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Politics the former president s pardon play. Donald trumps lawyers make a hail mary request for an april 2026 start to the 2020 Election Trial and try to make sure the case never sees the inside of a courtroom. Plus a game of risk. New reporting outlines how republicans plan to conquer a trumpless debate. How another republican warns his party appears poised to fulfill the textbook definition of insanity. President biden invokes the whole enemy of my enemy is a Friend Theory of Foreign Policy today pushing two neighbors to put aside a generation of bad blood and send a message to the country a couple blocks away, china. Im Phil Mattingly in for dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and inside politics. Were going to start with this up first. Two questions. Do you k ....
even say i guess how old i am. i can t even say the number. it doesn t register with me. and only thing i can say is that, one of the things that people are going to find out they re going see a race and they re going to judge whether or not i have it or don t have it i respect them taking a hard look at it i would as well. i took a hard look at it before i decided to run. paul: let s bring in poll strer strategist doug served as advisor to former bill clinton doug nice to see you again. good to be here, paul. polls say majority of democrats would prefer another candidate to be their nominee in 2024 can you remember a case when that was the true incumbent? i can t remember a case where that was true of the incumbent or case where the field of perspective challengers to the president was as frankly limited as the field would be. there s an old adage in politics you can t beat somebody with nobody. that s what we re facing. paul: is there a doubt about him related t ....
What is important here is donald trump and his team have been aware of the con tours of the case for a long time. the committee will be put on trial to the american people with this same evidentiary, our hearings and report laid out the details of what jack smith s case is really going to look like. i think the idea this is all coming afresh is not quite an answer here. but totally undercuts the graphic. i think to some degree you watch how this has proceedd in terms of what special counsel s office put out for their date, what trump s lawyers put out for their date. i work under the assumption there is probably a middle ground here everybody knows would be the more likely date. is that accurate? yeah, look. if they get the split the baby approach from the judge they still win right? there is a lot of time between next january and april of 2026. that is not where this judge s head is at. ....
I think most of the people have the biggest interest in this. wall street, the press that s covering it, see that the stakes have gotten pretty simple. the house republicans have passed a bill to raise the debt ceiling. that s the way politics is done and now the burden will fall on the president. and the senate republicans to respond to that. i don t think they can get away with simply dismissing it because if we head towards that debt ceiling cliff, they re ones who are going get blamed for it this time. kyle as we look ahead what are the con tours of a possible compromise? or house says they want to put a cap on spending over a decade of 1% increase each year. that s one of their big asked work requirements for in return for welfare benefits. i suppose a president will want to extend debt limit beyond what house bill does somewhere into 2024 like it take it past next election. how much can republicans get ....
Presidency, that he s just not curious. i mean, if you asked me the details of health care, i m going to be honest with you, i may not know them, i m not president of the united states and i m not trying to sell my bill. if you asked me the con tours of the inner workings of the iran deal, you know, i could figure it out pretty quickly. it s the lack of curiosity. so in that vacuum steps politics and personality. not policy. and david s exactly right, we re just it s like, it s all sort of it s gossip. it s like i have teenagers. it s like that kind of drama. it s fire and fury and the calm before the storm. go ahead, david. in addition to everything that david and juliet said, you can imagine a scenario, maybe, if john kelly has been the chief of staff from day one, he could have maybe implemented his military very button-down style of chief of staff management from the beginning back in january. but to come in now with the tools that he has in his tool kit and reverse course ....