Former President Trump’s favorability rating has dropped to a new low after slowly trickling down over the past few months.
A new NBC News poll released Sunday found that 34 percent of registered voters said they have a positive view of Trump, while 54 percent say they have a negative view of him. Trump’s favorability rating was at its lowest in April 2021, when his rating fell to 32 percent in the same NBC poll.
The former president’s favorability score is down slightly since last month, with the same 54 percent saying they have a negative view of Trump, but 36 percent saying they had a positive view of him.
While Trump’s favorability score has trickled down, President Biden’s score has gone up, though only slightly. This month, 45 percent said they approve of the president — a 2-point increase since last month.
Contrarily, 52 percent of voters say they disapprove of Biden, which has gone down 3 percentage points since last month.
Pollsters also questioned voters about their views on the different investigations against Trump, specifically asking whether the various investigations should stop or continue. The poll found that 56 percent of voters believe the investigations should continue, while 41 percent say they should stop.
The poll comes amid an FBI investigation into Trump and the documents he was holding at Mar-a-Lago. The government recovered thousands of government documents from the Florida property since Trump left office, including more than 300 documents with various classified markings.
The NBC News poll surveyed 1,000 registered voters between Sept. 9-13, and has a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday expressed confidence that the public would support his 15-week federal abortion ban proposal but acknowledged it does not have the votes to pass the Senate.
“I’m pro-life, even in an election year,” Graham told “Fox News Sunday” anchor Shannon Bream.
“I am confident the American people would accept a national ban on abortion at 15 weeks,” Graham said. “And to those who suggest that being pro-life is losing politics, I reject that.”
The South Carolina Republican on Tuesday introduced a bill that would prohibit abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy nationwide, carving out exceptions for rape, incest and when the mother’s life is in danger.
The move has attracted criticism from some in his own party, who expressed a desire to leave abortion legislation to states after the Supreme Court voted to overturn Roe v. Wade in June.
Bream asked Graham about comments he made two days after the decision, in which the South Carolina Republican said that Americans should “let every state do it the way they would like” on abortion restrictions.
“Here’s what Dobbs says: elected officials can make the decision, state or federal. I’m not inconsistent,” Graham said when Bream pressed him on his June comments.
Graham called the suggestion he has flipped his position “ridiculous,” noting he has introduced a 20-week abortion ban multiple times in the Senate and other related bills. But he acknowledged that “we will not pass them all” when it comes to abortion bills.
“I will not sit on the sidelines and watch this nation become China when it comes to aborting babies up to the moment of birth,” he said. “I reject that. I will continue to introduce legislation at the national level setting a minimum standard at 15 weeks.”
Despite general agreement among Republican lawmakers on tightening abortion restrictions at the state level, Graham’s proposal has been met with some GOP opposition.
The bill’s introduction comes less than two months before the midterm elections, and Republicans are hoping to flip control of Congress.
Democrats, meanwhile, are hoping the abortion ruling can energize liberal voters in races this fall to maintain their razor-thin majorities.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnnell (R-Ky.) told reporters last week that his caucus is not eager to debate the legislation.
“I think most of the members of my conference prefer that this be dealt with at the state level,” McConnell said.
Asked if Graham’s bill is sanctioned by the leadership, Senate Republican Whip John Thune (S.D.) similarly said “no.”
An attorneys group that says it represents more than 30 migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard last week called on state and federal prosecutors on Saturday to open criminal investigations into the relocations.
Lawyers for Civil Rights sent letters to the U.S. attorney for Massachusetts and the state’s attorney general alleging the flights, organized by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), deprived the migrants’s liberty through deception, arguing they boarded the planes and cross state lines under false pretenses.
“While we are working to protect our clients’ rights in immigration proceedings and exploring remedies for civil rights violations, we also strongly believe that criminal laws were broken by the perpetrators of this stunt,” both letters state. “We therefore ask that you open a criminal investigation into this matter.”
The letters were signed by Lawyers for Civil Rights’s executive director, Iván Espinoza-Madrigal, and the group’s litigation director, Oren Sellstrom.
DeSantis organized two flights with nearly 50 migrants that landed in Martha’s Vineyard on Wednesday, the latest Republican governor to relocate migrants in protest of President Biden’s immigration policies. The migrants have since been moved to Joint Base Cape Cod.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has sent thousands of migrants to Washington, D.C., New York City and Chicago in recent months, while Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) has bused nearly 2,000 migrants to D.C.
