bret: all right, dana. the christmas spirit has officially kicked off. i think dana had the hots for santa. i m not sure. fantastic here. a beautiful night. good evening. i m bret baier. we re going to get to some news now. oare negotiators getting close n a deal for release of some of the hamas hostages? we will get bipartisan reaction from the heads of the house foreign affairs committee. as former president donald trump dominates the polls, can he scratch off one name from his vice presidential list. we will bring that you story. and what could be the busiest thanksgiving travel week on record could get even tougher with a major storm system coming. bret: we are live in the plaza outside fox news world headquarters in new york. part of the christmas festivities here. hoped you enjoyed the lighting of our christmas tree. it s a great fest every year. they are also celebrating tonight at the white house where president joe biden turns 81. that fact causing him so
the stand, what he says tonight about the intruder looking for his wife nearly killed him. tonight on the workers live. so, what is it about the political rhetoric in this country that got us here? in 83 year old man hit in the head with a hammer in his own house, his skull was fractured. allegedly by a man looking for his wife. then house speaker nancy pelosi. now, the defendants own attorney says the attack was motivated by david pups believe, belief, that nancy pelosi was part of a, quote, a plot to manipulate the country, to spread lies, and to steal votes from donald trump. now, he has pleaded not guilty in this matter. the paul pelosi testifying today about the moment he woke up at 2:00 in the morning to find a stranger in his bedroom. quote, it was a tremendous shock to recognize that somebody had broken into the house and, looking at him, and looking at the hammer, and the ties, i recognized that i was in serious danger. so i tried to stay as calm as possible. pelosi
the prosecutor. providing a plethora of details about the days and weeks after the 2020 election. when donald trump and his allies tried anything and did everything they could to reverse what they knew was trump s election defeat. we re getting a look at what sidney powell and jenna ellis told prosecutors during the recessions. those are the meetings where defendants who take plea deals reveal any information that could be used against the other defendants in this case. which includes rudy giuliani and donald trump. former trump attorney general ellis descriing a chilling conversation with trump aid at a white house christmas party. i said something to him like i m sorry that we haven t been able to do more. and i emphasized to him i thought that the claims and the ability to challenge the election results was essentially over because of the dismissal of the case from the the supreme court. he said to me in an excited tone, well, we don t care. we re not going to leave. i
confidence. the court, which still has decisions on a dozen argued cases yet to be announced this term. today inadvertently posted online a document related to an abortion case which was obtained by bloomberg law. a supreme court spokesperson confirmed that the document was, quote, inadvertently and briefly up loaded but noted that the ruling has not been release and would be in due course. nbc news has not independently verified the document. it is not known if it is a draft decision, the actual decision, or neither of those things. the document has since been removed from the website. well if the document did signal was that court appears set to allow emergency room doctors in the state of idaho to perform life-saving abortions which they are unable to do under that state s defensive life act. that passed in august of 2022. the law is one of the most extreme abortion bans in the country. it prohibits nearly all abortions and does not allow for exceptions for the life of the
florida. that was a classified documents case. a continuation of what we have become so used to in this case. trump appointed judge, eileen cannon entertaining wonky and far-fetched attempts i trump s legal team to dismiss the case. the afternoon focus on a motion brought by special counsel jack smith. the centered of one of the most dangerous lies donald trump has ever told you might recall back in may trump seized upon a righteous conspiracy theory percolating in far right circles , a theory based upon an extreme mischaracterization of the fbi search one warrant on mar-a- lago. he claimed that president biden and the fbi were, quote, locked and loaded to take me out during the 2022 search of mar-a- lago. he posted the biden authorized the fbi to use deadly lethal force. what truck tried to portray as an attempt on his life just a distortion of the standard language that companies every search for the false narrative was based entirely on this, the fbi s policy on the use