>> todd: fox news alert, former president trump says to arrive in -- today. i'm todd piro. >> ashley: i'm ashley strohmier in for carley shimkus. the former president will arrive at the courthouse at 11 a.m., his assignment will begin at 2:15 p.m. brooke singman is standing by with her analysis on all that. we begin with mad rin live outside the courthouse on how the city is preparing for trump's arrival.

good morning. >> good morning, todd and ashley, all eyes are on mar-a-lago as mr. trump gets ready to leave for new york city to face a judge. in a new truth social post he lays out his plan saying, i will be leaving mar-a-lago on monday at 12 heading to new york and tuesday morning going to the courthouse. america was not supposed to be this way. metal barricades have been set up around the court and trump tower and new york city officials will close key streets as they brace for potential protest. the courthouse will be cleared for a sweep and no other business will be done until trump's arraignment is over. secret service will make sure she is safely brought in. he will not be wearing handcuffs, after an arrangement with the da's office. manhattan grand jury has been

looking into trump's role in hush money payments to women who said they had affairs with him. the president denies the allegations and wrongdoing. >> he's gearing up for a battle, this is something we believe is political persecution and i believe people on both sides of the aisle believe that. he is a tough guy and he will be ready for this fight. we're ready for this fight and i look forward to moving this along to exonerate him. >> mr. trump will return to mar-a-lago after his arraignment where he is expected to deliver a speech later that evening. >> todd: madelyn, thank you. fox news reporter brooke singman. you heard madelyn talk about the speech at the end of all of this tomorrow, will he be able to do that speech if there is a gag order in place? >> brooke: if there is a gag

order, he can't talk about the case, he can deliver a speech. he is a presidential candidate for 2024, the leading republican candidate actually, he can make a speech, just not about the case. if there is no gag order, he can talk about the case to his supporters. he wants to fight back. his supporters want him to fight back. people want to hear from him. investigations are nothing new for president trump. his whole entire administration was clouded by the russian probe, impeachment one, impeachment two. he's out of office and under investigation by the new york attorney general, not alvin bragg, he is under investigation by a grand jury about classified documents or alleged involvement in january 6. investigation nothing new and his supporters love to hear from

him. he's strong. he's a person, too, imagine constantly under investigation for everything, taxes, everything. for be seven years. he said it, since he came down the golden escalator at trump tower and this is when this begin. >> ashley: i think a majority of supporters, the investigations are like, when does this stop. he is coming back home, this is his home, he's from queens. this has to bother him a little bit, this is where he put his footing and started. to come back to this? >> brooke: right, he's coming home today, he is getting off the plane in new york city where he built his empire, raised his children and grew up here. his current address is mar-a-lago. >> brooke: i was born a new

yorker and always a new yorker, to come home and be greeted by this is surreal and un unprecedented, history in the making. >> todd: he wants to move this to staten island, which makes sense, doesn't look like the judge will grant that, but we'll see. thanks for trying. appreciate it. voters in deb verheading to the polls to elect their mayor tomorrow. which candidates with put the city back on track. >> ashley: is meghan markle plotting a run for office? we'll tell you what is fuelling those rumors that she's considering a run for politics.

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>> todd: voters in denver heading to the poll to elect their new mayor tomorrow. the city's homeless population

up 44% since 2017. >> ashley: majority of candidates offering competing plans to get the city back on track, recent polls shows there is no favorite with 58% not decided. >> todd: ross, great to have you here, is it okay to say homelessness will decide this election? >> i do think so, homelessness and crime and i don't think there is any city where homelessness is as front and center as denver. you were talking about donald trump coming to new york, if he came to denver, he would think he is in a dystopian national park. >> ashley: i feel like that is the narrative and same thing we hear from anyone in a big city right now, homeless encampments,

tentses everywhere in big cities. is this a multitude of things? what is it? >> a multitude of things, but homelessness is a huge part of it, because homeless set up their tent in any area, including areas where there are plenty of boousinesses and city governments are reticent and the numbers are astounding and up 44%. when you live here, it feels like more than that. the homeless used to be more or less -- inescapable. >> todd: you said homeless crisis is bigger in denver than cities on the west coast like

portland and seattle that we've been covering for a while. how did denver get this bad? >> you know, that's a great question, if we knew the answer, we would know the solution. i suspect some time ago, john higgenlooper, who was mayor before he was governor, started on a program to so-called help the homeless and i think that attracted a lot of them here. as a guy who believes in freedom, i'm in favor of drug legalization, even though i never touched the stuff myself, we were the first state to legalize marijuana, with washington state being the other one. it attracted people who wanted to come for legal marijuana and couldn't go anywhere else and they would camp in the streets. >> ashley: if it is as bad as

