Trump continues witch hunt claims on campaign trail, DeSantis says Trump didn't keep promises

WRONGFULLY IMPRISONED ALONG WITH FOUR OTHER MEN. THEY WERE EXONERATED IN 2002. HE WON THE PRIMARY WITH 50% OF THE VOTE. >>> FLORIDA GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS AND FORMER ESIDENT DONALD TRUMP HELD EVENTS IN THE BATTLEGROUND STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE YESTERDAY. TRUMP ADDRESSED THE CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS PROBLEM WHILE RON DESANTIS CRITICIZED WOKE ACTIVISM. JOINING ME NOW FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE IS THE POLITICS REPORTER, ZACH. WE TALKED ABOUT WHAT THIS

WILL LOOK LIKE, AND HOW INEVITABLY, PEOPLE WILL COMPARE THE SIZES, THE ENTHUSIASM OF THE TWO DUELING CROWDS. WHAT I WANT TO ASK YOU ABOUT, BEFORE WE GET TO THAT, IS DID THE FORMER PRESIDENT ADDRESS THIS NEW AUDIO RECORDING OF HIM, ALLEGEDLY BRAGGING ABOUT HAVING CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS AT HIS GOLF CLUB IN NEW JERSEY? >> Reporter: HE DID NOT ADDRESS THAT QUESTION TO THE CROWD AT THE LILAC

LUNCHEON. THIS IS A GROUP OF REPUBLICAN WOMEN, FUNDRAISING LUNCH THAT THEY HOST YOU. WE HE DID NOT ADDRESS THIS. HE TREATED IT LIKE A CAMPAIGN RALLY. HE TALKED ABOUT HOW RON DESANTIS HAD A MUCH SMALLER CROWD SIZE. HE TALKED ABOUT HOW HE NEEDS TO BECOME PRESIDENT AGAIN. HE DID ADDRESS THE ISSUE WITH FOX NEWS. HE SAID IT WAS NO ISSUE. IT WAS JUST ANOTHER WITCHHUNT. HE

SAYS THOSE WERE NOT CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS. DESPITE WHAT HE SAID ON THE TAPE. >> WE WILL HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS IN COURT. HE SAID A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT THINGS. IT IS HARD TO FIGURE OUT WHAT IS THE TRUTH. HE HASN'T MAINTAINED A FIRM LEAD ON THE NOMINATION AMONGST POTENTIAL VOTERS. THEY STILL LIKE HIM. OTHER GOP CANDIDATES RAMPED UP THEIR ATTACKS. CAN YOU RECAP SOME

OF THE CRITICISM? >> Reporter: YES, RON DESANTIS HAS BEEN PAINTING PRESIDENT TRUMP AS SOMEONE WHO DID NOT DRAIN THE SWAMP, IS ONLY WHICH HE USES. HE SAYS YOU NEED ME TO COME FINISH THE JOB THAT DONALD TRUMP SAID HE WOULD START IN 2016, AND NEVER COMPLETED. FOR RON DESANTIS AND HIS SUPPORTERS, THAT IS A LINE THAT IS HITTING AT THE CULTURE WARS. HE IS SAYING, LOOK,

PRESIDENT TRUMP MADE ALL THESE PROMISES, BUT HE WAS NOT HARD LINING UP. THE RESPONSE FROM THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN IS GOING TO BE, LOOK AT THE SUPREME COURT, LOOK AT THE RESULTS. WHILE THIS IS ALL HAPPENING, NIKKI HALEY HAS BEEN GOING FROM EVENT TO EVENT, TALKING ABOUT HOW DONALD TRUMP WAS SOFT ON CHINA AND SHOWED MORAL WEAKNESS WITH HIS EMBRACE AND CHINA. THAT IS A WHOLE OTHER

ANGLE HE IS BEING ATTACKED ON. THE OTHER ANGLE HE HAS TO DEFEND ON, AS TENSIONS HYGIENE WITH CHINA. >> I WANT TO ASK YOU SOMETHING ABOUT KEVIN McCARTHY. HE SAID HE DOES NOT KNOW IF TRUMP IS THE STRONGEST REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT. IS THAT A SURPRISING TURN FOR THE HOUSE SPEAKER? HE HAS BEEN QUITE SUPPORTIVE OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT.>> Reporter: IT IS SURPRISING, IN LIGHT OF

THE SPEAKER BATTLE THAT SPEAKER McCARTHY HAD TO UNDERGO, THE ELECTION OF THE SOLD TO ELECT THE LEADER OF THE HOUSE. THAT HAPPENED EARLIER THIS YEA IN ORDER TO GET THROUGH, THERE WAS VOTE AFTER VOTE, WHERE KEVIN McCARTHY DID NOT MEET THE THRESHOLD. IT REQUIRED FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP TO CALL UP A NUMBER OF THE FAR RIGHT MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE GOP AND ENCOURAGE THEM TO VOTE FOR

SPEAKER McCARTHY. AFTER HE WON THE ELECTION, HE WALKED OUT THE HOUSE FLOOR. HE GAVE A PRESS CONFERENCE SPECIFICALLY TO THINK PRESIDENT TRUMP. IT IS A MAJOR DEPARTURE FROM THAT. I WOULD JUST STRESS, IT IS A FINE LINE THAT KEVIN McCARTHY HAS TO WALK, THE WAY TO HIS CAUCUS IS SPLIT. HE HAS A LOT OF TRUMP LOYALISTS