the senate projects debate between iowa republican senator joni ernst and new hampshire democratic senator jeanne shaheen. the debate and conversation streamed live on fox nation today. designed to facilitate substantive discussion of policy and hopes of finding areas of agreement or common ground. we will have highlights from that event a little later in the show. bret: breaking tonight, former president donald trump is in florida this evening ahead of his appearance, his court appearance tomorrow afternoon in miami. he faces a 37 count indictment, including obstruction and how he handled classified documents. correspondent griff jenkins is in miami with the latest. vening, griff. griff: good evening, bret. the former president is here in miami, expected to be meeting this evening with his new legal team and despite the political bluster, bret, he is fully aware of the seriousness of these charges. the first former president to ever face formal criminal charges landing
bret: but, obviously, breaking tonight, an historic day. one that both republicans and democrats described as, quote: a sad day. the first former or current president of the united states to be arrested and booked in federal criminal court. former president donald trump pleaded not guilty to all 37 counts in the indictment alleging that the former president illegally kept hundreds of classified documents at his mar-a-lago home, even after a subpoena to return them. potentially risking the disclosure of top secret national defense secrets. the former president is defiant, proclaiming his innocence from what he describes as as another witch-hunt and he accuses president biden s administration of targeting him, the leading g.o.p. challenger. the former president is on his way to his golf club in bedminster, new jersey where he will hold a fundraiser tonight and is expected to deliver remarks about this day and the charges he faces. correspondent mark meredith is outside the mi
all right. dana, thanks. dana: have a great show. bret: gogood evening. i m bret baier. breaking tonight, we are following two major stories, first former president donald trump is appealing a decision by maine s democratic secretary of state barring him from primary ballot in his role january 6th, 2021 capitol riot. expecting a similar appeal over colorado s decision to remove the decision from that state s ballot. we begin with claudine gay s resignation as the president of harvard university. the departure comes amid several plagiarism accusations criticism over her december congressional testimony where she was unable to say unequivocally calls on campus for the genocide of jews violated the policy. gay is the second person to resign following the testimony along with former upenn president liz magill. mollie lyon has that story from our boston unit tonight. good evening, bret. harvard president claudine gay making it official announcing her decision with heavy hear
are at 4. the desantis campaign has just released a video making his formal announcement. let s take a look. the federal government makes it harder for families to make ends meet. and the president flounders. but decline is a choice. success is attainable, and freedom is worth fighting for. writing the ship requires restoring sanity to our society. normalcy to our communities, and integrity to our institutions. truth must be our foundation. and common sense can no longer be an uncommon virtue. in florida, we prove that it can be done. we chose facts over fear, education over indoctrination, law and order over rioting and disorder. we held the line when freedom hung in the balance. we showed that we can and must revitalize america. we need the courage to lead and the strength to win. i m ron desantis, and i m running for president to lead our great american comeback. bret: more on that in a bit. governor desantis now becomes the main challenger to former president trum
fbi used everyday americans 28,000 times going into 2020 to 2021. section 02 of the foreign intelligence surveillance act also known as fisa. it gives the fbi and other agencies the ability to difficultily surveil.used the te civil unrest following the death of george floyd on the streets of the united states. those involved in the january 6th capitol attack. even political donors. according to the court a redacted name or names, quote: conducted a batch query for over 19,000 donors to a congressional campaign. the analyst who ran the query advised that the campaign was a target of foreign influence but the national security division determined that only 8 identifiers used in a query had sufficient ties to foreign influence activities to comply with the querying standard. the judge wrote that the problems were persistent and widespread and, quote: it may become necessary to consider other responses such as substantially limiting the number of fbi personnel with access to unmi