Good evening. Donald trump has become the first us president , former or current, to stand trial in a criminal case after appearing in court in new york. Hes accused of falsifying his Business Records to disguise a Hush Money Payment made to the former adult film star, Stormy Daniels, shortly before the 2016 election. Mr trump has pleaded not guilty and was his usual defiant self outside court, claiming the attack was an assault on america, and repeating unsubstantiated claims that the trial is a witch hunt against him. Our north america editor sarah smith reports. Its become a well rehearsed ritual Donald Trumps performance on his way to court. But this time its very different. The first criminal trial of a former president , and it comes with a possible prison sentence. Just look at his face. He seems drained of all his usual bombast, while insisting he is the victim of a conspiracy to derail his president ial campaign. This is political persecution. This is a persecution like never
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thank you for being here. martha maccallum great interview. thank you very much. martha: fox news alert. we start things off. the biden impeachment push is pushing forward at the inquiry level. the house passed this resolution yesterday to formalize and inquiry into the questions that have been around for a long time looking to prove whether the president benefited financially from his family s foreign business dealings with china, with ukraine. welcome everybody. good morning to the faulkner focus. i m martha maccallum in today for harris. so this vote last night passed on a straight party line. the chairs of the judiciary and oversight committees stressed party unity. watch. the house has now spoken. i think pretty loudly and clearly with every single republican voting to move into the impeachment inquiry of the constitutional duty to do oversight the message sent today is loud and clear. martha: it means a litany of biden family members, business associates, d.o.
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democrats are still on his side with the white house pleading for congress for $61 billion more in aid, but congressional republicans are not moved. speaker mike johnson even avoided posing for a picture with zelenskyy today. instead telling the wartime leader that the u.s. border must come first. zelenskyy is meeting with president biden right now as you saw. we should hear from both of them again at the white house in about an hour. what can they say to change the mind of republican lawmakers and if they cannot, what will happen to ukraine and how soon? first, let s find out how moscow is viewing this. joining us is keir simons from moscow and nbc news capitol hill correspondent, ryan nobles from capitol hill. chief, keir, excuse me. i ll just call you chief from now on. how is putin seeing this? is he watching this closely? he absolutely is. he hasn t said that himself but his spokesman, the kremlin spokesman, has been clear they are watching closely. kremlin officials w