>> wow, i want to watch that. >> katie, thank you very much. >> thank you for watching. hope you'll follow me to radio. >> see you later. >> bye-bye. >> john: we'll take it from there. day two now of the three-day summit in moscow for america's top two adversaries. president xi in talks with vladimir putin. it is leaving the u.s. on the sidelines. we'll have much more on this throughout the show this tuesday morning. preparing for the unprecedented. law enforcement bracing for the potential arrest of former president trump. we have an update now on the timing. good morning i'm john roberts in

washington. bill and dana are off. good morning to you. >> nice to be with you today i'm gillian turner. former president trump said he would be arrested today as part of a hush money investigation. the manhattan grand jury is still as of now hearing from witnesses. law enforcement source tells fox news not to expect an indictment and arraignment until next week. >> preparation for the hearing underway at the courthouse in lower manhattan. nypd shutting down streets and building barriers in response to numerous safety concerns. >> dana: zbloo the potential arraignment of a former president is a logistical nightmare. alvin bragg has ruled out the possibility of a virtual hearing. >> the case centers on a 130,000 hush money payment made by trump's former attorney cohen to storm' daniels in 2016.

cohen pled guilty and was sentenced to three years in prison. he is a key witness in the case against trump. yesterday the jury heard from one of cohen's former legal advisors who called him a serial liar with an axe to grind. >> i called him up after i saw michael cohen on tv stating things he had told the grand jury that were contrary to what he told us when we first represented him in april of 2018. so i'm sitting at home watching these lies and i said i have to do something about it. i don't represent donald trump but i do stand for justice and i think i have a legal obligation to inform both sides. that's what i did. >> team fox coverage to kick us off. jonathan turley on deck with analysis. eric shawn has a look at a case from a democrat from more than ten years ago. let's go to bryan llenas live in the new york city newsroom. >> attorney robert costello says

he told the grand jury yesterday that former president trump's former personal lawyer michael cohen is a serial liar. costello was asked to testify by trump's lawyers claims cohen told him in 2018 he decided on his own to pay $130,000 of his personal money to adult film actress stormy daniels. he claims he said he kept the payment secret and it did not come at the behest of trump. costello briefly served at cohen's advisor. after two hours of testimony he felt like alvin bragg was uninterested in the truth. >> wanted to present this to alvin bragg as i had presented it to the southern district. i wanted him to look me in the eye and assess my credibility. did i have more credibility than michael cohen. because michael cohen in my opinion was lying about just about everything. >> in a statement to fox news

digital cohen who pled guilty to lying to congress called costello's comments fantastic. he said the hush money payment to daniels was at the direction of and coordination and for the benefit of trump. >> the district attorney has the documentation in order to validate every single statement that i've made. and to basically dispel anything that bob costello has to say, which is probably again why they didn't need me for rebuttal. >> last night on truth social the former president continued to deny any wrongdoing. >> whether the mar-a-lago raid or committee host. the perfect georgia phone call, absolutely perfect, or the stormy horse face daniels extortion plot, they were all sick and it's fake news.

>> trump said today that today was going to be the day he got arrested. sources tell fox news that's not the case. an arraignment could come next week. john. >> john: we'll keep following it. thank you. >> new york city's district attorney alvin bragg facing criticism from republicans over the potential indictment. analysts say bragg's record shows a tendency to downgrade charges particularly for suspects in violent crimes. senior correspondent eric shawn joins us from new york city with the details. hi. >> well, manhattan district attorney alvin bragg says his office tries cases appropriately and applies the law fairly and won't let his prosecutors be intimidated. some critics are questioning the potential indictment of former president trump and what is usually considered to be a misdemeanor. legal experts say the charge he faces doesn't rise to a felony. critics are saying that bragg follows a progressive soft on

crime agenda that in some cases his office released violent felons back on the street. i interviewed kox, the former son-in-law of richard nixon and said bragg is being soft on crime only when it comes to the president. >> just a misdemeanor with respect to record keeping in new york city. felony has to be connected to a felony federal case. that case was looked at years ago by the southern district of new york, by the department of justice and they passed on it for good reason. >> paying hush money for an affair during a campaign and also prosecuted as a campaign violation has been tried before and the result not guilty. you may remember former presidential candidate john edwards. the case echos the one tried against trump. edwards was charged with funneling $1 million in campaign donations to hunter, his

