Former president , his staff, and his lawyers alleged attempts to change the results of the 2020 election here in the state of georgia. The Fulton CountyDistrict Attorney announced her plans to try all 19 defendants including former President Trump together. Among the other defendants are trumps former white house chief of staff, mark meadows and his attorneys, R Rudy Giuliani and john eastman. Reporter many occurred many occurred in georgia. Some occurred in other jurisdictions and are included because the grand jury believes they were part of the illegal effort to overturn the results of georgias 2020 president ial election. Reporter before the indictment came down yesterday, the clerk of Courts Office said a fake document was posted online with charges that ended up matching the real indictment. Da willis said she doesnt know anything about that but on truth social, former President Trump says its proof the case is rigged against him. He also attacked willis, saying the witch hunt continues, 19 people indicted including the former president of the United States, me, by an outofcontrol and very corrupt District Attorney who campaigned and raised money on i will get trump. As far as next steps, all of the defendants have until august 25th, so a week from this friday, to turn themselves in. The District Attorney has indicated she wants the trial to start within six months from yesterday and we should also add, cheryl, one thing that might look different in this case from previous cases is that the sheriff here in Fulton County has said that former President Trump wont be treated differently from anybody else who is booked. In other words, there could be a mug shot taken as far as we know, there will be one taken here in Fulton County which was not the case in the previous three indictments. Cheryl. Cheryl thats very interesting. Grady trimble, thank you for that live report. We appreciate it. Cheryl now for the hot topic of the hour, an fbi agent testifying before the House OversightCommittee Last month saying that the Biden Transition Team and the secret service were tipped off by the fbi about a looming interview with first son hunter biden, this happening in december of 2020 and resulted in the interview being scrapped. Fox news digital reviewing the transcript which corroborates the irs whistleblowers testimony that attorney david weiss prosecutorial decisions were largely based on politics, todd. What do you make of the special treatment that we know hunter biden received . It kind of goes beyond that now. This is obviously example 9 million of the two tiered system of justice that exists in our country right now. It can not be that way. You cannot have faith in the law, you cannot have faith in the system if that is the case but going forward, to your question, cheryl, we need to make sure that from this point forward republicans and democrats should come together to make sure that the process is clean from here on out. I find it unlikely based upon some of the statements were hearing from some of the people out there on the democratic side, your dan goldmans and the like that that is going to be the case and that is concerning, because all lawyers, all americans should want the system to be fair and impartial going forward. Cheryl jessica, im curious if these new revelations are going to be part of the new special counsel investigation. I dont think so. I mean, but t the cynic in me s, that he will continue to get special treatment from david weiss, that cut the sweetheart deal for him. Theres a huge problem with trust in our institutions right now. You cant afford to be appointing people who have not a spotless background with the situation, you cant afford to have things be posted hours before theyre supposed to go up. All these little missteps, just the appearance of problems is enough and then were no better than where we started. The point of this is transparency. Let the daylight in, be figure out what really happened and if everyone can discount those findings because people are making these mistakes and theres concerns about bias and special treatment, then whats the point of it . We really need to get to a place where people can trust these institutions again. It has to get cleaned up. To jessicas point, talking about david weiss, Andy Mccarthy said it best. David weiss is not the special counsel because a special counsel is somebody who would be completely divorced from these proceedings. David weiss is these proceedings, so far. He is at the center of all the questionable decisions. And i know you have people saying well, no, he was a trump appointee. This couldnt happen. Lets face it, there were a number of trump appointees who were just part of the we need to check boxes, we need to appoint a bunch of das and ags and you. S. Attorneys. Biden retained david weiss. Theres a reason for that. This is not situation where you can really trust i think what hes going to do and that he really is a special counsel because hes not really the definition of a special counsel. Cheryl Merrick Garland was the one that gave him the appointment. It