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
preserving the brand of america. these are bad people. these people are sick. and they do things that are so destructive. i mean, look what they did9 from the day i got there. and i don t know, you know, a lot of people said we have no choice but the to elect trump, republicans, because he s the only one that can withstand this. don t forget, if it weren t me, they d be going after somebody else, and i know a lot of the competition. they wouldn t do so well. [laughter] they wouldn t be doing so well right now. they d be saying, mommy, take me home. [laughter] this is brutal. for instance, the 51 intelligence agents, just like they say i m guilty, and all this information was from so many years before the election. rachel: right. that clip, what he talked about there mission to what you were, what we were talking about with what what alvin bragg did, all of this is hurting the brand of america, correct? so i just am curious, why do you think who are these people?