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 matchup between Biden and Trump.

And we are going to have some clips of that interview

to play for you momentarily.

But first, I'm gonna send it up to you in New York, Aemon.

So take it away, my friend.

Thank you very much, Alex.

And of course, we're going to be talking to

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

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