steve: good morning, everybody. hour two of fox & friends, 7:00 in the east on this thursday, august 17th, 2023. we start this hour with some brand new fox news polling that has just come out in the last 12 hours. most voters believe former president donald trump and hunter biden both did something illegal. and president biden himself isn t too far behind in bad polling despite repeatedlily saying he was never involved in his son s overseas business dealings as we have heard him say over and over to white house reporters like mark meredith who joirns us now from the white house, good morning, mark. steve, good morning to you. former president trump has spoken out about the multiple cases against him. he has criticized the judges, the prosecutors, each the pundits involved. now we know where he stands in the court of public opinion. the latest fox news polling released overnight asked voters what they think about the criminal case here in d.c. where trump was accused of
significant case in the united states history. 9/11, 2001. usama bin laden and other terrorists hated our democracy tried to destroy it. donald trump, just like those other threats to american democracy, tried to destroy our system. this is the greatest political crime since succession. this has a chance of going to trial before the election and that s exactly what jack smith did. he knows what he s doing and he did it here. this case can be tried before the election. i don t see any reason why it shouldn t. the election will be simply about where will trump serve his next term? in the white house or in the big house? greg: they want to send trump to the big house before you voters even get the chance to send him back to the white house. legal experts and republicans argue this indictment is an attack on the first amendment. political speech now has been criminalized. the first amendment is under assault. it s under attack by the biden administration. you see
how else couldhow elseou explai indictment so lame and overtly i political that it s guaranteed to galvanize every trump voter like funnel cake at a stoc k race? there s less meat on this indictment than a turkey carcase s lesshis s. enjoy backyards, trash can. stelter hastelter s a better cht winning a wet t-shirt contest. don t bothershir reading it. i can sum it up for you. donald trump disagreed with the electiondonald t outcome.e wo oh, you thought there d be more? sorry, these are democrats. they don t have to work hard. when the media gives themto cover. and yes, there s this second part to forget about the huntere joe show. make news to conceal the real news. yes, the doj, jack smith apparently believed that trump s thought crimescrimes are insidious than the international racketeering gang knownracketee gan as the bo instead, they chase thought crimes. and if thought crimes were b prosecutable, we d all be screwed. that would be a death rowaring complaining about w
we ll be able to bridge that gap that is obviously impending . would you like me to find you a therapist? now there are several existing in your audience right now, but shawn is a doctor here tonight. yes, i understand that. i can t wait to see you in the studio soon in new york. all right. and we love all of you. and thank you so much, shawn. awesome show. i laura ingram. this is the ingraham angle from washington tonight. the war against common sense. that s the focus of tonight s angle now you know that safety announcement that the airlines always make before you take off the pressure changes oxygen masks will drop from the panels above seat. be sure to adjust your own mask before helping others. well, clearly, that thinking doesn t apply to biden s foreign policy crew. you know, we all watch the house do nothing as the war against america kills more than 100,000 every year. and the dhs knows who s responsible. china is the source of most of the precurs
their government and its agencies to protect it. but are they really doing that? there s growing evidence that equal justice in the u.s. is beingl justhe eroded, replacd with a system of selective and political prosecutionsed wi agencies like the fbi and the department of justice are agg citizenss they re supposed to protect. under president biden, the justico e department s prosecuted a number of his direct political rivals. there s noe m more obvious exal than donald trump. of course. he s been federally indicted ina the classified documents probe. now, to be clear, you can disagreer with tru with trump ss and believe what he did was wrong. d wai do. but this is a president s main opponent and his allies, like steve bannon, peter navarro, rudy giuliani, they ve all been targeted varro ru, too.oper and maybe that s all right and proper, but it s in the interestin the of democracyy least question it. many believe these agencies have become unaccountable and too powerful. wh