lawyers who led that case were in d.c. for a meet and greet with their client. before they walked into the oval office, they were told do not give him false hope, do not indulge the conspiracies about the election. some of them listened, some of them didn t. here is a clip from ken chesebro what the lead attorney in wisconsin told donald trump. it is clear that troops personally told the president there was zero hope in wisconsin. as part of this message, i think trying to get him to concede, give up this long shot challenge. so there was a conscious effort to deflect him from a sense of any possibility that he could pull out the election. zero hope. that s what he said. so, look, some people around trump told him that he couldn t win and he tried ty eied to ovee election any way. that s a part of the criminal case. that indictment is filled to the brim with examples of trump being told that he lost. this oval office meeting was not in the indictment, so it builds on the
immune from prosecution for things that happened while he was in office, and secondly, whether he essentially is barred from being tried in this case because of double jeopardy, because he was obviously impeached by the congress, but he was not convicted. that is one of the central questions that jack smith and his team is now asking. the filing says in part of that principle, is that a zenith here, whereas here a grand jury has accused a former president of committing federal crimes to subvert the peaceful transfer of power to his lawfully elected successor. nothing could be more vital to our democracy than a president who abuses the electoral system to remain in office, is held accountable for criminal conduct. jake, this is obviously now the goal here is to try to expedite this. they re asking for the court to do this, to get the briefs going by december 18th. the goal is to try to get this going before that march trial date comes near. evan, special counsel jack smi
charges tonight as his father readies for what is expected to be a rigorous rematch with former president trump in the 2024 elections year. the president s son is accused of spending millions of dollars on an extravagant lifestyle including strippers, sex clubs, drugs, and exotic cars. his lawyer says the special counsel bowed to political pressure. president biden has insisted he had nothing to do with his son s business affairs. correspondent david spunt starts us off tonight. good evening, david. rich, good evening. the government insists that hunter biden chose not to pay his taxes but had plenty of money to do so. this is his second indictment setting up what could be trial number two next year as his dad runs for re-election. hunter biden facing another indictment. this time three felony and six misdemeanor charges relating to his failure to file and pay taxes. special counsel david weiss filed the charges in los angeles. hunter s home since 2018. the government all
drone strike killing five iranian proxy fighters in northern iraq and stopping what would have been another attack on american troops in the middle east. you re watching fox and friends, i m carley shimkus. griff: and i m griff jenkins in for todd piro. severe escalation for proxies in yemen who launched hours long assault in the red sea, drawing the u.s.s. carney into the line of fire. trey yingst is live with the latest on the ground there and more on washington s response to iran s provocations. good morning, trey. trey: good morning. a lot of developments over the past 24 hours. israeli forces are ramping up airstrikes, they targeted 200 different sites, bringing total number of strikes against gaza to 10,000. the heavy air campaign issic spooing, tdeath toll say 700 people were killed over the weekend. israel targeting hamas leadership, this weekend hitting a battalion and the commander responsible for carrying out raids into israeli territory back on october 7. th
edition of hannity . i m judge jeanine pirro, in fore sean. and we begin with breaking news. moments ago. israel approved what prime minister benjamin netanyahu was callinmoments g a lull in the fg with hamas. in exchange, hamas will reportedly return 50 hostages, women and children, during a four day pause in fighting. and just in reuter ess. is reporting that hamas has also just agreed to there deal. here now with the very latest from tel aviv, alex hogan is with us. alex. hi, judge jeanine, thiass major is major news after weeks of trying to strike a deal. israel tonight nweeks rying sas approved this hostage negotiation deal and what this would dohie , allowing the reley of 50 hostages, women, in and children in exchange for a four day cease fire as well. the release of palestinians currently being detained in israentlyl. israel also tonight says that if ten additional hostages released every single day, that would allow another pauseed in the fighting. we have heard