or, a cambria hotel downtown for just the two of you. hold my wand. don't wave it at anything. get the best price by booking direct at choicehotels.com. mmm! yeah! what did i say!?! ♪ >> ainsley: we begin this hour with a fox news alert. former president donald trump could surrender to new york authorities as early as this coming tuesday. >> brian: in fact, as expected it comes as a grand jury issues an indictment into manhattan d.a.'s alvin bragg years long investigation for trump money payments trump calls it a witch-hunt. >> steve: alexandria hoff is live with the latest. alexandria, we don't know the charges but we heard there is a bunch of them. >> exactly right. could be a several dozen. trump's legal team is still negotiating the terms of the arraignment. according to the d.a.'s office. quote. we contacted mr. trump's attorney to coordinate his

surrender to the manhattan's d.a. office on arraignment from a supreme court indictment which remains under seal guidance will then be provided when the arraignment date is selected. since it is under seal we don't know the exact charges. what we do know is bragg has been trump for alleged payments made leading up to the 2016 election including $130,000 to adult film actress stormy daniels. bragg questioned witnesses about an alleged payment made to model karen macdougall. the former president has denied any wrongdoing and has denied the affairs. and he has also responded to the indictment with outrage writing a lengthy response including this is a political persecution and election interference at the highest level in history. he also called d.a. bragg a disgrace writing, quote: he is doing joe biden's dirty work and that the american people realize exactly what the radical left democrats are doing here. trump's attorney said last night that there's no crime. >> he didn't have any information, any evidence but, again, that was nazi germany. that was soviet union.

that was communist china where you pick the target. the person you don't like. the political opponent and then you find the crime. because there is no crime here. i'm telling you there is no crime. i know the facts. i know the law. and i really want to see where this is going to go. >> people in florida clearly already rallying around the former president. demonstrating in front of his mar-a-lago residence. the state's governor, ron desantis trump's leading 2024 g. rival called the indictment unamerican. tweeting that florida will not assist in the extradition request, given the questionable circumstances at issue with soros backed manhattan prosecutor and his political agenda. now, extradition would only become a matter for the governor to get involved in if it is contested. the former president once again expected to turn himself in early next week, steve, ainsley, brian? >> brian: still so much we don't know alex, thank you. still waiting to hear from the biden administration following the former president's indictment. >> steve: that's right.

there is plenty of reaction from rank and file republicans and democrats on capitol hill. >> ainsley: and peter doocy joins us live from outside the white house with the latest. peter? >> peter: nobody in this town is really saying trump didn't do it. instead, they are just arguing about whether or not he should be charged. >> you talk about the line that you can't cross. in my view, jesse. they crossed it months ago when they weaponized the fbi against parents. when they weaponized the fbi against everyday americans who want to exercise their right to free speech, now they are just accelerating i think democrats know this doesn't have anything to do with the maul they are sending a message. >> mr. trump is subject to the same laws of every american. he will be able to avail himself to the legal system and juries not politics to determine his fate according to the facts and the law. and nancy pelosi says the grand jury has acted upon the facts and law. no one is above the law. and everyone has a right to a trial to prove innocence

hopefully the former president will peacefully respect the system which grants him that right. the electoral system is what is front of mind for every trump backers. >> they are trying to destroy donald trump because they fear him at the ballot box. they are trying to drain him dry. he spent more money on lawyers than most people spend on campaigns. they are trying to bleed him dry. >> president biden has said in the past he would feel fortunate 4th dobe nearhas his top offici. we do expect to see him striding out to marine one for a trip to mississippi in about 55 minutes. if he does not talk about it then, it might be a couple days. back to you. >> steve: and, peter, i know you reached out to the white house yesterday to ask if they had any comment and they said nope, we don't. so will people's on the south

lawn here in the hour to shout a question at him? >> yeah, is he scheduled to leave about 8:00. we will go start lining up in about a half an hour and try to get a good spot. >> ainsley: get in there, peter. >> steve: get in the chopper that way he has to answer. >> i mean, what's the worst that could happen? >> steve: those guys have guns. >> ainsley: you don't want him behind bars. don't give him that advice, dad. >> steve: sorry. >> brian: the president of the united states by the wayside note going to mississippi but still hasn't gone over to ohio. both disasters, amazing what he decides to show up at. so, cnn reporting 34 felony counts. one said there is a speculation that part of the indictment would be the capture and kill story with karen macdougall that david pecker evidently took care of the national inquirer. some have pointed out when david pecker -- those photographs

