starts now. tonight on the reidout fundamentally a second trump term could mean the end of american democracy as we know it. he s literally called for things like doing away with parts of the constitution. wanting to weaponize the doj to enact revenge on his political enemies. we re running out of time in order to try to stop trump from being in the oval office again. former trump staffers warn the nation, the threat is real. and democracy is at stake as we enter this presidential election year. michael fanone, one of the heroes of january 6th, joins me tonight. also, two weeks to iowa. and desantis and haley are still treating the front-runner donald trump oh, so gently. as if they don t really want to win. plus, he was paid by the trump campaign to find proof of widespread election fraud in 2020. he found none. and told them so. they continued to push the big lie anyway. ken block is my guest tonight. good evening, everyone. happy new year. i hope you enjo
distorting the truth. it began with court documents revealing fox s tucker carlson was privately skeptical of election lies, contempt youts yous of the former president, texting someone saying i hate him passionately even as he indicated to viewers the opposite. a dominion voting systems lawsuit, carlson was on the air lying about january 6th. reporter: the crowd was enormous, a small percentage of them were hooligans, they committed vandalism. you ve seen their pictures again and again, but the overwhelming majority weren t. they were peaceful. they were orderly and meek. these were not insurrectionists. they were sight seers. that spectacle using cherry picked footage house speaker mccarthy released only to him was just the beginning. the former president claimed that city, state and federal prosecutors are practicing good old election interference, all caps, and then there was something else that happened that didn t get as much attention, but is important, it involves
hi to everyone. it is 4:00 in new york. happy friday. what began at a celebrity golf tournament in 2006, an affair between a porn star and a business mogul, now has the potential to throw the entire country into unchartered territory with donald trump reportedly on the verge of becoming the first ex-president to be criminally indicted. as we reported on this program yesterday, blockbuster reporting in the new york times reveals that the manhattan d.a. has invited donald trump to testify before a grand jury in the probe examining hush money payments to adult actress stormy daniels. the new york times notes that such offers almost always indicate an indictment is close. it would be unusual for the district attorney alvin bragg to notify a potential department without ultimately seeking charges against him. as for whether donald trump will take bragg up on his offer, the washington post quotes a trump associate saying that everyone will advise him not to go in. here is ter
life putin and his reported girlfriend are leading now. plus, breaking news. new court filings in the defamation case against fox news have been released. you ll see the message tucker carlson spent to trump lawyer sidney powell, calling her out for conspiracy theoriestheories. and two americans kidnapped in mexico now back in the u.s. for treatment, the other two killed as the search for the killers ramps up. out front tonight on the run. here s the new video of russian soldiers appearing to abandon their posts just south of bakhmut, a shell of a city, the scene of the most vicious fighting of the past months. ukraine s president made it clear that when it comes to bakhmut, ukraine is not about to retreat. translator: this is tactical for us. we understand that after bakhmut they could go further. they could go to an open road for the russians after bakhmut to other towns in the ukraine in the donetsk direction in the east of ukraine. sticking by that. we ve got ne
to put that in a peaceful protest is just a lie. i think it s bull. [ beep ] . there were a lot of people in the capitol at the time who i think feared for their lives. it was an attack on the capitol. i thought it was an insurrection that time and i think it was an insurrection today. why don t you tell us how you really feel? i thought it was you know what he said. they were there that day. so they believed it. yeah. but what s the picture that many americans are getting from watching tucker karlsson. good morning, everyone. welcome. so fox news host tucker carlson facing criticism after he aired selective footage and said that most of the rioters were peaceful sight seers. we re going to show you the new trove of new private text messages and e-mails from inside of fox news. we re also getting an inside look at the internal crisis over fox news coverage of conspiracies and what tucker carlson really thinks about president trump. and we re following the