los angeles, and this is america s late news, fox news @ night. breaking tonight, governor ron desantis says forget the polls, because his ground game will translate into a big win in iowa. it s a bold statement considering former president trump is leading ila by more than 30 points. the latest power rankings have just come out, and they indicate the very real possibility of a surprise in iowa or new hampshire. aishah hasnie is live in des moines, iowa, with more on the fox news town hall as well as the shake-up in the fox news power rankings. good evening. trace, good evening to you. that s right, desantis says don t count him out just yet, despite the stagnant polling on him at there recently. he says he is promising to exceed expectations here in iowa. tonight on the big stage he boasted about his ground game at the fox town hall and his team tells me they have more than 30,000 people committed to caucus for desantis. that s a big deal. he said it s time to elect some
his own special prosecutor to, quote, go after the president. he s got a scorched earth political strategy. do his lawyers have a legal strategy equal to special prosecutor jack smith s case. shoved out of the headlines by trump s indictment and impending trial, so how do they regain the political spotlight? the commuting nightmare for those in and around philadelphia, forced to find a new way to work after part of a major interstate collapses. the effort to fix it as officials say it could be out of commission for months. we begin with those new details about how former president donald trump plans to fight 37 first-of-their-kind criminal charges both in court and in public. he s flying to south florida at this hour for tomorrow s arraignment. where we ll see the case begin to play out in realtime. first, with that arraignment in miami, followed just a few hours later by trump s first major fund-raiser of the 2024 campaign. the public response has been typical trump, s
his mar-a-lago resort. we ll go through the charges and what s next in the case. plus, this indictment from a florida grand jury is significant when it comes to a venue for a potential trial. we ll explain why. and we ll have the reaction from trump s republican rivals in the 2024 presidential race. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, june 9th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. nbc news can confirm that former president donald trump has been indicted by a grand jury in florida in connection with special counsel jack smith s investigation into his handling of more than 100 classified documents discovered last year at his mar-a-lago resort in palm beach, florida. two sources familiar with the matter confirmed the indictment. one adding that trump received a summons to appear in u.s. district court on tuesday. this is the first time in american history that a former u.s. president will face federal charges. the sources say that
tonight from our team. dangerously bad air still affects millions of americans due to wildfires in canada. this weekend into early next week a system will come through, direct the smoke away from the u.s. in the eastern part of the country, ukrainian troops have stepped up offensive operations around the beleaguered city of bakhmut, which was only recently taken by russian troops. the main suspect in the disappearance of u.s. teenager natalee holloway has been arraigned in an alabama court. norah: paying with plastic. the shocking new data. americans owe nearly $1 trillion in credit card debt. the bear wandered into a northeast d.c. neighborhood. it showed up a little before 7:00 and got rather comfortable in the tree. this is a bear in a tree, and i was like, praise god. roderick duncan says real change never happens overnight. look at you, man. homeless? homeless, he had to be. and he kept coming back? and he kept coming bac
off each of the 37 felony counts. trump is facing them over his handling of classified materials. right now, officials in miami and the u.s. secret service are on alert for any threats of violence on tuesday and beyond. what gives me the most pratas is the truly bottomless devotion to trump zone by the nation s most powerful republican lawmakers this weekend men and women who insist that they are beholden to law and order yet they ve already deemed trump innocent of all charges before he s even been arraigned. as usual, they are vocal to the point of zealotry about defending a rich white republican male with a history of subverting the law. at best, they are silent about the death of unarmed black americans killed by police, even civilians, like the women accused of killing aj owens, a mother of four, a week ago in florida. i will go there tomorrow to deliver the eulogy. my thoughts on that later. , plus all the latest developments on the trump indictment. all of that is toni