what we know so far here. the former president told to appear in federal court in miami next tuesday to face the charges. tonight, our team talking with sources at bedminster, new jersey, where the former president is huddled with his advisors. he had recently been told by the special console that he was the target of a criminal investigation into his handling of classified documents. that was a signal that this could be coming in tonight it is now playing out. a former president indicted by the special counsel. pierre thomas, dan abrams and our investigative team and what they ve learned of this hour and what america will now witness play out next week. also tonight, 120 million americans now under alerts and warnings over hazardous smoke now stretching down through the northeast all the way down to washington, d.c., alabama. hundreds of wildfires in canada, more than half still out of control. the new york city skyline blanketed. in the nation s capital, the washington monu
america s newsroom. the charges stem from the mishandling of confidential documents. bill: there are at least seven counts. among them obstruction and conspiracy. sandra: he is ordered to appear in federal court tuesday in miami. meanwhile trump s allies and attorneys are blasting these charges as politically motivated. i will say if the president in power can just jail his political opponents, which is what joe biden is trying to do tonight. we don t have a republic anymore. i can also say that there is a two tier system of justice we re seeing right now. when your name is donald trump and leading in the polls you will get hit hard and indicted until you can t take it anymore. this is a pattern of the f.b.i. not investigating anything with respect to biden. bill: on that last point, all of this unfolding as bribery allegations grow louder against the sitting president. the f.b.i. finally allowing members of congress to view a document at the center of what s
as it is getting closer to birmingham. here s a quick peek at what he looked like smiling after decades and a peruvian person. he is held there in the death of a difference a young woman. after the natalie holloway case. smiling as he mugged for the cam is a little bit in peru. he is charged are being brought back here because he is being charged with trying to extort a quarter of a million dollars from the family as he dangled leads to finding her body to them for money. and it led to nothing. but more heartbreak for the holloway family. their daughter natalie was 18 years old when she vanished during a graduation trip in aruba. in 2005. her body was never found. ted williams is life in birmingham, alabama where the family is from and where vandersloot s plane is about to arrive. tj ward worked for the family has a private investigator during this case in aruba, following up on those leads that lead nowhere at that time. geraldo rivera covered this case extensively for fox n
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currently serving an unrelated murder sentence for 28 years. he arrived yesterday at the airport in birmingham. you can see several f.b.i. agents escorting him from the plane. he was held at hoover city jail overnight. new video shows him arriving at the federal courthouse earlier this morning. van der sloot allegedly tried to sell natalee s mom false information on the location of her daughter s body in exchange for a quarter million dollars. beth holloway s attorney says emotions are law. she is basically overwhelmed by whole situation. she had a whole spectrum of emotions. on the one hand she was ecstatic that van der sloot was on u.s. soil, u.s. authorities, u.s. justice system. but it is still like pulling a scab off an old wound. always pain there and it s a painful reminder of what she has been through. julie: jonathan serrie joins us with the latest. i remember that you were part of that early team that went down to aruba. when i first arrived on the island in 2