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chinatown and dc, and even more boxes at the universitys f pennsylvania, and documents strewn all over his garage floo rkr where he parks his corvette and which is secured by only a garageor door that. is paper thin and open. most of the timeump also. trump also said he has been summoned to appear at the federal courthouse iurthousn miami, florida, next tuesday. another quot ie i never thought it was possible that such a thing could happen to a former unite president of the ud states. i am an innocent mann innoce, hd this is indeed a dark da sy forf the united states of america. matthew whitaker is the former acting attorney generaorney gelr former president trump. >> he joins me now with reaction. first first of all, just your in reaction to what the formet jur president just said. >> this is a dark day for this nation. yeahs, harris, good to be with you. it's a really sad day for our countrd da y. i mean, if you believe ine the rule of law and if you believe in equal justice shouldunder the law, this shoula

concern you because, you know, o bewe have what appears to ber a completely political prosecution of the former the cur president, nomin the current leader for the republican nominatioatn. rs and, you know, it is it wasindit a rushed to get him indicted.hi you know, you look at the other cases, compare thi huns to hunte biden's case, joe biden's case, vice president pence's and even, you know, hillary clinton and is jusart i can't se how the department of justice isn't explaining why they're doing this case. and none of these other cases that i just mentioned. it's it's a really sad day,it's harrison. and i think it's it's the stuf f of banana republic is, quite frankly, you know what i have to point out whae to poi t the former president is saying about that garage with the paper strewn all over and the lack of classified documents, securityh at a current president's home. all of that is true. we havprese pictures of where the corvette was parked. yeah, we know that they found documentcorvettearked. that wer to the american public, weren't even toltod anybody outsidee th

the biden circle for monthsd after they had been first found at the the pen wharton university pen with his name on it. that that place at the campus. and then two of his homes and then it was like an easterek egg hunt. i mean, everyplace you look, there were more documents. the president isn't wrong about complaining about that and saying that this is not thisdocument. no, no. and the other thing that donalns trump also has on the side is he was president. he could have declassified these document he couls that tht is going to have to be, i guess, litigated now. but also, you know, they were negotiating with the national archives. they were trying tg to to resole this situation. >> and so it's very frustrating. ting, i' for thi'm sure, for the presidel and his team to think that they were resolving this represidential records issue. and all of a sudden the fbi comes in and raids and now we have a special counsel appointed by biden's attorney general, reallyiden's t appears to be doing political work underyou kn the auspices of a special prosecutor. it's it is you know, it's very

concerning. and, you know, i join a lot of americans that kind of have a sinking feeling that this mayn be, you know, the best days,ow the united states may be behind us if this ds of is how our polu climate is going to be. >> you mentioned thapoliticat hd have declassified those documents. >> do you know why he wouldn't have done that? yeahd thos . yea >> yeah, i don't i mean, i think, again, it was the my understanding that the special counsel putd that witnesses in front of the grand jury that said that donald trump ha d declassified certain documents, especially the ones that were, you know, ine of the presidential residence at the white house. but, you know, again cuments , eacheral one of these documents is going to have a story in each one of these documents. nt is goavthe federal governmenr to have to explain to a jury beyond reasonable doubt thatd ts president trump couldn't have e and shouldn't havet had these. and it was illegal for him to have them. and, you know, again, we haven't seenet., i gues this int yet, and we're told it i guess there's seven counts. and so i think going t a lot ofe going to be in what's the indictment says and then what the evidenc e shows. >> are you surprised because

the president says that heised i first notified, you know, less than 36 hours ago, or are s s you surpriseago.d at the spy which we found out about the indictment? i mean, how does this normally i work when you say that this is a dark day for america? give us some of the exceptionit to the normality that you sethe >> well, first of all,vestigat the speed with which this investigatioppened.n happened,4/ you know, again, we havehi the hunter biden investigationns . four and a half years, nothinge has happened. presave this recenthleget alleged bribery case when vice president biden, then vice the5o president biden, allegedly received and $5 million, and tht has been languishing for years. and so, you know, it. just seemp like when republicans or especially donalectrump,d trumpd you know, is under the wheel of investigation, that they do it with post haste and they throw,n all the resources on it. but when democrats and especially biden family and others, you know, are alleged to have had wrongdoing ,that these these o investigations go nowhere. and i just you know, it's a two tiered system of justice. harris and we've talked about

this before, but this is just another example. and i think it's the worst example yet of that two tiered system of justice. >> matthew, before we move on here, i have to ask, what's he facint's heg? noug just and i know we don't know the seven counts, but you know enough about this case and youwt know enough about what would have been there, because we've seen picturewould has of the do. i mean, some of them looked rather staged, but we've seen some of this. and we know the president has so it.ately, ait >> so what could he be facing?gn yeah. well, unfortunatelg toy, a lot f this is going to be tried in the press. >> we're going to see leaks continue. on the special counsel wha on what they believe their evidence is. and soyoow, you know, what he's facing is, you know, a public trial. ultimately . you know, but i think, you know, donald trump seems to always get stronger when challenged. these types of things that would normally melt an average human being, i think, give him strengthk give str and he contiw to fight. and, you know, the question i have is, is why dohy d werime continue to have these persecutions? you know, the russia hoax is a prime example where they threwpv

all the resources they possibly could and tried to prove anything cou they possibly could. and they never got a single charge out of that againstt ag donaldains trump. and i just see this is another example of that where the department of justice is for some reason, probablyan because donald trump isn't beholden to anybody. ally, yoand can actually, you kh take this country in a betterat and improved directioney're go,a that's why they're going after him, because they want to stop him in the swamp. ean'and the people that live int are real and they don't like donald trump. >> do you think that he has aron the legal team around him at this point that can handle allh? of this? do you see himdo you bolsteringt at all? >> and would you want to be on it? ityeah. f time >> so i spent a lot of timetrum. with president trump. i just saw him in iowa lasthe week. you know, he's going to have to determine whetherras the r hs the right people in the right positions. and, you know, ultimately, that's his that's hi decision. l you know, i would do anythind g to help donald trump right now. i'm not. but, you know, i'm going to come on fox newx news athersr channels just to make sure the american people understand what this casease is is really r >> matthew whitaker, former

