>> bill: 10:00 in new york. miami federal courthouse where former president donald trump will appear on tuesday after an indictment related to confidential documents stored at his home. brand-new hour starts right now. i'm bill hemmer. friday, it feels like it. >> sandra: because i'm here? just joking. we miss dana. she is off. >> bill: she has the day off.

big weekend for peter this weekend coming up. >> sandra: indeed. i just decided i needed to be here on a friday morning to make it a good weekend. good to be with you. good hour coming up. i'm sandra smith. president trump is calling the indictment election interference at the highest level. republicans on the senate judiciary committee are warning the charges raise serious conflict of interest interests for attorney general merrick garland. meantime president biden dismissing these claims that he was paid $5 million in a bribery scheme when he was vice president. >> bill: here is the "new york post" summing up today with the headline hail to the thiefs. nancy mace telling us she saw the document from the f.b.i. which contains what some believe is a bribery claim. she thinks, after reading it, it does not look good for president biden. >> it was very credible and legitimate. i would not brush it off like

the f.b.i. has. and it corroborates other information that we've seen in other places because the document for one example talks about not just 5 million but 10 million going to the biden family. half going to hunter biden, the other half going to joe biden. when you look at hunter biden's emails and complaining he had to give half of his income to his father. >> bill: team fox coverage lucas tomlinson with more on the indictment. let's go to the white house and north lawn and peter doocy who checks in now. >> nice to see you. president biden who claimed as vice president not to have a savings account is answering questions about these allegations of a possible multi-million dollar bribe with a question of his own. >> president biden: where is the money? i'm joking. it's a bunch of malarkey. >> the president's critics think there is a reason he can be so

flip about the probe. >> how does he know they won't find the money? d.o.j. is not looking. they don't want to know. it's the opposite of watergate. follow the money. d.o.j.'s approach is run from the money and hide from the money. it is disgraceful. >> a source familiar with the f.b.i. document alleging pay for play says to be clear the document does not say joe biden received any payment. there is a tie-in here with the trump news. on the trump side the president says he doesn't direct the justice department. >> president biden: i have never once, not one single time, suggested the justice department what they should do or not do or bring a charge or not bring a charge. i'm honest. >> the "wall street journal" op-ed board argued lately that on the hunter side, president biden actually has tried to influence his d.o.j. >> your son, while no ties to you, could be charged by your

department of justice. how would that affect your presidency? >> first of all my son has done nothing wrong. i trust him, i have faith in him and making me feel proud of him. >> president biden and allies don't go out of their way to talk about potential legal trouble like the trump team does. he is getting ready to go to north carolina. we have some other news that we can report that just crossed. president biden, who announced his campaign -- re-election campaign more than six weeks ago but hasn't had an official event, is going to have his first official campaign event next saturday in philadelphia. bill. >> bill: wow, okay. there it is. peter doocy. thank you, sir. >> dana: love the reaction from lawrence jones on that. former president and 2024gop

frontrunner donald trump has been indicted on seven criminal documents. the documents remain sealed as the department of justice continues to investigate his alleged improper retention of those classified records at his mar-a-lago estate. lucas tomlinson has the latest for us. the former president will head to federal court in florida next week. >> that's right, sandra. former president trump will appear in a federal courthouse in miami for an arraignment on tuesday at 3:00 p.m. the second time he has been criminally charged since march. the only former president ever charged with a crime. you mentioned trump facing seven criminal charges over his handling of classified material after leaving the white house. the charges include obstruction of justice, destruction of records and making false statements. he said the justice department called him to tell him he was being indicted. prosecutors have an audio tape from the summer of 2021 where trump allegedly admitted having

a classified document in his position about a potential attack on iran and posted the following video. >> seven years, they can't stop because it is election interference at the highest level. there has never been anything like what's happened. i'm an innocent man. >> the president's lawyer defending his client. >> the idea you can be doing armed raids and criminal grand jury subpoenas is lewd rouse and indicting a president and presidential contender. >> former deputy assistant attorney general weighed in last night. >> i actually think the real threat to president trump is not for actually taking the documents. it is not something that's going to be cured sievely. the real dagger to the heart here is the claims of obstruction of justice. the claims we think the charge of lying to federal officers.

