, o, say can you see by the dawns early light muck what so proudly we hailed at the twi lightenings last gleaming . Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous figh oer the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming. And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still will there. O, say does that starspanninged spangled banner yet wave oer the land of the free and the Home Of The Brave [cheers and applause] pete good morning and and welcome to fox Friends Weekend on this saturday morning, may 4th, year of our lord 2024, and you keep sending your photos in, and we appreciate it. Good morning. Look whos back. Avenue ray and youre back. I was told one of you wasnt going to be here, and then i had this just happy surprise. The band is back together. Pete the band is back together. Will a rumor floating around that i was off this week. Pete it was. [laughter] i walked in and everybody was, like, wills back. We thought will was going if to be gone. Will its news to me. Pete did you take the day back . Will no. Just Wishful Thinking on behalf of a the staff. [laughter] pete wed never do that. Rachel were so happy to be back together pete you had a good trip . Rachel i had a wonderful trip. Pete you want to tell us all about it in. Rachel no. Well talk about it. I dont do small talk. Pete she doesnt. Rachel i cant even say my vacation was nice without saying Western Civilization will can you imagine Walking Around rome, and heres another example [laughter] rachel we get to the coliseum, im, like, look on the ground, guys, theres the blood of the christians. Thats how it is in my house. [laughter] pete cant wait to go on another vacation with mom. [laughter] will well be sorting that out over the next couple of hours. We begin with this, day 11 of former president trumps new york trial is now over. Rachel and his former aide got very emotional on the stand while calling out michael colisten. Pete Chanley Painter joins us with the latest. Reporter it was a dramatic conclusion to week three already in trumpsen manhattan trial, and former trump aide, advisor hope hicks appeared to become emotional. Hicks was trumps 2016 Campaign Press secretary. She went on to to serve as his White House Communications director. And on friday she spent about three hours testifying, telling the jury that in the days leading up to the 2k0 16 election 2016 when women were coming forward with allegations of affairs, trumps interest in suppressing the story stemmed from his desire to shield his family and in the how the allegations would impact his campaign. The prosecutor Yesterday Hicks on the stand the about meeting david pecker, hicks said she did not recall participating in a meeting where pecker promised to help the trump campaign. Hicks also said trumps former lawyer, michael cohen, injected helps into Campaign Activities when he was instructed only to focus on trumps business credentials. Hicks claimed cohen liked to call himself mr. Fixit but he only fixed things after breaking them first. Also trump paid 9,000 worth of fines after the judge ruled he violated the gag order multiple times, even threatening jail time if he willfully violates it again, so yesterday trump focused on politics. Watch. Years, the democrats, the radical left, navy been after us for theyve been after us for years, and theyve been screwing peoples lives. Theyve gone out and hired lawyers for years. Been sucked dry. And its a shame. Its a shame, what theyve done to this country. Reporter trumps unprecedented trial, guys, resigns Monday Morning resumes Monday Morning, 9 30 a. M. , a new prosecution witness on the stand. Pete appreciate it. It is amazing, the prosecution keeps bringing witnesses that are supporting donald trump. [laughter] rachel i know. Pete shows you how weak their case really is. In this case, hope hicks didnt reveal anything that was damaging to the president. Avenue iowa not. Of. Pete she was there when a lot of rachel i think in many ways it humanized him. Yeah, he was in trouble with Stormy Daniels and this affair, and his thoughts were i dont want to embarrass with my family. I think a lot of people could relate the that. Weve all known people like that this, you know, those fixer type of people that a break things, theyre the ones that mess it up, and then they come in and act like theyre the saviors who with fix it, but they broke it to begin with. When she said that and this jury knows michael cohen, i think it resonated and, apparently, they all laughed and said, had a chuckle over that. Will well, it just humanized donald trump, it actually, as you pointed out, pete, it really blew a hole in the prosecution, and heres why. Youll remember that the underlying charges are misdemeanors who exceeded their statute of limitations. The only way to make this thing see the light of day in a courtroom was to charge them up to felonies. In order for them to be felon nebraskas, they had to be election law violations. The Election Law Allegation is trump did all this to influence an election rachel right. Will and Hope Hicks Lays out he did this to shield his family from embarrass. Gregg jarrett points out exactly how that affects the legal trial of the prosecution. This was an Epic Mess Calculation by miscalculation by prosecutors, calling hope hicks. It backfired against them because, youre right, she told the jury that trumps motive for Suppressing Salacious Stories like Stormy Daniels was to protect his wife, not the campaign. Well, that demolishes alvin braggs central the theory that trumps intent was to help his election and, therefore, he violated cam pane laws. Well, no, he