hello i m dana perino. my ear was blown out. i m here with the team and this is the five. the house set to vote any minute on making the impeachment inquiry into president biden official acis his son claims ma republicans are targeting him g anhid family, hunter biden show up on capitol hill this morningn defiantly ducking the close door deposition republicans sets up, instead ofno honoring a subpoeni the presidenlet lashed out at t g.o.p. lawmakers who want to question him. for six years i ve been the target of the unrelenting trump attack machine shouting where ie hunter. well here is my answer. i am here but i m also here to correct how the maga right has betrayed me for their politicale purposes. republicans do not want an open process where americans can see r tactics. expose their baseless inquiry or hear what i have to say. what are they afraid of? i m here. i m ready. hunter biden choosing his words very carefully on if his father joe biden was involved in his b
that wraps it up for me. right now on andrea mitchell reports, president biden boosted by the fed forecasting rate cuts in the year ahead and the chance of curbing inflation without riing rates. vladimir putin closing the year at his marathon press conference, showing no sign of abandoning his invasion of ukraine, counting on international funding for kyiv drying up. translator: coming back to the goals, they remain unchanged. today ukraine virtually produces or manufactures nothing. they have been importing things for free freeloading. it will come to an end, sooner or later. national security advisor jake sullivan in israel today, meeting with prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his war cabinet as the white house presses them to open a second gate for desperately needed aid into gaza. republicans backing the investigation of the president and his family s business dealings. republicans targeting hunter biden, who said he would testify in public but ignore
tonight on the reidout what is the specific constitutional crime that you re investigating? well, we re having an inquiry so we can do an investigation into all the production of witnesses and what is the crime you re investigating? and documents. high crimes, misdemeanors and briberies. what high crimes are you investigating? look, once i get time, i will explain what we re looking at and i will make the equivalency. no, i m asking for you that is congressman joe naguse asking a simple question, one that republicans still can t answer as they breathlessly approve a biden impeachment inquiry. the congressman joins me tonight. there appears to be a growing rift between president biden and israel s benjamin netanyahu. representatives rashida tlaib and cory bush join me tonight. and there s breaking news tonight in one of jack smith s federal cases against donald trump. the court of appeals for the d.c. circuit handed trump another setback. i ll
welcome to the beat, let s get right to it. we begin with the unprecedented collision of law and politics that america is facing in 2024 whether we like it or not, whether we are all tired of, which i get that the nation has never never put a former president on trial. prosecutors are working on that task even as donald trump s civil fraud trials go through 2023 and on 2024, he faces several criminal trials in different jurisdictions while running for president. again special counsel jack smith in the prosecution of trump s two in washington and the intelligence documents cases in florida, the atlanta ea pushing for those rico trials after winning convictions of trumpet aids through 2023 and the smaller criminal case in new york. you ve got over 90 felonies charged. that s not normal even if it has been normalized. first the trial initially slated for march, while the schedules can change, america is facing more serious warnings from people who know about this, actual legal e
voting to begin the process of impeaching biden as a defiant hunter biden rips the gop. and also breaking, trump s 2020 election interference case is now on hold. does that mean trump gets through the old election without going to trial? together it lasts, his story we ve all been following since the october 7 attacks as you know him and he speaks out, finally together with his wife and those little girls. sharing new details on what they endured. let s go out in front. good evening, i m erin burnett. out front tonight. the breaking news, voting moments ago to launch the impeachment inquiry. every single republican voting to authorize this inquiry despite having no direct evidence that biden broke the law. just moments ago, he is responding in a statement saying, instead of doing anything to help make american lives better, they re focused on attacking me with lies. now they claim this inquiry will give them more power who traveled to washington, defying the subpoena for