the five people on board. america s crime crisis showing up on the doorstep of one of the navy bases in mississippi. we put up more than 0 shipping con stainers to protect sailors from stray bullets. if you can believe that, that about says it all. you re watching fox & friends first on this wednesday morning. i m carley shimkus. and i m todd pyro. we begin with a fox news alert. lawmakers are meeting to discuss recommendation from special council john durham after his very eye opening testimony on fbi failures in the trump russia probe. lucas tomlin sson is live in washington. hey, lucas. mr. durham, did the government receive a plan to they had tried the plan to rush hawaii yes. was that intelligence important enough for director brennan to go brief the president of the united states, the vice president of the united states, attorney general of the united states and director of the fbi? yes .x was that then put into a memorandum. a referral memorandum? yes
as well. marc thiessen, andy mccarthy, nicole parker and juan william following along as we watch this play out in real time live this afternoon as we wait for the president to finish and to come out. first to mark meredith live there outside the courthouse in miami. hello there. hi, mark. martha, hello to you. the story at this hour is two very different scenes. the former president with his legal team and across the aisle the special counsel and the justice department ready to begin this long and lengthy process following the indictment unsealed last week. shows the former president will face 37 different felony charges as a result of allegedly holding on to classified documents and not turning them back over to the government. that s what is happening inside. outside the federal courthouse in miami a different story. you have a media spectacle where you have trump supporters and trump critics out here ready to make their opinions very well-known. we ve seen a couple hund
and fingerprinted a federal court appearance captured by a sketch artist. you re seeing one such example. these moments you re looking at here are that which donald trump has blatantly tried to overshadow with this is own series of events and speeches and recent pr programming. well, we can all see how this case is different right now. the early reporting is focused on how it will follow a traditional trajectory. the new york times puts it that way. next up we have a date for trump codefendant walt nauta to enter his plea, june 27th. and then traditionally, the status conference hearings that you would see over a course of couple months, the government supplying evidence to the defense. and that material can then inform the defense lawyers strategies. trump s lawyers may try a kind of more serious investigation of this odd defense that trump has been publicly mounted that the de the classified documents he says were secretly or magically declassified before he left offic
to be arraigned on criminal charges. we ll bring you the details about what s going to happen in the next 24 hours. growing concern from law enforcement officials in florida about the largest number of trump supporters amassing who could show up at the white house tomorrow as they imply bellicose rhetoric. one of the busiest highways in the united states is shut down in both directions after a section of interstate 95 collapses in philadelphia. how long could it be to take how long it could take to repair that road. welcome to the lead. we start with our law and justice lead. minutes ago former president trump arriving in miami ahead of his historic court hearing tomorrow. mr. trump is expected to meet with his lawyers tonight and discuss building out his legal team with florida-based attorneys. security preparations are already under way at the miami courthouse ahead of trump s arainment tomorrow afternoon. law enforcement officials are rather worried about the p
his own special prosecutor to, quote, go after the president. he s got a scorched earth political strategy. do his lawyers have a legal strategy equal to special prosecutor jack smith s case. shoved out of the headlines by trump s indictment and impending trial, so how do they regain the political spotlight? the commuting nightmare for those in and around philadelphia, forced to find a new way to work after part of a major interstate collapses. the effort to fix it as officials say it could be out of commission for months. we begin with those new details about how former president donald trump plans to fight 37 first-of-their-kind criminal charges both in court and in public. he s flying to south florida at this hour for tomorrow s arraignment. where we ll see the case begin to play out in realtime. first, with that arraignment in miami, followed just a few hours later by trump s first major fund-raiser of the 2024 campaign. the public response has been typical trump, s