didnt. And it also happens to corroborate the findings of the feds who said, you know, no crimes were committed or Campaign Finance laws brokennen. But, you know, its actually worse than that because bragg claims in the indictment which is all important that trump falsified business records. Thats absurd. His lawyer negotiated the stormy payments which were legal and booked them the as Legal Expenses was thats what they are. So even the basis for the criminal charges isnt true which makes this a trial in search of an imaginary crime that a exists nowhere in the law. Rachel i guess the question is, is that going to be enough . Gregg jarretts laid it out really well, but is the jury so biased that they wont pete that is the operative question here. And, you know, even Stormy Daniels lawyer was willing couldnt say its a hush money payment. Its not a hush money payment. This was for consideration. Which anybody in this it was extortion. Ing. Rachel yeah. Pete thats the type of job that he did on behalf of other clients as well. Jurors start to get this picture, oh, rich man, target of opportunity. Hes in a pinch if we push him at this point. Okay, this doesnt have anything to do with that. Who knows . Maybe it flips some minds. Will i think its really going to come down to the bias of two potential jurors versus their knowledge of the haw. Greg points out gregg points out its an incident in search of a crime. So theres two lawyers sitting on that jury, and theyre the two that im talking about. Does their potential bias of being someone probably on the left who lives in new york city outweigh their understanding of the law. Rachel yeah. Theres another crime here. The court artest, how did they manage to make Hope Hicks Look Ugly . Pete or old. Rachel shes drop dead gorgeous. Thats a crime. [laughter] all right. Were going to move to a fox news alert. More antiisrael protests breaking out as demonstrators face off at the university of chicago. And 100 protesters rallied at Georgia State university yesterday. Will Officials Say the library at portland State University is unusable after it was occupied by protesters. Pete Madeleine Rivera join withs now. Reporter good morning. 20, 2 2,218 people have been arrested. Tents are still the up at the university of chicago. On friday University Police dressed in riot gear had to step in and separate propalestinian supporters and counterprotesters. In atlanta, protesters at Georgia State university had a test but brief interwith action with police who with tried to hold back the group. A library at portland State University will remain closed for months after protesters took over the building. The universitys president saying i took a tour of the library, and and it was difficult to see this important Dam Pus Space rendered campus space rendered unuserd. We are unusable. We are endeavoring to identify of and equip alternatives to paces throughout campus. In new York City Police arrested 56 people at New York University and the new school. The nqpd believes the protesters are getting guidance from somebody. Theres somebody behind this movement. The level of organization that were seeing in both these encampments here and at columbia , leaflets on what to do when you get arrested, leaflets on what to say police when they ask you, there is somebody funding this, there is somebody radicalizing our students. Reporter The Wall Street JournalReports Activist groups like the National Students for justice in palestine Train Students for months before the protests, though there isnt a centralized command overseeing the movement. Will, pete and ray dell. Will thank you, madeleine. Quite a statement there from the nypd, somebody is behind this. Someone is organizing it. Its leading the things like check out out this leaflet that was at, this was at pete upenn. Will upenn. Let representation breed with more resistance. We will not disavow any actions taken to escalate the struggle including militant direct actions. Our notion of safety in the imperial core is built on centuries of corpses, and this liberal framing of safetyism presents us prevents us from winning which is our to palestine. We keep us safe byes calculating, dont hesitate to take more risk. What an instruction to leave behind the liberal language of safetyism and move into the ideology of escalate. Rachel and theyre actually also giving them instructions on how to break into buildings. Look at this. Use the straightener and the crowbar because these kids dont know how to use tools. Use the straighter end of the crowbar to pry open windows and doors such as in the hand over hand method. Use the slightly angled part as your [laughter] pushing it against the window frame or the door jam. So doorjamb. These are kids who never didder chores, obviously. Look at that. So they have to give them a really clear guide on how to do this. Im not going to i think weve got to dig into exactly who and what organizations are funding what i would say, this is, this is, theyre trying to tear apart america. And we ought to know. The fbi ought to be on this. Pete well, will and i have going to be on the case later in the show. Were going to go off the wall on who is behind the protests. Iowa iowa does it rhyme with coros . Pete it could. [laughter] were going to go off the wall at 8 40. Whos behind the protests op campus. There is the no doubt that it is paid outside agitators with militants. This isnt even rules for radicals stuff. The rules for radicals was be patient, use their leverage against them, do things people enjoy. You know, this is outright militancy. Rachel do you know why its escalated to