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one. we met some reindeer and had reindeer on fox square as well. it was a great weekend. >> ashley: was it cold? >> carley: that was saturday. 2 degrees outside. so i wanted to put leggings on but didnt have time. the cutest thing in that picture is little miss maggie. she is the sweetest little thing. i couldnt get her jingle bell christmas necklace on. her face right there mike got the naughty cup and i got the nice cup. we actually, it was a little weird christmas for us because ou...

even though hes polling far beyond his republican rivals in the state, his team recognizes he cant get complacent in this final stretch. he wants to ensure he doesnt cede any ground to his rivals. his speech has focused heavily on attacking president biden and specifically his record on foreign policy. at one point, donald trump was referring to the presidents meeting with chinese president xi earlier in the week and stated to escalate his criticism calling joe biden quote, a stupid pe...

Them and on the trump side of things, hes been meeting with advisors and theyve been scrambling to figure out has anyone else received a target letter and how much of a significant amount of trouble could he be in with this case. dana. >> those are questions we dont know the answer to. thank you so much for that reporting, catelin. the panel is back with me. john, its important, i think, because people are now drinking from a firehose of donald trumps legal issues, to separate this out from the ...

>> jamie, youre hearing from republicans. >> we got statement from former appellate court judge michael l ludig who became well known for testifying for the january 6th committee, he played a critical role in advising former vice president mike pence he could not delay congress. lets just remember before i read this statement, he is one of the most conservative republicans out there, and he says, there is not an attorney general or special counsel of either party who would not bring charges agai...

Now he knows how the federal government works and the people around him know. you mentioned johnny mcentee. we covered the trump administration the first term, he was the central person. a lot of what this story is is finishing unfinished business, what they tried to do, couldnt quite do, and this is a road map. once again, with donald trump, he often says things out loud. this is what hes campaigning on. thats why all of this matters. thats high this is a central part of this republican primary...

They are his people. his chief of staff, his vice president, his white house counsel, his son-in-law, and it goes on and on. were going to start with kait katelyn polantz. what are you hearing? >> right now it is all hands on deck reacting to the situation where donald trump is announcing on social media that he received a target letter on sunday from the justice department telling him, signaling that an indictment is very near, he is likely to be indicted by the special counsels office for the ...

Himself from effectively undermining democracy, at least trying to undermine democracy. >> right. if, as anticipated, now that former president has received this target letter, we get an indictment as we did after he got the target letter in the classified documents case, we will see the case jack smith trying to make. you make a point this is about a sitting president of the united states trying to steal an election, trying to stay in power after he knew he lost. we will see the particulars, wh...

Because he said so, is the part about the justice department. since the post nixon years, the justice department has been an enindependent entities, pursuing prosecutions without political fear or favor. thats supposed to be how it is. trump has said, these folks are coming up with a plan, they want to change that. this is a very important story because, i see it two ways -- one, its a sign of yes, what trump and people around him want to do. i see it as something directed at ron desantis. desan...

Agencies, the justice department is clearly one of them. >> yeah. so the contrast couldnt be more raw and relevant, right. what he is proposing with this theory or this plan, however you want to characterize it f hes re-elected, is very simply the elevation of the presidency above the law. for the first time in this country, we will have a president who cannot be held accountable, who does not respond to any sort of oversight, and who does so by populating the institutions of government with sic...

This is cnn breaking news. the most high-profile criminal target in the world, donald trump says hes now received a letter from the special counsel in anticipation of an indictment in the future and marks another time the president will make history of the wrong kind. im anderson cooper in new york. youre watching cnns live coverage, donald trump in legal peril. >> im dana bash in washington. the justice department goes on record and informs donald trump he is a criminal target. the case this ...