you say with the homeless crisis compared to portland and places like that, how is it there are 58% of voters undecided? what will it take for them to make their mind up? i'm sure the majority of candidates waub to do something to fix it. >> i think part of the reason there are so many undec undecided -- -- very hard to distinguish one from other when it comes to policy, there are a few on the far left who want to do less than we're doing now, but most folks sound the same, i will get them off the street and it is some degree, how much am i willing to force them into treatment or shelters and it is hard to tell one policy from another and with this many people, elections are about who is most famous and nobody in the race is really famous.

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>> todd: a cost of college continues to rise, new poll reveals higher education is no longer worth the money to most americans. 56% say a four-year degree is not a good investment, compared to 42% who think the diploma is worth it. students at sun city welding academy are here and a recent

graduate is here. they did not go to a four-year college, they went to the trades and they join me. why did you make the choice to go to trade school and not college? >> well, 1st i would have to say it would have to be because of the money. my family is not too well off, so we have to worry about our financial situation in the first place, first and foremost and the payment options are impossible about college these days. >> todd: you are right, it is pricing people out of the degree. you followed up with getting a trade degree to make a lot of money and why did you make this choice? >> well, i thought college wasn't a viable option, i didn't want to deal with the debt and i didn't think four plus years would get me anywhere after. it doesn't give you skills in

the classroom, doing hands-on learning is more affordable. >> be roert, you are a graduate of this welding economy, why did you decide to go into a trade like welding? >> i went to a prep school for four years in high school, after a while, i realized that was not the right decision i wanted to make. i chose doing this welding path and have been employed with a company here in el paso and it's going well for myself. >> todd: to follow-up, robert, how do you respond when people tell you that you need a college degree to be a success in life? >> the way i respond to that is usually just by saying if you're passionate about college, go do college. if college is not for you, go do a trade. >> todd: how much appeal is the

hands-on nature of learning a trade versus the classroom, boring, sitting there reading a book and other stuff you have to do in college? >> it is the best part. you don't really learn nothing sitting down in a classroom. some people do, but learn handses on, get in there and get your hands dirty. >> todd: college is basically indoctrination party, do you think overall college is a waste of money? i understand your personal situation, but overall, do you think college is a waste of money? >> yes, definitely, sun city welding tell us most studying is on us since it is a hands-on program. they really commit themselves, they will find a way to learn and educate themselves without a

teacher or anyone else showing them how, they need experience and that is both factors. >> todd: what do you make of those who say trades are for men? >> absolutely not. i feel a lot of women get pushed down no matter what job you go to, we need women welders and other skills out there and we need to show men, we can do it, too, all you need is determination. >> todd: you are making a wise choice. my parent's cardiologist, their building was in a building owned by my dad's plumber, the plumber owned the building, good way to make money, too. appreciate your time, thank you. all right, fox news alert hundreds of flights cancelled this morning embracing for a number of life-threatening

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>> todd: fox news alert,

millions of people in a dozen states bracing for a new powerful storm this week, just days after a massive system spawned 76 tornados and left 33 people dead. wild before and after photos show extent of devastation in hard-hit arkansas. 10,000 people are waking up in the dark this morning. >> todd: horrible pictures there. all this as state braces for a new round of devastating storms without power. 500 flights delayed, 100 more canceld and calling for parts of the u.s. to take cover. >> ashley: meteorologist adam klotz is here, good morning, adam. >> week after week after week. beginning to see this set up monday morning. warm air in the middle of the

country and line of colder air is the cold front that will sweep the country, the coast to coast storm, this line of weather. on the back of it, seeing snowfalling, there will be a big winter side with this system and severe side. here is where it is falling, and will intensify, by tuesday, this shifted to the northern plains. south dakota, blizzard warning in place, this will be legitimate snow storm in the northern plains, across wyoming and the upper midwest. that is become side of this system. the front side of this system, chance of severe weather, up to four out of possible five categories, significant in the bullseye, almost where the bullseye was on friday. everything in pink is northern illinois, stretching back to

iowa, wide area where you could see tornados, very strong wind, heavy rain, hail will be part of this also, that shifts toward the east as you get into wednesday here. really i think the highlight for this is tuesday, tracking the system, this is what it looks like over the course of the week, the western side all snow and one more couple days here, more severe weather. it just seems like we can't get a break. >> ashley: we're both from the midwest and know this is possible this time of year, it doesn't get easier when you see it. >> it is happening a lot early, we think early into may and kicked off in a big way. >> todd: tornado warnings in jersey, they don't normally get tornados warnings, weird stuff.

