>> we should point out her new single "worth it" and "pretend" are available and you can order her new album "along the way" today. >> thank you. >> watch his show on saturday. >> have a great weekend. >> happy friday. >> bill: nice, good show. good morning, everybody. two tears of justice is the retrain on behalf of republicans. this is donald trump becomes the first former president indicted by the government that he used to run. wow. good morning, everybody. dana has the day off today. i'm bill hemmer. good morning at home. hello partner. nice to see you. >> sandra: nice to breathe more freely here this morning. it is good to be with you, bill. i'm sandra smith and the this is

"america's newsroom." >> the charges stem from the mishandling of confidential documents. >> bill: there are at least seven counts. among them obstruction and conspiracy. >> sandra: he is ordered to appear in federal court tuesday in miami. meanwhile trump's allies and attorneys are blasting these charges as politically motivated. >> i will say if the president in power can just jail his political opponents, which is what joe biden is trying to do tonight. we don't have a republic anymore. >> i can also say that there is a two tier system of justice we're seeing right now. when your name is donald trump and leading in the polls you will get hit hard and indicted until you can't take it anymore. >> this is a pattern of the f.b.i. not investigating anything with respect to biden. >> bill: on that last point, all of this unfolding as bribery allegations grow louder against the sitting president. the f.b.i. finally allowing

members of congress to view a document at the center of what's considered a biden scandal. here we go. alexis mcadams reports on the republican primary candidates and how they're reacting. jonathon turley has the legal analysis. nate foye reports from bedminster, new jersey where the former president is now today. good morning. >> good morning to you. good morning sandra. former president trump has been huddling at his club with his top aides for the last few days in anticipation of the indictment. the first time a former president has been criminally charged by the federal government. former president trump is charged with seven counts and they include obstruction of justice, conspiracy, making false statements, and illegal retention of classified information in violation of the

espionage act. prosecutors have an audio tape from 2021 where former president trump allegedly admits he has a classified document about a potential attack on iran. special counsel jack smith's investigation dates back to early last year. of course, it included the august f.b.i. raid of president trump's mar-a-lago home where agents recovered documents that d.o.j. had previously requested from the former president. trump posted on truth social wrote i am an innocent man. the biden administration is totally corrupt. this is election interference and a continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all time. make america great again. president trump also told fox news digital he believes the timing of this indictment is meant to cover up reporting about president biden allegedly receiving a $5 million payment from a ukrainian gas company executive. president trump's lawyer also says the legal case against him is weak. >> the presidential records act

means this entire thing is not in a criminal setting. it's a statutory scheme about document retention that was no criminal penalty. the idea you can be doing armed raids and even criminal grand jury subpoenas is ludicrous. >> this indictment comes as president trump separately faced state charges in new york. that's for his role in hush money payments or a hush money payment to stormy daniels on the eve of the 2016 election. the former president is facing investigations regarding january 6th and his efforts to overturn the election in georgia. now back out here live, bill, the former president is expected to appear in miami federal court on tuesday at 3:00. the white house does not have an official comment but yesterday president biden said he has never pressured the department of justice to bring any charge. we'll send it back to you. >> bill: more from bedminster,

new jersey when we get it. it put many challengers on the spot to respond. alexis mcadams reports. what did you find out and what are you hearing? >> good morning. shaking it up is right. here in north carolina we're expected to hear a lot about this indictment. he will be at the gop convention where i am now in 24 hours. he will take the stage and not just voters talking about this but also people that are going to run against president -- former president donald trump. one of them u.s. senator tim scott. this is what he had to say last night. >> our nation is the greatest nation on earth because lady justice has a blindfold on. that means that republicans are not hunted and democrats are not protected. what we've seen over the last several years is the weaponization of the department of justice against a former president. >> florida governor desantis

says his administration will bring accountability to the d.o.j. and exercise political bias and end weaponization once and for all. hutchinson is calling on trump to drop out of the race and ramaswamy promised to pardon the former president if elected. as for vice president mike pence fox reached out to him but yet to comment on his former boss being indicted for a second time. keeping a close eye on his twitter feed. news on the grand jury indictment comes as three big gop names take the stage in greensboro at the north carolina gop convention. desantis will be here later tonight. trump and pence tomorrow. a lot of eyes are on north carolina. president joe biden also here in the state today. his campaign has vowed to put more money toward campaign ads in the tar heel state. they're trying to have all these people here. the second time they've had it in greensboro and president

