Wavering on him ahead of next years elections. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this tuesday, august 1st. We are in august already. I am jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. And well begin this new month with a possible new indictment against former President Donald Trump for his alleged efforts to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 election. The grand jury Hearing Testimony in special counsel jack smiths investigation is expected to be back in session in washington today. Now its been two weeks since trump announced on social media that he received a Target Letter, which is an indication that charges could be brought in the very near future. That letter suggested that the former president could face charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States, Depriving Voters of their rights, and witness tampering. Trump seems prepared to be preparing for another federal indictment against him, posting yesterday on truth social that he assumes one will be
your campaign says it s resetting, says that you re going to be sort of more insurgent, leaner and meaner. that has happened. you ve recently laid off a third of your campaign staff. it s happened before on campaigns historically. ronald reagan did it. john mccain did it. they went onto win the nomnaze. obviously reagan went onto the white house. but what happened to you and your campaign? everything you do needs to have a return on the investment. and so we have a little bit of a different structure. we don t pay consultants, we hire people to work in-house. we re just bearing those costs. ultimately we ll make money off doing it that way, it s just a different model. some of the other stuff if there isn t value in it, i get changes. that s the reality of what you have to do. i m a political operative. i m not a campaign professional. you setout the vision and you execute on it, and if it s not being executed you just make the joining us now congressional
matter if you win or lose. what we have done has never been done in this country before. crowds like this, this whole thing, us getting the nomination. really us, but us getting the nomnaze. we re going to do this for another 19 days. and then i don t know what kind of shape i m in, but i ll be happy and at least i will have known win, lose, or draw, and i m almost sure if the people come out we re going to win. but i will be i will be happy with myself. well, joining me right now is nbc political director chuck todd, also moderator of meet the press. washington post national political reporter anne gearan, and eugene robinson who is stuck in vegas. you re allowed to leave now, gene. if the tables are rolling, why leave? never leave when he s got a hot hand. gene, let me ask you about this sort of nostalgic voice from trump after a fiery week, including last night s dinner. he sounds like a guy that s sort