rnc dropping a plan to pronounce donald trump the nominee. and also president biden s campaign reportedly closely watching the bitter feud and many even enjoying it. will it help the incumbent president come november. good morning. i m kasie hunt. it is friday, january 26. happy friday. we made it. it is 5:00 a.m. here in washington. and it is also 5:00 a.m. in new york. that is where donald trump is expected back in federal court this morning for closing a arguments in the civil defamation case brought against him by writer e. jean carroll. he closed out the trial with just three minutes of testimony thursday. he was admonished several times by the judge. his comments stricken from the record after he repeated the original defamation against carroll. trump s lawyer asked, quote, did you deny the allegation because ms. carroll made an accusation trump responded yes, she said something i considered a false accusation. totally false. that is when the judge interrupted and sai
upcoming elections. but first big developments in two separate investigations involving the former president. one includes spreading lies about the 2020 vote. we start with our breaking news. the former president s legal team is considering whether to allow federal agents to conduct a new search of mar-a-lago. sara murray joins us with that story. sources have told us that this is a consideration on the table to allow federal investigators to return for some kind of supervised search so you could imagine that trump s lawyers would also be present for something like that. that s because the justice department has insisted to them in private discussions as well as publically in court filings that they believe that the former president still has government documents, even after the subpoena he was given, even after the august search at mar-a-lago. so this would be a potential way to try to satisfy the government s demands. there are of course people around former president tru
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who once spoke out against the killing of civilians in a war zone. sergeant bales identity had been withheld for six days because of the pentagon s concerns about his security and that of his family. athena jones is live for us out of washington. what more do we know about bales, his state of mind before his recent deployment to afghanistan? reporter: certainly as you mentioned he s 38 years old. he s the father of two young children. he had deployed to iraq three times, was on his fourth deployment to afghanistan when this shooting rampage that he s accused of occur. if you talk to his lawyer and we ve heard from his family, his neighbors and friends, they all say that he s a family man, a love husband and they are shocked by hearing this news that he s accused of this. let s listen to what his friend and his neighbor had to say. he had such a big heart too because he was in the financial world as a financial adviser. he couldn t even take that, like losing people s mon