biden in the area as well shows how important it is. we'll keep you posted on what happens when president trump shows up. >> bill: thanks for that in greensboro. >> sandra: jonathan turley joining us now. great to see you. so we all started learning about the details of this last night as it was unfolding. has anything of which has transpired so far with this indictment surprised you? >> no, it hasn't surprised me in the sense for the last two years some of us are saying this was a greatest threat facing donald trump. there is a lot of torpedoes in the water but this is the one that some of us have been flagging for a long time. it is a serious threat. obstruction of justice, false statements are called the darlings of federal prosecutor. they bring these charges all the time and they are largely successful. you have to take this very

seriously. we have to wait and see what the indictment says. there are a lot of leaks. some leaks are proven to be untrue in the past. leaks that they have had cooperation from within the trump team. that they have this tape either video or audio of the president referring to possession of a classified document dealing with iran. those can have a significant impact. audio tapes and videotapes are particularly damaging in a case like this. >> bill: a couple of things here. the indictment will be unsealed on tuesday. if not before. just a quick question. has trump's lawyers seen and read the indictment yet? >> no, it doesn't appear that they have. now, they have a very good idea. >> bill: can i ask you on that then, professor? when trump came to new york in early april, the 4th of april facing the alvin bragg in new

york. but after we saw the indictment it was confounding, confusing and weak. but this is a different ballgame, right? a federal prosecutor jack smith. he has a pretty strong reputation. i ask you as a legal mind, how strong must this indictment read to be credible to the american people? >> i know a lot of people have criticized smith for his background but he is no alvin bragg. the alvin bragg prosecution is political. it is what trump says it is. it is a weaponization of the criminal justice system in my view. this is a different ballgame, as you say, bill. these are prosecutors bringing charges that they have routinely brought and won in federal court. but it's also important to note that these indictments always read to defense counsel as

horrific documents. every case i've ever had when i've read the indictment my heart has just sunk. but then when you look more closely at the specifics, they the end to fray on the edges. so we will take a look at this. if it's like bragg we'll see a weak indictment and weak theory for prosecution. i don't think this will be that same sort of profile. the key here is not the underlying crimes. those are well established crimes. the question will be what evidence they have and whether they can establish intent. the trump team has been saying look, we view this as a civil documents matter. we gave up some documents, we retained some. we were in discussions, we responded to requests from the f.b.i. including putting added security on storage. we gave them access to the

storage room and then we get hit with this thing in terms of a raid and criminal investigation. the department of justice portrays it a different way. one of their first major filings they said we see obstructive conduct and i was on the air with you and sandra at that time saying look, that's not a throw away phrase. it looks like they are reframing this as an obstruction case. >> sandra: jonathan turley, we'll see what happens tuesday in miami. >> bill: thank you very much. everybody knew he had classified documents. he admitted himself. if he is on audio tape saying i have these documents does that make a difference under the law? maybe we'll bring that up next hour. we knew the boxes were there. biden had the boxes in delaware and pence had the boxes in indianapolis. more to come on this and this as well 12 minutes past the hour. check it out.

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>> sandra: what happens in vegas stays in outer space. a suspected ufa was captured on police body cam back in april. the flash from the flying objects was seen as far away as utah and california. that sighting happened before a

family called the police to report something strange on their property. >> there was like an eight foot person beside us and another one inside and looking at us. it is still there. >> where is this on your property? >> in my backyard. i swear to god this is not a joke. >> sandra: the eerie circumstances come as a whistleblower claims the u.s. has been collecting alien spacecraft. i'm thinking really saw something? he knew he would sound a little out there. >> bill: how about the eight footer? recruit that guy. what did you say? imagine making this call to the cops saying you have to believe me on this one. all right, we'll follow that up and this today coming up. check it out. >> she is overwhelmed by the whole situation. she had a whole spectrum of emotions. on one hand she was ecstatic

