with judge jeanine pirro, harold ford jr., jesse watters, and greg gutfeld. it s 5:00 in new york city, this is the five. president trump back in court as his chief rival cranks up the heat looking to go after him harder. a d.c. appeals court taking up former president trump s claims of immunity from prosecution in the january 6th case. the former president in court, despite not being required to be there, as lawyers and judges way his fate, trumpet slamming what he says is an unfair prose prosecution. i think it s very unfair when a political opponent is prosecuted by the doj, by biden s doj. i think they feel this is the way they will try to win. they feel that as a president, you have to have immunity. as trumpet battles it out in court, team biden thinks it is a political opportunity. the president s campaign leaders have reportedly been meeting with numbers of the media to demand harsher coverage of his rival, donald trump, according to the report of the camp
greg: run you little freak [cheers and applause] greg: happy wednesday everybody, oh, yeah. so the critics still want to yell at dave chappelle. the legendary comedian just released a new netflix special and you know what that means. once again, it s time to get mad at jokes. true, critics in the media are bluer in the face than a choking smurf. you remember back in 2021 the usual suspects were outraged that chappelle dared to joke about transgender people in his act. trans people were a gassed at the professional comedian, who makes fun at everybody, made fun of them. which seems strange not making fun of you seems the opposite of inclusion. still netflix employees staged a walkout. they demanded content warnings to protect their precious feelings when really they re the ones who should come with a content warning and have it tattooed on their foreheads that reads, handle with care, we re [bleep]. [laughter] in other words, they acted just like the censors they claim c
affair heats up as russia announces a new set of sanctions targeting trump critics. and stacey abrams joins me. we begin tonight with the old bait and switch, we re one week away from a potential default on the national debt, every economic expert agrees would be catastrophic for our economy resulting in millions of americans becoming unemployed. interest rates on your homes, cars and credit cards shooting through the roof and a major punishing recession, a meeting between president biden and house speaker mccarthy at the white house is still ongoing as the clock ticks down to find some agreement to avert economic disaster. treasury secretary yellen warned again of an economic default saying it s highly unlikely the u.s. will run out of cash if the debt ceiling isn t solved by this. lyndon johnson was a united states senator for 12 years, quote, if you can convince the lowest white man that he s better than the best colored man, he won t notice you re picking his pocket. th
manhattan d.a. alvin bragg taking legal action agains republican jim jordan, and president biden s latest comments on his plans for 2024 let s take a look at some of the week s top stories the manhattan district attorne leading the prosecution of donald trump is now suing a to house republican alvin bragg filed the lawsui against judiciary committe chairman jim jordan yesterda in response to what bragg call a brazen and unconstitutiona attack by members of congres on an ongoing criminal prosecution. bragg has come under increased scrutiny to put it mildly by the ohio republican since it became lightly that the former president would be charged i new york city. calling on the game solved t testify before congress, jorda issued a subpoena last week, ordering a former prosecutor i the case to appear before th judiciary committee. in the new lawsuit, the de asked a court to block tha subpoena, arguing that it coul cause irreparable harm to th case if certain secret materia is dis