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Speaker 2: We have a lot of questions now that a fourth
Speaker 2: indictment is drops approved by a grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia,
Speaker 2: where Fani Willis is the district attorney.
Speaker 3: A Fulton County grand jury returned a true bill of
Speaker 3: indictment charging nineteen individuals with violations of Georgia law arising
Speaker 3: from a criminal conspiracy to overturn the results of the
Speaker 3: twenty twenty presidential election in this state. The indictment includes
Speaker 3: forty one felony counts and his ninety seven pages long.
Speaker 3: Please remember that everyone charged in this bill of indictment
Speaker 3: is presumed innocent.
Speaker 2: And when we say everyone, we're talking about some familiar
Speaker 2: names here code defendants, including Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, the
Speaker 2: former White House Chief of Staff, former Senior Justice Department
Speaker 2: official Jeffrey Clark. Even Sidney Powell shows up in there.
Speaker 2: Remember they were going to unleash the Kraken. Maybe Finie
Speaker 2: Willis's turn. Well, the case that's centered around the Ricode
Speaker 2: charge we talked about a racketeering case.
Speaker 3: Every individual charge in the indictment is charged with one
Speaker 3: count of violating Georgia's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act
Speaker 3: through participation in a criminal enterprise in Fulton County, Georgia
Speaker 3: and elsewhere to accomplish the illegal goal of allowing Donald J.
Speaker 3: Trump to seize the presidential term of office beginning on
Speaker 3: January twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2: All right, so that's from last night. This was late,
Speaker 2: by the way. It's like, you know, we're getting up
Speaker 2: around midnight here with reporters in the courtroom for hours
Speaker 2: waiting for something to happen. I guess it's a good
Speaker 2: thing they hung out now. Willis is asking that all
Speaker 2: defendants surrender by August twenty fifth, that would be next Friday.
Speaker 2: Nothing says they can't come sooner. Also says she intends
Speaker 2: to try them all together, nineteen defendants together, Donald Trump,
Speaker 2: the eighteen co defendants, and she's asking a judge to
Speaker 2: hold the trial in the next six months. Unclear if
Speaker 2: any of this will take place with the legal team
Speaker 2: representing the former president that intends to delay, delay, delay,
Speaker 2: That's what I'm glad to say. We're joined by Ty Cobb,
Speaker 2: the former White House Council in the Trump administration. He
Speaker 2: was there from July seventeen to May eighteen, just to
Speaker 2: give you a sense. This was back in the Russia, Russia,
Speaker 2: Russia period of time. Also, former Department of Justice official
Speaker 2: now practicing attorney, Tykob, Welcome back to Bloomberg. It's great
Speaker 2: to have you. Can I just start by asking, do
Speaker 2: you think Donald Trump will actually show up at the
Speaker 2: court next week?
Speaker 4: At some point he'll have to. They may negotiate a time,
Speaker 4: but at some point he'll have to appear and be arraigned,
Speaker 4: as he has been in the other cases.
Speaker 2: So let's talk about the indictment here, much more broad,
Speaker 2: more sweeping, much larger scale than what we saw come
Speaker 2: from the Special Council here in Washington, even though they're
Speaker 2: technically really about the same thing. Attempts to overturn the
Speaker 2: results of the twenty election. How strong is this case?
Speaker 4: You know, it's hard to tell. I mean, it's not
Speaker 4: immediately clear from the indictment how strong the case is.
Speaker 4: Although the indictment is extensively detailed, looks professionally done. Certainly,
Speaker 4: the counts that track the counts in the federal case
Speaker 4: are presented in very similar fashion, you know, with great
Speaker 4: detail and the loss set out matter of factly, some
Speaker 4: of the Georgia claims not quite as crystal clear what
Speaker 4: the evidence is. But but yes, no, I think this
Speaker 4: is This reflects a great deal of work and a
Speaker 4: lot of effort by Ms. Willisoner's staff.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you can argue this, you know, two different ways.
Speaker 2: The Special Council chosen narrow something. Oh, that's right, that's why,
Speaker 2: that's why we're here. The Special Council chose a narrower path,
Speaker 2: maybe something that he saws more of a sure thing.
Speaker 2: In this indictment. It includes one hundred and sixty one
Speaker 2: specific acts in furtherance of the conspiracy. It carries charges
Speaker 2: the racket hearing charges with minimum sentences. Is funny? Will
Speaker 2: this biting off more than she can shoot?
Speaker 4: I think that remains to be seen. You know, she
Speaker 4: has tried large cases before, indicted other large cases that
Speaker 4: are still ongoing. You know, she has a track record
Speaker 4: as a prosecutor of having handled some difficult and important cases.
