millimeter mortar rounds landed inside the u.s. embassy compound in baghdad. gillian: iran-backed forces hit 75 times in the last two months. we will bring you developments as they come in. my son has done nothing wrong. i trust him, i have faith in him. my son did nothing wrong. i did nothing wrong. did not do a single thing wrong as everybody has investigated. one single bit of evidence, not one little tiny bit to say anything done was wrong. john: well, president biden has defended his son for years, but now new legal trouble has emerged for hunter biden. nine federal charges for alleged tax crimes. good friday afternoon to you, i m john roberts. nice to spend it with you. gillian: you as well, john. gillian turner in for sandra. this is america reports . three of the nine charges are felonies that carry up to 17 years in prison if convicted. according to the indictment filed in california by special counsel david weiss, hunter failed to pay nearly $1.5 million in
to say. he speaks the truth. what truth is that? when he talks about especially immigration control and the border, he really unchoreographed. he is honest. i like his roughness and little reagan-esque. let s figure out exactly whats it that donald trump is tapping into. there was an article this morning in the washington post that looks at the trump platform and finds basically there is no pla platform. there s no details. he s just going to do it. saying that has vaulted him to first place. he s tapping into the frustration that most americans feel, and certainly i heard it when i was both in office and a candidate for congress. we have s it true. it is true. we have a federal government that commands so much of our resources and yet is so
why exactly are they for the donald? watch this. he speaks the truth. he doesn t care what people think. unchoreographed. he is honest. i like his roughness and little reagan-esque. trump is a threat. because he doesn t fit in the same box all the other republicans are in. he s like one of us. he may be a millionaire which separates him from everyone else. but besides the money issue he s in tune with what everybody is wanting. i knew that he was a wealthy, successful man. and i remember asking my mother if i could write him a letter to ask him how he made his money so that i could do it too. i think he s a successful person. he s successful? i want to be a billionaire. to the american people it would be a presidency of hope. anna i have to say he s at 20% in the polls, 80% on the passion index. how can jeb bush or any of the other republicans match that type of intensity? they can t. they can t. i mean they have frankly,
else, too, in the headlines as he traveled to scotland today. his message appears to be resonating according to this bloomberg focus group. take a look. he speaks the truth. what truth is that? when he talks about, especially immigration control and the border he real lit he doesn t care what people think. unchoreographed. he is honest. i like his refrigeratorness and little reaganesque. he s not a politician. he s not going to be like he said i won t be bought off. trump is a threat. yep. because he doesn t fit in the same box all the other republicans are? he s like one of us. he may be a millionaire which separates him from everybody else but besides the money issue he s still in tune with what everybody is wanting. mark murray is the senior political editor for nbc news and joins me now. mark good to have you with me. while it s fascinating to hear what actual primary voters in new hampshire are saying about donald trump and his campaign we actually hear
mogul? where are they forming this opinion from? for a lot of them we saw that their knowledge of trump and their like for trump started years and years ago. there was one woman who spoke about reading his book on the beach when she was 8 years old. and they had followed him through the years. and of course his show the apprentice was a big moment where he kind of crashed into the national spotlight and everybody knows him from that and they got to know his persona through that. but this started a long time ago. people have been following trump for a very long time. and that s because he s debated running for a very long time as well. let me play another clip from this focus group. he speaks the truth. what truth is that? when he talks about especially immigration control and the border he really he doesn t care what people think. unchoreographed. he is honest. i like his roughness and a little reagan-esque.