lot going on. we re glad you re with us. let s get started with the five things to know for this wednesday, april 5th 2023 donald trump defiant after pleading not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records during a speech last night, he vowed to fight the charges and railed against the prosecutors and the judge. i ll let that sink in. what you just said is a lot and look at that. so their celebration, at least in chicago , there s a new mayor in the windy city senior projects that progressive brandon johnson has won the runoff in chicago. he s going to join us live right here on cnn this morning, eight o clock hour 88 a. m eastern time a seat change for wisconsin cnn projects, liberals will now hold the majority on the state supreme court. that is a significant flip that could have major implications for abortion rights and future elections. also house speaker kevin mccarthy is set to meet with the president of taiwan in california. today it s a rare meeting on
federal loan payments. none of them have to pay any of these loans back until january of 2023. president claiming that this targeted approach will actually have a positive effect, he says, on lowering inflation. but tax experts and republicans think that those numbers do not add up. this is senator tom cotton. watch this. the president doesn t have the power just to unilaterally on his own eliminate entire categories of de. of all the dumb things joe biden has done this is the dumbest yet. a terrible policy that will harm many more americans that it will help. a former obama economic advisor pushing back as well pouring roughly half a trillion of gasoline on the inflationary fire that is already burning is reckless, says jason fuhrman who was with the obama/biden administration and thinks it is a very bad move. jacqui heinrich joins us now live with more. good morning, martha. it is not just the press secretary refusing to admit that taxpayers are footing the bill for t
world. and welcome to hannity. so we had two leading governor e ,two major states who are tworn vastly different ideologies. o they just squared offe on t right here on this show. hannity and last night. explosive and informative, red state, blue state debate between florida governor ron desantis, california governor gavin newsom. it did not disappoint. take a look. gov. thatfornia doek.s freedoms that some people don t. other states don t. have the freedom to in public in california. you have the freedom to pick a tent on sunset boulevard. you have the freedom to create a homeless encampmen tt under a freeway and even light it on fire. i love the rant on freedom. i mean, here s a guy who s criminalizing teachers, criminalizing doctors, criminalizing librarians guy, d and criminalizing women that seek their reproductive care. seek thg it harderbannin to vote. you re banning books. i mean, spare me thig books.s of freedom. you almost have to try to messht california.
i m lisa boothe in for laura ingraham. i d this is a edition of the anchor man going from washington, d.c. i hopeh yo everyone had a wonderful thanksgiving with your family. we ve got fam big, big show planned for you tonight. victor davis hanson, stephn, mit ned ryan and charlie hurt are all here. but first, israel and hamas. at this moment engaged in a temporary cease fire set to go on for just a few days. stages hamas releasing a total of 24 hostages in israel39, freeing 39 palestinians from their prisons. we go live now to tel wh avi, where fox s jeff paul is standing by with the latest. jeff but yeah, lisa, a bit of mixed emotions tonight here in israel. obviously, a huge senseae of relief seeing these 13 hostages from israel being than released today, but sort of bitter, knowing that there ate more than 200 who remain under hamas, at least insidey at gaza. but if this cease fire that started today at 7 a.m. keeps up, we could see scenes like the one we saw t