hey, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. i m in for nicole wallace. special counsel jack smith is a prosecutor that stays out of the spotlight. he prefers to speak through his fiings. that s why his laltest brief in the federal election case merits our attention. over the weekend, the justice department responded to trump s claims that he is immune from prosecution. what he did was within the scope of his duties as president of the united states. it s an argument that trump was taking to the courts in order to get the whole election case dismissed. the special counsel is speaking to the court. let s be honest. he s also speaking to any of us who care about the health of our democracy. prosecutors acknowledge the fact we re dealing with an unprecedented situation. for the first time in our nation s history, a grand jury charged a former president of committing crimes while in office to overturn an election he lost. in response the defendant claims to protect the institution of th
him, but all roads point to deadly damage to either terrible financial damage in the financial trials are literally a loss of liberty. so one after the other and as you say, these are just the next two weeks. we ll go on and on. and interwoven withment campaign activity. all of them are potentially ruinous. certainly together they are potentially ruinous. i think it s unprecedented. a two-part question for you. first, just from a logistic standpoint. how does trump s legal team juggle a case load with a client, who is also as difficult as trump. we have already seen with some of these cases testifying to one thing and one case that s damaged him. so question two, is there just one of these cases this you re going to be watching this closely that you think poses the greatest risk to trump?
nato, the u.s. leading nato to help him defend himself and the country against russia. and people are not willing to do that because nobody wants ap engage withment between the u.s. and russia. russia has nuclear weapons, nobody wants this to escalate, so it s a delicate dance here on involvement and helping ukraine defend itself. he s obviously frustrated. and i actually do think the media s covered he has, this is a real unique situation where zelenskyy s been able to get into the press and get the kind of coverage that you don t really see this. and he s been able to get his message if out, i think, begging for help. we see the images on tv. we see what s happening. and i think that s reflected in some of the poll numbers where people feel frustrated. they say the united states is not doing enough. but, again, with those polls if you ask what the alternative is, how much involvement do you want the u.s. to have in an overseas conflict like this, especially one where you have two s
so it was. they re sort of strange bedfellows to begin withment. not only because of his aggressive posture, but because his hawkish. i think that was pretty clear at this briefing. jim bring in another, and moments ago the secretary of state said, said normally he doesn t comment on things like this. especially as former cia director but felt it was a report he certainly took issue with and dismissed it. well, we gave the secretary a chance to comment on the story several days before we published, and the secretary of state and his spokespeople turned down the chance to comment. didn t comment at all.
fox news alert. tonight in the wake of the deadly terror attacks in paris, the 2016 democratic presidential candidates are squaring off in their second de beet. what are they saying about defeating isis? our own ed henry. good to see you, sean. in the first 20 minutes or so of this debate here in iowa, hillary clinton on defense about isis about the paris terrorists attacks. at one point she said i do not believe we re at war with radical islam. the reaction to that online and overnight will be very interesting. she also at one point was trying to break withment obama by saying, i do not think that isis can be contained. a rebuke of what the president told abc news yesterday before the attacks. then she went on to sort of agree with the president that america cannot take the lead in this, that we have to have our