emerged of him after he testified a couple of days ago. believed to be the last witness that he had his head in his hands. he looked totally shaken up. they thought that is not a good look. did something he say leave the indictment to happen. according to the "new york times," two people familiar with the case said there is 24 counts at least, meanwhile, it turns out around 2:00 in the afternoon when things became clear that something was happening. that's when lawyers -- three lawyers walked in with the penal code of law and explained it to the 24 members of the grand jury through the back door and started official process. the "new york times" did research knowing the "new york times." they showed that prosecutors in new york have never before filed an election law case involving a federal campaign. but this is how they want to break the glass. >> steve: what's interesting you mention david peck his or her used to run the national inquirer and still was consulting. he was among the very first

witnesses this grand jury heard from. and then one of the last ones. so, presumably, he was brought in to answer some more questions about stormy daniels and, brian, you mentioned the former playmate of the year karen macdougall who apparently from mr. pecker's "national enquirer" for the exclusive rights to her story. then they never ran that story. it's suggested that mr. becker was being called in along with others to corroborate the story that apparently there is a fact pattern there is a pattern with donald trump and these women. they will wind up with money and then they don't tell their story. >> brian: there's nothing illegal. >> ainsley: hush money is not illegal. prosecutors can argue improper donations to the trump's campaign. i'm not sure how those two connect but maybe this will all unfold. class e felony has a potential to serve four years behind bars.

many are saying nothing is going to stop him. he will still run for president even if he is convicted only three requirements to run. you have to be a national born citizen. you have to be 35 oyears or older and a resident for at least 14 years. what's interesting is some of the people running against him as come to his defense. i wonder if they fear this could happen to them. >> steve: ron desantis got baked because he took two days last time. now he has something saying okay, if he is extradited we're not going to extradite him -- request for that. >> brian: the president of the united states you might say donald trump gets himself in trouble, really? what about matt taibbi. the irs is knocking on his door because he has twitter files and ugly truths did what was going on between the covid research wells as well as the russia collusion and all of a sudden elon musk finds himself being investigated by the ftc i reached out to try to settle things. they don't want to hear it they want to see me. >> ainsley: how are the democrats treated hillary

clinton? >> brian: hunter biden long time investigation. we to do not know anything about the documents found by the corvette in the garage in the penn offices of joe biden. but we know all the play-by-play of the investigation into mar-a-lago. why is that? >> steve: one thing twitter did yesterday, they shut down the "new york post" story which is interesting. people have got to figure out what is going on there now. >> brian: what's the "new york post" story? >> steve: you didn't hear that? >> brian: no. >> steve: it's a big story in the post. let's bring in james comer, the house oversight and accountability committee chairman. mr. chairman, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> steve: so what do you make of the pending indictment of donald trump? >> i have said from day one this is a political stunt. if this were the first case against donald trump, if this were the first time anyone had gone after donald trump, it might be different. but, look, the democrats tried to impeach him before he even took office over russian collusion.

they spent two years looking into that. then we all learned that was fake. it was all based on a fake document, the steele dossier. then they finally impeached him over ukraine, when now what we're learning the real quid pro quo wasn't donald trump. it was joe biden when he tried to hold up foreign aid when he was vice president in exchange for firing the federal prosecutor in ukraine that was investigating the corruption from his son. then the democrats released all of his taxes for years and years and years, thinking that that would create some type of legal backlash. >> brian: nothing happened. >> it didn't. thought d.a. gets him on local campaign finance violations. >> steve: maybe. >> it makes no sense and it's another example of why the american people have lost confidence in our judicial system. when you look at this case and understand the facts. paying a woman. she is accusing him of something. he has to pay her so it doesn't come out. that happens all the time in business, especially, you know, when you are talking about

politics or wealthy people who are public figures. >> whether it's true or false. >> exactly. so, many people thought this isn't going to be a big deal in new york. there is no way they are going to indict him. then you look at what happened with january 6th and you know they are working on cases in d.c. you know there are possible cases in georgia. so what was your reaction yesterday when this news broke? >> well, one thing that we're concerned about in washington, congressman jordan and myself is if there is coordination being conducted here between merrick garland, doj and all these different entities that are going after donald trump. this is a political witch-hunt, they are doing everything in their ability to create a narrative that would hurt donald trump. but i will tell you, i was at a baseball game last night. my son played baseball there were parents coming from both teams up to me news had just broken that trump had been indicted and people were coming up. they weren't real political people why won't they just leave him alone.