asa hutchinson giving his thoughts on the trump indictment. >> if trump were to get indicted, you said he should drop out of the race, do you think he should drop out? >> i do, the office is more important than an individual person, for sake of the office of presidency, i think it is too much side show and distraction and he needs to be able to concentrate on his due process. >> ashley: joe concha joins us now, once again, joe, good morning to you. this fox news poll asking primary voters preferred presidential nominee and donald trump is leading with 54%, ron desantis with 24%, mike pence, nike and hutchinson with 1%. do you think trump will step aside? >> joe: great question,

rhetorical, i think. from a media perspective, you say trump should withdraw from the race, which will never happen, that will earn hutchinson many tv appearances and air time. if this was 2008, and this governor has been around for a while and controversy free, he could have won the nomination 15 years ago, but in this environment, running against a former president, whose base is -- i don't see how hitchinson could overcome ron desantis, let alone donald trump. he is george pataki 2.0, he will get lots of air time. >> todd: trump's base continues to grow by the minute with this

indictment upon us. tax returns revealing meghan markle is paying to michelle obama's former chief fuelling rumors about run for potential office. there it is on the screen, joe, what office is meghan markle running for? >> joe: this rumor will not go away, michelle obama, backed by the looks of meghan markle and celebrities, they would love to see michelle obama run. poll after poll show they don't want joe biden to run again, we keep asking who is the alternative? when it comes to michelle obama and meghan markle supporting her obviously through money being spent on her possibly running, what does michelle obama bring to the table outside of

personality? when hillary clinton ran, she was a senator and secretary of state. michelle obama, what are you getting here exactly? a lot of people want her to run, i don't know what she brings to the table. >> ashley: an article in the spectator predictses hunter biden will be indicted, so will hillary clinton, thanks to alvin bragg opening pandora's box. >> joe: miller is incredibly smart and one of the best follows on twitter. interesting perspective. nancy pelosi might be 137 years old, that won't stop a republican attorney general from indicting her for insider training and martha stewart went to prison for less, he is right about that. several members of the squads b

base -- are they next? the point is once you start running political persecutions against donald trump for minor infractions, misdemeanors basically, then you're begging the other side to do the same to their political opponents, that is why this is so dangerous, it does open pandora's box, whole ball of wrong. we see everybody in the media, almost everybody, cheering this on, they want a mugshot, fingerprintses, not realizing they are dividing the country. >> todd: welcome back from disney, hope woke mickey was good, it's a small world after all. thank you. >> joe: thank you, i have a third job coming, bartending at re

regel beggal to pay for that trip. >> todd: oil prices soaring this morning. how will it impact your wallet? >> ashley: and mcdonald's just closed it's office, cheryl casone is breaking that down.

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>> todd: secretary of state antony blinken demanding russia release evan gershkovich, who was detained on espionage allegations. michael schwartz, a friend of evan, joined us. >> they have kept him hidden away from prison in moscow without providing information about his condition or what it is he is up against. i think the united states will have to open up whatever avenues it has to communicate with the russian government and try to negotiate the release of both evan and paul whelan. the russian government is seizing americans to use as bargaining trip. >> todd: russian defending the arrest saying the journalist was caught red-handed while trying

to get information. >> ashley: oil prices sky high after opec announced cuts. >> todd: cheryl casone with how this will impact your wallet. >> cheryl: oil prices surging after opec plus made surprise production cut. the cut according to the saudis is precautionary measure, cuts coming from russia, kuwait, iraq and more, setting off alarm bells by market watchers that we could be heading to $100 per barrel oil. >> this production cut is in response to the united states saying they will not support refilling the strategic reserve in the $70 range and seems like opec is telling the administration to talk to the hand. might see prices like last

summer and that was problematic. >> cheryl: retail gasoline prices in summer normally tick higher, complicating factor end of zero covid policy in china means more demand for oil coming out of china, that story has the markets rocked this morning. >> ashley: now mcdonald's is closing a couple offices. >> cheryl: they are closing all their u.s. offices this week as the company is preparing to send out layoff notices. the company sent out this e-mail informing employees everybody has to work from home today, monday, to wednesday, so the ceo saying some jobs that are existing today are either going to get moved or the jobs may go away. no word on house minority leader jobs will be cut.

