The campaign. Plus, iowa not so nice. Hecklers turn up the heat and grill mike pence serving up a side of jeers with their deepf deepfried oreos and calling the former Vice President a traitor for doing his job. And a former republican says he doesnt need to wait for evidence to find out if hunter biden reaped rewards. Im dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and inside politics. A win, kind of, coupled with a warning. The federal judge presiding over the President Trump 2020 Election Trial sides with the defense and rules against an attempt to totally restrict what their client can do or say with evidence. But that judge did establish clear limits to how trump can use what he learns from the lawyers in public, and this is important. She issued a stern warning to the former president , one, that everything he says is now under scrutiny. Another, is that the campaign will take a backseat to what happens inside her courtroom. Cnns Katelyn Polance is outside the federal courthouse. It s
Bidens from russia, kazakhstan, romania, ukraine and china. Most countries really love us, dont they . They made a fortune. Beyond 20 million they were able to trace their Chairman Comer will join us to talk about it. Just the news. Com john solomon will break it all down. Let me sum this up for you and this is serious. This is massive sums of money. Hunter biden at the height of his Crack Addiction and Prostitute Addiction was raking in millions and millions of dollars from corrupt foreign nationals. These are, in many cases, corrupt Foreign Countries and our number one and number two geopolitical foe russia and china. Or the opposite, china and russia. And facilitating meetings and phone calls and other favors between these corrupt foreign nationals. Then Vice President of the United States of america joe biden. In other words that was hunters job. Connect them to joe, the big guy. He has given half his income to pops. Hunter at the time was an admitted crack addict. Now it begs the
partly because his memory is hazy, fuzzy, faulty and poor. there s an environment that we re in that generates a ton of pressure because you have congressional republicans, other republicans attacking prosecutors that they don t like. and it creates, you know, a need if you re going to determine that charges weren t filed, people are human. they re thinking through what do we need to do. you know, it leaves one to wonder exactly why he included a lot of the criticisms that were in there. president biden slamming the report and snapping back at reporters. i know what the hell i m doing. i m president. i put this country back on its feet. my memory is fine. while many americans are watching, they have expressed concerns about your age that is your judgment. that is your judgment. that is not the judgment of the press. he said his memory is fine but went up to mix up world leaders for the third time this week. as you know, initially the. of mexico, c.c., did not
also live in a world where former president trump asserts that there was a politicized process that resulted in his prosecution related to classified documents and other things. so, for the public, if democrats and this administration say trust the department of justice, trust the institutions, but you are also arguing here gratuitous political cheap shots and false assertions. how are they to process that. i talked about this a minute ago, and when you have the former attorney general, when you have the former acting fbi director, when you have the former general counsel of the fbi, you know, these are experienced people at the justice department who spent decades working at the justice department and they are saying it s gratuitous, they are saying this is inappropriate, this is inconsistent with doj policy and practice, it s them saying. we agree, you know, you heard the president speak about this last night, and the vice president speak forcefully about this today, we a
into the official record what so many democratic voters have been complaining about publicly, and so many movers and shakers have been worried about privately. the president is not as sharp as he used to be. but the question for them is how is that worse than the alternative. another senior citizen who has serious memory and confusion problems and also facing 91 criminal counts for trying to overturn an election, hiding and endangering extremely sensitive national secrets, including information about our nuclear arsenal. a man found liable for fraud, defamation, and sexual assault, let me repeat that. a man who a jury found sexually assaulted a woman. listen, i get it if you want to tune out and talk about super bowl snacks. nachos sound great, especially if you add crab on top. as americans, we don t have the luxury of tuning out. there s too much at stake. join me as we try to understand the playing field. monica alba, nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dil