All right . You cannot see my deltoids. Ainsley and you do not wrestle alligators. Brian not yet unless you needed me to jump in. What a show we have for you today. 6 00 a. M. On the east coast, april 25th. It is fox friends. Fox news alert coast to coast. Antiisrael protest rage at top schools across america. [chanting pig goes home] [no more money for israels crime] [chanting] [shouting] put your hands up. [chanting we cant hear you] ainsley plus, it is new york vs. Trump continued. And we are also hearing the Supreme Court case where justices will weigh in on president ial immunity. Gregg jarrett in just a few moments with that analysis. Hey, greg. Charlie lawrence is talking to voters that 2024 president ial race. Bucks county most influential in 2020. Brian we asked him to go and he showed up. We have a lot to talk about. Friends starts right now. Remember mornings are better with friends. Ainsley this is a fox news alert. Two major stories today antiisrael protests spreading to more College Campuses all across our country including down in the south. And late last night Los Angeles Police arresting nearly 100 protesters at the university of Southern California after they refused to leave the campus. Charlie overnight on the east coast at least 20 protesters arrested at Emerson College in boston. Brian today is a massive day for former President Donald Trump. Now, in just hours, he will be back in new york city in a courtroom for day seven of his carl trial. Ainsley and the stakes couldnt be higher in his federal Election Interference case as the Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments on president ial immunity. Brian you got all that . We have team conch to bring it all to you. David spunt is outside the Supreme Court in washington. But we begin with eric shawn, who is right outside, right in downtown new york. Get ready for day one of the trump trial. Good morning, brian. We are now waiting to see if judge merchan will hit the former president with those contempt of Court Charges. While we do that, the first witness in this trial is back on the stand. He is david pecker, the former friend of the former president. He was the publisher of the National Inquirer, and pecker will continue to outline the plan to bury negative sex scandal allegations about trump during the 2016 president ial race. Including the story of former playboy playmate Karen Macdougall who says she had a 10 month long affair with the former president. This, as prosecutors could pile on more contempt of Court Charges against trump for his continued attacks, especially on the expected star witness, his former lawyer, michael cohen. You know, the former president here at court and elsewhere has continued to brand cohen as a liar. And prosecutors have said his attacks violate judge merchans gag order. In response, cohen tells fox news, quote despite not being the gagged defendant, out of respect for judge merchan and the prosecutors, i will cease posting anything about donald on my x, formerly twitter account or on the Mea Culpa Podcast until after my trial testimony. We expect coton testify here, perhaps, in the next weektoweek and a half. But today it will be mr. Peckers chance and we will find out if the judge cites the former president for contempt of court. If he does, he could face 1,000 per infraction. He is racking up now 11 examples so, that could be 11 grand if in deed the judge finds he is go ahead of contempt of court. Back to you. Brian he did read that story how the Secret Service is preparing should go to prison how they would handle that good luck with that now to washington where david spunt is live outside the Supreme Court on the president ial president s immunity case. David, we are going to hear these arguments, right . Yeah. Good morning. Those argue manies start promptly at 10 00. We are expecting them to go at least two hours. Perhaps even more given the nature of todays topic. We expect to hear from each justice. Former President Donald Trump makes the claim that the allegations levied against him for trying to overturn the 2020 president ial election deals with a time when he was still president of the United States. He claims, therefore, he cannot be charged. He spoke to fox news digital ahead of todays arguments and said no president would be able properly and effectively function without complete and total immunity. Now, special counsel jack smith says trumps behavior continued after he left office, and he should be prude full stop. This case was supposed to go to trial here in d. C. In early march. It was delayed when the Supreme Court behind me agreed to hear the case. Arguing for the special counsel is Michael Dreeben who previously worked on special counsel Robert Muellers team arguing for donald trump is john sower Antonin Scalia law clerk. Justices who typically like to shy away from politics cannot escape it in this case. They are entering the nerve center of the elections. If they say that trump is not immune, the engines of the case will kick back on and start moving if the justices side with the former president , its possible he does not go to trial at all here in washington, d. C. Again, arguments kick off at 10 00. We definitely expect those to last at least two hours, perhaps even more. Back to you. Ainsley thank you, david. The ruling is expected in late june. So that would be in the middle of the summer when we will find out what they decide. Brian then, of course, if they do Something Like the documents case, you got to go through all the documents and get the Security