the company employs 150,000 people globally, potentially a big hit for the labor market today. >> todd: immigrant motel workers suing hotels in new york after they were beat up. >> cheryl: this worker is suing the city after she was assaulted by a migrant working there. she is a migrant cleaning working at a hotel where a large group of migrants are housed. her lawyers say defend antss were aware and are negligent for failing to address the plaintiff being assaulted and battered. i will tell you that there is still a lot of moves happening in new york city right now to make a more permanent hotel plan

for migrants, even kicking out some homeless individuals in this city. i'll have more on that later. >> todd: some are down the street from time square. >> cheryl: and spreading throughout the city, to be honest. >> ashley: thank you. dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas pushing back against republicans who say he should quit or be fired. >> i disregard that type of rhetoric. i'm focused on the mission. i'm not going to resign. i love public service, i think it is an incredible honor to be a part of it. >> ashley: a writer for the washington examiner is traveling to the border with republican presidential candidate nikki haley today. thank you for being with us, that is not all mayorkas said in the interview, listen to this. >> chief of border patrol raul

ortiz says the border is a crisis situation. >> i think we face a serious challenge on parts of the border. >> do you view what is upon haing as crisis? >> it is a significant challenge. >> ashley: what is wrong with him, a challenge? what do you think? >> for two years, secretary mayorkas has not called this a crisis and no legal definition for a crisis, the latest thing, does border patrol have operational control of the border? last week in three hearings in congress, the secretary refused to say they had operational control. he is changing language again and again to say, that is not the goal, the goal is not to goal, it is to discourage massive resources to the border is the goal. >> ashley: what will it take for the administration to admit this is a crisis? you hear him time and time

again, he denies there is a crisis and calls it a challenge, it is more than a challenge. what about people begging for help, parents and families to stop this fentanyl crisis, does he not think this is a crisis? >> even democrats in the house and senate last week, cory booker even pushed him to say, you need to do more about this, we are surging resources again, they launched a new operation going after fentanyl at the border. the secretary was deputy secretary of dhs under president barack obama. he has known the fentanyl crisis was coming, this shouldn't know new to him. day one, he should be doing more to avoid getting to this place two years later temperature is getting worse and worse. >> ashley: you have been to the border a lot and going back

today with nikki haley, what do you see? i know you think it is a crisis, what are you seeing? >> over the last two years, we've seen five million people apprehended at the border, let that sink in. 200 to 300,000 a month. over the last decade we had seen 50,000 a month, just for context. people are getting injured and dying and the toll that issic taking and pulling from resources like in uvalde where police and sheriffs are pulled out to help with those things, we'll see people running across the border and getting apprehended and taken into custody. we'll see if that happens. >> ashley: we will see, especially if he doesn't call it a crisis, if this is not a

crisis, i don't know what is. thank you for your time, we appreciate it. >> todd: missouri state representative justin hicks, a black republican fending off questions about his ethnicity because he backs a deal against diversity, equity and inclusion. take a listen to this exchange. >> do you agree with this dei bill and what was your reason? >> yes, i did say i'm okay with the bill as it stands. >> what do you identify as? >> identify? >> ethnicity? >> i identify as an american. >> not african american? [applause] >> are you african american? >> todd: state representative hicks joined us last hour, watch. >> i'm thinking this is ridiculous i'm being questioned on issues of race. the legislation that we were introducing is solely just to ensure the state is not in the

business of giving preferential treatment to individuals based on their race, sex or national origin, this is not an issue of race anymore. i think they look for words to divide us instead of unite us and that sets them off, me -- looking in the lens of us american first and not divide us based on race, that goes against what they believe all together. >> todd: hicks wants to ban -- spending in department of agriculture. fox news alert looking live at former president's plane sitting on the tarmac where he is expected to depart for new york city ahead of his arraignment tomorrow. mat whitaker will talk about that. >> ashley: steve doocy will talk about what is coming up on "fox and friends."

