Oh, incredibly busy evening. Good morning to you, steve, ainsley and brian. And the former president is lashing out against the prosecution. He tells fox news digital, quote politically inspired indictment, which could have been brought close to three years ago, was tailored for placement right smack in the middle of my Political Campaign where i am leading all republicans. The former president and 18 others face various charges individually, including violation of oath by a public officer and filing spawls documents. All of the defendants have been charged with violating georgias racketeering law, which carries a maximum Prison Sentence of 20 years. In addition to the mr. Trump, the indicted defendants include his former white house Chief Of Staff mark meadows and some of his former attorneys, including Rudy Giuliani and sidney powell. The 98page indictment lists scott mccafe as the judge who will be presiding over the judge. Appointed by republican Governor Brian Kemp and joined the
House. Im sure you have heard that. Ainsley Brooke Singman spoke exclusively with the former president last night and joins us now. What did he say . Thats right. I spoke with the former president last night who says his fourth indictment comes during a, quote, dark period for our country but he wont let it stop him President Trump telling me this is a consideration of the greatest and longest running witchhunt in american history. I will make America Great again. Now, late Last Night Trump was indicted by Fulton County georgia d. A. Fanny willis alongside 18 others that included personal attorney Rudy Giuliani. Former white house Chief Of Staff mark meadows and even kanye west former publicist. Traveled to the home of an Election Worker in Fulton County. These charges come after a years long criminal investigation over his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 president ial election in the state sparked by a phone call he made to georgias Secretary Of State back in December 2020 charge
this is the ingraham angle from washington tonight. still winning, that s the focus of tonight s angle. now, our nation s billionaires did not get rich and powerful because they like to make bad investments. they got rich and powerful because they made good investments. at least one high profile nikki haley donor has decided she is a bad investment we learned linkedin founder reid hoffman a biden supporter and haley backer announced ending support for her after double dignity new hampshire loss. also more bad news for nikki. a republican fundraiser told cnbc on wednesday clients helped raise $100,000 for the campaign are now opting out of assisting her bad fundraising news followed haley s pitiful post loss spin raamah. today we got close to half of the vote. this race is far from over. there are dozens of states left to go with donald trump you have one battle chaos after another, this court case, that controversy, this tweet. i have long called for mental competency tes
i m raymond arroyo in for laura ingraham. this is a special of the ingraham angle from new york city tonight. efforts underway in severali states to remove formerdo president donald trump fromght, the ballot. we ll get to that in a moment. tonight, the vacuu vivekm swamy is here with his reaction. plus, gary sinise with a heartwarming, inspiring story that you have to hear. but first, william faulkner famously said the past isn t dead. we it isn t even pase sat. as we say farewell to 2023, there are important lessonsr. that we may have missed. lessons we need in the new yea g . you know, we tend to focus so intently on the crisis or the outrage heee of the momentie that we miss the larger trends. this hour, wpo e will reportthey breaking news. look at the big stories shape ho the year and how they will shape our 2024. it will be an important and fuin hour. i want to start with the narrative that has sounded all year long and it slond g mae a major theme in the new
mike: hundreds of pro-palestinian protestors causing chaos at an airport on one of the busiest times of the year. good morning, i m mike he manual in for bill hemmer. molly: i m molly line in for dew point. protestors threw objects at officers, assaulted two of them. protestors carried banners with messages like di vest from genocide and let gaza live. a similar scene playing out at lax. bumper to bumper traffic stretched across all three lanes. police making dozens of arrests on most airports. the protests come as new york city goes on high alert. the nypd is taking precautions to prevent anti-israel protestors from disrupting the new year s eve ball drop. molly: alexis mcadams has the latest. not just here in new york that this happened. chaos from coast to coast with police arresting 63 people at those two protests in la and new york city. over at jfk airport protestors blocked the roads and some travelers had to walk with their bags to try to make their flight.