Can no longer be donald trump s music. hold on, i m hold on, i m coming today today a federal judge in georgia ordered trump to stop playing that song by isaac hayes, because isaac hayes s estate said it did not approve of the use and did not give the trump campaign permission to play it. Of this would be one thing if it were just an isolated incident, but it is not. For example trump has already switched his music to the village people s ymca, which i should note is widely understood to be an anthem of the gay community and which the village people themselves have objected to trump using. They have also threatened legal action against donald trump. In fact isaac hayes and the village people are just two of the dozens of artist and artist the states that have object did to donald trump using their music and that list includes abba, adele, aerosmith, the beatles, beyonce, bruce springsteen, celine dion, creedence clearwater revival, earth, wind, and fire. Elton john. Foo fighters. P
second trump presidency. the first clips of that will roll out this hour on the lead. and leading this hour, nikki haley has a bit more momentum with ron desantis now out of the race. but are desantis voters willing to back her? or are they going to side with the gop front runner? chris sununu will join us this hour. first we start with kristin holmes in new hampshire where trump is expected to speak tonight. kilie atwood is in salem, new hampshire. a big three days for donald trump. he picked up the endorsements of former competitors, tim scott, ron desantis. what is the trump campaign s message? has trump spoken to desantis since danys dropped out of the race yesterday? yes. that s what we ve been hearing from senior advisers all day. they want the message to be that republicans are coalescing around donald trump. that s what you ll see tonight, when tim scott, vivek ramaswamy take the stage with donald trump. republicans are joining together. these were my opponents. n
welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing this important news day with us. target trump, the former president s legal team gets official notice he could face charges in the federal investigation over classified documents. this is an unprecedented legal and political moment as one piece of the special counsel investigation nears its end just as trump s 2024 comeback bid gears up. plus new cnn reporting on a critical building block of the case. a career government expert interviewed by prosecutors detailed exactly what trump knew and was told about the classification rules. and the political impact of trump being named a target, the former president rolls out a familiar playbook, where he s a victim and lies are plentiful. his 2024 rivals now must decide what to say. this as mike pence s cautious choice. if that is something that investigators see as possible, even enough potentially to indict the former president, do you think that
all right. dana, thanks. dana: have a great show. bret: gogood evening. i m bret baier. breaking tonight, we are following two major stories, first former president donald trump is appealing a decision by maine s democratic secretary of state barring him from primary ballot in his role january 6th, 2021 capitol riot. expecting a similar appeal over colorado s decision to remove the decision from that state s ballot. we begin with claudine gay s resignation as the president of harvard university. the departure comes amid several plagiarism accusations criticism over her december congressional testimony where she was unable to say unequivocally calls on campus for the genocide of jews violated the policy. gay is the second person to resign following the testimony along with former upenn president liz magill. mollie lyon has that story from our boston unit tonight. good evening, bret. harvard president claudine gay making it official announcing her decision with heavy hear
committee, defending his justice depend and to the probes, and allegations that he s weaponized the doj. paula reid is in washington. how has the hearing gone so far? he clearly wants to highlight the work of the rank-and-file employees who are not working on the special investigation, but as well at another high-profile investigation into hunter biden. the attorney general was grilled about why a special counsel is not overseeing the huchblter binden investigation. let s listen to how he explained that. i promised to leave the matter of hunter biden in the hands of a u.s. attorney for the district of delaware, who was appointed in the previous administration. so any information like that should have gone should or should have gone to that u.s. attorney s office and the fbi squad working with him. i have pledged not to interfere with in a investigation, and i have carried through on my pledge. there you hear him defending the trump-appointed u.s. attorney who stayed o