mistress and with whom he later admitted had a love child. it was a federal case, not local. prosecutors claimed he used that money to try to conceal the affair forvoters. edwards claims the funds were a gift and not trying to hide the affair during the campaign from his wife who later died of cancer. it acquitted edwards on one of the counts and prosecutors dropped the charges and declined to even retry him. gillian, back to you. >> eric shawn, thank you. >> john: let's bring in constitutional law attorney jonathon turley. does it look on the surface, what alvin bragg is doing, as a criminal prosecution or a political prosecution? >> i'm afraid it is a political prosecution. whatrd to escape that conclusion. previous prosecutors rejected this claim, decided not to move on it, including the department

of justice. what he is trying to do is to bootstrap a state misdemeanor into a federal alleged crime that the federal government decided to pass on. that will be troubling for some judges. he also is facing a tough situation with the statute of limitations. statute of limitations on the misdemeanor was two years seven years ago. he really needs to do this boot strapping if he even has any chance of seeing a jury because he needs to get that longer felony statute of limitations to make this even work. >> a whole host of analysts over the weekend were saying trump does face other potential criminal charges in three other cases and that the likelihood is this manhattan case poses the least serious of a threat to the former president. are you on board with that? >> gillian, i think the irony

here is that if donald trump could pick one of these torpedoes to hit, this would be the one because he has been arguing that they are politicizing the criminal justice system and alvin bragg gave him proof positive that narrative is correct at least in this case. more substantive threats exist in things like mar-a-lago. those are conventional crimes, well established theories of culpability. so if you had to choose, of course this would be the one that trump would decide to go forward with first. what bragg has done is he is now going to paint all those other cases if they end up in indictment with the same brush. so bragg has undermined these other cases while he has empowered donald trump in a significant way. >> john: let's talk for a second about robert costello's testimony yesterday. he painted cohen who is a serial

liar who is lying. cohen -- he called it the michael cohen revenge tour. he has lied about several things associated with this case in the past. but what benefit would it be to cohen to lie to the grand jury now? >> well, you know, michael cohen has primarily in the past relied on his flexibility when it comes to morals and ethics. that has been his primary advantage for clients. and so he has a rather checkered history, including, of course, a conviction and a disbarment. that's not exactly a witness most prosecutors would relish putting on the stand. this is someone who threatened everyone from journalists to law students while he was a thug essentially for donald trump. >> john: he does know where the bodies are buried. >> here, john, is the problem with that exchange. cohen is going public with this,

which is not what the prosecutors would necessarily want. it is rare to have a lawyer get into these types of questions but costello insisted he had a waiver of attorney/client privilege. cohen went on another network and said i don't remember any waiver and he was never my lawyer. costello then went on tucker carlson and showed the waiver and said that this is his signature. that could come back to haunt cohen who is alleged to have made a series of falsehoods throughout his career. now on the eve of this prosecution he is being accused of either not remembering a key legal issue, or again misleading the public. >> let's talk about alvin bragg for a moment. you told us yesterday that the timing of this potential indictment kind of feeds this narrative from the trump camp which is that this is a political move.

at the same time, bragg has not been d.a. for that long but not an inexperienced political operative. why would he lead with this move? >> well look, bragg had the right instincts originally. he threw a flag on this case. and that resulted in two of his prosecutors resigning. one of them then took in my view a very unprofessional and improper step of writing a book about someone who was still under investigation who had not been charged let aleen convicted. that added a huge amount of pressure to bragg and he appears to have caved. now he will take this very dubious legal theory to court based on two equally dubious witnesses, a disbarred lawyer and a porn star. prosecutors often put people on the stand who are not the very best of the population. but when it comes to michael cohen, it is a target-rich

environment for cross examination. >> john: we expect maybe something will happen next week. thanks, jonathan. >> thank you. >> president xi sees president putin as a helpful aide in pushing back on the west. he doesn't want to see russia lose and the war go on trying to balance this. >> the u.s. keeping an eye on day two of xi and putin's meeting in moscow. >> john: say goodbye to the dollar slice. how a new york city staple is falling victim to inflation. >> the white house briefing room descends into chaos when a reporter accuses karine jean-pierre of making a mockery of the first amendment. >> this is not china or russia. this is the united states, this is the white house.

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>> gillian: chaos at the white house briefing yesterday over at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. accused her of discriminating against her because he represents a foreign outlet. news africa's reporter sparked a shouting match. look at what happened.

