harris: we begin with a fox news alert. a critical day for donald trump inside washington, d.c. courtroom. some of his rivals are on the ground in iowa. the former president is appealing for the all-important immunity in his federal election case. oral arguments just wrapping up in that moments ago. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. the former president arrived to the court earlier today. a three-judge panel heard arguments in connection with special counsel jack smith s election interference case. no ruling will be issued from the bench and the court gave no indication when their written opinion would be issued. trump did not testify today but he was there and the u.s. supreme court denied special counsel jack smith s request to leap track the appellate progress to get to the court date in march. the issue could come back to the u.s. supreme court, though. the criminal trial before the district court is on hold until this whole thing is cleared up. i
you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. just days after a conservative judge labeled him a clear and present danger to democracy, former president donald trump got up on stage and proved yet again he d rather spread lies than admit the truth about what happened on january 6th. these are government tapes where they re stuffing ballot boxes to put it crudely. they re stuffing ballot boxes on government tapes. and what did they say? that was debunked. that was debunked. okay. most people say, oh, it was i didn t know that. no, these are tapes. one, two, guys looking up at the camera, let s see, where s the camera. there it is. trump s own justice department, republican officials in numerous states did not find a single shred of evidence to corroborate any of the nonsense you just heard there. yesterday trump also sided with the capitol rioters again just like he did during the attack. if it were an insurrection that took place at the capitol, you
portion of an hour and a half speech today, making it clear he is spending a lot of time watching everything the committee says and does. there s no clearer example of the menacing spirit that has devoured the american left and disgraceful performance being staged by the unselect committee. the unselect s entire sham presentation is based on video that has been deceptively edited. they re taking six, eight, and nine-hour depositions and putting up five-second clips. that guy letig, whoever the hell letig is, a former judge, he was saying pence had no choice. not actually what he said at all. look, here s the thing. trump s day of having the world stop to listen to a 90-minute ranting, roving speech are over. not even fox news took his speech live. now, that didn t stop trump, who spent time denying he called mike pence a wimp. he spent time even though to make sure the record s clear on this, his special assistant said he did call pence a wimp and testified to this under
this level but eventually we win. a president has to have immunity and the other thing i did nothing wrong. we did nothing wrong. the investigation of the election, which was a rigged election, everybody knows it. they didn t use state legislatures, they went to the f.b.i. and you look at f.b.i. and twitter, the twitter files with the f.b.i. all the horrible things, fisa court, the signed documents, the lying to congress and the stuffing of the ballot boxes, all on tape. stuffing of ballot boxes all on tape. government tape. most of the information, as you know, we will give you some of the findings that just came out. all of that information, as you know, was gotten from mostly government sources, government tapes, government files, and government stats. so it s very sad when something like that happens.
you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. just days after a conservative judge labeled him a clear and present danger to democracy, former president donald trump got up on stage and proved yet again he d rather spread lies than admit the truth about what happened on january 6th. these are government tapes where they re stuffing ballot boxes to put it crudely. they re stuffing ballot boxes on government tapes. and what did they say? that was debunked. that was debunked. okay. most people say, oh, it was i didn t know that. no, these are tapes. one, two, guys looking up at the camera, let s see, where s the camera. there it is. trump s own justice department, republican officials in numerous states did not find