Again, that wasnt the perceived goal here. That was the perception among his supporters that think its gone too far. Lets get more from Griff Jenkins. Thats right, neil. Fox news confirmed that former President Trump is indeed in the courtroom right now. He entered at about 3 52 p. M. So just under ten minutes ago. Hes wearing a blue suit, a red to you. Flanked by his two attorneys. Fox has confirmed that we expect him to plead not guilty to the four felony charges hes facing in this indictment. Three are conspiracy charges, one is obstruction. Before he entered that courtroom, a little less than an hour ago, his motorcade entered the garage here at the federal courthouse. He was processed and fingerprinted. Theres no mug shot taken because the court says theres plenty of pictures of him to provide. Hes not arrested. But he is obviously being processed. Now we wait for this Court Proceeding to get underway at the time of our note from our producer, jay gibson inside, the Magistrate Jud
Nomination making his way down the steps as he prepares for another afternoon in court. Its an extraordinary situation to say the least of a former president and someone who is currently running. We have amazing fox team coverage. We have dana perino, Shannon Bream and jessica tarlov. First, lets go to david spunt live outside the federal courthouse where we expect the former president will pull up a short time from now. Hi, david. Hi, martha. Its symbolic here today. You cant see it on camera. Were just feet away from the u. S. Capitol blocks away from the white house. The former president will make his way here, as you said, in motorcade. He will head before the Magistrate Judge. He wont be placed under arrest in handcuffs or mug shots. We know he will specifically be fingerprinted. Once hes here, hes in the custody of u. S. Marshals. Hes not in the custody of the fbi. Hes not going to have his hands behind his back. He did say he would be arrested today. I want to put up this truth
mike pence have asked in recent days about conversations with ump from, his lawyers and others in his inner circle who sought to substitute trump allies for certified electors from some states joe biden won. that s according to two people familiar with the matter, both spoke anonymously. prosecutors asked hours of detailed questions about meetings trump led in december 2020 and january 2021. his pressure campaign on pence to overturn the election and what instructions trump gave his lawyers and advisors about fake electors and sending electors back to the states. some of the questions focused directly on the extent of trump s involvement in this fake electorate effort led by outside lawyers including eastman and rudy giuliani and yet another sign of just how far the doj probe has advanced, the post is also reporting that prosecutors have their hands on the phone records of some key trump officials and aides including those of former white house chief of staff mark meadows. of
Weeks with the house coming back next week. that s one of the big lynchpins. trump probably is not going to want to see some type of acceptance on immigration because it s not going to be good enough, and so you will see this dysfunction really propel itself into the next couple of weeks with a real threat of a shutdown across the government with no deal on the spending. the top line spending number still has not been agreed to despite congress being out of session now for three weeks and negotiations were supposed to be happening on the side, but really, there s been no breakthrough at all. january 6th is going to be an issue way back in the past as people look at the issues that confront us literally in the next couple of weeks. fred upton, laura barron-lopez, thanks to both of you. ron desantis and nikki haley will take questions from voters in back-to-back cnn town hall events and kaitlan collins and
Creating intent. intent to deceive. that s a conspiracy, i guess? it s pretty tough. yeah, there s two lynchpins here. first in the alvarez case, the supreme court dell with a politician that knowingly lied. the court said that was protected. more importantly, you have the lynchpin to the later steps, third parties taking steps to create a sec set of electors. whether he is responsible for those actions. that s why this is really attenuated in my view. each of these lynchpins has a hole for smith to be able to bring this to a jury. martha: okay. jonathan, thank you very much. great to have you with us. let s bring back in neil cavuto, anchor of your world. dana perino, former white house press secretary, newsroom co abe core, co host of the five. i want to start with a little