connected to this. and we are not connecting it in any way, shape or form to what will happen at the federal courthouse tomorrow. >> sandra: following the direction of the officers and clearly what you see live on the screen right now. people are heading certain directions based on where the police are telling them to go. our coverage will continue. thanks for joining us. i'm sandra >> martha: breaking news on capitol hill. we'll stay on top of that. good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum. right now on "the story," donald trump will be back in court tomorrow to face his third indictment. this one surrounding january 6. it's a stunning sequence of events in the midst of a presidential election, a former president indicted three times while his lead continues to strengthen over the course of these indictments.

the "wall street journal" editorial board said this will be a campaign carnival that rotates between courtrooms, rallies around the prosecution of a former president that they write is able to convince most americans that this -- rather, the courts have been unable to convince most americans that these indictments are just brought. there's not broad acceptance of that across the board. the "wall street journal" saying unless you have that broad acceptance that that there was no other chance for these indictments, that could present a combination that could be difficult and dangerous months ahead. we're going to talk to the former vice president, mike pence, a crucial player in everything that has unfolded in many ways on the campaign trail and also back during the president presidency. jonathan turley says this case is free speech killing and john yoo who calls the charges a

stretch. let's go to david spunt live with the very latest on all of this and what to expect tomorrow at the just it's the department. david? >> a little more than 24 hours from now, martha, the former president will be inside a courtroom for his arraignment here in washington d.c., just feet from the u.s. capitol. you can see the capitol building when you walk out. he will be blocks from his former residence at the white house. that will happen tomorrow afternoon at 4:00 p.m. today he is taking the indictment news and running with it. thanking millions on truth social, his media platform saying thank you to everyone. i've never had so much support on anything. before the 45-page indictment saying that trump used election fraud to get officials to subvert legitimate results and change electoral votes. jack smith, the special counsel says trump organized fraudulent states of electors in seven states, arizona, georgia,

admonish, nevada, new mexico, pennsylvania and wisconsin and trump attempted to enlist the president to use his role at the january 6th certification proceeding to fraudulently alter election results. >> since the attack on our capitol, the department of justice has remained committed to ensuring accountability for those criminally responsible for what happened that day. this case has brought consistent with that commitment. our investigation of other individuals continues. >> trump's legal team making the indictment about free speech. >> it's an astounding document. the first time in american history, a former president is being prosecuted by a political opponent who wields the power of the criminal justice system for what he believed in and the policies and the political speech that he carried out as president. >> the indictment reads that

former president trump was entitled like any american to question his loss, to question the election results where jack smith says that trump broke the law is when he tried to subvert the outcome of the election and change votes. martha? >> martha: david, thank you. let's bring in jonathan turley, fox news contributor and constitutional attorney and john yoo, law professor at the university of california berkeley. great to have you with us. we're on the day in between here. yesterday we digested this indictment. tomorrow the former president will be indicted. jonathan turley, as you look at this, sort of 24 hours later, what really sinks in to you about the dots that have to be connected for potential jurors to prove a crime in this indictment? >> well, martha, the indictment will face some fairly strong constitutional head winds. as a threshold matter when it is

introduced in to court. there's serious first amendment concerns here. what is most striking about the indictment is the lack of any limiting principal in what the government is saying. it admits that false statements are protected, including in elections. the supreme court said that in a case called alvarez. they had a politician that knowingly lied and the court said they were protected statements. the department of justice acknowledges that you make false statements but trump can't because he was told that they were false. well, you know, he had a lot of people that were saying that these claims were false. i was among them. he didn't listen to those voices. he listened to a smaller number of lawyers that said that the election was stolen and he had these options to take. if you start to criminalize issues like that, you find yourself on a slippery slope where the department of justice can arrest politicians for not

accepting what we deem the evident truth. >> martha: we all remember back to the al gore situation, hillary clinton at one point. several points, actually, said that -- paraphrasing here, but that president trump knows that he's not a legitimate president, raising sort of similar issues. john yoo, one of the other questions that is raised here when you read through this is the proposal of an alternate slate of electors. you know, contacting people and having them be the electors rather than the electors that were chosen initially. is that part of this indictment potentially criminal activity in your opinion? >> we should realize this may be the most important criminal trial ever brought by the federal government in the history of the country to accuse a former president of trying to defraud the government, trying to obstruct congressional proceedings, trying to take away