was reported, not confirmed, that david weiss wanted to be a special counsel, wanted the appointment. Merrick garland said no. That tells me Merrick Garland was trying to bury this, trying to suppress the hunter biden story and the whistleblowers, theyre being vindicated now, the ones that actually were brave enough to go in front of congress and say i saw a lot of things and the way the irs was investigating hunter biden on the tax side in particular, those were felony tax charges. Gets out of them. Youre the attorney. You tell me. To your point, you wonder if Merrick Garland was playing a chess game, looking so many steps in advance, saying if republicans one data control of congress and i have david weiss in this position, prior to making him a special counsel, its going to gum up the works with him being a witness in congress which is ultimately what were seeing play out. Cheryl also jessica, whats interesting, the washington popos heditorial board is sayinghunl treatment from prosecutors. The paper telling details peculiar, throwing joe biden under the bus, saying his behavior was not spotless either, not criminal, but not spotless. You know its serious that even the Washington Post is admitting its a little fishy here. I think theyre on the right track. It has to be better, cleaner, more objective than ever right now, if you want to really change minds and convince people of what happened, you cant be sloppy like this. There cant be special treatment. There cant be all this sus suspicion. Its not going to work. American people need to believe theres not a two tiered system of justice and things are being investigated fairly and if we dont get to that point, nothing gets accomplished here. Cheryl what really got me was the fact that when the judge saw the basically it was immunity in perpetuity, she went no. She just flat out said what kind of deal is this . Im glad that she called out weiss. Because this isnt monopol. 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Joining me now is horizon investsments chief investment officer, scott lad ladner and cs markowski. Scott, lets start with you this morning. Taking a look at futures, not a good kickoff to our tuesday morning, dow is down 222 points, s p 500 and nasdaq both closing higher yesterday because of this rebound of chip stocks and Technology Companies and the interesting part here was nvidia. The stock jumped about 7 , theres the close. Morgan stanleys latest Analyst Report says the chip company is a top pick in a. I. Nvidia up this morning in the premarket again, up more than 1 andahalf percent and the wall street journal writes that u. S. Employers are upping their salaries and taking candidates that have a. I. Skills. So scott, theres been a lot of discussion about nvidia, in particular the stock was the runup, the valuation, everything was too high, out of control. It doesnt look like that if you read the note from morgan stanley. Yeah, cheryl, thanks for having me on this morning. Look, this a. I. Boom that were seeing right now is fundamentally important to the economy and fundamentally important to the stock market in a way that we dont think weve seen since really the internet boom of mid and late 90s. When you think about the implication of that from an investing standpoint theres not a whole lot of market cap you can directly invest in that would give you exposure to this a. I. Theme, nvidia is the leader in the clubhouse for that. They make the types of chips that power this type of technology. There will be other players that come into the market in the coming years but there is a narrowing funnel effect when you think about investing in the first order standpoint in the a. I. Theme. Cheryl we also have a big week of retail earnings this week to go through. Home depot reporting a double beat this morning, beat on earnings, beat on revenue. Same store sales for the Home Improvement company did fall 2 in the second quarter. Lower than expected. I want to be clearings we thought we were going to get a fall. We did. What was interesting, they announced a 15 billion Share Buyback plan and theres home depot in the premarket, stock actually jumped more than 1 when the earnings crossed. Now its come back. Were also going to get july retail sales at 8 30. So here are the expectations, chris. Month over month and exautos, 0. 4 jump. Well get housing data this week, we get the fed minutes tomorrow. Theres a lot of consumer data that were watching. Plus its august. Weve got the jackson hole meeting coming up. We know they can throw a Monkey Wrench into anything. You bring up nvidia and home depot. If you take these together, its a great example of proper portfolio management. Nvidia has done well. Weve owned nvidia for years and years. If youre taking profits on a company thats doing well and rotate it into Something Like a home depot, that has underperformed the s p this year, been up about 4 , even though it pays a 2 andahalf percent dividend, thats what you want to do. You want to take a look at some of the companies that havent done as well. You dont disregard your entire above significance