>> gillian: the press corps may be tired of dealing with it. it is their responsibility or the association. it is their responsibility. >> julie: he does have a rich history airing his grievances in the white house briefing room but he probably has a legitimate grievance. she does not call on him but that's something that he really should take up with her behind the scenes and not out there in the public forum. now that he has, there might be a few more people tuning in to see if she calls on him. >> now people will take an interest. >> john: is beginning to look a lot like spring in the nation's capital. the cherry blossoms in bloom after a mild winter. katie burn has more in

washington. we had a couple of disappointing years recently. this one looks like it will be amazing. >> yeah, john, we're waiting important the peak bloom and where we are at the tidal basin, one of the best places to see the peak bloom. you are surrounded by thousands of cherry trees. what's interesting about that mild winter that you mentioned, we're seeing different phases of the bloom on each tree. some buds closed up. others starting to flower. the national park service says it's because of the whacky winter season we've had with temperatures sometimes too warm and sometimes too cold. still they say this bloom is about a week ahead of schedule and with rain in the forecast some people are making their way here early to see the trees. >> i always like to come down here this time of year. i don't think they're quite at their peak. i was hoping they were. i think they'll get a little

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>> gillian: they're not unjustified, those fears. a lot of legislators at the state level and the local level are now trying to rejiger things behind the scenes for being on the ballot would have to be drug kicking and screaming down that road and have their heels dug in. xi meeting with vladimir putin. his first visit since russia's invasion of ukraine. the two leaders looking to reshape the world order with president biden and the u.s. on the sidelines. jacque heinrich live at the white house. judging by what they were saying yesterday the white house doing its best to play this down. >> that's right, as xi and putin have a second day of talks after the closed door meeting yesterday where xi warned china is ready to stand guard over

world order with his deer friend putin biden is being asked how this was allowed to move so far along. if the white house is concerned, they are not letting on about it. >> we don't view this discussion or this closeness as any more than a marriage of convenience. president xi finds in putin a useful foil for pushing back at u.s. leadership around the world. president putin needs president xi because he is running out of ammunition. >> yesterday said under your strong leadership russia made great strides and putin said china is causing genuine interest around the world. we even feel a bitten vious. we'll continue to discussion the

initiative that you highly respect. members of congress said it could be efforts toward the beginning of a new world order. if the alliance was take hold when president biden signaled weakness lifting sanctions on nord stream two, afghanistan and allowing saudi arabia to have a relationship with china over the u.s. >> it became a void of leadership, of strength, of questioning the commitment of america. can they trust us? and an underlying place of all that is the energy policy of america. it gave russia an opportunity to open up, it gave them a bound together of drive. >> congressman mccaul said we're likely to see more cooperation between russia and china. the unholy alliance in his words extends to iran and north korea. we have not heard president biden talk about these meetings

yet. we hope maybe he will talk about it today, guys. >> john: we'll see if he does and see you later on for the briefing at 3:00 this afternoon. thank you. >> gillian: let's bring in michael allen served on the national security council under president bush. thank you for being here in person. it feels an awful lot like russia and china are coming together now to kind of try and chip away at american super power. >> right. >> gillian: we had joint naval exercises between the two countries last week, china is now shipping munitions to russia. xi has traveled to moscow to meet with putin. what do you make of all this? >> i think what they are discussing is their common view, their aspiration of what the world looks like. and for the two of them it's china first dominate asia, make it safe for them to trade and exploit their neighbors economically and to move the united states out. it's the united states that has

guaranteed that asia is able to be a free trading zone if you will for many, many generations. as far as europe goes, i think xi would prefer for putin to be able to call the shots. if things had gone better the way they intended in ukraine putin would be all the way up to the nato border and we'd be in an entirely different situation. we have tens of thousands of troops stationed in the baltics and poland trying to deter an attack by putin into nato. >> john: james carafano was here yesterday and he said russia is the very junior partner in this relationship and everything xi is doing with russia is in china's interest and not necessarily russia's interest. what do you think? >> i think that's the case. let's wait and see whether the weapons transfers go in the types of volumes we're worried about it. if that's the case, i think that will be a serious endorsement of what putin is up to. that will mean that we will be

in a bit of a proxy war with the chinese. that will mean the putin -- one proxy war is not enough. would be a really bad situation for the united states. it is up to the biden administration to quickly figure out a way to deter the chinese so they don't transfer these weapons. because if they do, this will be an entirely different situation for many, many years. >> gillian: what happened to president biden's mantra of diplomacy, diplomacy. he always says it is better to communicate with our adversaries rather than to shun them or block them out. he has been teasing having a phone call from president xi since he ordered the spy balloon shot down weeks ago. the white house confirmed friday there is no call in the works, never has been. what gives with that? >> they lurch from let's have an engagement strategy to oh no, we're more about competition. i think right now they are trying to have a better

relationship diplomatically with the chinese. the balloon got in the way and now with xi going to ukraine, i think they realize now is not a good time otherwise for us to otherwise be talking with them right now. so they can't quite find their moment to get the relationship back on track. but we have a ways to go to figure it out. >> john: call for number two here. the antony blinken quote. he is saying xi's visit is coverage for putin on war crimes. he said president xi is traveling to russia days after the international criminal court suggests china feels no responsibility to hold the kremlin accountable. it would rather to provide diplomatic cover so russia can continue to commit these crimes. the united states doesn't recognize the i.c.c. and neither does russia or china. they say it's the wrong way to

