than half of the republican members of congress and before all the votes were even counted in iowa on monday night, at least at least a fair, nick the gop house conference, there was already calling for the other candidates to drop out. this weekend, she is in new hampshire campaigning on the former president s behalf and maybe auditioning to be his running mate. also at a rally last night, trump received a key endorsement for one of his former 2024 opponents, the south carolina senator tim scott, who was ironically appointed to his position by then south carolina governor nikki haley. as was the case in 2016, virtually the entire gop is falling in line behind trump. nearly two thirds of iowa republicans say that they believe he would still be fit to be president even if he is fit committed of a crime. a similar responded that believe president biden legitimately run the 2020 election. a sign that trump s baseless big lie continues to have a hold on the gop. the response
quote, the financial statements are perfect. the bank s got all their money. the banks are happy as can be. the money is irrelevant. it s a small number. i m an innocent man persecuted by someone running for office. this state is vicious. and it takes away all my rightings. this is no fraud. it s a fraud on me. i did nothing wrong, he said. perhaps unsurprisingly, judge engoron interrupted asking chris kise to control your client, before calling the whole thing off and breaking for lunch. it s the prosecution s turn to deliver its close. asking for a $370 million fine as well as a ban on the trump organization in new york. prosecutors say the court has not heard any new facts from donald trump s team because, quote, most of the facts are undisputed. joining us from outside the manhattan courthouse, yasmin vossoughian. it got a bit spicy today. what else are we hearing from the prosecution right now? reporter: spicy is putting it lightly to say the least. i got to say, when
on all of this later on. we re separately learning that the bond order that the president had to sign in order to leave the courthouse states that he had no contact with any witnesses in this case, including walt nauta, that was indicted. the former body man for the president who was helping him move boxes around. some say that he was this co conspirator that hatched this plan to hide that from authorities. so much we don t know. this much we do. the former president went ahead and signed that bond order about a half an hour ago. let s get the latest from mark meredith in miami. he takes a look at what went down just a few minutes ago. hi, mark. neil, good afternoon to you. a historic day. these proceedings will continue long after this arraignment hearing wrapped up in the last few minutes. as we mentioned, the former president pleading not guilty. the justice department under the special counsel last charged him with that he conspired to hide these classified documents as
the government will crush you and your family if you try to expose the truth about their wrongdoing. make no mistake. there is serious misconduct going on at this fbi. some now believe that america s once premier law enforcement agency is now beyond repair especially the blatantly partisan washington field office which seemingly operates as an arm of the democratic party. let us be clear. this isn t just about the bureau s anti- trump witchhunt called crossfire hurricane which we have gone into great detail this week. the political rot extends far beyond the former president of the united states. you have pro- abortion activist, traditional catholics, people, moms and dads who merely attend trump rallies. even angry parents. how dare they speak out about age-appropriate material being taught to their kids or crt. how about we stick to reading, writing, math, science and computers. if they speak out at a school board meeting, you speak out against critical race theory and you
that they ve been restricted from using, in their ongoing criminal probe into these classified documents, that were seized from mar-a-lago last month. the appeals court is saying here, they are really agreeing with the justice department, saying that yes, in fact, national security could be harmed if the justice department can t continue its probe here. they set the doj has argued that the criminal investigation, and then national security investment is inextricably linked. the appeals court saying, yes, in fact, if we don t let the doj continue to use these classified documents, there will be real and significant harm on the united states and the public. notably, in this opinion as well, anderson, the 11th circuit is really faulting trump s lawyers, for not better explaining what seems to be their argument, the trump may be declassified [inaudible] his lawyers, his allies, but they ve not offered any proof in court filings or in-person. so the 11 circuit tonight criticizin