why can't we stay out of our elections and let the american people decide? so i think that democrats risk a backlash from this. you look in the midterm elections in new york. and the voters turned their backs last november on the democratic party because of crime. and here we have, you know, newark, a very high crime city. we have got the local district attorney trying to be a hero for the national left wing of the democratic party and indict a presidential candidate where the statute of limitations expired years ago. >> brian: they are going after elon musk now. hero because of twitter. and twitter files with matt tiberiasy. the irs knocking on his door could be a coincidence. i doubt it. talk about new york city crime rage. bragg is an embarrassment to the country. but especially to the city. he -- his first statement how little crime is he going to prosecute. and he got what he wanted. a lot of crime. robbery is up 25%.

what happened with the democrats shouting through the whole testimony. let's take a look and then i want you to comment. >> if we're not going to have the ability to cotc examine, i would move to strike the testimony provided by senator schmidt and attorney general landry. >> you mean you want to censor it? >> i want to strike it. i want to strike it. >> if we aren't able to prove the were veracity of the statement. >> you will be given your 5 can. >> they are not here. >> i understand that. >> they have scurried away were your complicity.

they refused to defend. >> they have not secure idea away they were dismissed like all witnesses. >> you couldn't find two people to defend their statements. that's pretty disgraceful. >> gentlemen, you may proceed. >> mr. chairman, ranking member plaskett. >> mr. chairman, i move to adjourn. i move tao journey. >> the gentleman is not recognized. >> this is a mockery. >> this is a mockery and a disgrace. >> brian: what's going on there. i know you weren't there but what is hang? >> the democrats are losing their mind. they department of department of justice weaponized. try to defend it. it's okay to weaponize the federal government as long as they are going after conservatives. that's the position of many democrats in congress. and you are seeing that play out not just in the weapons select committee. seeing it in the judiciary city and my house oversight committee. they reach time and time again.

they are going after their political opponent. they are trying to censor conservative speech and somebody has to stand up for the first amendment. somebody has to stand up for the american people. that's what the house republicans are doing and you are seeing there the house democrats are doing everything in their ability to to block, obstruct and allow our federal government to continue to run and operate in a manner with no checks and balances and that is counter to everything that our founding fathers created this great country on. >> steve: it's never boring now. congressman, thank you very much for joining us live today. >> brian: i have one more question did the president reach out to you yesterday, the former president? >> i haven't spoken to the president because i'm leading the investigation of the current president. so i haven't talked to donald trump since he left office and i won't until we conclude our investigation of joe biden. stay tuned for that. >> ainsley: asking that because there were stories that he was contacting people in washington. >> brian: yeah, to see where

they were on this case. >> steve: thank you, congressman. >> ainsley: thank you. >> thank you. >> steve: a quarter after the top of the hour and ashley joins us with news from nashville. >> good morning, guys. a celebration of life is being held today. it's to honor the school shooting victim evelyn dieckhaus. this girl is being hailed a hero for trying to pull the fire alarm during monday's shooting to save her classmates. police releasing a chilling 911 call made inside the covenant school. listen. this i'm hearing shots. >> you did. >> i'm hearing more shots. upstairs in the hallway. >> you are upstairs by what hallway. >> in the art room. >> art room? >> yes, please hurry. >> police say shooter killed 3 the-year-olds and adult become of confronted and skilled by responding officers. new report indicates hail trained local gun ranges before the shooting. pope francis is expected to

