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
yesterday, and he was looking a little more like a child dressing up for halloween than a cabinet secretary there to bring hope and help to scared residents. here is how mayor pete did eventually respond to his 20-day delay. what i tried to do is balance to cothings: my desire to be involved and engaged on the ground, which is how i m wired to act, and my desire to follow the norm of transportation secretaries. i have to think about whether i got that balance right. sean: no thinking needed, pothole pete. he didn t strike the right balance. joining me now is james comer. congressman, good to see you. i want to get your take on this, because we reached out to mayor pete for a comment and we were actually referred to this tweet that says, i am along to learn, but the chair of the house oversight committee thinks that ntsb is part of our department. ntsb is independent, and with good reason. we will review and respond properly. congressman, how do you respond to mayor
announced that they had done so to the clerk. and now they are just waiting for court personnel to return to the courtroom, in which the jury will announce its verdict. they went in to deliberations at 3:50 eastern time this afternoon, so this seems like a relatively quick verdict for what was a very complicated and lengthy trial. prosecutors trying to prove that alec murdaugh killed his wife and son. they say to create a distraction as his admitted financial crimes were beginning to catch up with him. the murders took place on the same day that people from his law firm approached him and started questioning him about large sums of missing funds. alec murdaugh eventually admitted to stealing money from clients, from other attorneys, vulnerable individuals, some of his closest friends but throughout the trial he insisted and his attorneys insisted that he was not a murderer, that he would never bring any harm to his family. the defendant, mr. murdaugh, suggested that the killi
fentanyl overdoses today blamed the president for their death. she also said that hundreds of thousands of other kids have died on the president s watch. the president owes me an apology and all of the other parents who have lost their children. congresswoman marjorie taylor greene agrees. blaming their deaths on biden s refusal to, quote, stop the cartels from murdering americans every day by chinese fentanyl. she is very specific recently saying that a mom, a poor mother who lost two kids to fentanyl that that i killed her sons. well, the interesting thing is that fentanyl they took came during the last administration. ha ha ha. what a horrible human being. how can he sit there and joke about it. being. republican lawmakers are now piling on, quote, shameful and embarrassing. what, president biden, do you find amusing about this? the white house isn t too amused with continuing questions about covid-19 sor-ins which the fbi director now says likely came from a w
Unlawfully using illegal substances. This is the same gun case for which prosecutors elected not to charge hunter biden as part of a now defunct plea deal several weeks ago. Bidens attorney still contends that agreement is binding. We have complete coverage tonight. We begin, though, with Correspondent David Spunt at the Justice Department with the latest. Good evening, david. Bret, good evening to you. After week intense pressure. Special counsel david weiss gave the green light to go ahead on charges and ultimately a grand jury approved charges against the son of the sitting president of the United States. Tonight, hunter biden facing two false statement counts, which are felonies, also a third count of possessing and owning a gun, another felony. According to the special counsels office, back in 2018, hunter biden lied on a federal form to purchase a gun in delaware when he said that he was not addicted to any Stimulant Narcotic Drug and any other controlled substance when, in fact,