And i dont have any cookies either. Thanks, dana. Bret good evening, welcome to washington. Im bret baier. A rematch of the 2020 election between President Biden and former President Donald Trump, seems inevitable on this wednesday after the Super Tuesday primaries. The current president was essentially unopposed and the former president has vanquished his lone remaining serious challenger. Former South Carolina governor, former Ambassador Nikki Haley suspended her Campaign Today after winning just one of the 15 State Primaries on the republican side last night. She is not, however, throwing her support behind the presumptive nominee at least not yet. Well have the first fox news Power Rankings for the president ial election shortly. First up though, correspondent bill melugin starts us off tonight live from charleston, South Carolina. Good evening, bill. Bill bret, good evening to you. Nikki haley had been facing mounting questions about the viability of her Campaign Heading into Supe
classified documents. the special counsel found evidence that president biden, quote, willfully retaineds classified materials found no reason to press criminal charges. drew distinction between the criminal probe of handling of documents and his findings regarding president biden. the long standing justice department priniple that you cannot indict a sitting president does not apply and would not bring charges even if joe biden were no longer president. we ll have more on that later in the program. we begin with a hearing at the nation s highest court. an historic hearing for some very big questions about the constitution. the future of our democracy and at the heart of the case, a request from voters for some accountability for an unprecedented insurrection. first up, jonathan mitchell, the attorney for donald trump, argued among other things, that january 6th was not an insurrection. it was a riot. he also argued that the president is not technically an officer of the unit
this point. he s been criticized for not believing in the greatness of america. he actually believes that we ve got cards that we can play that no other country can play. we can play a defense card, a diplomacy card, a development card, a democracy card, and when something horrible happens, we should put those cards on the table. everybody doesn t agree. rand paul doesn t agree, but he does, i think that s important that we recognize he has a view of american greatness and he s acting from that point of view. it is it s ironic that most conservatives would actually agree with the president, but this is an exceptional nation. that exceptionalism starts with our declaration of independence where we say all people are created and their creator has endowed them with certain unalienable rights. the ironic thing tois to have a russian to lecture us on whether or not we are exceptional. the president s position, whether or not you agree with the details of the policy, his core position th
of the national journal and joins me now. ron, this is the balance that has really challenged this president and previous presidents, the balance between the democracy card, what s happening historically, the movement we re seeing in the streets of cairo, and the other cities around egypt, and, of course, the need for security and for a secure american ally. right. you know this better than anybody else, andrea, that american presidents up to now and including barack obama have been torn, as we say in the cover story, between interests and i deals. and the problem is for president obama, like any past president is it s never a good thing to support a dictator. that leads to all kinds of problems. and it s also not a good thing, necessarily, to overthrow or have that dictator overthrown or stop supporting it. we ve seen this in this last week the president being torn between those two ideals. our national security interest and our democratic idealism. that we ve always had in this c
unfolds? at the moment the only thing we want and the people have been chanting all through the protest is stop supporting mubarak. we know your government has strong leverage when it comes to decisions regarding our government. so the people here have been chanting. we don t want him anymore. a lot of people are accusing the united states government of only using the democracy card when it is in their own interests. so what they are saying is america help us by not supporting mubarak. megyn: thank you so much. we appreciate you being here. you are welcome. megyn: unbelievable. right? have you heard from somebody directly on the streets like that? fascinating account. coming up we ll have a special guest you do not want to miss. the former israeli ambassador to the united nations.