in tech. You just take some money off the table. Cheryl scott, that seems to be what you were mentioning at the top of the segment as well. Theres a lot of opportunities in technology, whether its p chips, whether its a. I. To be clear, a. I. Is going into all different sectors. There are a. I. Plays you can have in healthcare. There are a. I. Plays in the consumer discretion fairly place, on and on discreation discretionary place, on and on. The first order is to play into the a. I. Theme, theres not a whole lot of ways to invest in that. Youve got nvidia, a couple other chip makers, you can look at google, things like that. Its the second order plays, what companies will be instituting a. I. Practices in the best way to leap frog productivity forward. Those are companies, the Second Generation look at a. I. Investing is really what we think is going to drive sort of this next wave, this next leg up in equity markets over the coming years and identifying those companies which are really using a. I. To its fullest potential versus those that are using it as a tag line is going to be a really important investing theme for the coming years and something thats pretty under appreciated right now. Cheryl is there anything that keeps up at night. I guess jackson hole. You never know what the fed is going to say. Youve got a slow month in august, how the algorithms will take that type of information but i think moving forward i think youre going to continue to see rotations into assets, taking some profits off the table and we may see a flat line by the end of the year but its a good time tore people to build a base in their portfolio. Cheryl all right, scott, chris, gentlemen, thank you so much. Great to see you both here. And weve got a lot more coming up this morning. Hillary clinton speaks out on former President Trumps fourth indictment last night. New jersey congressman Jeff Van Drew is here to react to everything that she had to say. Hes coming up next. What if buildings could tell you how they could be more efficient . Im listening. Well, with ibm, you can use software to help you connect and analyze data from hvacs to elevators to lights. What if we use aidriven insights to pinpoint inefficiency . Yep. And act on it. Saving energy, money. And emissions. Yup. Thats a big one. 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Your initial reaction to the fourth indictment against the former president of the United States . This is a sad day for america. All these indictments have been sad, not because the president has done anything wrong. He hasnt. He believes what he said and he told he said what he believed. Whats sad about all this is the fact that literally the Biden Administration, their minions, people that work with them and the people that are involved with the supposed Justice System have been weaponized, politicized, and are corrupt. I hate to say it this way but they are bad people and if were not careful, were going to destroy our country. Cheryl todd piro is on set with me this morning, go ahead. Have you and your colleagues in congress on the republican side figured out a way to bring individuals like new york da alvin bragg and the Fulton County attorney there, fannie willis, have you figured out a way to bring them before congress to ask them if what theyre doing is legit. Let me say this. I think this is important. I think we need an impeachment inquiry. Its not impeachment yet but its the inquiry. It gives you more significant powers to go forth with subpoenas, more significant invesinvestigation powers. I spoke with the speaker yesterday. There are other fo puss pushingt too. This is not a time for republicans to be weak and bob wobbly and stupid. Its a time to be bold, make sure were doing the right thing. We are fighting for the republic. Im serious. I dont know if people know the seriousness of that. We depend on an impartial sis tome. What has been system. What has been done with the special counsel, whats been done there is make sure that its going to be harder for us to investigate. The special counsels going to do nothing. The special counsel is the person, weiss is the person who helped to broker the deal with the attorney general and others at the department of justice where hunter biden who committed serious crimes would be completely exonerated and any future crimes that were found be kept completely immune from that as well and you take that same person and you say t that after theyve had this for five years, the same group of people, you know what we know, we know that the people who were doing the investigations need to be investigated themselves. So were going to do everything we possibly can. We are going to push to have to subpoena these folks because these are bad people that need to tell the truth and weve got to continue to push hard in judiciary but this makes it more difficult. Thats why we need impeachment inquiry. Cheryl were talking about the case against hunter biden, special counsel david weiss who has been appointed which many are saying a lot of the facts have been buried. He got the sweetheart