the civil rights of the voters in the country. what is disappointing as a former department attorney is how shaky the grounds are that this prosecutor is using to make those claims. one of them is, as you pointed out, martha, the appoint meant of alternate slates of electors. some of these people did it because they thought that the actual electoral votes -- i agree, i didn't think there was fraud. but other people thought that they might be thrown out by courts. so they thought there was nothing wrong with appointing alternate slates of electors. they did it in good faith. they weren't trying to commit any kind of -- that's the real problem here. the special counsel is trying to bring charges for matters which people in good faith might have been taking -- taking advantage of what they thought were legitimate constitutional and political routes to challenge the election rather than engaged

in defrauding the government or stopping congress illegally from counting the electoral votes. >> martha: jonathan, very quickly. do you think this trial takes place before the election? >> no, i think the good money is on the may date for the florida trial. even that i think is questionable. they just put in a superseding indictment, added a party. i think the trump people can say this is now a didn't case. you should give us a different trial date. it's going to be tough. this guy's dance card is filling up fast. >> martha: thanks, gentlemen. great to have you. thank you. great to have you both. mike pence obviously a very central figure in the election case against president trump. he was referenced dozens of times in part because of detailed notes that he was taking while all of this was unfolding when he was vice president. he shared those notes with the investigation. the gop presidential candidate

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>> martha: current gop presidential candidate and former vice president mike sense says the latest indictment of former president trump by special counsel jack smith that reminds us anyone that puts himself over the constitution should never be president of the united states. the indictment mentions the former vice president or his office more than 100 times in its 45 pages and quotes from notes that he took about conversations with the former president, donald trump. the one-time allies are now facing off in the 2024 presidential race and the former

vice president mike pence joins us now from his home state of indiana where he's fresh off of a speech. mr. vice president, good to have you with us today. thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me on, martha. >> martha: obviously when we have spoken in recent weeks, it's about the issues of the campaign. obviously this is a big story yesterday and you have been obviously involved in it. yesterday you said that you'd have more to say about the indictment when you had a chance to review it. what do you say about it today now that you've had that opportunity, sir? >> well, martha, let me say january 20th, 2017, i took an oath to support and defend the constitution. a promise i made to the american people and also ended with a prayer, so help me god. all four years all the way up to january 6, i kept my promise that i made to almighty god and to the american people. i think yesterday's indictment

is -- will stand either on its own merits or it will fall. i can't speak to the legal arguments behind it. the american people deserve to know that on that day president asked me to choose between him and the constitution. i choose the constitution. i always will. i want the american people to know as i stand for the republican nomination for president of the united states that i'll keep faith with the constitution. i do believe that while there's been weaponization at the justice department and we lived through it through the trump-pence years, that at the end of the day, history will hold donald trump accountable for his reckless words and actions on that day. i'll always stand by the truth of that. make sure the american people know why i did what i did, martha. i had no right to overturn the election. despite the fact that president trump has continued to insist

that over the last 2 1/2 years, i want people to know that i stood strong on the constitution that day by god's grace and i always will. >> martha: you may have heard his attorneys last night saying that this is a free speech discussion. that's all it was. all they asked you to do was to just take a pause that day. john eastman e-mailed your legal counsel stating i implore you to consider one more relatively minor violation of the electoral count act and adjourn for ten days to allow a full forensic audit of the massive amount of illegal activity that has occurred here. they said all you needed to do was take a pause. what do you say to that? >> i say that is completely false and contrary to american history, to our constitution and to the laws of this country. i never considered it, martha. the first time i heard

speculation that as vice president that i had authority to overturn the election by rejecting votes, i frankly dismissed it out of hand. the founders of this country had just won a war of independence against a king. i was confident as a student of american history that those founders would have never vested the vice president or anyone else with unilateral authority to decide what electoral college votes to count and which not to count. i was clear on that -- i was clear with president trump throughout all the way up to the morning of january 6. let's be clear on this point. it wasn't that they asked for a pause. the president specifically asked me in his gaggle of crack pot lawyers asked me to literally reject votes, which would have resulted in the issue of being turned over to the house of representatives and literally chaos would have ensued. so martha, people can read the indictment.

frankly, i've said before, i hope that it not come to this point. i don't know if the government can meet the burden of proof beyond reasonable doubt for criminal charges. but the american people deserve to know that president trump and his advisers didn't just ask me to pause. they asked me to reject votes, return votes. essentially overturn the election. i rejected that out of hand and i did my duty that day. >> martha: you say the criminal process is separate. put yourself on that jury for just a moment. if you were on the jury, would you say that this defendant, the former president had committed a crime that day? do you believe it rises to the level of a crime? >> you know, martha, i don't know. honestly, i don't know the full case that the government has. you know, i've said on your

