about another situation, like a job interview, so someone just being like, there is one more thing i m facing 91 counts. i mean, anyway. we ll figure it out. yeah. thank you. thank you to you at home for joining us this hour. if you are a person that doesn t think a convicted felon should be running the country, you might think of this statistic as a glass half empty kind of number. an exit polling conducted by nbc yesterday, 54% of new hampshire s republican primary voters said that if donald trump to be convicted of a crime, they would still consider him fit to be president. don t get me wrong, that is not a sign of a healthy democracy. the majority of new hampshire s republican primary voters would not care if trump ends up a convicted felon. by the way, that would also mean that donald trump, a florida resident, would not be able to vote for himself as a convicted felon, although 54% of new hampshire republican voters still would. presidential elections in this co
victory on tuesday with a comfortable win over nikki haley in the new hampshire if primary. and now the former south carolina governor is facing growing pressure from mr. trump and his allies to drop out of the race with the former president threatening to blacklist haley donors if they continue to give to her presidential campaign. but haley is vowing the fight on, hoping to make a comeback in her home state next month. now, you ve all heard the chatter among the political class. they re falling all over themselves saying this race is over. [cheers and applause] well, i have news for all of them. new hampshire is first in the nation, it is not the last in the nation. [cheers and applause] paul: joining the panel this week, wall street journal columnists dan henninger, kim stras thing and bill mcgurn. so, dan, do you think that nikki haley has earned the right to stay in the race? yes, i do. she did well enough in new hampshire, she didn t get beaten by 20 points, she s
weekend. the 119 congress is the least productive in decades. that could cost republicans big come this november. some of them already acknowledging that they had the embarrassment of not having nothing to run on, and a monmouth university poll released last month found only 17% of americans approve of the job congress is doing. this is as crucial issues like taxation, the border, ukraine aid, and government funding remain unresolved. joining us now to discuss it all is the house democratic leader congressman hakeem jeffries of new york. welcome to you, sir, thank you for being here. this is truly one of the most unproductive congresses in decades. what is your take here on the current border fight that is currently happening on funding? this is about ukraine aid at the end of the day, but donald trump seems to be scuttling any potential for a deal that is going to come together. this is a do nothing republican congress of epic proportions, and what we have seen is that the
bret: good evening, welcome to washington i m bret baier and two big stories featuring big numbers. customs and border protection say within 300,000 people illegal immigrants and countered by border patrol attempting to enter the u.s. illegally across the southern border and just the month of december. we will head to the border to report on the major showdown between texas and the biden administration. but first the other big numbers tonight. we begin in new york, a jury or during former president donald trump to pay more than $83 million in a defamation lawsuit brought by e. jean carroll. a jury found previously sexually assaulted by a trump in the 1990s. the former president vigorously denied the allegations and wondered how he did that is the subject of the defamation case. alexis mcadams outside of the federal courthouse in manhattan with the latest tonight. good evening, alexis. good evening, bret. huge numbers in the courtroom in manhattan. e.g. harrell said dona
this is the ingraham angle from washington tonight. still winning, that s the focus of tonight s angle. now, our nation s billionaires did not get rich and powerful because they like to make bad investments. they got rich and powerful because they made good investments. at least one high profile nikki haley donor has decided she is a bad investment we learned linkedin founder reid hoffman a biden supporter and haley backer announced ending support for her after double dignity new hampshire loss. also more bad news for nikki. a republican fundraiser told . a republican fundraiser told cnbc on wednesday that three clients who each helped haley raise upraise $1 to $100,000 for the campaign are now opting out of her. so this bad fundraising newsn followedfollow pitiful post losy spinner among it is just sad at this point to run around the country carrying water for the people who despise the g.o.p. base as n otthe frenetic sarah goods tryig to convince you of the collapse