>> trump is the first former president charged with a crime. president warren harding was close to being indicted but he died in office 100 years ago. >> sandra: thank you very much. >> bill: all this taking place as the 2024 campaign heats up. the youth vote a key democratic. republican candidate ramaswamy wants to increase american patriotism. he wants to raise the voting age from 18 to 25 unless you sign up for some form of civil service. a lot of options on that or pass a american civics test. >> more meaning to voting rather than emotion that people are accustomed to. positive for our civic culture and it can be unifying. >> bill: ricky slot, columnist for the "new york post." lawrence jones host of cross-country here on the fox

news channel. helo. ricky, you were with viv he can ramaswamy. 18 to 24-year-olds are only able to vote if they serve in the military, do civil service as a firefighter or emt, or pass a civics test. do you like the idea? >> i agree with him that civics education is a problem in this country and patriotism is at record lows but i don't think it's the way to solve it. it will make us more resentful of our country, gen z. i'm 22. i would like to retain my right to vote. 2/3 of american adults couldn't pass that test. why does your ignorance become acceptable at 25? should the standard not be across the board? >> sandra: that's one issue. the gop polling on the ideal candidate right now is donald trump at 53%, ron desantis 20%,

pence 5% haley 4%, ramaswamy 4%. who is the youth vote leading into right now? >> i don't know if there is a particular candidate that they totally agree with. i think that the youth vote is going to be whatever candidate is going to make life better for them when it comes to the economy. a lot of young people miss the trump years when we were able to have more money in our pocket and businesses were flourishing giving these young people extra hours. back to vivek, he like many of the other candidates are trying to do anything they can do to catch some type of fire. i think the idea is pandering. a young person really doesn't have this point of view. i was expecting the old, typical 60-year-old white republican to, you know, put this idea out there, not this guy. it shows you the rut they are in trying to find some way to go

against donald trump. this indictment only makes it worse for them because now i think there will be some republicans that are going to say okay, this is it. they are going after him for some reason. it is time for the republican party to unite behind donald trump. i don't see anyone in the race now that has the fire of the belly that can go against the man. >> bill: for young people you agree with ricky? >> i totally agree. it is such a stupid idea. i'm not trying to earn my citizenship. i was born in the country. don't ask me to get an extra test. the whole idea is pandering. >> i was going to say it is more of an indictment of the education system. eighth grade only 20% of eighth graders have civics baseline levels. so point the finger not at young people but at the education

system that is clearly failing them. >> sandra: i brought this up on the call earlier with ramaswamy earlier this week. he called for a ban on all u.s. corporations to do business in china unless they came to certain terms, the united states corporations and president xi. i thought what is the youth vote going to think about iphones going away. >> bill: you wrote the piece. you write 22% of eighth graders, ramaswamy says 16% of 18 to 25 are proud to be americans and even voting in the first place. the whole idea of being proud of your country. i'm not saying you or you, but how can we as a group slip that low? >> we failed our young people, by the way. they don't know what it means to be american. there are so many people that believe that what it means to be

american is by the person that's running the country or the country at its worst times. so when you have a whole generation that has only been taught the bad of america and not the greatness of america, don't be surprised if they have low faith or confidence in their patriotism. i think adults should take responsibility on this as well. >> bill: last comment on this. after 9/11 you saw that same group of americans rush to the front lines in the war on terror. >> i would say the context that we're growing up in, the first election i remember with any sort of maturity is 2016. we have grown up in the era of lesser of two evils american politics. people are being torn apart bipartisanship. everyone feels compromised by the voting options they have in front of them. we're growing up and saying there is something wrong here and not too excited where our country is going. >> you mentioned 9/11. some of these kids weren't even born.

they don't know. i was in third grade. so just to put it into context, we rallied around that moment. if you didn't experience it. it is one thing to read it in the book. another to have your parents rush you out of school because they believed it could be the next target. >> bill: come on back. >> sandra: a gag order in the idaho murder trial hanging in the balance awaiting a judge's ruling. >> bill: protecting kids online. disturbing report this week suggests that instagram is becoming a key pipeline that connects children to pedophiles. meta overall has really pivoted into at scale enforcement by a.i. they've been building lots of automated systems to go and find bad content. sometimes you just need to have human beings.

