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why not give it a try? good to be with you. i m katy tur. president biden once again today said donald trump is a threat to democracy. calling him a, quote, loser who tried to violate the constitution to stay in power. biden speaking at mother emanuel in charleston, south carolina, said a lot of the same things liz cheney said over the weekend in new hampshire. that donald trump is a want to be authoritarian, don t take that chance. he won t leave office, cheney warned. quote, i think there s a lot of living in a fantasy world that s going on with republicans telling themselves, look, we ll vote for him. it won t be so bad. it may well be the last real vote you ll ever get to cast. it will be that bad, and cheney says, the message is urgent. iowa is just one week away. and if you don t believe the urgency, abc news citing unnamed sources is reporting jack smith has yet another trump aide saying the former president didn t want to leave office. this time, it s dan scav ....
Clown. they don t hear arguments, i think the way people in washington or new york do, and it s you know, every time i leave d.c., i m struck by how different the conversation is outside of washington. we re paying a lot of attention to primary voters, republican voters, we re in primary season. let s move to a general election. have you spoken to any voter who didn t vote for donald trump in 2020 and says to themselves, yes, i want to vote for him in 2024? i ve certainly talked to some who are considering it, and those become the issues of maybe they don t like donald trump, they didn t like january 6th, this is what i heard in north carolina over christmas. they re concerned about the economy. they re concerned about not just inflation but what things cost. inflation is transitory, costs aren t. they re certainly concerned about joe biden s age. i probably hear about that issue more than any other. yes, donald trump s in his upper 70s but we see biden s age play out on a day-to-d ....
Schumer. joining us now, nbc news senior national political reporter sahil kapur. so kevin mccarthy did this. is speaker johnson on the chopping block now? reporter: well, that remains to be seen, katy. this deal is similar to e one that president biden struck with former speaker kevin mccarthy. it s gotten mixed reviews so far, mostly positive and some intensity negive that i ll get to in a second. let s swhat s in the dial, $1.59 trillion that biden and carthy had as a baseline. there s the extra $69 billion in extra domestic funding that democrats had dended, and there are two major changes here which johnson is selling to his members. there s 10 billion in additional cuts to the irs. this was supposed to be in the second year. demoat agreed to front load it into eirst year, and there s $6.1 billion in cuts to covid spending. unspent covid money that democrats say, fine, we can remove that from the authorized amount able to be spent. now, chuck schumer, the democratic majority lea ....
The way you dial this down has to pass through the cease fire in gaza, that s what all the groups are saying. absorb the capacity, israel is a little bit unpredictable element here, how much do they continue to ratchet up, but we re not there yet. every day that the war in gaza continues, we continue to roll that dice. let s talk about the day after, whenever that day comes. secretary blinken was just in saudi arabia. on his way out he told reporters he was meeting with middle east leaders, and everybody, he says, wants to have a normalization with israel. there are conditions. one thing is that the conflict in gaza ends and the second one is there s a two-state solution. benjamin netanyahu wants there to be normalization with saudi arabia and the middle east. he s adamant about a two-state solution. what gives here? well, we have to see because of course under the trump ....
I ll vote for trump in the general election, versus those republicans who say that they want liz cheney to run for president and wish that she was a republican option here. it seems like there s a fracturing of the republican party. frankly, that liz cheney wing of the party is much smaller than the pro trump and that part that is also desantis and nikki haley right now. four years ago i was in iowa, then i was in new hampshire, and i got to say, there was so little excitement and support for joe biden, i thought there was no way he could possibly win the presidency. i thought it was calling it a long shot seemed like an understatement. look what happened. elections can be unpredictable, even when polling suggests a clear winner. reporter: much more than iowa. much more than iowa. now former fbi general counsel and msnbc legal analyst, andrew weissmann. it s good to have you. let s talk about the legal cases against donald trump. abc news is out with a report. nbc news has not ....