Never been in before to watch someone run for president , nonetheless a former president facing several indictments and several court dates during the process leading up to the election. Mike to that point, martha, you had the republican candidates on your program, his former Vice President mike pence on yesterday. What about the challenge for the other candidates to stay on message, get on message, whatever you want to call it, when the former president is constantly the story . Martha its rough, obviously. These campaigns all are raising money, they are, you know, putting ads out there, trying to make their mark, trying to break through, which you know, has been they are basically in a pretty tight heat in the polls and the 10 to 6 range, some at 3 in the top, and those are the top candidates. The former president is more than 37 points ahead of his nearest competitor who is ron desantis, supposed to come on to the scene and make a big splash. But i think even the former president ,
Nomination making his way down the steps as he prepares for another afternoon in court. Its an extraordinary situation to say the least of a former president and someone who is currently running. We have amazing fox team coverage. We have dana perino, Shannon Bream and jessica tarlov. First, lets go to david spunt live outside the federal courthouse where we expect the former president will pull up a short time from now. Hi, david. Hi, martha. Its symbolic here today. You cant see it on camera. Were just feet away from the u. S. Capitol blocks away from the white house. The former president will make his way here, as you said, in motorcade. He will head before the Magistrate Judge. He wont be placed under arrest in handcuffs or mug shots. We know he will specifically be fingerprinted. Once hes here, hes in the custody of u. S. Marshals. Hes not in the custody of the fbi. Hes not going to have his hands behind his back. He did say he would be arrested today. I want to put up this truth
it for you. it s fascinating to watch this play out, especially so in the wake of what we re seeing on the other side of the aisle with the hunter biden investigation. i want to put this up. i ll cut out if we see that, guys. this is pretty interesting. this is a letter that joe biden wrote to devin archer in 2011. he was i guess they were just starting out in this business trying to put together a business that dealt with government regulatory measures and making that to a private equity fund. you know, all sort of under the auspices of the support that they would get from washington at that time and ostensively the president. dear devin, i apologize for not talking to you yesterday. i had trouble getting away hosting president hu, the president of china. i hope to get back to you with
federal courthouse in washington where former president trump is now inside to be arraigned on four charges today involving efforts to overturn 2020 election. that s the nature of these charges. griff jenkins, national correspondent live in washington d.c. hi, griff. hi, martha. good afternoon. that s right. the former president inside the courthouse now. he did not come, martha, down constitution avenue, which we were showing you the last hour. the proximity with which this courthouse sits just a few blocks from the capitol where the january 6th riots happen. instead, he came down third street and turned in to the garage. the motorcade went in there. what is happening at this moment is the processing. before he goes before a magistrate judge, he will be processed, have his fingerprints taken. there s no mug shot. he will not be arrested. once he s in the hands of the
the way that anybody should describe this. it s not something that we ve seen in our time. this is not even political. this is beyond that. a witch hunt is when you attack your opponent, relentlessly attack the thing you re most afraid of. people are afraid of somebody that cannot be bought by washington. they re afraid of something that is independently wealthy and given up his good life to fight for this country. that frightens a lot of career politicians because he will get back and fight for everyone of us so this doesn t happen to us. the special counsel says trump could have disagreed with the results and talked about it. the different is what he did to try to switch the votes. so what is it that he did to try to switch the votes that you refer to? by bringing cases, by using the law in an appropriate manner? this is not appropriate. what president trump did as he said, go patriotically and