** >> todd: a fox news alert, former president trump could surrender to new york authorities as early as this tuesday after grand jury issues indictment in alvin bragg's hush

money case. you are uch waing "fox and friends first" on friday morning. i'm todd piro. >> ashley: i'm ashley strohmier. at the center of national debate with critics accusing alvin bragg of doing democrats bidding. >> todd: "new york post" writing alvin bragg is trying to turn a misdemeanor into a felony. this shows that the legal system is biassed and politicized. >> ashley: we start with brooke singman to walk us through the next steps in the case. >> brooke: a manhattan grand jury has indicted former president trump donald trump. alvin bragg has been investigating trump for hush money payments made leading up to the 2016 presidential election, including a $130,000 payment made to stormy daniels and another $150,000 payment

made to former model karen mcdougle. alvin bragg's office says we contacted trump's attorney for a supreme court indictment which remains under seal. guidance will be provided when arraignment date is selected. the former president saying this is political persecution and election interference at highest level in history. alvin bragg is a disgrace, he's doing joe biden's dirty work, the american people realize what the radical left democrats are doing here. people in florida are rallying around the former president, protesting in front of his home in mar-a-lago. ron desantis says he will not assist alvin bragg in this case. florida will not participate given the questionable circumstances at issue with this soros-backed manhattan prosecutor and his political

agenda. trump's former attorney michael cohen says this day has been a long time coming. >> we all know donald is not a person who likes to accept accountability, it has to be on somebody else always. he is the one going on tuesday in order to get fingerprinted and mug shotted. >> brooke: the former president is taking the fall for something he didn't do. >> he'll be charged with something he didn't do, i think it will be a books and record kind of charge and knowing alvin bragg, the soros-backed da, i assume he will try to stack several of these misdemeanors that a normal person would never be indicted for, let alone charged with. >> brooke: eric trump says it is an attack on the entire trump family. they will do anything to take him out of the race, imprison

him, to go against his family. we didn't get so much as a speeding ticket before my father went into office and this is how they treat us every single day. >> brooke: the former president pointing out discrepancies how his family is treated versus the biden's. the nypd is expected to deploy officers today, following trump's indictment. >> ashley: thank you so much. alexandria hoff live from dc with the fallout on capitol hill. >> alexandria: good morning, according to sources, they were not given a heads up this indictment was coming down. last week the former president indicated he thought this case may have been dropped, so reaction was raw. >> this is a gross abuse of power, not a surprise to anybody on the republican side, we've seen democrats completely politicize just about every

institution. we can no longer have moral authority against dictators and despates, who compete in free and fair elections. >> this is about power, demonstration of raw power, they are sending a message that they will use any power they have to interfere in the next presidential election. >> house speaker kevin mccarthy wrote this, the american people will not tolerate injustice and the house of representatives will hold alvin bragg and unprecedented abuse of power to account. there are committees looking into da alvin bragg's investigation, those are taking a brief pause to see what happens next in the former president's arraignment. jim jordan is chair of the house judiciary committee. he tweeted one word, outrageous. you have democrats celebrating and others highlighting the legal challenges that alvin bragg faces in this case.

we have not heard from the senate, we have senate majority leader who tweeted should be no interference in this case. >> todd: alexandria hoff, thanks. bring back in brooke. i'm fascinated what will happen on capitol hill when it comes to republicans holding da alvin bragg accountable. there is matter of what comes next with regard to the indictment, what are you hearing and what do you know? >> brooke: this indictment is under seal. alvin bragg was looking into the payments, the payments have been investigated by other offices for five years, the payments were investigated by the u.s. attorney's office in the southern district of new york and in 2019 they opted not to charge trump. michael cohen pleaded guilty for

arranging the payments, but trump was neverinvolved. he was not charged there. federal election commission was investigating the payments and they tossed that investigation into the matter in 2021. it is interesting, we don't know if the charges are actually for the hush money payments, we know that alvin bragg was investigating them. we'll see. we won't understand what exactly he is charged with until that indictment is unsealed. >> ashley: to flip the script on that, when it comes to alvin bragg investigating trump, when it comes to republicans wanting to question alvin bragg on capitol hill, is that something sources are saying the trumps want? >> i'm sure that is what they want. you have house judiciary chairman jim jordan and house oversight committee james comer requested alvin bragg come testify before the panel and former prosecutors who resigned in january of 2022, when it

