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you re live in the cnn newsroom. good evening. four indictments in in roughly four months until republicans first nominating contest. donald trump continues to dominate his rivals in the gop primary. new wall street journal poll finds trump support among republican voters growing to a whopping 59%. former president expanding his lead over his next closest competitor, ron desantis, to a commanding 46 points. joining us now to talk about this, vanity fair special correspondent, molly, and ana navarro. guys, great to see you. thanks so much. ana, is it all but inevitable that trump will be the republican nominee next year? it s certainly looking that way. you know, i think it shouldn t be surprising. part of me want to be surprised but i m not that he has this hold on the republican party. and that the indictments that his legal problems that all the things happening around him mean nothing. because the loyalists have complete and absolute allegiance to this man. it s tw
kind of a preview of how she ll run her court and this case. and in deciding whether to grant special counsel jack smith s request for protective order limiting what the disgraced ex-president can and cannot say publicly about the case, judge chutkan cuts through talking points like a hot knife through butter. on the first amendment protections, they are so fond of citing, mr. trump, like every american, has a first amendment right to free speech. but that right is not absolute. adding that without a protective order, the disclosure of discovery materials could lead to witnesses being harassed or otherwise interfering with a fair trial. what about the fact that trump is running for president. and chutkan did not mince words on that eithe saying, this is a criminal trial and i will not take into consideration the impact will have for have for a political came on either side. he will have all of the rights he sen tieptled to. the existence is not going to have any bearing on my
so, right now, at this very moment, former president donald trump is giving his first extended extended public remarks since he was indicted on tuesday for trying to overturn the 2020 election. at this event tonight, trump has been railing against the department of justice and multiple federal in the multiple federal criminal indictment that have been brought against him by that department. he has called out marxist prosecutors for what he referred to as racist in reverse racist in reverse, just making sure you get, that racist in reverse enforcement of the law which presumably means racism against white people. according to his prepared remarks, there s also some room in there for five remarks about the deep state, and crooked joe biden, and you get the picture. now, because mr. trump is currently running for president, conventional wisdom might suggest that he would make these remarks on the campaign trail, maybe in an early primary state, like iowa, or ne
referred to as racist in reverse racists in reverse, just making sure you get, that racist in reverse presumably means racism white people. according to his prepared remarks, there s also some room in there for five remarks about the deep state, and crooked joe biden, and you get the picture. now, because mr. trump is currently running for president, conventional wisdom might suggest that he would make these remarks on the campaign trail, maybe in an early primary state, like iowa, or new hampshire, or south carolina. but mr. trump decided that his first major post indictment public address would take place in the state of alabama. and that is notable for a couple of reasons. to begin with, one of the most important and, honestly, under discussed parts of the trump indictment is that special counsel jack smith chose to charge mr. trump under section 241 of title 18 of the u.s. criminal code. if you don t know what that is, just often, that statute is part of a group of