biggest day on the presidential primary calendar. the first polls on super tuesday in vermont and up in maine with more set to open very soon across the east coast. brian: 15 states are holding races today on the republican side you got 854 delegates up for grab. that s about 70% of 1215 total delegates needed to secure the nomination. steve: here is the current state of the race, former president donald trump is in the lead as you can see right there with 273 delegates after gaining 29 in the north dakota primary just last night. meanwhile, nikki haley has 43 delegates so far. be sure to keep it here. both donald trump and nikki haley will be with us today in the 8:00 hour to discuss the state of the race. lawrence: meanwhile on the democratic side there are seven states with uncommitted options. we will see if president biden faces a big protest vote like in michigan. all right. good morning. welcome to fox & friends on this tuesday super tuesday morning. ainsle
week but there s no question overall two big things stuck out to me. first of all this week was an extraordinarily reminder of just how much legal trouble the legal president is in. it s really something to have all eyes glued on the courthouse in washington, d.c. watching what jack smith is going to do, waiting for an indictment in the investigation and his attempt to overturn the 2020 election, only to have a new separate superseding indictment draft in the investigation into his mishandling of classified documents. all happening within the span of hours. you really can t make this stuff up sometimes. and put $1 figure on this mountain of legal trouble, just last night the washington post came out with a new piece detailing the more than $40 million trump s political group is spent on legal costs to defend not just trump, but his advisers and others in the first half of this year alone. the first half of this year alone, at $40 million from trump supporters all across the c
party from a third trump nomination. and the latest on the alleged gilgo beach killer, meet the woman who says she went on a date with him and survived. good evening, we begin with new information about special counsel jack smith s keen interest in a 2020 oval office meeting that has not been previously reported on. the meeting took place in february of 2020. in attendance were the former president, senior u.s. officials and white house staff. sources tell cnn that smith is focused on comments the former president made during this meeting about the state of u.s. election security and how those private remarks may differ from the baseless lies he may spread about election fraud in the coming weeks. one hurdle smith has to overcome in any potential indictment of the former president in attempts to overturn the election is whether he can prove the former president actually knew he lost. it s been eight days sinces president was informed he was a target in the investigation. ou
good evening tonight on 360. did the former president once praised election security? weeks before he began attacking run up to the election. also tonight mitt romney issuing a warning and a timeline for pulling republican primary candidates to get out of the race to save the party from a trump nomination. and the latest on the alleged gilgo killer. a woman who said he went on a date with him and survived. good evening, we begin with new information about special counsel jack smith is keen interest in a 2020 oval office that has not been previously reported on. the meeting took place in february, 2020. in attendance were the former president, senior u.s. officials and white house staff. sources tell cnn that smith is focused on comments the former president made during this meeting about the state of u. s. election security and how those private remarks may differ from the baseless lies he would start publicly spreading about election fraud in the coming weeks. legal analysts
we will have full coverage of those proceedings later in the broadcast. but we begin with news that the ex-president has been informed he is now a target in special counsel jack smith s january 6th probe and is therefore very likely to be indicted. donald trump took to truth social this morning saying he received the notice on sunday and was given, quote, four days to report to the grand jury. the new york times reports this the former president is expected to decline the invitation to appear before the grand jury. it is unclear what the charges against this ex-president will be, but we do know prosecutors have brought a veritable parade of witnesses, including mike pence, mark meadows, and jared kushner to testify before the grand jury investigating january 6th in recent months. new york times reports this as well. prosecutors have been asking witnesses about the former president s state of mind, as well as efforts to fund raise off his false claims of widespread vot