with 34 felonies. the president spoke before a pretty raucous crowd at his florida home mar-a-lago as you mentioned he vowed to fight these charges. he left of center says he has no plans to drop out of the 2024 republican presidential race. these radical left lunatics want to interfere with our elections by using law enforcement. we can t be let that happen. i never thought anything like this could happen in america. never thought it could happen. this is 5% cushion, not an investigation. the 34-count indictment released late yesterday accuses trump of essentially trying to cover up different payments, to cover up alleged affairs during the 2016 presidential campaign. for example, it s alleged from august of 2015 to 2017, trump orchestrated a catch and kill scheme through payments that he through months of false business entries and even covering up the case of alleged door man at trump tower claiming there was a kid out of wedlock. alvin bragg spoke with the media tel
house. where he was signing checks to pay off hush money for the porn store, playmate. brian: i don t think he signed the checks. steve: he signed some of the checks. ainsley: some of them. steve: absolutely. it is a big, big story. and so it is extraordinary. mark was talking about how the reporters tried to get the president to say something. he smiled, a picture says a thousand words. nonetheless, peter doocy asked k.j.p. yesterday about it and, once again, the white house is stonewalling on an answer. why don t you have more to say about the trump investigation. it is an ongoing case and i have been very clear about that. we have been prudent about that, not commenting on ongoing cases and we are going to stick to that. ainsley: a new york times reporter his name is michael shear he got into a heated exchange with her because he is frustrated that she won t answer questions about this but the president was all over january 6th. listen. the president has spoken
put aside for a moment whether you like trump or don t like him for him or not for him today is a bad day for all of us. today american politics crosses a line it s never going to come back from. after today after today, especially on the basis of how ridiculous these charges are, after today every prosecutor in america that want to make a name for themselves now is going to have permission to basically go after someone in the other party. that s going to stop some republican or conservative prosecutor now from saying well now i m going to go after joe biden or his family? or bill clinton or hillary clinton or nancy pelosi, whoever? what s going to stop them? nothing is going to stop them because today we set a new normal. today we set the new normal that if you really want to take someone down, nothing should stop you. you should be able to manipulate the law any way you want to charge someone. of. brian: senator marco rubio casual but serious. back now with a fox news alert.
you re mistaken. every single day as a leader is going to be hard. so you have got to bring it every day. you have got to come prepared when you come to work, it s going to be tough. just accept that and be engaged. steve: absolutely. here s the thing. it s not this book is not written for just military leaders. oh, no. steve: it s applicable. this is for anybody. you are a boss. if you work at a business. if you want to, you know, operate in your neighborhood, this is all great stuff. what does, once again, another expression we have heard a million times, run to the sound of the gun? this is a thought. leader think back on the great generals, when the generals were on the battlefield they would see the guns firing in a certain area and their job was to move to where the guns were. the implication is when you see a problem don t run away from the problem. move to where the problem is to try to solve it. steve: one of the stories that i love in the book is regarding this
for killing people for murder. the d.a. is lobbying hard to get him early release while we have to really crack down on a billionaire s 130,000 payment to make history, 235 years of nonindicting a former president, even though we had a civil war, we could have indicted half the country for treason and he decides this is the moment. nobody thinks he did a good job. no one thinks this case is strong. deals, next hearing, another $200 million cost new york city. and wait six more months to get a jury. and then after that we are going to be into a new administration. and three more cases sin larr sr timeline. unbelievable what a distraction it is for a country that has so many challenges. ainsley: how expensive it was. they shut down the fdr. officers all around trump tower. all around the court house. is he due back in court in december. his lawyers are saying please don t let him appear in person.