campaign trail for the first time more than 50 days since announcing his re-election bid. there are renewed concerns among democrats tonight over the president s age, the 2024 primary schedule, and the possibility of a third party candidate derailing his re-election effort. correspondent mark meredith is following it all. he joins us live from the north lawn. good evening, mark. bret, good evening to you. president biden told a crowd in connecticut today he is far from finished when it comes to addressing gun violence. also far from certain he will win re-election next year. tomorrow, he is going to take his biggest step yet to try to shore up support among democrats. kick off of your campaign tomorrow? i kicked it off a while ago. 52 days after announcing his re-election bid, president biden is set to campaign for the first time. saturday s rally in philadelphia comes only hours after he won dual labor endorsements from the american federation of teachers and the afl
Historic moment. A former american president could sue be a convicted criminal that this coming tuesday, Closing Arguments are expected to begin in former president Donald Trumps trial. There has been weeks of testimony from former members of his inner circle including people like Michael Cohen. Who faced a grueling Cross Examination but his former Attorney Says the real smoking gun in this case is in from any witnesses, its a document that outlines how the hush money payments were made to Stormy Daniels and lanny davis joins us now. The formal Legal Adviser to Michael Cohen and former Special Counsel to bill clinton. Good to see you and thank you for being with us. Good morning. Lets talk about this document. If folks had not been following the case and everything that has been happening in court, they might be hardpressed to believe that the crime was written down. Well, it is a document that is in him writing and has been admitted into evidence from Allen Weisselberg, the closest pe
passed a resolution to censure squad member jamal bowman for pulling a capitol building fire alarm back in september. it forced an evacuation of the building. it also created quite a chaos as congress rushed to head off a government shutdown. the new york democrat is now the 28th lawmaker ever censured in history. you are watching the faulkner focus. i m julie banderas in for harris today. it was caught on video and why he pled guilty. he got caught. bowman a former middle school principal said he was simply trying to open a door clearly marked as off limits. he pled guilty to a miss demeanor charge and paid a $1 thousand fine. the max fine. bowman continues to deny he was trying to delay the spending bill vote. jim jordan confident the censure motion would pass. i think it is in a more broader and how crazy things have gotten in the biden administration. an f.b.i. that says if you are catholic you re extremist and members of congress pulling a fire alarm to disrupt a vot
too. violated the rights, the civil liberties of individuals like carter page, so he will be held accountable. bret: congressman luna from florida going after, again, for the second time, a censure effort against adam schiff. the congressman from california, he tweeted as i walked off the house floor, luna someone i met today a person i could not have picked out of a lineup told me she is filing another censure resolution next week this one will pass. they are not giving up. i have got news neither am i. bill, what about this? second time. yeah, i just think for adam schiff. i don t think republicans ought to spend a lot of time on this. we have so many things going on, policies, oversight, i think it s a distraction, in many ways, adam schiff is a mere image of trump. is going to fund raise off. this in his own party, it s not going to hurt him. and he will probably make money off it.
censure is the second most serious form of congressional discipline. just short of expulsion. 20 republicans joined democrats torpedo the censure effort. many of those members oppose luna s official plan to fine schiff a $16 million. some indicated they could support a rescripted resolution without the fine. schiff embraces the controversy. look, it s a badge of honor when you take on the maga crowd. they clearly think i m effective in holding the former president accountable. luna accused schiff of flaunting his victory after the house failed to censure him the first time. it brings me joy see that he thinks that even just yesterday he got off the hook with it because he was singing a different tone. however, schiff could reap the political benefit of censure as he runs for the senate. any hour that we re talking about house republicans going after adam schiff is a good day for his senate campaign. house speaker kevin mccarthy and other republicans have nothing but animosi