Correspondent bryan llenas is at the Fulton County courthouse in atlanta, tonight, with the latest. Good evening, bryan. Bret, good evening. The Fulton County sheriff says he intends to really treat former President Donald Trump just like any other criminal defendant and that includes a mugshot, unless he is told otherwise. Mr. Trump must turn himself in by next friday august 25th at noon. I make decisions in this office based on the facts and the law. The law is completely nonpartisan. Fulton County District attorney fani willis, a democrat defending her decision to prosecute former President Donald Trump and 18 others after they were indicted by a grand jury late monday night. It is now the duty of my office to prove these charges. Trump is facing 13 criminal counts, including violating georgias antiracketeering or ricco law. If convicted, the law carries a penalty of a minimum of five years in prison, a 25,000s fine, or both. Lawyers say georgias ricco law is unusually broad and in
Jesse we have plenty of time Super Tuesday. Bret thank you, sir. Bret good evening. Im bret baier. Were coming to you live tonight from fox news Election Headquarters in new york. Breaking tonight, voters in 16 states and one u. S. Territory casting ballots for the nominees to run in the november general election. Well start getting raw vote totals coming in a few states next hour. President Biden Running virtually unopposed on the ballot. Although there are serious concerns about the president s age, his mental fitness. Even within his own party meantime former President Donald Trump already has a commanding lead over only major challenger entering todays balloting. We have Fox Team Coverage tonight. Brit hume here in new york as his expert analysis. Peter doocy at the white house as the president prepares for what is shaping up to be another battle against the former president , likely. Bill melugin in charleston, South Carolina, for what many believe is former South Carolina governo
three narratives at play during this hearing. fbi director wray talked about the good things the fbi are doing. democrats talked about donald trump and republicans talked about what they perceive as weaponization of government. i m curious are you protecting the bidens. absolutely not. hold on you won t answer whether that s a shakedown. he pledged to stay above the frey. fbi dricket christopher wray could not escape the politics. i come from a fairly rural district is weaponization of the fbi and the doj coming after conservative citizens who just simply want to have a voice in the process? the idea that i m biased against conservatives seems somewhat insane to me given my own personal background. wray is a republican. democrats accused the republicans of having an ulterior motive. it is an elaborate show designed with only two purposes in mind to protect donald trump from the consequences of his actions and to return him to the white house in the next election
segment on the infamous chinese spy balloon. gillian: well, attorney general merrick garland has made a significant decision now about the investigation into president biden s son. house republicans are pressuring garland to make multiple people involved in the investigation available for transcribed interviews. so far, garland is not giving in. david spunt joins us from the justice department tonight hi, david. hi, gillian, good evening. we are waiting to hear what that decision is from the attorney general. i m told a decision has been made. there are still some discussions going on and a response is being worked on. perhaps we are waiting for that to get over to capitol hill before we can actually see a copy of that written response to a request for the attorney general to make roughly a dozen people connected to the hunter biden probe available for transcribed interviews. house judiciary chairman jim jordan oversight chair james comer and ways and means chair jason
good evening. i m bret baier. middle east powder keg as iran seizes control of a tanker in the gulf of imam and iranian backed proxy groups have launched 130 attacks on u.s. troops in the region as the world awaits a response. senior national correspondent hitch edson has the latest from the pentagon, good evening, rich. good evening, bret. this is the same ship that last year the u.s. justice department seized for violating sanctions. it was carrying iranian oil then and iranian state media outlet says bordering the ship today is retaliation for the u.s. seize it s a year ago example of iranian maligned activity threatening security and stability in the reasonable. we call on iran to release the tanker and the crew immediately. the pentagon says the tanker flagged to the marshall islands. for weeks iran backed houthi rebels have been attacking commercial shipping on the red sea. on tuesday they launched their largest, most complex attack yet. the pentagon says f-1s fro