Politics the former president s pardon play. Donald trumps lawyers make a hail mary request for an april 2026 start to the 2020 Election Trial and try to make sure the case never sees the inside of a courtroom. Plus a game of risk. New reporting outlines how republicans plan to conquer a trumpless debate. How another republican warns his party appears poised to fulfill the textbook definition of insanity. President biden invokes the whole enemy of my enemy is a Friend Theory of Foreign Policy today pushing two neighbors to put aside a generation of bad blood and send a message to the country a couple blocks away, china. Im Phil Mattingly in for dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and inside politics. Were going to start with this up first. Two questions. Do you know what youre doing on monday . Do you know what youre doing in april, 2026 . The answer is no for me on both of them. Donald trump, though, has plans for both. More specifically mr. Trump knows where he wont be on monday
Good evening. Im bret baier. Bret breaking tonight. President biden begins the Campaign Swing following last nights state of the Union Address. He is actually speaking at this Campaign Event in pennsylvania in walling ford. Lets listen in for a couple minutes. At that little outfit that sets Interest Rates, its going to come down. [applause] its going to come down. Folks were cracking down on big landlords. You break Antitrust Laws by price fixing and driving up rents. Now Congress Need to pass my plans to build and renovate 2 million Affordable Homes and apartments and bring those rents down. [cheers and applause] and by the way, my republican friends cost a lot of money and raise the deficit. By guess what . It cost the deficit 1 trillion. Last guy ballooned the deficit. We passed the budget deal that would cut another trillion dollars over the next decade. They kept trying to get out of it but they finally agreed. But now its my goal to cut the federal deficit by 3 billion more 3 tr
Appear before a judge, a Magistrate Judge, to be formally charged for the third time in less than four months, as chris said, and msnbc news has learned three of the officers injured in january 6th will be trying to attend the hearing, although just a handful of members of the public are going to be allowed inside, and just 11 members are reserved for the press. You can see the camera shaking because were all moving in real time here, trying to give you as much access to see whats happening, but even before he appears in court, trump has been fighting these charges on social media. Hes been raising money off of it, his Fundraising Committee has fired off at least eight solicitations for donations since this indictment was handed up on tuesday. He also posted a message to his supporters saying its a great honor to be arrested because im being arrested for you. Now, technically, hes not going to be arrested. Hes going to go in and surrender to authorities, but lets discuss whats happenin
Donald trump still in the race. Joe biden as we know is wrapping up the race. What to make of what happens right now . Because in order to win over disaffected nikki haley workers and supporters, what does donald trump want to do . Were going to explore that. Welcome. Im neil cavuto, this is your world. To bill melugin in charleston, South Carolina with the ramifications of Super Tuesday on a lot of questions wednesday. Bill . Neil, we were in the room when nikki haley made this announcement. It was somber with her staffers and supporters. A quick speech. He did not endorse donald trump. Instead, she urged him to try to win over her supporters. Take a listen. Its now up to donald trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it that did not support him. I hope he does that. At its best, politics is about bringing people in to your cause, not turning them away. This is nikki haley walking out on stage moments before that announcement. She walked out to applause from her suppo
today s republican party exists in is that there s a so-called deep state and that is out to persecute the ex-president, his allies and other conservatives. now having managed to become house speaker by the skin of his teeth, kevin mccarthy is enacting an agenda based entirely off of that warped and delusional world view. one of his first acts, removing congressman adam schiff and eric swalwell from the house intelligence committee. mccarthy denied it had anything to do with the fact that they are critics of a disgraced twice impeached ex-president and his allies. the cardinal sin appears to be i led the impeachment of his master in mar-a-lago, for withholding hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid in ukraine, a nation that was then at war with russia, in order to extort that country and to help donald trump s re-election campaign. you are seeing the fulfillment of kevin mccarthy s corrupt bargain, with marjorie taylor greene, somebody who declared on january 5,