acting attorney general under the formerthnt president who's n indicted tonight, thank you very much. i want to brin. to brining in now victore hoov davis hanson from the hoover institution. mattheerw whitaker just w said something that i want to start with. he said that, you knowound whate found out about the fbi investigation into president trump was a hoax, but it was worse than that, victor. what we foun d out was that they had been politicized, weaponizing things against f thi former president from the top levels of the fbi. your thought s? ris. >> that's exactly right, harrison. cl was even worse thane than tht because we now know that hillary clinton hired a foreigrh national, which is a it's a felony to work in a campaign . and she hid those payments to christopher steele through the dnc. perkins, cody and fusion gps. and she destroyed materialsd that were under subpoena and that there was not the fbiee reaction at all. we knothw thatat james comey the knew that the dossier was fraudulent because he'd offered his agency had offered $1,000,000 to find one credible iota of evidence and whenhey

they couldn't do it, he still tried to delude. they face justic it,e by preseng that evidence successfully. it to get a writ seto it's this is a sad day because you see what it does. harrison i harris,t it destroys the credibility of the united states as a moral arbiter of democracy and constitutional government. how can we tell anybodl anybodya or africa or south america what they should be doing as fardence as jurisprudence and the rule of law? every aspectan of this? biden trump is asymmetrical. trump was a president. he had that prerogative declassified. biden was a vice president. he didn't. trump had only had those documents for less than two years. joe biden knew them, knew that r he had them for six yearsd and never told anybody. anybg aboutanythin mar-a-lago is more secure than joe biden's garage. donald trump doesn't have a son who is erratic and who's trying to weaponize or capitalize the knowledge of his father abou fathet government and his e trajectory as a political candidate fo hisr

the biden consortium. profit. so it's just outrageous. and i don't know what's going to happen, but i think it's going to be a baton relay because we're going to see alvin drag up the baton and then we're going to see letitia james get the baton. and then this willis down in georgia. n th and it's designed to destroy the party. polls agai ins ableading the polls against joe biden. that's what countries abroad do that are not that are unstableao and corrupt. the existing administration uses the powers of government to indict his likely opponent or possible opponent in the next election. >> talk to me about the player on.s th this. i mean, you mentioned a lot of names that the fbi and those previous investigations, but wet don't know as much about the current team cur looking at this. what we do know is thats yo the documentu sa says you said e there for two years and that there were some sort of cooperatio n going on at the beginning of this between the former president andho wer e people who were investigating. k yeah, i think that's right. and we don't really what's

happened in the biden administration. they are using the power of the special counsel for political purposes. this is thee second time they've done it. remember that we got prbert mueller becauseeller, james comey leaked a private conversation with the president, united stateseent ofa a third party so that the mediat sensationalism would prompt a special counsel who just happened to bepecial co robert , a former acquaintance. and then he ate upe at 22 monthd for nothing of the trump administration. now we'r noe doing a replay with this special counsel, and this is even more egregious because, again, we have the president of the uniteesided states who did the same thing, but to a greater degree. and this specialr degree counsem the other special counsel doesn't seem to be saying be anything. and i'm really worried about the reputation of the government abroa d. th but half the country has lost faith in the integrity of the united states government, and that's very dangerous in y. emocrac >> you know, it may be more than that.

i think that thithats is equalpe political opportunity in terms of how people perceive thingngs we started with matthew whitaker saying that if you care about about justice, iu involves every american. somatter it shouldn't matter hou vote. >> when you look at this. thou. it shouldn't. and it's a it's a long pattern, though. destaw s 120 days of rioting and destruction and arson, 14,000 people arrested and 20, 20, 35 people killed, 1500 police officers. and really there was no reaction. most of thosn. moste people were let go. and then we turned january six. it was the buffoonish riot into an existential rhetoric insurrection. and we had 20,000 policemen the on the streets of washington and militarized. so all o of these things are the asymmetrical, and that's what i've never seen it before in my life, that one party comes in and tries to change the nature of the permanent government to destroy've be the opposition. and they have been doing that systematically. they diden cally. it with russian the

disinformation. they do it on the hoax, the laptop. they've done it with fusion gpsw and they won't stop and they don't know how to stop them. i think the americans are looking at this and they're saying, how do we brindogall th back integrity to the government? and all the left seems a n to understand it's tit for tat. so are we going to have a new re say, yo administration come in and say, you know what, the only thing these people understand like is like khan, if we get into that cycle, we're going to descend into a mob ocracy. >> yeah, you're looking at history to inform the future of of other nations. and it is a cautioen, every tale to go forward this way, because that back and forth is something we've that we have been seeing as the two sides go against each other. politically. it's gotten nastier and more divided along the way. but this is rea new level. victor >> and, victor, i just want wor, to give you a last word to compare history to where we are now. if you can. are we able to hold together's e as a republic? because that's the big question right noig quest w with this hanging in the balance, one current president facing somethings somy

similar but treated very differently and biden as opposed to a seriousl one thing we could see is if this this other special counse l says, you know what, we live by the rule of law. mod what the biden family did and monetizing their their i remember joe biden, who was vice president, likely a candidate foandidater preside, they made a lot of money. we're going to have a full fledged investigation and we're goin ave to ag to have to apply the a standards through the papers that were taken oun t by vicel president biden, and that would be restore some type of model. but i don't think they're going to do that. >> i think the door we may have lost, victor davis hanson shotca and he stayed with ushe technologically as long as h e could. thank you, victor. if you can still hear me, i want to go to kevin corke, hi our correspondent who's working on this in washington, dc. >> form again, former president donald trump indictede for having classified documents after he was president ande no