Speaker 4: So you know, I think it remains to be seen.
Speaker 4: I do think there's some difficulty tying tying all these
Speaker 4: charges together. I think the one thing I can say
Speaker 4: for sure is this trial will not start in six months.
Speaker 4: There are there will be motions di sever there will
Speaker 4: be motions. There may even be some removal motions on
Speaker 4: behalf of Trump and Meadows. There will be issues between
Speaker 4: the defendants. I think think that there will be, you know,
Speaker 4: a number of challenges to this case. Keep in mind
Speaker 4: that you know a prosecutorial misconduct complaint was recently withdrawn.
Speaker 4: I would expect to see that raised again. I think
Speaker 4: the three I think the three false electors who were
Speaker 4: ultimately indicted out of what I call to be twelve.
Speaker 4: But I could be off that. I could be off
Speaker 4: on that.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 4: I think they will have some selected prosecution claims that
Speaker 4: are likely to be heard as the why them and
Speaker 4: not the others. So this is not going to be
Speaker 4: an easy case to get to trial. And there's no
Speaker 4: way Jack Smith, who has a lot of power in
Speaker 4: this in this arena, to dictate to the order of cases.
Speaker 4: I don't think there's any way Jack Smith would permit
Speaker 4: ms Willis to go to trial before he does given
Speaker 4: the overlap and witnesses and the damage her use of
Speaker 4: those witnesses could do to his case.
Speaker 2: Well, that's a great point, And I wonder your thought
Speaker 2: on these eighteen code defendants. They're unnamed co conspirators, fewer
Speaker 2: of them in the Special Council's case. Is she naming
Speaker 2: uh these folks and in fact charging them in the
Speaker 2: hopes that one or more will flip?
Speaker 4: Hard to say likely that that one or more of
Speaker 4: these will flip, I'd be I'd be surprised to see uh,
Speaker 4: all all nineteen defendants in the courtroom together at any time.
Speaker 4: But uh, certainly it's likely that some may flip. But
Speaker 4: at the same time, I think in terms of, you know,
Speaker 4: the significant defendance, you know, the likelihoods they will they
Speaker 4: will go to trial if the case actually gets to trial.
Speaker 4: Keep in mind, so she's been working on this case
Speaker 4: for two and a half years, we finally got into
Speaker 4: an indictment. Getting from there to trial in six months,
Speaker 4: particularly given the amount of discovery that she has and
Speaker 4: the number of motions that she's going to face, I
Speaker 4: just don't see that happening. I also think the scheduling
Speaker 4: issue is given given the Jack Smith effort to get
Speaker 4: his trial in January, which is as yet unresolved in
Speaker 4: the mar A Lago trial currently set for March. I
Speaker 4: just don't believe, you know, they're going to fit in
Speaker 4: this trial, and this trial will take a long time,
Speaker 4: at least at least as charged, if they intend to
Speaker 4: prove everything that they have they have targeted.
Speaker 2: I'm struck by how any uncertainties there are around this
Speaker 2: because you hear analysis and they say, well, in this case,
Speaker 2: it's it's unpardonable because it's it's a state situation here.
Speaker 2: You can't have a federal pardon and the governor can't
Speaker 2: do that in Georgia with a racketeering case or something
Speaker 2: like that. But what if they moved it to federal court?
Speaker 1: Tied?
Speaker 2: Does that happen?
Speaker 3: Well, so.
Speaker 4: There may be an effort to move it to federal court,
Speaker 4: but I'm not sure that it fits neatly under the
Speaker 4: removal statue involved twenty eight USC. Fourteen forty two A.
Speaker 4: It's it's it's hard to see importuning the governor of
Speaker 4: Georgia to come up with eleven seven hundred and eighty
Speaker 4: votes as under color of law, as is required in
Speaker 4: the statute. So I do think the odds are that
Speaker 4: it stays in the state court. But I also think
Speaker 4: there's a real possibility it never gets tried, or it
Speaker 4: doesn't get tried for five years. The reason for so,
Speaker 4: the reason for that being it unless it gets tried. So,
Speaker 4: I mean, this is there's a lot of what ifs.
Speaker 4: But if Trump won the White House. You know, the
Speaker 4: Justice Department policy at present, which is only a policy,
Speaker 4: but it's been closely adhered to, is that the president
Speaker 4: cannot be prosecuted by the States or anybody else during
Speaker 4: the term of his presidency. Uh so Trump, Trump, having
Speaker 4: the opportunity to serve four years, could delay this trial
Speaker 4: for for the length of the presidency, if indeed he won,
Speaker 4: if he loses. You know, all bets are often you know,
Speaker 4: this case, this case moves forward.
