>>> TODAY MAGA EXTREMISM ON FULL DISPLAY AT THE FAITH AND FREEDOM COALITION CONFERENCE IN WASHINGTON, D.C. LAWMAKERS AND CONSERVATIVE LEADERS GATHERED FOR THE TWO-DAY CONFERENCE RALLYING FOR TRUMP AND PROMOTING THEIR FAITH. RECONCILE THOSE TWO. AND GOVERNOR OF NORTH CAROLINA UNDER SCRUTINY THIS WEEK FOR HIS COMMENTS DOWNPLAYING SEXUAL ASSAULT AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. AT THE CONFERENCE HE FIERCELY DEFENDED THE MAGA MOVEMENT SPEWING FALSEHOODS AND BIGOTRY. >> WE GOT A BUNCH OF PEOPLE THAT SIT BEHIND NEWS MEDIA DESKS WANT TO TALK ABOUT FAKE TRIALS FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP. TALK ABOUT ALL MATTERS OF FOOLISHNESS. YOU KNOW THE DEMOCRATS WEREN'T FAIR IN SLAVERY AND THE ONES THAT FOUGHT LIKE HELL TO KEEP 'EM! UNTIL THEY FOUND OUT A DIFFERENT WAY TO ENSLAVE PEOPLE. INSTEAD OF SLAVE SHACKLES, DECIDED TO GIVE THEM WELFARE CHECKS AND THE GHETTO. >> MEANWHILE, OTHER SPEAKERS LAUNCHED ATTACKS ON A RANGE OF ISSUES FROM LGBTQ RIGHTS TO THE AMERICAN JUSTICE SYSTEM. >> WE OUGHT TO TAKE THE PRIDE FLAG OUT OF SCHOOLS AND PUT THE BIBLE BACK IN. >> WE'RE SEEING THE ILLEGAL WEAPONIZATION OF OUR COURTS AND RADICAL DISTRICT ATTORNEY -- TO THOSE WHO ATTACK AND CRITICIZE AND APPOSE DONALD TRUMP I WANT TO QUOTE MONA LISA LITO IN "MY COUSIN VINNY," "SO WHAT'S YOUR PROBLEM?" >> IN CASE YOU DIDN'T REMEMBER THE LAST PERSON WAS MONICA CROWLEY SERVED IN TRUMP'S TREASURY DEPARTMENT AND NOW HOSTS A RIGHT-WING PODCAST. SHE IS UNFAZED BY TRUMP'S FELONY CONVICTIONS AND MANY SUPPORTERS FEEL THE SAIL. TRUMP FUND-RAISING SURGING SINCE FOUND GUILTY. CAPTURES THE MOOD OF TRUMP SUPPORTERS AT HIS WISCONSIN RALLY THIS WEEK. >> TRUMP GOES, SEXUAL ASSAULT. MOUCH YOU GIVE HIM? >> PROBABLY $1,000. >> OVERTHROW DEMOCRACY? THAT BIGGY? IS THAT A, TWO GRAND? >> PROBABLY FIVE GRAND. >> WOW. OKAY. >> BASICALLY WE JUST NEED TO SAVE OUR COUNTRY FROM THE BORDER SURGE. >> NOT SHELLING OUT MONEY TO IMMIGRANTS WHO DON'T DESERVE IT. >> SICK AND TIRED OF YOUR MONEY GOING TO PEOPLE WHO COMMITTED CRIMES. >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> JOINING ME NOW EUGENE DANIELS WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT FOR POLITICO AND CO-AUTHOR OF POLITICO PLAYBOOK. EUGENE, MY FRIEND, I GOT TO GET YOUR REACTION TOP LINE FROM WHAT WE HEARD AT THAT FAITH AND FREEDOM CONFERENCE. I MEAN, LAST I CHECKED THERE WAS A SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE. APPARENTLY I'M WRONG. >> YEAH. WHEN YOU TALK TO A LOT OF REPUBLICANS AS WE JUST SAW RIGHT NOW THEY DON'T REALLY BELIEVE THERE SHOULD BE AND FEEL LIKE AN INFUSION OF CHRIST AND THE BIBLE IS THE ONLY THING THAT CAN SAVE THE POLITICAL SYSTEM. RIGHT? EVEN THOUGH IT'S VERY CLEAR FROM THE