the handling of those boxes. kevin corke is here now with whawit is new in all of h this. this has been less than an hour that we learned this information. >> kevin evening. harris you're right. we're still tracking right thisy in a way that can be a little bit confusing because wew that obviously haven't seen the indictments. we know that the the former president faces at least seven counts related to mishandlingdling ofthos of te documents. but remember, we've been readin g for some time now that this may be under the espionage ac tt when there is a plausible legal argument that you could say thisyo should fall under presidential records, which would make this sort of an unusuaan unusul way to go with t to an actual arrest process. e let e run amok is what some critics have argued. let meat's goi tell you what's g to happen on tuesday. the president's going to be in federal court in miami. at that point, he will enter a plea of not guilty, we presume, or one of his representatives will do as much. but it's interesting it's at that time, he will not only be bought and processed, he

will be formally arrested and appear before a judge. we are talking about an image, harris, that no one who's grown up in this country thought they would ever see, let aloneve most of us could ever even imagine. and yet heren imagine, we are id however, as i've heard frome other sources that i've been on the phone with tonight, the president, wunderstae undery intends to fight this vigorously. his legal team has.his legal tes is not just a miscarriage of justice. this is an attack on the americaarriage ofn systet one that will play out negatively for many generationsn to come. and i'll leave you with this. there's an old saying here in washington, people, le hav haven knives and long memories. that is not a good thing. >> if this continues to go this way. we are way less than 18 months t from an election. >> a new administration and all, of that, whether it's a continuation of the incumbent or o, it whatever, it becomes new again after november 20, 24. this is dangerously, politically, dangerously closeoe

to the point where people begin to question everything now. all right. it is. and i ca n understand whys: i matthew whitaker says and why the president put that out on to social. d what we got to take a real good look and make sure we get things right and that they're equal. kevin corke excellent reporting. we'll come back to you as the news warrants. >> you bet. the republican ind investigation into president joe biden for his alleged involvement in a criminal briberyhi scheme a announced major new findings today. hours later, on the very same day, the biden administration a rather the biden doj indicted former president and leadingidate presidential candidate donald trump. we'll get into whether or not thatdo. ther feels or seems or couldco be connected. house republicanected.s say evih contained in an fbi document a shows the nation's 46 presidentf is now at the center oorf some pressure for the truth about millions of dollars that he received as bribes. and the fbi needs to explain pe

to the american people what was really going on with what looked like stalling. colmer, the chairman of house oversight and other houseto get republicans efforts to get to the truth about what was going on with bide te trutwhatnt 72 hours ago. it was like this when chairman comber joined me here. >> ir wray doesn'tgoing turn over that document, is he going to go to prison? >> weln?l, that's up to christopher wray. i know that i wouldn't want to be held in contempt owouldn'f congress and end up in prison. being the former head ofth the fbi all week. >> chairman colmer would not back down. and with the threat of a contempt complaint punishablwe by prison. lo and behold, the withheld documents magically appeared available for house members to see. just hours ago todayee. t classi well, why not? they're not classified. is wra y or someone else at the fbi worried the chairman colmer may finn cod some evidene in those documents that president biden was, in fact, partntnt biden of a bribery crie

although the fbi was reportedly makingthough t changes to weed t politics from the leadership after that durham reportafter td a sham investigation against donald trump. trubut just because wray allowd the committee now to see that document does not mean he was not obstructing congress. wray may feel like he can get away with all this behavior because that'sbeca the, quote unquote, democracy we have now where unelected fbi officials operate outside and above the law. they don't have to answer to members of congress. well, they d do.o, but they're ignoring it. >> again, the material is unclearunclas, ossified. so technically, every single american has the right to view di comer could still force the fbi director to release d the document wholly, but it's doubtful that he's going to doia that. why not? it's a mystery m. t just like it feels likesubp a mystery why he has yet to subpoena any memberoes of the biden family.

i can tell you this. i asked him about it and he said those subpoenasthose st co. republicans have been in powerie for six months. you can see from this indictment with donaldthe cl, pn the clock is ticking. and that window for republicans to get to the bottom of things may be closing tonight. gop house members are spilling, however, what they saw in the material matthats that the s allowed them to view. they say the information is for president biden. congresswoman marjorie taylor greene says it involves ukraine and that energy company there, burisma. she also says the document, quote, implicates our national security and puts americans at risk. another republican who saw the document, congresswoman nancy mace of south carolina, b says it proves biden sold out our nation. biden was asked abous ast her te remarks earlier. >> bribery allegation. >> congresswoman nancy bates says there's damning evidence that the filwoman nay macee thau

the country in response to the cos. essional republican where's the money? i'm joe. mr. president, i try. ey. >> it's a bunch of malarkey. oh, my goodness. y goodneo not funny. he's joking. actually, though, the presiden ? asked a key question, where is the money and where wil and t will republicans use their full after to find out where it went ? it's remarkable that just hours after republicans made thir se finding, biden's own justice department would indicdepartt b leading opponent and 2020 for it.s. congresswoman nancy mace joins fi now. well, first of all, you shooksh up the trees dowoon on capitolad hill today and the president had to answer to what you said. ur initi your initial reaction to the indictment. well ctment., this is this is unprecedented what i am feeling tonight. and i want to i want to bey cl y clear here. donald trump and i have had our ups and downs. i'vevery clebeen very clear abow the last couple of years. but i want the american peopleis

to know, to make no mistake, this is the executive branchve a trying to take out their number one opponent for the presidency of the united states and 2024. r and they they have one standardt for donald trump and another standard for everybodyrybody eln this thing. and if you look at the documents that docum president biden had in his possession, in his garage and in thousands of boxed boxesa and god knows where across the country and places that we yet, hillary serf clinton having the server in her bathroom at her home prth classifier bathrd informatn on private email servers, everyone's held to a differento standard. but donald trump and that's wrong. and i do believe tonighta diffet joe biden just secured donald trump's nomination for >> hblicands in 2024. you do? why do you say that? well, lookin do? sayg the way th they're treating him in one way versus versus everybody else. biden every time that biden comes under the microscope, er every time we show corruption do joe biden and his family tiy there's an indictment on donald

