this picture could become the most famous photo in the world as his enemies use it to criticize him and supporters use it to bolster him, including his own presidential campaign. >> todd: move over o.j. mugshot. >> the former president is at his home in new jersey this morning, free on $200,000 bond. only two more need to turn themselves in. that snapshot in history was taken as the former president turned himself in at fulton county jail. we are told he was prosed as any other defendant would have been. they insisted on a mugshot and i agreed to do that. it is not a comfortable feeling when you have done nothing wrong. 11 other upon co-defendants have had their it mugshots released in a sweeping racketeering case, including mark meadows and rudy giuliani, sydney powell. the former president returned to twitters, now called x, for first time in two years. the phrase election interference and never surrender. here is what he says yesterday. >> this is a travesty of justice. i did nothing wrong, i have never had such support, what they are doing is election interference, interfering with an election, never been anything like it in our country before. >> as leading gop primary candidate, trump has to 27th of next month is debate and the iowa caucus will be starting. four criminal cases in dc, florida, manhattan and georgia. fani willis proposed october 23rd trial date for all defendants in this case. here is fox news contributor jonathan turley. >> jonathan: i don't know how that date is possible temperature undermines prosecution to set such a date. they do not need to be tried together. >> trump's formal arraignment will take place next months, he is expected to plead not guilty and have a new attorney by that time. >> todd: i will be in the n.f.l. by -- >> carley: never say never, todd. >> todd: bring in sam dewey. sam, all focus this morning on this mugshot. your thoughts on the legal system being used to get a mugshot of a former president for political motivation? >> look, if you charge a former president with a crime and put the country through that, you should have proof of a clear crime, bribe, cash was exchanged for official acts, corruption with clear proof. we are as far from that as you can be. legal theory range from extremely tenuous to absolutely absurd and the evidence or actses, if you look at them, why isn't stacey abrams or hillary clinton being charged or a bunch of democratic members getting charged when they challenged the 2016 issue the 2000, the 2004 election results? it is out in left field and a transparent misuse of the criminal justice system. >> carley: what do you make of the effort by the house oversight committee to investigate fani willis. they want to see if she coordinated her investigation with jack smith and if she used federal money to investigate donald trump. are those two things not supposed to happen? >> what jim jordan is driving at, this is not about the law, this is not about presumption of you don't put the country through this unless you have an overwhelming case. this is a mpolitical hit job. absurd charges that create wreck to the federal system. if local district attorney can do this, how is the president regardless of party, suppose to function. it turns federal supremacy on its head. you are attacking the very structure of our system of government with bizarre state court hearings and theories that are just completely unfounded and it is a very odd case. normally you wouldn't see this type of inquiry. it is almost the unique case is made appropriate because of egregiousness of the conduct. >> todd: you heard this joke i would be quarterback of the giants before this happens. there will be motions to separate this case into 19s different styles. you have jury selection, appeals. one area people are not talking about you have in, federal supremacy, a lot of individuals acting in federal capacity being charged in state court. where is the law on that when you look at trial level, district court level and appeals court level. you can't try this stuff in state court. what say you, sam? >> i think that is right and i know mr. meadows has set in motion removing the case to federal court and i think you will see other defendants do that and strong case to take this out of state court and put in federal court. you are attacking federal officials for doing what is in their job description >> you may not like it, every white house since start of the two-party political system has done it. i think that is where we're going to go. >> todd: please continue. i was going to say, i looked at briefing on this, there is not a lot of case law with regard to this removal and immunity when it comes to state versus federal prosecution, that will require time for takeaway at home and that means october 23rd is a pipedream. >> carley: thank you for joining us, we appreciate it. >> todd: seattle times columnist blaming the upon hawaii wildfires on colonnizers. >> we need education, not indoctrination and in florida, we stood up for what was right. >> carley: teachers union bos randi weingarten tries to attack ron desantis on education and it back fires. we have that and we will tell you which candidates voters say won the night. that is next. hey all, so i just downloaded the experian app because i wanted to check my fico® score, but it does so much more. this thing shows you your fico® score, you can get your credit card recommendations, and it shows you ways to save money. do so much more than get your fico® score. download the experian app now. every business that's why comcast business de is launching theal. mobile made free event. with our business internet, new and existing customers can get one year of unlimited mobile for free. it's our best internet. powered by the next generation 10g network and with 99.9% reliability. plus one line of free mobile for an entire year. it's the mobile made free event-happening now. get started for just $49.99 a month. plus, ask how to get one free line of unlimited mobile. comcast business, powering possibilities. >> anyone on the stage, i'm the only guy that has delivered on the things voters care about. american people want