>> 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 moment from

mississippi, where he'll visit rolling fork. that's 1,200 miles from the courtroom where president trump is expected to be arraigned early next week. according to district attorney alvin bragg's office, we contacted mr. trump's attorney to coordinate his is your repbder to the manhattan da's house on supreme court indictment which remains under seal. details will be provided when the arraignment date is selected. since it is under seal, we do not know the exact charges. bragg has been investigating for alleged payments being made leading up to the 2016 election including $130,000 for stormy daniels. the president has denied any wrongdoing and has responded with outrage writing within a lengthy response, quote, this is political persecution and election interference at the highest level in history. he also called da alvin bragg a disgrace writing he's doing joe biden's dirty work and the american people realize what the radical left democrats are doing

here. trump's attorney said last night that there is no crime. >> didn't have any information, any evidence. that was nazi germany, russia, you pick the political opponent then find the crime. there is no crime here. there is no crime. i know the facts. i know the law. i want to see where this will go. >> people in florida rallying around the former president demonstrating in front of his residence. ron desantis, who is considered to be trump's leading '24 gop rival called the indictment unamerican, tweeting that, quote, florida will not assist in the extradition request given under questionable circumstanceses at issue with this prosecutor and his political agenda. extradition would only become a matter for the governor if this is contested. the former president is expected to turn himself in.

>> all right. alexandra, huff, thank you. let's bring in the great one, as he is known, mark levine joins us. mark, good morning. >> good morning. >> i got two questions for you to start with. i know you've got some comments prepared. number one, do you think this will be televised if donald trump does go on trial in new york. they don't necessarily have courtroom cameras. do you think the former president will take the stand in his defense? >> you know, here's the deal. this isn't about the law. this isn't about publicity. this isn't about a head shot, fingerprints and all the rest. people need to understand, in my view the broader picture here. two impeachment, a criminal investigation, five grand juries, a phoney case that nobody would ever bring against

anybody, another phoney investigation, georgia over the word find the votes. another two phoney investigations in washington, d.c. over documents where we would never use a warrant and a swat team if it had been the reagan administration, i was the chief of staff to the attorney general. that never would have happened. try and take january 6th and criminalize what is a political procedure under article 2 of the constitution. the bigger picture here, as far as i am concerned, we have crossed the rubicon. this is a tyranny now. what am i talking about? we want to talk about the niceties of the law, the elements of the law, can't prove. it doesn't matter. law here is dead. they're not using the law. bragg is not being motivated by the law. neither are any of these prosecutors. they tell you every day what they're up to. they're up to not following the law.

when you have a president of the united states in joe biden who says over and over again that donald trump -- donald trump, he is sending a signal out there to his mob. he's sending a signal out there to the democrats in congress. he's sending a signal out there to the prosecutors. they heard him. pelosi said the same thing, schumer said the same thing, the media said the same thing. they compared trump to hitler and to other horrific figures in historic past. so bragg and the others look at their job as taking this guy out. the media have said the same thing. we have to put impartiality aside. it cannot be our pursuit. this man is a threat to the country. therefore, we must take him out. then when you take the environment in which the democratic party is operating, which is putting together phoney legal memos to go after parents at school board meetings, using

swat teams to go after a preacher who was protesting at an abortion clinic where local da wouldn't take the case. nobody would take the case. and they bring a federal case against the man and he's found innocent in two days. i can go down the list. they prosecuted 1,000 people already january 6th. the u.s. attorney who will not prosecute local crimes let 70% of the local crimes passed, won't take them. said there's 1,000 more people to go after. this is a war on the republican party. they want to change the voting system. they want to pack the supreme court. they want to pack the senate. the borders are wide open to change the demographics of the country. this is exactly what i wrote about here. that's what's going on. got to be able to understand what's going on and the bigger picture. this sort of thing is happening in totalitarian regimes. democrats already hate america. they never talk up america.

they never quote from the declaration of independence. they use the constitution to cherry pick the constitution. there's nothing they like about the country. they don't like the economic system of the country. the guy that stood up against them and prevented obama from having his third term with hillary clinton was donald trump. donald trump understands this. he's not a chris christie time, not a chris sanunu type. trump is a once in a generation leader. i don't care about all the static. he is a once in a generation leader who actually sees what's going on. he's a business man who looks at things like the rest of us look at things. we have republicans who run for office. they stay in congress for 10, 20, 30 years who do nothing. this man did a lot. so the democratic party wants a one party country. they want a one party system.

