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
When i checked in on their colleagues, other wealthy republican donors, the kind that write big checks to super pacs and i said, where are they? it is different than donors were in 2016, the last open primary. the last open primary, you had donors picking their favorite candidate, knowing even if it wasn t their horse that won in the end, they were going to be able to get behind the eventual nominee and be happy about it. this time, the broad consensus among republican donors is that they want anybody other than trump, and a lot of them are going to wait to see if oneemer. they don t want to contribute to a split field, though there is a split field without them. they don t want to give anybody false hope and financial life in this race, keeping them around so the field continues to s split. what they re hoping is that over time, a consensus alternative emerges. again, they don t care whether they like the republican that