>> steve: good morning, everybody, 8:00 in new york city and back with a fox news alert. former president trump remained defiant after pleading not guilty to 34 felony accounts here in new york after he was arrested. >> ainsley: not guilty; right. >> steve: would have been a different show. >> ainsley: not is important. alleged for hush money payments. >> former president trump says he will not let the criminal

charges against him impact the 2024 race. he said he will plead and he pled not guilty to charges and came only hours after she was indicted. take a listen. >> donald trump: the only crime i've commit side to fearlessly deupon fended our nation. radical left lunatics want to interfere by using law enforcement. we can't let that happen. this is a persecution, not an investigation. >> the 34-count indictment released late yesterday accuses trump of falsifying document to hide hush money payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign. it is alleged from august 2016 to 2017, trump organized catch and kill through false business

entries. one instance $30,000 was paid to a dar doorman. alvin bragg spoke with the media detailing his case and told reporters he is keved in what they have found as previous das and previous prosecutors declined to go after the charges. >> i'm doing this for 24 years and i'm no stranger to rigorous, complex investigations. i bring cases when they're ready, having conducted a rigorous thorough investigation, the case was ready to be brought and it was brought. >> the whole country is talking about this, at the white house, the official comment is there is no comment. reporters tried to get the president to weigh in yesterday, tried. take a listen. >> thank you, thank you. thank you, guys.

thank you. >> as you see, the president deciding not to take reporter questions on this subject. he declined to talk about it last week, we'll see if that changes in the weeks ahead. the white house is not talking, democratic and republicans are fundraising off the drama in new york. will it impact the polls? trump's poll numbers continue to dominate. the first debate is four months away, a lot can happen before then. >> brian: bring in congressman jim jordan, house judiciary committee chairman and weaponization of government. we didn't know what we didn't know. now that you have seen it, are you more ap t for alvin bragg to come to washington and explain himself? >> he said yesterday he had addit

additional evidence and it totals up to 34. a lot of people thought there was no case before his announcement yesterday, before the arraignment and before we sasaw the indictment. i think people think it is more political than we thought beforehand. my big takeaway is how relentless they have been after president trump, they file his campaign, raid his home and indict him for campaign finance violation when he didn't even use campaign funds temperature is ridiculous. this is about all of us, this is not an accident this happens same month we learn the ftc went and asked who the journalists were and the journalists testified and democrats asked one of the journalists the questions the irs is knocking

on his door. i think it is a message to all of us regular folks across the heartland and the most alarming thing of all. >> ainsley: you tweeted election interference unless you are republican running for president. he could face 136 years behind bars, four years per count. will that happen? will he spend time behind bars? >> jim: of course not. weville to wait until december 4 and the trial scheduled for next year, this is ridiculous, the department of justice wouldn't bring the case, cy vance wouldn't bring the case. alvin bragg wouldn't bring the case until two of his guys --

suddenly alvin bragg has a change of heart and decides to bring the case. what we saw yesterday only makes us wonder what is going on here with the star witness being michael cohen. i remember when michael cohen was in front of the oversight committee and lied six times to congress, that is their key witness that they are building this case on? i don't get it. >> steve: i read the indictment and i think david pecker will be their key witness. when you look at donald trump's many cases pending against him, georgia, docu-lago, this is their weakest case. they have to figure out what to do with the indictments and jack smith trying to figure out what to do with that. have you advised the former

president about the pending cases? >> jim: we don't know what is going on there, the left never stops, 2016, 2018, mueller investigation and the hunter biden laptop story and raiding his home 91 days before the election and now this in the run-up to the 2024 race. why won't they just let "we the people" decide who they want representing in the office, why does the fbi and the left get involved trying to put their finger on the scale. they have been out to get trump since he ran for office because he is fighting for we the people and not for the swamp and that is key problem the left has with president trump. >> brian: we have bigger problems, the dollar will be leaving as currency, military

threats, the ukraine are wa, russia and china combining and oil and gas prices, lack of production, not building pipelines and focusing on something that happened 17 years ago broad forward from six years ago, it makes no sense. what is the situation with alvin bragg? speaker of the house thinks he is weaponizing government, are you going to subpoena him? what questions do you have for him? >> if he had coordination with the federal government, department of justice or the white house. the president had that cheesy smile on his face yesterday, what did that smile mean? he conceded he used federal funds, this investigation grew out of the special counsel mueller investigation, a federal statute and this is about election interference in the most important election we have.