>> steve: good monday morning, we'll have a live report on the indictment of donald trump, he will fly out of palm beach today around noon. violent weekend storms claimed the lives of 32 people. we have a live report on the aftermath as more severe weather is expected in parts of the united states today. just look at the devastation. meanwhile joe biden homeland security secretary faces questions, what alejandro mayorkas didn't say as republicans double down on impeachment efforts on the secretary. we have marco rubio, ronna mcdan yeld, dr. hornacek was at the music

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sitting on the tarmac in west palm beach, florida where he will depart ahead of his arraignment tomorrow. >> brooke singman on what happens next. >> former president donald trump is preparing for his arraignment tomorrow in new york city. he said i will be leaving mar-a-lago on monday 12 clock noon heading to trump tower in new york. on tuesday morning i will be going to, believe it or not, the court house. america was not supposed to be this way. now, let's take a look at what we can expect tomorrow for the former president's arraignment. trump is set arrive at the new york county criminal courthouse at 11:00 a.m. several streets surrounding the court house are expected to be closed around 1:00 p.m. as the arraignment is set to begin at 2:15. and this could all be finished

as soon as 2: 30. the trump campaign put out a statement the former president will speak tomorrow night back at mar-a-lago. here is trump's lawyer on what we can expect from his legal team inside the court house. listen. >> we will take the indictment, dissect it. the team will look at every potential issue that we will be able to challenge and we will challenge it. of course, i very much anticipate a motion to dismiss coming because there no law that fits this. >> we are learning the judge at tomorrow's arraignment may be preparing to slap the former president with a gag order. the source saying the trump legal team now thinks that the manhattan judge will take the unprecedented step of silencing the presidential frontrunner with unconstitutional gag order. breaking the order could trigger a final of $1,000 and a prison sentence of as much as 30 days. meantime lawmakers and officials are coming forward to slam the charges against trump entirely. former u.s. attorney general bill barr says this case has no

legal basis. >> very essence of the way because of prosecuting pursuing a person rather than pursuing a real crime. the american people see that. >> trump's legal team say they don't expect the former president to make a perp walk. it's unclear at this point if he will take a mugshot. todd, ashley. >> >> brooke singhman live with us. >> let's bring in former acting attorney general matt whitaker. you heard the president's attorney joe calculate pena say motion to dismiss. don't you think trump's motion to dismiss should be granted? >> yeah. there's no doubt. it's good to be with both of you this morning. there is no doubt in my mind being this case is very weak if

everything is to be believed and coming from serious sources that have good information this is pelosily going to be falsification of business records. two elements do it. doesn't appear that the fax support really either element. the thing that concerns me the most is the separation of powers issue. that is that you have a local da trying to enforce federal law on campaign finance violation and that's a very concerning because, you know, the feds looked at this issue both the southern district of new york and the federal election commission both who have jurisdiction over federal election laws and they passed on that case. and so the fact that any local d.a. can take up a case under federal law and pursue it against their political enemies i think is a very concerning precedent and i expect that the motion practice in this case, you know, not only will make law but will probably define a lot of the cases going forward.

>> ashley: you talk about this precedent set. do you think it's a dangerous precedent to be set and all politicians should be worried? anyone under investigation or under the microscope right now? >> yeah, ashley. i think if somebody is a politically ambitious local d.a. this case if it's allowed to proceed and successful ultimately which i don't believe it will be but assume for the purpose of argument it is, that opens up thousands of local d.a.s to now go after their political opposition not only at a local level but at a federal level. this is a really -- you know we have crossed rubicon in american jurisprudence. the system needs to work the system at the state and federal level has to work not only for donald trump because this isn't just about donald trump. this is about really the future of our republic and whether these local d.a.s can use their power to embarrass, to

harass, and to ultimately attempt to imprison people from the opposition party. it's frightening, quite frankly. >> matt, there is also talk of a gag order in this case and typically gag order would be to make sure that the defendant, in this case donald trump gets a fair trial. gag order is not something that he wants. he wants to be able to run with this with his campaign. this is something that bragg wants. what do you make of that? >> yeah, todd. you just said it it's part of his campaign there is a major first amendment question on gag order. that is can a candidate for president of the united states be prevented from speaking out from campaigning we have seen some leaks from the prosecution side the "new york times" seems to have been a retime line by line what this case is about and how it is to proceed. i don't see a judge having any appetite going after alvin bragg and his office. at the same time, donald trump who is a candidate for president

and has significant first amendment rights is going to be gagged from speaking about this and it's -- obviously this points to why it's political. it's going to prevent president trump from running for president. >> todd: 100 percent. >> ashley: best point made yet today. matt whitaker, thank you very much. we appreciate your time. >> todd: tomorrow is the day. be here, watch it. "fox & friends" starts now. ♪ ♪ ♪ if you don't believe me ♪ just watch ♪ come on ♪ ♪ just believe me ♪ just watch. >> steve: bruno mars is starting the day out in fire island morning just to the east of us. 40 degrees, nice and clear. also a day-time high of 50. sunrise out at fire island is going to be in