Bret, good evening to you. Donald trumps closest advisers are spinning this indictment to advantage. Meanwhile his former number two, former Vice President mike pence who refused to overturn the results of the election is in attack mode. Former Vice President mike pence running against his old boss is coming out swinging. It wasnt just they asked for a pause. The president specifically asked me and his gaggle of crackpot lawyers asked me to literally reject votes and literally coas would have ensued. Indictment pence allegedly told trump he had no authority to do so, according to the indictment, in response, the defendant told the Vice President youre too honest. Trump is staying positive at least publicly. Posting on social media hours ago thank you to everyone. I have never had so much support on anything before. The 45page indictment lays out an overarching theme. The defendant lost the 2020 president ial election despite having lost the defendant was determined to remain in power.
that s a fact. that s not a.i. i m bill hemmer. good morning at home. today s house oversight hearing looking at the chaotic withdrawal of kabul and the way it was handled that allowed u.s. military equipment to fall into the hands of the taliban, destabilizing the entire region and resulting in the deaths of 13 u.s. service members and hundreds of americans left behind. a separate hearing on afghanistan yesterday taking direct aim at previous denials of the chaos by the white house. denials like this. and so for all this talk of chaos, i didn t see it. not from my perch. at one point during the evacuation there was an aircraft taking off full of people americans and afghans alike every 48 mission and not one mission was missed. i don t buy whole argument of chaos, i m sorry. administration continues to downplay what happened is an insult to the service members sitting here and throughout the united states of america. one doesn t have to see the horrific images or footage
investigators find a link between bryon kohberger and one of his victims. he sent a series of direct messages on instagram two weeks before the slayings. bill: meanwhile more breaking news. a drip, drip, drip on the classified document story. peter doze doocy reporting from the white house. the d.o.j. went to the residence in wilmington, delaware where documents were found in the garage and personal library to retrieve and take possession. they did not go to the office on capitol hill but based on that reporting so far they did go to delaware to retrieve the document, doj officials. dana: when you have a story like this and every eight hours a new nugget. lawyers are wonderful people but sometimes they drive a communicator crazy. they said they went to the home to retrieve them to make sure everyone is clear. when a timeline keeps changing it makes people question what s going on. bill: the wall street journal reported late last night suggesting that the attorneys t
correspondent aishah hasnie has that part of the story from capitol hill. tonight, republican fire brands matt gaetz and marjorie taylor green renewing their calls to defund special counsel jack smith s investigations into former president trump. green eyeing the upcoming appropriations process gaetz retweeting a previous call to take up this bill. they are attacking our democracy and engaging in election interference right now. any such measure would likely fail in a democrat controlled senate. now, both parties are watching what house judiciary chairman jim jordan does next. a judiciary spokesperson tells fox everything is on the table. including calling smith to testify. republicans taking particular issue with the timing of the incident one day after former hunter biden associate devon archer s testimony. congratulations, mr. president. and the conspiracy to defraud charge over trump disputing the 2020 election results. republicans pointing to
chairman durbin of the judiciary committee from moving nominees. we heard three nominees yesterday. one of whom is from louisiana who will receive republican votes. what senator feinstein s absence is preventing, my friend senator durbin from doing is ramming through a handful of president biden s nominees who aren t qualified to be federal judges. they either think the u.s. constitution is the name of a ship or based on their record, they want to ignore the constitution. they are from the loon wing of the democratic party and they won t receive republican votes and senator feinstein s absence stops senator durbin from ramming those nominees through. bill: you dropped a name there of a judge from baton