addressed the unprecedented indictment friday. we have one set of laws in this country, and they apply to everyone. if applying those laws, collecting facts, that s what determines the outcome of an investigation. nothing more and nothing less. paul: joining me now is the former attorney general of the united states, michael mukasey. judge mukasey, good to see you. so you ve read the indictment. how strong is it? well, if the facts set forth in there are provable, and a great deal of it indicates that they clearly are, it is very strong. a lot of the evidence comes from his own lawyer who was compelled to testify over a claim of attorney-client privilege based on conversations he had with donald trump that show that he knew that he had classified information. there was, there are two instances in which he met with people on the outside, one a writer, the other a fundraiser. and showed them classified information and said that he knew that he had it and knew that it was cl
on the bipartisan deal to raise the debt ceiling and cut spending so the nation averts a default next week. president biden and speaker mccarthy are defending the agreement as some of their parties are also railing against it. we ll bring you the results of that vote as soon as it happens. but first, to a cnn exclusive tonight. reporting the federal prosecutors have donald trump on tape in his own words acknowledging that he took a sensitive national security document with him when he left the white house. that is what multiple sources tell cnn. and i ll speak with one of the former president s attorneys in just a moment. but we are told that trump s comments in the 2021 recording suggest that he knew that he kept classified material and wanted to share it, but understood his limitations post presidency. in other words, he knew that this was likely false when he said it. by the way, they become automatically declassified when i took them. and the same goes for this. i
president to be able to see this to a conclusion. i mean, you do one term and they reverse it when they come in [applause] youn t can t have it be reversed. you got to have humility. you can t be prideful, it can t be just about you. when he says eight years, every time i hear it i wince, because i say if it takes eight years to turn this around, then you don t want him as your president. paul: let s bring in wall street journal columnists and fox news contributor carl karl rove, he served as southeastern adviser the president george w. bush. karl, well co. the former president, president trump, was banging on ron desantis for months. now that the governor s in and fighting back, it s really fast and furious, a lot earlier than i can recall in previous campaigns. how is desantis doing so far? i think pretty well. you know, for example, you just showed that display and president trump dismissed desantis saying eight years by saying, you don t want that guy, because i c
what we are learning tonight. a family s nightmare. a 6-year-old traveling alone to be with his grandmother for the holiday put on the wrong spirit airlines plane arriving in the wrong city. the tense moments for his family and what the airline is now saying this in the middle of a record breaking holiday travel season with millions hitting the roads and taking to the skies. we re following a cross-country storm making its way in the south. millions on alert for potential flooding and the blizzard warning in the northern plains. christmas celebrations canceled in the traditional birthplace of jesus where the fighting in gaza hangs over a time that is usually a time of joy. as relentless combat in the israel-hamas war takes a toll on civilians and both sides of the fighting and the grim death toll. prime minister benjamin netanyahu under pressure inside israel, rick clement from bethlehem. fear that the israeli-hamas conflict will spread as tensions escalate in the red s
thank you, anderson. good evening, everyone. thank you for joining me. this is war. and that may actually be the nicest thing that donald trump has said in the last 24 hours about his former friend and now foe, ron desantis. both of the men crisscrossing the early voting states today. desantis has been on a blitz in new hampshire, and trump was in iowa. but here is a taste of the back and forth that has really escalated over the last 24 hours on everything from the debt ceiling to ron, as i call him, ron desanctimonious for a reason. i think it s so petty. i think it s so juvenile. i don t think that s what voters want. and honestly i think his conduct, which he s been doing for years now, i think that s one of the reasons he s not in the white house now. when he says eight years, every time i hear it, i wince. i think it s a project that will begin on day one, and it will require a daily grind for not just one term but i think for two full presidential terms. but