Oh, incredibly busy evening. Good morning to you, steve, ainsley and brian. And the former president is lashing out against the prosecution. He tells fox news digital, quote politically inspired indictment, which could have been brought close to three years ago, was tailored for placement right smack in the middle of my Political Campaign where i am leading all republicans. The former president and 18 others face various charges individually, including violation of oath by a public officer and filing spawls documents. All of the defendants have been charged with violating georgias racketeering law, which carries a maximum Prison Sentence of 20 years. In addition to the mr. Trump, the indicted defendants include his former white house Chief Of Staff mark meadows and some of his former attorneys, including Rudy Giuliani and sidney powell. The 98page indictment lists scott mccafe as the judge who will be presiding over the judge. Appointed by republican Governor Brian Kemp and joined the Fulton County superior Court Earlier this year. Hours before the jury handed up the indictment an incomplete document listing the same charges briefly appear dollars on the Fulton County clerk of courts website before abruptly being taken down. My colleague bryan llenas pressed the d. A. On what happened. Can you tell us more about that Document Leak because now you have the former president s lawyers saying this is emblematic of a serious problem with your office. No. I cant tell you anything about what you refer to. What i can tell you is that we had a grand jury here in Fulton County. They deliberated until almost 8 00, if not right after 8 00. An indictment was returned. Trump attorney alina habba says none of the defendants was given any advanced notice on the indictments before news broke on tv and online. The d. A. Is giving the defendants until noon on august 25 to voluntarily turn themselves in. Steve, ainsley, and brian, back to you. Steve hey, jonathan, i know they included a punch of Security Measures around the courthouse where you are right now. Just in case there was trouble. Was there anything . In fact, there was a small protest yesterday, unrelated to what was going on in the court protest against this Police Training center under construction outside of town. Knowing the National Media would be out here outside the courthouse they took advantage of the opportunity to protest. Steve you mentioned the story so they got what they were trying to do. Jonathan, thank you for joining us live. My flesh. Brian bring in another jonathan. Jonathan turley. Fox news contributor. George Washington University law professor. Jonathan, this is not a surprise denied knowing anything about it noteworthy. What stands out to you . I did find that statement by a District Attorney to be baffling, to say well, i dont know anything about the Clerks Office this was a premature publication of the indictment its a serious mishap. You think she would be somewhat curious about how that happened. The indictment as we expected founded on this broad racketeering claim. 18 individuals charges. Willis charged everything and allowing everyone and allowing god sort them out. Look at this indictment. Every call, every tweet, every speech seems to be criminal act that composes this conspiracy. That raises really troubling questions as to the criminalization of the challenges to election. You know, i have been covering president ial elections a long time. I cant even remember how many. But, in every single president ial election, we track challenges by democrats, by republicans. Some of them are based on strong evidence. Some are not. Even in this election, you have people like marc elias for the Democratic Party after this these acts allege that Voting Machines in new york were at the were the cause of flipping an election. And challenging that election. Was that a crime . Of course it wasnt. It was a challenge. They were looking for judicial review. So its a very troubling indictment. Ainsley jonathan, they waited two and a half years to do this. If they had a problem, our question is why didnt they take this to court two and a half years ago . Why wait in all four of these indictments until a year before the election knowing these court cases are happening next year when well all be going to the polls in november . I think thats a fair question and former president in his rights to raise it. This indictment, obviously, could have been brought long before yesterday. It seemed to have been timed to hit right in the middle of the election. And now we have a pile up. This president is being really pursued, pillar to post, across the country in different jurisdictions. Theres going to be a reaction to that. I mean, there is this is a very troubling thing to watch. The thing about georgia though that i dont think the trump team should discount is that this has legs because it was brought under the racket tearing statute, its going to be very hard to getten an Appellate Review to knock this out on threshold largely fact questions. The prosecutors argue let us prove our case let us bring the evidence together. The chances of this surviving a review are likely quite high, at least in some form in the d. C. Case the judge there could cause a similar problem. She could make it difficult for trump to get to the court of