Politics the former president s pardon play. Donald trumps lawyers make a hail mary request for an april 2026 start to the 2020 Election Trial and try to make sure the case never sees the inside of a courtroom. Plus a game of risk. New reporting outlines how republicans plan to conquer a trumpless debate. How another republican warns his party appears poised to fulfill the textbook definition of insanity. President biden invokes the whole enemy of my enemy is a Friend Theory of Foreign Policy today pushing two neighbors to put aside a generation of bad blood and send a message to the country a couple blocks away, china. Im Phil Mattingly in for dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and inside politics. Were going to start with this up first. Two questions. Do you know what youre doing on monday . Do you know what youre doing in april, 2026 . The answer is no for me on both of them. Donald trump, though, has plans for both. More specifically mr. Trump knows where he wont be on monday
Jeff bezos, mark zuckerberg, jamie dimon and others all cashing out a staggering 11 billion just within weeks of each other. Cant wait to dig into that. Is that sending warning signs ahead of a historic rematch between President Biden and former President Donald Trump . Do these billionaires know something that we dont . Well put that question to our econ panel. Steve moore and robert wolff. Theyll be joining us live coming up. A judge in Georgia Tossing out six counts in the election interference case against former President Trump and five codefendants. But many other counts in the indictment remain. Hello, im john roberts in washington. Were off to a rollicking wednesday. Sandra, here we go. We knew it was going to be a big week and its following through on that promise. Im sandra smith in new york. This is america reports that Fulton County judge finding six of the counts were legally deficient, including three against donald trump. The decision coming as the judge considers an ent
It looks like bidens legal team is going to try to force the government to abide by the original and totally ludicrous deal. Their statement said that hunter will continue to follow the conditions of that agreement on july 20th, 20233. That the Probation Office had agreed to and had recommended put into effect. If the Court Upholds whether as called this pretrial Diversion Agreement. I think its unlikely, hunter would skate charge or any other tax evasion charges that stem out of that same time period. Here to break this all down. Other breaking news Sol Wisenberg former deputy independent counsel, Fox News Contributor and david schoen former trump impeachment lawyer. Explain to us what is going on here. I think this came as a surprise to some people today that indeed the walls may be closing in and not on trump this time. It shouldnt have been a surprise because he is under, you know, there is a criminal investigation filed against hunter on the gun charge, and so Speedy Trial Act com
Two im john roberts and washington. Aishah think of having me, john im Aishah Hasnie infra sandra smith say this is America Reports round two for secretary blinken. On capitol hill after he got heckled by protesters yesterday watch. Is a war criminal, he is a war criminal 40,000 people the blood of where theyve thousand palestinians is on his hands. John one called him the Butcher Of Gaza while republicans say hes parted over americas worst Foreign Policy disasters ever. Aishah Gillian Turner is live at the State Department with all the latest. Julian is he getting an easier time on the hill did a Question Mark so far, aishah, a little easier than yesterday. We have this hearing coming up now with the House Foreign Affairs committee that is likely to change that. Secretary blinken is up there as you mention for round two of these hearings, lawmakers are demanding answers about the Biden Administrations Foreign Policy he got an earful about House Appropriators and yesterday over in the
With drug addiction, alcohol abuse, and in and out of rehab, which he wrote about openly in his book. Hunter biden, his legal team, and really the whole white house had hoped this would be in the Rearview Mirror by now, but his plea deal collapsed over the summer in stunning fashion. Now tonight his legal team is vowing to fight these new charges. This charge brought today violates the agreement the government made with hunter biden. That was a standalone agreement different than this plea. Second, the constitutionality of these charges are very much in doubt. And third, if it got past those two and we dont think it would if there were ever a trial on the facts, we dont think the facts are as your experts thinks them to be. Hunter owned an unloaded gun for 11 days. There will never have been a charge like this brought in the United States. Well see how those arguments end up and if it works out in court. But what all of this means is that we could be in a pretty remarkable place, where