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supporters in new jersey where he claimed he, quote, did everything right. he did not address the court in miami, he sat huchblghunched with his arms crossed and a scowl on his face. also in the courtroom, jack smith. it was the men s first encounter. no words between the two were spoken. the judge ordered the former president not to speak with walt nauta, his co-defendant. he will appear in court again in two weeks. and also new reaction from contenders. mike pence said he can t defend trump s alleged conduct and nikki haley said she d be inclined to pardon the former president if convicted. cnn this morning starts right now. such an important day, and to hear the president s response last night to all of it. just how fast things commingled from the legal to political. not that they were ever separate, but if you ever had any doubt about how things were going to be going the next couple months, very abundantly clear last night. and we ll talk about all of ....
the whole campaign and not have to answer tough questions, well, then we may be in danger of seeing a democrat sweep in 2024. steve: all right. good morning, everybody. it s 6:00 here in new york city and we start this wednesday morning with the race for the white house. the republican presidential primary heating up with former president donald trump expected to arrive in iowa today. ainsley: yeah. that s right. his visit to the hawkeye state comes just a day after florida s governor ron desantis kicked off his great american comeback tour. brian: right. here we go. lucas tomlinson joins us now to set the table. lucas? good morning, steve, ainsley and brian. first visit to iowa as a presidential candidate. florida governor ron desantis vowed to fix the border once and for all. i m frustrated on things like the border because i have been listening to these politicians talk about securing the border for years and years and years. i could tell you if i m preside ....
feel sympathetic for him as if the dope was the cause of the money and the cause of his issues when the reality is it wasn t. this had been going on for a long time and the finances prove differently. but what else about this? you have seen the interviews. and we are going to play some clips of these interviews but i m not going to play them all for you again, you have watched them. but if you have any question, go back and watch them. he talks about being paranoid. watch those interviews when he s with dave owen. he doesn t look like he s withdrawing from any drugs. his responses are appropriate. he s not displaying any paranoia. he s smooth. he s focused on the events, focused on trying to get information about the case from law enforcement officers, which is interesting in its own right, why is he so focused on that. and in savanah, where supposedly he was detoxing, he sat down as you heard the testimony with a composite sketch artist and went through the whole proce ....
that night and yesterday, murdaugh changed his story to admit he was at the dog kennels where his wife and son worships slade something that he did not tell the police at the time. . the last time you sell supposedly your wife and child and all of this detail, you as a lawyer and a prosecutor didn t think that was important to offer? i think it is important here in and al murdaugh helped l.a. about being at the kennels, he left his wife and son minutes before slaughtered, no one else was around. you hear the dogs barking, caring on and they sent somebody was around? no, they weren t. there was nobody around and the dogs didn t know. there was nobody else around. good. for him to sense. jesse: but the most explosive moment of the day murdaugh putting his own theory who murdered his family. he believes it is revenge over a vote accident involving his now deceased son paul. paul was driving the family vote drunk when he crashed and killed one of his friends ....
he won t get it unless there ever comes a day when he is charged. but he does have something. exactly. he does have what we call a search warrant. does he have a copy? yes. can he release it? yes. however, there s fairly limited information in this document. it s one page. this is it, this is a sample of it. it tells you where is to be searched, mar-a-lago, what are they looking for. it will say things like documents, papers, computers, it won t guess into specificity usually, who is the judge and when does the fbi have to conduct the search warrant by. however, sometimes there is an attachment to this and that can tell you here are the crimes that prosecutors allege may have been committed. so donald trump does have that document, but it will not give chapter and verse. another important document that donald trump has will answer the question of what did the fbi take from mar-a-lago. now, this is called a return. it s basically an invoice. it s a receipt. the fbi w ....