seemed like alvin bragg wasn't going to charge trump, that was dunn and pomerantz. jordan and comer wanted to hear from them, what is this investigation, how did the charges come about now? it is interesting, the statute of limitation on the hush money payments if this is what he's charged with, it would seem like those would have run out or are running out soon temperature is really interesting to watch. >> ashley: the woman, the legal analyst we talked to at the 4:00 say it ended in 2021? >> todd: that is for specifically the misdemeanor charges, but that is why alvin bragg is trying to contort himself into a legal pretzel to get the felony, which i would argue still is running foul statute of limitation, the way alvin bragg is trying to get around the statute of limitation is saying trump wasn't available

for four consecutive years because he was in the white house. i think this is a false notion that alvin bragg will have trouble with. another thing we haven't talked about this morning, the fact that prosecutors put that out there. former prosecutors put that out there, that can't help the legal case in and of itself. there is this notion out there that you can turn any misdemeanor into a felony based upon da alvin bragg's approach here. i can't think, if trump is convicted by a deep blue jury in deep blue state like new york that will fly on appeal with third circuit, even though it is deep blue, it is court of appeal, there is higher standard on appeal. >> ashley: the charges were brought in new york because the prosecutors know he can't get a fair trial here, he put it on truth social last night. it will be interesting to see

how this plays out. there will be outrage, there are protesters outside mar-a-lago showing support for trump. republicans are uniting, even people considered maybe his potential rivals f2024. even ron desantis says this is unamerican. alvin bragg is a soros-backed prosecutor. this is first time a president of the united states has been charged and this man has been investigated for everything from seven ways to sunday from the russia investigation, from the impeachment number one, impeachment number two, now under special investigation and classified records and democrats investigate him for his taxes. new york attorney general leticia james is investigating

him and being investigated by a georgia grand jury. this is nothing new for him. it is really unprecedented beyond words. >> todd: there is a lot of noise with regard to all of this, this comes down to one simple thing, was there any other reason for that payment to stormy daniels, other than the campaign? it is clear there was, he potentially wanted to protect his family. if you have one other noncampaign issue, this case, based upon the facts and law, this case needs to be dismissed. it is that simple. when you watch the media, it comes down to that. brooke singman, thank you. >> ashley: what are america's adversaries think as they watch political fallout from all this? taking a closer look at that. >> todd: assemblyman kemp and

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>> welcome back, we're heading into another active weather weekend, storms firing up across the plains and stretching to the

midwest and parts of the southwest, driven by abnormally warm weather. take a look at temperatures. close to 70 in memphis. 64 in des moines. 53 in chicago. a whole lot of heat funneling up far to the north and that is going to fuel storms, not only that, but a lot of moisture. dew point in the 50s and 60s. air is heavy and sticky, it feels like summer, that will fuel by this afternoon and evening big storms. here is our bullseye, getting into significant threat zone, that is four on five scale, good chance of seeing severe weather. one is around the memphis area and another stretching north in the northern plains. illinois and iowa, des moines area, places you could see severe thunderstorms this afternoon, possibly severe weather like tornados. this is a future forecast, four,

five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10 p.m. from late afternoon to overnight hours, this will time itself out. tornados possible across the entire region, ef-2s are greater, talking about severe thunderstorm activity heading into another weekend. maybe tornados. we'll watch this weekend. >> todd: let us not forget the suffering of the people in the south from this past week's tornados. >> ashley: now you have tennessee and missouri and kentucky, it could be pretty bad. >> to iowa, we'll be watching again. >> todd: fox news alert, "wall street journal" reporter will be -- evan gershkovich facing 20 years in prison, the white house in touch with the journalist's family. moscow says it is too early to discuss a possible prisoner

swap. house speaker kevin mccarthy thinking the deal for brittney griner's freedom shows when the president pays ransom, they will go take more americans. we had rebekah koffler on earlier, she said this is russia's version of hostage diplomacy. >> ashley: that stood out to me when she was talking about it leading to a possible prisoner swap, i think may 29th they will keep him. rebekah koffler also weighed in on the trump indictment, warning the political turmoil over unprecedented move could embolden america's adversaries like china and russia. listen to this. >> rebekah: i don't recognize our country, this was happening in the soviet union, these are kgb tactics and they will embolden russia, china, iran,

