Department of justice at the time. Hes also accused of lying to investigators. Again, it is not the crime, folks. It is the coverup, but there is a delay. De oliveira hasnt secured local counsel to represent him in florida so the judge asked him to return later, next thursday, to go about the arraignment. If all of this sounds familiar, thats because the other trump aide indicted in the classified Documents Case, the valet, walt nauta, twice had his not guilty plea postponed for the very same reason and perhaps youre saying to yourself, what a stroke of bad fortune. Both indicted Trump Associates somehow unable to find a florida lawyer, thereby delaying their trials with the 2024 election fast approaching. Go figure. This afternoon, there are also significant concerns surrounding de oliveiras legal fees, specifically who is going to pay for them. Its reportedly a trump pact and that raises a number of major questions that we will address throughout the hour, but first, consider how thi
blinken. now the secretary of state. that line was election interference. yet there wasn t a single question about the story today at the white house briefing. we by contrast will have all the latest on it just a moment. but first, good evening and welcome to the tucker carlson tonight. for centuries politicians in this country assumed that in order to win an election had to convince voters to vote for you. had to make their case. that was called democracy. the defining strategic inside of the modern democratic party is you don t need to convince anyone of anything. what matters is demographics. you need to import enough people from elsewhere, people that are financially dependent on you in order to live. that s the story in the state of california. that s white california changed. that s why texas is changing. it s also happening at the local level all over the country. democrats have realized that they win the vote in virtually every major city. the suburbs remain contested
if you dig into it more you see people are dissatisfied for different reasons. bill: i didn t see a lot of good news in the polling. came out late last night. also with regard to the president. job performance at 54% disapproval. he has that to chew on. dysfunctional family. we asked whether or not how would you characterize the government today? a lot of people saw it that way as dysfunctional government. however, we had larry kudlow on two days ago and he painted a slightly rosier picture than we expected. dana: for the economy and the white house is counting on that and the outgoing chef of staff ron klain pointed to that as he was leaving. the biden plan is working. if there is a recession they expect it to be mild. if you are dealing with that and somebody who has dipped into your 401k trying to make ends meet it doesn t feel that way. the president s number at 45% is about what it was the end of december. they think they ve had some good headlines in january with th
into the business activities of the president s son. all of this comes on a dayothers name, robert f. kennedy jr. officially launches a primary challenge. white house correspondent peter doocy joins us live on the north lawn with the latest. good evening, peter. peter: bret, this whistleblower s lawyer says that he is a career official in the irs criminal division and he is alleging that a political appointee at the irs lied to congress about the hunter biden tax investigation at some point in the last few years. and this whistleblower is alleging that politics and preferential treatment are interfering in the hunter biden probe. we are awaiting reply from hunter biden s representatives. the chairman of the house ways and means committee says they are going to meet with this whistleblower soon. and this does come at a politically delicate time for the president. remember, he and his political team retooled the democratic primary calendar to put south carolina first because
money to an adult film actress. alvin bragg pushing the case using a convoluted legal argument. law enforcement source saying another witness is expected to testify before the grand jury tomorrow and they don t expect trump will be arraigned until perhaps next week if at all. violent chaos rising along the southern border as cartels are paying top dollar to smuggle people from around the world into the u.s. including a growing number of chinese nationals. all of this as the cartels continue to push tons and tons of deadly drugs across the border killing hundreds of americans every day. welcome to a new hour of in us news, i m john roberts. good to be with you again. gillian: i m gillian turner. the drug cartels are keeping u.s. border patrol agents very busy these days especially over the weekend. agents seized 111 pounds of meth and 99 pounds of fentanyl. gunmen killed two soldiers in mexico friday. they killed 360,000 people across mexico since 2006. john: no let-up wit