please, call now, or you can go to lovesshriners.org. thank you so much for lets us into your homes during these truly extraordinary times. the beat starts right now. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. you know what time it is. we re inside one week to the mid terms. the record-breaking turnout is happens. the latest numbers show more than 29 million americans have already voted, competing those trump mid terms of 2018. we re in full gear, and it s a tense backdrop for the races. there are active federal warnings about threats and attacks on poll workers and the voting process itself. we have seen records of these self-appointed poll watchers showing up in tactical gear, like that shot out of arizona. and election deniers are running for office, it s not normal. threats to lawmakers have increased tenfold over the several years over the trump era. more campaigns will turn on the question of whether candidates will honor democracy itself. these are truly unusual stak
with fbi agents hauling off some 20 boxes including some items marked top-secret. attorney general american garlands and on thursday he personally approved the unprecedented move, listen. lex first i personally approved to seek a search warrant in this matter. second, the department does not take such decision lightly. where possible, it is standard practice to seek less intrusive means as an alternative to a search and to narrowly scope any search that is undertaken. let s bring constitutional attorney form justice department david, good to see if your thank you for being here. so, we heard the ag say it is standard practice to seek less intrusive means. that is something less than a full out fbi raid. so what made it impossible to use those less intrusive means, shouldn t we know? we should. there is no way we can figure it out from the warrant. various leaks suggest there were miss representation when trumps asked for the material being helper therefore you cannot seek a
day. the district police chief made the decision to hold officers back from the robb elementary classroom. the shooter locked himself inside. now we know those officers waited for nearly 80 minutes. it was a terrifying nearly hour and a half for the entire school. here is what one teacher told her students to do when she heard the gunfire. she spoke with our ore morgan chesky. i just kept hearing boom, boom, boom. it kept going off for what felt like an eternity. reporter: as the gunman walked towards her school, nicole shouted for her kids to hit the floor seconds before glass shattered her classroom. i had one student laying on top of me, and i had a bunch of other students right over here by me. i just remember praying, please, god, please, god, keep us safe. reporter: she and her students managed to get to safety. when she learned as many as 19 officers waited 47 minutes before engaging the gunman, she said this where do you believe blame should lie? on the pe
season and much cheaper. yeah. it s one of my secrets that s out there. steve: secret $ $61 fay from chicago to phoenix colleen kennedy i have a friend named colleen kennedy. colleen kelly, thank you for joining us live. you bet. steve: second hour of fox & friends starts right now. lawrence: we begin the second hour of fox & friends fox news alert. now in a the final cease-fire. israeli hostages and palestinian prisoners do to be released. 14 more hostages freed yesterday bringing the total number to 40 over the last three days. steve: trey yingst is live at schneider children s medical center in israel where it s 2:00 in the afternoon. trey? hey, guys, good morning. for the third straight evening last night. a group of hostages was released by hamas as part of this broader cease-fire deal. we are talking about 14 israeli nationals and three thai citizens. nine children and two mothers were flown by helicopter to this hospital. just outside of tel aviv, whe
i m paul gigot. a manhattan jury found donald trump guilty this week on all 34 counts of false iffying business records, the first time in history that a former u.s. president has been convicted of a felony. thursday afternoon s verdict marked a dramatic end to the almost 6-week trial, but trump vowed that the legal fight is not over. this was a rigged decision right from day one. with a conflicted judge who should have never been allowed to try this case, never. and we will fight for our constitution. this is far from over. paul: let s bring in jim trusty, a former federal prosecutor and former donald trump attorney. welcome, jim. good to see you again. so what do you make of this verdict? well, it s not a shock, unfortunately. i mean, this is the lawfare. it s really at a its worst with. you had a politicized prosecutor who had a picked through the trash of a case that the southern district of new york specifically rejected doing that his predecessor rejected doing, but