our adversaries, because they know we are basically paying attention to in fighting, we are destabilizing our own country by these soviet tactics. >> ashley: she makes a great point. here you have russia preparing for god knows what, they have made it clear they don't care what anyone else in the world thinks. then we have america fighting amongst ourselves, indicting a former president over what i believe should be a misdemeanor. i'm not a legal expert. >> todd: if anything. >> ashley: it is ridiculous, that is the point, it is confusing to a lot of people. to her point, that is the problem, we are fighting amongst each other, instead of coming together, china, we haven't even talked about north korea. >> todd: it goes deeper than that, those countries do not

view the world of law the way americans view the rule of law. as a lawyer, i'm looking at what happened over the last 12 hours and i'm sad for the country. you study law and law is to be applied without bias. scales of justice are blind. when you're in a country like russia, china, north korea, and you live in a state where anything goes, we will find the person and find the crime later, that is not the american way. they have to be watching this and saying, maybe our way is the best. look at what is happening in the united states of america, doesn't seem to be working well for them. their democracy over there and their rule of law and that is sad, we are supposed to be a beacon for the world. >> ashley: beginning of that sound byte, her first words were, i don't recognize our country. i brought this up in the 4:00 hour, imagine what immigrants

are thinking right now, they fled this type of situation and life to come to america, the greatest nation in the entire world and then they are seeing this play out? she's right. i don't recognize our country. i can only imagine these people who left everything they know, a lot of times their family, just to have a better life and it is concerning this is happening for the immigrants and for americans, as it is. >> todd: i love that point. they came here for an american ideal, for a concept that has been 200 plus years in the making, right? in a span of a few short years, accelerating like it has been doused with rocket fuel over the course of the last few, we are destroying that and that is sad. >> ashley: look at that poll that we've been talking about, the patriotism poll. people don't feel patriotic.

things like this, they add up, after a while, i don't recognize my country, why should i care? the other americans don't care, when you see that poll, it is scary because it shows that americans do not feel patriotic about america. except for the one guy we interviewed, if you saw it earlier he unravelled the flag and saluted it, the amazon driver. that is the greatest story i've seen all week long, it brought you to the core of america and gave you a glimmer of hope with people out there. >> todd: it is death by a thousand blocks. your interview with the flag savers and then baseball, the american block. there is also this, shrine to the st. of death found inside a cartel stash house in texas. >> ashley: former border patrol chief will tell us how serious the cartel threat is next. are r. great - i invited a few more friends.

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>> todd: we are back with the border crisis, texas dps trackers find illegal immigrants sneaking through texas, caught on video. you see the migrants dressed in full camouflage and hiding in a cave, the migrants came from mexico, guatemala and canada, located in big bend section of texas. cbp reporting one million encounters since october. earlier this week, texas dps is uncovering a stash house with another 23 migrants inside while enforcing operation lone star. >> ashley: elaborate shrine to the saint of death, it is worshiped by the mexican cartel who pray to it for protection.

>> todd: victor, as if drugs, violence, human smuggling were not enough, now you have this, how disturbing was this latest find? >> it is alarming. any time you have the patron saint to the cartel, it should bother the american public. >> ashley: since operation lone star launched in 2023, stash houses were discovered with 3000 migrants held inside, that is concerning, as well. have to get to this story, it enrages me. colored wrist bands that cartels use to track and smuggle migrants across the board, we have seen those and talked about them on this show, all over our network. dhs secretary mayorkas claims he doesn't know anything about them in this heated exchange with senator ted cruz, listen to this. >> what are these wrist bands?