deal, et cetera. Again, i want to mention had that your colleague, republican colleague from florida, greg steube, he has filed articles of impeachment against President Biden. Do you agree with greg steube . Kevin mccarthy has towed the line a little better and said lets do an inquiry. Youre saying inquiry. Your reaction of greg steube saying lets file the articles now, which hes done. Well, look, i respect him a great deal. Hes a good man and says what he believes. I think what hes done is good because it brings it all to life. It really makes sure that the American Public realize how serious the crimes are that President Biden, then Vice President biden when he did them and his son were involved in it. Now, wh where i would be a litte different than greg is i think he would be happy with this. Is we go forward with the impeachment inquiry first, get an even tighter, better case. Its all there. Its all there. But we have to get cross every t, dot every i. Thats what the inquiry does, gives us more stuff and then we move on. Cheryl take your time, gather the evidence, et cetera. Correct. Cheryl i want to by t vote back to the charge pivot back to the charges against former President Trump. Hillary clinton weighed in on the charges against trump last night. I want you to watch this and get your reaction. This is a terrible moment for our country to have a former president accused of these terribly important crimes. The only satisfaction may be that the system is working, that all of the efforts by donald trump, his allies and his enablers to try to silence the truth, to try to undermine democracy have been brought into the light and justice is being pursued. Cheryl congressman . Shes one of the corrupt bad people who are destroying our republic. How dare she say that after she destroyed over 30,000 emails that she had with some Important Information on them. How dare she say that when she called literally half of the American Population deplorables. How dare she say that when shes involved in so much corruption and so much which is wrong in our country right now. That disgusts me, what she said. Cheryl this former President Trump, this fourth indictment actually happening days after attorney general Merrick Garland appointed the special counsel for the hunter biden investigation that you were speaking of just a couple seconds ago. Foxs Jacqui Heinrich asked White House Press secretary Karine Jeanpierre if the administration will interfere with the special counsels probe. I want you to watch this as well, sir. How can the white house assure people that the case involving the president s son is being handled fairly. The department of justice the is independent. That is what the president believes. He believes that this white house will not plight size the department of just politicize the department of justice. This was done under the leadership of a trump appointed u. S. Attorney as you know. Im not going to add anything else to that. Cheryl congressman, what did you think of her response to that yesterday . Its absurd. I mean, the department of justice has been protecting the biden family and the bidens for years and we know that. They wouldnt bring forward i mean, literally every level of government, whether its the leadership in the irs, the department of justice, the fbi, all of them have been working in tandem to protect this president and to hide the truth. I mean, ill tell you a real quick story. Obviously, in the district a lady came forward, one of my constituents thanked me for what i was doing which was nice. Then she looked me in the high and this is how Many Americans feel, she said im sad to say but i dont trust our leadership in america right now and i looked at her and i said i dont either. Thats where were at. We need to clean house. We need to bring our country back. Cheryl congressman Jeff Van Drew, its always good to speak with you. Thank you. Always good to be on, take care. Cheryl take care. Weve got a lot more coming up this morning. China throws its support towards russia and belarus this week, despite the wests objections. Former National Security advisor for dick cheney, steve yates will be joining us to weigh in. Hell be up next. man what if my type 2 diabetes takes over . woman what if all i do isnt enough . Or what if i can do diabetes differently . avo now you can with onceweekly mounjaro. Mounjaro helps your body regulate blood sugar, and mounjaro can help decrease how much food you eat. 3 out of 4 people reached an a1c of less than 7 . Plus people taking mounjaro lost up to 25 pounds. Mounjaro is not for people with type 1 diabetes or children. Dont take mounjaro, if youre allergic to it, you or your family have medullary thyroid cancer, or multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2. 