bret, good morning. good morning. did you teach him that loudness? he learned that on his own. long story. when he was in baseball. bret, the thing about this pending indictment is it has rallied both sides. they re both fund-raising off of it. today is the last day of fund-raising for the first quarter. republicans are saying it s a witch hunt. democrats are saying it s simply law and order. the town s on fire. it really is. it divides the country even further. listen, this indictment, no matter what you think about former president trump, is going to come under scrutiny. we don t know everything that s inside it. it s being reported that there are some 34 individual counts. that deal with not only the payment of stormy daniel, but also karen mcdougal, the playboy model. we don t have the specifics, only reporting of that, based on sources. what we can say is that the former president has been making calls to capitol hill to rally his allies saying he s going to
you know, it s interesting. i think in the gop primary, it s going to fire up his base. maybe going to fire up other people who think he s been under attack for a long time. you look at the russia investigation and other things. in a general election, if you get that far and he gets the nomination. any indictment does not help solidify suburban women or independents. it s not really a great thing on a resume. but in the short term, it s lick likely going to give a further bump to the president. it s all about tuesday, what s in there, and what those counts could be. are there financial things that we don t know about in the big picture? one thing is pretty clear, bret. it caught everybody by surprise. why is that? the head fake we got wednesday that we were not going to hear anything about the case, we were just going on vacation. that s a great point. maybe that was a move by the district attorneys office.
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and al qaeda. on al qaeda, intelligence officials describe what they describe as a new found confidence in the organization, whether it can reconstitute with a new leadership like the son of osama bin laden. on isis they testified they have seen evidence in the last two years that isis has used chemical weapons in the middle east. so that s another worry indicator as welsh dana. dana: thank you. for more on this, let s bring in bret baeier. take a listen to something christopher wray said about isis. something that was certainly a topic at the hearing. that s certainly the fbi s assessment. not only the russian continue to do it in 2018, but we ve seen an indication that they re continuing to adapt their model and that other countries are taking a very interested eye in that approach. dana: bret, that was about russia. but i do want to play this bite from isis.
international uproar of jamal khashoggi s. lucas tomlinson is at the pentagon with more. reporter: it was a big shake-up today including the firing of saudi arabia s foreign minister. king solomon issued a wide range decree, the most tkopl tphepbt official removed is the foreign minister, who was the target of an assassination attempt outside a popular restaurant in washington, d.c. by iranian agents when he was ambassador here in 2011. he maintained close ties to washington. but he was unable to protect the crown prince from scathing criticism by lawmaker, blaming the crown prince for the murder. he sat down with bret baeier. we are looking at every individual member of the team. we are trying to find out how they were assembled, how they were dispatched. we re trying to acertain the facts as to what happened in the