far-fetched charges surrounding a legal nondisclosure agreement signed six years ago. according to the media mob, we re watching the crime of the century. today it was o.j. simpson and the white bronco. it was john gotti being brought to justice. nobody is above the law. less than 24 hours, donald trump will be the first former president in history to be charged with a crime but for what? allegations of a mislabelled document? a $130,000 nondisclosure agreement? a case that relies almost in total on the testimony from a convicted admitted liar? a felon by the name of michael cohen? a case that has never been tried before using a new legal theory that was never applied to anyone else? and a cause that looks to be well-past the statute of limitations. the charges are so weak, the bob mueller, the prior manhattan district attorney declined to bring a case. former congressman that voted to impeach donald trump, this is what he tweeted. we re going to indict a former president for
house judiciary committee pressing him on his five-year investigation into hunter biden and his overseas business interests and we ll have more on that straight ahead. but first. election day in america. you might not have one but there are elections happening in several states and several high-stakes races we re watching including virginia where every state, senate and house seat is up for grabs. republicans are looking to take full control of the legislature and implement a conservative agenda fully. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. a busy hour. bill: yes, it is. i m bill hemmer, good morning at home. we re watching a number of other critical contests. voters in ohio will decide whether or not the right to abortion should be enshrined in the state constitution. a high-stakes gubernatorial race in kentucky. governor beshear the democrat is fighting to keep his seat there. dana: virginia is being seen as a big test for governor youngkin. he
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another way to do this by essentially telling his millions of followers that the jury pool, without even having a full seated jury is already biased against him. and of course, he s saying he ll let you know after the trial whether it was fair. again, and having a fair trial does not mean that an acquittal is the only result in outcome. and then you ve got this issue. of course, next tuesday, we re going to hear a hearing on the gag order. it has not been raised as a get in the courtroom as we understand today by the judge about whether this is a violation, you ve recently asked president trump foreign president trump about this very notion. he does not think that he s been violating the gag order at all. absolutely. so after they d brought this to the judge, said we want a hearing on this. we think he s violated the gag or not? front not from this poem, not from the prior post where he was boasting about michael cohen and stormy daniels reposting articles that were insulting them.
very successful in most instances. my question to you is this is a city where democrats outnumber republicans nearly 10-1. you have a seated jury, the odds are that the overwhelming number of potential jurors in this case are going to be registered democrats. democrats in this country, they seem to bubble and fizz like alka-seltzer and water just at the very name donald trump or the face of donald trump. so i wonder, you don t have to give away your strategy, but i have doubts if he can get a fair trial here. i do. why not have a chang of venue to make sure that it s at least a 50/50 part of new york state. we re absolutely going to obviously consider all things. the legal team has been meeting and discussing. there will be a host of motions we ll make including off the bat a motion to dismiss based on