Espinoza-Madrigal and Sellstrom alleged in the letters that individuals working with DeSantis’s office made false promises to the migrants, including work opportunities, schooling and immigration assistance, calling the relocations a “shameful political stunt.”
The letters allege many had been instructed they were traveling to Boston only to be told they were going to Martha’s Vineyard once the flight was in mid-air. Some are missing their immigration hearings and check-ins, according to the letter.
“The perpetrators targeted our clients based on race and national origin in order to make the political point they wanted,” Espinoza-Madrigal and Sellstrom wrote. “They preyed on the vulnerability of our clients – many of whom had suffered deep trauma in their home countries and on their journeys to the United States – and exploited this vulnerability to win trust through false promises.”
The Hill has reached out to DeSantis’s office for comment.
Massachusetts state Sen. Julian Cyr (D), who represents Martha’s Vineyard, told The Hill last week that the migrants were approached by a woman named “Perla” who misled them into boarding the flights.
“These actions were coordinated and orchestrated,” the letters state. “Many of our clients were put up in hotels – paid for by those making the false representations – until flights could be coordinated and there were enough people to fill the planes.”
A federal judge on Thursday appointed Judge Raymond J. Dearie to serve as special master in the case involving documents the FBI seized from former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence last month.
The decision to install Dearie — a 78-year-old New York native and semi-retired judge from the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of New York — came in response to Trump’s request for an independent mediator to determine what, if any, materials recovered by authorities are protected by attorney-client or executive privileges.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who is presiding over the Trump documents case, granted Trump’s request for a special master and directed both his legal team and the Justice Department to provide a list of contenders for the job. Dearie was the only individual both sides agreed upon.
The longtime judge is now tasked with examining the more than 11,000 documents the FBI seized by Nov. 30.
Here are five things to know about Dearie.
Dearie is a former Reagan nominee
Dearie received a bachelor’s degree from Fairfield University in 1966 before earning his juris doctor from St. John’s University School of Law in 1969.
After working in private practice for two years, Dearie moved to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York in 1971.
Starting out as an assistant U.S. attorney, the New York native moved up the ladder at the Manhattan office, leading the appeals division, general crimes section and criminal division before assuming the role of chief assistant U.S. attorney in 1980 and, in 1982, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
In 1986, then-President Ronald Reagan nominated Dearie to serve on the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of New York.
Dearie was elevated to chief judge of the district court in 2007, a position he held until 2011, when he received senior status and took a reduced caseload.
Dearie decided to move to inactive status in August, but one of his staff members told NPR that it is unclear when the change will take effect. Inactive status is just shy of formal retirement, according to the outlet, and Dearie can return to the court if needed.
Served on the FISA court, ruled in Carter Page case
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts appointed Dearie to serve on the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in 2012, where he remained until 2019.
The FISA court, as it is often referred to, examines applications from the U.S. government requesting warrants for electronic surveillance, physical searches and other investigative efforts related to foreign intelligence.
Dearie was serving as a FISA judge in October 2016 when the court approved a wiretap on Carter Page, who had previously served as a foreign policy adviser on Trump’s presidential campaign. The Justice Department requested the surveillance on the belief that Page was acting as a foreign agent on behalf of Russia. His surveillance was renewed three times.
The eavesdropping was part of the FBI’s “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation, which looked into potential links between Trump’s campaign and Russia. The probe has been a frequent target of criticism by Trump and his Republican allies.
In December 2019, the Justice Department’s inspector general Michael Horowitz issued a report that said the FBI had reason to open the “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation, but outlined issues with how the investigative bureau handled applications for the Page wiretap.
Justice Department says Dearie has ‘substantial judicial experience,’ but raises potential concern
Dearie was the only individual both Trump’s legal team and the Justice Department agreed on to serve as special master in the Trump documents case. Trump’s team initially proposed him as a candidate, and the department said it was open to the selection.
In a filing on Monday, the department said Dearie, in addition to its two proposed candidates, “each have substantial judicial experience, during which they have presided over federal criminal and civil cases, including federal cases involving national security and privilege concerns.”
