hi, everyone, it is 4:00 in new york. i m in for nicolle wallace. the potential indictment of donald trump which would be unprecedented for this country is a story that is playing out in both new york where a grand jury could issue an indictment any day now and in washington where republicans are quickly mounting a political defense of the former president, let s begin with the developments in the case itself at this hour. on monday team trump dispatched a last-minute witness to testify before the grand jury investigating hush money payments made to porn star stormy daniels back in 2016. attorney and former confidant to michael cohen robert costello, now after his testimony he previewed a likely defense for donald trump. that this then attorney michael cohen paid the hush money payments on his own terms, take a listen to what he told reporters. michael cohen told us that he was approached by stormy daniels lawyer and stormy daniels had negative information that she wa
it s not me. we re not destroying our country. it s the president of the united states who is destroying our country. it s the u.s. senate that is destroying our country. it s the news media. it s the democratic party, academia, hollywood, wall street, and many of our big corporations. wow. florida senator rick scott starting his cpac speech with a light hearted and optimistic tone. whew. bulgaria. plenty of maga messaging at the conference, just as you can see. not a lot of people there to hear it. not a lot. that was dark. that was really dark. donald trump will take the stage tomorrow. very reagan esque. that s where he said oh, wait, he said we re a city shining on the hill. right, for all the world to see. no, that was not that. tone is a little different there, okay. incredibly different. anyhow, this trump appearance tomorrow is following a campaign announcement clearly influenced by florida governor ron desantis. we ll explain what s going on
the house january 3rd and they re waisting no time lining up a flurry of investigations. rich: the administration points out republicans do not officially take power until next week. it says gop can rerequest for fear at that time. republicans call it an attempt to deflect and distract. the important thing everyone needs to understand about those respects, 100% of that pertains to taxpayer dollars. to money being spent with covid, money being spent in afghanistan with weapons being left behind, money being spent with different projects and different agencies within the federal government. that s what the oversight committee s role is. julie: we have team fox coverage. let s get to peter doocy who joins us live from the white house. good morning. the white house says they ll play ball but since the last congress is over all the subpoenas written while temp was speaker will have to be resent when republicans take over. a spokesman for the white house counsel s office is
i m here with richard follow . it s 5:00 in new york city and this is the five. so let the debate trash talk begin a. joe biden and donald trump are sharpening their attacks as they get ready to meet face-to-face for the presidential debate three days from now and simulcast on fox news pick the candidates are using wildly different prep strategies. sleepy joe is still hold up at summer camp david. the big guy surrounding himself with an army of advisors. a staggering 16 people are helping our elderly man with a poor memory get into top shape. one report claims that joe biden is doing mock debates and practising. on a stand for 90 minutes. the liberal media is also giving joe some pointers like how to smile and benefit from that new button. he s got resting old face. he needs to smile. when he smiles it goes away a little bit. i would say practice smiling. donald trump is a callous candidate but no audience takes a donald trump out of his comfort zone in this way. he
Warrants . The concern grows out of the fact that all of the failures and the and The Information that shouldved been given and wasnt given. And the question being what was the intent . What what washa their intention . Their motivation there. And what we determined was we couldnt definitively say what the motivation was. Are these pretty smart people . Fairly welleducated . At least welleducated. I dont know if theyre smart. I dont know if were very smart to beow honest with you. I was b going to say they have law degrees, right . At least somehe of them do. So you think the woods review for people at this level of the organization. To be clear, the stuff that didnt happen on the woods review was basic stuff. Yeah. You didnt need to be a deeplyexperienced fbi agent to be able to do it the right way. Well, thats my point. So wouldnt you think that would almost be muscle p memory for people who are going through this process to know they had an obligation to go through that . They clear