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havent seen a yet, but i dont anticipate a major initiative on the part of china providing weaponry to russia. >> if they did, would that be crossing the line for you, mister president? >> it would be the same line everyone would have crossed. in other words, we will post severe sanctions on anyone who has done it. >> meanwhile, a group of media organizations, including nbc news, have asked house speaker kevin mccarthy to share 44,000 hours of security footage from january 6th. and at ...

>> hi, nicole, thanks a lot. special counsel jack smith is calling mike pences bluff, in their view, and trying to force him under oath in a grand jury. more on that later. plus, the top investigator for the january 6th committee is speaking out on that big "new york times" story that was making waves. you might have seen it. hes here. he make his "beat" debut later in the hour. top story now is how republicans are using their power in the house. we saw kevin mccarthy clash with those ...

the new reporting that they are the latest targets of the special counsel investigating donald trump and january 6th. and ron desantis is cashing in, giving donald trump a run for his money, and the florida governor hasnt even jumped into the race yet. lets go "outfront." good evening, everyone. im kate bolduan in for erin burnett. "outfront" tonight a major warning from president biden to vladimir putin, as new images show the true state of putins fighting forces. take a look at t...

im kayleigh mcenany and for sean. well, its been a rougn h week for joe biden with one bad headline after another 1. d guiy on tuesday, his son hunter, was found guilty, convicted ongun cm charges for his federal gun crimes. and then on wednesday, the flew to italy for the g7 summit and his trip, its safe to say, was marked by bizarre gaffes s and embarrassing blunders. in fact, according to a report from the sun, this trip was such a disaster that it raised alarm among our allies with...

hannity its been a rough week for joe biden with 1 bad headline after another on tuesday his son was found guilty and convicted on all charges for his federal gun crimes on wednesday the present flew to italy for the g-7 summit it safe to it was marked by bizarre gaffes and embarrassing blunders according to a report the trip was such a disaster raised an alarm among her allies with 1 insider saying he lost focus during discussions before calling it the worst he has ever done in. in a ...

jacqui heinrich lab at the white house. whats on the campaign agenda today? >> well, john, the biden campaign seems to have noticed the trump campaign raking in the donations following that conviction, so they are leaning into the messaging, too. >> i have no doubt they raised a significant amount of money because his base we know is going to stick with him through thick and thin with her hes a convicted felon or not. this campaign did in fact have one of the best stretches of fund-rai...

Specifically the same two criminal statutes, two of the three that jack smith has used to charge. the case has only got stronger since then special counsel have some tools that we didnt have. he can immediately push through privilege assertions and get a judge to rule on them, he has used that to get vice president pence, some additional testimony from him and others, so the case has got stronger since we concluded our work, and we had already concluded there was evidence of criminal conduct. t ...

The evidence that the select committee dwochlts he has the ability to get immediate rulings on privilege assertions from the chief judge of the d.c. district court. we didnt have that ability. he has the leverage of the looming possibility of criminal charges that he may be using to negotiate plea agreements or cooperation agreements with people. he has a lot more tools at his disposal that are just not available in a congressional oversight process. my expectation is that hes taken sort of the ...

The room where it happens. again, weve got enough just based on what we were able to find with those witnesses tiptoeing up to the line to believe there had been a violation of federal crimes. judge clark in california even back in the spring of 2022 also found that there was prima facie evidence that trump and eastman conspired to violate criminal statutes. now jack smith, with his grand jury power that comes with the adjudication of privilege assertions, my expectation is that he has a lot mor...

And then the court of appeals only will consider that on an emergency motion for stay. and evaluate whether theres a likelihood of success on the merits with the district courts ruling. that happens very quickly. the special counsels availing himself, wisely, of those tools. and getting stuff that was not accessible to us. we found, as the select committee will report reflects, sufficient evidence that there were violations of federal criminal law. i can only imagine that special counsel was dev...