Speaker 2: That's really something. He's not a young man, Ty Cobb,
Speaker 2: you know that is it possible Donald Trump can delay
Speaker 2: this for the rest of his life.
Speaker 4: I don't think he would. I don't think he would
Speaker 4: look at it quite that way.
Speaker 2: Probably not, you.
Speaker 4: Know, in the sense of I hope I die before
Speaker 4: I have to trial and Georgia. Yeah, but I do
Speaker 4: think this could be delayed substantially and certainly I think
Speaker 4: this case, in particular, of of the cases that matter,
Speaker 4: which are the two federal cases, and this one, the
Speaker 4: New York case, is more of a political stunting unlikely
Speaker 4: to hold up, but other cases that matter, I think
Speaker 4: this is the least likely to get to trial before
Speaker 4: the election.
Speaker 2: Do you believe Donald Trump knew he lost?
Speaker 4: Do I personally believe that? Yes, I personally believe that.
Speaker 4: But but more importantly, it's the evidence that will dictate that.
Speaker 4: And you know, uh, there's a subset there are There
Speaker 4: is going to be direct evidence that he knew he lost,
Speaker 4: and people will testify that, you know, he said things
Speaker 4: like can you believe I lost the Joe Biden? Or uh,
Speaker 4: you know, we'll leave that for the next guy, that
Speaker 4: kind of thing. I think there'll be substantially more direct evidence,
Speaker 4: you know, perhaps from Meadows and others on that issue.
Speaker 4: But you know, under under federal law and most most states,
Speaker 4: the wolful blindness standard is an adequate substitute for actual knowledge.
Speaker 4: And if the Attorney General and you know, half the
Speaker 4: Cabinet and uh fourteen general counsels from you know a
Speaker 4: variety of agencies, and your white House counsel, Uh are
Speaker 4: telling you that you lost. It's very difficult for you know,
Speaker 4: an average you're to say, you know, how could he
Speaker 4: not have known?
Speaker 2: You were? Of course White House counsel during the whole
Speaker 2: Russia probe. You've been around Donald Trump, Uh when it
Speaker 2: comes to allegations of electoral misconduct for some time or
Speaker 2: you were then. With everything that we've learned here, Ty Cobb,
Speaker 2: with everything we know now, is there a part of
Speaker 2: you that regrets representing Donald Trump?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: So my job I was not his personal lawyer. My
Speaker 4: job was to represent the White House as an institution
Speaker 4: in connection with the Russia investigation and manage the White
Speaker 4: House response to to Muller. Bob Muller a longtime friend
Speaker 4: of mine, and you know, in my situation, we chose
Speaker 4: to be cooperative in order to maintain executive privilege and
Speaker 4: avoid many of the pitfalls of going to court forfeiting
Speaker 4: for village making takes public that otherwise wouldn't need to
Speaker 4: be public. And that was, of course, you know, we
Speaker 4: chose because it was it was very clear that that
Speaker 4: the Russia effort was, unlike unlike the matters recently charged,
Speaker 4: was a pure hoax.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you what. I appreciate your coming to
Speaker 2: talk to us here. Ty Cobb. You've you've been a
Speaker 2: good voice to help us understand the charges here on
Speaker 2: what is now a fourth We talked after the third,
Speaker 2: and we'd love to stay in touch with former White
Speaker 2: House counsel during the Trump administration. Ty Cobb coming up.
Speaker 2: We assemble the panel and let them sink their teeth
Speaker 2: into this. Georgia Peach, Rick Davis, and Jeanie Shanzano coming
Speaker 2: up next on indictment number four, what it means for
Speaker 2: the primary and the general. I'm Joe Matthew in Washington.
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Speaker 2: What a night it was for Robert mcbernie, the Fulton
Speaker 2: County judge who found himself on duty until the wee
Speaker 2: hours on what would, of course, be the day that
Speaker 2: the Trump indictment dropped. There in Georgia, with scores of
Speaker 2: reporters lining the halls, in the courthouse, in the courtroom,
Speaker 2: cameras everywhere. It finally happened, and here everybody's watching along
Speaker 2: a pretty remarkable moment as he went through the page,
Speaker 2: took his time, Sheriff delivers. You know, he's got the
Speaker 2: ninety something pages and flipping through the whole thing, and
Speaker 2: it was his job to certify the indictments so it
Speaker 2: could then be moved forward as he finished his work.
