distort it intentionally and deliberately. and unfortunately, donald trump is the first but won t be the last person to be persecuted under that system. maria: well, this is a really good point that you re making because george soros makes no apology fors it. in fact, he wrote an op-ed in the wall street journal just a couple of weeks ago. you re abe the $40 million that he has donatedded to get these k.a.s in the place. he says i ve cone it transparently, i i have no intention of stopping. the funds enable essence bl, reform-minded candidates to receive a hearing from the public. judging by the results, the public likes what he s it s hearing. i m not sure which public he s talking to because these d.a.s are using bail reform to put criminals back on the street except if it s donald trump. maria, they re not d.a.s. they re imposter d.a.s. these are political plants. these are people who are only being supported with, you know, $40 million in the case of alvin bragg a million dolla
john, thanks very much for weighing in here. i want to show this nancy pelosi tweet because what we ve been hearing this morning is all about the equal application of justice. and nancy pelosi tweeted that the president will have his chance to prove that he is innocent. she says no one is above the law, everyone has the right to a trial to prove innocence. actually, she got slammed for this because that s not way our system works. our system is, in fact, innocent until proven guilty. john. well, maria with, we saw this four years ago. nancy pelosi s not the first one to apply this standard to donald trump. the first one to do it was the trump-hating lawyers like andrew wiseman and trump-hating federal agents like peter strzok that were part of the mueller investigation where bob mueller admitted four years ago that donald trump had to conclusively
lifted. it s all right here, right now on sunday morning futures. maria: and we begin this sunday morning with the indictment of president trump by a manhattan grand jury over claims of hush money payments made to stormy daniels seven years ago, in 2016 is. the 45th president is expected to surrender to law enforcement without handcuffs this upcoming tuesday the afternoon when he will be arraigned in a lower manhattan courtroom at 2:15 p.m. eastern. to face, reportedly, more than 30 counts of fraud. it s the paris time in the nation s 2 the 46-year history that a sitting or former president has been indicted, and it comes as trump is seeking to reache the white house many 2024 the reache the white house with the first gop primary debate this august. of joining me right now is the chairman of the house judiciary
is knocking on matt taibbi s door and now an indictment of former president, the guy who happens to be leading in every single poll. this is about all of us. this is about going after anyone who poses the left s agenda, the establishment s agenda. and that s maybe the most scary thing of all. maria: well, you also have right now the bank records that your colleague, james comer, has released showing that money died go from if chinese officials tied to the chinese communist party to rob walker s account which is a partner, a former partner of hunter biden. and then distributed to biden family members. so it s all happening around same time, and what about that? you ve got an entire committee about the weaponization of government. yeah. and the fundamental question there is what was, what were they getting paid for? martha: maria: yeah. what were they paying for? for what? what did they do?
table. we re doing that with all kinds of issues where we think agencies have been turned against the american people they re supposed to serve. so you get the facts on table, and then you look at legislation. we re legislators, our job is to write laws and pass legislation, so we ll look at that. and maybe most importantly, maria, is we control the power of the purse. and that s we re going to have to look at the appropriations process and limit funds going to some of these agencies, particularly the ones engaged in the most egregious behavior. maria: so the doj and the fbi. yeah. and what i d really like, frankly, i d really like for the government just to stay out of the election process. maria: yeah. 2016 they spied on his campaign, 2018, the muller mueller investigation. 2020 the, they suppressed the hunter biden story. 2022, they raid his home 91 days before an election, and now leading candidate for the president of the united states 024 election, hay indict the former p