we want to talk to him, he's asked what questions we have, he is conceding the fact we should be able to talk to him. everything is on the table, we'll figure out how to proceed next. >> brian: he wants them in writing. >> steve: what is the chance he will show? >> jim: may have to go to court. mr. pomerantz is the guy who wrote the book, the da out to get president trump, he left, he is no longer employed there, he's written a book, went on tv and talked about it, he would like to get answers, that may be easier to pursue than mr. bragg, but everything is on the table. >> ainsley: congressman, thank you for joining us. >> steve: another slow news day. >> brian: will be dominating. chicago mayor johnson beat his

rival to replace lori lightfoot. >> ainsley: while in wisconsin democrats get a big win ahead of a major abortion case. >> steve: todd piro will give us results from yesterday's big elections. >> todd: people of chicago have spoken and they are sticking with the far left, brandon johnson narrowly defeated paul vallas, who was backed by the police union. he will replace lori lightfoot when he is sworn in on may 15th. >> tonight is just the beginning, we have ushered in a new chapter in the city of our people. >> i care about you. i value you. i want to hear from you. >> todd: outgoing mayor congratulating johnson, i congratulate mayor-elect on the victory this evening, i will continue to root for the city i

call home and work together more equity and fairness in every neighborhood. johnson, who was backed by bernie sanders and pelosi ran for mayor after vowing to defund the police and boost the city's revenue. democrats win a swing seat, judge janet protasiewicz means left leaning justices will control the high court for first time in 15 years, just before the court rules on the case challenging wisconsin's abortion ban. and a run-off for johnston and bruff, the run-off will be june 6, johnson and bruff are two moderate candidate for mayor. back to you. >> steve: thank you from election central, todd. >> ainsley: ashley has headlines

for us. good morning. >> ashley: a virginia woman was stabbed to death in washington by a fugitive with two warrantses out for his arrest. batista was found in her room covered in blood. he is held without bond. and $2.6 million to ukraine for air defense, artillery tank, and other hardware, the u.s. has sent $36 billion in lethal aid to ukraine as it fights off a russian invasion. this is the latest round of assistance that comes as president zelenskyy visits poland. to major league baseball, will benson sacrifices his body,

beautiful catch against the cubs. watch. >> benson. up against the wall. yes. what a play. >> ashley: ouch. incredible snag there, but cubs come out on top 12-5. out west, san diego star manny machado ejected for arguing over the pitch clock. he was tossed in first inning of the padres loss. sandy alcantara threw a shut down in two hours yesterday. and a los angeles dodgers fan gets a one-year ban from dodger stadium. ricardo juarez got down on one knee before security swooped in and he ended in handcuffs. the love of his life did say yes

and we have the photo of her rocking the engagement ring. why did he do that? he knew he was going to get in trouble. >> brian: she had to get him out of jail. he was whisked away. >> ashley: exactly. >> steve: hope that is only time she has to bail him out. there, boom. >> ashley: what happened? he is on his knee proposing? >> ainsley: who attacked him? >> brian: security. the outfield is like, he's just proposing. >> ainsley: this is someone from the stands that jumped down there? >> steve: security, private property. >> ainsley: the guy proposing -- >> steve: trespassing. >> ainsley: he wasn't a player? >> steve: funnier if security takes out player. >> brian: thanks for clarifying that. >> ainsley: she had to get him out of jail. marrying guy with a record. >> brian: right, absolutely.

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>> brian: reaction from yarn the world following the trump indictment, one of a few, i'm sure. one china morning op ed mocking u.s. democracy saying "the chinese are chuckling," let's bring in fox news contributor douglas murray. i did think what the world is thinking, we have the rest of the world, including oil and gas production. the world look at us as beacon of democracy, what do you think they are thinking?