Speaker 6: All right, thanks cheery, good luck the rest of the evening, sire,
Speaker 6: your bet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, anybody else, everybody's saying, is it all you hoped
Speaker 2: it would be?
Speaker 1: I didn't get a good look, so you all need
Speaker 1: to leave.
Speaker 6: I mean that politely and nicely.
Speaker 7: You've had a long day, but these folks can't go until.
Speaker 6: You all go.
Speaker 2: The old blues brothers. You don't have to go home,
Speaker 2: but you can't stay here. Let's assemble the panel. Rick
Speaker 2: Davis and Genie Shanzino join us Bloomberg Politics contributors with
Speaker 2: a lot to talk about here following our conversation with
Speaker 2: ty Cobb. Rick, your thoughts on this fourth indictment number four?
Speaker 2: It's just remarkable when you actually say it out loud
Speaker 2: here and ty Cobb's point that it may well be
Speaker 2: the last one to be tried.
Speaker 7: Yeah, this is really a stunner indictment, sprawling number of defendants,
Speaker 7: incredible number of acts of conspiracy.
Speaker 6: Uh and and and what.
Speaker 7: You had ty Cobb talking about the complex nature of
Speaker 7: this really put it in fantastic terms to understand the
Speaker 7: immensity of this reco charge and and and he makes
Speaker 7: a very compelling case that if this doesn't get done
Speaker 7: between now an election day, and you wonder how it
Speaker 7: can with all these defendants getting tried at the same time.
Speaker 6: Then then you're right.
Speaker 7: You're then putting this aside based on what the Justice
Speaker 7: Department tends to do with presidential lawsuits and and and.
Speaker 6: Things like this, for another four years.
Speaker 7: I mean, and it just blows my mind to think that, like,
Speaker 7: we could be waking up five six years from now
Speaker 7: and this trial.
Speaker 6: Starts up again in earnest. I mean, I just get
Speaker 6: it's beyond my comprehension.
Speaker 2: Knowing no one has the My god, Genie, you wrote
Speaker 2: the column about indictment fit, did Jeff for imagine we'd
Speaker 2: be doing this five years from now? Potentially. Does this
Speaker 2: mean Genie Shanzeo, that the real case to watch is
Speaker 2: the one here in Washington, jack Smith's case made for efficiency,
Speaker 2: not this sprawling thing in Georgia.
Speaker 5: Yeah, ty Cob just depressed me enormously with this. We
Speaker 5: may go five years out on this, you know. For
Speaker 5: my money, I think the Document's case is the most
Speaker 5: clear cut and dry case. Although certainly Jack Smith is
Speaker 5: trying to get the January sixth case, so to speak, earlier.
Speaker 5: But I do think legally that that is the most
Speaker 5: sound case, you know, And I also don't believe that
Speaker 5: they we will see that January sixth case in DC
Speaker 5: starting on January second, as Jack Smith wanted. I do
Speaker 5: think that Jack Smith has got to be a tiny
Speaker 5: bit perturbed by what happened in Georgia last night. Not unexpected,
Speaker 5: of course, because much of the behavior and the conduct
Speaker 5: he has already charged Trump with in the case in DC.
Speaker 5: Now you've got another case, same witnesses. And you know,
Speaker 5: we heard ty Cobb saying, you know, he's certainly and
Speaker 5: I agree with ty Cobb on this, he's not gonna
Speaker 5: want Fonnie Willis's case going first, and won't you know,
Speaker 5: allow that if he can help it. The other thing
Speaker 5: is is that he certainly has got to be, you know,
Speaker 5: a bit frustrated that this is happening at all. Not
Speaker 5: the other eighteen defendants weren't charged in his case, but
Speaker 5: certainly as you look at Trump, so I think there's
Speaker 5: a little bit of prosecutorial combat going on here. But
Speaker 5: nothing's gonna stop either one of them. This state case
Speaker 5: will certainly go forward, and unlikely, by the way, the
Speaker 5: federal courts will be able to move it up. This
Speaker 5: is certainly a rico case. The state has a right
Speaker 5: to show their facts hard to get that appealed and
Speaker 5: take it into the federal courts.
Speaker 2: We heard from the former lieutenant governor of Georgia, Republican
Speaker 2: of course, who Donald Trump was writing about on truth
Speaker 2: social the other day, suggesting that he should not testify.
Speaker 2: He did and spoke with reporters when he exited the
Speaker 2: courtroom yesterday. I remember this is a Republican speaking now in
Speaker 2: Jeff Duncan here.
