Received documents. The department of justice, from their investigation into Michael Cohen and the Stormy Daniels payments from several years back. The office has subsequently turned over the documents. About 1000 miles down i95 in florida the former president was in court in person in the classified documents case. Trumps team argued that she should dismiss the entire federal case claiming the documents trumped up with him were personal records and thus excluded from the president ial records act requirement. We await judge cannons decision on that. She decided to reject a separate motion to dismiss the case. That trial is still set to start in late may. North of florida, nathan wade has reside from his role as prosecutor in the racketeering case against the former President Donald Trump and multiple codefendants over efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 president ial election in georgia. That came shortly after the judge overseeing the proceedings ruled that Fulton County Dist
steve: thank you very much, todd and carley, 6:00 in new york city on this thursday, january 18th. and it is currently 21 degrees in new york city. lawrence: from maga surveillance to maga warning. an investigation is underway after the feds ask banks to search and filter its customers transactions with terms like trump and maga. why the ceo of j.p. morgan chase shares this advice for the democrats. i wish the democrats would think a little more carefully when they talk about maga. this negative talk about maga is going to hurt biden s election campaign. ainsley: but it seems vice president harris missed that memo. why she says she s scared as heck of former president trump taking back the white house. brian: and, could you ditch your cell phone for a month italics? that s the challenge that could earn you $10,000. think about that for a second while i officially start the show by saying fox & friends is ready to begin because your mornings are better because you
we re all excited the gang is back together this wednesday morning after a christmas holiday. a christmas break for each of us. it was a wonderful time. makes us all grateful for this job and we are all back together. feels good. steve: feels great. welcome back, brian. before yesterday. we were here, and griff jenkins was here as well through the entire holiday. hats off to him and everybody else who filled in the chair. brian: must have been tough for him to not surf. griff prefers to surf. steve: i was talking to griff yesterday because is he going to go down today to south florida to go surfing. and i told him the beaches are gone because of beach erosion over the last month. brian: you are kidding. steve: beaches are pretty much shot. lawrence: finally gets to celebrate and there is no beach. ainsley: still waves. brian: waves crash into land. just send you. steve: just smooths out. no roll. ainsley: y all, before christmas we saw the presiden
ari melber starts right now. i m glad i let you go because i remember you have your own show to anchor. thank you. our thanks to nicolle wallace and the whole team there doing this cover nl. we continue the breaking coverage of the first ever federal indictment of a former president. today the justice department unsealed an indictment of defendant donald trump of 37 counts. we re covering this historic and unprecedented development with our legal experts who have been pouring over this 44-page indictment since it was first unsealed this afternoon. the nation heard from special counsel jack smith for actually the first time ever today. a prosecutor known for his work and today his actions, indicting the former president after about seven months on the job. and he spoke clearly and concisely about this indictment and national security crimes. today an indictment was unsealed charging donald j. trump with felony violations over national security laws, conspiracy to obstruc
[crash] [engine revving] carley: straight to a fox news alert. a car slams into the presidential motorcade just feet away from president biden. brian: meanwhile, peter doocy has been tracking the story overnight and joining us with details. peter? president biden is walking out of his harpts wilmington 8:00 last night. somebody shouted a question to him why is he losing to trump and in polls. he shouted back the person is reading the wrong polls and he froze along with most of secret service detail with the sound of a car crashing. we have video of it. and you will see the sound of the crash and then they very urgently but delicate get the president into his armored car. [crash] [engine revving] whoa! peter: you never see anything like that. a secret service vehicle in en route another in delaware. no security with this event. the president departed without incident. the secret service was on hand as the president was dining with campaign staff. they quickly swarmed