-- why is blinken going down this road? >> i think maybe he is trying to get a p.r. boost out of this. i think we can hang this effectively around xi's neck. putin, an arrest warrant for him for war crimes, for taking children and -- from a body we don't recognize. i think it is damaging diplomatically for the chinese and the russians. so let's make them pay for it. let's make people in europe and across the developing world realize this is a stark choice between the united states and free and open democracy and the thor tarrance and ought congratulates who would trample freedom if they had the chance. >> gillian: and maybe a plea to not prosecute our soldiers please and thank you from the u.s. government which is why we don't support them. thank you for coming in and joining us. >> john: good to see you. dozens of cities are trying guaranteed basic income programs

that hand out cash with no strings attached. as taxpayers fork over more money for these programs rising crime and homelessness are driving people out of those cities. we have more details. >> dozens of cities actively supporting basic income using public funding and state of oregon, the state has introduced a bill to give the homeless $1 thousand a month for two years no strings attached. we spoke to people about this idea helping those in need. they're for it but with conditions. >> i've been in a place where i have been poor before so i appreciated the hand up. >> when you give something to someone it is hard to take it back. if they actually gets implemented and becomes law it will be like social security. >> it whats to come from somewhere. you would have to raise taxes for something to get the money from somewhere or cut it from something else. >> do you think all of this spending increases the price of goods for everybody?

>> i think in the end if it can help individuals who are physically compromised and need of assistance and willing to help themselves at the same time i think that's good funding. >> these pilot programs are trial balloons for a universal basic income. if the government were to give every american adult $1 thousand a month the tab $3.1 trillion per year. proponents say equity is the north star regardless of the cost and who pays for it or the repercussions of it like crime. >> john: we'll see how far it goes. lauren, thank you. >> gillian: florida's governor ron desantis is taking heat from powerful teachers unions accusing him of trying to destroy public schools. could it help republicans politically on the key issue of education? we have karl rove on tap next hour. we may soon know more about where and how the covid pandemic started. this after president biden just heeded gop calls to sign

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>> gillian: president biden is signing a bill to declassify as much intelligence as possible about the origins of the pandemic. alex joins us with more details. >> the goal of the legislation is accountability. there is a signal that some information may be held back. here is how it concluded. in implementing this legislation we'll be classifying as much of that information as possible consistent with my constitutional authority to disclose information that would harm national security. the covid-19 origin act

introduced by hauly passed the senate unanimously and passed the house. hawley said americans deserve to know the truth behind the origins of pandemic and begin the process of holding china accountable. u.s. intelligence remain divided what the source of the virus is that killed 1.1 million americans. f.b.i. director wray told fox news last month that covid-19 probably originated from a wuhan lab incident. that theory was passed off by the left as a conspiracy. the now law is overdue and antidote for group think. this is a model to public health emergencies. going forward we must not silence dissent but publicize the evidence so experts and other americans can make the most informed decision. it relies on open mindedness and

so should we. the promise of accountability from the administration will only complicate biden's relationship with chinese president xi. >> gillian: alex hoff in washington for us this morning. >> john: let's bring in dr. marc siegel professor of medicine and fox news medical contributor. initially, what do you think of the fact that it looks like the biden administration may not release everything that they may hold some documents back? >> exactly what i wanted to start, john. they are saying if it affects national security they won't let you see it. you can make an argument for a lot of things affecting national security, especially if china was hiding something and was putting a smoke screen over the origins. we heard what the f.b.i. think. i did a deep dive on the department of defense in an article i wrote for the "wall

street journal" last year. there is some evidence from a contractor that there were people getting sick and going to the hospital from the area of the lab to the hospital before even before the wet market theory came out. we haven't heard, john, from the international agencies. what does is c.i.a. think or agencies that have boots on the ground in china think? what was the local information they may have had? it is telling the f.b.i. thinks this. after all they have something to do with national security. i want to know what the c.i.a. thinks. i think we could hear some of that, if not all of it. keep in mind that not just my investigations but the "wall street journal" said three people got sick in the lab, went to a local hospital. there is the issue of how come this came overnight and suddenly started impacting humans to this extent and part of its structure is suspicious. even though a lot of press has come out lately about the raccoon dog in the wet marked and people getting sick there.

