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Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Former President Donald Trump's legal team on Tuesday filed its response to the House article of impeachment ahead of next week's trial, denying wrongdoing and calling for the Senate to acquit Trump of the charge. The answer denies that Trump violated his oath of office while also saying that he was protected by the First Amendment in response to claims he incited an insurrection. "It is denied that the 45th President of the United States ever engaged in a violation of his oath of office," the Trump legal team br...

Vice President Mike Pence acknowledged Wednesday he does not have the power to throw out the electoral votes that will make Democrat Joe Biden the next president. Pence, under intense pressure from President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the election results, issued a lengthy statement Wednesday laying out his conclusion that a vice president cannot claim “unilateral authority” to reject states' electoral votes. Pence released the statement just after he arrived at the Capitol to tally the electoral votes and even as the president was telling thousands of supporters gather...

Haveing this conversation. make you can take us back to that time and look at the presidency as wilson envisioned it. the way he changed it. how just his vision of the presidency was a dramatic departmenture of what the country had known before him. >> it was, indeechld largely, when he arrived in the white house the legislature was dominating american government, in particular the senate, many of whom were in the pockets of a half doesn't very rich men in this country. wilson believed there should be a leveling of that. he believed the executive branch and the legislative branch should really...

>> and we interviewed the general on that very subject yesterday, that it is a national security issue, would you have made it front and center. in speaking of national security, you just came from the senate floor where you escorted hamid karzai to the floor. that's unusual. we've had foreign leaders addressing joint sessions, but he's getting the red carpet. in recent months, had to go to kabul because the vice president couldn't breakthrough to him. the ambassador. ranking general. >> i don't think that's fair, andrea. >> but you as a peacemaker, you tried to bring him back in and we're see...