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des moines, iowa. this is the story this hour. former president trump just held a news conference in new york city. the closing arguments on the other side of this equation are still underway in this fraud trial. the former president saying again today that he s innocent. he s done nothing wrong. watch. so they have no case. it s a shame that a thing like this is able to happen. businesses leave new york. martha: hunter biden on the other coast of the country, we re waiting for his arrival in court in los angeles on tax charges. one day after causing chaos on capitol hill when he showed up unexpectedly at his contempt of congress hearing as if he was open to testifying and speaking at the hearing except when he didn t like the way things were going, he stormed out. matt whitaker is standing by here in iowa where he s born and raised in iowa. let s go to nate foy, our correspondent covering the trump trials and he s in new york city on the latest developments in that today
as well. martha: okay. let s bring in texas republican pat fallon. he was in the room when hunter biden showed up yesterday surprising everyone at his contempt hearing. thanks very much for being here. i d like to start with those comments from the first lady. she says that house republicans are treating her family in a cruel manner what do you say in response to that? it infuriates me, martha. what was cruel hunter biden was cruel to himself and to the american public and the american taxpayer. he chose not to pay $1.4 million in taxes that he owe. he didn t do that. he chose to insolve himself in sex trafficking, involve himself in hard drug use. he chose to sell, influence and pedal access to his father to the tune of millions, many to our enemies, china for one. and so this is all on him. you know what? there s consequences for your actions. so to sit there and say this is about addiction or republican
des moines, iowa. this is the story this hour. former president trump just held a news conference in new york city. the closing arguments on the other side of this equation are still underway in this fraud trial. the former president saying again today that he s innocent. he s done nothing wrong. watch. so they have no case. it s a shame that a thing like this is able to happen. businesses leave new york. martha: hunter biden on the other coast of the country, we re waiting for his arrival in court in los angeles on tax charges. one day after causing chaos on capitol hill when he showed up unexpectedly at his contempt of congress hearing as if he was open to testifying and speaking at the hearing except when he didn t like the way things were going, he stormed out. matt whitaker is standing by here in iowa where he s born and
god bless. martha: andy mccarthy and katie pavlich and felipe ryan. great to have you back here with us. andy, let s started with you on the legal aspect of all of this as hunter biden is about to be arraigned in a los angeles court. i think he did pay some of the back taxes that he owed. the statute of limitations has run out on a lot of these charges. what do you expect to happen in there moments away? usually an arraignment is unremarkable. he will enter a plea of not guilty. the case as i understand it has been a signed to a judge. what would happen, which may be more important in this case than in a number of cases, you ll schedule future proceedings, pretrial motions and possibly a trial date. the reason i say it s more important in this case than the