this is america s newsroom. a years long investigation. a grand jury brought an indictment to president trump. the charges are under seal for now. the counts number in the dozens. bill: that s sparking a firestorm of criticism for the manhattan d.a. alvin bragg. known as a soft on crime prosecutor. since he took office in january, he has downgraded more than 50% of felonies in new york to misdemeanors. he appears to be taking the opposite take against the former president. republicans calling it political persecution. manhattan d.a. s office is in contact with the former president s legal team. they re working to coordinate his surrender. a logistic call nightmare. one of the president s attorneys said the d.a. wanted when im to surrender today. the president pushed back on that and expected to happen on tuesday. bill: let s begin now. chad pergram on the hill. andy mccarthy with analysis. bryan llenas joins us outside the courthouse in lower manhattan, new york city.
is potentially admissible in court. swift reaction every angle, every politician it appears. a manhattan prosecutor filing criminal charges against the former president, donald trump. the manhattan d.a. s office working to coordinate a surrender next week. new hour begins right now. welcome. it has been a week. i m bill hemmer friday. dana has the week off today. our friend is back with us to help us out. how was the first hour? shannon: reunited and it feels so good. okay. let s move on. i m shannon bream. this indictment will go down in history the first ever criminal case against a u.s. president. the front page of the new york post alerting readers to the gathering stormy as trump reportedly faces charges stemming from a hush money payment to porn actress stormy daniels. new york city police now on high alert for possible protests. bill: full coverage continues now. jonathan turley has reaction along with trey gowdy. first david spunt from washington and more on t
shocking video showing a migrant squeezing himself through a border fence into the u.s. and you can ask yourself whether or not this is just a preview of things to come real soon 13 days and counting. new hour starts now. dana has the day off. i m bill hemmer. shannon, you are back with us. shannon: always my pleasure to be with hemmer time. thank you so much. for dana today. officials expect upwards of 10,000 migrants to cross into our country daily, every day when title 42 ends. it is coming up on may 11. chaos is already beginning to unfold in el paso where migrants packed the city streets in high speed car chases take place on a nearly daily basis. this situation is no better on the mexican side of the border where thousands of migrants have set up camps waiting to cross as biden administration officials finally lay out a new asylum plan. bill: making migration more safe, orderly, humane. the whole model is to reach the people where they are to cut the smugglers out
threatening the united states. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. bill: i m bill hemmer, good morning to you at home. today s hearing comes amid growing threats as mexican cartels hold control along the southern border. friday s kidnapping of four americans in mexico the latest example of growing threats and deadly danger. two of the four americans were found dead, two survived and are now back in the u.s. being treated in a brownsville, texas hospital. the white house yesterday calling cartel violence a top priority. americans are being slaughtered, would president biden take the same approach if it was al qaeda or isis operating just across the border from an american city. the president takes this very seriously issue the fbi and other agents have been on top of this from day one. that is what he will continue to do. would president biden consider using the u.s. military to disrupt cartel operations? i will not get into the military a
response kicking into high gear across america s south. a weekend of violent storms and deadly tornadoes. officials saying a full recovery in places like mississippi could take years. volunteers and nonprofits, including the american red cross, salvation army and samaritan s purse flooding into the area offering assistance, food and shelter. they need a lot of all of it. welcome, brand-new hour starts now. i m bill hemmer. dana has time off this week. a big welcome to aishah. aishah: i m aishah hosni. search and rescue operations are officially over in mississippi. now comes the harder part. officials turning to longer-term issues. we are talking about housing, food, public services. a task made even harder with local government buildings destroyed. they aren t even there. the offices are gone. many neighborhoods reduced to rubble. no power, no phones, no gas stations, nothing. meanwhile survivors who lost everything telling their incredible stories. my husband opened the