trial. reporter: can trump overcome this case? house judiciary chairman jim jordan will join me next. and political shock wave. the historic indictment further unsettles the presidential contest. it is a horrible thing for this country. i have never once suggested to the justice department what they should do or not do. reporter: will trump be on trial while he is on the trail? i ll speak to former impeachment prosecutor and democratic congressman dan goldman, ahead. plus, pardon power. one republican presidential candidate said he d pardon trump if he wins. this is not about politics to me. this is about principle. reporter: another says trump needs to drop out. the country doesn t need this distraction. reporter: how does the indictment change the gop race? two presidential hopefuls join me in moments. hello. i m dana bash in washington where the state of our union is once again in uncharted waters. this weekend a defiant donald trump is once again pre
3:00 p.m. eastern and we expect the former president to plead not guilty either today or in a separate formal arraignment. we ll find out. much of the republican party has been rallying behind trump. they are trying to utilize the d.o.j. as an influence operation within the campaigns within elections. america is seeing a double standard. perhaps president trump should have gone after hillary clinton. he didn t. should joe biden be allowed to aggressively go after the former president? i think president trump has not been treated equally like everybody else in this process. harris: 2024 challenger nikki haley has reversed course. two things can be true at the same time. one, the d.o.j. and f.b.i. have lost all credibility with the american people. the second thing can also be true. if this indictment is true, if what it says is actually the case, president trump was incredibly reckless with our national security. harris: so why trump, though? and not biden? plenty
, that s not it. what else could would he be forgetting? kevin! and, when you re in a rush, sometimes you forget what you pack. and that s been joe biden s excuse for stealing highly classified documents. believe it or not, the white house is telling cnn joe broke the law because he was in a rush. he had trips planned on the last week of his vice presidency. joe was flying out to davos where he was meeting his bud chinese president xi jinping. i guess xi couldn t make it to the foothills of the himalayas. joe even flew out to ukraine to meet the ukrainian president. what was the big guy doing in ukraine the week before trump s inauguration while hunter was raking in 80 grand a month from working there? that s the million dollars question. so, since joe was too busy planning his get away, he had his aides scrambling late night to get him all packed up and out of there. so no wonder joe was surprised when he opened up the garage one day and saw intel briefings on ukra
pete aguilar said a few minutes ago. in jim jordan wants to continue to chase rainbows, that s fine. i don t think this is anything that the american public are too concerned about. i don t think that they are concerned about chasing a 10-year-old document in what jim jordan says he saw from a document or whistleblower. harris: what is your reaction? we re trying to get to the facts. when it comes to president trump we ve asked for the scope memo that typically accompanies a special counsel. we want that. when it comes to this document regarding the 1023, make it public to find out what s going on. it is alleged the president of united states was engaged in doing certain policy decisions for money. that s pretty serious stuff. so they can downplay it but i think the country would like to know what s really going on with their current president and like to know why, in fact, you are indicting a former president who is leading in every single poll. declared candidate for the 2024
and spied on four american citizens associated with his campaign. it has continued to this day. anyone with common sense can see that. if that was the case about hillary clinton then why didn t the trump justice department during the four years they were in office prosecute her, i should say there is no evidence there was actually classified e-mails. president trump doesn t go after his political enemies. he knew what it would do to the country. the democrats do not care. you were head of the judiciary committee in the house. you said congress should have an oversight role here. what actions are you going to take? are you going to call jack smith to testify? are you going to subpoena him? we ve already asked for it. typically there is a scope memo that goes with a scope order for special counsel. we ve asked merrick garland to give us the scope memo much like the one rod rosenstein wrote to bob mueller that outlined a bigger, broader picture what this investigation was about. i