Today the russia investigation took a major step forward. For the first time a member of the president s inner circle faced questions on capitol hill. Put another way, this investigation has now come within one man of the president. He is arguably the closest man to the president. White house Senior Adviser and soninlaw Jared Kushner spent more than two hours with the Senate Intelligence committee and then he made a Public Statement saying he never colluded with russia. It comes as trump pours the pressure on his own Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, who rekuzed himself from the Justice Departments russia investigation months ago. A decision the president has not been able to get past. He wrote about sessions on twitter this morning, referring to his own Attorney General, mind you, as our beleaguered Attorney General. And tonight the Washington Post as a new report headline, trump leaves sessions twisting
in the wind Bile Berating him publicly. It reads in Part Sessions was once conside
Congress, eight and half months writing this book, i hope we check it out and get it. That is all the time we have tonight. Im Jason Chaffetz and for laura ingraham. Ill be back tomorrow night. Again, my favorite person at fox news, Shannon Bream is up next. Shannon, take it away. Shannon not just because i cant wait to get my hands on your part. Is going to be great. Thank you, jason. We begin with a Fox News Alert with the president trailing a crowd of West Virginia asking, wears a collusion, as he says investigators continue to search for something thats never happens. But there was was a Major Development survey in a Special Counsels investigation. It appears President Trumps former attorney going from the white house to the big house. Michael cohen reaching a deal with the prosecutors that does include paul. My jail time. Paul manafort convicted on eight counts of tax and bank fraud. None of the 18 connected to President Trump or his campaign. Stick around as our panel of legal ex
is really a wide a range of topics that we expect are going to come up in the hours ahead. wolf, learned fox, i want you to stand by up on capitol hill, were watching all the drama unfold, katelyn polantz is with me here in the cnn newsroom right now. as you know, caitlin now the attorney general address, the bogus allegation that the justice department was totally behind what the manhattan district attorney did in prosecuting the former president donald trump. and his response was strong. it was indeed so congress and matt gaetz specifically was pressing for answers on that and saying to garland, there must have been coordination somehow. and garland says not mincing words, we do not control the manhattan district attorney. they make their own decisions. they re completely independent. it is true that the justice department investigated some of the business dealings of donald trump, chose not to bring the campaign finance case ultimately. and then the manhattan da s be they went
Worst president in the history of our country. Harris youre watching outnumbered here with my cohost of emily Compagno And Kayleigh mcenany. Fox News Contributor and the federalist editor and chief mollie hemingway. Fox News Contributor and retired u. S. Marine bomb tech, joey jones. Lets go straight to our correspondent who is outside the u. S. Supreme court. A Big Day for trump in court. A lot to catch us up on, eric. This morning at new York State supreme court, the defense was blonde. Michael cohen who has no criminal they said. Michael cohen wants to see President Trump go to prison. The prosecution said it was former President Trump who broke the law. The defendant sat quietly at that Events Table at times, former President Trump shook his Head And Objection to what he was hearing. Prosecutor told the hushed
january 6th but for now mitch mcconnell not going anywhere. all right, melanie, thank you. up on capitol hill, melanie zanona. let s turn to the campaign trial in iowa where former president trump joins the rest of the field for a key event. it s his first campaign appearance since the new charges against him in the classified documents case. cnn s jessica dean is in des moines for us out on the campaign trail watching what s going on, ron desantis is starting to go after trump a bit more directly now. what is he saying and what can we expect tonight? reporter: well, we re inside the ballroom where we ll see all the candidates along with donald trump and it s the first time he s appeared at one of these cattle calls at the same time after his rivals and we re seeing all his legal issues running right at and colliding with this 2024 primary as it has