Speaker 8: He is, well, I hope my testimony gets the facts,
Speaker 8: you know, as they are, and helps to continue to
Speaker 8: paint a real and honest picture. But politically speaking, this
Speaker 8: is a pivot point for this country to do something
Speaker 8: more than just stew on the twenty twenty election cycle. Right,
Speaker 8: we're either going to, as Republicans, take our medicine and
Speaker 8: realize the election wasn't rigged. Donald Trump was the worst
Speaker 8: candidate ever in the history of the party, even worse
Speaker 8: than herschel Walker. And now we're gonna have to pivot
Speaker 8: from there. Right, we want to win an election in
Speaker 8: twenty twenty four, it's gonna have to be somebody other
Speaker 8: than Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: The worst candidate in the history of our country. That's
Speaker 2: quite a statement, Rick, I just wonder your thoughts on
Speaker 2: Donald Trump's standing among Republicans in Georgia. It's awfully complicated
Speaker 2: when you have people voting for Brian Kemp and then
Speaker 2: I guess somehow Donald Trump. Would it be different next time?
Speaker 6: No, I think that's a really important dynamic.
Speaker 7: You point out, Joe, because is you know, you try
Speaker 7: to look at like how many of his favorables is
Speaker 7: he getting, how many of people, you know, like the
Speaker 7: governor Kemp is getting off of his favorables?
Speaker 6: Where do they where they cross over?
Speaker 7: I can't imagine a more complex race than the one
Speaker 7: he ran at twenty twenty with you know, all these
Speaker 7: Senate candidates and being on the ballot at the same time,
Speaker 7: but he also remembers his last real political feat was
Speaker 7: to try and actually beat Governor camp, a wildly popular
Speaker 7: Republican in the state. And and so when you look
Speaker 7: at this and you hear these comments by Jeff Duncan,
Speaker 7: and you think, you know, the Democratic playbook on advertising
Speaker 7: against Donald Trump is being written by Republicans.
Speaker 6: I mean, I've.
Speaker 7: Never seen anything like this where the number of quotes
Speaker 7: that you could put into a TV advertisement in the
Speaker 7: state of Georgia with Republicans attacking Donald Trump is like
Speaker 7: nothing that's ever happened in modern American politics. They'll ever
Speaker 7: have to have a message delivered by Democrats against Trump
Speaker 7: because of all these Republicans saying things like Jeff Duncan said,
Speaker 7: which is.
Speaker 6: He's the worst candidate in history.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and so it's just going to be I don't
Speaker 7: know how you overcome that.
Speaker 6: I don't These are credible people.
Speaker 7: He was a lieutenant governor, he's got his own popularity,
Speaker 7: and for having them say these things, and it's just
Speaker 7: getting started. I mean, imagine when one or two or
Speaker 7: three of these current indicted defendants start to turn and
Speaker 7: make public statements. Donald Trump's not the only one with
Speaker 7: a megaphone at that point, and I think he's going
Speaker 7: to pay an incredible price for that.
Speaker 2: Politically, well, i'll tell you what. Republicans in the US
Speaker 2: House are still behind him, Genie the Speaker himself, Kevin
Speaker 2: McCarthy on Twitter or x or whatever it is. Justice
Speaker 2: should be blind. But Biden has weaponized government against his
Speaker 2: leading political opponent to interfere in the twenty twenty four election. Now,
Speaker 2: a radical da in Georgia, he writes, almost as if
Speaker 2: this is Trump writing, is following Biden's lead by attacking
Speaker 2: President Trump and using it to fund raise her political career.
Speaker 2: Americans see through this desperate sham. Getting back to Rick's point,
Speaker 2: how can you argue this is the weaponization of government
Speaker 2: when it's coming from Republicans in Georgia.
Speaker 5: Well, far be it from me to advise Donald Trump's campaign.
Speaker 5: But what they will say is what they always say,
Speaker 5: Those are a bunch of rhinos. Jack Duncan, the former
Speaker 5: lieutenant governor, is a rhino, as is Adam Kissinger, as
Speaker 5: is Liz Cheney. I mean, they will go down the
Speaker 5: list to your point. We've heard a lot of people
Speaker 5: defending Donald Trump in just a few minutes. Ted Cruz
Speaker 5: I think was one of the first, a least stefanic,
Speaker 5: Kevin McCarthy. I mean, the list goes on and on,
Speaker 5: and conservative media is also defending him. There was Alan
Speaker 5: Dershowitz on Foxy talking about how al Gore did the
Speaker 5: same thing in Florida. Why isn't he prosecuted. So this
Speaker 5: is what voters on the ground are hearing. They are
Speaker 5: hearing this is overkill. They are hearing the first president
Speaker 5: for indictments, and so that is what they are is
Speaker 5: going to be ringing in their ears as Trump bellows
Speaker 5: out that these are rhinos, they're not real Republicans. So,
Speaker 5: you know, I agree with Rick, Democrats should use these
Speaker 5: in their campaigns. It may help with moderates and independence,
Speaker 5: which will keep the White House. But it's not going
Speaker 5: to stop Trump from getting the primary election because it
Speaker 5: appeals to people on the ground who vote in primaries.