leave the hospital tomorrow following treatment for a respiratory infection. the vatican says the 86-year-old is gradually improving. catholic church officials say the pope spent yesterday afternoon support. a top cardinal also says the pontiff could still take part in easter weak celebrations. actress gwyneth paltrow cracking a smile after winning her case against retired on tom me tis after a jury says he was to blame for 2016 utah ski crash just after her court victory seen i wish you well sanderson follow his loss. damages. fit the bill paltrow's attorney fees which could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. emergency landing caught on camera a rookie pilot making it through the runway in michigan after being told mid-air that she was missing a wheel. 21-year-old taylor hash thanks

the other pilots from that day who gave her guidance on how to comply the single engine to safety. the hectic experience won't stop her from taking flight again in the future. >> brian: i saw another pilot watched her take off and saw the wheel come off. got on the line and said, listen, your wheel can came off. she has only been flying three times by herself. and he talked her down he said hey, my daughter has got the same name as you and calmed her down. landed without -- with one wheel. and you see it go forward at the end. >> ainsley: without one wheel. >> brian: see it going forward at the end pull back, pull back, amazing. >> steve: anybody can do it with all the wheels, that's extraordinary. >> ainsley: no, i couldn't do it with all the meals. >> steve: if you had to and that guy in the tower. >> brian: audio is available you should get the audio. >> ainsley: i need a double engine plane please. >> i need a double. >> i need a pilot. >> ainsley: two pilots and two engines protests demanding gun

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[shouting] [bleep] steve wow. hundreds of protesters gathered at the tennessee state capitol to demand a ban on assaulted rifles following the death of those six children and adults at the christian elementary school in nashville. speaker of the tennessee house of representatives cammeron sexton was in the building when

the protest broke out. he joins us right now live from tennessee. mr. speaker, good morning to you. >> good morning, steve, thanks for having me. >> so you knew there was going to be a demonstration. did you have any idea it was going to be that wild? >> no. we didn't. we have had demonstrations in the past. we went year and a half ago outside the state capitol. public property and stuff. it's the same bunch of people and the same people leading it that were in the chamber that our elected officials, unfortunately. >> who was the protest planned by? >> i believe it was planned by the three members in the general assembly that were up front they were going in and out of the chamber the whole time with the protesters talking to them, jazzing them up. and then they also had protesters in the balcony of the house chamber. >> steve: you mentioned those three state lawmakers. all democrats joining the protesters. we got a little video. watch this.

[shouting] [chanting no justice, no peace] >> steve: kind of hard to hear that but you have got a problem with what those members did. explain it. >> well, what they did is they tried to occupy, as they said, on twitter. they tried to take over the house chamber. their goal was to have a sit-in to allow those individuals to rush. in we had state troopers there. the members and move them out which we were not going to do. and so, they were disappointed in the end result. with you the action that we are going to do is not over. look at it. >> ultimately, i'm sure they wanted publicity. they got plenty of publicity. but now there is going to be fallout for those three members in particular because i understand at the appropriate time you're going to deal with that, right? >> yeah.

these guys tried to do a tennessee refresh your recollection. if they watch it, if they say january 6th was then this definitely was. those three members were the ones that were leading it. they were the ones who were on the balconies tries to get people in. they were the ones that organized it. so they were the runs that were leading it. we have to deal with it. what they did on the house floor is disrespectful to the state of tennessee. to the members of the general assembly as well as people who served prior to us. >> steve: mr. speaker, have you heard from any of the three of them trying to explain what happened? >> no. they see no remorse. they see what they did was activism. and they brought their activism to the house floor. they tried to take over the chamber when we were debating bills. they just rushed up to the well and took over. and so they had no ability to do what they have done was wrong it. took their membership house floor to yell at them to get them to have a conversation. these actions cannot be

tolerated from these three members. if you do, what does this signal to the rest of the members how they can react when they're mad. >> steve: mr. speaker, thank you for joining us today to explain whether a went down yesterday in your state capitol. >> thank you. >> steve: good luck. coming up on 7:30 here in the east return to a fox news alert. president trump faces a formal indictment. would a case like this be brought against anybody else? our next guest says no. former deputy white water independent counsel sol wisenberg sounds off on that. he is next.