it has done the fine thing you do when you put the nail in the coffin of a republic. take the law and use it against the law. i can sit here and break down the laws in manhattan. i can break down the laws in georgia. i can sit here and break down the laws about the presidential records act and the espionage act and all the rest. that's not what's happening here. it's not an accident that this happens in democratic cities with democrat judge, with democrat prosecutor, with democrat grand juries. that's the way it's gonna work. the republicans better wake the hell up. we need to circle the wagons. we need to understand what we're up against. this is much more fundamental than some phoney rogue case by a phoney rogue prosecutor who was installed by george soros and the democrats. this is much bigger than that. to answer your question, i don't give a damn about the processing that goes on in manhattan and all the rest of it.

people quote a lot. that would be barea. barea was one of the great genocidal maniacs of all time. he worked for stalin. in the end he was executed himself. it is barea who is a massive ruthless killer. he was the one who said, show me the individual and i will show you the crime. this man was responsible for horrendous acts. this country has now become a tyranny in many respects. the american people feel it. the american people know it. they see what's taking place. the american media have become the media loaded with democrats. even fox, conservative talk radio, oan, news max, under constant attack, under constant pressure by sleazy lawyers, by

sleazy phoney journalists because they don't like the competition of ideas period. they don't want the competition from the republican party. that is what's going on. >> mark, right now the fox news poll tuesday trump up by 30 points on ron desantis. this will probably only foster it. let me ask you something. you interviewed the president yesterday, i understand, before the indictment came down. how would you describe his demeanor? >> i went back afterwards because i was invited to dinner. this is a remarkable man. would you be able to eat after you were charged like this, with a phoney prosecutor? he was very strong, he was there with the former first lady and his son was there, don jr. this is a real family. this is a very close family. if you saw the president and

melania together, they are tight as can be, they are strong as can be. he is a very recent man. he cares so deeply about the country. you walk around mar a-lago and you think, this man doesn't need any of this. all he has to say is, i'm not running, i'll give up. he's not gonna back down to this stuff. so his supporters and the rest of the american people need to understand this is a unique man and a unique time in our history, that this country is in very very grave danger where the laws being used this way against a political opponent, the republican party, people who have different views at school board meetings and who are opposed to abortion. it's even worse than that. the efforts by the biden administration to censor free speech, the democratic party, the disinformation board they want to create, the commingling

of government with the social media platform. i have been studying totalitarianism and tyranny. i have been studying communism. this is it. i know people think it can't be, this is the united states of america. what makes us different is our constitution. what makes us different are the first ten amendments, is the bill of rights within the constitution. what makes us different is our customs and our traditions and our systems. when you have one party that has given up all of that, it violates all the boundaries that is in power for a temporary period of time that wants to make its power permanent. they've done this in places like california, new york, illinois, new jersey. they take those models and they try and super impose it on the entire united states. >> they all fail. >> people are fleeing the blue states. that's why florida's population, tennessee's population, they're going up. they're trying to find places where freedom still exists.

i am telling you right now, what bragg has done is the tip of the iceberg. this man should be disbarred. but he won't be disbarred. you have a democrat bar. you have a democrat top court. you have democrat judges. the whole system is fixed. >> mark, we just got some news. the president was walking to air force one -- the helicopter. >> marine one. >> we talked eed to peter an ho ago. a reporter said, mr. president, do you think the charges against trump are politically motivated? he said, i have no comment on trump. to be expected? >> why does he comment? the democrat party is doing all the dirty work for him. he already sent the signal out that donald trump is a threat to the nation. you see these phoney historians go on tv calling him a dictator. what has he done that's a threat to the nation? he's followed the laws. he's followed the rules. he follows the constitution.