appeals on the Supreme Court on what i think are major threshold questions. Unlike georgia, jack smith is creating new law. And its not going to please a lot of these higher courts. In georgia, this is a state action. Elections fall within their pursue. Its going to be harder to take out a case like this ton a threshold challenge. Steve sure. Jonathan, we have paid your retainer until 7 15. We have got about 8 more minutes. Can you stay there for just a second . Sure. Steve okay. Good. Because we are going to go to another venue. We have had a change of venue. President biden is heading to milwaukee today to tout his ira, ira,flation reduction act and also bidenomics. Ainsley his appearance comes as the white house maintains there is zero evidence the president did anything wrong in connection with his sons foreign Business Dealings despite new evidence from house republicans. Brian new evidence yesterday from the fbi. Peter doocy joins us live from the white house. Hey, peter. Peter usually Law Enforcement gets a tip but in this case they are accused of giving a tip in 2020 to Hunter Bidens team that wound up killing an fbi interview that had been planned with him. Thats according to testimony from a former fbi agent who says i felt it was people that did not need to know about our intent. I believe that the Secret Service had to be notified for our safety, for lack of confusion, for deconfliction which we would do in so many other ways cases but i didnt understand why the initial notification. Thats james comer over at the Oversight Committee even more mad at this Special Counsel weiss. He says the Oversight Committee has no confidence in u. S. Attorney weiss as Special Counsel, given his inability to prevent the Biden Transition Team from being contacted and federal agents were not permitted to interview hunter biden as planned. But, to all of this, white house officials are still saying its just a big distraction from the issues impacting americans. If you think about what republicans in congress have tried to do for years, right . They have been making claims of and allegations, right . About president on this front and whats been the result of that if you ask yourself what we have seen from that . They keep turning up documents and witnesses showing that the president wasnt involved. Never discussed these Business Dealings and did nothing wrong. Theres been zero evidence showing showing otherwise. And hunters lawyers are now saying that part of that plea deal the prosecutors appeared to say was dead is actually alive. The part that keeps him out of jail for a gun charge, hours republicans wrote to the doj asking for details about that plea deal. They got a letter back from the doj. No info yet because they say that the probe is ongoing. Back to you. Steve indeed. All right. Peter, thank you very much. Jonathan turley we have five more minutes on the clock with you. Jonathan, what we heard on sunday from Hunter Bidens lawyer abbe lowell who im sure have you known in the d. C. Area for a long time. A great lawyer. When hunter biden would call his dad and put his dad on speaker phone, that was what a loving father would do. And i thought about that question because peter doocy asked the president about hey, when you would get your dad on thewhen you would talk to hunter on the speaker phone, about business and he goes i never talked about business. Well, now abbe lowell is admitting that joe biden and hunter biden talked to his Business Associates on the speaker phone. I agree with abby when my children fleece foreign i always get on the phone. Ainsley beach house in delaware. You know. The problem here is the moving of the goal post. You know, and the contrast is, of course, extraordinary. Trump is being indicted for everything short of ripping a Mattress Label off. Brian thats next. Yet, the Department Much justice seems to be waiting for a virtual confession from the president in order to bring an indictment. Its a very weird contrast. But, this is becoming so serious i think its going to be harder and harder for the media and the Justice Department to continue to deny this. The president said for years to the public he never spoke to his son about foreign dealings. Right. Recently devon archer said that was categorically false that the president knew about their dealings. Other witnesses said they had met with the president , had dinners, including one who said he discussed the family dealings. All of these narratives are collapsing and then they put up, yet, another one. Well, the loving father narrative is just not going to do it. You know, the house is now documented at least 20 million going to the bidens. Its going through a series of accounts, a couple dozen accounts that seem designed to hide those transfers. And all they can say now is well, can you show a picture of him receiving an envelope of cash or a deposit slip to an account by joe and jill biden . There are witnesses that have been cited that said they were told not to refer to joe biden directly. Not to make any payments directly to him. And why would you set up all these accounts excepted for that purpose . You know, they are there. So that you dont have that type of paper trail. Brian does circumstantial matter . Does that matter, circumstantial . Well, this is a pretty strong case as it