Judge jeanine you liked that one the best. You didnt like the prisoners . Bret prisoners were good. All right, thanks, judge. Judge jeanine all right. Take care. Bret good evening, welcome to washington. Im bret baier, breaking tonight the search is on for a new House Speaker following yesterdays historic vote to remove Kevin Mccarthy. Two prominent republicans have signaled their intentions to run and there could be more entrants soon even a very wellknown former president is now being mentioned. And is he talking about it. Congressional correspondent Aishah Hasnie has the story tonight live from capitol hill. Good evening, aishah. Good evening to you, bret. That, he is. For now, house members have been sent home, at least until tuesday to allow tempers to cool down. One member told me that last night some folks wanted to get into physical altercations with each other. This as republicans now try to figure out who can unite them. Tonight, the race for a new House Speaker is in full sw
According to our reporters, the former president s lawyers at times seemed to be arguing for an audience of one, and it wasnt the judge saying maralago was worth at least A Billion Dollars, and so was doral. That real estate valuations are subjective coming down to whatever a person is willing to pay. That there was no harm. The banks made money, and quote, there was no intent to defraud, period, the end. What was curious is that trumps lawyers were making some of the same arguments the judge has repeatedly thrown out, and they were doing it confrontationally. Were going to ask our experts why, since this was a bench trial. And Michael Cohen, Donald Trumps old fixer really is the quote, lynch pin of this case, as the defense argues, and whether his sworn testimony that the valuations of Donald Trumps properties were based on trumps desire to be be quote, higher on the forbes list are credible, and more importantly legally relevant. Now that Court Appears to be back in session after the
wallace. ever since charged were handed down against donald trump, the ex president has seen returning to the white house as his best defense. no one is more aware of this than jack smith. jack smith asked the supreme court to rule on donald trump s bid to have the charges ruled out because the alleged crimes took place while he was president. this is not new. judge tanya chutkan rejected that claim and trump appealed. jack smith is asking the supreme court to leap frog the appeals court and settle the matter once and for all. the special counsel s move setting up the first, but maybe not the last time, the supreme courtla a role in the united states versus donald trump. prosecutors say, quote, this caserents a fundamental question at the heart ofur democracy. whether a fmer president is absolutely immune from federal prosecution for crimes committed ile in office or is constitutionally protect from federal prosecution when he s been impeached by the house, but not convicte
extend their truce another day? that and a new report from the new york times that israel actually knew the plan for the hamas attack more than a year before it happened. plus indicted congressman george santos could be out of a job in just hours from now. and now he s threatening to take down his own colleagues if expelled from the house. and racism, hazing, sexual assault. what top ranking military officials have been concealing from the public for years. we expose a coast guard cover-up right here tonight. i m pamela brown, and this is the source. and good evening to you. kaitlan is off tonight. just three hours from another truce deadline, what could be the end of the pause in fighting between israel and hamas. negotiations going down right to the wire once again on this seventh day of the truce, as a seventh group of hostages were freed and are now safely back in israel. only eight hostages released in this handover. israel and hamas agreed to count the two
today on inside politics, a big development on hostage negotiations. president biden said a deal to free the more than 200 hostages held by hamas is, quote, going happen. this comes as a official familiar with the talks tells cnn and israel and hamas are moving closer to a deal. i want to get straight to mj lee, who is in san francisco with the president waiting for him at least. what did the president say? and put this intoen context along with other reporting this you and other colleagues have. reporter: yeah, you heard from president biden, who is making his way now here to san francisco for his summit with xi jinping, expressing a sense of optimism that a deal could be reached to get the hostages out of gaza. this was echoed in part by a u.s. senior official that i was speaking with earlier, who said that israel and hamas are moving closer to a deal to secure the release of these hostages, but the official, it s important to note, cautioned that it s closer, but it s