good morning, everyone, so glad you re with us, i m poppy harlow with phil mattingly in new york. will he or won t he? we are about to find out whether donald trump will take the stand to testify in the e. jean carol defamation trial. the former president is expected in court in a couple of hours. nikki haley in her home state fighting for a path forward, questioning trump s fitness for office and issuing him a challenge he s not likely to accept. leaders in qatar blasting benjamin netanyahu, accusing the israeli prime minister of disrupting peace talks, the latest recording that triggered the fire storm. donald trump going scorched earth on nikki haley as their rivalry really escalates, while president biden looks ahead to a likely rematch with trump this morning. trump is accusing to campaign from the courtroom, once again. a couple of hours from now, he ll be in the defamation trial, here in new york city. he could potentially take the stand. a jury is weighing h
This is a flip now for democrats and a major blow to the trump wing of the gop. lake was one of the most outspoken proponents of the former president s lies about the 2020 election and his bas baseless conspiracies about arizona s elections process, and she ran a very trump-stayle campaign. in defeat, she s taking a play out of trump s playbook as well. she was on focus saying this election was, quote, botched and as of now she s yet to concede, but she has tweeted posting arizonaens know bs when they see it. i quote her there. john, set the record straight on this hobbs win. well, it seems to be bs that kari lake s even complaining about this at this point. you can see she s trailing by some 18,000 votes, kari lake is. i ll write that down. 18,000 votes. that margin is actually, actually more than donald trump lost by, so she s doing worse than donald trump did in arizona
He realized there s really no net. he s not the candidate, not the nominee, he s not the president-elect, he s the president, so there was a difference in the way he presented himself both in terms of stayle and tone and substanc. do you agree? you covered the obama white house and i don t think it s fair to entirely compare but in terms of tone it seem today me that the president truly truly you know really thought about his words. yeah, he seemed to be speaking very carefully choosing his words very carefully. it was a really short joint press conference, the shortest that i ve ever seen, president obama could talk much longer and would go for nouan hour or so particularly when you re talking questions from both sides, but he seemed to be very careful and subdued the atmosphere was light