that level . So at the university of chicago, guess who showed up to give aid, support, a little speech . Bill ayers. And bill ayers would have been part of that a rules for rad call thes, but now radicals but now bill ayers doesnt have to worry about getting on the inside and putting barack obama in place as he did, and sean hannity tried to expose back in 2010. Now all his Boomer Friends, all his radical Boomer Friends pete now they just get to support terrorists. Ray avenue theyre in the doj, the fbi. His buddies are in charge. So he can be a domestic Terrorist Professor at the university of chicago, no problem ally aring and counseling and mentoring the next generation. He can do it right out in the open. Mask is off. Pete will,ing i caught on that Word Safetyism as well because i write about that in my book. The problem of safetyism even inside if our military. So, yes, a lot of these are wimpey guys, but theyre also, like, men or women in search of a purpose, and they dont have one. And so this militancy gives them an identity and somehow its a Terrorist Flag rachel on my podcast this path week past week, we dug into the fact that that king bald wen, were going to have you taint, the 12th century jerusalem king, king baldwin, is trending. There is no question that this generation he was a teenage king, by the way. These men are searching for something and, sadly, theyve globbed on to this. Will we have seep some men who know they stand for the United States of america largely at southern universities, but not exclusively, and there is hope as we see a lo of frat guys, a lot of americanloving can kids finish. Rachel who knew that frat guys were going to save america . If. Pete love it. [laughter] will fox weather alert, flash flood risks continuing today in texas after excess efrain prompted several areas to evacuate. Rivers rising to levels not seen sense hurricane harvey. Some areas saw up to 7 inches of rain within 24 hours. Meanwhile, a tornado was spotted in westcentral texas yesterday. No damage was immediately reported. A democrat texas congressman, henry cuellar, and his wife indicted on bribery and other charges after the Justice Department invest investigated their ties to two Foreign Countries accused of accepting nearly 6000,000 in bribes including from a bank in mexico. Theyre denying any wrongdoing. And we have plenty of ufl action today including the st. Louis battle hawks take on the houston roughnecks. The Battle Hawks Looking to take the top spot in the xfl division while the roughnecks are looking for they are second win of the season. Coverage starts at 3 p. M. Today only on fox, and those are your headlines. Pete oh, so they have an xfl and a ufl division . Will right. And i was a good boy, i went to bed pete who ended up winning that Mavericks Game . Will i had two games that threatened my sleep. Pete i got to halftime of the Mavericks Game. Will you did . Pete i did. Will it tipped off at 9 30. The clippers move to the second round, but the stars lost and itll be pushed to a game seven against the vegas golden, neithers. Pete dallas stars, hockey team in thats. Why does dallas have hockey . No one knows. Where did they steal the team from . If minnesota. Where we actually like and play hockey, and it was stolen like dallas, and ill never let you finish. Rachel do people go to the hockey game . Will oh, or yeah. Super passionate. Itll be rocking on sunday. Pete its true. Rachel in the duffy house, we like hockey too. Will an l. A. Restaurant saysst its going to start selling meat. They admitted veganism, which was their push for a while, isnt saving the planet. Pete so the restaurant was a Vegan Restaurant will right. Pete and theyre saying no more . No m a s . Rachel the owner ended up this is what happened to a lot of people, she ended up buying a farm. And she started to see, well, if you have a farm, death is part of having a farm. You know that very well with animals. It happens. And and so she started to see that. She also a started to see the benefits of meat itself, of regenerative farming, is and shes, like, she said she went through a process too. People are angry at a her, but she went through a process of sort of mourning her vegan ideas having to die. [laughter] here she is, molly engelhart, shes the chef of the sage regenerative kitchen, and heres what she had to say. We will be shifting from an all plantbased menu to a high quality protein from only the highest quality, most integrity regenerative farms. Pete so she did get criticism, and heres what she said defending the change talking to business insider. She said i had also been living under the illusion that any vegetarian or vegan diet did less harm to the world, but there was definitely naivete in my past position. So it wasnt just about the Health Benefits rachel sure. Pete she was being told that she could save the planet. Shes, like, thats not working. Thats not true. Rachel and also the understanding that she had having a small farm that a when you have a small farm, you can do things, again, this regenerative farming, no pesticides, you can do it on a small scale. Once you get to these large scale industrial farms, then you start introducing chemicals, and it just becomes more feinter to do it in a nonnatural way. So her point is the more we sort of, you know,ville nice if villainize small farmers, the worse the foods going to be. I think its an interesting story. Also she said during covid a lot of Vegan Restaurants do well. So theres system check if upside pete oh, you mean bottom line . If people like me . Rachel yeah. Listen, there is no more newt arentdense thing you