[inaudible] why do you ask such dumb question? jesse: it s actually great question. it s a question every single reporter should be asking. because, before we even knew joe biden was the big guy, before we even had the laptop a ukrainian businessman told an fbi informant that he bribed the big guy 5 million bucks. he used the phrase the big guy when joe was v.p., years before the nickname went public. and tonight we are learning the big guy was throwing his weight around. this alleged $5 million bribe wasn t so much of a bribe. it was more of a shakedown by the big guy, joe biden. he was shaking down the ukrainian. the federalist is reporting that biden coerced the ukrainian to pay the bribe. the big guy was strong arming a ukrainian energy company to wire him cash. the ukrainian told the fbi informant he hid the payments, never directly paid joe, just hid it in a maize of shell companies and said it would take at least 10 years to follow the money back to biden. well, it
present its case and we don t know also whether the former president might choose to testify in his own defense. i want to start by bringing in cnn senior legal affairs correspondent paula reid who has been all over this story for many, many week, and paula, the indictment is out now. i wonder, what to you as someone following this and every single move and detail, what stands out to you as the most damning information we ve gotten? it s such a strong reminder of how little we know compared to investigators. one of the things that struck me and i think will resonate with the american people are the photographs that the indictment uses to tell the story of how some of the nation s most sensitive secrets were strewn about mar-a-lago. prosecutors in this indictment say that these secrets were in a bathroom, in a ballroom. there you see the photo of them being in a bathroom boxes stacked up there, in the ballroom. these are cardboard, pretty flimsy in a ballroom actively being
[national anthem] [national anthem] pete: thank you, as always, for sharing your photos. reminder, those are your photos on our nation s anthem every single saturday and sun morning here on fox & friends weekend joined by, as always, will cain, rachel campos duffy. good morning. will: do you think pretty good is better than good or less than good? pete: i think pretty good is less than good. will: this is an ongoing debate. when the boys say practice was pretty good, my response is, what went wrong? because in my world, pretty good is less than good, and they have tried to convince me pretty good is actually an increased level of good. pete: pretty is not full good. will: i agree. they made a decent counterpoint of it s how you say it. rachel: i can solve this entire thing. just say muy bueno, done. pete: also works. well, a lot went on yesterday between our show. there were two events where donald trump took the stage. he first was in georgia and then in north ca
confident as they settle on a playbook for the 2024 race. in new york a grand jury just indicted the former u.s. marine who held a homeless man in a fatal chokehold on the subway. we ll tell you what we re learning about the charges. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight as the federal prosecution of donald trump moves into the next phase the nation s chief law enforcement officer is breaking his silence about the case. we re following all the new developments of trump s indictment. as the former president is predictionably lashing out what is the attorney general of the as you know attorney general garland doesn t like to talk at all about ongoing cases. this is the first time since former president trump was formally charged that we ve heard garland speak. of course he appointed special counsel jack smith back in november. today he talked just a little bit about his historic role i
there in his golf clubs. we re watching as some of the folks come off of the former president s plane. the former president said in no uncertain terms that he s innocent and he stands by that and he is returning for the 3:00 p.m. appearance tomorrow for the indictment. we do you know from friday, this is unsealed now. so the pages have already become part of the public record. you can see the president s attorneys no doubt getting off the plane. a lot of questions about who the team will be. there s been some changes in the team as of friday, a lot of guys with large briefcases getting off this plane right now. bret baier watching this with us this afternoon. good to have you with us, bret. i know you re in boston for an event, a senate-related event that we ll talk about. first to chad pergram to set the stage for us here this afternoon as this unfolds live. hi, chad. martha, good afternoon. republicans are drilling down on what they see as two tiers of justice. the gop