network many times that, you know, i don't know if taking bad advice from lawyers is a crime. you know, i would leave that legal process. frankly, the profound issues about the first amendment to the courts to sort that out. i think it's important that the american people know what happened in the days before january 6. president trump demanded that i use my authority as vice president presiding over the electoral college to essentially overturn the election by returning or literally rejecting votes. i had no authority to do that. frankly, martha, it seems that some of the argument i hear coming from his lawyers is something of a concession that he may have gotten bad advice. that he was just taking advice from his attorneys. you know, i know i did the right thing that day. i'll always stand by it. it was a tragic day. again, by god's grace, with my

family at my side, with my key advisers at our side and with the courageous work of law enforcement, we quelled the violence, reconvened the congress and completed our work. the only job the constitution gives the vice president of the united states in that role is to preside over a joint session of congress where the electoral college votes that are certified by the states are opened and counted. the constitution, martha, says that they shall be opened and they shall be counted. the electoral couldn't act adopted more than 150 years ago also specifies the amount of time and the procedure. i was going to make sure that we heard any objections and we heard any evidence that people wanted to bring forward. but the idea that i as vice president had the unilateral authority to overturn the election had no basis in the constitution, no basis in history. i want the american people to know that.

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>> martha: back now with more of my interview a short time ago

with former vice president, mike pence. watch. you know, sir, i wonder what you think about this number. because it looks like most of the republican voters are not in that camp. it says 71% believe that republicans need to stand behind trump. this is the most recent brand new "new york times" poll. only 22% of republicans say they don't need to stand behind trump. what do you make of those numbers? >> well, i think that's a reflection of the disastrous presidency of joe biden. look, joe biden is weakened this country home and abroad. i just gave a speech here. biden is saying that bidenomics is working. inflation has gone up 16.6%. eggs cost more than 50% more than the day we left office. i totally understand how people when asked in a generic question who should we stand behind, they

go back to the familiar because they know the trump pence years it was better. everywhere i go, we were in iowa over the weekend. we're going to be back in new hampshire this week. i hear people telling me that we need new leadership in the republican party. frankly, also, in the wake of yesterday's indictment and frankly the indictment that may come out of georgia and all the other legal issues around the president. what yesterday guaranteed that if that donald trump is our nominee, all we're going to do is talk about january 6. the american people, like i did here at the indiana state fair, want to talk about the problems they're facing and bringing solutions to restoring security and prosperity to american families and all of the american people. >> martha: so in the most recent polls, the same poll, donald trump is at 54%. ron desantis is at 17. you're at 3% in that poll. the others on this list have qualified for the debate stage on august 23.

at least check, you have qualified -- you check the box for the polling and i believe also for the 200 votes in 20 states. on july 7, you said in terms of the 40,000 individual donors, you were in the five different range trying to make that mark. where are you now? >> well, we're closing hard. people can go to mikepence2024.com if they appreciate our career, our record and vision for this country. donate a dollar to help us get on the debate stage. i have been very humbled at the outpouring of support. i think, you know, nikki haley and vivek had 21 weeks to get it done. it took tim scott 15 weeks. we're at about 10 weeks when i announced. we're working hard at it. i'm not giving out gift cards or kickbacks. >> martha: as some are. >> they're going to the website

and helping us. >> martha: obviously, you would have been running on the trump pence ticket again if things were different. when you look at the numbers and the polling, are you surprised there is not more support for your candidacy, sir? >> it's still early. when mike huckabee won iowa, he was about where i am in the polls today. when rick santorum won iowa, he was at the same spot. people of new hampshire know how to sort these things out. they generally decide late. so karen and i will be travelling across the states and talking to people. look, i said yesterday and i'll say again, this country is more important than any one man. our constitution is more important than any one man's career. the vast majority of republicans know that. they know we need new leadership and we'll work our hearts out to be a standard bearer and do everything in our power to make

sure that joe biden is never re-elected president of the united states. >> martha: real quick, two quick ones for you. so you say you're getting close. we're just a few weeks away. when do you think you'll get the 40,000 mark to get on the stage? >> i think it's the next week to ten days that we'll have that support. we've been averaging 1,000 contributions a day. it was stronger over the weekend. again, i'm humbled by the outpouring of support. we're not using gimmicks. we're putting our record out there. not just the record as a vice president, but also as a governor here in indiana where we balance budgets, taxes, we had record unemployment before i left to go to the white house. when you and i first met, i was a leader among house conservatives for 12 years and battled against the big spenders in our own party back in the day. people look at my record and see

me as a proven conservative with a long career of consistent conservative principle and they know that voice not only belongs on that debate stage but millions of americans know we're the one that needs to be carrying the banner in to the fall of 2024. >> martha: you hope your former running mate, donald trump, is on that stage and would you welcome the opportunity to challenge him on that stage? >> you better believe it i would. people ask me, would you debate donald trump? i've debated him a thousand times. just not with the cameras on. it's not all about january 6. i'm going to make my case as strongly as i have every day since. i know i did my duty that day. i'm going to call the president out on the fact that he called upon me to choose him over my oath to the constitution. i chose the constitution. i'll also -- there's an increasing difference between this version of president trump

