Correspondent bryan llenas is at the Fulton County courthouse in atlanta, tonight, with the latest. Good evening, bryan. Bret, good evening. The Fulton County sheriff says he intends to really treat former President Donald Trump just like any other criminal defendant and that includes a mugshot, unless he is told otherwise. Mr. Trump must turn himself in by next friday august 25th at noon. I make decisions in this office based on the facts and the law. The law is completely nonpartisan. Fulton County District attorney fani willis, a democrat defending her decision to prosecute former President Donald Trump and 18 others after they were indicted by a grand jury late monday night. It is now the duty of my office to prove these charges. Trump is facing 13 criminal counts, including violating georgias antiracketeering or ricco law. If convicted, the law carries a penalty of a minimum of five years in prison, a 25,000s fine, or both. Lawyers say georgias ricco law is unusually broad and in
Welcome, everybody. Im neil cavuto. Glad to be back. My thanks to million colleagues for working so hard in my absence. Now to bryan llenas in fulton county, georgia with more on the fallout from that indictment that is having reverberations across the country. Bryan . Neil, good afternoon. No doubt this is the most wide ranging of the four indictments that former President Trump is facing. Of course, the grand jury late last night voting to indict the former president. 18 of his associates. The d. A. Here in fulton county, georgia, foni willis saying that they were operating as a criminal enterprise. Heres a snippet from that indictment. Defendants refused to accept that trump lost and they knowingly and willfully joined a Conspiracy Top unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of trump. Trump faces 13 criminal charges including a racketeering rico charge, which if guilty carries a fiveyear sentence, 25,000 fine or both. The other 18 defendants include his former chief o
To flow along with millions of illegal immigrants. The cartels threatening our National Security reaping billions in profit. A nonstop surge turning every state into a border state and making it a critical issue on the campaign trail. Wars against the mexican drug cartels. They are foreign Terrorist Organizations. When im president that stops. They try to break into our country with fentanyl. That will be the last thing they do. They will end up stone cold dead. No nation can survive unless it controls its borders. Even more concerning is the humanitarian crisis this is causing in cities across america as these immigrants land in those cities with no means and no legal way of making a living. Dana fox team coverage. Madison in New York City. Plans are underway to build something for migrants. Bill melugin is in mission, texas. A major update to a cartel story we brought to our viewers last week. Lets get into the photos which we showed last week showing several armed Cartel Gunmen cros
Just moments ago, the key question about the politics of all of this. Watch. How can the white house assure people that the case involving the president s son is being handled fairly . Anything that has been stated or said by hunters representative, ill have to refer you to his representatives. Thats not something that i will respond to. What i can say and i said it at the top, the Department Of Justice is independent. That is what the president believes. He believes this white house will not politicize the Department Of Justice. This was done under the leadership of a trumpappointed u. S. Attorney as you know. So im not going to add anything else to that. Martha id imagine well hear more along those lines. Carl rowe and general Tom Dupree Standing by with their analysis of this. First to david spunt live at Justice Department with the new developments here. Hi, david. Hi, martha. This is david weisss first full week as Special Counsel. Hes got quite a task ahead of him. Hes had a majo
Charles. Good afternoon to you. Youre exactly right. The Biden Administration is getting incoming from really every side now when it comes to the Border Crisis as the number two democrat in the senate admits today that the Border Crisis is guaranteed to be a political challenge for democrats in 2024. Now arizona senator Kirsten Cinema is among those that are not happy about the border response. The democrat turned independent is currently leading a hearing on the border right now. Just two months after the white house snubbed her state, sending 100 and 34 million to new york. Thats twice as much given to arizona. But the money is not enough for governor, kathy hogle, who is now publicly blaming President Biden for the migrant surge. Meanwhile governor maura healey over in massachusetts, says shes going to deploy the National Guard soon as we see protests now break out across blue states. Today the white house attempted to shift the blame to republicans who refused to vote for a Governm