good evening. tomorrow, the man who many expected to give the former president s toughest primary challenge of 2024 makes it official. florida s governor, ron desantis, getting into the race, taking on his fellow floridian, launching the campaign in a streaming event with elon musk on twitter. his opponent s former favorite megaphone. which he used in 2016, of course, to pummel the rest of the republican field, including former florida senator, marco rubio, and floor jeb bush, who you turn first into a verbal punching bag, then a campaign punchline, and finally, a political footnote. in a moment randi kaye looks ahead to whether governor desantis will do any better against those kind of tactics. first, the kind of political waters he is about to jump into. in one way, they may appear promising for a republican candidate. the current president s job approval, now stands at 40%. a new cnn polling out late today. and with the debt ceiling crisis coming to a head, that same p
the state trial, which we just found out today is scheduled for march 25th. so we could be in a really unprecedented scenario here. but they wouldn t necessarily wait to move forward on both cases? right, so there s an interesting strategic for jack smith. does he make his recommendation on both of those cases, january 6th at mar-a-lago at the same time. or does he do each one when it s ready, the normal prosecutorial practices you take them as they come. and it sounds like from the reporting there, that they re ahead of the game on the mar-a-lago case and sort of lacking a little bit behind on the january six. case based on what we know, how likely do you think it is the doj s gonna seek to charge the former president in the classified documents case. in the classified documents case is much more likely to they have had qatar and less gray areas of intense and first amendment, and political speech, they will be dealing on january 6th. to me it is about a coin flip, and whether
investigation in history. as of today, we have arrested and charged more than 725 defendants in nearly all 50 states and the district of columbia for the roles in the january 6th attack. in charging the perpetrators, we have followed well warned prosecutorial practices. those who assaulted officers or damage the capital face greater charges. those who conspired with others to obstruct the vote count also faced greater charges. the justice department remains committed to holding all january six perpetrators at any level accountable under law. whether they were present that they or were otherwise criminally responsible for the assault on our democracy. we will follow the facts wherever they lead. to ensure that all those
and charged more than 725 defendants and nearly all 50 states and the district of columbia for their roles in the january 6 attack. in charging the perpetrators, we have followed well worn prosecutorial practices. those who damaged the capitol face greater charges. those who conspired with others to obstruct the vote count also face greater charges. those who did not undertake such conduct have been charged with lesser offenses, particularly if they accepted their responsibility early and cooperated with the investigation. in the first months of the investigation, approximately 145 defendants pled guilty to misdemeanors. mostly defendants who did not cause injury or damage. such pleas reflect the facts of those cases and the defendants
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