of trump s bedminster golf club with more. good morning. good morning former president trump faces 37 felony charges for handling classified documents after leaving the white house. we learned yesterday, he is accused of being personally involved with moving those documents from the white house to mar-a-lago. take a look at the pictures that were released yesterday. prosecutors said classified documents were found in the storage room at mar-a-lago as well as a ballroom, bedroom and bathroom. president trump is a q showing people without security clearances and attack plan prepared for by the defense department and also on another occasion a map related to military operation. trump calls the charges the box hoax in the continuation of the witch-hunt against him. he told fox news digital that he believes the time it is meant to distract from reporting the president joe biden received $5 million from ukrainian gas company executive. take a look at this. here s a breakdown of t
they can t stop because it is election interference at the highest level. the unsealed indictment and engaging in a conspiracy for military documents. florida grand jury returned including one including the espionage. classified documents taken from the white house. culminating with the fbi raid at mar-a-lago. making the first on camera statement. and indictment was unsealed charging donald trump with violations of laws and obscurity to obstruct justice. violations of those laws put our country at risk. i may meet court on tuesday night. a partisan case. this is serious business. may or may not have a greater impact on the republican presidential front runners campaign. i am howard kurtz and this is media buzz. the charges against former president trump have rocked the media and political world with news outlets and commentators immediately picking sides. it is pretty aggressive to go after your political opponent on something you re probably five times more guilty
okay. this one s going on the mantle. sandra: horrifying case in pennsylvania sparking a legal debate. 35-year-old woman charged with pushing her ex-boyfriend, an army veteran, to suicide. john: allegedly harassed him with a series of whatsapp messages and videos, destroying his things, talking about her new partner and threatening to keep him from ever seeing his daughter again. sandra: may remind you of michelle carter, 17 years old when she was charged with pushing her boyfriend to take his own life. carter eventually went to prison. will the same thing happen this time? welcome back as america reports rolls into hour two. sandra smith on this thursday afternoon in new york. john: john roberts, good to be with you again. no debate the messages are heinous, the big question is, are they criminal? our legal panel will be here to debate it. we will kick things off with this fox news alert. sandra: a gruesome scandal unfolding at one of the country s top medical sc
records? or as peter baker put it in the new york times, republican voters may be care if their leader slips money to a porn star to keep quiet, but will they be indifferent about impeding authorities seeking to recover clandestine materials? that s today s poll question which i ll share in a moment. it may depend upon responses by trump s gop opponents. most were quick to weigh in before the indictment was unsealed. ron desantis said the weaponization of federal law enforcement represents a mortal threat to a free society. mike pence used the same word while calling for the unsealing of the indictment. the american people should be able to judge for themselves whether this is just the latest incident of weaponization and politicization at the justice department or if it s something different, he said. ditto for south carolina senator tim scott on the weaponization charge. another went further comparing pardoning trump immediately upon his own swearing-in. chris christie ke
acknowledging he took those documents and claiming he had every right to take them. under the presidential records act, which is civil, not criminal, i had every right to have these documents. in other words, whatever documents a president decides to take with him, he has the right to do so. it s an absolute right. this is the law. independent legal experts say that s not true. it could hurt him at a trial. is he betting on an election victory for republicans and getting the case dropped? i will speak to former top cia attorney jeff smith about the legal strategy. are more republican politicians, including some rivals, now willing to criticize donald trump s handling of national secrets? the handling of classified materials is a very serious matter. i had a chance to review the indictment over the weekend. this indictment contains serious charges. i can t defend what is alleged. the former president has a right to his day in court. i know he pled not guilty. i will