perhaps the harshest rebuke of this indictment, of the former president. he said trump quote, brought it upon himself, which i thought was notable. he was alone pretty much in that camp. when you go over to the house, those republicans, particularly all of leadership, are standing firmly in the former president s corner. that could not be more evident than when you look at what speaker mccarthy had to say. take a listen to this video that he prerecorded and posted on twitter. when you learn, i think jim jordan s gonna bring it out tonight, when you learned that of some of the things that he had said, and how this investigation was carried out, you will see then, that this judgment is wrong. that they treated president trump differently than they treated others. and it didn t have to be this way. this is going to disrupt this nation, it goes to the core of equal justice for all, which is not being seen today. and we are not going to stand for it. now he s backing up chairman jim jor
rudy giuliani. he also took shot at giuliani, specifically from this press conference featuring that hair dried drip disaster he quoted, stupid and damaging. and then you have tucker carlson, who had one tex exchange with a fellow fox employee said of trump quote, hate him passionately. in a separate text, carlso even called the ex president a quote, demonic force, and th destroyer, as you do now admittedly, i have personally enjoyed sharing i embarrassing exchanges hypocritical exchanges tha were included in court filings but as brian stelter, th median commentator pointed out vanity tear, come day one of the trial tomorrow, none o those texts will actuall matter that much quote, what will matter of the circumstances around key moments in november december 2020 in the weeks after the election, did fox have actual knowledg it was spreading lies abou dominion did it act with, reckles disregard for the truth? to that point, here are th messages we should be paying attention to again, r
here joining us live, hi republican colleagues are bein accused of intentionally misrepresenting thei investigation into the biden family we re going to get his insight on that and much more, on beautiful median let s get started. donald trump made his first appearance out of a courtroo on tuesday, it was als probably the first time he found himself responding t orders instead of actually giving them. for decades, the real estate tycoon answer to one man, an one man only himself. as washington post philip bump put, it trump quote, wasn geopolitical terms, an autocrat as head of the
and then came that infamous phone call, which was, if it isn t already obvious, far from perfect. on july 25th, 2019, donald trump and the ukrainian president, volodymyr zelenskyy, shared a phone call. according to transcripts, zelenskyy told trump quote, we are ready to continue to cooperate for the next steps. specifically, we are almost ready to buy more javelins from the united states for defense purposes, and quote. to which donald trump responded, quote, i would like you to do us a favor, though. i would like you to do us a favor, though. trump made $400 million in congressionally approved military aid to ukraine, contingent upon zelenskyy doing trump a favor, by announcing investigations into his political rival, joe biden and his son. trump temporarily froze congressionally approved military aid to ukraine to pressure zelenskyy. all of this, of course,
it s where we start tonight with peter alexander. reporter: tonight, the showdown over government secrets lawyers for president trump and justice department prosecutors facing off in a federal courtroom over mr. trump s request for an independent third party, what s known as a special master, to review documents seized in that controversial search at mr. trump s mar-a-lago home. tonight the judge saying she ll rule on that request at a later date mr. trump s lawyers arguing the judge needed to help restore public confidence by allowing more transparency into the government s actions and dismissing the investigation into the former president s keeping highly classified documents, comparing them to an overdue library book the justice department opposes an independent review of the documents, saying they ve already gone through them and acknowledging more than 500 pages may be protected by attorney-client privilege. the doj argues the classified documents belong to the u.s., not to mr.