so they have to concoct events. the january 6th committee. that is a typical soviet style commission that was pulled together all one sided. yet a few hacks from the republican party to make it look like it was bipartisan. clearly it wasn't. i could go on and on about all this stuff. look at bill clinton. bill clinton cut a deal with an independent counsel who could have charged him with 15 different crimes when he lied to the grand jury, lied under oath, lied in front of a federal judge. but they cut a deal to prevent something like this. hillary clinton would be doing life in prison if con -- obstruction was a crime. what is she doing? attacking trump. joe biden. the idea joe biden, a man who took money from the communist chinese, that family got over

$30 million in chinese money. they set him up in washington, d.c. in a phoney think tank where he made $900,000 a year. two years the guy makes $17 million. he's been in the senate his entire life. he can't put seven words together. he's paid for speeches. we all know what's going on here. this is corruption through and through. that's the way it works. democrats are immunized by the fbi, by the attorney general who is a lap dog to this president. they have the u.s. attorneys in place. they dragged this guy, jack smith, back from the hague, who was humiliated by the u.s. supreme court in one case and unanimous decision that threw out one of his cases and humiliated by a jury in north carolina when he went after john edward. that's the guy you've picked? he's a mad dog. he's a rogue prosecutor. democrat da in atlanta, democrat radical left wing kook in manhattan. we're sitting here debating the

law which isn't even the law. >> right. >> it's not the law. everybody knows that! the federal law does not apply. period. the state law violates the statute of limitations. period. >> and we will see what the charges are next week. mark, thank you very much. tune in to his show this weekend, find out more about the conversation you had with the president before and after the indictments were handed out before the grand jury this weekend. thank you very much for that. >> thank you. >> thank you, mark. great to see you. head over to ashley. she has headlines. >> we're going to start with this out of nashville. celebration of life is being honored to honor evelyn dieckhaus. she is being hailed a hero for trying to pull the fire alarm to try and save her classmates. police releasing a chilling 911

made. >> i hear another shot. >> you did? >> i'm hearing more shots. i'm upstaired by the end of the hallway. >> you're upstairs by the hallway? >> art room. >> art room. please hurry. >> police say shooter audrey hale killed three adults and three children before being killed by officers. a new report indicates hale trained at a local gun range repeatedly before the shooting. a team from the cdc is studying the impact of that toxic train derailment in east palestine, ohio, reportedly got sick during the investigation. the cdc said seven investigators briefly felt ill early this morning. this report comes as the justice department seeking damage for violations to the clean water act. wall street journal reporter accused of spying on russia will be detained until at least may 29th.

it is pending an investigation. he face up to 20 years in prison. earlier we were joined by the brother of paul weland, his former loved one is serving a 16 year prison sentence in russia on similar charges. >> i think the kremlin sees these types of charges differently. i am concerned that they have not been able to deter the kremlin from taking american citizens hostage. it is disappointing having to see someone go through the same process paul has gone through. >> the white house in touch with the jailed journalist's family. gwyneth paltrow cracking a smile after she was found innocent. just after her court victory, paltrow is seen saying, i wish you well to terry sanderson. the court awarding paltrow $1 in damages. sanderson will also have to foot the bill for her attorney fees

which could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. those are your headlines. i thought you had another headline. we can't trust chris to tell the truth here. >> there goes breakfast. here's the problem. when she was forced to get that massage, it was unbelievable. >> she said to her daughter, please take the stand and defend me. her sweet daughter innocently said, my mom, she had a hard day. she had to actually go get a massage. she doesn't know what she did when she said that. >> the trial of the century is now over. >> it's done. very classy of gwyneth to say i wish you well. he said, thank you, dear. they're getting along. fox news alert.

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>> former president trump indicted by a new york grand jury as the left disregards his presumption of innocence. >> this required a person who was directed in a campaign fraud scheme to go to jail. the guy who did the directing should also be held to account. that's the way it should be. >> donald trump's team is countering calling it the indictment of a failed nation. here is geraldo rivera. >> morning, steve.