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>> bill: today a judge will decide whether or not the lift the gag order on bryan kohberger's murder trial. defense and prosecution want to keep it in place but 30 media group says it violates the first amendment. moscow, idaho, dan springer reports from there again today. good morning. >> good morning, bill. actually two hearings on that gag order. first one at 10:30 local time involves an attorney for the goncalves family and then a lawyer will say it violates the first amendment and too broad. we expect kohberger in court today. balancing his constitutional right to a fair trial by an impartial jury versus free

speech rights and freedom of the press. both defense and prosecution made a request for a gag order. magistrate issued one that day. later she defended it in a ruling writing while authorities were investigating the incident, media outlets transcended upon the community and internet and television were abuzz with stories and immense speculation. in addition to lawyers any police agencies that investigated the murders is bound by the gag order and lawyers from 30 media outlets says that hurts transparency and ultimately the defendant. wend owe olson wrote there has been and continue to be great publicity surrounding this case. it is not -- it deprives the public of quality information creating a vacuum for rampant speculation online. media have an uphill battle. it is not only the defense but

also the county prosecutor arguing to keep the gag order in place. his office wrote the u.s. constitution does not guarantee the press full access to trial participants. the decision will be made by circuit court judge john judge and he is the one who set the trial date for october and between now and then, bill, we'll have a lot more hearings including one we're anticipating on a possible change of venue from moscow to possibly a place like boise, idaho. this college town rocked by the murder back in november. >> bill: hard to find a part of the state where they aren't talking about it. >> sandra: disturbing new report from the "wall street journal" reveals instagram helps connect a vast network of pedophiles through its algorithm. it's the latest in a series of concerns involving children and the use of social media. our next guest is one of the

journalists behind that report. he joins us now. jeffrey, so many parents are listening to this right now and so many users of meta and instagram out there. please do detail the findings of your investigation. >> sure. i think to begin with it is important to note with 1.3 billion users instagram will certainly have pedophiles on it. it will have everyone on it, right? the question is how the platform itself deals with that. what we found is that instagram actually connects what could be called a pedophile community, i suppose, via its algorithms and recommendations. so one thing that the researchers that we were working with observed was that even touching a single account in this network would be enough to start triggering instagram to recommend suggested people you should follow who would be

either consumers of this content or users who were purporting to be underage children selling content of themselves. so that's not -- instagram does try to personalize its services but it is not a form of personallyization anybody would want. the company said they will try to address it now. >> sandra: the company statement, this is meta through a spokesperson saying between 2020 and 2022 teams dismantled networks and disabled more than 490,000 accounts for violating child safety policies. sounds like a lot. we don't know how many are out there. that's the point in your piece. you point out the difference. for many saying well, it has long been known pedophiles are using social media to connect with young people. your piece points out that instagram isn't merely hosting these activities. this is the point of your

investigation. its algorithms are promoting them. that's against the law. >> whether it's against federal law to promote this content based on personallyization is a complicated one in federal law. a common sense element. one thing to host content like the open internet where anyone can post anything and some of the stuff will be bad and another thing to be actively recommending it, right? it's not necessarily a thing which is clear on the legal side and we don't have time to get into that, but that's, i think a reasonable question you ask. >> sandra: a big question of how much law enforcement can get in to dismantle this. observatory at a university.

