des moines, iowa. this is the story this hour. former president trump just held a news conference in new york city. the closing arguments on the other side of this equation are still underway in this fraud trial. the former president saying again today that he s innocent. he s done nothing wrong. watch. so they have no case. it s a shame that a thing like this is able to happen. businesses leave new york. martha: hunter biden on the other coast of the country, we re waiting for his arrival in court in los angeles on tax charges. one day after causing chaos on capitol hill when he showed up unexpectedly at his contempt of congress hearing as if he was open to testifying and speaking at the hearing except when he didn t like the way things were going, he stormed out. matt whitaker is standing by here in iowa where he s born and raised in iowa. let s go to nate foy, our correspondent covering the trump trials and he s in new york city on the latest developments in that today
the final day of his fraud trial as police show up to the judges home address. justices are getting underway, police on long island responded to a bomb threat at the judges home. tonight, the ongoing and persistent menace of violence surrounding the ex president. i could stand in the middle of fifth avenue and shoot somebody, and i wouldn t lose any voters, okay? and the risky poses to the country itself. donald j trump was president and does not believe in american style democracy. he doesn t. senator brian schatz joins me live. then. mister president. thank you very much. welcome. great to see you. the craven pandering or fox news to republican front runner, and what it would take to make the primary an actual competition. it s going to be a two person race. we know that. when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. we are monitoring breaking news tonight out of the middle east, specifically eamon, where u.s. and britis
hannity and tonight, a dire,o new warning from a prominent democrat. joe bidee n n is deep trouble as very, very dark news for his campaign. o take we have a full report tonight. plus, we re going to take you inside. inside jiden sjoe biden s very y christmas celebration at the whit te house that you ve got to see to believe. but first, fear loathing at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. a nevania avw political report w claiming that biden is frustrated and anxious, mad about his son s legal woes, even lashing out at white a house aides blasting even his own ag, merrick garland, for allowing his son to be charged with a crime. with o deep panic surrounding the president s looming impeachment inquiresiden and iran, purportedly written by joe biden, the president attc is accusing republicans of, quote, attacking me with instead of doing their job on the urgent work that need s to be done. they are choosing to waste time on this baseless ns political stunt. well, apparently house repub
tonight a dire new warning from a prominent democrat, joe biden is in deep trouble after very, very dark news for his campaign. we have a full report tonight. plus we re going to take you inside joe biden s very creepy christmas celebration at the white house that you ve got to see to believe. but first, fear and loathing at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. a new political report now claiming that biden is frustrated and anxious and mad about his son s legal woes even lashing out at white house aides blasting even his own ag merrick garland for allowing his son to be charged with a crime. also deep panic surrounding the president s looming impeachment inquiry and in a rant reportedly written by joe biden, the president is accusing republicans of, quote, attacking me with lies instead of doing their job on the urgent work that needs to be done. they are choosing to waste time on this baseless political stunt. apparently house republicans struck a nerve, including right here on this p
let s listen in. the thing about it is a lot of the media tried to ignore this. i think fox does it and others. but legacy media does not to talk about this. the only time i saw them interested when we sent 50 illegal aliens to martha s vineyard. they got very upset about that and got them off the island very quickly. i don t think you will fully solve the problem unless you construct the wall along the southern border. we had hurricane final come across southwest, florida. that monster storm knocked out a bridge going from the mainland to pine island and severed the causeway to sanibel island. the residents were told they are out of luck or six months. they came to me and said governor, you have got to help us. there is no way we can go six months without being able to access. i got my guys together and said listen, no bureaucracy, no red tape and no excuses. i want this stuff built. instead of taking three months, we reconstructed the bridge in three days and did sanibel