>> where do you want to start? >> well, on a personal basis, i broke with president trump for the most profoundly serious reason. he seemed to me to be trying very hard to undermind our electoral process. to stab the constitution in the back. his behavior following the election of 2020 up until january 6th i felt was reprehensible. i thought he deserved to be indicted and he was indicted. to me, this is a chump change indictment here in new york. here's alvin bragg, a man, district attorney, who is widely criticized as not enforcing the law, allowing robberies and rapes and carjacking and murders to happen without the office being as intensely engaged as it possibly could be. and instead he diverts the resources to go after donald trump on an 8-year-old incident that was already passed over by

the federal prosecutors and cy vance who preceded alvin bragg in the da's office. they checked this stuff out and decided not to go forward. to go forward on the stormy daniels payoff i think to me is really low down and dirty local politics. >> listen, it sounds like the doj in d.c. is irritated by the fact that this local d.a. has brought charges because they think this case, of the many investigations against donald trump, this is the weakest. they are worried it could damage the january 6 and georgia probes. we haven't heard from the doj officially. we haven't heard from joe biden until about 20 minutes ago. here's peter doocey. >> mr. president, do you think the charges against trump are politically motivateed? >> i have no comment on trump. >> not surprising. >> that's an ace reporter we

have there on the scene, really strong and empassioned question asker. i think president biden does have to speak eventually. the indictment will be a big circus. the image of president trump wearing handcuffs, if that happens, certainly surrounded by secret service as he surrenders to be arraigned will be a burlesque and very demeaning scene. a payoff to a porn star. he probably did it. it was a misdemeanor, it was a campaign finance violation maybe. >> you said big deal. >> fraudulent business records. it is a deal, but it's a deal that's been sitting around for eight years and no one thought it significant enough to prosecute. now what do they do? they want to perp walk the former president of the united states. it really is injustice. i don't know that trump is right that this will rally his support. it might help him in the primary

process. in the big picture, i'm not so sure. but what i am sure, steve, is that this is unfair. that this is a lame case brought by a politically motivated district attorney in my view. it will not end well. regardless of what the outcome is. trump goes to jail. can you imagine on charges like this that the american people generally speaking have no faith in? i think it really is unseemly and unfortunate. i think that when he says election is interfering and political persecution, that resonates to me. >> if there is a trial and it is televised, can you imagine the ratings? >> having lived through oj and the rest, i think so. bigger than gwyneth paltrow. >> we'll be watching you tonight

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mostly, we've been overwhelmed with support and the growing momentum that say, thanks for not forgetting about us. that's the case in d.c. although there are protesters. there's those who want to throw a different message into the face of those parents. what i say, i echo the words of a historical hero who says, if a crooked stick is before you, you don't need to explain how crooked it is. simply lay a straight stick beside it. speak the truth and arrogance is destroyed in its presence. we're holding up the straight stick of books like this, that remind parents that it is fearless faith in god and his word and moral integrity that built this nation and will heal america from the inside out. >> okay. so you went to a cleveland park library in d.c. the day before apparently the library put up pride displays and a progressive flag. is that in protest to you being there? >> i think so. i think that was a special welcoming committee that put that up for us and the families

who were coming. i think that clearly frames for us what we are up against. if we don't want a woke and broke future for our kid, we want blessing and protection, we've got to do the things we did at first. that's why i love brave books. i encourage people to go to bravebooks.com. check it out. join the book of the month club, which will send a book with a pro god, pro america value to your front door every single month. you will be investing in the moral and spiritual future of our nation. >> when you were in fayetteville, arkansas, a group of drag queens dressed in black and white showed up to protest your story time event. >> that's right. >> what's so offensive about your message? we can love each other? we can all have our own beliefs? if people don't want to go to your event, they don't have to. what's so offensive about what you're trying to preach? >> that's a great question. why do people show up in costume? i thought it was halloween. looked like the munsters in

drag. i question which value are you protesting? love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, self-control? that is the truth of the spirit and what this book is about. that's clearly defines for me what that movement is about if they're against the fruit of the spirit. so again, my hope is not in who governs us. my hope is not in a political package to fix the nation. our hope, according to our founders is in the power of god working in the hearts of his people. that's moms and dad, you and me. it doesn't take a majority of us. sam adams said it is a tireless minority keen on setting brush fires of safe and freedom in the hearts of men. that's what i'm hoping to do, is provide encouragement, inspiration that drives positive action. >> all right. kirk's book is "as you grow." check it out. thank you. god bless you.

