Bret good evening, welcome to washington. Im bret baier. Breaking tonight, Special Counsel jack smith has filed a reworked indictment in his election interference case against former president donald trump, the new filing keeps the same criminal charges but narrows the allegations against the former president following that Supreme Court opinion on broad immunity on former president s. So what about this . What goes on from here . Correspondent david spunt has details from the Justice Department tonight. Good evening, david. Bret, good evening to you. This is the new indictment of president donald trump, the former president still has the same four core charges from when he was indicted last year. But, as you mentioned, it narrows some of the language. The language is a little bit tighter and it takes out mentions of certain people that Special Counsel jack smith felt that he could not move forward if he wanted to be successful in court. Something else to point out, a brand new grand j
Correspondent bryan llenas is at the Fulton County courthouse in atlanta, tonight, with the latest. Good evening, bryan. Bret, good evening. The Fulton County sheriff says he intends to really treat former President Donald Trump just like any other criminal defendant and that includes a mugshot, unless he is told otherwise. Mr. Trump must turn himself in by next friday august 25th at noon. I make decisions in this office based on the facts and the law. The law is completely nonpartisan. Fulton County District attorney fani willis, a democrat defending her decision to prosecute former President Donald Trump and 18 others after they were indicted by a grand jury late monday night. It is now the duty of my office to prove these charges. Trump is facing 13 criminal counts, including violating georgias antiracketeering or ricco law. If convicted, the law carries a penalty of a minimum of five years in prison, a 25,000s fine, or both. Lawyers say georgias ricco law is unusually broad and in
Bret i will. Thank you. Good evening. Im bret baier. Breaking tonight, the u. S. State Department Says the number of americans looking to leave haiti is approaching one thousand now as violent gangs increase their chokehold on the country. The u. S. Evacuated dozens of americans from the haitian capital over the weekend, days after saying they had no active plans to help remove americans from that country. We had fox team conch tonight. Correspondent bryan llenas is in the Dominican Republic where officials are preparing for a major surge in haitian migrants. But we begin with correspondent Gillian Turner live at the state department with the latest. Good evening, gillian. Hi, bret. An aboutface from the state department today. Officials here are now working to try to get more americans out of haiti. They also say that nearly a thousand americans now contacting the contempt about getting out. Dramatic uptick from just a few hundred people last week. This is a fluid situation. The numbe
That the judge piped up and said im not going to be a rubber stamp for this unprecedented plea deal. That fell apart as you remember. Heres the question for this afternoon did things just to get a little better or little worse for hunter biden and potentially by extension, for his father who was running for president. Theres a lot going on behind the scenes here on this friday afternoon, what it says, this means that a trial is in order but where . Would it be in d. C. , california, does it move it off his plate . Theres a jurisdictional question there about where this all goes, also the timeline, the clock is ticking on these charges. Some of these are displayed to run out while all of this plays out under the statute of limitations, heres attorney general Merrick Garland announcing all of this a short time ago, watch. Upon considering his request as well as the extraordinary circumstances relating to this matter, i have concluded that it is in the Public Interest to appoint him as a
Not a matter of if but when and they want answers why these documents may have already been drawn up and posted before a grand jury vote. We begin tonight with correspondent Jonathan Serrie in atlanta outside the courthouse. Good evening, jonathan. Good evening, bret. The case appears to be moving rapidly with at least two witnesses originally scheduled to testify on tuesday being called to the court house this afternoon. One of them, former lt. Governor jeff duncan, a republican who has been highly critical of the former President Trump and george cheaty, a chils who says he walked in on a meeting of alternate electors who attempted to certify georgias 2020 election for then President Trump after his narrow loss to joe biden. Earlier today, The Grand Jury heard from two former Democratic State lawmakers including former senator jen jerry continue attended a post Election Hearing with trumps personal lawyer. In that meeting critics say Rudy Giuliani tried to convince Georgia Legislator