Clearance in order to read some of the documents. Even if you are a Paralegal Working with a lawyer, there is so many documents to go through you have to wonder how they can actually do it before november. Will they even try . Charlie all this and the protests and election year. Going to be unbelievable. Ainsley bring in Gregg Jarrett fox news legal analysts to weigh in on this. Hey, gregg, whats your thoughts . What is your reaction . Gregg well, president s already have immunity from civil lawsuits as long as their actions fall within the outer perimeter of official duties. That was a decision by the high court four decades ago. Its quite possible, i think, that the justices will extend that civil immunity protection to criminal prosecutions because the exact same reasoning applies. If there was no immunity, the Chilling Effect on president ial decision imagination would maker paralysis. The ruled by a committee of lawyers. If the Supreme Court does grant lets call it immunity with conditions, then they would have to remand trumps case back to the trial court to decide whether those conditions have been met. Another possibility is the high court could say well, there should be some immunity for president s. We will give you a little bit of guidance but sending it to the lower court to figure it out. The Supreme Court has done that in numerous cases. But, either way, the process will be time consuming briefs, court hearings, a further appeal. So, it would seem impossible that a trial could take place before the election. Brian couple of things, gregg. So they will hear the arguments, but they are also setting up precedent for the future. We know that is some immunity, as you mentioned, but will they get into specific arguments about donald trump in particular, january 6th, what he said, documents, back to maralago, took while he was still president , technically or will this be a general talk about what is too far did, for example, a president does an aaron burr and shoots Alexander Hamilton had he not been Vice President , president. You will never be immune from that. Thats extreme behavior. Gregg i suspect they will not get into the trump case because the Supreme Court, when they took this case, framed the question very broadly, whether president s should enjoy some form of immunity. So, i tend to think they dont want to get into the nitty gritty of the trump case itself. Even though thats the reason it was brought to the high court you lawyers often talk about the outer perimeter of president ial action, official duties, where is the line of the outer perimeter . Well, its very subjective the fact is this arose 182. Nixon had already left office but been sued by the name of fitzgerald. The Supreme Court eventually took the case and look, there has got to be some protection for president s, otherwise, they wont be able to do their job. They will be defending themselves in a myriad of civil lawsuits over every decision they make that effects any individual. As i say, the same sort of reasoning applies to criminal cases. What i worry about is, you know, a president who has to make a very immediate and Important National security decision. Lets say take out a terrorist leader. That could be described as murder. Should a president be charged then with murder when he leaves office over Something Like that when is he protecting americas National Security interests . I dont think anybody would say so so there has got to be some immunity here. Charlie probably the best example of that, of course, is when president obama used a drone to take out a 16yearold american citizen in yemen. Greg yes. Charlie basically what we are talking about here is one branch of the government either limiting or basically eliminating another branch of government. Gregg yeah, i wouldnt call it eliminating but defining restrictions about what can you and cannot do about bringing a criminal action. Its pernicious now because there are four documents, criminally, against donald trump. Which many critics, myself include believe were politically motivated to interfere with the upcoming election. Its classic lawfare, the weaponization of the law. Brian Everybody Knows its just a coincidence. You are such conspiracy person. Ainsley really quickly before we let did you go. Talk about the new york cases because the Hush Money Trial continues day seven today downtown. We are expecting the judge to rule on the gag order today. We are also expected to hear again from mr. Pecker. He is going to take the stand. How is he going to rule on a gag order . I will probably fine trump. Is he not going to send him to the hughes cow. As far as braggs case its his theory crime for a defendant to suppress damaging information. Are you kidding me . Going on for more than two centuries. No such crime exists in the law instead he charges this caulk cockamamie. Claims it was done in violation of another state law that prohibits conspiring to unlawfully promote a persons candidacy. Well, first of all, trump is not charged with conspiracy, second the state law doesnt apply because it was a federal election. By the way the statute of limitations has run on that misdemeanor as well. Finally, its not unlawful to suppress a story. Gee, joe biden did it in the 2020 election, suppressing the loont story. By the way, paying money to somebody in exchange for silence, thats perfectly legal. So, i think a fair judge would have dismissed this case long ago but juan merchan is either ignorant of the law or i think is he horribly biased, probably both. Brian thanks, gregg. Appreciate