indictment watch. safe to say donald trump s team is right to be worried. the former president could be charged this week with prloting to overturn the 2020 election. what will it main for his campaign to return to the white house. plus the desantis burn out. what is the plan to turn his campaign around? they want to see you be able to stand up and fight back against the people that are destroying this country. nobody has done that more than me. and biden s record. there is good news on inflation, immigration, and crime. so why don t voters believe it? hoello and welcome to insie politics sunday. i m abby phillips. this morning we have new polls in two key states.that are the s out of iowa and south carolina all year and in iowa donald trump has a 30-point lead over ron desantis with tim scott there nipping at his hie lls. trump lda big lead in south carolinaith the state s former governor nikki haley in a tie for second place with desantis. senator tim scott
shannon, this was fascinating. we saw the court in almost total unison on wondering how far colorado was going and why. spell it out. yeah, normally you know, neil, it takes years to get here, maybe months if you re fast tracking. this made it in weeks. showing the urgency the court gets about this happening in an election year. so they d had the arguments. there were tough questions for both sides. at the end of the day, it really came down to whether or not this 14th amendment provision applies to president trump. justice thomas had questions about it. when this was passed in the late 1860s, why don t you look at examples from that time period showing this was meant for states to be allowed to kick people off of federal ballots. here s part of that exchange. the concern is that the former confederate states would continue being bad actors. the effort was to prevent them from doing this. you re saying while this also authorizes state to disqualify candidates. so what i m
you can see the piece on the bottom of it. that is the piece that gathers the intelligence for this what loan. we ve known about this being in the skies over our country illegally for several days at least. some say going back months. so far, we have not done anything to impede this balloon from collecting surveillance over the country even though it s of clear violation of u.s. airspace. no word from the president of the united states at 3:00 eastern time. we ve known about this since last night really. twice now he has avoided shouted questions. watch this. mr. president, when will you remove the balloon? when and how will you remove the balloon, mr. president? [question inaudible] are you worried about the balloon? martha: apparently not worried about the balloon as he walks across the lawn there. we know that it launched this instrument from china. you can see on that quick animation. maybe we can play it again from mainland china. now it has hovered over montana, h
learned the fbi searched pence s home in indiana and looking for any classified documents. we understand an additional classified document was discovered and removed and this was a so you will can aed consent search. which means it is one that was agreed to by both sides without the need for a search warrant issues in advance. but he was not eager to welcome the investigators. the new york times has reported this. negotiations on such a search were a rising tension between the two sides. the historic nature of an fbi search of a former vice president s home should not be diminished. but as we said, all of that is a back drop, half of the complete picture coming into focus this afternoon. because on the other hand, as we sit here, pence is now the subject of a subpoena. from the justice department relating to donald trump s efforts to hold on to power in the aftermath of the 2020 election. remember mike pence never spoke to the january 6 select committee. but time and again,
Was denounced as anti-lgbtq tried to criticize trump for being too friendly to gay and trans people was created by the desantis staffer and then they handed it off to someone and pretented like they didn t make it but it was theirs all along. it speaks to the silos where the campaign has set up there is not happening and for the first time we re saying that this wasn t just a supporter, a meme that they were amplifying, they pushed out and was out there, oh, look, people should look at this but turned out people should be behind it all ang lo. that is part of what is gone wrong here. that is sophisticated to try to create something and launder it through some outside performer. they con pull that off. but the more serious problem was spending $200,000 every day and 40 cents on the dollar is