20 20 election. No surprise that former president coming out swinging against the charges and the Special Counsel. Welcome to our brandnew hour of americas newsroom. I am dana perino. Whats my name again . Dana murray. Whats my name . Build something. I cant remember. Its after royalty. As william and his George Barrett i was going to say charles. Here we go again now. That third indictment of trump under president bidens justice department. Burned former president charged with 4 Felony Counts in a sweeping 45page indictment. Critics complain it is a crusade against free speech. My concerns me as many of the people celebrating their second indictment are just simply dismissing the implications for free speech. Those are quite dire and real. This is criminalizing disinformation. But the Department Of Justice is saying is that we recognize that politicians can save most things but just not trump because he was told they were false. Begins anew brad baer has got The Big Picture in a moment coming up. Our Chief Washington correspondent is live in d. C. On the political aftershocks being fell far and wide. Good morning. Florida Governor Ron Desantis is calling for two reforms. The home districts of former president trump. Washington, d. C. , is a swamp and it is unfair to have to stand trial before a jury that is reflective of the swamp mentality. Former Vice President mike and says mr. Trump is entitled to the presumption of innocence. But then added anyone who puts himself over the constitution should never be president of the United States. South carolina while protecting democrats. What we see today are two different drugs of justice. One for political opponents and another f for the son of the current president. As one candidate saying if you are going after a former president at potential future president , the standard must be higher. If you are going to try to indict a political opponent in the former president in the middle of an election, it better darn will not be based on an unprecedented, untested flimsy legal theory that is exactly what we have here which is dangerous. Three candidates have come out blasting the former president s actions with governor Chris Christie saying the events around the white house from Election Night forward are a stain on our countrys history and a disgrace to the people who participated. This disgrace falls the most on donald trump. A Trump Campaign spokesperson said trump will not be deterred by this disgraceful and unprecedented political targeting. Thank you. Congress that is not stopping lawmakers from weighing in. Now from the hill with more today. Good morning. The condemnation came in pretty Fast And Furious from the republican side. Lets start with House SpeakerKevin Mccarthy who came to trumps defense very, very quickly tweeting this. It is the dojs attempt to distract from the news and attack the front runner for the republican nomination. House judiciary chairman jim jordan adding when you drain the swamp, the swamp fights back. President trump did nothing wrong. Republicans are taking particular issue with the charge of Conspiracy Due to probably u. S. When trump disputed the 2020 election results, they are saying that everybody from joe biden to nancy pelosi, they all made similar disputes back over the 2016 election. They are also raising questions about the timing of this. Coming just one day after the Bombshell Devon Archer test testimony. The American People see whats going on. Whether or not this is a weaponize Department Of Justice trying to divert attention away from biting corruption. For the Oversight Committee and plagiarize them. Only they put them down for donald trump instead of joe biden. It is a joke. It is an absolute joke. Democratic leaders releasing a scathing joint statement here accusing trump of personally orchestrating the attack on the capital. A call at the culmination of a months life and long criminal plot led by the former president due to fire democracy and overturn the will of the American People. Democrats are calling for no outside interference as this case moves forward. Several House Republicans i can tell you are actively working to strip to undercut Special Counsel jack smith doj funding. Any such measure would most certainly fail in a democratcontrolled senate. Thanks. Reaction there on capitol hill. Thanks for that. The New York Post covers shows this. It is conspiracy to defraud the United States with the photograph of president trump. This broke late yesterday afternoon. You had president trumps lawyer on this matter on special report last night. He was making the case that you can criminalize thoughts. I wonder as you have been able to think through this indictment overnight where you said to this morning. Good morning. It is william bret baier. That case right after the Special Counsel jack smith made his case to the public. And he essentially said those two things. One is this is an effort of Special Counsel to minimize political speech and its going to be impossible to prove what the president thought as far as web about 2020 election wasnt bag stolen stolen in his mind or not. Interestingly, he also said one of that Event Strategies is going to use the power of the subpoena that he will have two relitigate that 2020 election. Whether he will be allowed to do that whether the judge will give leeway to do that, held at the events out is going to be fascinating to see. We were talking this morning. We talk a lot. It will not be tired of hearing that. I dont have this printed out for the audience have to bear with us. Indictment said mr. Trump broke the law when he acted on the following lies. We will take that one of time for those i conclude to hunt fraud. By that attorney was arguing last night is that trump thought there was fraud. Look into that. Is that against the law . That is what a jury has to decide. Work with conspirators to stand up Substitute Electors in seven states. If you are working with them, defined Substitute Electors. It is not against the law or not . I dont know the answer. Try to persuade the vp that he had the power to refuse that counts on the electoral votes. You may think all this stuff is shady stuff. No republican candidates and republicans are going to argue that does any of this amount to a crime . That is i guess when we are going to find out. Exactly. I agree. It is really sweeping and what they are trying to do. A lot of legal experts say it seems like Something Else hasnt been dropped. We saw in the document states that there was this Superseding Indictment that came later that added charges. Is it possible that the six coconspirators listed there, they are not charged. But they are making an effort to negotiate with them. For that they possibly testify against the former president. They drop others Superseding Indictment as they come after that. It seems like its a tough hill to climb. In this case to make what you are just talking about. Because it is politicized speech about concerns about the election. What he did, how he did it. There were 60 plus cases filed by Trump Attorneys across the country. There were were certifying elections by