and martha maccallum along with jim jeanine pirro, judge jeanine pirro, sorry, judge. jessica tarlov jesse watters, and judge, here is judge judge jeanine. it is 5:00 in new york and this is the five. all right, everybody we start with this fox news alert, two very big stories happening right now revolving around the front runners of the 2024 campaign. president biden has finally gone to east palestine on a long overdue visit, more than a year, after that toxic train derailment. we ve got a lot to come on that and the reaction of people in east palestine to this very late visit. but first, a new york judge dropping the hammer on former president donald trump s business empire, reaching a blockbuster verdict in the civil fraud trial and imposing a whopping $364 million penalty against his company. trump is personally on the hook for $355 million of that. it is over what the judge ruled was a yearslong scheme to dupe banks and others with financial misstatements and infla
for joining me this evening. the last time the republicans had a contested presidential primary was the year 2016. and no it seemed sort of impossible to imagine now the party was kind of divided about trump s victory all the way to the convention floor, and you saw that no more clearly than when senator ted cruz went to the podium in a prime time speaking slot, i might add, and refused to mention trump s name during his convention speech. and boy, oh, boy did people notice. if you love our country and love your children as much as i know that you do, stand and speak and vote your conscience. vote for candidates up and down the ticket who you trust to defend our freedom. god bless each and every one of you, and god bless the united states of america. prior to that moment, before all those just deafening boos, ted cruz and donald trump had been going at each other for months. relations between these two men were not good. trump regularly went after ted cruz s family during
with president biden and putin today bolstering their respective alliances with nato and china. their pitches come just days before the first anniversary of moscow s invasion of ukraine. global tensions between the superpowers highlighted on a day of diplomacy in both warsaw and moscow. acidity many times, i ll say it again it s absolutely clear. article five is a secret commitment the united states has made. we will defend every inch of nato. meantime, as trace pointed out, with respect to joe biden s 2024 presidential campaign prospects, typically the question has been, should he or shouldn t he run again? however, now, increasingly democrats are wrestling with a very different and indeed pressing question. it will he or won t he? tonight, politico reporting that democrats are quietly preparing for the possibility that the 80-year-old simply won t be up for the task. and the longer he waits to officially declare his intentions you guessed it, a growing number of would
wondering what this balloon is after. this spy balloon has been over uss space at least two days now. it is a chinese government, high-altitude balloon that s being seen in videos like this one from montana posted on twitter. officials believe the spying balloon have been flying over sensitive military site to try to gather intelligence. montana is home to the air force space. that had one of the country s three nuclear missile silo fields. president biden did not response to shoutout questions about the balloon today. thank you. the pentagon press secretary did issue a statement confirming the balloon is being tracked and adding that it is, quote, currently traveling altitude at well above commercial air traffic and does not present military or physical threat to people on the ground. the senior official says it is not the first time these kinds of spy balloon have been seen over the u.s. it is obviously a diplomatic issue coming days before secretary state antony bl
guilty on all counts, after six week trial, more than 70 witnesses took a south carolina jury less than three hours of deliberations to decide that alec murdaugh was guilty of killing his wife and son. his sentencing is set for tomorrow. we re back with s. e. cupp, patrick mcenroe joins us, as well. they ve, you are an attorney, what do you think sealed the deal but allow the jury to decide this in three hours. the jury s all right through this conman. he lied from day one. he lied to his family. he lied to police. and then when he got caught in a lie, because of his sons video, he changed his story on the spot, the jury didn t believe his new story. ironically, it was his son paul who solved his own murder. yes, we ve been saying that. paul s cell phone capture the audio of alex murdaugh at the kennels that night, when he said he wasn t. didn t he know that he said these in discovery where he would ve been tipped off that he had this video? why was he caught in that