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>> president biden finally fielding the question on former president trump's indictment within the last hour. >> he is refusing comment on the case as he heads to mississippi. >> peter, you were the one that got that question in. >> reporter: yes. officials around here do like to talk a lot about maga republicans. they try to make the former president and people on capitol hill all as one. foil for them. they like to talk about trump a fair amount around here. when it comes to this pending indictment, they don't have anything to say yet. listen here. mr. president, do you think that

the charges against trump are politically motivated? >> i have no comment on trump. >> reporter: plenty of folks in d.c. are commenting. it's interesting. nobody is really saying that trump didn't do it. instead the argument is 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're just accelerating it. i think the democrats know this has nothing to do with the law. they're sending a message. >> reporter: chuck shumer is saying mr. trump is subject to the same laws as every american. he will be able to avail himself of the legal system and a jury, not politic, to determine his face to the fact and law. the electoral system is what is front of mind for many trump backers. >> they are trying to destroy donald trump because they fear

him at the ballot box. they're trying to drain him dry. they're trying to bleed him dry. >> reporter: and officials all the way up to the president want to talk about the things they want to talk about. today he's going to mississippi to survey storm damage. they want that to be the headline so that's what they're gonna talk about. no comment on the trump stuff. back to you. >> good job being loud out there by the chopper, peter. >> thank you. i think it's genetic. >> peter, two questions. did anyone get any questions off? were you the last, or the only? >> there was one down the line that got a more generic trump question. somebody did ask about the wall street journal reporter who is detained in russia and president biden said something to the effect of, they should let him go. >> we agree. peter, thank you very much. let's bring in bret, anchor and executive editor of special report and fox news chief political anchor.

bret, good morning. >> good morning. did you teach him that loudness? >> he learned that on his own. long story. when he was in baseball. bret, the thing about this pending indictment is it has rallied both sides. they're both fund-raising off of it. today is the last day of fund-raising for the first quarter. republicans are saying it's a witch hunt. democrats are saying it's simply law and order. the town's on fire. >> it really is. it divides the country even further. listen, this indictment, no matter what you think about former president trump, is going to come under scrutiny. we don't know everything that's inside it. it's being reported that there are some 34 individual counts. that deal with not only the payment of stormy daniel, but also karen mcdougal, the playboy model. we don't have the specifics, only reporting of that, based on sources. what we can say is that the former president has been making calls to capitol hill to rally his allies saying he's going to

fight this vigorously. he has basically his attorneys have said they are going to fight this on two fronts. one is that it is a political effort and by a d.a. who has talked about going after the former president before. also, it is based on a lawyer, his former fixer, michael cohen, who has lied unoath, was a convicted felon and was disbarred. they also will say that this payment was not campaign funds and it was done, in their word, to deal with a false accusation and he would have made fit he wasn't running for president. those are the defense lines that they are going to go down the road. but we haven't seen everything inside of it so we have to put the caveat there until we see the indictment itself. >> we looked at the polls. they were released tuesday when trump was doing so much better than ron desantis. what do you think the polls will show after all of this? will this help him or hurt him?

>> you know, it's interesting. i think in the gop primary, it's going to fire up his base. maybe going to fire up other people who think he's been under attack for a long time. you look at the russia investigation and other things. in a general election, if you get that far and he gets the nomination. any indictment does not help solidify suburban women or independents. it's not really a great thing on a resume. but in the short term, it's lick likely going to give a further bump to the president. >> it's all about tuesday, what's in there, and what those counts could be. are there financial things that we don't know about in the big picture? one thing is pretty clear, bret. it caught everybody by surprise. why is that? the head fake we got wednesday that we were not going to hear anything about the case, we were just going on vacation. >> that's a great point. maybe that was a move by the district attorneys office.