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>> martha: bret baier is here with us today. anchor of "special report." the third indictment came down on former president trump. i asked him about this very strong line of argument that the trump attorneys have been putting forward, that all they asked the president for was just a pause in the process. he had a pretty fierce answer to that. let's watch that. >> let's be clear on this point. it wasn't just that they asked for a pause. the president specifically asked me and his gaggle of crackpot lawyers asked me to literally reject votes, which would have resulted in the issue being turned over to the house of representatives and chaos would have ensued. martha, people can read the indictment. >> martha: your thoughts on where he is now as the former vice president and as a presidential candidate.

>> good afternoon. i think this tracks with his first response to the indictment that he tweeted out no person should be above the constitution. if they try to be, they should never be the president. i think he's using this and sticking to it. the fact that he used the term crockpot lawyers is pretty telling. i think the vice president is making a stand, but it's a different stand than some of the others in the gop primary. you saw some of the responses that are trying to walk this line saying hey, we agree that the former president is getting a raw deal and the doj is weaponizing and there's two tiers of justice. i would be better and less chaos. it's a different take. the vice president is taking it straight on. >> martha: it's kind of stunning when you look at this number from "the new york times" sienna poll. 71% of likely gop primary voters say republicans should stand behind trump amid the investigations.

we're seeing that bear out. he's standing by what he has always said, bret. he's at 3%. the former president is 37 points ahead of his nearest competitor. >> we have seen this every indictment. the poll numbers go up. we've seen his fund-raising go up. in the hours after he found out and tweeted out or truth socialed out that he was getting indicted, there was a fund-raising appeal and he raised money. he's been indicted three times. two times federally and one time in manhattan. there's 78 counts against the 45th president of the united states and his political standing in the gop primary is only going up. i should point out in the past few minutes, he's going after ron desantis and said like mike pence, who i took from a flawed and failing gubernatorial re-elect campaign in the great state of indiana to make my v.p., ron is a very disloyal guy

who has taken bad advice, referring to ed rollin's comments about ron desantis. >> martha: you heard the vice president say he's going to make the debate stage. has to be difficult to be the former vice president and to be in a position where you don't have the number of donors that you need. he said i haven't had as much time. he said he's getting 1,000 donor as day. ten days from now, he would be at 40,000 and put him around 30,000 right now. he also interestingly made it clear, if he's on the stage, he will go hard on the issue of ukraine. he accused president trump and ron desantis of shying away from america's leadership position of ukraine and essentially russian appeasement, bret. >> yeah, i think that that is one of the areas. it's chris christie is like him. he will take a similar take and so will nikki haley, i think.

but this is the difference between the former vice president and vice president. i asked governor desantis about his initial take on ukraine. the two words were territorial dispute that desantis jumped on. vice president pence, governor haley and christie have taken that directly on and believe that they should continue to support ukraine against russia, a weak russia is a stronger u.s. but there's definitely a split in the republican party, as you know, on capitol hill and really throughout this gop primary. >> martha: it will be no doubt a big issue for voters as we head in to the election. a new response to the most recent comments by the vice president coming from the former president on truth social. he said i feel badly for mike pence who is attracting no crowds. he didn't fight against election fraud, which we will easily be

able to prove based on the most recent fakes indictment and information that will have to be made available to us. finally a big deal. the v.p. had power that mike didn't understand. after the election, the rinos and dems changed the law taking the power away. bret? >> if anybody thinks that truth social doesn't get out there, it gets out there right away. this evidence is of that. >> martha: thanks, bret. see you at 6:00. we'll see him august 23 as we get together to host the gop republican debate. we look forward to that very big night in milwaukee. an update for you now on the situation on capitol hill after a possible security threat. chad pergram reporting live from capitol hill. hi, chad. what can you tell us? >> good afternoon, martha. this was a little scary scene where there was a call that came in to the washington d.c. police that they alerted the u.s. capitol police.

what happened there after is they evacuated the russell senate office building. this is the oldest senate office building. it's across the street from the u.s. capitol. this is where committees have their offices and where senators have their offices as well. you can walk in to any offices, you clear security. you go through a metal detector but you tonight have to have an appointment or be on a tour. you can go meet with someone or have a cup of coffee or walk around. you don't need a special pass. i'm told they dumped the building quickly. they came running down the hall with guns saying "everybody get out." there was concern of an active shooter. they never saw a weapon, they never heard any shots. so they got the russell senate office building evacuated. connected underground is the dirksen senate office building. they're trying to clear the buildings. they don't think there's a security threat at the capitol right now. >> martha: chad, thank you very