>> i do hope we encourage meta and other companies to reinvest in the human investigations to go do this kind of work. i think it is also a failure of law enforcement. this stuff is just out there in public. a lot of the buyers are using real facebook and instagram account. you click through their account and them as a little league coach and pictures of them with their kids. >> sandra: this is terrifying stuff. based on your investigation, your findings, what do you say to parents out there who are horrified by what they're hearing and learning? >> i think that if you have a teenager, you might want to look at the options that meta has for services to have accounts be private and friends only. prevent outside contact. that's something the company has acknowledged is a concern. and i do think that there is --

look, this is real stuff and i think it is a problem that meta said they'll try to address. i think this is a clearly should be an issue that sort of transcends politics or any particular viewpoint and is -- i guess i would say they should be just teaching people how to use this stuff well and to be aware there is a network is a big point. >> sandra: know there is always the option of turning it off. your piece is in the "wall street journal." thank you very much. jeffrey. >> thank you. >> communist party continues to expand its footprints around the world. our allies in pacific and europe will have to push back. >> bill: these reports yesterday that china reached a secret agreement with havana, cuba, to build a chinese spy base on america's doorstep. it sparked alarm and some denials. peter doocy just broke thes

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>> bill: former secretary of state mike pompeo says the threat is real and the u.s. needs to sene communist island regime a message. >> expanding signals capability and capacity to collect against american movements and information flow. we should make sure that we explain to the cubans that is unacceptable. >> bill: kirby also did not specify if the report was wrong in its entirety. we'll figure out in time if it is. cuba said it is not true. we'll see if it is. >> dana: we will. time will tell. president biden meanwhile heading to a community college in north carolina today. the visit coming as we await a supreme court ruling on his student debt forgiveness plan. mark meredith is on that live from washington for us. hello, mark. >> hello. the white house says it supports efforts to wipe away student loan debt for an estimated 40 million americans. whether the idea is even legal is up for debate and could be decided within days. the supreme court is reviewing whether or not the president had

the authority to forgive up to $20,000 in student debt. this proposal came out last summer ahead of the mid-term elections and was immediately challenged by republicans. some reports this morning that progressives on the hill are imploring the white house to come up with a backup plan if the court, which many expect strikes the program down. just this week the president vetoed legislation that a small number of democrats supported which would have killed the program once and for all. >> president biden: some of the same members of congress who supported this bill voted to the huge tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy. when it comes to hard working americans trying to get ahead dealing with student debt relief that's where they drew the line. i think it's wrong. >> we are hearing from south carolina senator and presidential candidate tim scott saying president biden's radical student loan cancellation policies forces working americans to shoulder debt they never sign up for. this will an issue in the

election. ron desantis said he believes universities should be on the hook for some of the student loan debt if the person isn't able to pay it back to insure those graduating are getting degrees that make sure they have long-lasting careers. sandra. >> sandra: mark, thank you. >> bill: now come tuesday the legal stakes get higher for donald trump after the justice department indicted him last night for mishandling classified documents. he broke the news himself. he is now the first former president to face federal charges. "fox news sunday" aftering shannon bream to tell us what's going on. happy friday to you. so i don't know, 11 or 12 candidates vying for the nomination as of now. everyone is being asked about it. here is how tim scott answered the question just yesterday. >> what we've seen over the last several years is the weaponization of the department of justice against a former president. you don't have to be a republican to see injustice and want to fix it.

you don't have to be a democrat to see injustice and want to fix it. you just have to be an american and stand up for the right thing. >> bill: most of them seem to be on the same page thus far. how do you see it, shannon? >> you have the legal implications of this which are serious. a number of these charges if there is a conviction and there is substantial jail time linked to that as well. but all the political fallout. which for the former president seems to be a plus because you've got not only just republicans all over the country and all over capitol hill today defending him, but you have the very rivals that would like to unseat him as the frontrunner for the gop nomination out there issuing statements. you have ramaswamy and johnson out there saying if i become president i'm going to pardon president trump. that will be the question all the gop contenders have to answer. would you do the same?