>> doug: they are look withing bemusement. in france, former prime minister sarkosey was charged and in italy and israel and -- >> brian: netanyahu? >> doug: former president was sent for rape. most of the world was bemused that a historic issue which has been delved back into effectively campaign finance issue be used to bring down a former president. the bar is regarded everywhere else as having to be exceptionally high. >> brian: is this similar to, you have problems in your house and you're at the mall and your family is fighting in front of everybody else. what is everybody thinking about

us? victor orbin, the prime minister of hungary, says, keep on fighting president, we're with you. a lot of people think it is controversial because of the way he does thing. >> doug: admire trump's punchiness, as it were. democracies like hungary is looking at this and how the nondemocracy, our rivals, countries trying to fit up a system contrary to our system are looking at it. i was in dc on friday when former vice president mike pence said other countries are looking at us and will be laughing at us. that is the case. chinese communist party wants to say this democracy thing is a

sham, we can do the economics and we don't need the people this plays into their hand without a doubt. >> brian: real quick, el salvador president says, think what you want about former president donald trump, but just imagine if this happened in any other country where government arrested main person, democracy is gone. >> doug: there is something in that, i don't think it is gone, but suffered serious beating. the u.s. can tell other countries not to use the court, alvin bragg sent that to hell. >> bri: when mitt romney says he has been unjustly charged. alvin bragg defending his decision to defend donald trump, is he setting a dangerous precedence? bret baier has been tasked with

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>> steve: manhattan da alvin bragg defended his historic decision to have former president donald trump arrested and charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records. >> i've been doing this for 24

years. i don't bring cases prior to rigorous investigation. now having done so issue the case has been brought. >> why now? >> as i just mentioned, he had available additional evidence that was not in the office's possession prior to my time here. the basis for business integrity is true and accurate recordkeeping, that is the charge brought here, falsifying new york state business record. >> brian: get recordkeeping under control and we'll work the streets. the bragg's case set precedence for more prosecution. >> ainsley: let's bring in bret baier. good morning, bret. he says they have additional evidence, but the second counts is not listed, how is this a

felony without a second crime? >> bret: great point, if you listen to legal experts on every ideological spectrum, they have a problem with this, it is not listed in the indictment. the 34 counts to get from misdemeanor to felony, has to be an underlying crime temperature is like choose your own adventure for the jury that you could choose the federal election crime. that is a jump for a local da to make that a federal charge. then he mentioned state election law. and yet running for president is a federal office. and then he talks about avoiding taxes, this was done to help michael cohen on his tax returns and falsifying state law tax records. you are going down in the weeds here. to jump from misdemeanor to felony on 34 counts, that is what he's doing temperature is

vague and a lot of people have a problem with it. >> steve: no kidding. i'm curious, you are in dc and talk to the people involved in politics. this case obviously skyrocketed donald trump's popularity on the republican side. if the primary were held today, donald trump would walk away with it, if held today. over coming weeks and months, the story will fade, what is strategy for the other people running for president to do something about this. >> ainsley: good question. >> bret: that's a great question, i don't think there is one. i think it is wait until the hurricane passes. right now you are not breaking through with any policy, any campaign wishes. it is not happening because all oxygen in the room is going to the former president. when you have senator mitt romney come out with a

statement, i don't think donald trump is fit for office, but i do think this is political. when jeb bush says something similar and you have parts of the party who have a problem with the former president, defending him on this particular charge is a big moment. i also think it moves some people who were not paying attention right now temperature is early. but because they think he is under attack unfairly, they start to say wait a second, we should give him another look. polls are going up and attention is increasing. >> brian: bret, to build on what the opponents, maybe tim scott or mike pence, we don't know, mike pompeo, if you think this case is going to blow over, it may, but what about the georgia case, mar-a-lago? there is another side, when the indictment comes, trump has a

point of view that will get a lot of support. you have to figure out strategy that will be heard over the tumult of the cases. >> bret: yeah, i think the strategy for the candidates will be, we can't afford not to win and need a candidate that doesn't have chaos and baggage, that is probably a pitch they are going to use. some people are not in yet and to get in this environment would be pretty tough. you are seeing like asa hutchinson talk about that and chris christie, who is not in, but talking about that. that is the play book, we'll see. >> brian: are you going to do your show tonight? >> bret: i think i am. >> brian: there was news this week. >> ainsley: my dad wrote me -- go ahead, bret. he said he is heading to augusta national right now, the masters,

i know you're a big golf fan. will you be watching this weekend? >> bret: this is my augusta national tie and masters week starts this week. it is a beautiful week. there is a lot of news to cover, it is masters week. >> steve: go have yourself a pimento cheese sandwich. >> brian: will you do your whole show in a golf whisper? >> ainsley: jim nance. >> steve: golf clap. >> ainsley: thank you so much, i think of you masters week and easter, as well, this weekend. >> brian: that is important. >> ainsley: that is important, media erupts with glee over the trump indictment. >> this is a guy who acted lawlessly his whole life. >> are you guys sick of talking about this already? unprecedented. >> ainsley: how strong is the case?