>> i don't know what they are. >> you don't know? mr. secretary, you are incompetent at your job. every color is how much they owe the cartels, you have turned cartels into multi billion dollar criminal organizations and these are modern-day leg irons, children being sold into sex slavery and you don't know what they are, that is astonishing. >> ashley: i have never been to the border, but i knew what they were, but the dhs secretaries he doesn't know? >> well, that is incredible. if you think of the dhs secretary, every evening before he goes home, he's given a briefing book and every component of dhs adds something to the briefing book. it is hard to believe that someone within his department did not mention at least once, i imagine several times about the

use of the bands. the bands represent something bigger, the cartels have so much activity and flow, they are having trouble organizing their own contraband, they turn to the tags and that means their business is good, that is bad for the american public. >> todd: if the guy in charge of securing our border is not aware of this, victor, what else is he not aware of? >> there has to be tons of things he is not aware of. when i heard the testimony, he had not heard or seen it, think of the times on the border, walking along with border patrol and leadership, there wasn't one or two of those laying on the ground and he says, what are those things? they certainly weren't from a concert, they are used to organize contraband. the flow is so great that cartels are having a hard time

organizing their own contraband and that flow is great, we're in big trouble. >> todd: great point. victor manjarrez, thank you. >> ashley: alvin bragg is moving forward with his case against trump, this could hurt bragg's reputation and the democrats party. >> todd: ron kemp is here to respond next. but an updated vaccine restores your protection so you can keep doing you.

>> todd: a fox news alert, former president trump could

turn himself in as early as next tuesday after being indicted by a new york grand jury, in a case led by new york da alvin bragg. alvin bragg's investigation into payments made to stormy daniels and karen mcdougle. ron desantis saying florida will not participate in the request there are issues with this soros-backed manhattan political agenda. >> ashley: the case could backfire on alvin bragg and hurt the democratic party. this is a totally bizarre, convoluted theory that alvin bragg has simply dreamed up. >> you're a democratic elected prosecutor who ran on the campaign pledge of getting trump, you better have the strongest case imaginable, not a case that depends on stitch

together -- >> todd: ron kim joins us live in the studio. ron, thank you for being here, this should not be about party politics, but that is involved in everything we do as americans these days. your reaction to this indictment? >> as a democrat, i believe in accountability, whether republican or democratic, hold accountable if that person does something wrong. this is the first time we've indicted a former president and the stakes are high and republicans on their side have made that very clear. the case has to be tight and the risks are greater for democratic party. if this could back fire in big way, you can galvanize the republican on the right when it was split for a while, there were other people trying to run for the 2024 ticket.

now it seems like the party is united behind trump and that is not what we want as democrats. >> ashley: are you saying you think it could hurt democrats so much they could lose the white house? >> it could backfire in that kind of way. we need to be extra careful in the next few steps how we proceed as a party and make sure moving forward in the case of accountability against a former president the legal case is very tight and we can hold them accountable. >> todd: based upon what you know, do you think this case is legally tight? >> i think many experts have indicated doubts, both republicans and democrats. i certainly believe that alvin bragg is a very highly educated, former -- attorney who can qualify to do the job and i hope him and his team are up to the task. >> todd: understood. >> ashley: we have to get to this, new op ed in the post

calling for new york leaders to be held accountable for nursing home order, tell us about this op ed. >> this is about -- if you did something wrong, especially that led to thousands of older adults dying because of your order to send thousands of untested covid patients into nursing homes at the peak of covid, we need to hold your actions accountable. we have no accountability of people in power and this case with the former governor, former administration is about accountability to make sure we get a policy who tekting older adults, at time when the nation is so divided, things come together to work toward, that is protecting older adults in this country and we can get there

together. >> todd: what is the delay here, we're going on three years of i'm a family member of victims that died in a nursing home. i'm worried i may never see justice for my relative. it's been going on for a while. >> it is bureaucratic, it is people covering up the cover ups to cover up. that is why there are people like janice dean that are not giving up, it is about their fight and make sure they give them justice and accountability they deserve. >> ashley: headline is three years on, not held to account for deadly nursing home order. what does accountability look like to you in this situation? >> acknowledging mistakes we made and holding those who made the daily decisions, not only send people, but to cover that up, accountable and expose the

truth and transform the long-term care industry that is broken in this country. >> todd: you are no fan of former governor andrew cuomo, even he said donald trump should not be prosecuted based upon the facts of this case. we hope the rule of law prevails and justice prevails, especially in your situation. ron kim, thank you. turning to this, disney fighting back against ron desantis after he told the company it was time to start paying their taxes. >> ashley: cheryl casone is here next. but firefighters entering a burning house... will one day save time when lives are on the line. visualizing a patient's most recent scan... will help speed up decision making in the er. and while the woolly mammoth is still extinct... that doesn't mean students can't take field trips to visit them. the metaverse may be virtual, but the impact will be real.

