after turning himself in to the miami federal courthouse. hundreds supporters took to the streets outside the courthouse. some even prayed for trump at a cafe that he arbitrarily stopped at as he left the courthouse. seemed kind of relaxed. the justice department is alleging, in case you ve been in a cave, that the former president mishandled classified documents that included u.s. defensive weapons secrets, even an attack plan on an unnamed foreign power. fill in iran. 31 charges file the espionage act. whatever you think of donald trump s actions, let s put it into context. the espionage act is over hundred years old. president woodrow wilson signed it into law to protect the nation from foreign spies during world war i. most prosecutions involving the espionage act have been reserved for actual spies. even trump s worst critics are not alleging that he passed classified material to russia or china, or anybody else. the espionage act makes clear that espionage is defined as
carley: good morning, i m carley shimkus live at nationals park in washington ahead of the congressional baseball game tonight. i m so glad to be back, i love covering this event. i ve done it a few years in a row. it is all about unity and bipartisanship. friendly competition between republicans and democrats, been going on since 1909. i just found out record number of tickets were sold and the money goes to charity. todd: awesome to see them doing something other than beating each other up. this is for a good cause. you cover two main stories out in the field. oil stories and baseball storiless and today is the latter. carley: i cover a lot of oil and gas stories and sports. yeah, my beats are quite interesting. i love to do it. everybody can watch the game. it is going to start at 7:00 eastern time on fox sports 1. we ll cover it live. tune in for that. there is going to be display of bipartisanship on capitol hill later today at national stadium. in florida yesterda
we go to new jersey with more of the former president s message. nate, good evening. trace, good evening to you. his first public remarks, or at least his first speech since his arraignment in miami this afternoon, former president trump defended his right to retain classified information. he said it is in the sole discretion of the president to keep their own documents, and he also took sharp aim at president joe biden for what he calls weaponizing the department of justice. listen here. this day will go down in infamy and joe biden will forever be remembered as not only the most corrupt president in the history of our country, but perhaps even more importantly, the president who together with a band of his closest thugs, misfits and marxists tried to destroy american democracy. but they will fail and we will win bigger and better than ever before. [applause]. charging a former president of the united states under the espionage act of 1917. trace, president trump then
level and biden administration is most corrupt in history trying to deflect by bringing this hoax case, they are not going to get away with it. carley: president biden is facing his own investigation into his mishandling of documents at the penn biden center and at his home in delaware. is this a sick joke? this guy has documents from the time he was in the u.s. senate from his time in garage. i don t want to hear from the legal analysts technicality about false statement and obstruction, this should never have been a case. willful retention of documents griff: here is alex. alexandria: the first president to face counts, seven under the espionage act and conspiracy and false statements. trump offered this. our country is in decline, we re a failing nation and this is what they do. i am an innocent man, we will prove that again, seven years of proving it and here we go again, in a position to make america great again. i am innocent and we will prove that soundly and
preside over the free country. now, a lot has happened. the british burned it down. it was rebuilt and expanded. but through all of that, every president who lived in the white house respected it. they understood its importance and how sacred it was. until now. remember when obama kicked his feet up on the resolute desk? i didn t go crazy. when he wore a tan suit, i didn t go nuts. obama even invited snoop to the white house who lit one up in the bathroom. boom, next thing i do is pull that thing out of my sock. i heard somebody coming. [laughter] put him out real quick and got on back to the party. jesse: now snoop wasn t the first. willie nelson went on the white house roof and smoked with jimmy carter s son in the 1970s. when willie nelson wrote his autobiography he confessed that he smoked pot in the white house one night when he was spending the night with me. and he said that his companion shared the pot with him was one of the servants at the white house. that is