you get a fair shake. why would i allow a hostile network and allow people that are polling at zero, polling at zero, one is zero with an arrow left. why would i allow people at 1 and 2% and 0% to be hitting me with questions all night. i don t think it s fair. that was former president donald trump s noncommittal answer on debating the other republican candidates because of their polling numbers when new data shows his own are starting to slip amid his federal indictment and the possibility of another indictment for january 6th coming this summer. the numbers are starting to slip, and you look at the people outside the hard core republican base, republicans and even independents leaning republican. you get outside of that to swing voters, to independents, to everybody else. something like 85% of those voters. i think he needs to drop out of the race right now. we ll have more on that ahead. also ahead, we re learning more about the plea deal for hunter biden as the
politicsnation. tonight s lead, out with the old, in with the new. right now there s literally just hours left in 2022. a turbulent political year now ending with several transitions. not least of which being this incoming divided congress. the winds of change are blowing in both parties, as new leadership takes the reins for congressional democrats, for republicans, and internal battles over the parties future rages even as the gop prepares to take over the house in a little over a week. 2022 you had its highs and lows. but, i am grateful for a few things. democrats retained the senate, and i ve held on to morehouse eats not expected. the biden white house has a long list of policy wins to boast about as the year ends. and, even with a congressional probe into january 6th ending, the investigation surrounding donald trump appears to be tightening by the day. and, yesterday at the after six years of legal wrangling, we finally know just how little donald trump paid in federal
right now. after a year s long legal battle, donald trump s tax returns are now public. the thousands of pages show that during the first and last years of his presidency, trump paid very little in federal income taxes, claiming huge losses to shave down his tax bill. we have experts ready to break down the six years of filings plus a member of the house ways and means committee into what went into the decision to make everything public and the precedence it sets going forward. we ve got more developments from the january 6th committee. another batch of deposition transcripts just dropped. among the interviews, rudy giuliani, jared kushner, and mick mulvaney, and what they said and how it all impacts the former president coming up a major break through in the quadruple idaho murder cacy a 28-year-old man has been taken into custody in connection with the case according to multiple law enforcement officials. what we know and what we could find out at today s news conferenc
citigroup and goldman sachs, no record. graduated from universities, no record of that. blatant lies and calls into question how your constituents and the american people can believe anything you may say when you are standing on the floor of the house of representatives supposedly fighting for them? that s the real issue here. well, look, and i agree with what you re saying, and as i stated and i continue, we can debate my resume and how i worked with firms such as goldman is it debatable or just false? is it debatable or just false? it s not false at all. it s debatable. congressman-elect santos given you a lot of time. i think the time owed is to the people of new york. it 3rd. it s hard to imagine how they could possibly trust your explanations when you re not even willing to admit the depth of your deception to them. thank you so much for being here and joining us. thank you, tulsi. congressman-elect george santos confronted for lying about his resume by tulsi
impacted spending habits then we will speak to judy chu about the overall state of our economy. and then today the supreme court could hand down a critical condition that could impact the southern border, and we will take you live to el paso we begin marking one of the busiest travel days of the year, both on the roads and in the air after people are scrambling to get home after the christmas holidays, and a blizzard is contributing to problems today alone more than 1,300 u.s. flights have been delayed, and near nearly 2,900 have been cancelled, and a bulk of that coming from southwest airlines, and it s not just airline travelers facing a daunting journey home according to aaa, today and tomorrow are expected to be the most congested days on the road as travelers mix with commuters back to work after the holiday joining us now, blayne alexander, and then blayne, i was caught up in the middle of it a couple days trying to get back to new york describe the scene you are se