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>> todd: ron desantis's war with disney hits a wall as the company dodges the oversight board in newly uncovered february deal, which transfers more control of the reedy creek district back to disney for the next three decades >> cheryl: this was a deal done with disney and the outgoing board before governor desantis created this board, giving unprecedented power to disney and leaves them in power. reedy creek, disney world and

everything that goes around it. this began in march of 2022, with ron desantis and disney. here is desantis board member on the reedy creeks deal and what it means. >> i thought better of disney, this makes disney the government. here is what they say and how they describe this from disney lawyers. all agreements signed appropriate discussed and approved open notice public forum and compliance with the florida governor in the sunshine state. basically this is going to transfer power back to disney for the next 30 years and this has to be a surprise to governor desantis. >> todd: governor desantis hired a team of lawyers to look into this and fight back. could we get something from the white house on ai?

>> cheryl: president biden will meet with his council and talk about ai and there is debate about artificial intelligence. this is after elon musk and a top tech expert warn about ai and elon musk says we have to be careful and scared about ai. you know how i feel about that, i feel that ai is a good thing, there are pitfalls of it. mark beckel was on the show yesterday, watch. >>-- >> todd: all right, we don't have mark there. >> cheryl: it is a gremlin friday? >> todd: busy friday. >> cheryl: he basically said we should be concerned, we've seen simple algorithms that caused polarization in many countries.

we need safety protocol and slow down development of ai to adapt as society. president biden and his advisors will discuss it today, there has been talk about ai. i've done research into this, especially chat gpt. it is a good thing, a tool, do i think it will overtake the human mind? i do not. if you want to make sure it doesn't impact young girls on instagram, fine, there you go. >> ashley: i don't want people to rely on it so much they can't think for themselves. >> i agree, one thing i will say in the pushback of that, chat gpt is basically a c student in school. you can take a medical exam, you have to do your clinicals to be a doctor. a lot of debate that is interesting. >> todd: i'm not as confident as

cheryl is. that guy mark was talking about not allowing ai to take over, where do you think his sound byte went? ai had something to do with that, robots took out mark's sound byte. >> cheryl: i know, and here i was to glorify the anchor team of todd and ashley who have done great interviews about ai, stolen from the jaws. >> todd: the robots are coming for us. >> ashley: don't make that joke. >> todd: our top story is this morning indictment against the former president. house republicans promising to hold alvin bragg accountable, accusing the manhattan da on leading political investigation. doug collins is here next. >> ashley: we will check in with steve doocy to see what is coming up on "fox and friends." good morning. >> steve: another slow news day. good morning to both of you.

we will continue our continuing coverage of the indictment of former president donald trump. here we have house oversight and accountability chairman james comer, tears apart da alvin bragg's case with an investigation into the manhattan prosecutor. then florida ag ashley moody tells us how her state will not cooperate with the former president's extradition if requested by new york. the great one, mark levin will break down the case and the charges, his warning of the weaponization of the justice system. bret baier, pete hegseth, kirk cameron. we have a busy show issue starts 11 minutes here on the channel you trust for your morning news. todd and ashley back in a moment, you are watching "fox and friends first" on the number one news channel.

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>> todd: a fox news alert. president trump is likely to turn himself over to authorities as early as tuesday after being indicted by the grand jury. >> abuse of power including kevin mccarthy. quote, the american people will not tolerate this injustice. the house of representatives will hold alvin bragg and his unprecedented abuse of power to account. >> former georgia congressman who served on the house judiciary committee doug collins joins us now. thank you so much for being here. look, we have covered almost every single angle of this trump indictment this morning except for the following one. explain to us how congress will hold alvin bragg accountable. the procedural steps by which they will do so. >> in fairness it's going to be very hard. they have already sent the letters wanting information. he is involved in a case, an an investigation look i'm not going to talk about it. investigation not going to talk about ongoing case. the reality is two parts of it. will they actually get him in front of the committee probably not. can they also continue to raise questions. continue to bring in other, you