FOUNDING FATHERS THAT THEY DIDN'T WANT THAT. THEY FLED HERE TO THIS COUNTRY BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T WANT THAT. THAT'S NOT A PARTISAN ANSWER. THAT IS JUST STRICTLY WHAT THE HISTORY OF THE COUNTRY IS, BUT WHAT YOU HAVE CONTINUED TO SEE IS THAT EVANGELICALS FELT EMPOWERED BECAUSE THEY WON A LOT OF THINGS THEY WANTED FOR DECADES. RIGHT? LOOK AT ROE V. WADE. YOU LOOK AT WHAT THEY HAVE SEEN AND WE'VE SEEN, THE KINDS OF FOLKS WHO HAVE GOTTEN ON THE SUPREME COURT AND THEY FEEL QUITE EMBOLDENED. EVEN THOUGH DONALD TRUMP HAS ALL THE THINGS HE'S DONE AND I THINK THEY HAVE TOLD US THAT THEY DON'T SEE HIM AS, LIKE, THE SHINIEST OF CHRISTIANS, BUT HE GIVES THEM WHAT THEY WANT AND WHAT THEY NEED. SO THAT IS WHAT YOU'RE SEEING. IS A PARTY AND A MOVEMENT TRYING TO RECONCILE THOSE KINDS OF THINGS AND AT TIMES, THESE REPUBLICANS SAY, MAKE EXCUSES FOR THINGS. >> YEAH. EUGENE, THERE IS A NEW POLLING, RIGHT? TRUMP'S GUILTY VERDICT THIS WEEK REVEALED ONE IN FIVE AMERICANS, 22%. NOT A NUMBER TO SLEEP ON. RIGHT? 22% OF AMERICANS SAY THEY ARE NOW LESS LIKELY TO SUPPORT TRUMP AND HIS CONVICTION IS IMPORTANT TO HOW THEY WILL VOTE IN NOVEMBER, AND THE LAST SEGMENT I HAD, THE LAW PROFESSOR, JESSICA LEVENSON AND RENATO MARIOTTI, AN EVIDENTIARY HEARING IN FRONT OF JUDGE CHUTKAN PUTS THE CASE OUT THERE FOR AMERICA TO HEAR BEFORE 2024. NOT A JURY PROPER BUT A WAY FOR AMERICANS TO SAY 22% SAY I'M NOT SUPPORTING DONALD TRUMP. ONE CONVICTION AND THEN YOU HEAR EVIDENCE WHAT HE DID IN THE INSURRECTION ON JANUARY 6th? >> YEAH. I MEAN, IN THAT POLLING FROM, FROM MY TEAM. FOLKS AT POLITICO AND IPSOS WE CONTINUE TO SEE THAT THE TRIAL'S ACTUALLY NOT GOOD FOR TRUMP FOR THE GENERAL ELECTION. GREAT FOR HIM WHEN IT CAME TO THE PRIMARY. RIGHT? SORT OF SAW MORE FUND-RAISING. SAW REPUBLICANS DROPPING OUT LEFT AND RIGHT TRYING TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT. THEY SORT OF COALESCED AROUND HIM. THAT'S NOT THE SAME IN THE GENERAL ELECTION. WE'VE TALKED TO EVEN SOME REPUBLICANS WHO MAY HAVE VOTED FOR HIM TWICE BEFORE. I DON'T WANT TO VOTE FOR A CONVICTED FELON. INDEPENDENTS MAY HAVE BEEN INTERESTED NO THE INTERESTED IN VOTING FOR A CONVICTED FELON'S SOME HAVE QUALMING WITH THE CASE, BUT THEY SAID, THEY CAN'T, YOU KNOW, PUT THAT X NEXT TO HIS NAME AS A CONVICTED FELON. IT MAY NOT BE MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF PEOPLE, RIGHT, THAT MAY NOT BE THE CASE. 22%. CUT THAT UP INTO, LIKE, 4% IN MICHIGAN. 6% IN WISCONSIN. A LITTLE IN GEORGIA. THEN YOU HAVE A DIFFERENT RACE. A UP IN MORE DIFFICULT RACE THAT THEN PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP AND HIS TEAM WHO DOUBLED DOWN ON THE FACT THAT HE WAS, HE'S CONVICTED AND DON'T HAVE ANY
