arguing in the courts that he is immune from prosecution means that it s all but impossible to start a trial on march 4th, just over a month from now. but that news could clear the way for another one of trump s criminal cases. the ex-president could be in the courtroom in manhattan just eight weeks from now. the manhattan d.a. charging him with 34 felony counts for trying to cover up a sex scandal this the weeks before the 2016 election. that trial is currently scheduled for march 25th, and in less than two weeks, a hear willing be held to decide if that date holds. according to reporting from the new york times, alvin bragg and his team of prosecutors have been quietly plugging away. last month, it was reported and news breaking just yesterday in a related case that could give bragg a boost. once again, from the new york times. he once said understand weeseleberg knows where all the financial bodies are burr yesterday, and while it does not involve him flipping on
texas illegally. have the courage to speak what we put on that back side, true. moms for liberty highlighted antigovernment extremists. we are letting it kind of roll off our back in a sense. you re a hate up, put me in. good news on the horizon, first time that fox is going to be covering the rails. things are going to be spectacular. brian: here we go. we begin this hour with a fox news alert. get, this forge are president 2024 g.o.p. frontrunner donald trump indicted on seven criminal charges. ainsley: the charges still remain sealed. but, we know they re related to the classified documents that were found at mar-a-lago. steve: that s right. peter doocy joins us live from the white house with the very latest and, peter, i m sure you have plenty to talk about today. peter: former president trump is trying to get back here to the white house but, first, is he going to have to try beat a federal obstruction wrap. it sage election interference at the highest
present bidens state of the union speech last night. let s just say they are not fans. and just how widespread this surveillance program of theirs really is. we have fox team coverage with aishah hasnie on capitol hill on what we are learning about that briefing. myrtle beach, south carolina, on what navy divers are now discovering. jennifer griffin of the pentagon on the size of the china spy program that itself seems to be polluting. and general jack keane on just how concerning all of this really is down the road. welcome, everybody, grabbed to have you. neil kabuto, and this is your world, a very volatile world right now, where relations between the two biggest economic powers on the planet but to say nothing of the two biggest military powers on the planet are bad, they are fractious, they are ice-cold. that s go to capitol hill and aishah hasnie on the fallout they are. aishah? neil: hey there, neil. we are just getting brand-new information about the classified bri
let s go the white house on the breaking news. lucas tomlinson, i understand you have new reporting the share. lucas: that s right, senior official confirms that the u.s. government is weighing options on how to shoot down this chinese spy balloon when it crosses the atlantic, safely off the coast of the united states. now earlier in syracuse president biden was asked to do on the balloon and he said all options are on the table and this is what he said exactly. the chinese balloon we will take care of it. lucas: this morning former defense secretary chuck served under barack obama said this balloon should be brought down gently to exploit it. we don t know what the pentagon is going to do and what the president will ultimately decide and once it gets out over open waters i d be surprised if we would allow this balloon just to float back to china. lucas: both countries spawn each other, of course, just over a month ago the pentagon says fighter jet came to american sp
he s in brussels at the nato defense minister s meeting. we ll get that on air momentarily. the white house saying there s no u.s. surveillance aircraft in chinese airspace. some careful wording perhaps in that statement from john kirby at the white house despite china s insistence that we have been doing surveillance in their airspace. they said there s been ten balloons in their airspace. that idea was vehemently denied by admiral kirby just moments ago from the white house. despite the fact, remember this navy video. there s this discussion about extra terrestrials, what are these things. i ll take you back to this video that was released in april of 2020. what is that little white floating thing that they called a tic tac at that time. now we go back to these videos. raises a lot of questions about what is up there, what is out there. they see no evidence that these aerial objects are alien or extra terrestrial bodies. meanwhile, communications with china have gone cold f