it. We will see what happens today. We will get the real time reports and then we will get the transcript we think that next day. I think its Pretty Amazing whats been happening. The defense teams, one goal should be what is illegal and whats not. Whats a violation. What is salacious for page 6 and what is actually a problem for the president s criminal trial . And thats what the defense should be saying. Whatever you are saying right now, thats not a violation of the law. You might not like it. You might think its unsavory. But this is the way its done. Since when has the National Inquirer looked at as a bastion of integrity. One minute robots are stealing my luggage. The next minute you have another story about aliens who are amongst us. The third might be of a celebrity. And now we are saying the National Inquirer tilted the election because of a story in there about donald trump . Charlie they did successfully break the john edwards baby scandal. Brian every other one. Ainsley lets bring in lawrence having breakfast with our friends from battleground, pennsylvania. Hey, lawrence. Lawrence good morning, family. Obviously we are here in pennsylvania because it is a swing state. When you look at the setup of the map right now and polling. Its a dead heat for the former President Donald Trump as well as the current President Joe Biden. Were here because we want to go to the issues, what matters to them. Do they care about all of this nonsense that are happening with the court, the ciewtion of donald trump . Do they care about whats happening on the college campus, all this anti ainsley they are shaking their heads behind you. Either yes or no. Lawrence do they care about what is happening with the economy . Lets ask them, actually. Who cares about what is happening with all these antisemitic attacks on campus today . Yeah. Lawrence who thinks the number one issue is the economy . Raise your hand. What about crime . Yeah. Lawrence i think its all of them. The border . Yes. Lawrence they are not going to give their hand away. All of them matter from the economy to the border to antisemitic attacks on College Campuses. I was happy, guys, that my home state of texas shut it down yesterday. Brian they went right in there with the horses. They ripped up those tents before the spikes could get in the ground. That was awesome. Ainsley they arrested 20 protesters. Four of them were crying when they were hand cuffed. They even arrested a recover photographer; propalestinian protesters in austin need to be in jail and antisemitism will not be toler rated in texas greg abbott said. Lawrence they made it clear they needed to disperse. That means the media as well. The first thing i cover a lot of the protests. The first thing i do when i go on the scene. I talk with local law enforcement. I introduce myself. I say hey, wheres the line. Where can i be . I do need to be behind the police line. They made it very clear to state police that they needed to disperse. So everybody that failed to disperse, they arrested them. Ainsley at columbia they tell them to disperse and give them two more days in texas theyre like we are not tolerated. Lawrence they negotiate. We dont negotiate with terrorists in texas. [cheers] brian and they clapped in pennsylvania. Thank you. Thanks, lawrence. So, theres a lot going on. Put it this way, if you are protesting and find out you get support from the grand Ayatollah Khomeini and the head of hamas, im pretty sure you are on the wrong side. You should actually get yourself up, collapse your tent, find a shower, and then apologize to everyone you see. Charlie if you find yourself saying we love hamas and we love your bombs. Probably wound up on the wrong. Brian i never thought we would be talking about this as a legitimate story but happening all across the country. Ainsley we dont even recognize when we showed that video at the top of the hour dont even recognize this is america. Looks like another country. Antiisrael protests are still raging at Columbia University. I think c. B. Cotton is live there this morning. Ainsley hey, c. B. , tell us whats happening. Hi, ainsley, charlie, brian, good morning to you three. Yes, you know, some jewish students here on the campus of Columbia University say for more than a week they have heard nonstop chants calling for israel to be wiped off the map. As this campus remains divided and tensions are high, these students are planning to hold a rally this evening called united for israel. Jewish students tell us they plan to begin placing flags on one of the campus lawns this morning. Its still not clear how Columbia University will clear another campus lawn where some propalestinian Student Protesters have been camped out now for more than a week. Those students said on social media they have been threatened with the national guard. But the university tells fox that is not true. House Speaker Mike Johnson came here to columbia yesterday and warned, amid a crowd of boos that calling in Military Force was a real possibility. [we cant hear you. Glen joy your free speech. [chanting mike you suck] antiisrael popping up universities all across this country. [crowd boos] you can hear those booze right there. The University Says propalestinian Student Protesters have agreed to remove tents and nonstudents from the encampment and crack down on any discriminatory language. Visually though the lawn doesnt look much different than it did earlier in the week. Some jewish students are telling us as long as that encampment is up, they feel unwelcomed. House