the senate projects debate between iowa republican senator joni ernst and new hampshire democratic senator jeanne shaheen. the debate and conversation streamed live on fox nation today. designed to facilitate substantive discussion of policy and hopes of finding areas of agreement or common ground. we will have highlights from that event a little later in the show. bret: breaking tonight, former president donald trump is in florida this evening ahead of his appearance, his court appearance tomorrow afternoon in miami. he faces a 37 count indictment, including obstruction and how he handled classified documents. correspondent griff jenkins is in miami with the latest. vening, griff. griff: good evening, bret. the former president is here in miami, expected to be meeting this evening with his new legal team and despite the political bluster, bret, he is fully aware of the seriousness of these charges. the first former president to ever face formal criminal charges landing
outside the u.s. district court building in south florida with the latest. good morning to you, jonathan. good morning, steve, ainsley and brian. security is always tight around federal courthouses. buff you can only imagine it rises to a much higher level when the defendant is a former u.s. president. the washington post is reporting law enforcement are actively monitoring online threats from extremists groups. monitoring their plans for rallies in the miami area. one of them reportedly planned for outside the courthouse tomorrow. also bringing in additional officers. mr. trump has been indicted on 37 counts, related to the alleged mishandling of classified white house documents stored in various locations around his mar-a-lago estate in palm beach, florida. the charges include 31 counts of willful retention of national defense information with other charges related to mr. trump s alleged efforts to conceal the documents from federal investigators. south carolina senator
meanwhile, president vladimir zelenskyy announcing ukraine s long anticipated spring counteroffensive is underway to be back vladimir putin s illegal invasion. welcome to fox news live. arthel: hello, president zelenskyy hosted canadian prime minister justin trudeau whose on an unannounced trip to kiev saying canada is giving ukraine $500 million in military aid. president zelenskyy conferences force are taking action against the russian invasion and says his top commanders are in, quote, positive mindset as their soldiers intensify the fight on the front lines. eric: our correspondent greg palcott is live in kiev. reporter: there was support from abroad today. we heard from ukrainian president zelenskyy confirmation that the counteroffensive is on, happening on a 600 mile front line, trying to clawback losses after months of bloodshed and breakthrough russian defenses south of here to split enemy hill grounded. in action now, american fighting vehicles, german leopard tank
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troubles, as you know, he s already been indicted by the manhattan district attorney alvin bragg in the hush money case, and there are still pending investigations in georgia, and in washington d.c., related to his effort to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential elections. so it s possible that trump could be the defendant in multiple criminal trials, as republicans head to the polls to vote in the primaries. and in a new interview with political yesterday, trump vowed to stay in the race even if he s convicted of a crime, telling the reporter, quote, i will never leave. now, that s not at all surprising, he s previously vowed to continue campaigning for the republican nomination if he were indicted, a threshold that we ve already crossed twice now. and although few republicans have come out to denounce him and call former trump out of the race, the maturity of the party has come to his defense and criticize the justice system instead. yesterday, just two days after h