all right. dana, thanks. dana: have a great show. bret: gogood evening. i m bret baier. breaking tonight, we are following two major stories, first former president donald trump is appealing a decision by maine s democratic secretary of state barring him from primary ballot in his role january 6th, 2021 capitol riot. expecting a similar appeal over colorado s decision to remove the decision from that state s ballot. we begin with claudine gay s resignation as the president of harvard university. the departure comes amid several plagiarism accusations criticism over her december congressional testimony where she was unable to say unequivocally calls on campus for the genocide of jews violated the policy. gay is the second person to resign following the testimony along with former upenn president liz magill. mollie lyon has that story from our boston unit tonight. good evening, bret. harvard president claudine gay making it official announcing her decision with heavy hear
ahead. possible indictment of a former president trump. wall street journal is today reporting this, that special counsel jack smith has all but finished obtaining his evidence into whether donald trump mishandled evidence at the mar-a-lago. and some of the trump close associates are bracing for his indictment. they say that clashes within the trump legal team have led to the departure of a delawyer. and the wall street journal goes on to report that jack smith appears to be tying up loose ends saying in recent weeks prosecutors working for smith have completed interviews with nearly every employee at trump s florida home from top aides to maintenance staff. they have pressed witnesses on questions that appear to hone in on specific elements that they need to show to include a crime. and questions aimed at undermining potential defenses that trump could raise reports are that the special counsel as assembled evidence and much of that appears to obliterate many ofhe argume
alvin bragg, he has stuffed the da s office with the department of injustice people including one top doj operative from dc that is running horse face witch hunt. some are questioning the timing of trump s possible arrest, mike pence defended former boss today saying the prosecution feels politically motivated, watch. at a time when there s a crime awe in new york city, the fact that the manhattan da thinks that indicting president trump is his top priority, i think, is just tells you everything that you need to know about the radical left in the country. feels like a politically charged prosecution here. very interesting. so i want to go to you first on this guy because we had little bit of discussion earlier today. now you have mike pence coming out in somewhat of a defense of donald trump, we know how donald trump feels about all of this. but i m wondering are republicans going to come together and circle the wagon an donald trump around this or his potential other 2
[laughter] steve: how is that? hey, who is for the eagles? [crowd boos] steve: so many people have kansas city memorabilia on today. thank you very much. who likes fox & friends in the morning? [cheers] and here we are live from the bbiscuit in kansas city. i got married here, i used to work here and i m here to cheer on the kansas city chiefs. that s great. listen, what a crowd we have got today ainsley and brian. look at this. one of the people actually brought in the super bowl trophy. and this is what it is all about. of course, this is probably a bootleg or something. [laughter] can t possibly be real. so, anyway. we are live today from the big biscuit talk about kansas city that is going to be playing in nine days against the eagles. the people here even though it is 11 degrees, ainsley and brian. they are amped up and ready to win, right? [cheers] brian: you got some special guests coming down, too, right? steve: what s that, brian? brian: you have some s
president biden, democratic senate candidate john fetterman is getting an assist from former president barack obama. will it make a difference in the high-stakes pennsylvania race? and we ll also go inside children s hospitals overwhelmed right now by the surge in respiratory illness as more and more kids are getting sick and beds are running out. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin this hour with the new response from the former president, former president trump s lawyer to the most aggressive move yet by the january 6th select committee. cnn political correspondent sara murray is joining us with details. so, what is the trump team saying about this new subpoena from the select committee delivered to trump today? well, it s now up to his legal team to grapple with how they want to respond. in a statement from one of these law firms, they slammed the select committee for making