big weekend for peter this weekend coming up. sandra: indeed. i just decided i needed to be here on a friday morning to make it a good weekend. good to be with you. good hour coming up. i m sandra smith. president trump is calling the indictment election interference at the highest level. republicans on the senate judiciary committee are warning the charges raise serious conflict of interest interests for attorney general merrick garland. meantime president biden dismissing these claims that he was paid $5 million in a bribery scheme when he was vice president. bill: here is the new york post summing up today with the headline hail to the thiefs. nancy mace telling us she saw the document from the f.b.i. which contains what some believe is a bribery claim. she thinks, after reading it, it does not look good for president biden. it was very credible and legitimate. i would not brush it off like the f.b.i. has. and it corroborates other information that we ve seen in ot
neighbors wandering around this neighborhood that was so so hard hit, really just in disbelief. they can t believe what has happened to the place that they call home. you can see behind me trees uprooted, the roofs of houses that have been torn apart. and over here you can see this power pole snapped into multiple pieces, just incredible behind this power pole you can see the wall of this garage torn apart. all the con ends inside visible [audio difficulty] on the street to see. now, this tornado hit around 2:30 in the afternoon. even the national weather service s little rock office had to shelter in place so that they could be safe. they had to change over the duties to the memphis office while they took shelter, essentially. you know, after the tornado hit, there were, you know, first responders out in the streets, you know, rescuing folks, just a harrowing scene here in little rock. arkansas governor, sarah huckabee sanders, declaring a state of emergency here. she is
additional business deals with chinese companies, that is on top of a more than $1 million wire transfer hunter biden and other relatives received from a business deal with a chinese energy company. sandra: despite the newly revealed money trail, president biden is denying the allegations as questions grow over influence peddling. will it pose a threat to the president s expected 2024 election bid. we ll put it to elise stefanik, here coming up. over the last few years, china has made a leap in the development. it causes a genuine interest all over the world and we are even slightly jealous. president putin, i always call you my dear friend. we have carefully studied your proposals on settling the acute crisis in ukraine. we will discuss all those issues, including your initiatives. i am sure that the people of russia will support you in your best efforts. john: begin this monday with the high stakes meeting between xi jinping and vladimir putin as fears grow china is
this is unprecedented and it is historic. the first time a former president has ever been criminally charged and therefor we don t have any real roadmap for how it will now play out. we do know former president donald trump will be arraigned next week in manhattan courtroo surrounded by extraordinary security fear also surrounded b security tonight the manhattan da alvin bragg leaving his office after grand jury decided he had to demonstrate probable cause in the case he has pursue against trump, alleging campaign-finance laws were broken but was so-called hush payments to stormy daniels she claims she had an affair with trump before he ran for president for the immediate question is how exactly the former president will be processed and charged to move surrendering to authorities. it is a process, and arraignment, just like anyone else. and then you go from there. trump himself responded with fury tonight saying in part, quote, the democrats have lied and cheated and s
a man who leads by 30 points in polls. donald trump and the jury did this at the urging of a man called alvin bragg. he s the manhattan district attorney who has been famous so far by making the city much more dangerous by refusing to enforce laws against crimes like robbery and . now, we don t know at this hour what the indictment says. we don t know specifically what the charges are. but previous news reports suggest they will emanate from an alleged payment. seven years ago, a payment that federal regulators said violated no law, but that alvin bragg apparently believes is a crime, either way, the net result is donald trump is the first former president of the united states ever to be indicted. so what happens next? we can be certain there is no coming back from this moment. there could be retaliation from red states. the governor of florida has already said ron desantis already issued a statement saying that he will not participate in any extradition of donald trump to