I'm in Charleston, South Carolina, where I spent some time with the governor of California,

Gavin Newsom, getting a sense of the state of play as he sees it in the potentially general

election match-up between Biden and Trump, and we are going to have some clips of

that interview to play for you momentarily but first I'm going to send it up to you

in New York, Aaman so take it away my friend.

Thank you very much Alex and of course we're going to be talking to you later on throughout the show because you're going to give us a big preview and the very latest on the 2024 presidential race and the perspective from down there in South Carolina but we do want to start

with the front runner here in New York the Republican primary was once again in a

New York courtroom this afternoon Trump took the stand in the damages case brought by writer E. Jean Carroll.

The former president has already been found liable of sexual abuse and defamation by a civil

jury. Trump today testified for only three minutes, but in those three minutes, believe

it or not, the judge had to tell the jury multiple times to disregard Trump's out of order

testimony.

Now at the same time Trump was taking this stand, there was a split screen, a jarring split

screen.

President Biden was hitting the campaign trail at a campaign event in Wisconsin

President Biden touted the $5 billion in new infrastructure investments that came

as part of his bipartisan infrastructure law.

He also got to tout brand new economic numbers

that came out today showing the U.S. economy

grew at a record pace last year.

Biden is hoping to make this campaign record pace last year.

Biden is hoping to make this campaign

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