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
Southern border. We have pictures you will only see here on fox news showing heavily armed operatives from drug cartels illegally crossing into this country. This comes as a delegation of democratic lawmakers visits the region today. We have fox team coverage. Madison alworth on Randalls Island, new york where locals are beginning to tear up Athletic Fields to construct migrant shelters. Correspondent bill melugin though starts us off tonight live from eagle pass, texas. Good evening, bill. Bill bret, good evening to you. Illegal crossings are starting to surge once again here at our southern border. This is after a lull during the month of june. Now fox news has obtained some brand new startling photographs showing it is not just Asylum Seekers crossing into the u. S. Startling exclusive images from the southern border. As a group of suspected Cartel Gunmen are seen crossing illegally into texas in the Rio Grande Valley. A Law Enforcement source tells fox it happened saturday night. T
his top military adviser says a hold on military promotions by one republican senator is having a negative impact not just on those officers but their families. air force chief of staff general charles q. brown is up for the chair chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. alabama republican senator tommy tuberville is blocking more than 250 military promotions over opposition to the pentagon s abortion policy. chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin leads us off tonight with that from the pentagon. good evening, jennifer. good evening, bret. the pentagon said this months long standoff with the senator from alabama is now threatening readiness and benefiting russia and china. general c.q. brown is the president s pick to be the next chairman of the joint chiefs but his confirmation and that of 265 senior officers are being held up by one senator tommy tuberville of alabama. for the first time in 150 years, the marine corps is without a come dantd because of
preside over the free country. now, a lot has happened. the british burned it down. it was rebuilt and expanded. but through all of that, every president who lived in the white house respected it. they understood its importance and how sacred it was. until now. remember when obama kicked his feet up on the resolute desk? i didn t go crazy. when he wore a tan suit, i didn t go nuts. obama even invited snoop to the white house who lit one up in the bathroom. boom, next thing i do is pull that thing out of my sock. i heard somebody coming. [laughter] put him out real quick and got on back to the party. jesse: now snoop wasn t the first. willie nelson went on the white house roof and smoked with jimmy carter s son in the 1970s. when willie nelson wrote his autobiography he confessed that he smoked pot in the white house one night when he was spending the night with me. and he said that his companion shared the pot with him was one of the servants at the white house. that is
bret: but, obviously, breaking tonight, an historic day. one that both republicans and democrats described as, quote: a sad day. the first former or current president of the united states to be arrested and booked in federal criminal court. former president donald trump pleaded not guilty to all 37 counts in the indictment alleging that the former president illegally kept hundreds of classified documents at his mar-a-lago home, even after a subpoena to return them. potentially risking the disclosure of top secret national defense secrets. the former president is defiant, proclaiming his innocence from what he describes as as another witch-hunt and he accuses president biden s administration of targeting him, the leading g.o.p. challenger. the former president is on his way to his golf club in bedminster, new jersey where he will hold a fundraiser tonight and is expected to deliver remarks about this day and the charges he faces. correspondent mark meredith is outside the mi