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>> this is a guy who has acted lawlessly his whole life. >> are you guys sick of talking about this already? >> it is unprecedented. >> the super bowl. >> there is something different from him over the years in both parties who face charges. he's been proud of it, he talks like a mob boss. >> this man thwarted the law, terrorized the country and diminishing our rule of law >> ainsley: members of the media not hiding their excitement, even as they admit da bragg's case has legal challenges. >> we will run into legal problems, the indictment doesn't say what that crime is, it is inexplicable to me. >> the facts laid out today could be compelling argument,

they will have to overcome legal issues. question one, what is the crime? >> if i had to characterize it, disappointment. >> i had hoped there would be more in the indictment. >> ainsley: here to react is clay travis, what is that crime? the second crime is not listed. >> clay: it is not in the indictment, outrageous embarrassment, alvin bragg should be ashamed, everyone in the new york sdikt attorney's office, as well, and several things significant. we have never seen this happen in 240 years of american history. if you are going to break that precedent of not charging political candidate or those running for presidency, you need it to be a slam dunk case where everybody looks and says this is such a significant state, break

everything in pres precedential past. this is important for everybody to understand. this is a misdemeanor. for almost all charges that alvin bragg is seeing, the majority of them in new york city, he is lowering felonies to misdemeanors to treat actual criminals with more leniency than they deserve. here he is doing the exact opposite, trying to elevate a misdemeanor, which has two year statute of limitation and has played out to five years, that statute of limitation might be in play also, it is more than five years since this happened. this is political and feels like da bragg is the biggest contributor to donald trump's political career in his entire life because bragg may be pushing him right back into the

republican nomination, almost without a challenge and into the white house. one other thing i think is significant here ainsley, bragg in his defense of the charges to me was incredibly weak. i hope trump can rise to the level of not petty grievance and anger and frustration, which characterize a lot of what he said last night and talk about the historical record here and why what is happening to him is an outrageous indictment and attack on free and fair elections in america. if trump can make this and i know this is a challenge, a story about something other than trump, i think he's going to be the next president of the united states. >> ainsley: yeah, it appears the law is being manipulated to go after a political opponent. cnn calling it the super bowl.

rachel maddow did not air trump's speech at mar-a-lago, what is your reaction? >> clay: i think msnbc is a sham network that embarrasses viewers and mostly watched and led by idiots, it is also outrageous failure of basic news not to cover trump's speech when he's been charged with the first felonies in the history of our republic for someone in the presidential race or a former president, the public deserves to hear what he's going to say, even if you don't like it. it is par for the course there. this is the biggest story, far left wing legal commentators who want donald trump on the stand charged with crime since the moment he came down the escalator in 2015, even they looked at this indictment and said this is an embarrass moon, alvin bragg swung and missed. he came at the king and missed, something you never want to do.

>> ainsley: clay, thank you, check out clay's website outkick.com, to see what is kicking on outkick. ashley has headlines. >> ashley: start with this, investigators recovering black box from the military helicopters that crashed last week. the two black hawks went down while the crew was using night vision goggles, they hope flight data will lead to what caused the crash of the helicopters from the 101 airborne division. -- conservative group is getting backlash from multiple campus organization. one group claims it normalizes -- law legal education and the everyday fabric of u.s. society. defending masters champion scottie scheffler hosts the

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building, officials are surveying the damage. check in with janice dean for the forecast, just devastating. >> janice: for weeks, way above average in terms of severe threat, today no exception. we have temperature difference with cold fronts, a powerful one into the teens across the rockies, denver, 21 in fargo and ahead of that, way above average temperatures. you have clash of the two air masses and winds from different direction and potential for severe storms. from arkansas to south of chicago, we have had reports of tornados this morning, tornado watches in effect until the latest until 12:00 p.m. local time for oklahoma and texas and toward arkansas, severe thunderstorm watch along that powerful cold front until 11 a.m. and then there is the severe storm threat as we go through today with that very likely area that bullseye from