>> sandra: this was the back and forth shouted question to the president on the department of justice and fairness. listen. >> mr. president, what do you say to americans to convince them they should trust the fairness of the justice department? >> president biden: because you notice i have never once -- not one single time -- suggested the justice department what they should do or not do whether or not to bring a charge. i'm honest. >> sandra: how is that going over? >> is d.o.j. knows there are optics. the first ever president indicted. what about all the documents found with president biden? that is a special separate case and continues on its own track and questions about hunter biden and why the investigation that has been acknowledged that is involving him by a u.s. attorney

that has been we're told left alone to do his business, why that is taking so long. there are optics and they feed into the former president's narrative he is under attack because they can't get rid of me electorally so they'll try to do it legally. >> bill: an attorney for donald trump is coming on your show and the mayor of miami will be on. maybe you'll make news with the mayor in miami. >> we have an announcement coming. >> bill: thank you, shannon. we'll see you. have a great weekend. an actor regarded in the best of his generation could be headed for retirement. today's hemmer celebrity news. you might remember this. watch. >> i am not in danger, skyler, i am the danger. a guy opens his door and gets shot and you think about me? no, i am the one who knocks.

>> bill: brian branston will take a sabbatical in 2026 to become a full-time husband. they will move to france and spend their time gardening and drinking wine. sounds pretty good, right? he is 67. if he will retire in two years, 68, 69. i guess that puts him around 70. >> sandra: garden drinking wine and not reading transcripts. very clear, i'm done. a few years away. time to change his mind. better get on it. all right. we're now awaiting the arraignment of the prime suspect in the disappearance of natalee holloway. he is on american soil after being extradited from peru. how natalee's family is now reacting. >> big guy, kind of an ominous presence, all business about money that's all he cares about and all he wants to talk about.

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>> bill: there could be another wrench in the u.s. supply chain. labor talks drag on between west coast dock workers and ports over wages, safety, pensions, automation. now there are calls for the white house to get involved. kelly o'grady fox business live in wilmington, california, port of l.a. kelly, hello. >> good morning. bill. remember how these ports snarled during covid impacted the supply chain and inflation as well. those labor negotiations that you mentioned have been going on since may of last year. now we have started to see some congestions, six vessels earlier this week were delayed. that moves us past the normal

supply chain. that is nothing like we saw during covid when we had over 100 ships out there waiting fordock at the harbor. we spoke to the port of l.a. saying they've seen slowdowns at trucking gates but the terminals are operational. 22,000 union workers are seeking better wages, safety conditions and protection against automation. an interesting one. a lot of green push at the port has workers concerned about their jobs. they shared the statement with fox business. we aren't going to settle for an economic package that doesn't recognize the heroic efforts and personal sacrifices of the workforce that lifted the shipping industry to record profits. we haven't seen a prolonged shut down. but pockets of concern. 30 percent of the imports as we enter peak shipping season. national retail federation are urging the president to step in. thousands of retailers and other businesses depend on smooth and

efficient operations at the sports. urge the administration to make sure they finalize a new contract without additional disruptions. just this morning the u.s. chamber also urging the president to step in and appoint a third party mediator immediately. a lot of concern brewing here. >> bill: kelly o'grady in los angeles. thank you. >> sandra: a few hours from now the main suspect in the disappearance of natalee holloway will appear before a judge. van der sloot is in an alabama prison waiting to be arraigned. here is steph watts joining us last hour. >> his life now is behind bars so he is loving the attention. he is loving the travel. he is looking forward to his day in court and he is not going to take culpability for the crime. >> sandra: now private investigator for holloway's family to discuss what happens next. t.j. thank you for joining us. this continues to be extremely

emotional and hard for that family every single minute of this. what does happen next? what can you tell us? >> well, he will have his first appearance in this courtroom and they are going to give him an opportunity to plead guilty or not guilty. we know from what he was set up in 2010 when he accepted the $25,000 of the $250,000 that they had kelly and the f.b.i. had him set up. he got away out of aruba before he could be charged and went to peru. he know he murdered a woman's life there. today we'll find out whether he pleads guilty or not guilty. but we are way overdue and whatever happens in this, he is 18 years this has been going on, and i praise the family now, beth pushed to get this done.

