Developments in Donald Trumps ongoing legal battles. In a newly unsealed brief in response to the supreme Courts President ial Immunity Ruling, special Counsel Jack Smith gives us the clearest view yet of his 2020 Election Interference Case against the former president. Smith asserts trump acted as a private candidate and not as president , when he tried to overturn the Election Results and resorted to crimes to stay in office. It also provides new evidence about Trumps Phone Usage and the conversations he had on the 6th Of January, as the riots were unfolding at the capitol. Quote, beginning at about 150. 30 p. M. , the defendant settled in the Dining Room off of the oval office. He spent the afternoon there reviewing twitter on his phone, while the Dining Room television played Fox News contemporaneous coverage of events at the capitol. Citing testimony, the filing says that when trump was informed his Vice President had to be rushed to a secure location after trump attacked pence in
i m in for ari melber. it ain t all good and that s the truth. things aren t going like you thought they would and it s all on you, fox news. new evidence showing rupert murdoch and fox news new trump was lying but put them on the air anyway. dominion systems suing fox news for $1.6 billion in a defamation suit. the claim is fox news knowingly lied about their company and now we have receipts and private texts. fox news host called trump and his lawyers election claims total b.s., insane, crazy, mind-blowingly nuts, reckless, off the rails, and effing lunatics. these are not mean tweets. these are actual texts from fox news hosts. tucker carlson showing hannity and laura ingraham were in disbelief on camera over trump s conspiracy theories. carlton texting engram, quote, sydney powell was lying, by the way. i caught her, it s insane. sydney is complete nuts, no one will work with her, ditto with rudy. carlson writing, quote, our viewers are good people and they believe it.
about is ridiculous. i m in this race because the truth needs to be spoken. he is unfit. this is a guy who just said this past week that he wants to use the department of justice to go after his enemies when he gets in there. i mean, the fact of the matter is he is unfit to be president, and there is no bigger issue in this race than donald trump, and those numbers prove it. that s republican presidential candidate chris christie addressing the lack of direct criticism for donald trump at last night s gop debate. we ll have much more from that heated yet perhaps not relevant event straight ahead. meanwhile, on capitol hill senate republicans are stalling a critical aid package, which includes billions of dollars in funding for ukraine. we ll explain why and what could happen next. and also ahead we ll bring you the latest from gaza. israel says its forces are closing in on the hamas leader is believed to be the mastermind behind the october 7th terror attacks. good mo
mouth about meghan markle and prince harry. his thoughts are almost too bizarre to believe, but we begin the reidout tonight with the question you ve been asking that i m sure you ve been asking for an entire year now, when will we return to normal life? we have the first sign that some aspects of the pre-pandemic lives are on the horizon with the cdc giving the green light for fully vaccinated people to gather with other fully vaccinated people without wearing masks or social distancing. getting to see our loved ones again to share a meal indoors with grandparents, parents and friends is the best thing we ve heard in a very long time. we re also seeing grim numbers that have haunted us all year with newly reported coronavirus and hospitalizations on the decline. the reason for this progress boils down to science in the form of three vaccines. the problem is there s a segment of the u.s. population that insists on rejecting science while clamoring that their so-called perso
Of thing. Back on june 20th, the president held his first rally in three months in tulsa, oklahoma, a state that was and continues to see a spike in coronavirus cases. The event was at an indoor arena which seats more than 19,000 people, so there was plenty of room to socially distance. But the president didnt want the appearance of social distancing. He wanted the rally too look packed, which is why Trump Campaign workers, as you can see here, were caught on tape removing social distancing stickers from seats at the event. And while turnout for the rally fell way short of expectations, thousands of people still showed up at the indoor event. And we now know that at least eight members of the campaign advance team on the ground tested positive for the coronavirus. And dozens of secret Service Personnel at the event were later told to selfquarantine. And just this week we learned that a trump surrogate who attended the event tested positive for the virus. Former 2012 president ial candi