Trump threatens to jail political opponents if reelected

>>> WELCOME BACK TO AMERICA DECIDES. FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP IS MAKING HEADLINES AND THAT IS PUTTING IT MILDLY. THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HIS PLANS TO MAKE A PITCH TO THE AMERICAN PUBLIC AND TOMORROW NIGHT'S DEBATE. HE IS MADE HEADLINES BECAUSE HE IS PLEDGING AND HAS PLEDGED ON SOCIAL MEDIA TO PROSECUTE POLITICAL OPPONENTS. THREATS ARE RELATED TO FALSE CLAIMS THAT THE 2020 ELECTION WAS STOLEN, SOMETHING HE ADMITTED DIDN'T HAPPEN EVEN LAST WEEK. BUT NOW SOME OF THOSE THREATS ARE SAYING HE IS GOING TO PUNISH PROSECUTE AND JAIL FOR LONG TERMS ANYONE INVOLVED IN THE 2024 ELECTION IF HE IS UNHAPPY WITH THE RESULTS. I WANT TO DISCUSS THAT WITH OUR POLITICAL PANEL, NANCY COOK IS HERE, NATIONAL POLITICS REPORTER WITH A BLOOMBERG NEWS AND DAVE WEIGLE WITH 74. ON WHAT PLANET, DAVE, DOES THIS MAKE LEGAL, POLITICAL, OR CONSTITUTIONAL SENSE TO GO DOWN THIS ROAD FOR TRUMP? >> NOT MANY OF THOSE CATEGORIES AND HE HAS GONE BACK AND FORTH ON THIS, I AM NOT TRYING TO SOFT-PEDAL, HE HAS GONE BACK AND FORTH, HE HAS DEMANDED CREDIT FOR NOT GOING AFTER HILLARY CLINTON AND HE HAS REGRETTED NOT GOING AFTER HIS POLITICAL OPPONENTS BECAUSE THE WAY HE FRAMES EVERY TRIAL, EVERY INVESTIGATION IS THAT THEY ARE JUST TRYING TO TAKE THEM OUT. MAKES A LOT OF SENSE TO REPUBLICANS. TEEING UP FOR TOMORROW'S DEBATE, IT IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THE UNIVERSE, THE UNIVERSE THAT DONALD TRUMP EXISTS IN RIGHT NOW IS THE DIFFERENCE THEN HE HAD AN '16 '20, IT IS ONE USES, LIKE THIS AND YOU GET CHEERED FOR. YOU DON'T HAVE TO CONVINCE PEOPLE YOU'RE GOING TO BE RESPONSIBLE WITH POWERPOINT >> NANCY? >> I WAS MEETING WITH A BUNCH OF HIS TOP CAMPAIGN OFFICIALS LAST MONTH AND THEY REALLY WANT HIM TO CONTINUE TO TALK ABOUT INFLATION, THE ECONOMY, AND IMMIGRATION. THAT IS WHERE POLLING SHOWS HE HAS A HUGE ADVANTAGE WITH SWING STATE VOTERS AND THEY REALLY FEEL LIKE IF HE STICKS WITH THOSE MESSAGES HE WILL BE SUCCESSFUL. MEANWHILE, IN THE PAST WEEK WE HAVE SEEN HIM TALK ABOUT JAILING HIS POLITICAL OPPONENTS, HE ON SATURDAY TALKED ABOUT IMPOSING 100% TARIFFS ON SOME COUNTRIES. YOU KNOW, HE IS PROMOTING VERY EXTREME POLICIES AT A TIME WHEN THE ELECTION IS SO CLOSE AND ALL OF THESE SWING STATES WITH HARRIS AND I THINK IF HE STUCK TO THE ISSUES WHERE HE DID HAVE THE ADVANTAGE HE WOULD PROBABLY DOING POTENTIALLY MUCH BETTER .2 STATEMENTS LIKE THIS WORD TRUMP MAKES WITH FREQUENCY, ALARM THOSE CLOSEST TO HIM IN THE INNER CIRCLE, ADVISING HIM? >> I THINK THE PEOPLE IN THE INNER CIRCLE AROUND HIM SORT OF LEAVE WHAT A LOT OF TRUMP ADVISERS HAVE LONG BELIEVED THAT YOU KNOW, WHAT HE DOES OR WHAT HE SAYS HIS RHETORIC DOES NOT ALWAYS MATCH HIS ACTION. BUT THAT IS ACTUALLY NOT TRUE. WE SAW AFTER HE LOST THE 2020 ELECTION, HE KEPT TALKING ABOUT HOW THE ELECTION WAS STOLEN, YOU KNOW, SOME OF HIS ADVISERS THAT I TALKED TO WHEN I COVERED THE TRUMP WHITE HOUSE WERE TALKING ABOUT HIS SECOND TERM AGENDA AND THEN WE SAW JANUARY 6th HIS FOLLOWERS TRIED TO TAKE BACK POWER AND STOP THE CERTIFICATION OF THE ELECTION RESULTS SO I THINK WHAT WE HAVE SEEN ABOUT TRUMP IN THE PAST IS THAT YOU DO HAVE TO TAKE THESE COMMENTS THAT HE MAKES QUITE SERIOUSLY. >> DAVE AND NANCY, I WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU SOME VERY NEW POLLING DATA FROM CBS NEWS. I WANT TO PUT THIS UP, THIS IS ABOUT THE SENATE RACES IN THE