trump. and when you look at the standard thawhen you loo sts a double standard. it's a it's a second tier, a double standard of justice in this country. and what the america ier n people want, they want everybody to be treated the same. d thand, you know, donald trump. no fan of mine. he primaried me last year, so bt i'm not a shill. but i see this and i see how unfair it's been. and, you know, i just can't believe this is happening. and i said this two days ago. harrisai. da i said that this was going to happen on the day that we either that we either held in contempt. christopher wray with the fbi or we got access to those document ins. you were right. i, i and i, i predicted it. it came true. you just thiays is the. banana. banana republic. i just cannot believe that this is what's actually happening. he's trying to take out his political opponent es using the executive branch. >> that's what this is. all right, let's do the due >> hardiligence now to balance the scales. you have seen that fbidiligei do document, which, by the way, just to remind the audience, first, they couldn't fin ience.d it. the director of the fbi said, hmm, we can't locate that.me

and then they did. and you're welcome to come over to the fbi and take a look at a redacted one. so come to our house to look at the stuff that's one of there.'n and then it was finally chairman colmer flexed this giscle and he said, contempt of congress punishable by prison. you're going to give us what we have, what have. you have, rath, today. you got to see that. what did you see? what's in that documenwhat's ita well, what i saw today was a very credible, veryce o legitimate a source of informatioation thn that showedy with joe biden and his son, th. n $5iden the details and information that we saw was more than $5h, million. >> and each it was five million dollars each $5 millthis in this document. and what we saw was information i havee tions to more questionst than i have answers for the fbi. i want if it to know if it was investigated where they were in the best, how they are investigating it. did they subpoena emails? did they look at bank record s? are they looking at the bank records? not only of the biden family fami joe bidenn hun and his son, hunter? are they looking at the bank

records of the dozens and dozens of shell companies? because there's a reason and they bragged about it in this documenls, becaut. aid it they said it would take ten years to find to find the paper trail, fin d tad the moneyt it trail. but it exists. and we need to look at the ban k records. i talked to oversight committee today and chairman colmetee todt need to subpoena more bank records. i want to go back to the treasuryo bpoenabank rec and loo the suspicious activity reports itand compare the information that we had then with the information we have no.w, it'sei really bad and it's the kind of thing, whether you're republicaca democran or t or not, if this isn't corruption, if this isn't against the la shoulw, then it . be. we need to change the laws. real quickly kly, i, i mentioned that the time is running short. ii mean, this is thisformer is evidence now tonight with this indictment of a former president that you may not have the kind of time that w you've had up until now to slow roll whatever you're finding in the investigatioion.n. what kind of pressure does thise put on republicans to get the evidencece and s and speed p

a timetable? >> well, i want to make sure i know that the timetable is short with 18 months until the election. but i also wane americe t the american to be people to know that we're going to be methodical, that we're going to be thoughtful, that det we're going to do this the right way regardless of party. and look, you're talkingnss o to someone here, as i have held republicans in contempt for not showing up to congress.ican i want to make sure that we do it right. we do it in a constitutional up. way. nt t and if the fbi won't do their job, we're going to do it for them. but i want to make sure that we get it right. we follow the facts in l a methodical and thoughtful and factual manner, and we give the american people erthe truth and let them decide. i do want to put this out here. you don't really have 18 months because you can bet democrats are going to early18 vote and some of those people are going to start at the beginning of september. the time is short. plngresswoman maye is, it is a pleasure to have you on and get your perspective and talk about what happened simultaneously with former president trump >>ing indictedhappenin. thank you very much. thank you, harris. well, how does formeroes fo

president trump plan to defend himself against these charges? wermesident nd haven't seen then counts yet. that's coming. eileen hover is anges? attorneyr donald trump and she joins me now. eileen, welcome. we'r coming up.e covering this g news and it's kind of a drip, drip. weip. don't know the seven coun. have you been given any indication of what hfe could ne facing? i have, but of course, i would never divulge any privileged information. n. i'm an attorney first to the president. i' it will it will be leaked lie everything else. i'm sure it will be forthcoming. i meanm sure ie fo, the truth id out about this from a left wingd newspaper before i heard about it through my own client and i am here with him. so it's a it's a disturbing state of affairs. y would i'm disappointed. i'm disappointed that they would leak it before telling the person thatica th received the indictment. but here we are. this is the americata we knew. >> wait a minute. are you saying thau wet that you weren't officially told? >> i actually was. so i'm not on this t caso e, toe

clear. but i was i did receive confnews from a journalist first and then confirmed it immediately after. but, yeah, that's that's sadly that just tells you everything, i think. right. it sayeverything, righs a lot. have you talked with the president tonight? yes. yes. and what, s what is hisf this mood right now? where is he in all of this? we sawt on the the posts on his true social social media platform p. where is this head right now? well, it's not really a different day for president trump, right? i mean, this is something that he's gone through, unfortunately, befor e and i wor would love to tell the world that he is shocked. i that is upset. he's only sad for the country. and i think that justhatt embols him. it emboldens his base. it emboldens the people that tho don't want to see a biden administration take over for another four years. we don't have that ine. us anymore.

we america.i'm suize this is not my america. peopsure it's not your america . and i just want a country where people are normally disputing issues, normally having arguments and have their days, f court are not predisposed to this kind of retributionntere and political interference and election interference. arris: i know if you heard our previous guest, but we were talking about the fact that this is like ers in tumblers and a from, lock that that you will go froml ,you know, alvin bragg here, the manhattan d.a. you'll go tol letitia james, she'll you'll go down to to miami that thi gso is one thing after another. tha can you talk about that a little bit, like what's >>t,n the pike potentially? sure. i meanure., these are cases, ash client calls them, witch huntsus that have been handling since, frankly, for him, since 2016.ona for me, i'm going on year three now. and i can tell you that we are used to this type of battle. it's a different battle. it'st p not just in the polls.

