Correspondent bryan llenas is at the Fulton County courthouse in atlanta, tonight, with the latest. Good evening, bryan. Bret, good evening. The Fulton County sheriff says he intends to really treat former President Donald Trump just like any other criminal defendant and that includes a mugshot, unless he is told otherwise. Mr. Trump must turn himself in by next friday august 25th at noon. I make decisions in this office based on the facts and the law. The law is completely nonpartisan. Fulton County District attorney fani willis, a democrat defending her decision to prosecute former President Donald Trump and 18 others after they were indicted by a grand jury late monday night. It is now the duty of my office to prove these charges. Trump is facing 13 criminal counts, including violating georgias antiracketeering or ricco law. If convicted, the law carries a penalty of a minimum of five years in prison, a 25,000s fine, or both. Lawyers say georgias ricco law is unusually broad and in
Judge jeanine i thought you had been an eyewitness. Bret thanks, judge. Coming you tonight from the fox news los angeles bureau. The tiktok time bomb, the house passes legislation that could ban the wildly popular social media app. , if it doesnt divest from chinese ownership. So what now will the senate do . Treasury secretary janet yellen tells fox news in an exclusive interview she regrets saying inflation was transitory. And major turbulence for boeing. The Airplane Maker experiences the latest in a series of Mechanical Problems. What that company is doing to try to fix the situation. But, first, breaking tonight, its official. Next stop the partys conventions in the 2024 president ial race. Both current President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump mathematically clinched their partys nominations with easy primary season wins last night. Right now, we have new fox polling were releasing at this moment from two swing states. The former president leads in two swing states he
Charges. Lucas tomlinson kicks it off for us. Reporter devon archer, Hunter Bidens former Business Partner, friend and fellow board member on burisma, testified to congress that that company would have gone out of business if it was not for the help of thenVice President joe biden. Now, in the last hour you had congressmen from both sides of the aisle who see this matter very differently. Theres no question that that joe biden is helping his sons business, including getting a prosecutor fired to help his sons business. Theres been no evidence whatsoever that joe biden is in any way implicated in the mistakes that hinter biden had made. Hunter biden had made griff wait a minute, hold on one second. Reporter now, one of the revelations to come out of this devon Archer Testimony is that he met with the head of Burisma In Moscow on the same day putin invaded crimea in 2014, a month later president obama made joe biden in the west wing and the year after that allegedly dined at a popular re
Bret, good evening to you. Donald trumps closest advisers are spinning this indictment to advantage. Meanwhile his former number two, former Vice President mike pence who refused to overturn the results of the election is in attack mode. Former Vice President mike pence running against his old boss is coming out swinging. It wasnt just they asked for a pause. The president specifically asked me and his gaggle of crackpot lawyers asked me to literally reject votes and literally coas would have ensued. Indictment pence allegedly told trump he had no authority to do so, according to the indictment, in response, the defendant told the Vice President youre too honest. Trump is staying positive at least publicly. Posting on social media hours ago thank you to everyone. I have never had so much support on anything before. The 45page indictment lays out an overarching theme. The defendant lost the 2020 president ial election despite having lost the defendant was determined to remain in power.
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