Today on inside politics, under the cover of darkness or in the plain blinding light of day. The georgia indictment puts a familiar question on Donald Trumps plate. Just when and how will he turn himself in . Plus joe biden tries to conquer confusion. In just a few hours, the president will use the white house as a stage to explain to voters that his economic plans one year after becoming law have worked. And the politics of mr. Polite. Tim scott uses iowa as a test kitchen to see if voters just might prefer a happy warrior over a form er president. Lets go behind the headlines and inside politics. Up first today, donald trump and his 18 codefendants space an august 25th surrender deadline. The sheriff says they can turn themselves in any time between now and then no matter rain, nor sleet nor snow nor time of day. Between now and then, expect legal maneuvers to muck up the case. Nick valencia is live for us. So far, no sign of any of the defendants. Reporter thats right. According to
how do i have my kids here? how do i have my elderly mother live here where i carry her out of her house? a powerful storm in the west dumping a dangerous am of rain on millions of residents putting dozens of california communities under a state of emergency. we ll take you there and cnn weather center for the latest. and republicans descend on iowa. a stop on the road to the white house. ron desantis had to say to keep voters there. who wouldn t like to work a four-day workweek. how it s working out. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. we begin this hour with a deadly storms pounding california. millions are under flood alerts as heavy rain and melting snow combine in the latest round of intense winter weather in the result of another atmospheric river. officials issued evacuation warnings. more evacuations were ordered in the past hour. the sheriff is urging residents to stay clear of waterways and avoid all unnecessary travel. they worn o
it just came up. 20 seconds later, it was gone. tornadoes and golf-ball sized hail pummelled the southern u.s. there s another rournd of severe weather on the way. plus to conviction, the prison sentence for alex murdaugh and what he had to say during his sentencing. and a man accused of plotting to murder, we ll look at the rise in semitism across the u.s. we start this hour with the extreme weather hitting huge parts of the country. at least ten people have died as the powerful storm system marches across the south and into the northeast. the next western storm will be you shalling inland saturday bringing another round of snow to the pacific northwest, northern and central california. in some places, new snow will be measured in feet. the system that brought tornadoes, damaging winds and flooding to the season central and eastern u.s. will be offshore by later this morning, but the cold part of the storm is going strong. winter weather alerts are in places across p
that will play in a primary versus a general election where that kind of campaigning seems to have more success. and obviously the biden campaign is amping up. they have run against donald trump before. ron desantis, we know that kamala harris has been going at desantis. do you get any sense about how they might respond to somebody that s campaigning this way? it certainly makes it harder, especially given the fact that president biden bills himself as a bipartisan. senator scott is someone he has worked with before. going against someone like that is difficult, but it s still early. it s very unclear that president biden would even have to respond to any of that messaging. i think to jeff s point, the debate stage is going to be critical. tim is not the only one who is trying to borrow from this playbook. former vice president mike pence is also trying to polite his way to the top. can they outpolite each other. who is going to distinguish
here to share their reporting is jeff czeleny. great to have you here. jeff, weaponization, we heard it over and over again from so many of the republican people seeking the republican nomination. we hear it from house republicans and off the hill. is it that something that is politically savvy? and does it depend on what you re talking about if if you re talking about a primary voter or a general voter? absolutely. with the exception of mike pence there and chris christie and asa hutchinson, no one else is really speaking out about this with the inclusion of nikki haley. she says enough of the drama. that s how far she goes. everyone else talks about the weaponization of the doj. that s simply what the republican base wants to hear. it s what they see on the channels they watch. but there s some risks in this. i asked a republican voter late last week in iowa what he