Bret former President Donald Trump will not have to appear in person for the next hearing hes facing following this weeks indictment regarding alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The trial judge making that ruling today. This comes amid growing questions about the Justice System in the midst of dozens of criminal charges against the former president and multiple investigations involving the family of President Biden. Congressional republicans are vowing a strong response to what they feel is a twotiered application of the law. Senior Congressional Correspondent chad pergram starts us off tonight live from capitol hill. Good evening, chad. Bret, good evening. The g. O. P. Says there are two sets of rules. One for the bidens, another for former President Trump. The right intends to level the playing field. You cant beat them, you persecute them. Republicans believe there is something nefarious going on. It seems as though every time trump goals higher in the poll he gets a new
half a mile, this is due to hundreds of wildfires burning across canada. you are watching fox and friends first on thursday morning, i m carley shimkus. todd: i m todd piro. major airports issuing temporary ground stop with 5400 delays, only a handful cancelled or delayed so far. carley: president biden is sending 600 firefighters to help control the blaze. janice dean is here with more. janice: it was scary yesterday, especially across areas that do not see this type of smoke in the area. on social media, people were like, welcome to our world, janice dean, where we have wildfires every single year. yesterday worst air quality on record, 436, that scale goes up to 500. previous record was back in 1981, it was a crazy day, new york, of course air quality south of us in philadelphia is worse right now. take a look at what we were dealing with yesterday. very unhealthy from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. and bringing that trend downward. i m having problems with my maps. ta
heinrich. griff: i m griff jenkins, good to be back. rich edson is in pennsylvania. and let s go to chester, pennsylvania, hey, alex. hey, yes, this has been a plot twist in pennsylvania. big names and big money at no point had a republican candidate to be the front runner, there s dr. oz and kathy barnett made this a three-way tie. now i m surging. that s their word. [applause] no one thought it. no one thought it. they were all focused on the two men in the race and no one thought it. kathy barnett is at a breakfast this morning and operating on a shoe-string budget. the celebrity mehmet oz held a rally and said this about barnett. we know little about her pass, they cannot win in november. every time kathy tries to answer a question leads to more questions which is why she s not answering more questions. and this is the financial treasure official, mccormick says there s no room on onto job training. any of these into this role on day one, i know what to do,