house vote which formalizes the biden impeachment probe. it s not the top story in the country because we begin with breaking news. a major development today. a federal judge has formally ordered a pause in the donald trump criminal coup case led by jack smith. this is a big deal. we ll walk through what s happening. the judge has effectively and legally paused the proceedings in her own courtroom until a key claim that trump s lawyers want adjudicated, their argument that he s immune to this whole case, this is paused until the supreme court answers requests to deal with it. it s a procedural rule. i can tell you this is a big deal, probably the largest procedural win for trump s lawyers in this case and by the same token it s a rare setback for special counsel jack smith who has been on a winning streak on many issues. i remind you of some of them. they won on the gag order and the evidence. they have previous criminal questions that went to the supreme court decided fo
president s son is expected to show up in about 30 minutes for a deposition behind closed doors. now at the same time, republicans today around noon are expected to move closer toward opening an inquiry on impeachment into his father, the president. we ll find out together what we get. what is it, dana? it s wednesday. dana: i wasn t sure what the question is. bill: you lose track this time of year. dana: somebody walked through and said they thought it was thursday. a busy time of year and busy time on the hill. i m dana perino. this is america s newsroom. a pivotal day for hunter and joe biden. speaker johnson said his party is going where the evidence leads. the white house has gone carefully as the constitution requires of us, it is a very serious matter. right now they aren t turning over documents or key witnesses and we have to defend our subpoenas in court. to do that you need and impeachment inquiry vote from the full house. dana: byron donalds sits on a
i m bret baier meets with ukraine leader at the white house as that leader president zelenskyy desperately tries to get congress to authorize new funding for ukraine s war of resistance against russian invasion. two men have a joint news conference a short time ago at the white house. we will talk with president zelenskyy in just a few minutes. later in the show, the new house speaker, mike johnson on a host of topics. he is live here on set. first, white house correspondent peter doocy has the latest. he was at that news conference a short time ago e joins us live from the north lawn. good evening, peter. pete: president biden just answered a question whether or not he wants ukraine to defend itself or to win the war. he wants ukraine to win the war but he is not giving us any details about how he thinks that could or should happen. mr. president i will not walk away at the white house this tripe it is toned down. congress needs to pass the supplemental funding for ukrai