arraignment for former president trump. good morning, everybody. hope the weekend was grand. dana has the day off today. welcome back to our friend from washington aishah. aishah: historic week here in new york city. this is america s newsroom. right now the former president is getting ready to depart palm beach, florida, for new york city. that is where he will be arraigned on a reported 34-count indictment related to hush money payments made in the run-up to the 2016 election. the former president flies to new york at noon eastern. tomorrow at 11 eastern is arriving at the courthouse. aishah: the hearing to last 15, 30 minutes. after that he will head back to mar-a-lago and give a televised address at 8:15 eastern. bill: the nypd says it has been put on high alert. officers putting up barriers and closing streets. we ll see whether or not that s necessary in the end. they get ready to move a former u.s. president in and out of that courthouse swiftly and safely.
investigation into the handling of presidential documents. the move coming as a surprise to just about everyone. dana: that includes the former president. he was in new york at the time and he says he had been cooperating on the records investigation and argues it was not necessary to raid his home. bill: all of this, dana, setting off a political firestorm as you can imagine. the president s supporters and allies gathering outside mar-a-lago saying it is no coincidence it happened with the mid-terms less than 100 days from today. dana: team fox coverage this morning. jhonattan turley is here with legal analysis. jacqui heinrich at the white house and david lee miller at trump tower and david spunt is at the justice department. no doubt they are being quite tight lipped but a lot of questions, david. no doubt a lot of questions specifically aimed at the officials in this building. though they are not saying anything at this point. former president donald trump was the
[background sounds] pete: israel continues its strikeses against hamas against forces in gaza advancing its ground activity in the region. the idf says its iron dome intercepted a drone coming from the lebanon earlier today after taking down rockets from gaza overnight. wisconsin e will this comes as iran said the u.s. would be, quote, hit hard if washington did not implement a ceasefire in gaza, but israel s maintaining a ceasefire is not an option. look, we re not going to have a ceasefire with hamas. it s like you having a ceasefire after the bombing of pearl harbor or with isis, it s absurd. and i was glad to see the administration say heir not even asking for a ceasefire. pete: meanwhile, thousands of pro-palestinian protesters raging through the streets of our nation s capital yesterday. rachel: vanned arals hitting vandals smearing red paint on the northwest gate. some even tried to climb over the gate. will: jonathan hunt is on the ground in jerusalem with the lat
We said at the time this is a short-term feel-good publicity win in exchange for a long-term bad precedent and launch only encourage russian bad behavior in this regard. i think we re seeing that in connection with eve own gershkovitch. folks don t know, bill. one of his primary stories he covered for the wall street journal was britteny griner s detention, arrest and prosecution. so now if you look at this, essentially what the russians got was they gave up britteny griner but grabbed this reporter and got a massive arms dealer for nothing. i appreciate what secretary blinken is now trying to do in a phone call but he put himself in a very bad situation. the russians have not been held to account. there have been no consequences for their bad actions. shooting down an mq9 drone
Local 11, the ones who gathered the signatures to put it before city council. who is that group? it is a union that represents a lot of hotel workers, housekeepers in the los angeles area. and they ve been utilizing this charter amendment to get their initiatives passed through a petition process. so you can imagine somebody walking out of a grocery store saying would you like to sign this petition to help our homeless and house them in hotels. what folks don t know is what else they sign into is the petition is packed with other items and initiatives that benefit the unions. but hurt the hotel industry and they have passed a similar initiative a month ago which is law that limits the hours that housekeepers can work in the hotels and other things and they passed that by gathering signatures and asking people in the same manner if they would like to support a petition for worker safety in the hotel industry. again, people that sign