republican governors and republican secretaries of state that look at things and had audits. If there is, there was now very found enough evidence, fraud to overturn one state let alone 4. They are going to try to relitigate this. I will be fascinating. The judge in this case is tough for the defense. She is the one that open the files of the white house for the january 6 committee. I was thinking about it overnight. That was all happening in breaking news mode. The thing august 23rd for the first debate. You and martha are going to be the moderators. If i am resident trump and i have not committed to the debate, i might be thinking, i want to be at that debate to defend myself. I imagine he will be able to be in that room with all of his competitors and be able to ask each one of them, are you with me or are you not with me . Mike pence might be on the stage as well in terms of this indictment being over the line. I dont know how that stands right now. Im just thinking from a strategic standpoint if you have that commanding of a lead and you want these people behind you and you know the Republican Party faithful is behind you, why when you want to try to put it away that night . I totally agree. I think it would be fascinating if that happens. I dont know if it will or not. Vice president pence statement yesterday that no person got but himself above the constitution on that person should not be president again. Most of all of the other statements that with twotiered system of justice and all of these candidates are walking a line. They know as you point out the g. O. P. Primary voters look at this and say this is a raw deal. In fact it is a sympathetic figure in a lot of republicans are goals, the former president is. That is a tough question for that debate. He is on with martha on the story. Just think. You could have been a bell. [laughter] be when i could have been a George Barrett you could have been a bell on capitol hill. He works in washington, d. C. I am happy that my parents didnt say theodore, teddy. I would have been tough for me. It would have been cute. Our nations failing report card extending to a school back by lebron james. Students in his classrooms have flunked out for years. Ben carson is on that coming up. 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The school was designed to bring low performing students up to grade level. This school is failing to improve students test scores. The journal writes this class of eighth graders at the school hasnt had a single student pass the states math test since the group was in the third grade. Thats bring in dr. Ben carson, no former secretary for housing and urban development. The only thing that the school that the Akron Beacon Journal reported is that two of the biggest subgroups of students, black students and those with disabilities are testing in the bottom 5 in the state planning the school on the Ohio Department of educations list of those recurring targeted intervention. I think before we get into the discussion Everyone Wants to hear what you have to say about this. Lebron James Family Foundation said this. When we started this work to wraparound students to education, we enter this partnership with akron Public School for the long haul. We are here for the Ups And Downs and will continue to wrap around our students and their entire family so they can be successful in school no matter the challenges that come their way. This is a tough situation. Youve got a very wellintentioned effort here. It seems it is not working. What can be done to turn that around . Well, thank you for having me. This is such an important issue. Im glad you are a shining on it. It doesnt matter whether a student is in a Public School or Charter School or private school. What matters is how they are taught. You have a lot of people who say im not good at math or science. Everybodys good at math and science. If you train them the right way. Like reading, reading is not difficult if you know all 26 letters of the alphabet. Lets say that you only know 21 of them. You still know the vast maj majority. What could you read . Im not good at reading. You feel those five letters and all of a sudden, you can read. The same thing with math and science. It is a matter of who is teaching it and how they are teaching it. You may remember the movie Stand And Deliver back in 1998. In east los angeles, taught students from lower Social Economics matters how to do calculus. It can be done. You have to lay the groundwork. You have to do it correctly. I am building more than a school. I think he even provides housing for a lot of these students as well. It is quite remarkable. I was wondering if this school was doing so poorly, how is the rest of akron, ohio, doing . Believe it or not, among Performance Indicators of fifth graders among math, english, and science, james school is all in the Single Digits whereas the rest of akron is 2645, 36 for the rest of the state is 63 . I know you are referring to teachers and also parents. They really have to be the backbone to help the kids learn. This is a paltry performance that we are seeing from this. Theres got to be an explanation for why you are this bad. Honestly, the emphasis is not being in the right place. You probably are familiar with Project Baltimore report a few months ago. Over 2,000 students, none of them proficient in mathematics. Obviously, you dont have all those people who are stupid. Honestly, there is something going on with the way they teaching is being done. This requires a little bit of humility. You look at the places that have been successful to have the same kind of students and have been successful for them. What is it that they are doing that we are not doing . Being willing to accept that maybe somebody has done something better. It doesnt mean that you are horrible person or that you are inferior. It means that you are wise enough to look at what works and use that. We recently talked to some bones from mississippi who have turned things around down there in education. The former governor but in motion a bunch of changes because he said they didnt want to be 50th in the nation. There is some good bright spots there if youre looking for s some. On some of the things that governor sanders is doing in arkansas. The same kind of thing. After mississippi indeed. There are ways to turn it around good i know mississippi is not akron, ohio. We appreciate the efforts and we also appreciate you coming on. It is nice to see you again. Thank you. There is a smashandgrab robbery crew that robs the california Jewelry Store. Check this out. [glass breaking] Security Video Shows match suspects to break into display cases. It happened monday afternoon at a busy Shopping Center in irvine but police say the suspects took off with nearly 900,000 worth of merchandise. They are still on the loose. Police also believe the crew is behind other robberies in the area which of course would stand to reason. Plenty of cameras in that place. Officials in illinois facing backlash for a new law that will allow noncitizens to join the police force. 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