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00:00Are the walls closing in that Mar a Lago? Look, I certainly think that there's an isolation that's happening, certainly something that's unusual for Donald Trump, where he's used to sort of Republican sycophants coming down and Mar a Lago and begging for his support couldn't be any more different. Now everyone seems running for the exits. And certainly Paul Ryan's declaration that he's be a never again Trump R is one of the loudest shouts that we've heard from the core of the Republican Party, the Chamber of Commerce, Republicans who are now saying, you know, let's not make this mistake again. Judy, it's not lost on us that it's only been hours since Donald Trump was reinstated on Twitter. What does it mean for him to have access if he chooses to use his access to those millions of followers who helped him get elected in the first place? You know, it means a lot. He has said publicly he is going to stick with truth social, but we know that he may very well decide to do something other than what he said publicly. And it's gonna be a question of can he resist the much bigger audience on Twitter? But, you know, just back to your previous point, I would just say elites are turning away from Donald Trump in the Republican Party. But the reality is we haven't seen the same movement in the base yet. And as he knows, we choose our candidates based on primaries. So if the primary base sticks with him and you've got 16 Republicans in this thing, he could very well win the nomination in 24 again. And that's a big problem for Republicans, as we've heard over the weekend. And so watch for the Republican Party to try to change the rules. So there's a one on one contest and somebody can take him on directly versus him and go against the 16 that he did last time, knocking him out. You know, one, you know, name, call it a time and ending up the winner with 32 percent. Each candidate got their own month, as I remember. That was the recipe for success for Donald Trump in 2016. Rick Davis, what do you think about Jeannie's idea here to Republicans, zero win on a single candidate? You could argue they did. Actually, it was too late, though, with Ted Cruz in 2016. So they don't water things down and re-elect Donald Trump by default. Yeah, actually, they never did get down to a one on one with Ted Cruz. He had. Hi, Governor at the same time on the ballot and they continue to split the vote. Trump never got really any more than 35 percent. A one on one would have had him losing. So, look, we had 10 presidential polls show up at the Republican Jewish conference this weekend in Las Vegas. They were all sounding like presidential candidates to me. And winnowing that field to a one on one is usually the job of Iowa and New Hampshire. So we'll see if the process works its will. And in that, we return to a place where by South Carolina and Florida, you have a one on one. Well, Jack Smith is waking up in a new world this morning, that's the special counsel announced on Friday by Attorney General Merrick Garland. He wakes up now as the overseer of the Department of Justice's two most high profile cases against Donald Trump. Will it actually serve to strengthen Donald Trump? In the meantime, Jeannie, his base, 30 percent or not, loves this part, loves Trump. The victim loves Trump. The outsider is is there not an upside here for him? There is. I mean, this is what he was banking on. This is why we we believe that he announced for the presidency, which is to protect himself legally. And so he was saying many times over the weekend that this is a political witch hunt. He was accusing the newly named special prosecutor of being a far left person on, none of which is true. But, of course, he is facing two investigations by the DOJ that the special prosecutor will lead and then multiple investigations from other quarters, including the Manhattan district attorney's office in Georgia, New York. He is now, you know, facing at the end of the January 6th investigation. So he's got a number of investigations to contend with. And, you know, I think the belief is that because the special prosecutor was named, that is likely that at least they have the evidence to charge him. And at least one of those probes, whether they do, in fact, pursue a charge is another question. That's an interesting scenario here, Rick. This special counsel would likely not have been appointed if it weren't for Donald Trump's decision to jump in the race, even though he jumped in thinking it might protect him. How do you square the two? Yeah, it wouldn't be the first time that Donald Trump misjudged a legal outcome and reasoning as so many all the time against him and have his entire career. I would say I'm not a big fan of special counsels because they tend to burn up a couple of years of investigation even on this one as well along on its way. And they don't tend to result in anything. They tend to result in a indictment and no conviction. So I'm a little skeptical whether this will actually see the light of day and become a real problem for Donald Trump. Even between now and Election Day 2024. Well, so I guess I'll ask you the same thing I asked Jimmy Rick if that's the case. You heard Trump over the weekend. He says Russia, Russia, Russia, Robert Mueller. It's not going to be any different this time. It sounds like you might agree. Yeah, look, I mean, the guy slipped the knot on his legal problems for years, and there isn't any evidence right now that the approach that the government is taking is going to bear any more fruit than anybody else's. I mean, we've been listening to the Justice Department talk about these confidential documents that he spirited away to to Mar a Lago. But we haven't really seen any action. We've heard a lot of people getting convicted of, you know, the attack on the capital, but we haven't really seen their cards as it relates to Donald Trump and a sedition conspiracy indictment. And so, you know, I think you have to be skeptical until you actually see this agency put their cards on the table. And of course, Donald Trump will use anything the government does in his sort of conspiracy machine to sort of crank up his troops. So, Jeannie, does does Joe Biden prefer to run against a Donald Trump who's under indictment? This is a speculation. Obviously, this is a hypothetical or not, because Donald Trump's going to say that that Joe Biden is weaponized by the Department of Justice and thumbing the scale right here in the middle of a presidential election. He is. That's argument he's been making. And I think Joe Biden prefers to run against Donald Trump, period. I think all Democrats do. So while he is pardoning chocolate and chip today, he is probably relishing in the fact that if he decides to run, Donald Trump seems to be, at least at this point, in the lead of Republican potential nominees. That's subject to change. And of course, Democrats polling wise have said they want Biden to run. If it's against Trump, they're not so certain they want him to run. If there is another nominee.

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Musk Says Trump Is Allowed Back on Twitter

Former President Donald Trump is allowed back on Twitter, but he's not taking Elon Musk up on the offer- at least not yet. Bloomberg contributors Rick Davis and Jeanne Sheehan Zaino talk about Trump's possible return to the platform and how the federal investigations could impact his chances of getting back in the White House. (Source: Bloomberg)