that van der sloot was on u.s. soil, u.s. authorities and u.s. justice system but it is still like pulling a scab off an old wound. there is always pain there and it is a painful reminder what she has been through. >> bill: talking about natalee holloway's mother. van der sloot is in alabama in jail. he will be in court waiting for his arraignment on federal charges of extortion and wire fraud all related to the disappearance of natalee holloway in 2005. jonathan serrie in birmingham where the trial will be held if it gets to that point. good morning. >> good morning to you, bill. it depends on whether he enters a guilty or not guilty plea and whether it goes to trial. van der sloot is scheduled appear before a federal judge this morning. arraignment scheduled for 11:00 a.m. central time. the defendant, who was already serving a 28-year prison sentence for the 2010 murder of a young peruvian woman, was

temporarily handed over to u.s. authorities to be brought back to the u.s. to face trial in birmingham for alleged financial crimes against the family of natalee holloway. she disappeared during a 2005 senior class trip to aruba where she was seen leaving a popular tourist bar with van der sloot. a dutch national who lived on the island. five years later he allegedly provided natalee's mother false information on the location of her daughter's remains in exchange for money. as a result, he faces federal counts of extortion and wire fraud. author and former f.b.i. agent strange anticipates van der sloot will enter a not guilty plea this morning and it could be a year before his case goes to trial. >> he is going to be in the united states kind of as long as the criminal proceedings are ongoing. not only the criminal proceedings, but the appeals

process as well. >> natalee's mother issued this statement. as a mother who has tearlessly pursued justice, i stand before you today with a heart both heavy with sorrow and yet lifted by a glimmer of hope. now, bill, if convicted van der sloot could face a maximum of 20 years for the extortion charge, 30 years for the wire fraud charges. those sentences would come after he completes his murder sentence back in peru. bill. >> bill: we're watching for that later today. thanks. jonathan serrie live in alabama. >> sandra: investigative journalist was one of the last people to see van der sloot before he went to jail in peru. first off, you see these new video of him. we've been struck is the sheer height. this is a big guy. and he is --

>> 6-5. >> sandra: what is he like? >> natalee holloway disappeared in 2005. 2007 i spent two weeks with him attempting to extort money from the media at that time and successful at that. he had set the m.o. for his signature crime. we now see him facing charges for with beth. he was charming. he was six fought five and stood out thailand. he had an end goal with me and very kind while i spent time with him. i had to remind myself this guy was a potential killer. >> bill: you used the word manipulator and he loves the attention. he loves this? >> absolutely, for sure. we have taken him out of a horrific conditions in a per you jail and in america and taken care of because he is facing trial.

much better circumstances. his life is behind bars. he loves the attention and the travel. he is looking forward to his day in court and he is not going to take any culpability for the crime. i'm happy to see beth and the family get their day in court. >> sandra: what happens? >> i think he is going to plead not guilty to these charges and he is going to be found guilty for extortion of beth holloway. it is horrific what he did. he has turned the disappearance and murder of natalee holloway into a cottage industry to feed his gambling addiction. he flew to peru and committed another murder. >> he is in aruba, thailand, peru. >> the interesting thing, when i met him he was in the netherlands on the way to australia. they denied him entry and how he ended up in thailand. how did he get out of aruba

after wiretapped by the feds and knew it was extortion charges? they let him go. that was the 17th of may. in 2010. two weeks later may 30th of 2010 he murdered stephanie flores, five years to the day he murdered natalee holloway. >> sandra: these are the crimes we know about. >> what happened in thailand? what else happened in peru? what happened in other countries? we don't know. we know he has a serial killer tendency. who knows? there could be other bodies out there. if we look at what he did to stephanie flores we can only hope that natalee holloway didn't suffer that same brutal demise. >> bill: when was the last time you talked to natalee's mom? >> not for a couple of years. i don't want to pursue the family. a lot of media attention on them. i wish them the best and i will see them in court. >> bill: thank you for your

