The scenes of how to get the votes to pass that bill. Now the g. O. P. Leadership and the Trump Administration trying to lick their wounds and move forward after their first big legislative loss. The blame game behind the scenes. Correspondent kevin corke is at the white house wit where the president as you saw spoke about the decision to yank the bill. We begin with chief Congressional Correspondent mike emanuel on capitol hill with the move that really stunned washington today. Good evening, mike. Reporter bret, good evening, a intense day on capitol hill after republican healthcare package. Leadership aidest said it was President Trump who called on Speaker Paul Ryan to pull the bill mid afternoon. We didnt just quite get consensus today. What we have a memberdriven process to try to get consensus. We came very close but we did not get that consensus. Thats why i thought the wise thing to do was not proceed with a vote, but to pull the bill. Reporter mo brooks celebrated. Im pleased
made an arrest in those cases. laura: in the hunter biden case, of course, the solicitation of bribery done with a wink and a nod, that s no problem. you can get away with that. but having a different opinion on election results that s a federal crime or four federal crimes. senator, thank you for joining us tonight. now barks back with our legal . the defendant had a right, like every american, to speak publicly about the election. even to claim falsely there had been an outcome determinative fraud during the election and that he had won. so, they concede that he had the right to have a different opinion. but, what? so they throw that in there to try to protect themselves, bret, but then they violate what they claim they are still protecting. yeah, laura, that s what they are doing, in fact, it was quite
that agreement. a majority of house republicans vote toed disenfranchise the voters of pennsylvania and arizona. if you indicted in this case, i m not sure we will but if you do it will be someone who just went beyond their vote in congress. laura: bret, they are now at the point where they are not going to try to just put trump in jail, but, i guess, a member of congress who supported donald trump. do we see where this is going? that s what they want. that s right. that s what they want. they want to go after politicians. they want to go after anybody that disagrees with them. you look at section 241, that s the charge they are bringing, a civil rights claim against him and that s their conspiracy? that charge, in the language of the statute says a conspiracy to injure another who is trying to assert their constitutional you know, to exercise their constitutional rights. that does not apply here, but they don t care.
think he read that indictment before he made those statements. when you look at this thing, they are talking about how you have to find that he had knowledge and, yet, jack smith hasn t even his team has not even finished their investigation. they haven t interviewed some of the most key witnesses on that point. they rushed to an indictment this week. laura: bingo. until waiting until later this month when they actually finished their investigation. whether that s because of hunter biden or whether he was afraid that fanny willis was going to beat him to the punch, either way he brought a sloppy indictment before he finished an investigation. laura: i mean, bret brett, speaking of have no credibility the former fbi director andy mccabe was on the other networks. this was his analysis of the indictment. all conspiracy statutes, so they require that the person charged entered into an agreement with another person to commit the criminal act and then, of course, executed at least
don t think they are going to be able to overcome. and nothing in this document indicates that. laura: bret, the best defense for trump at this point going into a motion to dismiss the case, again, knowing who this judge is and her background and we would hope that she would be fair but i don t have a lot of faith in this given her track record on the j 6 defendants. what would be the best defense be? is it related to the members ray a issue in all of these counts that s obviously missing here or is there something else i m missing? no. that s right. though have to establish in their motions point out the lack of evidence that shows, that satisfies one of the elements of the crime. the most important element, the mens rea one is where we are sitting back and saying, you know, when i read an indictment, i want to see the intent of the individual to commit the crime. here we don t have anything that even comes close to identifying