know, discussions, witnesses, yes. that's the way they can. and i think from a perspective of saying we're not going to let this go. you have done something that is marginally? perspective unprecedented going after a former president. you have been chasing this car for a long time and caught it. now on alvin bragg to prove it. as far as coming from congress itself it will be more of a publicity and news media keeping the pressure on alvin bragg. you did. this you're going to be held responsible for it. >> you talk about alvin bragg having to prove it. do you think he has enough to prove it. >> it's up to him. he better. you bring a case like this. and, again, the prosecutor through the grand jury process the grand jury indicted but alvin bragg -- it's all his many radio. it's not a defendant's room. it's a prosecutor's room. so if he didn't get a true indictment and brought this before it's more on him. he has got his indictment now. it's now on him to prove it in court. if he doesn't bring, it will be

a major story. this is not going to play out very quickly, be reminded. all of a sudden he turns himself in on tuesday and trial on wednesday. this isn't law and order. this will take a long time to play out. >> todd: what do you make of the fact the feds you, alvin bragg himself. letitia james. all passed on this and now alvin bragg trying to get another bite at the apple with the facts applying to the law as you know it. >> as we know it. without seeing the indictments. when we see the indictments we will see if he tried to add anything else in there what he has reported so far i agree with both democrats and republicans. it's a weak case, like a zombie case. why is this case even coming forward? what it appears to most people, including myself and others, this is a political case. alvin bragg has said oh i'm going to get donald trump. i'm going after donald trump. '8" try this when i have trouble with the others. fine i will do it. the i will just throw it out there and if the jury likes it

or not. i did what i said i would do i am going after donald trump. >> speaker nancy pelosi says no one is above the law and everyone has a right to a trial to prove innocence. in the united states, you are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. you served with her. is this just typically pelosi? what is that? >> very typically please. i went after this online. this is exactly what i saw when i was a ranking member in the joshua area having to go through impeachment, they twition the the law no up to you to prove it. i actually talked about this on the floor -69d house. you want to go in and i accuse you, i accuse you. prove you are innocent. that's not the american system. it should be taken down. that tweet should be removed. she should apologize if she is that ignorant of constitutional law again we show why it's a problem. >> todd: combine that comment by what appears by all counts to be a political prosecution/persecution and how concerned are you for the rule

of law in the united states of america this morning? >> i have a a lot of concerns democrats all over the country if he didn't do anything, let him prove himself innocent. for someone who has worked in the criminal justice system and worked for criminal justice reform. and in what is scary to me is people democrats believe nancy pelosi is right. they will look at that and believe that's the way the system works. >> ashley: that's the problem. you bring up a perfect point. people don't know how the law works. they take it at face value okay, well, you have to prove you are innocent in this country. think about we had assembly bhawn kim on before you. he talked about how he immigrated here. what about the immigrants who fled third world countries to come to america and now we are seeing this? >> see this and take this into

the open border we have. you have people who did it d. it legally they're just walking across the border and i did it legally can. yeah, this is a concern. and for a democrat maybe she shouldn't be in office. everybody talking out of both sides of their mouth. was there a non-campaign reason to provide this payment payment in the first place? >> probably more than one but, yes. you have to figure out a connection between a misdemeanor offense and a felony which, by the way, the federal side and the department of justice have passed on. if he doesn't have the connection there. if he doesn't show it was somehow legal, it's not a case.

>> ashley: not only that, but the democrats, like i mentioned, ron kim, is he saying that this could, if it is not played out the right way on bragg's part. it could maybe cost him the election. the white house. so,. >> todd: we didn't get to the political. "fox & friends" is going to take it. doug collins, thank you. a very busy news morning. our friends at "fox & friends" take it from here. have a great weekend, everybody. ♪ >> steve: it is 6:00 a.m. on this the final day of march and we start with a fox news alert. former president donald trump could surrender to new york authorities as early as this tuesday we are hearing. >> brian: it comes as a grand jury issues an indictment in manhattan, d.a. alvin bragg years long investigation five overall possibly for alleged hush money payments. trump calls it a witch-hunt. >> ainsley: alexandria hoff is it