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>> bill: that was yesterday. another clip in a moment that came from the same press conference. president biden now responding to bribery allegations involving the business dealings of his family. it comes after house republicans viewed and f.b.i. document in a secure room on the hill including our next guest. house oversight member nancy mace of south carolina. thank you for coming on. you've seen it. how would you characterize it? let's start there. >> i would characterize it as a detailed document. it was very credible and legitimate. i would not brush it off like the f.b.i. has. and it corroborates other information we've seen in other places. the document for one example talks about not just 5 million but 10 million going to the biden family. half to hunter and half to joe biden. when you look at hunter biden's emails complaining he had to get half of his income to his father and you listen to recordings,

another investigations oligarchy talking about paying off the bidens. when you add it all together it is something that should be investigated to the fullest extent of the law. >> bill: let me come back to a couple of things. you said it was detailed. in what way? >> in terms of what meetings took place and the information shared in those meetings by the witness and here is the thing. the f.b.i. originally wouldn't say that the document even existed. then it magically appeared out of thin air and said we couldn't see it and we said only the chairman could see it but redacted. with the threat of contempt all of us on the oversight committee were able to go to a classified room to remove an unclassified document. what want the mainstream media to have is this document to see legitimate accusations of bribery. when you look at the bank records, the dozens of shell companies. when biden says where is the money? i think it was a freudian slip.

it is in the accounts you created to get money in your back pocket. it is a couple of pages. it is not long. it is not very long but it is very detailed document. to me when i read it, it is very credible. on monday even the chairman of oversight jamie comer was told there is an investigation. we don't know what investigation is being utilized in. this is legitimate. it is real. when you couple that with the indictment last night that came down on donald trump on the day that we looked at evidence of corruption, you are watching the executive branch trying to take out political enemies because of the accusations against the biden family. >> bill: chuck grassley was with us last week. interesting interview. he said do your job to the f.b.i. and investigate it. who is to say they aren't at this moment, congresswoman? >> well, i believe they may be based on the information that

was shared with oversight staff and the chairman on monday when they initially reviewed the document. they said they couldn't share it because it was part of an investigation and worried about the life and safety of the whistleblower and the human source, the witness. they've been stonewalling us for a long time. come to find out there are other 1023 documents and more bank records that will need to be subpoenaed and frankly i would like to go back and revisit the treasury and go back and look at the suspicious activity reports now that we have this information in hand. we need to follow the facts. >> bill: it's a couple pages. there are redactions, right? >> a lot of redactions. yes. >> bill: it's detailed even with the redactions. i don't know how it looks. >> a little messy but it is absolutely a lot of corroborating information in there of other accusations elsewhere. >> bill: is it in washington, ukraine, where is it? >> these are ukraine executives associated with burisma.

we're back to that story that we heard about a couple of years ago. >> bill: out of kiev then, correct, where this conversation took place? >> yes. >> bill: last question. perhaps it's just not nailed down and the f.b.i. is looking at this as hearsay as opposed to fact. would you accept that? >> well, one of the reasons that i'm encouraging oversight committee is subpoena more bank records to see if it's true or not. one of the things in the document the ukrainian executives were bragging about the number of shell companies it would take a decade to prove it out to be able to show where the money went because they were purposely trying to hide the source of the funds and purposely trying to hide where they ended up in the back pockets of the biden family. >> bill: see where it goes. more to come, right? live in washington. thank you for coming on today. you bet. sandra. >> sandra: president biden penning an op-ed in the "wall street journal" painting a rosie

picture of his economic progress. but do the numbers really add up? let's look. the president took credit for a $1.7 trillion drop in the deficit. you can only imagine how larry kudlow reacts to that. it earned up a pinocchio. the national deficit increased 850 billion, increased more than projected in his first two years in office. >> bill: bottomless and he touted record low unemployment for black workers. this was true for about a month when it fell to an all-time low back in april but a month later it shot up a percentage point to 5.6%. >> sandra: then his claims on inflation. get my blood boiling. the president is patting himself on the back for lowering inflation for the past ten months despite the fact that it was his economic policies that ran inflation up to the 40-year highs in the first place.