to know about their future and the country's future. they see the country declining and want that see that fixed. i am ready to handle whatever is thrown at me. >> carley: republican voters seem to agree with him. new "washington post" poll puts him in top spot if thing the debate. >> todd: he was at the field of dreams. jackie ibanez will join us. >> 29% of debate watchers liked what they heard, not far behind is vivek ramaswamy at 26% and only other candidate to break double digits and nikki haley with 15% saying she did the best. this is ramaswamy's first time on debate stage and despite coming in second, he left the debate stage with a noticeable confidence boost. >> i view the other people on the stage as colleagues and i expect to be the next president and win in a landslide, i will require those people to play in the revival in some way thchl is a team sport. >> as far as key points, education still major topic resonating with voters and one desantis is able to lean on pointing to his track record in florida. >> decline in education is why our country is in decline. we need education in this country, not indoctrination in this country. in florida we stood up for what was right. >> that point catching the attention of teachers union president randi weingarten, desantis has been a disaster on education, they are banning history, and have a terrible teacher shortage, nobody should take advice from him on school. that attack quickly backfired. one critic responding, you closed every school in the country. the people who ban school don't get to talk about this. this debate was opportunity to introduce themselves to voters. next debate takes place september 27th in california. >> carley: thank you. i like what ron desantis said on "fox and friends" yesterday when brian asked him, vivek, the center of it all, he took fire and got a lot of time. does that bother you? he said, no, i was ready to hit people back, i wanted to talk about policy. there was bickering and name calling and he is not into that. he is right. it is amusing when that upon has, that is not what debates are about. his message and strategy was clear. whatever topic came up, he was going to say, i have a proven track record, talk about covid, this is what i did. talk about crime, this is what i did. attacking illegal border immigration, he is a border state. vivek ramaswamy got a lot of attention. maybe they like the fact he didn't dive into the fray. >> todd: my thought on ron desantis, desantis will gets annihilated and everyone will focus on desantis. you are right. vivek ramaswamy got this. but ron desantis will get it. desantis winning is common theme. >> carley: they are so close. >> todd: i think people loved what they had to say. i can't find one person who said nikki haley had a bad debate. yesterday on the maria show, everybody said she crushed it. i was stating all morning long i thought pence did a horrible job, i'm 45, when i talk to people in the older category, they liked how mike pences held himself. interviewed joe lieberman. and he thought he did a great job. my mom thought he did a good job. i think people of an older ilk like where he jumped in. >> carley: a lot of candidates did media yesterday and george george stephanopoulos snapped at nikki haley. >> i know there is no way joe biden will finish his term, the fact we have a primary -- >> excuse me, how do you know joe biden will not finish his term? 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bring in rutgers university student jeremy lee and dr. dr. janette nesheiwat. good morning to you both. doctor, start with you, what do you think about this? is there any reason to have mandates? >> dr. nesheiwat: absolutely not, carley. it is ineffective. they are asking young, healthy college students to mask up and live like a her mit. having taken care of thousands of covid patients, these masks are ineffective. if you are high risk, that is wot thing, wear an n-95 mask. to mandate masks is the wrong move, to shut down schools and have remote learning breaks my heart. last shift i saw 55 patients and eight or nine had covid, sniffles, cough, score throat. we can treat covid. >> carley: great point. jeremy, what is going on at ruts gers, masks and mandates? really? >> yeah, believe it or not, we have a vaccine mandate on campus and i absolutely agree with the doctor here, it is just devastating to see, that we have schools across all three campuses having this vaccine mandate in place and mask requirements for equalities. students are fed up with the fact majority of staff and students have been vaccinated or have immunity from contracting it and doesn't make sense to put college students in dorms. it is a social experience and we need to think about if students want to go back to wearing masks and hunkering down. we want to live our lives. >> carley: two new strands of covid, what do we need to know about the two new stranded? >> dr. nesheiwat: we have eg-5 and bax. and 30 genetically distimutatio. maybe this strain will escape natural immunity or vaccine immunity. we're trying to interfere with mother nature. it is normal for viruses to mutate since delta or omicron strain. we will continue to live our lives, we have vaccine or natural immunity and we have tools to treat. focus on vulnerable groups, senior citizens, those with underlying medical conditions, weakened immune systems, lung disease, that sort of thing. >> carley: jeremy, the fact you are getting forced to get vaccinated is too far for a lot of people. what are you going to do and how is rutgers on exemptions? >> rutgers has been strict on exemptions, some friends of mine had challenges trying to get exemptions in the first place and every year this happens, they insist they don't have religious reason for exemption. people do. this is not something people should be forced to do. this is about your body and whether or not you want something put in your body. i am vaccinated, i believe in the effectiveness of the vaccine and i'm comfortable being around people that are not vaccinated. >> carley: personal choice, it is amazing even if the cdcs it is no longer an emergency. thank you for joining us. there is also this, russian court extending sentence of gershkovich employing >> todd: his friends, family and colleagues fighting to bring evan home. we will speak to one of his friendsnique. next. nique. next. ique. next. que. next. ue. next. . next. next. ext. next. meet the portable blender we can barely keep in stock. blendjet 2 gives you ice-crushing, big blender power on-the-go. so you can blend up a mouthwatering smoothie, protein shake, or latte wherever you are! recharge quickly with any usb port. best of all, it even cleans itself! just blend water with a drop of soap. what are you waiting for? 