The Justice Department did, however, raise one potential concern regarding Dearie serving as special master. Limits exist on how much outside work federal judges are permitted to take part in, as well as compensation they can receive. For senior status judges, however, those constraints are fewer, according to Bloomberg.
“The government’s understanding is that Judge Dearie currently remains on ‘senior active’ status,” the Justice Department wrote in its filing. “If this Court were to select Judge Dearie as the special master, the government would defer to the Court and Judge Dearie to determine whether the special master role would constitute outside employment and what rules and/or restrictions, if any, would apply to his serving in this capacity.”
Judge Cannon did not address that concern in her filing announcing Dearie’s appointment as special master.
The mob, al-Qaeda and the Duchess of York
Dearie presided over several cases during his 36-year tenure on the federal bench, including matters related to the mob, al-Qaeda and the Duchess of York.
The judge handled a number of matters involving the mob when he was U.S. attorney in the 1980s. At the time, the judicial field in Brooklyn had been cracking down on mobsters, gang chiefs and individuals committing financial crimes, according to The Washington Post.
But in 2009 and 2010, Dearie’s focus was centered on al-Qaeda: the then chief U.S. district judge presided over the case involving Najibullah Zazi, a legal permanent American resident from Afghanistan who pleaded guilty to providing material support to al-Qaeda.
And back in 1996, Dearie was at the helm of a trial involving the Duchess of York, who lost a necklace and matching bracelet worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. The jewelry was a wedding gift from Queen Elizabeth II.
Investigators ultimately identified Gilbert Terrero, who was a baggage handler at Kennedy International Airport in New York, as the individual behind the case. Authorities arrested Terrero, 19 at the time, and recovered most of the jewelry. He confessed to stealing the necklace and bracelet from a handbag at the airport.
Previously called for reforming federal sentencing laws
Dearie drew headlines in 2016 when he called for reforming federal sentencing laws.
Speaking at an event sponsored by the New York Criminal Bar Association, the longtime judge who had senior status at the time said “I must admit that at times I’ve wanted to scream out in frustration, sadness and anger when I have been required to impose a mandatory sentence or have been prevented from doing the sensible thing,” according to the New York Law Journal.
“Let’s stop tinkering with this system of ours and collectively demand in the name of decency meaningful change, intelligent change,” he added.
The judge argued that most offenders are “not evil incarnate,” but commit wrongdoings because of “weakness, need, sometimes desperation,” according to The New York Times.
“So many defendants I see are without schooling, skills, hope or direction, and no term of years is going to change that,” he said.
“Why this love affair in this country with lengthy incarceration, to our great embarrassment as a civilized nation?” he added.
The White House-brokered agreement to avert a railroad strike has the potential to fall apart, threatening widespread economic disruption right before the midterm elections.
Rail workers are set to vote on the tentative deal reached between unions and railroads Thursday morning. If any of the 12 rail unions fail to ratify a new contract, nearly 125,000 rail workers could be headed for a strike.
The agreement would mandate two-person crews, cap health care costs and allow workers to take time off for medical appointments or other scheduled events without being penalized, all key concessions won by unions.
The deal also provides 24 percent raises over five years, back pay and cash bonuses, similar terms to those offered by the White House-appointed presidential emergency board (PEB) last month.
But nearly 36 hours after the agreement was announced, rail workers said they still didn’t have concrete details on sick leave and voluntarily assigned days off. That’s raised some doubts about just how strong the new contract language is.
Ron Kaminkow, an organizer at Railroad Workers United, which represents rank-and-file railroaders, said that there’s “a lot of anger, confusion and hostility” toward the new agreement, which many workers feel is intentionally vague.
“Workers are pissed off and this time we actually have a lot of leverage,” said a locomotive engineer at Norfolk Southern who asked to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation. “I know I’m not going to accept anything less than what we deserve.”
The two largest rail unions warned during negotiations that their members wouldn’t approve a contract that doesn’t quell outrage over unpredictable scheduling, unsafe working conditions and a lack of sick leave.
For the strike threat to end, workers would need to feel that the proposed contract is far stronger than the deal offered by the PEB. A survey of rail workers at the SMART Transportation Division found that nearly 8 in 10 would have voted to reject that contract.
Another dilemma is that the tentative agreement reached Thursday only applies to SMART and the Brotherhood Of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, the two largest rail unions, but not the other unions that agreed to contracts based on the less worker-friendly PEB guidance.
