and good evening to you and welcome to ayman tonight. we are following two major breaking news stories. the u.s. military has shot down that suspected chinese five a loon. and at a democratic national committee has voted to officially shake up the presidential primary calendar. then, trump legal trouble. one former associate might be flipping on his old boss. and making history. three black state attorneys general will join me to discuss their historic elections. police reform, and finding republican policies. i am ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. let s kick off this hour with some breaking news. as we mentioned, the u.s. military has shut down that suspected chinese surveillance balloon off the carolina coast on orders from president biden. at about 2:40 pm eastern and f 22 fighter jet fired a missile at that balloon, puncturing it, while it was about six nautical miles off the coast near myrtle beach, south carolina. president biden said this right after the balloon was
Hey, have a good rest of the day. Outnumbered starts right now. Lets begin with a fox news alert, the stakes are high today as voters are headed to the polls for primaries in several states. Ohios Special Election is getting some special attention. The house race for a seat the gop has held for decades is viewed as a big test for President Trumps kingmaking abilities. Or queenmaking. And may give us a preview of how the Midterm Elections will shape up. Youre watching outnumbered on a tuesday. Im harris faulkner, melissa francis, Senior Fellow for the independent womens voice, Syndicated Radio Talk Show Host and Fox News Contributor and opinionist, leslie markel. Joining us, fox Friends Weekend cohost pete hegseth
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basically maris what the attorney general is doing on the civil side. new york state has a racketeering charge, which mirrors the federal. it is called something else. but it basically mares that. i just don t think this book is anything but negative. and it will not affect any charges. matthew, yesterday bloomberg s tim o brien, someone very familiar with trump s finances, we should note, said that trump would probably be flattered by that comparison to john he said that the ex president once told him how much he admire the monster, in the way that he ran his organization and the loyalty aspect of it. what is your reaction to that? i mean, donald trump has shown a propensity to admire so, i mean, just look at vladimir putin. he loves putin. he seems to have some buddy
had on their plate. does it surprise that the president is putting so much into it? no. i was looking at the numbers, he s hearing from his party, he knows historically, this isn t your typical presidency. this is different. there is the possibility of a lot of seats and maybe one or both chambers being flipped he s out there. i have to tell you, don t faint, i want kobach to win, i want the president to have him win. he s controversial, makes it easier for the democrats in the general, there s three alleged white supremacists, what was up with the voter fraud commission that seemed to be fraudulent itself. i want him to win, i think it would be easier for the democrat in a red district. there is a loyalty aspect, kobach was an early supporter of president trump. i think president trump has demonstrated he s loyal to many of those people that were with him. he s remaking this party in
statement and this situation. so, what do you think the treatment of comey will be by the democrats and the republicans today? well, i think we re going to see some hostile treatment from the republicans, and we have seen that already with republicans, in a sense, excusing this as trump either being new to the process or talking like a new yorker. and i think we re going to see a lot of that today as republicans try and navigate through this, because what blows back on trump ultimately blows back on them. but i think as we look at this opening statement that s public and what we re going to see today, it is so similar in my mind to what we saw with the hillary clinton press conference, where comey in classic fashion for him absolved hillary clinton of legal jeopardy but not political jeopardy and created a huge problem for hillary clinton in a political sense. i think there is a lot in this opening statement, and i think we will hear a lot today in terms of the loyalty aspect that wi