it's always good to see you. happy new year, by the way, it's not too light to say happy new year. >> it is not, the whole month of january, as far as i am concerned. >> the whole 2024 will be, you can see it, but my fingers are crossed. >> from your mouth to my ears, have a good show. >> and tonight, donald trump's criminal defense team is renewing its requests for judge tanya chutkan to hold special counsel jack smith in contempt of court. with the election interference case currently on hold while trump's immunity claims get worked out in a federal appeals court, trump's lawyers lot of activity in the case halted, even the routine filing of documents which jack smith's team has said is permissible because it does not require the trump team to do anything. the motion to punish a jack smith for something that he is not prohibitive from even doing is yet another example of how donald trump has always referred to live in the world of alternative facts. with that strategy, it's on a collision course with the courtroom reality. that's what we saw this week as the disgraced former presidents that up for just a few minutes, in his own defense atthe new