Those include nearly 5,000 rail workers at the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers who voted to reject the PEB contract and authorize a strike last week. The union said it would resume negotiations this week and hold off on a strike until at least Sept. 29.
Vote counting is certain to drag into October, potentially setting up a key deadline at the height of election season.
Robert Bruno, a professor of labor and employment relations at the University of Illinois, predicted that the deal will ultimately pass but with a “sizeable number of ‘no’ votes.”
“I would be surprised if the bargaining committee misread what the rank and file would support. That doesn’t mean that it will pass with supermajorities,” Bruno said. “That will signal a level of continuing grievance on the part of the membership. It wouldn’t surprise me if a fairly substantial number of members voted ‘no’ in part because of how genuinely abused they feel.”
Bruno also said that the fact that sick leave and voluntarily assigned days off are the sticking points and not wages may inspire more “no” votes from workers.
“Usually, there’s a way to kind of figure out money,” he said. “It’s very often issues that go to respect and go to treatment, working autonomy, worker ability to have some control over their life. … I think it reflects just how much power employers can have, even under a collective bargaining agreement.”
A strike would shut down the U.S. railroad system, which carries nearly one-third of the nation’s freight, shutting down large portions of the economy. Enormous amounts of food, fuel and other key commodities would have no way to reach their destination.
The potential of further disruption to the nation’s fragile supply chain came at a terrible time for Democrats looking to hold onto their majority in Congress in the upcoming midterms.
There’s a sense of dread among some rail workers that Congress, not workers, will ultimately decide on the next rail contract if they vote down the newest agreement.
Senate Democrats on Wednesday blocked a GOP resolution that would have forced unions to accept the PEB terms, arguing that negotiators should be given more time.
But Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that Democrats were ready with a resolution to block a railroad shutdown if negotiations collapsed. She didn’t indicate whether the bill would impose a new contract, appoint arbitrators or simply prevent a walkout.
“Thankfully this action may not be necessary,” Pelosi said in a statement.
If the negotiations collapse, it could bode poorly for Biden, who often touts that he is the most pro-union president in U.S. history. Biden’s call into negotiations at 9 p.m. on Thursday to say a shutdown of railways was unacceptable came just hours before the tentative deal was struck. He’s received credit from both sides of the talks.
“This is an important test for the Biden administration’s commitments—not just to labor unions but to protecting middle-class jobs and workers,” said Gordon Lafer, co-director of the Labor Education & Research Center at the University of Oregon.
“If the company’s position is essentially that it wants to keep workers on impossible schedules that take a toll on their health, family life and emotional well-being, just in order to not lessen what are already healthy profits, I think that’s exactly the kind of problem that Biden has promised to solve,” he added.
Officials concluded their investigation into the car accident that killed Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-Ind.) last month, determining that the car her staff member was driving was responsible for the crash.
The Elkhart County Sheriff’s Office said in a release on Friday that the cause of the accident was that the Toyota RAV4 that staffer Zachery Potts was driving northbound when he veered into the southbound lane while trying to pass a flat-bed truck. The Toyota collided with a Buick traveling southbound as Potts attempted to pass the truck.
The office also concluded that excessive speed played a role in the accident. Evidence from the reconstruction of the crash showed that the Toyota was traveling at 82 miles per hour about five seconds before the collision occurred. The vehicle was “coasting” and dropped to 77 miles per hour milliseconds before the airbags deployed.
The crash occurred on Aug. 3 around 12:30 p.m., killing Walorski, Potts and Emma Thomson, Walorski’s communications director. The driver of the Buick, Edith Schmucker, was also killed.
The Elkhart County coroner ruled that Walorski’s death was accidental and caused by the dislocation of the cervical spine as a result of the accident. Potts, Thomson and Schmucker died from multiple injuries sustained in the crash, the coroner ruled.
Police changed their initial description of what happened one day after the crash, announcing that the car Walorski was a passenger in crossed the state highway’s centerline and caused the head-on crash. Officials had originally said Schmucker’s car crossed into the Toyota’s path.
The sheriff’s office release states that airbag control module data shows that Potts steered the Toyota to the left just before the crash.
