starts right now. martha: thanks very much. good afternoon. i m martha maccallum. live in des moines, iowa. this is the story. we re just hours away from our third big event of this week. tonight we will speak with former president donald trump as he heads in to caucus week, monday night, very important night for him. he will take the stage here this evening with me and with bret baier. that will happen at 9:00 p.m. eastern, 8:00 p.m. here in iowa. we have a lot more ahead on tonight s town hall as we prep and get ready for all of that. we re looking forward to it. first though, a shocker on capitol hill this morning. hunter biden showed up at a hearing, no one was expecting him. it was his contempt of congress hearing that was getting underway after he defied a subpoena from house republicans to testify behind closed doors. that s the general procedure before you do a public hearing. so here s how that went over both sides of the aisle. watch. you re the epitome of whi
who bribed hunter biden to be here today. that s my first question. i think that hunter biden should be arrested right here, right now and go straight to jail. the witness being afraid to come in front of the committee, it s interesting. he s here. doesn t seem to be too afraid. the rule is those are your words. he was issued two lawful subpoenas, the chair recognize miss green from georgia. thank you, mr. chairman. excuse me, hunter, apparently you are afraid of my words. sandra: whoa is right. fireworks on capitol hill after the president s son crashed that house oversight contempt hearing just a short time ago, taking a seat before leaving just minutes later. house republicans ripping his surprise appearance as nothing but a stunt, and what was a chaotic scene for sure. any moment now the white house is expected to face a series of questions, and we do anticipate the hearing and hunter biden will be front and center. sandra smith in new york. what a day so
williamson is back. she is now polling 10%, no, i m not kidding, in the democratic primary and robert f. kennedy s at 21%. we re going to ask her why biden and the dnc are so afraid of competition. but first tonight, the oh, so by as mob and the media and their close friends and willing allies the press secretary and democratic party living in an alternate reality. let s give you exhibit a. hillary clinton, we all know james comey admitted it, she mishandled troves of top-secret classified material. she attempted to cover it up. that s the 30,000 e-mails they had. she destroyed 30,000 other e-mails that were subpoenaed during an ongoing investigation. hillary, a democrat, she was never raided or charged with a crime. and north carolinas of course, lacking in and all self awareness which is typical of all things bill clinton and hillary clinton my little pumpkin is calling the allegations against trump beyond anything she has ever thought possible in this country. you sure abo
bret: let s all have town hall. vivek is going to be on this show little bit later. beers and town hall. thanks, jesse. bret: good evening, welcome to des moines iowa, i m bret baier. five days away from the first in the nation iowa caucuses. tonight at 9:00 p.m., we will hold the third of this week s candidate town hall meetings right here and our guest tonight on this stage former president donald trump. we ll have more on that in just a moment. but, we are following two major stories at this hour. hunter biden makes a surprise appearance at the congressional hearing today up on capitol hill on whether he should be charged with contempt of congress. but we begin with a late afternoon surprise. this one in the 2024 campaign. republican presidential candidate chris christie is suspending his campaign and is dropping out of this race. christie making that announcement just minutes ago. you saw it live on the five. congressional correspondent aishah hasnie is here in de
president biden appearing at the house hearing to consider holding him in contempt of congress for defying the subpoena last month. his political stunt is setting off fierce reaction. what is hunter biden so afraid of? you are here for a political stunt. a game you are playing with the american people. what do you think about the fact the chairman gave this witness the opportunity to come before the full committee and he agreed before that. we issued congressional subpoena and with your constitutional law background, you know what that means and he should have showed up and you should be holding this man in contempt of congress today right now. a stunning wednesday morning, hello, this is outnumbered, i m kayleigh mcenany. here with my co-host harris faulkner and emily compagno and restoring america editor for washington examiner and senior fellow for independent women s forum kaylee mcgee white and fox news contributor raymond arroyo. laums debating whether to hold