the question is how did it get there? how did it get to that raccoon dog if that's an issue? >> john: you talk about the possibility of people in the laboratory went to the hospital before anybody knew anything about covid really does square with something we heard way back in the spring of 2020. sat dormant since then. the fact you could classify it as jeopardizing national security any kind of link to the wuhan lab would make it seem like you could keep a lot of information back. i'm just wondering in a general sense what do public health officials think about declassifying it and getting it out there particularly the public health officials saying it didn't come from the lab? >> i think it's very important, john, because there is a huge division among public health officials and it is ridiculous. the natural origins group and la

la labor -- lab origins group. i had a doctor on my raid know show and positive it came from nature. what about a discussion between public health officials. it is disgraceful that science has deteriorated into politics. it's not what we are supposed to be doing. >> john: people are embracing different theories instead of just one theory. >> very important, thank you. >> gillian: mexican drug cartels continue to rake in cash. we got stunning numbers from border officials coming up ahead. plus this. today is national teenager day. we're focusing on social media amedia's impact on mental health. >> don't accept the i'm sorry, mom. watch their behavior. it can happen to anyone.

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>> john: school districts across the country taking legal action against the influence of social media arguing big tech is eroding the mental health of their students for profit. mark meredith is looking into it and is washington with the latest. >> good morning. the school districts suing social media companies say they've seen how the internet popular apps and websites are taking a toll on students' mental health. they claim the products are an increased risk to suicide, depression and eating disorders. last last week bus county officials say they deliberately designed to attract and addict youth by amplifying harmful material and

driving youth engagement and advertising revenue from the lawsuit. these companies are already facing increased security knee from lawmakers, antitrust regulators and feds. facebook telling fox it has tools in place to protect its users saying we don't allow content that promotes suicide, self-harm or eating disorders. and we take action on they identify 99% of it before it is reported to us. we'll hear a lot more about social media later this week. the ceo of tiktok getting ready to come before a house committee on thursday. >> john: all right, social media on the hot seat again. mark meredith, thanks. >> gillian: today is national teenager day. we'll take a closer look into social media's influence in particular on the teen -- ongoing teen mental health crisis. let's bring in a doctor from children's hospital. dr. abraham, let's start with this. this was a quote from a doctor

at the american psychological association. he says we've been seeing increasing rates of mental health difficulties among youth for many years. statistics today have a lot to do with longstanding neglect of mental health combined with tremendous stress that kids are experiencing. he lists a whole laundry list of things. one of the key items adversely impacting teens, they find, as well as the cdc finds, is social media. can you unpack that for us? >> we certainly know according to a recent study by the cdc there is an increase in young people especially teen girls expressing sadness, depression and anxiety. three out of five girls are saying things are hopeless and a number have considered suicide. the pandemic had an incredible toll with young people and stress. we also know that social media has some tremendous benefits in terms of keeping young people connected allowing this emotion

to engage in activities that can be a release for them but there can be a down side sometimes. it is important for parents and caregivers to be aware of what young people are doing and thinking about that quality of what they engage in over quantity. >> gillian: one in three teenage girls the cdc study have been so persistently depressed, anxious or sad that they considered taking their own lives in the last year. that's a staggering number to really think about. that's not just an increase, sounds like an explosion. >> absolutely. we have a true mental health crisis on our hands. i think it is really important to consider these numbers have been increasing and we really need to make sure that parents and caregivers are aware of these issues. we want to say having conversations right now can be

productive. conversations create connections and having those connections whether a parent, adult, caregiver in their lives is so important in terms of helping young people to not feel depressed or anxious or consider suicide. >> gillian: i spoke to a couple of teen girls and their mothers about this. deb, principal deputy director of the cdc says when it comes to suicide there are myths that professionals need to dispel. if you have concerns about your teen considering suicide or thinking about self-harm you should ask them. meaning that can be more helpful to them than not wanting to bring up the issue for a whole host of reasons. do you agree with that? is that good guidance? >> absolutely. i think many parents and caregivers are afraid to ask specifically about suicide or whether a young person is engaged in self-injury.

it is very important to know if you don't ask you may not know. certainly again having those conversations and knowing that a young person is at risk is a first step in terms of getting them the professional support they need. the parent doesn't feel comfortable having that conversation, it's an important time for them to talk to their primary care provider to make sure. >> gillian: sounds like you are telling us the pediatrician is a good place to start if you are concerned about your teen but not sure how to talk to them about what they are going through. dr. abraham, thank you for shedding light on this for us today. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> john: former president trump's legal team in court seeking a delay of new york state's civil fraud lawsuit targeting the family real estate business. the trial is set for october. trump's lawyers want more time to get ready. fox news has learned it is likely president trump will not be arrested today in the case