Speaker 2: We're going to get into the primaries, and we have
Speaker 2: a couple of new polls that I want to look
Speaker 2: at with you coming up and in our remaining moment
Speaker 2: right now, Rick, it's been crickets in the Senate and
Speaker 2: you've made this point repeatedly. It's like a different Republican
Speaker 2: Party in these two chambers.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we've seen Mitch McConnell and the leadership there go
Speaker 7: through various phases of withdrawal when it comes to trying
Speaker 7: to say goodbye to Donald Trump, and none of it
Speaker 7: has particularly worked because he's still there and he's still powerful.
Speaker 7: And the reality is that that Mitch McConnell has tried
Speaker 7: to wage a quiet war.
Speaker 6: Against Donald Trump.
Speaker 7: But my sense is that that's not working. There's no
Speaker 7: evidence that it's hurt Donald Trump's standing with Republican voters,
Speaker 7: and ultimately, that is the only judge in all of
Speaker 7: this is the will Republican voters turn out for Donald Trump?
Speaker 7: And if they do, how does that complicate everybody's views?
Speaker 7: And Republican senators other than his most dire supporters like
Speaker 7: Ted Cruz, who without Donald Trump, is the most exposed
Speaker 7: man in the United States Senate, he will have very
Speaker 7: little influence if Donald Trump is not around anymore. And
Speaker 7: that's why they're out there defending him today because he
Speaker 7: is their lifeline to power.
Speaker 2: We'll dig into the campaign ahead with new numbers nationally
Speaker 2: and for the state of New Hampshire.
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Speaker 2: Of course, Donald Trump never won to miss an opportunity,
Speaker 2: and he'll be taking this one. With a news conference
Speaker 2: scheduled for Monday morning. Donald Trump on Truth Social I'm
Speaker 2: using Genie's log in here. A large, complex, detailed but
Speaker 2: irrefutable report in all caps on the presidential election fraud
Speaker 2: which took place in Georgia is almost complete, he writes,
Speaker 2: and will be presented by me at a major news
Speaker 2: conference eleven am Monday, Bedminster, New Jersey. Based on the
Speaker 2: results of this conclusive report, all charges should be dropped
Speaker 2: against me and others. We reassemble our panel, Rick Davis
Speaker 2: and Genie Shanzo, Bloomberg Politics contributors. I hope you don't
Speaker 2: mind me using your log in here, Genie, but it's
Speaker 2: going to be an interesting week next week. Think about
Speaker 2: what we have scheduled here, A news conference apparently Bedminster Monday.
Speaker 2: There's a debate next week, guys. That's Wednesday, the twenty third, Milwaukee,
Speaker 2: and then by Friday, all of the defendants named in
Speaker 2: this indictment face a deadline to show up in court
Speaker 2: and surrender themselves. Hard to say which one will get
Speaker 2: bigger ratings, but the nation will be watching. Jeanie. What's
Speaker 2: this news conference going to bring us on Monday?
Speaker 5: It's going to bring you logging into truth social a
Speaker 5: lot more, Joe, And you know, I'm just listening to
Speaker 5: you reiterate the schedule for next week, and I think
Speaker 5: it's three days later, the twenty eighth, we have the
Speaker 5: next hearing on the January sixth case in d C.
Speaker 5: I mean, it is just mind umbing to think about
Speaker 5: the collision between the political calendar and now the legal calendar,
Speaker 5: and of course with him adding to it with the
Speaker 5: news conference on Monday at eleven, it's utterly astoundished, astonishing
Speaker 5: to think how any individual could you fight on both
Speaker 5: of these fronts. And I'm not sure how the president,
Speaker 5: the former president can, but he seems determined to keep
Speaker 5: this up.
Speaker 2: It was Rick Davis on this program who I believe
Speaker 2: predicted first of all, Donald Trump not showing up at
Speaker 2: that debate. Most likely he's been dancing around that whole idea.
