welcome everyone to viewers in the united states and around the world. yes, it is friday, so happy friday. i m amara walker. former president trump is set to speak at an alabama party dinner in montgomery. he will likely have more to say about his arrest and arraignment on four charges stemming from his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. trump carefully enunciated his plea of not guilty before a magistrate judge. after the hearing sources tell cnn that trump was, quote, pissed off. chris wynn has more on thursday s historic events. reporter: in an historic move, donald trump was charged with conspiring to overturn the results of a 2020 election which prosecutors say fueled the violence riots on our nation s capital on january 6, 2021. this is a persecution of a political opponent. this was never supposed to happen in america. reporter: trump appeared before a magistrate judge thursday. he is charged with conspiracy to defraud the united states, conspiring to obstruc
addressed the unprecedented indictment friday. we have one set of laws in this country, and they apply to everyone. if applying those laws, collecting facts, that s what determines the outcome of an investigation. nothing more and nothing less. paul: joining me now is the former attorney general of the united states, michael mukasey. judge mukasey, good to see you. so you ve read the indictment. how strong is it? well, if the facts set forth in there are provable, and a great deal of it indicates that they clearly are, it is very strong. a lot of the evidence comes from his own lawyer who was compelled to testify over a claim of attorney-client privilege based on conversations he had with donald trump that show that he knew that he had classified information. there was, there are two instances in which he met with people on the outside, one a writer, the other a fundraiser. and showed them classified information and said that he knew that he had it and knew that it was cl
double murder. now day two of the double murder try of alex murdaugh in south carolina. it begins in 30 minutes. the first witness is set to take the stand today. i m bill hemmer. good morning at home. dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. a lot of drama. a lot of people following the story for the prominent south carolina lawyer accused of shooting and killing his wife in 2021. propers cuteors argue all the evidence fits together like the pieces of a puzzle including cell phone footage and gunshot residue. bill: the defense claims it proves nothing. high emotion in the courtroom yesterday. the defendant broke down in tears. dana: now as the trial is set to resume the big question is whether his surviving son will take the stand. bill: that s where we begin with jonathan serrie covering the trial. good morning. good morning, bill and dana. alex murdaugh 26-year-old son buster is on the list of 255 potential witnesses. a list that includes law enfor
capital insurrection. they stand trial for suggestions conspiracy. they are all complaining that they were simply awaiting orders from donald trump. she was once republican royalty but now, this woman, liz cheney, she says she is prepared to break a 40 year republican voting street to keep election denying, big lying members of her own party out of power. what is behind her choice to keep such a lonely world? who is backing her on that journey. you are not going to believe this week s selection for that banned book club. it has never even been banned. girls who code is a series written for middle schoolers. it is a babysitters club but with computer science. there is not a single thing that is remotely controversial about these books but the book banners came for them. we will talk about why the book banners are threatened by girls getting into science and more. velshi begins now. good morning to you, i am ali velshi. into saturday october the 8th. it is day 227 of russia s w
did they violate the law? all the facts point to that. dana: andy mccarthy has legal analysis and david spunt is live outside federal court in virginia. hi, david. this is an interesting case because on paper it is about lying to the f.b.i. but in the actual courtroom special counsel john durham is going far beyond this case and trying to expose or uncover some riffs and problems within the f.b.i. leading up to the 2016 election and shortly there after, after donald trump became president in the early days. the man on trial is a russian national named danchenko charged with five counts of lying to the f.b.i. primarily about his work with ex british spy christopher steele on the steele dossier full of allegations about donald trump leading up to the election. long time democrat strategist charles dough lon was on the stand yesterday. he emailed danchenko information about problems within the trump campaign. danchenko took that information and put it in the steele dossier