putting out that month hiatus, for not only reporter, but all teams, and lawmakers on capitol hill thought this was it. lawmakers left capitol hill. there was nobody left to comment on camera. it may have been a head fake. but come tuesday, it will be the center of the world, the world will be watching. >> we were just watching a live shot from mar a-lago from across the intercoastal. it will be interesting to watch if the indictment does happen on tuesday. that means the president, former president, will have to go from palm beach to new york city, to the courthouse. what a spectacle. bret, thanks so much. great coverage last night. >> everyone was scrambling last night. the news cast that we all thought we were going to see out the door when this news broke. what time did it break? around 5 p.m.? >> all right. coming up on this friday, hall of fame pitcher and fox sport

league mlb and and analyst john smoltz joins us. first bill hemmer. we know what we'll start with today. >> i think it was 5:20 because i just finished a run in greenwich village. i said, man, i hope this neighborhood would get cleaned up. wouldn't you know nypd is all on today throughout the city of new york. funny how that happens. where to now? terrific lineup to take us through it. also martha scouts the field for 2024 on both sides coming up. not to be outdone, the world remains a very serious place. no word on the manifesto from the nashville killer, the border is still a mess and america has been taken hostage in russia. we'll get to that on a friday morning. we'll see you as we begin on a fri-yay, shannon bream.

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>> all major league teams stepped up to play yesterday on opening day. here to help us recap, fox sports league analyst john smoltz hall of fame pitcher.

first time with a pitch clock. knocked off about half hour on every game. >> it will be fantastic. people love baseball, don't want to see these changes but they're going to look back and see this is one of the best things to happen. >> frohman was the first tot have a pitch clock violation. if you take too long it costs you a ball. here's how it looked violation. >> there you go. >> first one of the year. >> i wonder how many -- if you had an over/under how many will take place over the course of the season. >> quick, the rules? >> it's going to be great. it's going to speed up the game. every other sports has some kind of clock to speed up the game. baseball's gonna shave about 20, 25 minutes off. >> if we have too many throws to first or kept looking to first. >> after two weeks there won't be any issues. >> yankees won 5-0.

here's what happened in the first inning. first time as captain, how would judge do? watch. >> driven to center field. back, still back, on the track, at the wall! see ya! he picks up where he left off! a home run for judge! >> 46,000 there. you will be there on saturday. your thoughts about the yankees this year? >> well, they've got depth, if they stay away from the injuries, because that's what baseball -- if you stay away from injury, you'll be find. they've got depth in the rotation. so much pressure on judge to come off of the year. i don't think he can come close to duplicating it, but what an incredible player. the yankees are poised, for the first time in awhile, to have enough depth to go all the way. >> their shortstop, 21, from the area. >> that was a great scene. all the yankees people in right field, they salute their players. it reminds you when i was playing, derek jeter broke in.

who knows what the future will hold from this young man, being from here. great story. >> astros still the class of the league? >> right now, because of their pitching and what they've done, the american league is going to be tougher though because teams have gotten better. >> do you want to see a realignment with teams in their own region, total realignment of baseball? >> i would love to see that. that's the last piece of the puzzle, to truly reform an make everything as competitive as possible. >> do you worry about the traditions being broken, rivalries being ended? >> nope. they can still do that. there's a way to do it and make travel for teams like seattle and miami and all the travel is not the same. that's what people don't understand. if they get to that realignment. with these new rule changes, the game will be crisper, you'll see athleticism, action. >> lastly, tomorrow you're going to be working. i don't know if you still feel the nerves when you play. you'll be alongside joe and ken doing the reporting in the stands for fox sports. what's your approach? >> well, i love being at the stadium. the juices are flowing. this is going to be year eight i

think for me for fox. i miss the game. i love opening day. do you know what i love? the first week where all the fans go crazy. they either jump off the bandwagon or jump on. it's too big of a season to let one week or ten days define your organization. >> do you like to study it? >> i have learned to get it from seven hours down to five to three. i'm not the most technically sound guy. >> you also have to watch him play celebrity golf. he's fantastic. more fox and friends in a moment. out here, you're a landowner, a gardener, a landscaper and a hunter. that's why you need versatile, durable kubota equipment.

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>> thanks for joining us on another slow news day. let's see what happens tomorrow. >> going to be a busy day today and brian has a wonderful show tomorrow night. you'll be talking about this a lot. >> mark levin is my first guest. >> i'll listen. >> bill: thank you, guys, here we go, 9:00 in new york. felony charges against a former u.s. president. we have never been here before. prosecutors trying to coordinate the arrest of donald trump. unprecedented move as we have said many times in history now, it is evolving by the minute and minute by minute we go on friday morning. bill hemmer, good morning. dana has the week off. our friend is back today. pleasure. thanks for being here, shannon. >> i'm