Im bret baier. President biden and his team send mixed messages over whether he has Apentagon Guised for calling Immigrant Murder suspect illegal. Common ground suspect deals with how the Border Crisis is affecting congressional Threat Assessments and another major city contemplates using the National Guard to deal with violence and Public Transportation facilities. Bret but first, breaking tonight, we are getting new information on the dangers of illegal immigration as reports of arrests for Violent Crimes escalate across the country. The director of the fbi was grilled on the subject today during the senates annual worldwide Threat Assessment hearing. You can expect more of the same tomorrow in the house. Some headlines today. Correspondent Gillian Turner has details from the State Department tonight. Good evening, gillian. Gillian good evening, bret. We got a rare glimpse into the Intelligence Communitys thinking about what exactly america is up against in the intel chief did not pa
Thank you so much for letting us into your homes on this monday. We are grateful. The beat with katie phang and ari starts now. If i havent said it before, its really good to have you back. Thanks for being here. Thank you, my friend. Have a great show. Thanks. And to all of you welcome to the beat. Im katie phang in for ari melber. We begin with donald trump doing what he does best, trying to delay justice by claiming, wait for it, president ial immunity yet again. Today trumps legal team filing a motion to delay his new york criminal hush money trial, which is currently set to begin march 25th, just two weeks away. Trump argues the trial should wait for the United States Supreme Court to weigh in on his president ial immunity claim. Those arguments are scheduled for april 25th. Trumps legal team writing, the court must preclude the people from Offering Evidence at trial of President Trumps official acts as the commander in chief. Trump claiming that even though Stormy Daniels was pai
East coast, 8 00 in los angeles and this is americas late news, fox news night. Breaking tonight, then there were two. Biden and trump appear to be in, nikki haley is out refusing for now to endorse andy is a bigtime question for both sides because trump has more republican support then biden has democratic support but the president has a Big Stage Tomorrow Night and the nation will be watching as the 81yearold delivers the State Of The Union speech. Lets begin with Senior National correspondent kevin corke live in dc with a rundown on where we stand. Reporter good evening trace. Saying the time had come to suspend her campaign and that she had no regret, former South Carolina governor nikki haley as you pointed out stepped aside last night, shelving her attempt to secure the 24 gop nomination but she did so without endorsing the parties overwhelming favorite, former President Trump , whom she lost to buy an astronomical margin in the Super Tuesday primaries. When i began, i said the c
Deadline white house starts right now. Hi there, everyone, its 4 00 in new york. The disgraced twiceinimpeached quite indicted president with Delusions Of Grandeur and thin skin is proving that Birds Of A Feather do indeed flock together. While President Joe Biden was on the road pitching an agenda nor the second term, the expresident was meeting with the proputin antidemocratic leader of hungary singing his praises, watch that. Theres nobody better, smarter, or better than viktor orban, hes fantastic. Does a good job. Noncontroversial, because he said this is the way its going to be. Hes the boss. Hes a greater leader. Fantastic leader in europe and All Over The World. They respect him. Never mind the fact that orban is anything but, noncontroversial, even in his own country. And death by a thousand cuts approach to ending democracy in his own nation has been universally condemned. The meeting between the hungarian Strongman Leader and the wannabe american strong man, also yielded an
Joins us from miami. So why is he speaking out now kaitlan . Well, anderson, in part because hes worried that americans and voters will never get to hear this story before the election in november. Obviously, trumps legal team has sought this strategy of delay, delay, delay, especially when it comes to the classified documents case. And so this witness, someone who was a longtime employee at maralago for 20 years, is now speaking out publicly because of a concern that that it may not come to light. I mean, donald trump has repeatedly called this investigation a witch hunt. Brian butler, who until now was known only as Trump Employee number five, is now saying that he disagrees with that. He doesnt believe its a witchhunt and he was able to provide key testimony to the special counsel, jack smith here, including about key moments, including one where walt nauta, who is trumps body man, turned codefendant, asked him to help load boxes onto a plane that was bound for trumps club in new je