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mmm! yeah! what did i say!?! ♪ >> brian: fox news alert now. a new york grand jury votes to indict former president donald trump. steve the indictment remains under seal by manhattan d.a. alvin bragg has been investigating trump for false payment records election a case that has never been tried in new york before. a novel legal approach. >> here with his insight former white water independent council sol wisenberg, good morning to you, sol. >> good morning, i know you weren on the weekend show about a week ago. a hyphenated word. it starts with chicken and ends in it. he said you are not a fan of donald trump.

but this is preposterous. what was your reaction yesterday when you heard the news? >> well, i was -- sad. i think it sets a terrible precedent. the question isn't -- is the president above the law. no president or former president is above the law. the question is whether scott greenfield said this morning it n. his blog simple simple justice law dubious fashion to take down a former president. i'm afraid that's what we have here based on what we have so far. >> brian: sol, that's the whole thing that gets me you are the legal expert we know about stormy daniels and costello came in further destroyed michael cohen credibility. are we talking about any types of financial crimes what are some of the things we don't know that could be in amongst the 34 counts?

>> what we don't know. that's the problem. and keep in mind there were some misdirection this week. it was leaked that there wasn't going to be an indictment this week lo and behold there was. now, we have an indictment that is not going to be unsealed. it's announced but not going to be unsealed until next week. for all we know there is something that nobody has any idea of, some new alleged crime that's been discovered, but, right now what we have to go on is what the best information we have is this state law that really have a misdemeanor. and it only becomes a felony when it's used to cover up another crime. and what's novel here, let's make this clear. what's novel is that this law has never been applied in this way in a new york courtroom. what i mean by applied in this way is, they jump it up to a felony, when they say it was committed, falsification of

business records with the motive to hide another felony. what is that felony? a federal election law violation, it's never been applied in this way. it's election law violation violation, didn't even charge him. it's interesting. we will know more on the charges until next week we do sol though are able to survey the political damage. we have heard a number of republicans say the democrats are trying to destroy donald trump. but we saw the poll that came out a couple of days ago. donald trump when he has been talking about alvin bragg, his popularity has actually gone up so i think there are some democratic party bosses who are thinking all right. let's make donald trump a martyr, this is just my crazy theory. let's make him a martyr, he will win the primary but ultimately he will lose the general.

people miscalculated. former president clinton ohio investigated and his wife were sometimes blessed by who their adversaries were and what their adversaries did. the same may you true of former president trump. >> ainsley: you say that falsifying business records can be a crime. it becomes a felony if you can show trump's intent to defraud and violation of election law. what election law. it's not necessarily the intent to defraud i was talking about. it goes to a felony. if the motive is to commit or cover up another crime. crime. false -- campaign finance violation and they have a real problem with that because the federal government prosecutors came to the conclusion that if he had reported it, as a

campaign violation, it would have been a crime. because it was personal funds, it was not campaign funds. so it is extremely untested but you make another point. they have also got to show under a current -- wonder one of the lines of new york state authority that somebody was defrauded out of money because of this and i don't see how that could happen. they also have to show that he actually made the entry himself or knew about the entry in the false business records. so i see a lot of legal problems potentially. >> all they have is phone records that show they talked right around the time the check was written. good luck with that sol, thank you very much. i look forward to your analysis when we get the indictment on tuesday. so don't make any other plans. we are booking you. >> all right. thanks for having me. >> steve: all right. 24 minutes before the top of the hour. and ashley has got some more headlines. >> good morning, guys, start with this. the husband of missing massachusetts mom ana walshe is

indicted for murder. this moves the case from a district court to a county superior court. brian walsh also faces obstruction of justice and other charges. he could spend life in prison if is he convicted now his wife ana walshe was last seen on new year's day. her body has not been found. drivers in maryland are outraged after getting charged for a total of $1 million in bogus tolls. the new audit by the state transportation authority finds residents were either double charged or they were charged when they didn't need to pay. the issue occurred at four different bridge crossings. the drivers are calling for a review of all tolls to prevent this from happening in the future. so there is a new trend on dating apps that's worse than ghosting. report they have been fizzled. the popular break up technique is when one partner starts putting up less effort until they stop talking and a romance,