Speaker 2: But Rick, I wonder how he seeses on the opportunity.
Speaker 2: A producer. James here had actually a pretty interesting idea.
Speaker 2: What if he doesn't wait till Friday. What if he
Speaker 2: does go to the courthouse in Georgia, but he does
Speaker 2: it on Wednesday, does it the same day as the
Speaker 2: debate and either shows up on the stage or goes
Speaker 2: back home to hold a news conference or something. Isn't
Speaker 2: that the kind of counterprogramming we should expect.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think James must be renting space in Donald
Speaker 7: Trump's head right now, because I would think that that's
Speaker 7: exactly the Donald Trump move. Right. You notice he said
Speaker 7: originally when he said he didn't think he was going
Speaker 7: to go to the debate, that he'd do his own event. Well,
Speaker 7: he's got already made one at Fulton County Court, that's right.
Speaker 7: And every major news outlet will take it live like
Speaker 7: they've done with all the previous indictments, and this one
Speaker 7: will be no exception. And that will leave eleven other
Speaker 7: Republican presidential candidates getting probably you know, a smidgeon of
Speaker 7: news out of the debate. In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, because of course,
Speaker 7: nobody will really care what they're talking about, unless, of course,
Speaker 7: one of them breaks their silence and decides to go
Speaker 7: after Donald Trump, and then that'll probably get all kinds
Speaker 7: of coverage that plays into the scenario that Donald Trump
Speaker 7: has set up.
Speaker 6: For all of them.
Speaker 2: It's, you know, either way, we're talking aboun to be all.
Speaker 6: Trump next week, and.
Speaker 7: It's not the way he would have wanted it, but
Speaker 7: it's certainly from his perspective. If it's Trump all the time,
Speaker 7: then then it's a good thing, even if it's bad news.
Speaker 2: So we've got new pulling out today morning consults with
Speaker 2: a national poll. The samples pretty good, more than three
Speaker 2: thousand likely Republican primary voters granted national Donald Trump fifty seven.
Speaker 2: By the way, they wrap this on the thirteenth, all right,
Speaker 2: so it was the day before the indictment, dropped eleven
Speaker 2: through the thirteenth, Donald Trump fifty seven percent, Ron DeSantis sixteen,
Speaker 2: Vivek Ramaswami nine, Mike Pence seven and then we go
Speaker 2: off a cliff after that. But then there's the Emerson
Speaker 2: College pole and this is coming out of the primary
Speaker 2: in New Hampshire, Trump forty nine. Look who's in second place,
Speaker 2: Chris Christi at nine percent, followed by DeSantis at eight
Speaker 2: What do these tell you, Genie?
Speaker 5: You know, I think two things in particular from the
Speaker 5: Emerson number One, DeSantis support is dwindling in New Hampshire.
Speaker 5: He's not going in the frank direction. We should say that.
Speaker 5: Of course, Chris Christy, just one percent ahead of him,
Speaker 5: is still well within the margin of era, which is
Speaker 5: three point four on that pole. But I think the
Speaker 5: other thing that really struck me as you look at
Speaker 5: the top concerns of New Hampshire voters, not surprisingly you
Speaker 5: see economy, you see housing, and look at that third one,
Speaker 5: threats to democracy. Just what we're talking about with a
Speaker 5: presidential candidate, former president, who's charged with four indictments out
Speaker 5: on bail right now in three different jurisdictions, soon to
Speaker 5: be a fourth. This is where this is coming from.
Speaker 5: It's not common in election polling in the modern era.
Speaker 5: You see that, and I think that may account for
Speaker 5: some of what we are seeing with Christie's rising support.
Speaker 5: And of course Chris Christie predicted a long time ago
Speaker 5: by election day, primary day, he will be in first
Speaker 5: in New Hampshire. I'm not saying that's going to happen.
Speaker 5: But he certainly has moved up in this poll.
Speaker 2: So does this tell you more about Chris Christie rising
Speaker 2: to nine or Desanta's falling to eight? Rick Davis, you know,
Speaker 2: it tells me.
Speaker 7: The thing you know about primaries is that states matter
Speaker 7: and campaigns matter. And Chris Christy isn't really campaigning in
Speaker 7: Iowa where all the rest of his contenders are, and
Speaker 7: he's put New Hampshire first in his strategy and it's
Speaker 7: starting to pay off, and he's doing it.
Speaker 6: Relatively below the radar.
Speaker 7: Of course we see him constantly on cable TV, but
Speaker 7: he's in New Hampshire, you know, almost every day, meeting
Speaker 7: voters and building a coalition of people who could, you know,
Speaker 7: help him build an election win.