it's not just about your policies. it's about fight fighting corru, d.a.'s. it's about fighting corrupt ages. like you mentioned. ha's about people that know they have judges on their side thd they won't havveheire a real conversation about their cases, about lawsuits, about strengths have about and weaknesses, beco they don't need to. because they have people in their pocket, becaus,ey have e they're there for political gain and political animus. and that animus. is un-american. and the truth of the matter is that i hope i hope forofessi my profession that we can get to a point where we caonn take these indictments, go to court, show the evidence, show that this is absolute garbage, o and go on a normal litigation ta track as any other client would be entitled to do. but i haven't seen that yet. s >> yeah. are you surprised that this came down? i mean, i don't know if you hear d congresswoman nancy mace who who had predicted this coo. lly a few days ag she said that just watch on the day that republicans in the house on the oversightepubld committee would get that fbi document that would showe some evidence, according to republicans on the hill, that thills current the

president biden, had committed acts of bribery to the tune ofef millions of dollars, along with his son hunter. and she said, i would no t be and predicted that it would happen on the same day that they would get that documentthe that we'd see an indictment. and in fact, she was right. what's your reactionr reacti? look at the shiny ball. that's what this is.t we look at the shiny ball. don't look over at what we're doing. don't look at what hillary did with her computer. don't look at clinton in his drawer. don't look at where we're storing things. don't look at the fact that biden has document h s in chinatown or that his son has a drug addiction and alstion ant bribes. don't look at any of that. you know what? we wanthatt to loo.tok at our bt fear. look at him and thinink he's aka bad man. well, guess what? you're only emboldening his base and thenl american people and the american people are not stupid. they know what is happening and they are going to see it and they're going to take it to the polls i takn 24. alina, are you planning to belea with the president as he faceshe this in federal court on tuesday? yet.

that has not been decided yet.ei i'm not licensed in florida, som as much as i would love to be there with him, obviously, i don't have that license. i am with him now inwith bedminr . he is in good spirits. and for the american people just know that this is just anothedr day for him and he'she doing just fine. i ask that because we're, 's.you know. i mean, is is the viewing public as a journalist? we look at this and we arnalist, well, what what is coming next in all of this? and who's posturing? who'posturins building toward t? because we've seen him fight before. when h and when he's fought, he had an fbi led leverage against him.d i and we didn't find that outns until weeks ago. so, i mean, this is kind of an ongoing thing. just wondering how he will handle this headwind. well, he's going to have to take it procedurally at this point. it's almost a blessing that you get to now go inu g front of a judge instead of jack smith, who, as we know, is an extreme left winextreme g person. his wife is as well. and we know that they only

presented the evidence they want to present in front of a grand jury. we don't get a chance to present our evidence in front of a grand jury. we don't get a chance to rebutn . we don't get a chance to pute th donald trump in front of them and tell them what actually happeneancet donaldd. m so it's a blessing that we cania now put our evidence in b and teaclessinh the american pey what actually happened, only to have. i want to thank you for, th your time. appreciate it. thank you. ank thank you. >> fox news alert. president trump has been indicted by the doj. the former president just ind with a video post jus on his platform to social moments ago. let's watch together. ountry i >> i haven't seen it either. is going to . and they come after donald trump. weaponize the justicee department, weaponizing the fbi . we can't let this continue to go on because it's ripping our countran'tety to shreds. we have such big problems and this shouldn't be one of them. it's a hoax. the whole thing is a hoais shous just like russia, russia, russia. just like the fake dossier was

a hoax. you saw the durham report. ossier wyou the mueller report.t it was all a big hoax. you had two impeachments and they lost. they. won and we had tremendous support. but that was a hoad x and a sca. and now they're doing it again. it's just a continuation. i'm ai seven years. i'm an innocent man. man. i did nothing wrong.seve and we will fight this out just like we've been fightingars. fon seven years. it would be wonderful if we could devote our full time to making america great again. stephen miller is a former senior adviser to presidentad trump, joins me now. stephen, i am looking down to read something here. thinit's the house judiciary a chairman, jim jordan's reactiond to trump's indictment. it's a sad day for america. god bless president trump. thank you for joining me during the breaking news. there ar durine in the republico party now that seem to be. coalescing around this former president. is it possiblessible tha that ds

have just tipped pandora's box politically? hope >> well, i sure hope that s, whole actly what happen that the whole ofof the republican party, the whole of the conservative movement and the whole of the country that cares about the rule of law coalesces aroundw coal president trump in this moment. let me first say on a personal note, as someone that was there with president trump in 2016,g flying all around the country, going state to state, the e every the white housee every single day for all four years of the administration. thisthis is a sa is a sad day fh personally, as someone who has so much affectioaffection and sh admiration for president trump, who has seen him up close l, what and personal, and what . he has for this country. and let me also say that i believe history will record. today is the day that we cease to be a democratic republic. and we became a people rule led by an unelected government bureaucracy. d mentyou had the department of justice deciding who can be presidentt and wh and who cat be president. it is not a coincidence, as you

talked, that t about, that thism out. this indictment comes out on the same day that we have credible evidence of a bribery scheme that goes the w all the p to joe biden. it's not a coincidence that this comes on the heelf s of a durham report showing how the department of justice tried to engineer a coup against the duly elected president of the united states. it is all a message. it is a message saying w e run show, not you.. this is our country, not yours. we make the decisions and we get to decide who runs this government. >> i truly believe that's what's at stake here. stephen, when you were with the president and you were right next to hiwerem and you you went around the country, you just explained all of that. di you jd you glimpse any of thi could be a possibility. i havebi to. how t imagine that millions of americans, no matter how they . t, are in shock tonight >> sadly, i did glimpse that this kind of persecution would be a possibility because i saw how he represented a mortal

threat to thl the system of business that has governed this country to the corruptn policy establishment that has allowed our foreign policygive to give y our jobs and our security to china. that is a race our southeruthern border that's handed over our decision making to international tribunals triba and has allowed the rule of law to disintegrate before our very eyes. so, yes, i knew i knew that those who had profited off the system would do anything they could to stop them. i think the most important him. for every citizenght is t watching tonight is this why are all the forces trying to destroy this country so o hellbent on stopping donald trump so bent on putting him in jail, so bent on framing him as they have since the beginning of the russia hoax? and i submit the answer is because they know if he getae back the white house that heto will stop them. >> you know, i want to talk, to you about that because we have visited tonight with several people, including