he makes no mention of wages and a reason for that. average hourly earnings dropped 1.7% since he took office. while inflation may be cooling off, prices are still high and paycheck is not keeping up with those historic prices. i believe the "washington post" when it gave the bottomless pinocchio on the deficit claims. he has said this more than 30 times. i joke about larry kudlow's reaction. he said it live with larry on our set. it is a false claim. >> bill: this is your bag, right? the bag of business. >> sandra: yes, economic, it's not political. >> bill: look outside. new video of the flames scorching canada. fires still burning, more than 100 in that country. smoke continues to smother parts of the u.s. but today it's better. here are the cities with the worst air quality on the right side of your screen it looks like what have we got, arizona,

delaware, ann arbor, michigan. yesterday the numbers on -- in the northeast were way high. the day before that on wednesday they were sky high. fox weather max gordon is live an hour west of ottawa. what's happening, max? good morning. >> yes. right now rain is falling here in eastern ontario and this is great news for firefighters. right now we're about a little ways away from what is being called the centennial lake fire. unlike other fires that are currently burning throughout canada, this fire has been threatening some communities. it has gotten intense scrutiny from firefighters. luckily this fire is currently being held. other fires that have been burning throughout the country are raging out of control. in all around 427 fires are burning throughout canada. these range in size from smaller fires to massive infernos.

it is a tough start to the fire season for canadians. normally 6 million acres burn in an entire fire season in this country. already more than 12 million acres have been scorched. this is due in part to warmer temperatures in some parts of the country as well as ongoing drought conditions. this has been an all hands on deck type of battle. of course, thousands of canadian firefighters are in the country battling these blazes but this has been an international response. the united states sending around 600 firefighters and countries like new zealand, south africa and france sending firefighters as well. back to you. >> bill: max, we're hoping for the best and maybe a little more rain will help. it is good to have you there. beautiful shot. smitty, look at that early june. that's awesome. thank you, max, enjoy. let's hope for the best. >> thank you.

♪ ♪ bad to the bone ♪ >> sandra: i told you, jack daniels raising its glass and toasting a victory the supreme court ruled in favor of the legendary whiskey maker in a trademark fight over a chew toy for dogs. it looks just like the whiskey's well-known bottle. the justices ruled the first amendment doesn't apply. they sent the dispute back to the lower courts for more proceedings. it seems like -- >> bill: i would say it's a product made by jack daniels, pretty obvious. i was checking over here to see max. smitty got it. there is your jd and then you have the other one that is a direct rip-off or so says the court.

jack daniels wins. are you with me on that? >> sandra: i thought you phrased it incorrectly. you got it. >> bill: good. a man with a knife on a rampage in a french park critically injuring children and toddlers. wow. what we're learning about the suspect and how the kids are doing today. eyewitness account of the war in ukraine. we will hear from one of the only civilians on the front lines there on the suffering and the heroism and who is winning this war today. >> picture what would happen if we were not supporting ukraine. do we think russia would stop in kiev? do you think that's all there would be happening? i think not.

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>> sandra: crime soaring in the nation's capitol. d.c. recording its 100th homicide this week. the earliest they've reached that mark since 2003. it comes during a surge in other violent crime such as carjackings and sexual assaults. griff jenkins live in the washington newsroom with the latest on all that for us. >> good morning. violence has become a daily occurrence. we had a triple shooting at midnight ten hours ago two miles from where i am. when they arrived three adult males suffering from gunshot

wounds had to go to the hospital. milestone you mentioned the 100th homicide was the murder of a 29-year-old male at a gas station tuesday. since then three more killings putting the number at 103. d.c.'s mayor is furious about it. a strong support of police and why she is so mad. look into these numbers with 103 homicides, d.c. is up 20% compared to last year. carjackings up 57%. sexual abuse 29%. robbery up 27%. the police union says anti-police rhetoric over the past three years was the catalyst for local legislation soft on crime. they have lost over 1200 officers and have a force at its lowest level in over 50 years. the chairman of the union says d.c. is not alone. >> what's happening here is the same thing happening in every major city, chicago, portland, seattle, san francisco, los angeles, new york city. city councils are passing

legislation that makes it absolutely miserable and impossible for police to come out and do their jobs creating an environment where criminals can proliferate. >> we're on pace to exceed 200 homicides for the third straight year. they are searching for a new police chief in washington, d.c. >> bill: move overseas now. ongoing war in ukraine. the epicenter of the war is in kherson. russia is bombarding the city and it's under water during a dam collapse. our next guest is on the ground distributing aid michael, the founder of the global empowerment mission. to viewers at home. this is a very difficult area to access. hard to get a signal. we've got it for now, michael. the dam was broken the other day. what are you seeing around you now? >> thanks, bill, for having me. behind me what seems like a lake is actually an entire