is. And, yet, the Maker Garland just refused to extend the mandate. We had he appointed a Special Counsel that flipped the regulation on its head. You know, he picks someone who is literally being looked into by congress for alleged fixing of the prior investigation. And, yet, garland still will not say that he should investigate all of this. And get it all out. Instead, is he focusing on hunter. Ainsley Alan Dershowitz said the strategy is to get the conviction before the election. I used to tell the students if you bring ricco case it increases your chance of winning a trial and losing an appeal. If we get a conviction before the election, then it goes to an appeal that wont happen until after the election. Is this going to help or hurt him if he ends up getting convicted . Look, i think that this is obviously helping him. The American People dont like to see this. This is what you see in a lot of other countries. You know, the willis indictment has legs in the sense that it tends to be more iron plated because these are conventional state charges. That doesnt mean that its right. When you look at this indictment, its charging everything. Every call, every tweet, every speech. You know, the president is allowed to challenge elections. He is also allowed to be wrong. And there is no there is no clear principle or dividing line of when challenges will now be criminal and when w they will be allowable. Ainsley one more question why 18 codefendants . What did they do wrong . I think, once again, this is a very typical approach to a racketeering case. You charge everyone. And then you pressure a lot of the codefendants. Steve squeeze. To flip. Thats what i think they hope will happen here. Steve jonathan, 27 seconds left on the count. We will yield back our time. Thank you very much. Ainsley thanks, jonathan. Steve we have got more to talk about this topic. Come up, we have one of the president s Attorneys Alina Habba and Matt Whitaker the former acting u. S. Attorney general going to be joining us right here on fox friends. Ainsley thats right. In the meantime, lets hand it over to carley for more headlines. Carley a newly released mugshot shows the Second Illegal Migrant Who Sex Crime charges forced the democrat to stop Asylum Seekers from New York City to upstate new york. The sexually accused of assaulting a woman who worked for a company that provides social services for migrants. Meanwhile lady gagas dad is now sounding the alarm on how bad the crisis really is in the big apple. Become a problem. Noise at night. One of the condominiums at the end of the block you, they hired their own security. We havent gotten much help from nypd. There was no plan. They just they dropped him into the neighborhood. Right . All of a sudden 500 new people were in the neighborhood. And they took over. Right now New York City is sheltering nearly 60,000 migrants. The Biden Administration moving forward with plans to cancel 39 billion in student loan debt. The president releasing a statement over 804,000 borrowers never got the credit they earned and never saw the forgiveness they were promised even after making payments for decades i was determined to right this wrong. This comes after a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit from conservative groups looking to block the student loan forgiveness plan. Country star jelly roll opening about the struggles of morning tv after yesterdays Live Performance of i need a favor right here on fox friends. Only talk to god when i needa favor and i only pray when i aint got a prayer so who the hell am i a savior if i only talk to god when i need a favor god, i need a favor carley yesterday after that great performance he tweeted, quote one of the hardest things i have ever had to do as an artist is sing on morning tv or radio. Its so hard to get your voice primed and warmed up that early in the morning. Despite the struggles he says he thinks the performance went great and we, of course, agree. Ainsley hardest thing i have ever had to do. Carley which is a lot coming from him who has had some struggles in his life. Waking up for fox friends was a difficult one for him. Steve who knew. He is talking about how he had to warm up his voice. He had an app. On his phone that would go through the notes he would go da da da da da da da. He was just in The Green Room doing just that. Carley he performed the night before in atlantic city. So he did the bus ride over here. Slept as long as he possibly could and slept great. His personality is so funny, too. I love him. Ainsley he said the hardest thing i could ever do as an artist is wake up this early. When we said we are so glad you woke up with us this early. Only time when i ever woke this up early is when i had a parole hearing. When you watch his documentary is he very honest and open about his life. He has been arrested 40 times. His life has changed now. Brian do you know who also had trouble yesterday . Ainsley who . Brian his band. Ainsley in The Green Room on the furniture. Brian wide awake for their performance. Steve but the show must go on. When the lights come on doing the singing and they were great. Brian tell that to carley. Carley not a morning person. Ainsley do you sleep in on saturdays . Carley not anymore. Ainsley she is a momma. 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