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Blind sided, former nfl player michael orr, an inspiration behind the film the blind side filing a petition that he was never legally adopted by the touhi family, the document States Michael was faultily advised that because he was over the age of 18 the legal action to adopt michael would have to be called a conservatorship but it was for all intents and purposes an adoption. The biological son responded to orrs claims in an interview with bar stool sports. Watch this. Its hard to believe, i went back and looked, i was curious, i looked at our family group texts to see what things had been said and in 2020, 2021, they were like if you guys give me this much, i wont go public. I dont know if thats true. Cheryl he also claimed he did not financially benefit from the movie the blind side but that the family did. But the family said they made little from the movie. Well, ubs and many u. S. Based affiliates will be forking over 1. 4 billion settlement over misrelated to the banks sale of Mortgage Backed securities, dating back to the Global Financial crisis, the final case brought by federal prosecutors over misconduct by the big banks at the time. The Justice Department claims that banks knew the mortgages underneath the securities were problematic or noncompliant but sold them anyway. Justice department reached settlements with 18 other financial inches tuesdays. Ubs, the stock is down fractionally in the premarket. Elon musk threatening now were already laughing at this, this story. Elon musk is threatening to show up at Mark Zuckerbergs doorstep to fight but the facebook founder wasnt home. [laughter] cheryl oh, darn. A spokesperson for zuckerberg said mark is traveling right now and is in palo alto. Also, mark takes the sport seriously and hes not going to fight somebody who randomly shows up at his house. The statement comes after the meta she suggested musk wasnt serious about the cage match, telling him to, quote, move on. I dont even can we just talk about this for two seconds. Were you one of the ones that was skeptical that this would go down. Cheryl kudos to you. Cheryl its ridiculous. Mark zuckerberg, to be clear, hes very into this. I dont think elon musk is in shape. Hes like i need an mri and i need surgery and i dont feel well. I dont know. Elon musk is messing with him and im here for it. I love this story. Im sorry mark cant come out and play. Hes not home right now. I think its great. I enjoy the worlds richest men being silly like this. I think its a story everyone can get behind. Cheryl do we really want to see two middle aged white guys fight. A little bit i do. These two. Cheryl todd. Youre a fan of the nfc east, isnt this like going to an eagles game. Its the same thing, only a lot less money. Cheryl nfl guys are younger. Im not talking about on the field. Im talking about in the stands. Cheryl oh, those fights. Oh, okay. Not the on the field fights. Right. Cheryl i got ya. Notice how i extricated my giants from this. Cheryl you had to bring up the cowboys. Moving on. Chinas defense minister is in russia today attending the moscow conference on interNational Security. During the trip he will meet with Russian DefenseDepartment Leaders and will travel to belarus later in the week. Belarus is a close ally to russia. This lets moscow use some of its territory and that happened last year to stage their invasion of ukraine. I want to bring in afpi senior fellow, d. C. International advisory ceo and former deputy National Security advisor for dick cheney, steve yates. Good morning to you. Your reaction to this move. I mean, look, we are now at over a year andahalf point or at a year andahalf point exactly of this Russia Ukraine war. No end in sight and now youve got this news. Well, i think theres two trends there that are sad. One is that a whole host of china experts were saying for a long time that of course it would not be in beijings interest to encourage moscow with this invasion and attempt to occupy ukraine, that nato resilience would be an embarrassment and they wouldnt want to have to be any part of a losing effort. That doesnt look so good at this point. The other part is the administration a lot of its allies saying it would be a red line for china to do anything overt that supported russias military machine in what appears to be increasingly a war of attrition in ukraine. You have the democratically elected Vice President of taiwan coming to the us, youve got the defense minister of china bolstering the war of attrition on rush slays side. Cheryl ive russias side. Cheryl ive been on the mindset that china did not want to get too close to russia because of the economic ties between the United States and china. Maybe that story has changed because now youve got the Biden Administration and this is really bipartisan taking a firmer stance on china economically anyway. Well leave blinkens visit off the table in that conversation because thats a whole other story. But china seems to be more emboldened now. Explain that. Well, theres longstanding theory that seems to hold up in this case of when youre dealing with a communist party and the c of the ccp is communist, not just china, they when they feel theyre on a soft target and its moving they keep pushing. So when they sit down with our top diplomatic representatives in alaska at the beginning of the Biden Administration and they bark mean words at