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>> it was expected. it is the third time it's been extended. we were ready for it, every time it is tragic, you just, evan's year is marked by three-month windows and waiting for something to change. waiting for some progress in his case, something to happen. >> todd: you have been writing letters to evan, how is he holding up? >> evan is strong regarding the circumstances. we speak often, we can exchange letters. we talk about his reading list, what he's reading, how he's keeping himself disciplined and focused on his routine to pas this period of time. he is holding up well, continues to track jokes, look out for helpless friends, talks to us about reaching out to his family. he's doing very well. he's focused on staying strong. >> todd: that is good to hear, albeit under the circumstances. here is the president of the united states on bringing evan home. >> president biden: i'm serious about bringing prisoner exchange in russia or anywhere else and that pros is underway. >> todd: are you satisfied with the job president of the united states is doing trying to bring evan home? >> i think we can see officials in the u.s. are doing as much as possible at the moment, we hear positive signs they are open to a prisoner exchange. but there has been no progress that we know about on that from them. it is just a wait and see game, waiting for evan's trial to start, this is excontinuation of the trial. case of trying to support evan through this time. >> todd: you have covered russia and you know how the system works there, do you think this delay, this addition is because russiian negotiators have not figured out who to swap here? >> looking at brittney griner's case,y shoo was taken hostage and that took nine months of back and forth before there was an exchange and before her trial started. we just don't know. all we can do is hope that evan is staying strong through it. >> todd: thank you for keeping evan top of mind so he is not forgotten. according to president biden, this is bidenomics in action, but this post was debunked. cheryl casone is here, it is not pretty. >> carley: and did you hear about this? >> ♪ >> carley: it truly is a cruel summer for this swift swift fan who got fired for working at the superstar's concert. we'll tell you what he says coming up. got fired for working superstar's concert. we'll tell you what he says coming up. who got fired for wore superstar's concert. we'll tell you what he says coming up. got fired for working superstar's concert. we'll tell you what he says coming up. who got fired for wore superstar's concert. we'll tell you what he says coming up. do you ever feel dehydrated and need to feel better quickly? liquid labs from force factor hydrates better and faster than water alone. and, liquid labs is delicious, easy to use and affordable. rush to walmart and find liquid labs in the vitamin aisle. >> todd: president biden getting fact checked on the economy. number of jobs created under past administration, his bar shoots up over 13 million mark. >> carley: fact checkers at x flagged it, it is more accurate to say 9.4 million jobs recovered and 3.9 created under the president. cheryl casone is here. >> cheryl: love when social media can fact check so quickly and easily. look at comments, funny things in there. thank you for admitting bidenomics is a lie. those are recovered job, that is a covid story, pandemic story, not like he created the jobs. things troubling many americans, 4 in 5 americans say and this speaks to bidenomics, spending more on gas and groceries than they were this time last year. mortgage rate this week, 7.23% for the average 30 year, 22-year high. we have not seen those numbers since 2021. 71% of people say they are living paycheck to paycheck. bidenomics is a success? sure that is not correct. when you say you created jobs, that is definitely not correct. >> todd: this administration fails to make that contract, they are naive on that, works to there benefit. anothers attack on united states status in the world. >> cheryl: we've focused on the most successful debate ever this week. what is happening in the meeting in south africa is troubling. the brix countries, brazil, russia, india, china and south africa, now that group invited, argentina, egypt, iran, saudi arabia and the uae. this is all xi jinping, lead eg of china to expand this block and that is something the biden administration should be concerned with, maybe put climate change down and look at what is happening around the world. these are dangerous economic powers, if you think about iran, forming a powerful group here together. >> carley: from iran to taylor swift. >> todd: can you think of a story we have gone over more. >> carley: controversy with a security guard. >> cheryl: this poor kid takes a job as security guard at taylor swift. he knows the rule, he can't have his phone out. he gives a note to other fans, please take a picture and he gets fired. >> i handed out pieces of paper to a couple oaudience members that said i'm notes allowed to have my phone out, when taylor swift gets close to me, would he take a picture with taylor swift in the back ground to have a memory from the night. >> cheryl: he was a big fan of taylor. he gets another job as security job at ed shearin concert and this story ignited so he got fired again. can someone please hire him? >> todd: this individual is full-time software engineer who only wanted to work security to get to the show for free, clearly operator. he was giving