Investigators did not find any evidence of cell phones being used prior to the crash after reviewing cell phone information from all occupants of both vehicles. They also did not find any evidence of mechanical failures.
“All of the evidence and information gathered is consistent with someone attempting to pass another vehicle on a two-lane roadway,” the release states.
The sheriff’s office consulted with Indiana State Police for an independent review of the evidence, and the police department came to the same conclusions.
Walorski had represented Indiana’s 2nd Congressional District since 2013 and was running for reelection this year. A special election will be held in November to fill her seat for the remainder of the term simultaneously with a general election to determine who will hold the seat for the next two years.
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Vice President Kamala Harris accused Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) of “dereliction of duty” over their recent transports of migrants to Democratic-led cities.
“I think it is the height of irresponsibility … frankly, a dereliction of duty, when you are an elected leader, to play those kinds of games with human life and human beings,” Harris said in an interview with Vice News. “If you think there is a problem, be part of the solution.”
While Abbott has bused thousands of migrants to Washington, D.C., New York City and Chicago since April, he and DeSantis have recently made more dramatic moves.
Two buses of migrants from Texas arrived at Harris’ home in Washington, D.C. on Thursday. Abbott said he sent the buses to Harris’ doorstep in response to a statement she made last Sunday on “Meet the Press,” calling the border “secure.”
While Abbott and DeSantis have blamed Biden’s immigration policies for current issues at the border, Harris instead placed the blame on the Trump administration.
“Under the previous administration, they decimated a system that was designed to address immigration,” Harris told Vice News. “And so we have been spending, in the last 18 months, an incredible amount of time and work and resources to reconstruct that system.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an address to the Ukrainian people on Friday that the country’s officials pitched to world leaders the idea of creating an ad hoc international tribunal to punish Russia for war crimes it has committed during its invasion of Ukraine.
Zelensky said the proposal was made during a meeting of a group working to advance Ukraine joining the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), an intergovernmental association of democracies with market-based economies that work to stimulate economic growth.
“This is an extremely important direction, which is important both in the context of European integration and in the context of the internal transformation of our state,” Zelensky said.
He said ambassadors from the G-7, a forum of the world’s seven largest economies, and other partner states were present at the meeting.
Evidence of Russian war crimes in Ukraine have been recorded since Russia’s full-scale invasion of the country began in February.
Ukrainian officials found a mass burial site in the recaptured city of Izyum this week, and Zelensky said in his Friday address that “torture chambers” where civilians were abused were found in areas of the Kharkiv region that were liberated from Russian occupation.
The United Nations said on Friday that investigators already in Ukraine will examine the mass burial site in Izyum.
Mass burial sites were also found in the city of Bucha, north of the capital Kyiv, after Russian forces withdrew earlier this year.
Ukraine has been seeking to integrate itself further with the rest of Europe since the war started. The country applied to join the OECD in May and became an official candidate to join the European Union in June.
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President Biden is telling everyone he plans to run for a second term, but with about 50 days to the midterms, most Democrats aren’t sure he will follow through on that plan.
Cedric Richmond, the former Democratic lawmaker and Biden White House official, said definitively this week that it’s on when it comes to Biden and 2024.
“He’s running and we’re building an infrastructure for him to run and win,” Richmond told NBC. “Right now, it’s all an early investment in 2024 while we’re helping 2022.”
Despite such statements, a lot of Democrats have their doubts even as their overall optimism for the fall midterms rises as Biden’s approval ratings inch up and polls and voter registration numbers offer evidence of voter anger with the Supreme Court’s abortion decision.
If Democrats lose the House, as most still expect, but keep the Senate majority, will Biden decide to stick with his stated plans and be the party’s nominee?
If things go more poorly and Democrats lose the House and the now evenly divided Senate, will it be the kind of political blow that changes Biden’s mind about running for president?
Despite his insistence, will age ultimately end up being a factor? Biden will turn 81 in November 2023.
And if former President Trump runs again and looks like an odds-on favorite to win the GOP nomination, will Biden put everything aside to run again?
Behind the scenes, Democrats are talking, and talking about the possibilities, debating the pros and cons of a Biden run.
“I think a lot of the mystery is we’re all beholden to the never-ending political news cycle, and Trump announced for reelection like three minutes after taking office, but it’s not unusual for a president to be waiting until after the midterms to announce,” said Democratic strategist Eddie Vale, urging Democrats to stay calm.