neighborhood, believe it or not, of completely submerged houses. we were there earlier with a boat paddling over electric cables and these homes. in the background about 2 1/2 kilometers behind me you see smoke. that's the front line offensive of the ukrainian army going and trying to take back the occupied areas that russia took. we've been here on the ground in ukraine working in ukraine since february 25th of 2022. we're also one of the first organizations or the first international organization in kherson city after it was liberated. we were bringing large amounts of aid there. so we have set up with our partner howard g. buffet set up major infrastructure. we have vehicles, 18 wheelers, vans, everything needed and we purchase all these supplies to

help stimulate the economy here and basically we've been committing here just for the recipients, victims of the dam explosion, 80 full size 18 wheelers. we have 15 of them already in the last four days. it is a big undertaking. a lot of work to do here. >> bill: good luck to you. you are doing some good work. but it cannot be easy especially with all that water around you. michael. we'll stay in contact. thank you. now we want to get general kellogg. good morning to you. fascinating to hear from a person in that part of the country. i don't know how you move military equipment through that area with the dam broken. i want to get a sense where you think the war is now. before i do it, i want to take our viewers back to a date michael mentioned in february 24th, 2022, so you are 16 months ago. that's the day putin invaded. came in from the north. wasn't successful.

northeast and east and crimea and south. everything in red is occupied by the russian military. all these areas in the east and especially down here in crimea. the nipa river intersects the country and talking about the dam. let's show our viewers what we're talking about here. all the yellow circles is intense fighting underway today. here is kherson where michael was reporting there. this is the dam that was blown up, all right? below here is crimea and if you listen to zelensky, this is what they want. how you get there is really hard with that water on the ground and russian military in your way. basic question to you. ukraine is on the offense. can they turn the tide in this war or not? >> yeah, bill, the answer is yes. look, russia is defending 600 miles. the reason they blew up that dam

and i believe the russians did it. it limits the ukraine. it was kherson and pivot left and right and be able to defeat them and isolate crimea. that's the smart way. the russians limited the ability of the ukrainians to do that. plenty of options for ukraine to do it. go up north. i think they'll be able to do it. if they get into a war of maneuver they have a wonderful chance defeating the russian arm knee in ukraine. you look at the two generals on either side. the russian. when you look at the ukrainians, he is an offensive genius. they have to reserve brigades six western trained with western equipment. if they can punch through the lines and make it a war of maneuver the russians have a major problem. the reason the russians blew the dam is to isolate that

battlefield and take out a third. go back to what happened in world war ii. they flooded drop zones that people jumped into. they want to limit the offensive capability. i don't think they can do it. if i was putting money on this fight i give a lot of money to ukraine. it will be very bloody, a big fight. the largest fight in europe since the end of world war ii. a lot of casualties out there but it will be a near run thing. today i always give credence to the offense and i give that to ukraine. >> bill: back up a bit. you say russia blew up this dam. why do that? >> they would do it for -- to isolate the battlefield. if you look at a 600 mile front if you are on the defense and want to limit the offensive options of your opponent. they do that. one of the greatest avenues of approach is on the southern part around kherson.

if they didn't do that the ukrainians could have breached the river and isolate russian forces. it was done for operational reasons. candidly it wasn't good for humanitarian reasons. militarily it was a smart move by the russians. >> bill: let's talk next week. keith kellogg, thank you for coming on. >> dana: 2024 candidates courting the youth vote. 30% of votes were under 30 in 2020. what will happen next time? li. so, long live family time. long live dreams. and long live you. kisqali is a pill proven to help women live longer when taken with an aromatase inhibitor. and kisqali helps preserve quality of life. so you're not just living, you're living well. kisqali can cause lung problems or an abnormal heartbeat which can lead to death. it can cause serious skin reactions, liver problems, and low white blood cell counts that may result in severe infections. avoid grapefruit during treatment. tell your doctor right away

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