the country, including a former president, was the subject of a hearing today in a federal courthouse in washington, d.c. attorneys for donald trump and federal prosecutors argued over trump s claim that the federal election case against him should be dismissed because everything he did in the postelection period was in his official capacity as president. the three-judge panel that is hearing the case appeared spectacle of that claim. the ex-president and jack smith were in the courtroom today. trump has been claiming that president joe biden has been forcing him to appear in court, which is not true, he did have no obligation to appear at today s hearing. trump s attorney argued that allowing the prosecution of donald trump would, quote, open a pandora s box, but the judge has pushed back on that and many of the arguments he was making. trump s lawyer also argued that the president could only be prosecuted if he was impeached and convicted by the senate first, no matter what
case is about. laura: well a blatantly false a blatantly false statement. here s the onl y thingin ifn lawyers need to know about this case.ft if after the twenterytion twenty election, donald trump had announced that he was retiring from politics,indict alvin would not have indicted him.ed or let s say if after 2020, trump had gradually evolved ind his views and maybe became more like romney or one of the bushes in that case,ve ind alvin bragg would not haveic indicted him. the real reason that donald trump was bookedngerprin and fingerprinted today comes down to one simple fact. wrong he has the wrongs political views. now to the entire class of politicians and media figures who cheered the proceedings today. donaldding trump represents an existential threat, a threat to the regim thee that s run our country into the ground fort decades, a threat to the credibilit tibility y the mediae calls out relentlessly. but most significant of all,um another trump term is a threata
to start? i d like to get in on the action here. text me. you got my number. let s do it. deal . all right. have a great shilpi. sean, thanks. great show, as always. appreciate it. and sean mentioned on pete hegseth in for laura ingraham tonight. and this is a special addition of the ingraham angle. it is official. the trump show has returned to the big apple, the former president touched down in new york city late in the three o clock hour today. and then with every news chopper in new york city on the scene, was whisked away in more than a dozen car motorcade, presidential motorcade, you might say, to trump tower in midtown manhattan. upon arriving, there was one quick shot of trump entering the building. he gave a wave to supporters outside, then went up to his residence, the penthouse, trump tower is where we find our only boy, nate. what is the latest? what can you tell us ? right now? things are pretty quiet here. the former president has not left the penthous
here tonight with reaction. but first, rule and ruin, that s the focus of tonight s angle. of course radical new york prosecutor is trying to take down trump before 2024, duh. this apparent move toward indicting the former president, biden stumbled climbing air force one. rather than focusing on putting away violent criminals, da alvin bragg wants to make a name for himself by squaring off with donald trump on a case that is as pathetic as it is political. bragg made a future trump prosecution the cornerstone as his campaign for da. has the experience with donald trump, i was the chief deputy in the attorney general s office, we sued the trump administration over 100 times. i know how to litigate with him. laura: one little problem for alvin nothing to bragg about, his only path of admission into the trump haters hall of fame is through a sleezeee lawyer and stormy daniels. well today the grand jury got to hear from a man who new michael cohen very well. his adviser, robe
reject any electorate votes! i m telling you, if pence game, we re going to drag mother [ bleep ] through the streets. you [ bleep ] politicians are going to get drug through the streets. hang mike pence. hang mike pence! hang mike pence! hang mike pence! this was real. this is the evidence. this has nothing to do with partisanship or how one might feel about how vice president pence conducted himself in government, his view, his ideology. that sometimes gets lost partly because of right wing lies. this was about america. a threat to the vice president pushed and organized by the president, and we re learning new details that people need to understand for our society and future, how close these rioters and criminals and would-be indicted insurrectionists came to locate pence as they plotted his assassination during what you have to remember then, no one knew how it would end, how long it would go, how bad it would get. as they got that close to him during that insu