all right, mark and francey, thank you so much. we are going to have more from the ground in south carolina in just a bit. but now, the democracy offenders act that is the focus of tonight's angle. the blowhards and the democrat party want america to believe that they are the true saviors of democracy. they will take almost any opportunity to evangelize on that topic. >> when people doubt that elections are on the level, that is the beginning of the end of this wonderful democracy. democracy starts flying out the window in some other form of autocracy. it comes anyone conspiracy theories like the big lie are allowed to grow. also what could happen on january 6. >> laura: lame, blame, blame, chucky, but how are democrats respecting democracy. it flies out the window when the proposed and tries to usurp congress participating power with billions and billions of student loan forgiveness? of course, the supreme court is going to a strike that down just like they struck down is unconstitutional vaccine mandate for a large private compan

francey hakes is a former state and federal prosecutor. she joins us to assess what exactly is going on tonight. francey, thanks so much for coming on . >> where do you think this goes from here? i don't think it goes anywhere good, tucker. you're exactly right. the concern is that you're going to have retaliatory action in the states, in the d.a.'s offices, like i used to work where people are going to think, well, turnabout is fair play. if you're going to go after president trump, we're going to go after president biden, or if, as the department of justice has always thought, you can't go after a sitting president until and unless he's out of office, what stops them from going after the rest of president biden's family for what looks like political corruption? you know, tucker, i'm really struck by a movie, quote, because i tend to be a sci fi geek. i'm really struck by the quote, when obi wan kenobi said to darth vader, if you kill me, i'm going to become more powerful than you could ever imagine. and i just wonder whether trump and th

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finish former federal prosecutor francey hakes was on earlier, and she laid out what a stretch this isen, therefore, what that reveals about motives of alvin bragg. watch. >>st the hard to say it's anything but political when you look at a d.a. in hand -- manhattan who drops over 50% of felony charges in that crime-ridden city down to misdemeanors, and yet he's managed to try to find a way outside the statute of limations whether cases would normally be barred to boot strap a felony into a misdemeanor that's maybe a state crime can, maybe a federal crime. the feds declined to prosecute, the federal re-election commission declined to prosecutor, concern prosecute, yet alvin bragg thinks he has a crime here. rachel: later in that interview she talked about what a dangerous period of time we're entering right now, and i think a lot of conservatives feel that way, that, you know, we don't live in a system that has equal justice under the law that we all know that it was not donald trump and this was be some democrats, they would not be prosecuted for this. i guess that makes all of us wond

thanks so much fra francey hakes, thank you. >> thanks, tucker.ll pause for a recap on where we are in this, we are joined by laura ingraham at the courthouse. she will get us up to speed. thanks for coming on. >> we have a busy night here, full of city blocks and cameras and tents and creating that surface light atmosphere. protest about the mayor of new york city, eric adams, and his policies on the homeless. it was loud, we thought it may have something to do with the indictment of trump. it was not. they moved along. this courthouse has been surrounded by barricades and we got over 40 new york state police officers for the court system here protecting this and as we move through, we want to reset at 5:30. we learned the grand jury voted to indict former president trump, the first u.s. president to be charged criminally. "the new york times" reported that trump will turn himself in on tuesday. we have not been able to confirm that. trump called the investigation a witch hunt and posting on social earlier tonight. he said, "they brought this dis

. >> and he's right where he needs to be now. .francey, the fact that he was really balling on the stand, i he was really conjuring up those tears of a lot of people t that you listen to .taken in by >> you're talking about itththat more taken in by that. and i really believe that he thought emotine g on the stand, it was risky, but that he could pick off one juror with his emotions. >> am i reading that correctly a you are, laura .actly wh >> that's exactly what hes what thought. and that's what ever e defeny dt who takes the stand is told by his defense team orfens thino on his own that all he needs he is one juror. he only haonly hs to persuade one that his tears, that his blubbering, that is sobbing were genuinely felt emotions and regret and even grief over the deaths of his wife and son.s >> and if he was that grieftrice strickenn,, his theory when then the jury would never believe that he could be so monstrouslyl evil as to kill them. a >> well, another point about the sister in law of murdaugh testifying for the prosecutione . there wasos a moment that wasthh overlooked by some t