and if you re just tuning in to cnn i have to tell you about betty thompson, the committee chair. he says that the january six committee has decided whether to subpoena mike pence or trying to call donald trump to testify. watch this? i think we would benefit from that testimony. they both have, i would think, significant knowledge about what goes on. but we have a committee. and we will work through the process. plus, first of cnn, multiple sources say a former trump national security council official will not testify, publicly, and thursday s primetime hearing. matthew pottinger resigned on january six after trump s tweet slamming his own vice president for refusing to overturn the election. one of my staff brought me a print out of a tweet by the president. and the tweet said something obvious to the effect of mike pence, the vice president didn t have the courage to do what s should have been done. i read that tweet. and made a decision at that moment. to resign. th
fraud trial in new york after hearing a key defense witness try and poke holes in the case against him. also tonight, so trump s gop rivals hit the campaign trail in iowa and new hampshire after their fourth debate without him. nikki haley s response to being the top target. smoke in the air over gaza and fierce fighting on the ground. israeli forces intensifying in their hunt for top leaders of hamas, two full months after the brutal attack on israel that launched the war. you are in the situation room. we begin this hour with donald trump s returned to his high-stakes new york civil fraud trial. the former president spending a full day in the courtroom as an accounting expert testified for the defense. paula, how is making their case here? there s so much on the line for the former president, this case strikes at the heart of his identity as a businessman and threatens his ability to even do business in the state of new york. the judge has already found him for de
with less than six weeks until the iowa caucuses four republican hopefuls not named trump try to set themselves apart. good evening from new york. hello from the spin room here on the campus of the university of alabama in tuscaloosa. site of the debate, 2024. it is wrapping up. chris christie, ron desantis, nikki haley and vivek ramaswamy once again the former president did not take part. nikki haley, who has been rising lately as a contender in some polls and in the eyes of some campaign watchers and certainly in the eyes of some big donors came in for she had a lot of criticism heading towards her tonight from desantis and ramaswamy. no doubt that. i know you will be speaking with some of the debaters tonight. look forward to that. pamela brown is checking the facts. gary has his focus group of voters in iowa. and our political panel here. first, a moment from the debate stage. a clash between chris christie a vivek ramaswamy with nikki haley it in the middle. you
january 6th. she s expected to testify. what do you think we may hear from them? yeah, don, thanks for having me. these are two individuals of extraordinary integrity but important players for a number of reason. matt pottinger, retired marine corps officer, who was the beijing bureau chief for the wall street journal before he pivoted international security. he is respected on both sides of the aisle. he was reminded in the clip that you posted, i traveled to southeast asia with him on a number of occasions. on the flip side you have sarah matthews, deputy white house secretary who i worked closely with who is a tried and true republican. she worked on capitol hill for republican governors in congress. she worked for the trump campaign. she was personally recruited by kayleigh mcenany to the white house. to have these people, who were there to serve and they left because they were so horrified by what they saw on january 6th, and they re going to be able to give a ted talk about wha
are saying is not right. we re not in an energy shortage. don [inaudible] it s going to lower the price of gas. that is not what s happening right now. this is not 1970 with jimmy carter. don, let me tell you, energy companies today are on the sidelines, they are not making the investments in production right now. he was in saudi arabia asking them to increase the amount of supply in the country. that s what he was doing. nothing to do with the price of gas today. let me ask you about january six. committee will be wrapping up its current hearing, scheduled on thursday. what do you think is going to come out of this hearing? i said a week ago that the trump supporters, many of them, have become mushy. they aren t defending him anymore. i think that the fact of the matter is he is like a scrambling man who is the rambling man, he is the scrambling man. that s why he is talking about announcing, don. he s talking about announcing for president to try and change the subject