the coverage. the new yorker cover with donald trump portray thed as a metal-wearing, goose-stepping nazi e soldier. trump continues to dominate the coverage as he did by doing an iowa town hall with fox news overshadowing at the same hour the ron desantis-nikki haley slug fest on cnn. and the former president generated wall the wall coverage by showing up in washington on his claim of immunity for actions in office; namely, challenging the last election. trump s presence in that courtroom which took him off the campaign trail just days before the iowa caucuses underscored the vindictiveness of the lawfare if being waged against him. why s he in court instead of campaigning? because donald trump being in court is the greatest bully pulpit for him where he can plaw fake. howard: trump wasn t required to be in court then or on thursday when he denounced the judge in his new york civil fraud trial, but he drew attention from his rivals whose iowa events are being buried by s
howard: all three cable news networks abruptly switched as you see there to the holloway where hunter s lawyer abbe lowell said his client would only testify in public. republicans have sought to use him as a sur gate to attack his father. howard: the panel then backed a contempt finding on a party line vote is. joining us now, alex hoff, fox news if correspondent. i have never if seen such a scene walking in, walking out. unlike last month when the president s son spoke in front of the capitol, this time he said nothing. so what did he get out of it? i think the motivation s really interesting here because this is a subject that the white house, certainly hunter biden s father has not wanted more chaos surrounding it, so to have him sitting there essentially in the audience nodding, causing the kind of uprising that you just saw with some of the republicans there, i don t know the motivation behind it because it didn t seem to solve any of hunter biden s problems here. this vote c