the acting attorney general under president trump. it it is hard to fathom and heartbreaking to to even consider that there would be aer tit for tat that we could as a country watch every time itt handchanges politically that its this instead of leadership of this nation. can president do can he doo both ? if he were to get back in, office. can he finish this offthos? there was not elected officials taking over and decidingside justice for all in terms ofnt bt who the president should be, but also lead the country in such a way that we don't continue in the cycle e. >> i think in order for theref h to be a turning of the page, a return to normalcy, as the expression goes, there's goingte to have to be a complete cleaningeaning h house of the ct federal bureaucracy, the intelligence agencies, s the security state. >> this these are the same forces, as you've reported extensivel oy, this network that engage in the censorship of american speech online o

and interfering in our political process. solitical ocess. the first thint a president trump would do, the mission that he would give t eyo a new attorney general, new to a new head of the fbi, to a new head of the ci heaa, would be to say that i'm going to give you a daily progress on cleaning out everyone from your agencies that is engagedon in this heinous i conduct. the american people, that is going to be the mission. oint >> that's going to be the core t mission that should have been afte after the durhahe corm rep that that was part of the deal, that the fbi said thate they were, you know, going get to be part of that. we're going to get rid of what didn't go well and what got political at the top levels of the fbi against the formerup president, donald trump. we're going to clean all that up. itot happene has not happened, , to the satisfaction of of whatit you would anticipate it to look like on a night like tonight, never clean themselves up. and that's why, again, this is about the democrat process. this is the last hope to have a country where the american people don't have the illusion of control, buty ot the of cont.

and that means electing a president who's goingoing to impose discipline the yo loserety of the securit state in this country and a h president who has nothing left to lose. he hasas not left to lose. so all that's left to be done is to fight this battle and to. reform this government. >> real quickly, stephen, can >> h campaign while all? this is going on? he's got to go to miami. he'she's got things coming upaty with cases. >> what what's your opinion ouopinion ton that? >> well, i mean, that's the point, though, isn't it? is that this does interfere with his ability to campaign. it does interfere with his abilit e with hoy to crisscrosss the country as he did so many times before. e poinand that is the point. o but he will fight through it and we will discover whether or not in this country there is indeed a triumph for the forces of good over the forces of repression that we have seenee r in recent weeks and months. >> stephen miller, thank you very much fotephen myou verw for the breaking news. appreciate it. thank you. we turn no w to senator timield for scott. he is running in the republican

field for the nomination ofhous the republican party for the white house against donaldsa trump. senator, it's an awkwardt's ane position to be in.a but the bottom line is you're a republican. this was a republican president. and look at what has happened. your reactio. n? y i' >> where's more importantly, i'm an american and let's justan look at what's happening to an american. more than republicans are democrats red or blue, black or white? is this notion that our nation la the greatest nation on eartrh ? because lady justice has a blindfold on thady justit meat republicans are not hunted and democrats are not protected . it means that we look at every single case based on the evidence. and in america, every single y singperson is presumed innoce, not guilty. and what we've seewhat we'n over wee last several years is the weaponization of the department of justice against the former president. you don' to bet have to be

a republican to see injustice nt to fiand want to fix it.nd you don't have to be a democrat to see injustice, want to fix it. you just have to be annor american and stand up fort the right thing. i don't care whether you're in w my party or not in my party. i don't care whether you look like mi don'e or not. the one thing that makes america the city on the hills is confidence in our justice system. idence iand today, what we see a justice system where the scalese are weighted that seems to be at the outcome of where we areas p today as president ofrg the united states. >> i would purge all of the injustices and impurities in our system so that everyonfi american can have confidencedenc that they will be seen by the lady of justice with a blind fold on. that is what we need in this nation, not more political political politicizing of the issues. >> yeah. will you reach. arris: y out or have

you reached out to the former enpresident trump? his is >> well, i was sitting here waiting to come on air. and so t time i this is the first timev i've had an opportunity to have a conversation. and i certainly will continui wt to pray for our nation and continue to pray that justice prevails. u for yo >> senator scott, thank you for your time tonight. appreciate ieciate it. m. yes, we hear from one ofs: good the candidates running againstct trump and all of this because it potentially changes cha t the race, you know, in terms ofr how much the formeesr president might be able to get out on the trail. you heard stephen miller saying, of course, thistepheaids will play a role in how the president can campaign at thin campais point. but also, as you heard from alina harber, who is his attorney and and others here, his former attorney general, matthew whitakerl,, that you wi see a coalescing and they are hopeful of it, but you're already seeinhopeyou're , tonight of the gop coming around this country. and republicanand recoming voteg around this and saying, wait a minute, let's take another

look let's. . let's support the former president. don't know how yet tha yett bege to or if it does have any effect on what's goingpotentia to happen 18 months from now, potentially with the election. wel of it.inching allection. i want to bring in now pastor robert jeffress, who sayss th the indictment certainly will not affect trump's evangelica notl support.evange jeffress says he texted trump just moments ago and he's with me now. so, pastor, first of all, what did you say to the forme didr? f >> well, i said, first of all,nf there are millions of christians that are praying for him right now. they love president trump. he's thehe's the most pro-life, pro religious liberty president in history. but i also said that he is immunized against any indictment because of the durham report. >> the durham report that the russia investigation was a complete hoax and politicacal and look, harris, we've seen this over the last h seven years since the time he descended the escalator in trump tower. an

we've seen people either tryhi to keep him from office or to remove out of office.w. and the same thing is happening right now. itit doesn doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that the left looks at trump's polls increasing. he is going to be the gop nominee, as nancy may said. and i'll go one step further. they kno nexw he will be the net president of the united states. they know they can't defeat him at the ballot box. so the biden administration, adminiknowing they've got a weae and perhaps corrupt president, they're going to try to keep him out of office another way. i predict. harris it's not going to work. i think evangelical christians are going to turn out ino droves now to support this president. and i'm saying. tonight thiss is a reset. this is a reset. i think it's time for all evangelical christians. hind it's time for all republicansndt to get behine d the candidate who has the best chance of defeating biden. and turnout in record numbers. h pastor jeffress, i want to just