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. >> martha: not a great day for the dow. it's down about 339 points. shy of 1% today after the second u.s. credit rating down grade in the nation's history. both times the agency partly blamed standoffs over the rising debt limit -- over raising the debt limit.

more than a decade ago, it was standard & poor's. today it's fitch. janet yellen calling the move flawed and unwarranted. >> the president signed debt limit legislation that included over a trillion dollars in deficit reduction. the american economy is fundamentally strong. >> martha: okay. brian brenberg here with us. has a great show on fox business. great to see you. >> great to see you. >> martha: she says it's a completely flawed move. jamie dimon said he thought it was ridiculous. what is your take? >> were these guys in america in may when we had a debt ceiling standoff? we don't know how to do budgets in this country. we haven't for a very long time. if i'm fitch, i am thinking what took you so long. we have too much debt and nobody

can figure out how to fix it. what is most telling, fitch down grades us today. what does the administration say? it's trump's fault. you want to know why fitch down graded us? because we have an administration that says that instead of saying maybe we'll get our act together. >> martha: let's look at that statement. the white house blaming the gop for this fitch decision. more than two years in to the biden presidency. it's clear that extremism by republicans is a continued threat to our economy. parse that for us. >> what fitch said is that we're down grading the u.s. because of deteriorating governance. that means the people that lead can't get together and take responsible action. they make that determination in part based on statements like that, which always seek to blame

somebody else instead of taking control for what is happening. the biden administration fundamentally does not want to cut spending. so any action taken by anybody in this country to say hey, let's cut spending that is a threat to democracy. no, it's not. it's living within your budget. like what every family in america does. i think fitch is warranted in doing this. i don't like it but i don't blame them. >> martha: what country does a better job? >> there's six or seven countries that have a lower debt to gdp rating. we can grow out of these problems though. but we have an administration that doesn't want to grow. they want to take your money and spend. eventually people like fitch or s&p says if that is your model, you're not the gold standard. >> martha: the fact that when someone says this is messed up, you need to cut spending. how can you possibly say that

about us? quick thought here with you. this is chat gpt and workers that say, you know what? i can use a.i. and turn it on and i can leave my job early. here's roberto, someone that we need to strive to be like. he said i'm remote. they can't tell when i'm working or not. i can chat gpt my way to solving something and take the rest of the day off and they won't know. great work ethic, roberto. >> roberto, you're living on borrowed time. if your using chat gpt for work, you better think about what next work you're going to do. it's going to come to light and very quickly. >> martha: also, your job might just decide that they don't need roberto. maybe they just need the chat

gbt. >> if chat gpt does that, they may not need you. don't brag, roberto. >> martha: get your work ethic together. make it happen. you can do it. thanks, brian. good to see you. days after president zelensky warned of war coming to russia, ukrainian drones have targeted moscow again.

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>> the war is returning to the territory of russia. to its symbolic military bases. this is inevitable, natural and fair process. >> martha: trey yingst reporting lives from jerusalem. hi, trey. >> as russia's ground invasion grinds on against ukraine in the east and south of the country, an aerial battle is unfolding at a faster pace. after months of taking russian bom bombardment, the ukraines are striking back. over the weekend, ukraine drone targeted moscow. two nights against, more drones followed a similar path and were engaged by russian air defense, a high rise in moscow was hit twice no serious injuries were reported. ukrainian drones have been targeted by russian positions in the crimeian peninsula.

russians launched drones in to southern ukraine hitting an alternate port for grain. this is a critical thoroughfare with the russians blocking experts in the black sea. today vladimir putin and the turkish president spoke over the phone. turkey brokered the initial deal to export grain. and russian is willing to strike close to nato territory. martha? >> martha: thanks, trey.on a new inset of untold story podcast, we sit down with jonathan morris. we talked about a trip that we took to the holy land recently

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tomorrow expects to be a big day as well. we look forward to seeing you here at 3:00 p.m. tomorrow. have a great evening. stay tuned to more on fox news. "your world" starts right now. >> neil: all right. things are going to look a lot different outside that building on the left tomorrow. looking live in washington d.c. where donald trump will be appearing at this very time tomorrow. then there's the transcript issue from devin archer that could be released also any day. wouldn't it be something if it's tomorrow? house of the effort to expose bide den family corruption but falling to attention with other big developments. we thought we would cover both. is i