quote, fizzles out. one love expert is warning against the method saying, quote, if you are not feeling the connection remember there is another human being on the other side of that screen and they deserve closure. i wonder what makes you a love expert. >> steve: different kind of fizzle than alka-seltzer. >> brian: i could tell you but i have got to go weather. >> steve: we got time. >> ainsley: you had one piece of advice about love what would it be? >> brian: number one, i know the song "love stinks" i feel the opposite. and i'm built on that. adam, unfortunately i have got to go outside. i can't talk about love. >> i have fizzled and i have been fizzled. do you want to say. >> steve: you are a love expert. >> every american person you talk to on an app. say i don't want to do this anymore? no, that's insane. let it fizzle. that is my love expert. i'm also a weather expert and there is weather to talk about across the country. you know there are some shall

warm air in the country going to be fueling storms. 64 degrees currently in kansas city. part of a large warm air mass huddled in that part of the 50's. combine that really warm air and it is moist out there. that means that there is a severe storm threat today across the area of memphis. kind of a bulls eye getting up in the significant range. also up into iowa and northern illinois. here's the timing on that. this is the future forecast. not that rain you are currently seeing across the midwest. second line of storms that fires up in the evening hours that could be severe weather. of course, you can download the fox weather app. to be tracking that this evening and throughout the entire weekend as we track this line of storms. weather headlines for now tossing it back knew. >> steve: forecast and a fizzle, thank you very much. >> brian: embattled d.a. george gascon has a new challenge from her inside his office. tdeputy d.a. looking to unseat his boss and replace soft on

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>> brian: fox news alert right now. former president donald trump facing criminal charges under new york city d.a. alvin bragg. trump's legal team calling it purely political. >> knowing alvin bragg, the soros backed d.a. i a assume he is going to try to stack several of these misdemeanors that a normal person would never be indicted for, let alone charged with. >> brian: los angeles county prosecutor jonathan hatami joins us now to weigh in. he has his own personal announcement first on this. from what you know as a new yorker but now living in los angeles, did this indictment surprise you? >> you know, i think that the issue really is that you have people like george gascon, alvin bragg, pam price, basically rogue and fake prosecutors they

are imposture d.a.s. they have been funded by george soros and special interest groups. they don't care about public safety. they care more about politics, i don't know much about the facts because it's a grand jury and because the indictment is sealed, but just looking at it from the outside these prosecutors are not real district attorneys. they operate more based upon politics than they do upon doing the right thing. they don't care about the public safety or what is happening in the public. can i also tell you, this brian, i have done numerous grand juries. and just to let you know grand juries are supposed to be secret. they are supposed to be secret because it protects the process and protects the jurors and protects the indictment. and somebody leaked this information and that in and of itself in new york is a crime. it's also a crime in california. and so people should look at what happened with that and maybe, you know, alvin bragg should investigate himself because something happened there where this information was leaked. >> brian: i'm pretty sure that's not going to happen.

let's talk about you. you are a democrat as i mentioned in march of 2024 you are going to take on george gascon. you are his deputy and you will be his challenger. how is that going to effect your relationship? do you even speak to him now? >> you know, i don't speak to george. he hasn't spoken to me. but here's the situation. i'm running against one person and that's him. i'm running for the safety of my children. i'm running for the safety of your children. i'm running for emma revis and her son, christopher, who was killed by gun violence. and amelba hernandez and her son christian who was killed. i'm running for mendoza and her son daniel elisha who was poison booed i fentanyl and george gascon refuses to prosecute fentanyl to the extent of the law. i'm running for bertha and her daughter that was killed. in los angeles we are under attack and assault by george gascon, george soros and these special interest groups and we

need your help. so i'm asking everybody to join our fight. >> brian: it's so unbelievable that you have to run against a guy that doesn't want to enforce the law. you run for a job that needs to you enforce the law. other thing to keep in mind, too. they tried to recall him. for some reason it failed, jonathan. why do you think the public will go for you and not him when they refuse to throw him out about a year ago? >> you know, we are running on a positive message. i can tell all your viewers, go to my website. www.jonathan hatami.com. and see what i'm all about. i'm asking everybody in the united states to try to help out. we are -- we have a positive message and going to prioritize public safety. grirption victim's rights. >> brian: all right, jonathan. the fact you want to enforce the law encourages me. jonathan, best of luck. we will talk to you again.

