i am hoping to speak and to help my lawyers reveal all of the defects of this case. this is a case that should have never been brought, and it was brought. it s very unfair. could this be the start of a new day for the 2024 gop race? chris christie dropping out. the field could solidify behind one trump challenger as soon as next week. we don t need a politician who tells you what she thinks you want to hear just to try to get your vote. every time he lies, drake university don t turn this into a drinking game, because you will be overserved by the end of the night. 25 hours after hunter biden surprised congress, he is in california preparing to face a federal judge this afternoon. good to be with you. court is in a break and donald trump is speaking. we will show live pictures in a moment. andrea mitchell is on assignment. donald trump s defense team should be finishing their closing arguments relatively soon this afternoon. right now they are on a morning break. t
bret: let s all have town hall. vivek is going to be on this show little bit later. beers and town hall. thanks, jesse. bret: good evening, welcome to des moines iowa, i m bret baier. five days away from the first in the nation iowa caucuses. tonight at 9:00 p.m., we will hold the third of this week s candidate town hall meetings right here and our guest tonight on this stage former president donald trump. we ll have more on that in just a moment. but, we are following two major stories at this hour. hunter biden makes a surprise appearance at the congressional hearing today up on capitol hill on whether he should be charged with contempt of congress. but we begin with a late afternoon surprise. this one in the 2024 campaign. republican presidential candidate chris christie is suspending his campaign and is dropping out of this race. christie making that announcement just minutes ago. you saw it live on the five. congressional correspondent aishah hasnie is here in de
but it s worth just, sort of, going back to brass tacks, i think, for a second. in a two-party system, each party is important, right? in a two-party system, the relative strength, the relative skill, the organizational capacity, the financial status, the size, the health and capacity of each party is at least a little bit important in every single state in the country. even in states that are dominated by one party or the other, the health and the capacity of each party matters. it s particularly crucial, of course, in swing states, though, where one party doesn t dominate and the places it s likely to be a close race between the republican nominee and the democratic nominee and the general election this fall. it is particularly important how healthy the state parties are on both sides.e and the battleground states, the swing states these days, it s at familiar list. states like arizona, georgia, pennsylvania, michigan, a few others. given all that, though, here s today s po
politicsnation. tonight s lead, a solemn anniversary. it has been four years to the day since and ceramicists stormed the u.s. capitol in former president donald trump s name. and despite the horrors of that day, very little has changed in our politics. capital rioters are still being brought to justice three years later. just this morning, three january 6th fugitives were arrested by the fbi in florida. and with just days before our first presidential nominating contest of this election year, the u.s. supreme court will soon decide whether colorado and other states can legally bar trump from the appellate over his january 6th conduct. though that conduct hasn t stopped much of the republican party from circling around trump as your choice for president. a reality that president biden, in his first campaign event of 2024 last night, cost a historic, existential threat to our union. democracies still americas secret calls, the most urgent question of our time. donald t
budget committee. and congressman robert garcia of the oversight committee are here to discuss. courtroom campaign. donald trump is set to appear at two high stakes hearings this week. melissa murray comes by to discuss the possible legal and political implications with the iowa caucuses just eight days away. and hollywood s golden moment. chris witherspoon joining me with his predictions on who the big winners could be at tonight s golden globes. i m jonathan capehart and this is the sunday show. this week, congress, the least productive in decades, finally comes back in session after a holiday break. and man, they have an overflowing to do list with a bleakest prospects of getting any of it doesn t let alone on time. one of the republican-controlled house returns tuesday, it will only have eight working days before the first government shutdown deadline of january 19th. and another for working days for the second deadline on february 2nd. but there appears to