Mara gay. White house editor for politico, sam stein. You saw him on way too early. And the founder of the conservative website, the bulwark, charlie sykes. It is a great group. Thank you for being with us this morning. Well begin the week with the latest on those new charges against former President Donald Trump in the classified documents case. Today, a newly introduced third defendant, the Property Manager at former president s florida home, is scheduled to be arraigned in miami Federal Court. Carlos de oliveira was named in a Superseding Indictment last week and charged in four counts, including conspiracy to obstruct justice and making false statements to the fbi. According to prosecutors, trump directed both de oliveira and his valet, walt nauta, to destroy Security Camera footage last year from the Room Monitoring where boxes of classified documents were being stored at maralago. That alleged order came just days after the fbi issued a subpoena for that same footage. Its unclear
Different this time. the one thing that s changed is that i think donors actually have come to understand how far their money can go, where it can be effective, where it isn t effective. this isn t true for all. as i reported for the dispatch politics newsletter, they like to get in early. they got in early for nikki haley s superpac, and they re more entrepreneurial. for others, they d be looking at how effective their investment could be. i think they d listen to third-party appeals. they would like to think that they could have an outcome that would, you know, help the right and help block trump, but i don t think they d pour money down the drain. i think you d have to see a compelling third party candidate with a path for the broad community of donors who oppose trump to get on board with something like that. you know, jonathan did a good job with the column. i don t think we know yet how that looks. we have an electoral college