tonight at eight. on cnn. biden s ready. the president s reelection announcement could be just days away. what s his pitch to retake the white house and man versus mouse? they may have run florida for 50 years before i got on the scene, but they don t run florida anymore. desantis is upping the stakes in his battle against disney. but is it a war he can actually win? plus mccarthy s mountain. house speaker must get his debt ceiling plan through the house caucus. give him the votes he needs. right now. i m leaning now supporting this package support the framework, but i haven t looked at. i got to go look at the text. the devil s in the details. hello and welcome to inside politics sunday. i m abby phillip. and so the countdown begins in just a matter of days. president biden is expected to take the plunge and formally announced his bid to retake the white house. it is a move that the president has held off making for months now. but it is also a move that however he that he s
criminal insurrection probe intensifying. i have a very special guest on that later in the hour. coming up i have neil cochel to start us off. look at this report from cnn, trump lawyers waging a secret fight to try to halt a grand jury from getting information from his inner circle, basically blocking testimony that otherwise would be relevant, meaning the prosecutors at least want to introduce it. we know the context for this, those 40 new subpoenas. you have a former prosecutor on the letitia james side saying that the business probe is basically a dealt penalty for trump org. so you have the insurrection and the business probe both going at trump hard, and then that s not the only thing going on. these are circling trump while he has no presidential powers left. we have seen in the special master case where they thought it would help to have more court review, which could be true if he were president because in the process if the president says, hey, national security, he
he was a congressman, that kind of shrugged it wasn t really nice. so here s him. this is actually really ira raising quote from congressman david trott in politico. says to santa showed up. right at the gavel time. this is he s relaying a story here and didn t say hello or introduce himself. and then the next hearing the same thing happened. i think the third time it happened. i thought oh, this guy is never going to say hello to me. i think he s an. i don t think he cares about people. this is not unusual from what you hear from other republicans who served with him who have interacted with him in the in the intervening period. it is not going away these kinds of stories and you also saw people , uh, members of congress this week releasing statements, noting that the former president was reaching out to them directly to and kind of recognizing that affirmation that they were getting from the former president. so in the meantime, you have these statements kind of criticizing desantis.
mar-a-lago really kind of trolling to santa santa. but look, what we saw in 2016 is that endorsements don t matter as much as they used to a few decades ago, and they can shift very quickly. there were a lot of lawmakers who were the original, never trumpers and had strong objections and supported anyone but trump mitt romney ended up supporting ted cruz in the end, and then romney. romney wasn t the best example of this, but and then they switched to supporting trump. and i think that is desantis is bet here that over time if he can win over the base first, that s the face of the republican primary. they re at then those endorsements will switch over to him from trump. but right now it is telling about who he is as a governor that he does not command a huge amount of support among elected officials in florida as a congressman. i mean , when, when? when i heard he was going back to capitol hill, i kind of scratched my head, because when you talk to republicans who were there when
to have been guilty of sexual harassment. and that happened prior to youtube being expelled from that body. what s your response to how that was handled? speaker cameron sexton is running a mob ocracy, not a democracy and in this type of institution, what he desires and wants is what rules and what he wanted was to expel lawmakers for protesting to end gun violence, and he wanted to protect a lawmaker who committed sexual assault against a 19 year old intern. that s what we re dealing with. in our state. we have a super majority of the republican party that s way more concerned about protecting their own, upholding the systems of white supremacy and patriarchy than doing something about justice. and so it wasn t until it was public that speaker sexton leader lambert actually did something about this, but it shows the disparity and treatment for black lawmakers for women lawmakers and for the white lawmakers who are in charge and operating in the state of tennessee, and it shows everyon