announce their participation. one of them former vice president mike pence submitted his government forms today. correspondent mark meredith is on the story tonight. good evening, mark. bret, good evening, like you said, it s getting bigger by the day. the three men jumping into the race this week are all former prominent trump supporters. clear candidates feel more comfortable taking on the frontrunner. the question remains will republicans want an alternative next year. hello, iowa. former vice president mike pence is challenging donald trump for the demonstration. today pence filed his paperwork with the fec and will formally roll out his campaign in iowa on wednesday. republican primary voters are going to look at the field, think very deeply about who can best carry our message and carry majorities to victory. pence will face considerable competition including from south carolina senator tim scott who tonight is generating considerable buzz after appearing on
politics. trump represents 74 million voters. what happens when you throw 74 million voters in jail? alvin bragg, the manhattan district attorney, is trying to pinch trump for some bad bookkeeping. bragg says trump put the payment to stormy daniels in the wrong column. at most that s a misdemeanor accounting charge, at most. but the statute of limitations ran out on that charge years ago. it s dead. bragg is trying to shock it back to life. he is going to splice the local misdemeanor with a federal charge, a campaign finance violation to make it a felony. this is a gain of function research prosecution. bragg thinks trump paid off stormy daniels to help his presidential campaign. trump would have paid off stormy even if he wasn t running for president to protect his marriage, his reputation, and i don t know what happened between the two of them, but he wanted it to go away and she wanted to get paid. who is hurt? women make stuff up all the time. kavanaugh accusers eventuall
$100,000. any good gamble will tell you always quit when you are ahead because you never know when your luck might run out. saint patrick s day where we feel a little bit of luck of the irish, especially if you are joe biden? look at me and say joe, remember, the best drop of blood in you is irish. jesse: joe s irish roots have made him a lucky politician. over the weekend, actually all the weekend right before biden was elected to the senate at age 29, he was about to get hit hard with just an avalanche of negative attacks but mysteriously, his opponent s print shop that manufactured the mailers buckled, and he just slid into office. to fight all odds when he ran for the senate as an outsider in those 70s and then 40 years later when he was going nowhere in politics and obama was looking for a v.p., just just happened to check the right boxes, white, experienced and god knows how a foreign policy pro. all that luck sent joe right into the white house. so he ran for pre
from washington. really good news for the british diplomats an their families. reporter: absolutely. what we ve been hearing is this was a very complex situation with not a whole lot of time to plan but that planning was very intensive, pentagon officials say. they describe the operation as fast and clean. say it was conducted in one movement with service members spending less than an hour on the ground. so under 100 u.s. government personnel were removed from sudan s capital city by way of three helicopters. again, officials say that this was about a week of planning as they saw chaos erupting in sudan. president biden thanked the unmatched skill of service members of getting the this this completed. they confirmed the operations at the u.s. embassy have been temporarily suspended. the president added that this has cost the lives of hundreds of civilians and it must stop. sudan entered the second week of violence as the army and paramilitary group battle for control of the