>> brian: mike rogerrers former chairman of the house select committee on intelligence will be joining us, too. he might be running for president, going to weigh in on this whole thing with trump. former intel chair i should say. tomi lahren, martha mccallum will be amongst our guest and mark levin as well as james trusty we'll be talking about what is happening with this case and so much more. 8:00 and repeated at 11:00 saturday night. hopefully you will watch "one nation." the indictment of president trump marks unprecedented moment in history. pete hegseth rips the weak case against the former presidenty th 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.

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♪ >> steve: all right. 8 minutes before the top of the hour on this friday. a fox news alert. the indictment of former president donald trump marks unprecedented moment in american history. >> brian: trump will be the first president to be arrested since ulysses s. grant was cited for speeding on a horse in 1872. no video was available. >> ainsley: here to react is "fox & friends weekend" co-host pete hegseth. what do you think? >> obviously, it is completely unprecedented. it's been amazing to watch. the first thing you have got to look at is the effect on the republican primary.

alvin bragg just made donald trump the republican nominee. >> steve: 100 percent. >> pete: watching the sliding scale of people skeptical or people fatigued by president trump on the republican side to mar-a-lago raid to yesterday the amount of contacts i had from people largely apolitical or sitting on the sidelines saying if they will do this to donald trump he has got to be -- he has to be our nominee to prove a point we won't tolerate living in a system two tiers of justice if they will go after him they will go after everybody else. >> steve: democrats think now that he has been indicted he will become the nominee for the republicans. joe biden or the democrat will win the general let's see what the state of dissatisfaction is after another year of governance from this administration. i have heard the electoral argument, viability argument. first race donald trump has to win is the primary and alvin bragg just did that for him. in the general election, you will have as clear a contrast ever existed between the state of our country right now and

this -- this will be a rallying cry. when he shows up, if it's on tuesday, which i have heard, that mugshot will become iconic. like frank sinatra mugshot iconic, like printed on t-shirts, put it on dorm room posters, this is a symbol of someone who fights for our country is put through in a way that will -- it will be probably the most iconic mugshot we have in our country. and it will be a symbol of resistance against the uniparty which doesn't want someone that's going to come and disrupt like he did. so, i mean, think about it the russia, russia, russia thing was followed by ukraine, a ukrainian phone call. they dug through his tax returns, every single part of his business and it was followed by this is what they indict him for? people see through it. >> who is going to run for an office now if you are a republican because if this is what can happen to him, it can happen to anyone. i don't know why anyone would

want to do this, this is so sad and president trump said this has become -- we have become a third world country what they are going to want to try to encourage is milk toast republicans go along with the system so the system doesn't come at them i don't think voters will tolerate rino republicans they want real fighters. >> brian: the rest of the field is also saying even mike pence and governor desantis, nikki haley, they will find something. they might not go out the same way, but they are going to try to eviscerate their opponent. i also think there is a link between the irs going to matt taibbi's house as he talking

about what is going on right now. and now the. if it. c is investigating him going after theme they don't like. the way desantis has handled the last couple of weeks has really hurt him. he wouldn't mention the name trump which looks petty. okay. we can back up the fact we shouldn't go at trump and hey i want to be a candidate hasn't threaded. >> it wasn't the federal government that brought the indictment. it was the state government. they're all buddies. part ever the same conflict. if you don't think the white house was aware of what othe in the did call him mitt romney, mitch mcconnell paul ryan he has been ripping desantis nonstop. >> pete: he has been waging a primary race whether desantis is in or not. >> brian: you will be on this weekend? >> pete: see you this weekend. >> brian: straight ahead more of our show includes mark levin, that's what he looks like. ♪

>> straight to a fox news alert. this hour we could hear from president biden following former president trump's indictment by a new york grand jury. so far silence from the white house. but he's gonna walk out on the south lawn to the chopper. let's see if we can ask him a question. the former president could surrender as early as this tuesday in manhattan some news sources are saying. this morning, mr. trump's lawyer says, quote, the president will not be put in handcuffs. >> alexandria hough is live in washington with more. >> reporter: good morning.

we'll hear from the president on this any m