BATTLEGROUND STATES WE REPORTED ON YESTERDAY,, A CLOSE RACE BETWEEN THE VICE PRESIDENT AND FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP. IN ORDER, LET'S GO MICHIGAN, ELISSA SLOTKIN, 48% OVER REPUBLICAN MANY MIKE ROGERS, 41%. GO TO THE NEXT ONE WHICH IS PENNSYLVANIA, BOB CASEY, THE INCUMBENT, 48%, DAVE McCORMICK, THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE, 41%. AGAIN, DEMOCRATIC INCUMBENT TAMMY BALDWIN IN WISCONSIN .51%, ERIC HOVDE D, 43%. ALL OF THESE SHOW OUTSIDE THE MARGIN OF ERROR AND RUNNING AGAINST, HEAD OF KAMALA HARRIS, WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU. >> THESE ARE ALSO OPPONENTS THAT MITCH McCONNELL LIKES. THESE ARE NOT CANDIDATES WHO GOT OVER THE LINE WITH TRUMP ENDORSEMENT IN THE PRIMARY AND THE PARTY IS EMBARRASSED BY THEM. THEY REALLY WANTED DAVE McCORMICK TO BE THE NOMINEE. THEY REALLY WANTED ERIC HOVDE HE, MIKE GALLAGHER WAS GOING TO RUN FOR SENATE. THEY BROUGHT IN THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE WHICH HE BROUGHT A LOSS TO DO THIS. YOU ARE SEEING A SEPARATION EVERYWHERE, THE SWING STATES, LET'S FOCUS ON THE ONES THAT HAVE THE SENATE RACES. DEMOCRATS ARE DOING BETTER WITH NONWHITE VOTERS AND WITH YOUNGER WHITE MEN THAN KAMALA HARRIS IS. TRUMP IS DOING BETTER WITH THOSE VOTERS IN THE REST OF HIS TICKET POINT I WAS IN NORTH CAROLINA LAST WEEK. EVEN NORTH CAROLINA, MIKE ROBINSON, RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR. AS A REPUBLICAN, HIT ACROSS THE AIRWAVES FOR CONTROVERSIAL THINGS HE IS SET ON FACEBOOK. HE IS DOING WORSE THAN DONALD TRUMP'S POINTS OF THE PARTY, FOR ALL THE THINGS TRUMP IS DOING THAT MIGHT HURT HIS CAMPAIGN, HE HAS AN APPEAL THAT DOES NOT TRANSLATE DOWN BALLOT. >> IS JUST AS THE POWER OF INCUMBENCY OR SAY SOMETHING THAT THESE CANDIDATES ARE DOING THAT WE SHOULD PAY CLOSER INTO TWO? >> HARRIS SHOULD PROBABLY PAY CLOSER ATTENTION TO IT BECAUSE IT IS ALSO STRIKING BECAUSE IT IS A FLIP FROM WHERE WE WERE EARLIER IN THE SUMMER WHERE BIDEN WAS STILL ON THE TICKET AND DEMOCRATS WERE LARGELY CAUTIONING THE REST OF THE PARTY, PEOPLE LIKE HOUSE SPEAKER, FORMER HOUSE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI WERE SAYING LOOK, IF BIDEN STAYS ON THE TICKET WE ARE TOTALLY UNDERWATER IN THE SENATE RACES AND SO IT IS REMARKABLE TO ME THAT JUST WITH HARRIS ASCENDING TO THE TOP OF THE TICKET SHE DOESN'T HAVE NUMBERS LIKE THEY DO BUT THE SENATE RACES ARE JUST SHOWING MUCH MORE PROMISE FOR THE DEMOCRATS AND THE SENATE IS REALLY SORT OF THEIR WEAKEST PART OF THE MAP AND SO I THINK THAT IS A GOOD SIGN FOR THEM. >> AND DAVE, AS YOU KNOW, DEMOCRATS ARE BEING BULLISH ABOUT THEIR PROSPECTS IN THE HOUSE RELATIVELY BULLISH ABOUT HARRIS, DO YOU SEE A SCENARIO IN WHICH IF EVERYTHING BREAKS HARRIS POSSIBLY THEY WIN ALL THREE? >> THEY WOULD NEED TO PULL OUT, IF NOT MONTANA, NEED TO WIN A SURPRISE TEXAS OR IN FLORIDA. THERE IS NO MATH THAT GETS IN THE SENATE WITHOUT THAT SO IT STILL IF YOU TALK EVEN OPTIMISTIC DEMOCRATS, THEY ARE THINKING ABOUT A HOUSE THAT WOULD FOLLOW THE HARRIS AGENDA, A SENATE THAT WOULD STILL MEET THIS OR THAT. SOME CONVERSATION ABOUT WHAT YOU COULD OFFER TO THE SUMMER CASKEY AND SUSAN COLLINS. COLLINS WHO IS MAYBE IN HER FINAL TERM, MAYBE NOT. WHETHER IT BE SOME MODERATE REPUBLICANS WHO MIGHT WANT TO MOVE ON BECAUSE IMAGINE THIS WORLD WERE KAMALA HARRIS TO FEES DONALD TRUMP AND HE DROPPED TWO IN A ROW. WHAT DO SOMETHING LIKE LISA MURKOWSKI OR SUSAN COLLINS THINK NOW? ARE THERE