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>> steve: fox news alert, trump indictment yesterday and with election on the horizon, inflation out of control and china constant provocation, is this what voters want our elected officials to focus on right now? our panel joins us live. you have been watching, thank you very much. let's start. audience question first of all. we have been watching the polls on the republican side, seems like every time there is news about this indictment and yesterday we saw donald trump poll ratings go up, if the primary were held today, who thinks donald trump would win the republican primary? okay. now fast-forward to the general election, house minority leader of you think donald trump would then win the general election?

let's see the hands. all right. sammy, you're in the back. you're a democrat, why do you think donald trump would win the general after this? >> if you see what is happening in our country, abroad they are not respecting us, saudi arabia said they would not follow what we say. the dollar is in shambles right now overseas. we see, also, how here people, their buying power is shrinking. that is a lot of concern for us to be worried about finance laws on the former president. we're concentrating on the wrong thing and this may backfire. >> steve: speaking of backfire, yesterday we were assuming there would be more meat on the bones. who was surprised there was no felony listed? marisa, you're a democrat, as well, welcome back.

>> i am. i was surprised. they were building this and building this, there has to be something big. quite frankly, i'm nothe a fan of donald trump, but i was expecting more. this is nothing new. every president, everyone in power has a skeleton in their closet, right? i wasn't that surprised. >> steve: this is new, porn star payoff is new in politics, just saying. >> that is true, but falsifying business documents, that happens. >> steve: samantha, you are smiling back there. >> i think it is a joke, how are we in this country, greatest country in the world, in this position and we are going after trump, when we had hillary who broke servers and destroyed e-mails and biden with his classified documents and what is going on with that? hush, hush, hush. we will focus on things, sorry,

men, this goes on. >> steve: sure. after he was arrested yesterday -- apparently today donald trump called for america to defund the police, particularly the fbi, the department of justice because democrats have weaponized law enforcement. who in this panel, raise your hand, who thinks that is a good idea. nobody. madelyn, you have a special story. you wound up having a family member murdered. the cops are on your side. >> yes, or so you would think they are. we need the police in our communities. all right. i speak directly to the black and brown community. all of the crime is happening, all of the crime being ignored and swept under the rug, that alvin bragg is refusing to

prosecute, we need the police. we don't have any other defense or deterrent for theun runaway crime that is happening, at least let us have our nypd. when they are arrested, they are immediately released right from the precinct to a community-based organization that they never show up at. >> steve: yeah. what he apparently posted was republicans in congress should defund the fbi and doj, democrats have weaponized law enforcement in our country and are viciously using this abuse of power to interfere with our already under-siege elections. dominic, what do you make of what happened? >> it is clearly a political stunt. there are bigger cases, we

haven't heard the epstein case. i'd be more interested to hear about what happened on those islands and in those cases more before i hear about trump and his business dealings. >> steve: frank, the former president does face other legal peril with the georgia case, with the so-called docu-lago stuff, are you worried about that stuff or do you think it will be like this was? >> am i worried about it? no one wants to see crime, do i mind it being investigated? no. but investigate it fairly. president biden has more documents from more years than we can add up all of trump's documents, let's have the appearance that the investigations are nonpartisan.

to dominic's points, it is not. defund the police? no. deweaponize the doj? 100%. >> steve: domminic is independent and frank is a republican. the hands of people who think yesterday's indictment was political? okay. unanimous. we're out. thank you very much for joining us. we're stepping aside, back in a minute. so i choose neuriva plus. unlike some others, neuriva plus is a multitasker supporting 6 key indicators of brain health. to help keep me sharp. neuriva: think bigger.

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>> beautiful shot for holy week, isn't it. >> no kidding. good luck as you look at fort lauderdale. thank you very much for joining us. >> right. make sure you run to the radio. we've got a huge show coming your way. >> not much to talk about in the news, right? >> maybe i'll run a repeat. >> so long, everybody. >> see you tomorrow. >> good morning, everybody. we know the indictment now, and questions piling up. former president trump pleading not guilty on a case authorities say is built on a legal house of cards. we'll go through it. good morning, everybody. i'm bill hemmer. >> good morning. i'm dana perino. welcome to "america's newsroom." this is like riding a bike. i think i cannin do it. do you have confidence in me? >> we'll tell people where you've been. >> former president trump appearing in a manhattan courthouse yesterday, pleading not guilty