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Former President Donald Trump could be indicted for a third time this week for plotting to overturn the 2020 election. What will this mean for his campaign to return to the White House? Plus, GOP presidential candidate Ron DeSantis is down in the polls and burning through cash. What is his plan to turn his campaign around? Also, with good news on inflation, immigration, and crime, will voters give Biden the credit? To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

First: Donald Trump gets a trial date on his classified docs indictment: May 20th, 2024. The judge's choice means the case will almost certainly happen after Republicans settle on their nominee.  Plus: Vice President Kamala Harris fights Florida's attempt to sanitize slavery.  And: It's Barbie's world, and we're all living in it. Even politicians are putting on their pink.  To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

First: Donald Trump screams persecution as federal prosecutors ready a January 6th indictment. What do we know about the potential charges and what questions do we still need answered?  Plus: If not now, when? The former president's 2024 rivals shrink from a chance to criticize the front runner. We ask one, Doug Burgum, if he plans to tell Mr. Trump enough is enough.  And: New CNN reporting on the plan to get Donald Trump to go along and not intervene in the Republican plot to retake the Senate majority.  To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

First: Donald Trump screams persecution as federal prosecutors ready a January 6th indictment. What do we know about the potential charges and what questions do we still need answered?   Plus: If not now, when? The former president's 2024 rivals shrink from a chance to criticize the front runner. We ask one, Doug Burgum, if he plans to tell Mr. Trump enough is enough.  And: New CNN reporting on the plan to get Donald Trump to go along and not intervene in the Republican plot to retake the Senate majority. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Earlier today, former president Donald Trump revealed on Truth Social that he received a letter from Special Counsel Jack Smith saying he's officially a "target" in the investigation of efforts to overthrow the 2020 election. In this special edition of Inside Politics, Anderson Cooper joins Dana Bash for continuing coverage of this crucial breaking news.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ron DeSantis wants you to ignore his current predicament that he's spending too fast and furious and is cutting staff and that seven weeks in he can't cut into Donald Trump's lead.  Plus: Backlash ... then backtrack. A top Democrat crosses the line into anti-semitism, earns a rebuke from her own party and then revises her words.  And: Does Joe Manchin want to run for president on a third-party ticket? Today he makes a splashy appearance in New Hampshire alongside a group that some worry might cut into Biden. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

First: With six months until the Iowa caucuses, GOP campaigns continue shift: Desantis cuts staff and shifts media strategy while Trump claims Desantis is "dividing the party."  Plus: With rising wages, falling inflation, and booming stocks, why don't Americans agree that the The Biden Economy is "a fabulous economic recovery?" Can the President change their minds?  And: A culture war comes for the Pentagon, the FBI and more—how the Republicans made the US military the latest frontline in the battle over "woke."To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

First: Republicans pass a crucial bill that assures the US Is ready to fight wars after putting a deliberate conservative stamp on it.  Plus: A new report reveals that prosecutors asked Jared Kushner whether Donald Trump believed his own election lies.  And: The countdown to the caucuses is on as the former president decides to play hooky and skip a big summit. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

First: Joe Biden promises Ukraine will get into NATO ... eventually. And his message to Vladimir Putin was impossible to misunderstand. Putin is losing.  Plus: The Secret service ends its investigation into cocaine found at the White House without answering the biggest riddle: Whose was it?  And: Ron DeSantis spurs some second thoughts among the wealthiest Republicans and sends one on a scouting trip to South Carolina. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

At day two of the NATO summit, President Biden tells his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, "We're not going anywhere. You're stuck with us." That promise comes as the west outlines that Ukraine's path toward NATO membership. But exactly when Ukraine can walk down that road remains a life-or-death decision. Inside Politics host Dana Bash is joined by Wolf Blitzer, who reports live from Lithuania. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices