Everyone. Thank you so much for joining me. Im fredricka whitfield. All right. Were less than 24 hours away now from witness singh history tomorrow, Opening Statements began and the trial of defendant donald trump, the first former president ever to be on trial. For criminal charges. Trump well, Walk Into A Manhattan courtroom tomorrow morning, where he will hear the states case against him. He is facing dozens of charges related to an alleged Hush Money Payment to Adult Film Actress Stormy Daniels made before the 2016 election this is the first of four criminal cases against trump to go to trial. 12 jurors and six alternates will decide trumps fate. Heres cnns brian todd ready to empaneled jurors have been excused from former president trumps Hush Money Trial, underscoring just how crucial the six alternate jurors are, whove just been seated in a case of this length in a highprofile case, the alternates are as significant as the regular jury panel, because theres a very high likelihoo
asking the supreme court to immediately step in to decide whether former president trump has immunity from prosecution, relating to his actions seeking to overturn the 2020 election. sandra: remains to be seen whether the highest bench will choose to take the case, but the move appears to be an attempt by smith to keep the march trial back on track and block the former president from delaying the trial in the federal appeals court. john: let s go to david spunt, breaking details for us. david. david: sandra, you are right. jack smith, special counsel, does not want to see any delays in this case. he wants this trial to begin and finish before the election. right now he s asking the nine justices, remember, a body that tries to stay away from politics, he s asking them to essentially enter the nerve center of the 2024 presidential election making an emergency appeal to the high court asking the justices to rule that donald trump is not immune from prosecution. he petitio
mainstream media has mounted a campaign against donald trump warning that he s just too dangerous to be allowed to win a second term. this isn t just reporting or commenting on the sometimes over the top things trump says talking about getting even with opponents or saying he ll go after what he calls the enemy of the people. i ve criticized plenty the of things trump has said over the years and as a leading presidential candidate, he should be aggressively scrutinized. yet after nine years of a hostile relationship with the media, suddenly there s not even a pretension of fairness. the atlantic has just publish pd an entire issue on how the former president is teenager to democracy. new york is that a danger to democracy. the washington post filled several inside pages with an anti-trump opinion piece, and all that reverberates across television. i think what people have normalized the possibility of trump coming back to office, we get used to anything. this time he is
investigations into his son s foreign business dealings have been heating up. house or rub the leaders are expected to vote on tuesday on it i measure to formally launch impeachment inquiry into the president even though officials admit there s no direct evidence tying him to any illegal foreign payments. in the meantime hunter biden and died for the second time special counsel david weiss investigation hunter it now facing federal tax charges. on top of federal gun charge much more on hunter biden s cases and the looming potential impeachment inquiry in just a moment. ask first were going to start at the southern border were agents keep streaming migrants excuse me keep streaming into the county into this country in record numbers were agents in tucson, arizona said they have close to 19000 new arrivals in just one week. this is the highest a seven-dayy total ever arizona democratic governor is calling out washington s quote failure and in action for it hello everyone welcom
president steps down. donors, alumni and students have all been pressuring her to resign up to her congressional testimony on anti-semitism sparked a public outrage pretty good evening i am jon stott and this is the fox report. . jon: to other elite university presidents are also facing backlash as jewish students come forward about faculty failure to address rising anti-semitism on campus. cb cotton has details on all of this for us. hi jon, word of president liz mcgill s resignation came down just over an hour ago it comes after widespread public outrage over her congressional testimony on anti-semitism this evening the university of pennsylvania s board of trustees chairman scott writing president liz mcgill has voluntarily tendered her resignation as president of the university of pennsylvania. she will remain a tenured faculty member. he would want to thank mcgill for her service to the school and said she will remain as penns of president until a replacement is appoi