Speaker 6: So I think he's doing exactly what he needs to
Speaker 6: be doing to be relevant as a candidate.
Speaker 7: And we can dismiss him all we want when it
Speaker 7: comes to these national polls, but he's he's actually playing
Speaker 7: the calendar.
Speaker 6: And can he.
Speaker 7: Survive not being around Iowa With all the attention on Iowa,
Speaker 7: we'll see?
Speaker 6: I mean, Iowa is more relevant today than it usually is.
Speaker 7: And and if there is an upset, meaning Donald Trump
Speaker 7: doesn't win Iowa, then then it boosts Christy, who will
Speaker 7: have had somebody else do the dirty work in Iowa
Speaker 7: so that he could take advantage of it in New Hampshire.
Speaker 7: So it's a it's a legit strategy, and I think
Speaker 7: you know this polling tells you that that you know
Speaker 7: it's it's it's starting to pay off.
Speaker 2: Interesting this morning. Console poll that I mentioned, the national
Speaker 2: poll is the ticket that several candidates are punching here
Speaker 2: to get on the stage for the second debate. Of
Speaker 2: course Trump and DeSantis will be there the RNC though,
Speaker 2: as we discussed tightening criteria here, you're going to need
Speaker 2: three percent now in a national poll, and that means
Speaker 2: that that Ramaswami is in, Nicky Haley, Senator Tim Scott,
Speaker 2: and the aforementioned Chris Christy. Will see who else ends
Speaker 2: up making the stage because Asa Hutchinson, Bergham, Suarez heard
Speaker 2: someone else all zero to one percent. I'm Joe Matthew
Speaker 2: and Washington with our great panel, Rick Davis and Genie Shanzino.
Speaker 2: We're going to talk about Ron DeSantis. I thought he's
Speaker 2: sat for a big time interview last night, but now
Speaker 2: what's talking about it.
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Speaker 2: Just a big interview for Ronda Santis. Remember he's going
Speaker 2: to start doing more media, talking to more media operations,
Speaker 2: not just the conservative cable networks, and so he went
Speaker 2: on the other big financial network last night. It was
Speaker 2: a big thing. Interesting. He showed up a program called
Speaker 2: Last Call, and some were wondering if maybe it was
Speaker 2: a lot to talk about with the governor of Florida.
Speaker 2: Of course, you know, the contest with Donald Trump is
Speaker 2: war on woke and the whole thing about Walt Disney,
Speaker 2: the war on Disney. That came up, as you would
Speaker 2: expect it it would in a conversation like this, and well,
Speaker 2: I'm just wondering if this whole thing is over.
Speaker 6: Listen where we are today.
Speaker 2: You know, we've we've basically moved on they're suing the
Speaker 2: State of Florida. They're going to lose that lawsuit. So
Speaker 2: what I would say is drop the lawsuit. Huh, and
Speaker 2: then what we all go home? Final thoughts from our panel,
Speaker 2: Rick Davis and Ny Schanzano. Rick, Is this done? Did did?
Speaker 2: Did he just fold on Disney?
Speaker 6: Yeah? It sounded like a full retreat. Oh, you know,
Speaker 6: I got married there.
Speaker 7: This is a great place I kept during COVID.
Speaker 6: You know, no word.
Speaker 7: Of you know, wokeness, no word of don't say gay,
Speaker 7: which started the fight, you know, and and the pitch
Speaker 7: you know, on a TV show to send a message
Speaker 7: to Bob Iger, the CEO of Disney's, saying.
Speaker 6: Drop your lawsuit. We'll move on.
Speaker 7: I must admit I'm flabberg acid because, you know, Genie
Speaker 7: and I have been talking for six months about like
Speaker 7: we don't.
Speaker 6: Get the whole war on Disney.
Speaker 7: We don't get the get you know, the the woke thing.
Speaker 7: You know, we don't understand what he's trying to accomplish. Well,
Speaker 7: now at least we know he agrees with us and
Speaker 7: he's moved on.
Speaker 2: Is that how you see it? Genie? Does he does
Speaker 2: Disney drop a suit?
Speaker 7: You know?
Speaker 5: The mouse is very forgiving, and I agree with Rick.
Speaker 5: I'm so glad he's been listening. Ron get over the mouse.
Speaker 5: Move on, it's not helping. We love the mouse.
Speaker 2: I hear the mouse can roar. I don't know about that.
Speaker 2: Let's see where we're going, but just remember this. On
Speaker 2: the fifteenth of August, Ronda Santis asking Disney to drop
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