Jesse hello, everybody. Im Jesse Watters along withesse judge jeanine pirro, harold ford jr. , martha maccallum, and greg gutfeld. 5 00 in New York City, and this is the five. Hu Hunter Biden Bolting from the press after wrapping up a marathon day of testifying. The first son showing up on capitol hill for his sworn deposition by republican investigators, just days afterju his Pinky Promise to america that he will stop Smoking Crack to help save democracy. Hunters lawyer talking to the press and blasting republicans for daring to quiz the president s socansn on his shady business dealings. Re isit seems to me that the d toblican members wante spend more time talking about my clients addiction than they could ask any question that hadt anything to do with whatio they call as i said before, there is no evidence because there is no evidence, and today only confirmed that. But james comer and other republicans had to remind americans what this is really a. This was a great defi deposin dre
decision, but this will be viewed over and over again the unprecedented nature of this moment in nation s history many of us will remember where we were on that day. on the day president trump was arraigned and whether or not that mug shot will be taken of him. then what happens next when this trial will begin we know the former president has a way of being able to delay things and how long that will take of course, we will be live from outside the courthouse tomorrow morning as well. indeed, we will thank you very much. thank you, all, for the privilege of our time. andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now. right now on andrea mitchell reports, the breaking news in florida. former president and 2024 republican nomination front-runner, donald trump, heading to the west palm beach airport this hour to board his private plane for the flight to new york and tuesday s historic court appearance where he will become the first former president to be raarraige on crimi
texas. of course, we did not see that plane for several years. it came back on to the market at the end of 2022 after refrushishment this was the same plane he flew around in his 2015, 2016 campaign i attempted to ask him some questions about the particular investigation and he promptly cut me off this is an investigation in which donald trump is not wanting to answer any pointed questions about and it s important to note he declined to go before the grand jury and testify under oath himself to his version of events. so that is where you ve seen him take to social media to try to write his own predefense to what is going to be a criminal trial. while we ve been speaking and we keep an eye on that gate for the first sign of his car and short ride to the airport, about a ten-minute ride, mayor adams in new york is holding a security briefing with the police commissioner there saying if you are coming to new york tomorrow, be calm.
opponents of the nomination have suggested that judge kavanaugh set up his nomination to look like he was very supportive of women with the clerks that he had hired. the basketball team that he coaches and having supportive letters signed by women he had worked with in the past. do you get any sense that that was an attempt to try to prevent or to mount a predefense because this allegation could be coming? net at all when lisa blatt said when she wrote in politico judge kavanaugh s 12 long year record on the bench, there may be no appellate federal judge who has done more to support women in the profession than brett kavanaugh. and i can speak from personal experience, dana, my first week on the job, a former clerk told me that no matter what do you, and i wouldn t have done this anyway. do not refer to the female clerks as girls. it s disrespectful and judge kavanaugh will not stand for it. it was a small thing but a sign of a larger philosophy that judge kavanaugh brings to his job
are people who believe what donald trump believes, and not what you believe, and not what republicans believed in the post-world war ii era, they don t believe in free trade, don t believe in immigration, don t believe in standing up to russian previously soviet expansionism, they don t believe in nato they don t believe those things. it s not what the republican party is anymore. to answer your question, i don t know what happens. as you pointed out many times over the course of the last 18 months, there will be a period after donald trump. whether in fewer than couple years from now. whether donald trump makes it through, gets his his first term forestalled, make it through one term and beaten or a re-election, at some point there will be a life after donald trump and then the republican party s going to look up and say, what are we? what have we become? and does that lead to a fundamental redefense redefinition of the republican