pieces of paper to individuals, he gets their phone number. i think this was rous to get phone numbers. >> cheryl: of cute fans. >> todd: i didn't say that, you said that. the mystery continues, we appreciate it. devastating news in wrestling. wwe star dead at 36 after suffering a heart attack. tributes pour in, dwayne the rock johnson calls it heart blt breaking, he had tremendous love for him and the rotunda family. morning loss of his former partner saying eight years ago today i joined you as your black sheep, eight years later, if i knew i had to say goodbye. rotunda was released in 2021, expected to come back next month. survived by three children and his father mike, who was a wwe superstar dubbed irs employing >> todd: -- liberal cities are letting criminals walk free. seattle radio host jason rancce reviews next. >> steve: thank goodness it is fox. coming up nine minutes from now, 2024 presidential candidate vivek ramaswamy and nikki haley will join us live, their reaction to their strong performances over the last couple days and the fact former president trump has been booked and released from jail down in atlanta. then joining us with their take in the studio and greg jarrett and enes kanter freedom. plus, it is friday, we back general jack keane and tudor dixon. and maverick city music rocking the all-american summer concert series all day long. they will take the stage on our program, which starts in eight minutes and 30 seconds. put down the remote, todd and carley back in a couple, you're watching fox news channel. safely in as little as one treatment. what if there was a place where every kid got a chance to be great? there is a place. milton hershey school. you see, we're more than a school. we change lives. and you can be next. >> a fox news alert. unprecedented moment in our nation's history as former president donald trump's mugshot is taken and made public. this is the first time an american president has been fingerprinted, booked and released from prison on $200,000 bond. trump is facing over 700 years in jail if convicted on all charges in four separate cases across the country. that is a staggering contrast to the way we see repeat criminals treated under liberal d.a.s in major cities. >> todd: 886 felony arrests this year in new york city were declined by prosecutors. across the country d.a. george gascon's office barred prosecutors accuse making criminal threats, resisting arrest and trespassing among other crimes. up in seattle felony prison and jail sentences fell 47% in just five years. jason rantz is the host of the jason rantz show and upcoming book what is killing america. he joins us now. jason, how ridiculous do these liberal d.a.s look now going after a 77 year old former president on political charges when people in their city, ordinary citizens are being attacked, are being killed, with no consequences to the criminal? >> yeah. are they ridiculous or does this show how partisan they have been this entire time where they purposely choose not to go after certain kinds of criminals, certain crimes, pushing people in restorative justice programs where apparently, i guess, for donald trump that doesn't matter? this is clearly vindictive. this is clearly driven by a political agenda. i think it's going to blow up in their faces because i think you're right that folks are going to start paying attention, to wait a minute, looking in atlanta specifically you have 71% increase in car theft. that seems like we should probably be going after that because that impacts people everyday in their lives whereas donald trump choosing to engage in speech that they are now trying to criminalize i think it's going to blow up. >> carley: you just have to wonder what that mugshot will do to the presidential election. clearly the president thinks it will benefit him because he released it on his twitter account. jason, we also want to ask you about this. what do you think about seattle hiring unarmed crisis responders to respond to certain 911 calls? so the plan is to have mental health professionals respond to certain situations but then have police officers somewhere nearby so the unarmed person is answering the door, the first to go in, but a cop will be standing somewhere in the vicinity? what do you make of this? >> that's not even going to be the case in all of these calls. they might be generally aware. it is a horrible idea. it's a good idea to put social worker with police on certain calls. when you are sending them to some of these calls when you are relying on whoever is calling 911 to be accurate in explaining the actual threat. let me tell you something there was a case with a deputy herzog some years ago and called to a naked guy who was running in and out of the street causing problems with traffic he gets there, naked guy attacks him, steals his firearm, shoots him 11 times and kills him. we are sending these social workers potentially be seriously injured and/or killed. >> todd: staying in your city, a seattle times columnist blaming colonization for 9 hawaii wildfires. we're up against it going to hit "fox & friends." i'm going to ask you here when hundreds of people still missing isn't an article focusing on colonization pretty grotesque. >> it's disgusting in every way, shape, and form. while those of us focused on thousands of missing people she is focused on making a political point that is tired and hack need and we are sick of it. they are going to do it i'm sure she thinks she brave. >> todd: brave is the people went to save people still doing the work today. jason rantz have great weekend. we appreciate your time. "fox & friends" begins right now. ♪ good morning everybody, it's friday august 25th, 2023. we start this morning with a fox news alert. it's an unprecedented moment in america's history. former president donald trump's mugshot has been made public after turning himself in to a georgia jail in that 2020 election interference case down in georgia. >> brian: all right. trump speaking exclusively with fox news about the quote uncomfortable experience after posting $200,000 bond. >> ainsley: alexandria hoff joins us with the latest. the post thi