bring something uparris:. we lost a light today in the spiritual world. pat robertson and his lifetimeda was probably the first time that we had seen as a nation. he 9 died today at 93. mak so this would have been decades in the making of infusing faith, into politics. in fact, he's often credited with having put, you know, now,politics and religion togetr for christian conservatives inoo this country, for the republican party. and i want to get the reaction pul from you now, because you talk politics, you talk pulpit. i mean, these things are fuzing together and just your thoughts on today. well, pat robertson will always be known as a pioneer broadcastetson ir or a former presidential candidate himself. yeah. fo for thebest knowna is melding the world of politics and the world o f religion. mostmber prior to 1979, when he started the christian coalition, most christians bought intboughto the lie that h

and politics should be kept separate. r pat robertson showed thatac our faith ought to impact everything we do, including how we vote. >> pastor jeffress, good to see you. thank you very much. fa hlessings to you and your. family. thank you, harris. ouwell, we are covering breaking news tonight. the biden do j has indicted don't k former president donald trump. seven counts. we don't know what's in thereren yet. we had his attorney on with us just a few minutes ago. we haven't foundutes out exactly what he's fighting. she indicated that she knows harbort a little bit about it. she would never break thatoncerd information. but she says she's concerned that it might get leaked. i mean, we are in anot interesting spot now who would leak investigative information on a former president.o of how did we actually get here? the ceo of american majority joins me now, ned ryan. ned, you and i started the weekr >> and i don't think that

either one of us would have thought that we'd be in this spot, but some people did. congresswoman nancy mace said this is exactly where we'sd be. >> your reaction tonight? well, a couple of thoughtsyour i harris. >> first, this is absolutely late stage public behavior. when you use the legal system as a weapon againstpoliti political opponents, you've abandoned the rule of law. you've abandoned the equal application of justicen of. i'my and i have to say, i'm very skeptical, skeptical about the timing of this. and i view thimoves as a move be politically motivated, deeply corrupt doeplyj that is bringing this indictment against trump. the week we find out tha tt joe biden, serious allegations about a potential $5 million bribe. i would remind people to joe biden, one of the biggestpo selling points he had inints 2020 was a return to normalc h0 and now we have his doj not only indicting who was hisoppont predecessor in the white house, but is now is chief't see political opponent in 2020 for something we haven't seen in the nearlyn nearl 250 years ofso the history of this country.

but i would alsoi wo say someth else here. so i think this is a much more fundamental issue. if we can cut ouwe can cout t oe and really focus on what i think this is about is ao fundamental struggle between two very different governing philosophiesrning ph in this coy one, a very unconstitutional administrative statethey d with powerful bureaucrats who think they decide, and a battle to restora bae the repub, a constitutional republic in which the duly elected representatives ofrepres the p e are the ones that decide. >> and the administrative state vies of thes donald trump as an existential threat. that's why they meddled in the 2016 elections. that's why thr they meddled in 2020. >> and that's why they're meddling again in 2024 t . ned ryan, thank you. i appreciate you joining us during the breaking newhank we do have some new information. we've been checking back and forte beenh with our correspond kevin corke. the trump indictment reportedly now involves the pool aty mar-a-lago. >> prosecutors were suspicious after reports of a flood. our kevin corke has that part of our coverage tonight. kevin, an unusual circumstance

here. harris this being reported by another networkeing rep, this report. we understand that apparently anthat app at mar-a-lago allegey drained the residence pooless ma and then in the process managed to flood the room where video surveillance equipment we're talking about servers were held and stored, flooding. that room would then appears el to damage those servers, thus thg the opportunity to go back and look at that video information. itfromt if you look at it from the doj's perspective, they say what was suspicious. it happened a couple of months after they were there. but what's also unusuaunusual,ld may recall president trump made the argument that thist this ple is secure. i have video surveillance of every square inch of tha mar-a-lago. he said something to that effectbefore before. nd and shortly after the visit f by the doj and the fbibi. ppened and so it is curious that this has happened. we continuolloe to follow this element of the story, because if that is part of what made

the doj suspicious, it would also beg the questioown how woue this help the former president? harris we don't know what the seven counts are. >> and i would say at thist this point we wait and we find out what the details are. we'll collecpoint wetil we ft ig the way. but i have learned in 27 years s that you have nodictment idea what's in the indictment. as an outsider until it comes out. so we'll likely we'll take a peek take when we can.ting u kevin corke, thank you fors in updatingt. us on that point. charlie hurt is a washington times opinion editor. he joins me now with reaction to the trump indictment. charlie,e, you a you and i havee many times about where america r is right now, and this is unsettling for people. ring and oftentimes when things like this happen, you bring such sobriety to the moment. what would you say to th e american people about thisorme moment that involves a former president and i argue a present one, too, because you can't

th classified document mishandling on the other side by biden. y >> no, you can. and i can't help but think that the timing of the two situations have to be relate. d. look a you know, i guess the big picture here is, you know, yothyou look at the last three elections, we've been fthrough all three. you've had the fbi and thepa department of justicrtmente into in those elections. and for people who thinknk that and bought by by the way, in the 2020 election, the joe biden argument that, you know, a vote for margumente will calmn washington and make the craziness stop. of course, we now know that dide not happen. that was a lie. n today thanve they were in the four years prior to 2020. but what is so alarming to me is when you look back at the interference by the doj and by the fbithe fb inh each our presidential elections, with each election, that interference gets more and more dangerous.

