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>> bret: let's all have town hall. vivek is going to be on this show little bit later. beers and town hall. thanks, jesse. ♪ >> bret: good evening, welcome to des moines iowa, i'm bret baier. five days away from the first in the nation iowa caucuses. tonight at 9:00 p.m., we will hold the third of this week's candidate town hall meetings right here and our guest tonight on this stage former president donald trump. we'll have more on that in just a moment. but, we are following two major stories at this hour. hunter biden makes a surprise appearance at the congressional hearing toda...

extremist group and a man convicted for crimes related to entering the capitol. the committee also played clips from its deposition last week with a former white house counsel pat cipollone. chad pergram watching it all joins me live now from capitol hill tonight. chad, good evening there. what happened today? hello. >> good evening, bill, allegations of witness tampering. liz cheney says the former president tried to call a witness who has not yet testified before the committee. the panel told the doj about the contact by the former president. >> the committee focused on a late nigh...

Insurance market which actually allows people to choose a diversity of health insurance plans. the reason we don't have that is because of antitrust exemptions for health insurance companies. i'm going to put an end to that the pharmaceutical industry lob idea for heightened standards for fda approval keep competition out. bring competition back into healthcare. have a system that pace for health, not just sickness on the back end and i think that's how we are actually going to get our country back. >> bret: what steps will you take to promote bipartisan cooperation and bridge divides that exi...

>> they don't need democrats. if they know they can do it with republicans, they typically won't get any democrats. there are bills, however, that are designed to win democratic support and there are a couple healthcare bills that will be on the floor, in addition to the one you mentioned. one has to do with eliminating antitrust exemptions for healthcare companies and another allows small businesses to pool their resources together to purchase insurance to increase their buying power. they are hoping this will show other republicans they have another plan that will bring down costs for health...

The beginning up, so the lobbyists have to argue to put something in rather than keep from getting something taken out. >> well, let me ask you about another protection that professional sports have, and that is the antitrust exemption. where are you on this? it's something that allows basically allows for the leagues to be monopolies, and obviously, you know, you could make an argument, you know, there's plenty of other industries that would love to have the negotiating power and the monopolistic negotiating power that they have, but other industries don't enjoy the same protections. where ar...