them and they meet with nearly no resistance well the wolf warriors keep being wolf warriors and pushing. When they increase the exercises around taiwan and japanese air space and they meet with minimal resistance, they keep doing it. I think when you look at xi jinping, hes got significant problems at home. Waving the flag of nationalism and tackling uncle sam a bit on the International Stage plays well for him in his calculus and as long as he meets with no real penalty or resistance, hell keep doing it. Cheryl we got the news out of china, the central bank cutting rates by the biggest that biggest move they made since 2020. Theyre trying to boost the struggling economy and beijing announced plans to suspend their youth unemployment data which has recently hit record highs. Steve, whats going on with the chinese economy . As you know, we get statements, we get data, get a lot of times their gdp at 6 , et cetera. A lot of people dont buy, dont believe the data that the chinese give us. Well, we cant. And unfortunately this is a government that is not transparent and accountable, doesnt follow generally accepted accounting principles and all that but what we do see is theres some pretty big, strong trends that are not going in the right direction for china. Theres a property bubble not just anecdotal, happening in several parts of china. The d demographic changes are significant with the youth population wanting to live a higher standard of living than the older generation did and yet as the statistics showed before they made it illegal to say them Youth Employment is skyrocketing right now. This is not a healthy economy. Its not just the United States talking about de decoupling or onshoring, china is also decoupling from the United States. This is a tough mix for the communist government to preside over. Their answer is to censor the truth. Cheryl lets move to taiwan, you mentioned the visit that happened in new york by the taiwan leader but gop president ial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy says that he would defend taiwan from a potential invasion from china until the u. S. Gained semiconductor independence. He was speaking on the show yesterday. This is the quote. Were going to go full length to make sure xi does not mess with taiwan. The commitment is only as far as 2028 by which point i will have led the u. S. Of america to achieve semiconductor independence. We will not take the risk of war that risks american lives after that for some nationalistic dispute between china and taiwan. What is your reaction to these comments from him . Well, i agree with the general notion that the United States should be more independent in a lot of key areas on which our livelihoods are required. So whether its energy independence, f Food Security ad independence, semiconductors are important for our allegedly smart way of live. I support the idea of rejuvenating america. I think its a bit of a mistake to put any timeline out in front of beijing. So i dont know why Vivek Ramaswamy would have wanted to try to say after four years in government we sort of take a hands off approach. I think we have broader interests than just semiconductors at play here. Cheryl todd piro is on the set with pea. Go ahead. Is this part of a bigger concern with a Statement Like this, let me be brutally honest and say i think almost everything that Vivek Ramaswamy says is intelligent. Isnt the notion of power the threat of power, not necessarily using the power but letting the other side know, hey, i might have to use this power and not putting an end date on it like you said . Well, i do think that we have to stand up with our allies who also have significant interests in that part of the world to increase deterrence but i think the spatterrer play is smarter play is to talk about why weve had a bad policy that has held back taiwans only deterrent capability, why we had a misguided policy that isolates taiwan from acting like a normal country around the world. We should recognize the elected leadership of taiwan and they should be able to buy whatever defense materiale their people think is sensible for their deterrence. I think helping them being capable and our allies like japan is the way to go, rather than a time line or saying you guys dont do very much, well keep you in a box but uncle sam will intervenes. I think thats a losing proposition. Cheryl i want you to weigh in on the comments from ramaswamy in particular on the semiconductor industry. Im not sure i agree with his point. I like ramaswamy but the timeline is strange. It seems a strange thing to volunteer. Hes n obviously a hes obviously a very bright person. He cant know in four years what our situation is globally or economically. It seems like a an odd commitment to volunteer yourself for where you dont need to do that. You can say what the situation is now and how you would proceed over next year or two. Cheryl steve, final thought from you . Again, i hope i think Vivek Ramaswamy is very intelligent, hes been pretty good on geo Strategic Issues more broadly. Id say stay strategic, stay out of the