“I think a lot of people who were speculating about him not running were bed wetting because of insanely far out poll numbers and/or have a different preferred candidate, but every indication seems to me he’s running,” he said.
Biden has repeatedly said he intends to launch another presidential bid for 2024. As recently as June, he said he “would not be disappointed” to face Trump in a rematch. Last week, Vice President Harris — largely considered the front-runner if Biden should step aside — also reiterated that view.
“The president has been very clear that he intends to run again,” she told Chuck Todd on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “And if he does, I will be running with him proudly.”
Sources say Biden has also begun to quietly examine what a 2024 campaign might look like, while testing out messages during the midterms.
Beltway pundits have parsed every cue and nuance — however slight— to solidify their views. When first lady Jill Biden said this week on NBC’s “Today” that she and her husband had “not yet” discussed another run, some took that as a sign that it isn’t happening.
Age is a major reason for doubts about Biden.
“I love the guy. I think he’s done a good job as president, but I also can’t see the likelihood of a guy in his 80s running again,” one strategist said. “Like it or not, he’s old.”
It is rare for a sitting president to not run for reelection. The last time that happened was with Lyndon Johnson at the height of the Vietnam war.
But the nation has never had a president as old as Biden.
The president is also the only Democrat to actually defeat Trump in the Electoral College race. That will be a factor; few Democrats see another candidate in their ranks who is widely seen as having a stronger change against Trump.
Julian Zelizer, a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University, noted that Biden faces questions beyond his age — including his handling of the economy.
As Biden took a victory lap this week for the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, he had to contend with a split screen on cable news showing a falling stock market reacting to the news that consumer prices rose in August.
Biden has said he feels he is the only one in the Democratic Party who can defeat Trump, who turned 76 in June.
But if Trump doesn’t run, Biden could face an opponent like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who Democrats fear could put up a good fight. Age would be a contrast and possibly a factor in a Biden match-up with DeSantis, who is 44.
“Every presidential election is high stakes but after four years of the Trump presidency this feels more real than ever before. Combine all of these [factors] and the questions don’t go away,” Zelizer said.
Those questions continued to loom around the Biden presidency earlier this year as his poll numbers fell sharply and survey after survey showed that voters largely said the country was heading in the wrong direction.
More recently, after scoring a few legislative wins, Biden has rebounded.
A New York Times-Siena College survey, published Friday, showed Biden with a 42 percent approval rating, up from 33 percent in the last poll in July.
The president’s numbers were boosted largely by Democrats who are more optimistic about his leadership, as he faced major crises in recent months including the Russian war in Ukraine, soaring gas prices and record-high inflation.
“There was always a path for the president to get back to a politically strong position and it’s because a lot of the loss of support was from some Democrats,” said Democratic strategist Joel Payne. “He has clearly been able to rebuild that over the summer and that bodes well for him going into a 2024 reelection campaign.”
At the same time, others are more skeptical that Biden will be able to pull off another victory.
“He’s had an amazing run, probably one of the best stories in the modern political era,” said one Democratic donor. “But you have to know when it’s time to hang up your hat, even for your own legacy.”
Other Democrats scoff at the naysayers.
“I find it interesting that all of these so called ‘experts’ won’t go on the record,” said Democratic strategist Rodell Mollineau. “It’s likely because when he does run and wins, they’re going to look foolish.”
Mollineau added: “I suspect these are the same people who didn’t think he was going to win the first time.”
The transportation of undocumented immigrants from multiple southern border states to sanctuary cities and the Justice Department’s (DOJ) appeal to access some of the materials it obtained from Mar-a-Lago last month will likely dominate this week’s Sunday talk show circuit.
Republican Govs. Ron DeSantis (Fla.), Greg Abbott (Texas) and Doug Ducey (Ariz.) have sent migrants to northern cities run by Democrats with more lax undocumented immigration policies in opposition to President Biden ending Title 42, a Trump-era policy that prevented migrants from seeking asylum amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Abbott sent a bus of migrants from the southern border to Chicago at the end of last month and sent two buses of migrants to the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., the residence of Vice President Harris, earlier this week.
Ducey has sent 1,800 migrants to D.C. since May, the Associated Press reported.
