o er the ramparts we watched were so gather lently streaming and the rocket s red glare the bomb s bursting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there oh say does that star spangled banner yet wave o er the land f the free and the home of the brave pete: secretary of state antony blinken in beginning shinning this beijing this morning on a rare trip to china as relationships sour. will: unclear if he ll sit down with president xi jinping. rachel: alexandria hoff is live with the latest. good morning. reporter: yeah, the question is if the sit down will happen and the primary goal of the visit is to reestablish senior level communication and that includes military to military. there s also other issues that will be brought up as well. secretary blinken meeting with chinese officials and that official plaid down that a broad range of deliverables would come from the trip. the visit was delayed once after the chinese spy craft was found drifti
more. that could be a long-term repair right there. rachel: absolutely. now to this, former president trump making his first speech, a couple of them yesterday, since being hit with that federal indictment. rachel: and he did not hold back during his speech in georgia, calling the charges baseless. he even compared president biden s tactics to something stall inwould do. he also hit at the timing of the indictment. listen to this. every time i fly over a blue state, i get a subpoena. it s no coincidence they indicted me, the very same day that it was revealed that the fbi hid explosive evidence that joe biden took $5 million illegal bribe from ukraine. next hunter will probably be charged with some very minor offense so the fbi and doj can pretend they re fair, they want to pretend they re fair, we got hunter for jay walking. as far as the joke of an indictment, it s a horrible thing. it s a horrible thing for this country. i mean, the only good thing about it is, it
were so gallantly streaming. and the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. o, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave o er the land of the free and the home of the brave rachel: we begin the morning with this: former president donald trump hits back at special counsel jack smith after the justice department unseals a 37-count indictment. pete: the indictment claims trump illegally kept boxes of classified documents at his home in florida. will: alexandria hoff is live in washington with the details. good morning. reporter: good morning. more than just keeping files at his home, prosecutors stated that the former president was showing sensitive documents to people who did not have proper security clearances and kept those files sprawl out in random storage spaces within mar-a-lago. the 37 charges span 7 federal laws that smith if s office has accused trump of breaking including 31 counts of w
[national anthem] [national anthem] pete: thank you, as always, for sharing your photos. reminder, those are your photos on our nation s anthem every single saturday and sun morning here on fox & friends weekend joined by, as always, will cain, rachel campos duffy. good morning. will: do you think pretty good is better than good or less than good? pete: i think pretty good is less than good. will: this is an ongoing debate. when the boys say practice was pretty good, my response is, what went wrong? because in my world, pretty good is less than good, and they have tried to convince me pretty good is actually an increased level of good. pete: pretty is not full good. will: i agree. they made a decent counterpoint of it s how you say it. rachel: i can solve this entire thing. just say muy bueno, done. pete: also works. well, a lot went on yesterday between our show. there were two events where donald trump took the stage. he first was in georgia and then in north ca
contracts down on ac activists. rachel: agent people were detained in hong kong, acured of disrupting order in a public space. his year, a carnival has been held where those vigils used to take place. and that s the new hong kong for you. in 2020, they were protesting the ccp and there were, i mean, gazillions of american flags as our protesters in the summer of 2020 were burning flags, american flags in hong kong they were flying american flags and calling for freedom of course, that didn t come to them. now you see these fake pro beijing protests instead of the tradition of honoring those brave people who tried to fight against communism in tiananmen square. every inch of space you give over becomes a place where freedom does not exist. president trump said the provocations are because we look weak from what happened in afghanistan to the minor incursion in ukraine. rachel: to the falling on the stage. to the falling on the stage of beijing, may be unnoterly looking at