game of giving timelines for people. We live long enough for the timelines to pass, that could be a problem. Cheryl steve yates, always als great to have you and your perspective. We have a loot more coming up, the wildfires in maui causing more devastation and President Biden is vacationing, even kjp doesnt know when were going to hear from the president about the disaster. He was asked bowed it but it was a about it but it was a no comment by the way. Its making a buzz this morning. Youre watching mornings with maria live on fox business. Maria this week on mornings with maria, tomorrow, former fbi assistant director Chris Swecker on what he calls a clearly political trump special counsel investigation. Thursday, wake up with our all a star panel and the stories creating the mornings biggest buzz and friday congressman p ck alford on why bidenomics is a losing strategy for the its all right here on mornings with maria. Like your workplace benefits. And retirement savings. With voya, considering all your financial choices together. Can help you be better prepared for unexpected events. Voya. Well planned. Well invested. Well protected. upbeat music constant contacts advanced automation lets you send the right message at the right time, every time. constant contact. Helping the small stand tall. I dont want you to move. Im gonna miss you so much. 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Clearly, it is something that is deeply concerning to him when it comes to the wildfires weve seen in maui. I said, youll hear from the president on this. I dont have anything to announce at this time but certainly, hes the president , right, youre going to hear from him. Has President Biden spoken to any family members of wildfire victims or the future. I dont have any cause to speak to at this time. Cheryl to be clear here, todd, multiple reporters were asking her about this. I mean, its really shocking. This is one of the deadliest wildfires in u. S. History. 99 people dead and its a no comment from President Biden . Its a layup question. This isnt about the hunter biden scandal from which from a legal perspective the lawyer in me says you might want to throw a few no comments in. This is asking about death and destruction for which the American People and all people turn to a leader for soothing comments in a time of sadness. This is an easy one. The statement should be my heart goes out to the people of lahaina, the people of maui, were praying for them, were going to get them resources they need to recover. Thats it. Thats simple. That shows one of two things. Either he is a heartless, cruel individual, or, b, he cant speak extemporaneously at this point. I dont know which one it is. I have a hunch its number two. I dont think anybody, i cant see him being callus to the death of 100 people. I dont think hes able to form a statement. Cheryl thats what i i agree with you, it doesnt make sense. The death toll, children, jessica. No one could be callus when you see the footage and hear about what happened. That is politics 101, right. This isnt halved. You say were praying for them or i have im checking in, im being kept abreast, were deploying resources. You dont have to go there. Dont say no comment and then sit on the beach while hawaii burns. Its so tone deaf. Its politics 101 and he blew it. Cheryl im going to try to give him a break. Maybe he was advised. I dont know. Maybe the staff was on vacation with him and they just didnt get it together to come up with a statement. Just write a statement. It doesnt have to be from him. You could just write one that says the president they dont even do that. I agree. Cheryl im kind of blaming the white house on this one as well. In our hyper politicized world, im not saying this would be right but i would almost understand if this were in a republican district but this is in the most blue area that you can get and you have seen the blue representatives out there, the far left democrats saying hey, President Biden, where are you . And that just underscores the confusion with this lack of a statement. You think at least from a political perspective you would Say Something in regard to the people that voted for you, yet youre not saying anything and to your point, like children are dead, we know some reports that were going to see some really bad numbers potentially coming out. Cheryl its devastating. Its devastating. We want to let everybody know that fox is partnering with the red cross to help those affected by the wildfires. Text wh hawaii, 90999, make a 0 donation or scan the qr code that you see on your screen right there. Weve got a lot more coming up this morning. Former President Trump indicted for an unprecedented fourth time late last night. Fox business Grady Trimble is live in georgia with an update. Grady. Reporter cheryl, former President Trump facing 13 new felony charges. Coming up, well break down those charges and tell you when the trial could start in georgia. Thats next. Conversations or moments that matter, but you can invest in them. At t. 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