lawsuit that s alleging all of that, and it is a big reason why residents of east palestine ohio say they don t believe officials who are telling them it s safe to go home, safe to breathe, safe to drink the water. the epa administrator was there yesterday. the governor was out there today. it s okay, they say, we ve tested the air. we ve tested the water. still, residents are complaining about burning in their lungs and their eyes. and unusual rashes. they re worried about their kids. can they bathe them in their bathtub. can they use the tap to mix formula for their babies. the federal government is setting medical teams to both examine residents and assess what dangers could still exist, an acknowledgment that the aftermath of this der
that would be the end of it. so he said the burden was on them to decide if they would put forward any position that these documents have been classified. and the former president has said it publically, but not an argument that his attorneys have made yet. and his lawyers said that they hope to push that issue down the road because it also raises the stakes of how would they support that, it could involve affidavits, witness statements, sworn statements under oath which could become an interesting strategic decision for them to make which they even noted as part of their defense if there ever is a subsequent indictment in this case. so really getting to the heart of this issue here and what trump s team will take. and on a practical matter the judge said trump s lawyers have until friday to choose one of five vendors put toward by the department of justice, they will kick start the process of reviewing these materials, allowing both sides to categorize them as to whether thi
indictment, trump did an interview, ramping up the pressure on the republicans saying i hope the republican party does something about this. he knows there are people in the republican party, and speaker mccarthy is one of them, he can put the screws to and this pressure on and that s where you re seeing this go, is this ramping up of the pressure on these republicans, republicans who support him or republicans who still need his support, as they move forward. i think some bigger context, you played the clip from congresswoman nancy mayes earlier. she was saying that they were under pressure publicly to impeach the president and essentially they ve gone on a hunting expedition to figure out whatever they could get that would validate a potential impeachment vote and so far, everything has been unproven or unsubstantiated and not corroborated. their motivation, because they are hopeful that it could hurt the president in his re-election campaign. so fascinating. thank you all for th
what have you found? everything that wasn t said. when we see sidney powell on the air, we know behind the scenes she was circulating supposed sourcing on this fraud from people who said they were internally decapitated and that scalia had been hunted and murdered not that he had died earlier that year. judge scalia had been hunted. in a hunting expedition, he had been intentionally killed. this was the information being circulated to fox news hosts and instead of reporting on the sourcing, this was forwarded to eric trump. the things are revelatory about what was going on and these internal communications are stunning, the idea that they were having this conversation in order to protect the viewership, to protect the base of people they wanted to be continuing to tune in despite joe biden s when did that turn? you have tucker carlson and