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 know what youre doing on monday . Do you know what youre doing in april, 2026 . The answer is no for me on both of them. Donald trump, though, has plans for both. More specifically mr. Trump knows where he wont be on monday
primary opponents are very closely watching this and that s where we begin today with grady trimble. he s at the iowa state fair in des moines where some key republicans have been putting out early feelers for 2024. grady, good afternoon. good afternoon, trace. might make your head spin thinking that far ahead when we have mid terms a couple months away. some of the iowa voters i have spoken to think it s too early for potential presidential candidates to stop by. but that s what we re already seeing. in fact, former vice president mike pence will be here this afternoon. officially he s here to stump for senator chuck grassley who is expected to win in november. his trip to the iowa state fair, a popular campaign stop, is fuelling speculation that he might be running in 2024. adding to that is the fact that he was in new hampshire earlier in the week. he s not the first possible candidate to visit either of those two states. senator ted cruz was here in iowa campaigning for
presidential nomination in a city that he reportedly told house republicans was horrible. this weekend the biden campaign are seizing on trump s harsh words. while trump s campaign and his allies are doing all they can to down play, deny or justify his comments, falling back on racist lies about crime and voter in a city led by a black mayor. joining me now the mayor of milwaukee, wisconsin, cavalier johnson, a democrat. thank you for being with us tonight. i know that you are a democrat and you as a democrat still deeply involved in bringing the republican national convention to milwaukee. now exactly one month away. so how did it feel to hear the presumptive gop nominee had reportedly told house republicans that your city was horrible just two days ago. of course trump is now denying this happened but which kind of conference with what he and other republicans in the meeting have said since but still what are your thoughts on this? well, thank you reverand sharpton. look,
World. They explode the new york time times, are seemingly racist tweets inexcusable as it claims. Are they claiming the hoax, the lawyer says this is Freedom Of Speech is that going to work. Plus the boston globe uncovers a tsa program call quiet skies that been spying on thousands of ordinary americans. Is that good post9 11 police work neighborhood, several primaries not yet old enough to vote for themself, ill ask when navigating controversial issues in our political process. First, are tweets making fun of white the people necessarily racist . And are attacks on police to be taken at face value . Those questions arose this week regarding the New York Times new hire sarah john a 30yearold technology writer
hired for their prestigious Editorial Board. Typically for a conversation like this id go to the times, today there was nothing in the Print Version for hatred of white the people, police, et cetera, et set ramp thats something i noted on twitter, which prompted somebody else to
one of the biggest in the world. and he will make the short drive to fulton county. but, back to this debate. we are looking for a strong, committed leader. but pence came across as part of, you know, the earnest college freshman, maybe circa 1992. he was almost like a part minister trying to teach the g.o.p. according to bush cheney. pence would really be a great preacher. it was quite a spectacle though because vivek ramaswamy, an outsider, he bills himself as a brag that tis, a brash kind of tony robbins figure who no one knew a few months ago getting pig piled by the old g.o.p. establishment. among the g.o.p. voters, guess who did better? i have had enough already tonight of a guy who sounds like chatgpt. now is no, ma am not the time for on-the-job training. we don t need to bring in a rookie. we don t need a president who is too young. under your watch you will make america less safe. you have no foreign policy experience and it shows.