Bret former President Donald Trump will not have to appear in person for the next hearing hes facing following this weeks indictment regarding alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The trial judge making that ruling today. This comes amid growing questions about the Justice System in the midst of dozens of criminal charges against the former president and multiple investigations involving the family of President Biden. Congressional republicans are vowing a strong response to what they feel is a twotiered application of the law. Senior Congressional Correspondent chad pergram starts us off tonight live from capitol hill. Good evening, chad. Bret, good evening. The g. O. P. Says there are two sets of rules. One for the bidens, another for former President Trump. The right intends to level the playing field. You cant beat them, you persecute them. Republicans believe there is something nefarious going on. It seems as though every time trump goals higher in the poll he gets a new
so this moment even this week with the release of the transcript, when he was said, you know, when he was asked directly, did joe biden have any direct knowledge about burisma of any type he said no explicitly. what you see is that the republicans on the house side are engaged in what looks like to democrats like an attempt to distract and deflect from the big news of the week, which was the trump, you know, third trump indictment. bret: okay. i want to play this soundbite. this is from this ufo hearing. we had the common ground with the chair and the ranking member of that subeconomy who held that hearing. take a listen. right now the stigma on this topic is so bad commercial aviators do not feel comfortable reporting this as a safety issue come pound that with the department of defense is not releasing any information about this really little way they can create new procedures on reporting without that information sharing. bret: the information is out there, byron. we just have