it gets more know, if you go a back to 2020, you had you had a sitting administration launching an investigation intio a political opponent at the top of of an. election. four years later you had the the sitting administration doing the same thing. and today you have ann administration threateningo to jail a political opponent al oto keep him from running for president. that's terrifying. and anythingthat's that you woud offer up to the american people in terms of what to look loo ne >> well, quite frankly, i mean, the advice i would give is that you should get behind donald trump that i believe that whatthey they are trying if you if they if they are allowed to doe, to donald trump what they are doing, they will do it to anyone forever going forward . charlie hurt, thank you very much. presiden washington times editor. good to see you. president trump responded dagai,

to the indictment earlier this hour. we want to play that for you again. so his you can see in his own ws what he has to say. this was this video post on hisi own social platform to social. let's watch. t's watc'mi'm an innocent man. >> i did nothing wrong. and we will fight this. out juse like we've been fighting for seven years. it would be wonderful if we could devotefighting for s our e to making america great again. francis hakes is a former state and federal prosecutor. welcome to fox news. tonight as we cover this this breaking news, i'm getting some word abou t what mayword be coming down the pike in miami. mi and howhe president what does his team prepare for goingd forward to face the justice department of the united states? >>facehe justi well, you know, , the justice department has an awful lot of power and. when i was an assistant u.s. attorney, i was very conscious of that. at. >> the problem for me herey of e is that the credibility of the departmentnt is at is at st. president trump and his attorneys will certainly do everything

cas can to cast doubt law on the allegations, as they should. that's d good lawyers do, becaue the grand jury has only heard one side of this case so far. thattd i can't help bu remember that when we, the american people, got one side of the russia allegations, there were people calling for president trump to be put to death under espionage charges. and it's pretty convenient that we have heret the probably chas under the espionage act. >> so i'm worried about the department of justice's credibility at this point. and they shoulscredibil d worried about hav it. >> all you've got a special dounsel who was appointee a sp by the attorney general who works for joe bide n. president trump is running against joe biden, as he did hey ca last time. >> so they should be doing everything they can to make sure they are extremely fair. >> and when you look at the way department of justice has treated, you know, the rioters of january six versus antifa and black lives matter rioters ,in addition to what's been going on with trump's investigation versus the hunter

biden investigation or the biden bribery allegations, i it does not appear to be fair. t and therefore, i thinks trump and his lawyers have a good case to make that this is a potentially selectivexpec prosecution. and i expect we'll see a motion on that relativelywe'l soon.talk >> can we talk about complicitya of other media for jusboutt a moment? the idea that we are and i believe it was senator tim scott who said it, we've heard it more than once tonight, but i believe he said iti beli firs you know, innocent until proven. guilty. i'm not seeing a lot of thatth right now. and with all o of the mistakes and all of the manipulation politically from an agency likea the fbi, that shouldn't be political. nol,w, you're saying that the dj possibly is going down that roadad to fairness matter's innocent until you are proven guilty? >> well, that's a bedrock principle, harris, of this country. and it certainly wasn't true throughout the entire investigation when you had democrats like adam schiff, trup

you even had some republicans who assumed that president trump was guilty and the media treating every allegation with gleeis and determined to believe that the walls were closing in. and this is what ng t going to send president trump to prison. real don't seem to carm toe wher or not the charges are real, whether or not there'sr or evide that forms the basis for these charges. and that's whaarges.t should be asking. >> oh, forensics. >> h, thank you very muc h. i want to round out the sally sara coverage of the breaking news with victoreaking nwith da, bringing him back from the hoover institution to put thingstitution into perspective. victor, you do that so well. e m >> thank you. i think the american people are angry, of course. i mean, this is the week. harris january six and june six, d-day, 79 years ago. over 4000 americans died oror were wounded on omaha beach and they were not wounded for this type of stuff or died. ty they were died. they died for equality under

the law and we're losing it. i think they're also terrified. they don't know what t ow the f. the cia or the doj. doj will not do. they feel they're capable of anything. they've ha d andrew mccabe under oath. they've had james comey saying amnesia. they'v245 times under oath. they've had james clapper lieoa under oath. they've had john brennan, the cia line lie under lie. they've had christopher wray almost risk going to jaioal to stonewall an investigation. they had robert mueller failing . he didn't know anything about the steele dossier or so i guess they're just exasperated. they think, what will these people and the irs, the doj, the cia, what are they not capable of? and they're scared, wh. i don't think you can have a constitutional system when the people hav are scared of the government. and that's that's what i'm really worried aboutthat isu because i think all of us, if did testify for congress as one journalist, did you close home in the irs as a note on the story is no? and this is not american, this is not america.

and these people have weaponized and they're destroying piece by piece bid th right. did something that they didn't own. this came from our 232 years ago, and it wasn't there to destroy. and they hijacke td thisroy this and they've they're trying to destroy this country and i think the citizens are. terrified and i never thought i'd live to see that. >> you know what's interesting ? you were talking i thought about something else that had happened and that was sot haenedthe assassination on a us justice of the u.s.tempt on e court. and with brad kavanaugh, we saw a do j that was just notess th interested. i guess that's the right worat d on. >> interested. yeah. and they swarmed justices home. that was probably a felony to affect a impending opinion. they swarmed the house of clarence thomas. that was the doj . nothing they almost routed it on. i never thought i'd see i never thmobsters mobs going o front of a supreme court justices. private home and screaming and yelling to intimidate them. so that would alteing anr judicl

panel and the doj, who were staffed by lawyers. >> i >> laughs. laughter it's hard to missd to s brad kavanaugh, a republican.a he's a conservative. he's on that bod y. they are the scales of justice, blind scales of justice. her si but people who are on the other side of the aisle don't have blindersdeof the a on. they see that he's different than what they would prefer. on left side of the aisle. victor, thank you very much for being with me. fosean hannity is now. >> all right. and harris, thank you. great coverage tonight. welcome to "hannity"great co. n. >> we begin tonight with this fox news alert, the 45th president of the united states, the leading 2024 candidate, donald j. trump has now been indicteeadind by joe biden's department of justice. now, been ind for the very first timn american history, a sitting president's doj has indicteds it his top political rival ahead of a presidentia tl campaign. re now, here is donald trump just a few moments ago. take just a look.e >> very sadly, we're a natio