and laura, the kids. happy birthday, grandma happy and nice. oh, great. they just got charged with. they went for 100 years approximately. if you add them all up, a fake . a fake 400 years ago. thank you, darling. that s so nice. it s a wonderful birthday. so we re going to make it into the greatest birthday of all. well, when hillary then deleted and acid washed, nobody does that because of the expense, but it s pretty conclusive 33,000 emails in defiance of a congressional subpoena already launched. the subpoena was there and she decided to delete acid wash and then smash and destroy her cell phones with a hammer. and then they say, i participated in obstruct. now think of it. that s called obstruction. there s never been obstruction as grave as that. she did this in the face of everything. and yet nobody did anything about it. the fbi, the doj protected her, did not issue subpoenas, did not use a grand jury, did not execute search warrants. and then the corrupt hea
end of his presidency. john: the case is likely to up end the 2024 residential race where trump remains the gop front-runner and says he is the victim of a political hit job by the biden justice department. sandra: fox team coverage begins now. bret baier and martha maccallum moments away with analysis, but jonathan serrie is live on the ground at the federal courthouse. what is the scene right now? more people are gathering and you can feel the anticipation of the former president about to arrive at the courthouse and we have learned more about the booking procedures. he will be digitally fingerprinted, no ink involved, and instead of taking a new photo of him, they are going to upload an existing photo, but they are still not going to release the existing photo to the media, and at no time will he be placed in any handcuffs. a more streamlined process for this former president of the united states. he tells radio host howie carr he plans to enter a not guilty plea, an
and i m abby phillip here in washington. our special coverage of the federal indictment of donald trump continues. this case, the united states of america versus donald j. trump, along with walt nauta, hs bead man. a former president of the united states a defendant in a federal case. if convicted, he could go to prison. the indictment s 49 pages accuse him of breaking seven federal laws, including willful retention of national defense information, withholding or concealing documents in a federal investigation, false statements, and conspiracy to ob instruct justice. he is facing 37 separate charges including one for each classified document that he s accused of keeping illegally. documents allegedly stashed in a bathroom, a shower, a ballroom, bedroom. the former president allegedly showing some of them to people and also trying to conceal them from investigators. i want to begin with cnn s senior legal affairs correspondent, paula reid, who s been tracking all of th
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
bathroom, in a ballroom. there you see the photo of them being in a bathroom, boxes just stacked up there in the ballroom. i mean these are pretty flimsy cardboard boxes in a ballroom that is actively being used for events. there you see sensitive defense information, secrets that are only meant to be shared with a small handful of our closest allies, and they re strewn about the floor of a storage closet. and it s one thing to say that in an indictment, but it s another to support this with photographs. that was one of the things that really struck me in this indictment. but the breadth and the depth of the evidence that they ve gathered in this investigation, it s incredible. i mean, for example, there are two incidents where they say the former president shared classified documents in person. one is a story that we broke last week, a meeting at his bedminster golf club, where he says that he has sensitive information and appears to be urging people in a meeting to look at.