he is here. >> sandra: this is an turn for the holloway family. john kelly. >> she is overwhelmed by the whole situation. she had a whole spectrum of emotions. on the one hand she was ecstatic that van der sloot was on u.s. soil, u.s. authorities and justice system. a scab off an old wound. it is a painful reminder of what she has been through. >> sandra: like pulling a scab off. you see this man six feet five. he has come face-to-face with him multiple times and we're told he loves this. it is all about money. imagine how difficult this is for this family to go through this. t.j., can you tell us more about

what the family is saying right now ahead of this? >> well, i know they are very happy about what has transpired and that van der sloot is here on american soil to be prosecuted. this is a major thing that's happened here that is he is now on american soil and tried by a court in the united states for the crime he committed. and he deserves every minute, after 18 years this family has gone through not to have their daughter present, but again, beth has kept this alive with her foundation and her efforts to bring him here. it has now paid off. >> sandra: the ambassador to the u.s. says it will enable a process to bring peace to mrs. holloway and her family. we'll watch what happens next with all that. thank you. >> bill: more controversy inside the classroom as kids struggle to keep up.

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sounding good, friends! >> bill: american students might be falling behind in just the basics but now the controversial 1619 project is releasing a curriculum using math and history to determine whether reparations should be paid out. jeff fox on that story with a closer look at the new lesson plan from fox business. >> good morning to you from the african-american museum in philadelphia. the first actually government-funded museum for the african-american experience in the u.s. this question of whether government ought to do more to compensate the descendants of the enslaved people has been a central one at the 1619 project. i urge people to go online and check out the curriculum yourself. it can explain it much better than i can in the short period of time.

the curriculum asks this question. should reparations be paid for the united states use of enslaved labor? if so, what's the basis of those payments? in the curriculum students will apply math skills and wealth gaps in the u.s. and investigate whether or not reparations should be paid to the descendants of enslaved people. the 1619 project fairly controversial but goes to the question the u.s. would be what it is today without the use of slaves as its founding. multiple cities are looking at paying reparations, new york and california. california was not a slave state but point out there are people descendants of the enslaved living in california. we don't know how many school districts are using the new curriculum. at last report from the 1619 project, about 3500 classrooms were using its other curriculum

across all 50 states. so go ahead and look online yourself and i report, you decide. >> bill: check it out. jeff flock, philadelphia, fox business. >> sandra: greg abbott floating a new idea to secure the southern border. installing an inflatable border along the rio grande making it more difficult for illegal immigrants to enter the country. the floating barriers will be installed in eagle pass where the first 1,000 feet is being installed to help the state hold the line against human trafficking, weapons and deadly drugs. they are trying anything. >> bill: governor, yeah. you are right about that. they've been creative in a lot of ways, too. a couple of things here before we go. let's roll this. boom, boom, boom. so we have a party crasher at a home in new jersey. deer trying to make a getaway after -- see it. making a getaway from the man's home.

went into the pool and couldn't get out. the young deer got into the house by jumping through a closed window. that had to hurt, right? hit the furniture inside. animal control was called. showed up and they led the babe back into the woods. there you have the happy ending from the garden state today. >> sandra: hopefully uninjured. >> bill: a couple things to look out for. as peter doocy reported joe biden will have his first campaign event. will go to philadelphia on saturday, june 17th. a lot of criticism that the campaign will use surrogates and celebrities. he will be out there. philadelphia is where he launched his 2020 campaign on a saturday also. i remember there was a garbage truck up the street. the advance team didn't get enough of a curtain or blocker behind it. >> sandra: i remember that well now. you brought it back for me.

>> bill: you can't forget it. he will be out there. coming up in about one hour joran van der sloot will be before a judge in birmingham. alabama. julie banderas is in for harris, "the faulkner focus" starts right now. happy friday, folks. we'll see you on monday. >> julie: we begin with a fox news alert. 18 years after the disappearance of 18-year-old natalee holloway prime suspect joran van der sloot is set to be arraigned on u.s. soil. the charges said to be extortion and wire fraud. natalee's family will come face-to-face with him in years. this is "the faulkner focus", i'm julie banderas in for harris faulkner. the dutch national was temporarily extradited to the u.s. from ru