Bret former President Donald Trump will not have to appear in person for the next hearing hes facing following this weeks indictment regarding alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The trial judge making that ruling today. This comes amid growing questions about the Justice System in the midst of dozens of criminal charges against the former president and multiple investigations involving the family of President Biden. Congressional republicans are vowing a strong response to what they feel is a twotiered application of the law. Senior Congressional Correspondent chad pergram starts us off tonight live from capitol hill. Good evening, chad. Bret, good evening. The g. O. P. Says there are two sets of rules. One for the bidens, another for former President Trump. The right intends to level the playing field. You cant beat them, you persecute them. Republicans believe there is something nefarious going on. It seems as though every time trump goals higher in the poll he gets a new
Ron desantis during his speech while former texas congressman will hurd received a chorus of boos in response to his criticism of the former president. Our bill melugin tracking all of this, he is in des moines with the details. Bill . Reporter molly, good afternoon to you. The iowa gop caucuses are still almost six months away, set for january a 15th. But all these gop candidates here in des moines last night making their pitch to voterser at the lincoln dinner. Before the dinner started, iowas very popular republican governor kim reynolds got on stage to speak. She has not made an endorsement yet, and its highly sought after by these candidates. Well get right into what they had to say starting with former President Trump. He got on stage and talked about having the most secure border in American History under his presidency. He talked about his Polling Numbers being better than ron desantis, and he slammed joe bidens Foreign Policy specifically on afghanistan. Take a listen. The mos
disapprove of the decision. as republican 2024 candidates line up today at a d.c. forum to court evangelical conservatives with their anti-abortion credentials. the battle for life is far from over. we have not come to the end of our cause. we have simply come to the end of the beginning. we have to start with tomorrow s anniversary and thank god almighty for the dobbs decision. absolutely. also, a navy sonar heard the catastrophic implosion of the oceangate submersible less than two hours into its dive. experts say it must have immediately killed all five people on board, but the navy says it had to continue the search for four more days until they had visual sighting of the debris just to be sure. as families mourn, what is the future of deep sea exploration? and was safety compromise it by the daring mission? and hunter biden days after agreeing to a misdemeanor plea deal joining his family at the gala state dinner only hours after house republicans released testimon
indictment. no one has made that allegation. at the end of the day, you have to weigh the damage of the indictment versus the damage of the allegations. it s just not even a fair way. senator marco rubio s evolution on donald trump s access to and handling of classified documents. yeah, i agree, it s not even a close call. you weigh whether you believe as the 11th circuit said that the foundational principle of this country, that no man is above the law, and you balance that against whatever marco was saying we should balance it against. and, you know, willie, i just you will notice you will notice of all of the noise out there, of all of the ground noise, nobody is saying he s innocent. nobody is saying he did not commit the crimes that will put him in jail for over a hundred years, if convicted on all things. i can t think of one person who has said this man did not do it. so what they say is what about hillary? i mean but they had a long time to do that.
fromservesn office and disgrace. but for this breaking federal classification rules, some of the stupidest and most dishonest laws congress s hasasn ever passed. it s like arresting el chapoint. for expired plates. it s missing the point, but it looks like that s what s going to happen. it seems like every day when abidance lawyer shows up with more sheaves of classifierd documents, like a dog who se found another dead chipmunk under the house. this bunch was in his office at pen , the one paid for by the communist party of china. ch these were found next to hisinat sad little mid-life crisis. sportscar in a garage in delaware and so on . you keep waiting for the white house physician to announce another document. trove has been discovered after a routinr the colonoscopy. it could happen because at this point, you know exactly where this story is heading. permanent washington does not want joe biden to run for biden president . again, this is how they re t i sending that