DeSantis confirmed on Wednesday that he had two planes containing about 50 migrants in total fly them to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts. The flights originated in San Antonio but made several stops on the way, Massachusetts state Sen. Julian Cyr (D) told The Hill.
New York City has been one of the main locations that the governors have sent the migrants.
Mayor Eric Adams (D) said in remarks at the city’s Asylum Seeker Resource Navigation Center on Thursday that the city has received more than 11,000 asylum-seekers in the past few months, an “unprecedented” amount. He said more than 8,000 are being housed in the city’s shelter system.
“We will continue to welcome asylum seekers with open arms and provide them the services they need,” he said. “And we are seeking to get additional resources.”
Adams, who will appear on ABC’s “This Week” and CNN’s “State of the Union,” said he communicated with the White House on Tuesday to request the resources that the city needs and is working with federal, state and local lawmakers. He has previously called for federal assistance.
“This country was built on immigrants and by immigrants. And we’re going to honor the tradition, born here in New York City,” he said. “We are going to have open doors to them, not close the doors in their faces like we’re seeing in other parts of this country.”
Adams has accused Abbott of using the migrants as “political pawns to manufacture a crisis.” An Abbott spokesperson told The Hill that Adams should call on Biden to “take immediate action to secure the border.”
Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) represents a congressional district along the southern border with Mexico that includes outskirts of San Antonio. Cuellar, who will appear on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” is one of the most conservative Democrats in Congress and joined Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) last year in calling on the Biden administration to appoint a border czar to oversee the number of migrants coming across the border.
Face the Nation tweeted that Cuellar will discuss the migrant buses the GOP governors have sent and if it is a political move to “spotlight” a policy challenge.
Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (Ill.) has joined a chorus of Democrats in slamming the moves by the three governors. Durbin led unsuccessful immigration reform negotiations with Republicans earlier this year.
Durbin said Abbott’s action sending the migrants to Chicago without any coordination with local authorities was “cruel and inhumane.” He said the flood of migrants has strained Chicago’s social welfare services, and officials have set up cots at the Salvation Army rescue center for them.
Durbin will appear on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
The latest development in the Mar-a-Lago saga will also likely be a subject of discussion. The DOJ filed an appeal on Friday to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, requesting that the court overturn a judge’s ruling that prevents federal investigators from reviewing the more than 100 classified documents it obtained from former President Trump’s Palm Beach, Fla., property while a special master reviews the other materials.
Judge Aileen Cannon ruled in favor of Trump’s request earlier this month for a special master to review if any of the materials are protected by attorney-client or executive privilege. The DOJ responded by asking Cannon to overturn the ruling regarding the classified documents it obtained and said it would appeal to a higher court if she did not do so.
Cannon denied the DOJ’s request and appointed a special master that both Trump and the DOJ agreed to on Thursday.
John Ratcliffe, the former director of national intelligence for Trump, has raised questions about the DOJ probe, telling CBS in an interview last month that nothing he saw in the partially redacted affidavit that the FBI used to obtain a search warrant of Mar-a-Lago justified what seemed like an “extreme” approach by federal investigators.
Ratcliffe will appear on Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures.”
The DOJ has said that classified documents were likely concealed from Mar-a-Lago in an attempt to obstruct the investigation. Multiple news outlets reported Friday that a Trump attorney told the National Archives last year that the boxes Trump took from the White House only contained news clippings.
Graham, who will appear on “Fox News Sunday,” warned last month that there would be “riots in the streets” if Trump is indicted over his alleged mishandling of classified and sensitive documents. He later defended the comment after he received pushback, saying that he was trying to “state the obvious.”
Below is the full list of guests scheduled to appear on this week’s Sunday talk shows:
ABC’s “This Week” — New York City Mayor Eric Adams; Ukrainian Ambassador to the U.S. Oksana Markarova
NBC’s “Meet the Press” — Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.); Joe O’Dea, Republican Senate nominee in Colorado
CBS’ “Face the Nation” — Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas); University of Chicago Professor Robert Pape
CNN’s “State of the Union” — Adams; U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield; Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.)
“Fox News Sunday” — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.); White House economic adviser Jared Bernstein
Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures” –– John Ratcliffe, former director of national intelligence; Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas); Lee Zeldin, Republican nominee for governor of New York; Miranda Devine, New York Post columnist and Fox News contributor
