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campaign 24 developments. hello, steve. >> reporter: mike, the former president showing he can still draw a big crowd. pickens, south carolina, population just 3,000 and yet more than 50,000 according to local police turned up to hear nutes at midday in ther 90 sweltering heat. many of them arriving in the predawn hours. they heard the former president take credit for recent supreme court decisions. >> somebody that hasnt done nearly as well and perhaps has not worked nearly as hard wi...

to canceled and delayed flights, a look at the chaos for holiday travelers across the country. weve got a lot of news to get to this morning, but well start with the january 6th investigation and the possibility that former president trump could be referred to the justice department for criminal prosecution. heres an interview with vice chair of the committee, congresswoman liz cheney. >> so the committee will or will not make a criminal referral? >> well make a decision as a committ...

Into elections, between electing presidents that have made the supreme court a top priority. weve got to do it as democrats. now is our time to respond, and im hopeful this will galvanize our base heading into the 24 election. mike: okay. in this political season, hunter biden has to be weighing on some of the presidents political advisers. from the fox poll, doj treatment of hunter biden, not tough enough, 55%. too tough, 7%. fair, 4%. mara, how big of a political liability is the first son? >>...

Tangled up among democrats. >> they need to do their job and quit prancing around. we need help here in the states. >> reporter: the stakes are high for both parties. as they have their eyes on 2022 when democrats will defend their narrow majorities in congress. >> this is real. this is now in the future of virginia, this is who we are as a country. >> reporter: now vice president kamala harris wrapped up the event with terry mcauliffe where he talked about the national implick apgss of the race...

Looking into the crystal ball once again forecasting the president is well on his way to another victory next year. points of the presidents diehard supporters and other say a strong economy is also the presidents number one selling point. a former wisconsin governor rights if unemployment stays low when wages rise, trump will be unstoppable in 2020. here now, republican scott walker, merry christmas. >> merry christmas, great to be with you. >> i expect he would adjust his assessment to say tha...

>> ill ask yim firjim first. go ahead. >> jim and tim, we sound the same. i think that you have to look at this through the campaign 2020 lens as well. when the president goes to these sorts of summits and especially this g7 and he strikes these sort of populist and nationalist themes and talks about trade in this way, a lot of this is driven to excite his base back at home. and so he is going to throw his weight around at this g7 summit, he is going for push people around from time to time. he ...

The conversations with wayne lapierre but, perhaps, he senses the urgency of this has waned a little bit who is allowing the president, who is obviously very concerned about not losing his base heading into re-election, a lot of those factors are credibilityi in contributing to what we saw yesterday and the president backing away from the notion of congress doing background checks with his support. >> i talked to senator chris murphy on this broadcast, democrat from connecticut, about the proble...

This push for tighter gun control reform, will this push finally be different? and how will this play with the presidents base heading into 2020. raymond? >> kristin, thanks for the report. here to respond is eric pratt, senior vice president of gun owners for americans and mark glaze. eric, im interesting in how gun rights organizations see this. do you and your members believe the president is caving or is supporting background checks a sensible way to respond to these massacres while protecti...

Control reform, will this push finally be different? and how will this play with the presidents base heading into 2020. raymond? >> kristin, thanks for thes report. here to respond is eric pratt, senior vice president of gun owners for americans and mark glaze. eric, im interesting in how gun rights organizations see this. do you and your members believe the president is caving or is supporting background checks a sensible way to respond to these massacres while protecting gun rights? eric. >> r...