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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 ....
president. he happens to be the leading candidate to get the gop nomination and be atop the primaries when it s all said and done, making him joe biden s primary and main opponent. is that the man that s going to be charging the president, the former president of the united states, is that the justice department that he controls? yes, the justice department specifically accusing trump of violating the espionage act. congress passed the espionage act a few years before world war i. the law was meant to target spies who might turn against the united states during wartime. joe biden s justice department is trying to argue that trump is a spy, which is really absurd. now, the president said as much in a rally over the weekend. he addressed the indictment against him in public for the first time. the baseless indictment of me by the biden administration s weaponized department of injustice will go down as among the most horrific abuses of power in the history of our countr ....
possible indictment. we are in uncharted waters, people, and a shifting hazard. if you don t have to be outside, then don t be outside. that s the mayor of washington, d.c. dangerous thick smoke from canadian wildfires is moving south. major cities in the u.s. are elevating their alert as air quality is getting worse. plus, new russian aggression on the battlefield. the significant losses for ukraine as ukrainian forces try to breach enemy lines. welcome to the load. i m jake tapper, and we ll start today with our law and justice lead. donald trump is gathering with his top aides reaching out to allies on capitol hill ahead of possible criminal charges, criminal charges, being filed against him. sources say the justice department recently told trump s legal team that the former president is a target in the federal investigation into the possible mishandling of classified documents after he left office and, of course, possible obstruction of justice charges relat ....
terrorizing our community. history of this country fleeing harm. new york city open first migrant tent shelter. put citizens first. who is funding this and putting it together? how long are they going to be out there? pena lifts one in the air deep left field. and jeremy pena sends one out of here. i feel my heart beat, baby i feel my heart beating under my skin. brian: always wanted to ride a ferris wheel in the fall, looks like they are just lining up. that is in wildwood, new jersey. in nearby pennsylvania or anywhere else, feel free to come by. but the bigger story is starting in about an hour where i will for the first time have a chance to witness and then take part in pickle ball. it s a plastic pickle ball composite of wood paddle i understand played in 1965 in bainbridge island washington, u.s.a. it took a while to kick in. now it is the rage of this nation. steve: well, in fact i was down in the villages a couple of weeks ago. and this weeken ....
enough time to pick up a cup of coffee or go kite-boarding. we ve been literally talking about their trip longer than it lasted, it was that brief. on the other hand, so was the moon landing. so was the wright brothers first flight at cu kittyhawk. those brief hours they spent on martha s vineyard changed history and left what they re calling an indelible mark on the people who live there. they enriched us, said one resident. we were happy to help them on their journey. unfortunately that journey ended abruptly at a military base at cape cod where our venezuelan brothers and sisters are held against their will, prisoners in a country they thought there was own. kite-boarding is out of the question. just a bitter dream at this point. the people of martha s vineyard knew this was going to happen. and yet, none of them thought to tell their venezuelan brothers and sisters before it happened. quote, i kept telling them it was like a dormitory, jackie stallings, who lives o ....