Begin in former President Trump historic new york hush money tr trial. Plus it will cost more to cool your summer this summer as energy costs surge. Ainsley and Scottie Scheffler clenches his second masters in three years. My buddies told me my victory was secure on the cross, that is a pretty special feeling. Lawrence dallas, texas, baby. Final hour of Fox And Friends starts now. Remember, mornings are better with friends. Fox news alert, Jury Selection begins in former President Trump historic new york Hush Money Trial. Brian first ever former president To Stand Trial In A Criminal trial. Ainsley we begin with eric shawn outside new york state Supreme Court. Eric. Good morning. This is the building Manhattan Criminal Court where the show Law And Order is taped. The Screen Writers probably never imagined along with common criminals would be former president of the United States. This is where donald trump will be sitting, behind a wooden Defense Table as the historic case begins this morning. Jury selection starting under two hours from now. Hundreds of manhattanites called for Jury Selection to sit in this case. 100 people thea a time will be called in and the judge will explain the case and ask if anyone thinks they cannot be fair or impartial. Those people that raise their hand will be excused and small groups put in the jury box and given a 42question questionnaire before they are questioned by the prosecutor and one of mr. Trumps lawyers. Mr. Trump is charged with falsifying records for allegedly covering up his as affair with porn star Stormy Daniels. He says he gave payments through Michael Cohen for legal expenses. The charges are usually misdemeanors, manhattan d. A. Alvin bragg bumped them up to felonies. The president has attacked this trial, this is truth social this morning. Why didnt they bring this lawsuit seven years ago . Election interference. If i fly over a democrat state, they call it a blue state, i get subpoenaed before a grand jury. It is horrible. H honestly, they are ruining this country, destroying the country. Not a thing hes done has been good. This is blatant manipulation of the law. Here is the 42page Jury Selection with the questions, question 32, do you have any feelings or opinions about how mr. Trump is being treated in this case . One way to find this out if you look at Election Results in manhattan, jurors are only from new york city. In 2020, mr. Trump got 12 of the vote, and in 2016, he got 10 of the vote, that is the jury pull as they start letsdz than two hours from now. Lawrence that should be fair. Ainsley not surprising, it is new york city. Brian what we know right now, we need an attorney to break it down. Lawrence carrie, what is the charge . What is the crime He Xhcommitte . According to d. A. , with falsifying business record, except there is one problem, the statute of limitation has run out. So hes manufactured it into felonies, he said he was to conceal an underlying crime. No one knows what the underlying crime is. And alvin bragg said vaguely he violated state and federal electric law. Ainsley going into a trial and his team does not know how to argue this case . Not just because it is donald trump, we are supposed to have a free and fair Justice System and know what you are being charged with. Accused has right to know what they are being accused of, that is a hallmark, something we are guaranteed to have. Alvin bragg talked in a Press Conference and to look, you say, if hes concealing a crime and it involves state and federal election law, how could they do that unless bragg is converting Hush Money Payment into contributions to himself and didnt report as such. Charlie is laughing because it is ridiculous. Brian were talking about Paperwork Violation in the worst case if guilty and looking at jail time. It is no victim, it is a victim l less crime. But like what is Appeal Process . As a nonlawyer, looking at this, i assume the whole thing is rigged. How does it, what is the Appeal Process look like . Jury returns sentence where they convict him of crimes, he would appeal this. I i am convinced new york Justice System is committed to crushing trump. They are attempting to remove him from public life by boot strapping misdemeanors to felonies, which carry jail time. Up to four years per charge. 34 times four. Ainsley and the judge will sentence him. How long do you think the trial will go . Six to eight weeks. You are looking potentially at week before memorial day with case of Closing Arguments and jury returning a verdict and if they convict him appeals will play out at that point. Brian Michael Cohen, he has issues, witnesses are devastating, like sammy the bull, he was used as a witness. Here is Michael Cohen. I did not want to go to the white house, i was offered jobs. Donald trump is not a racist, he believes all people are part of one race, human race. I know what mr. Trump is, he is a racist, a conman and he is a cheat. The words the media should be using to describe mr. Trump are generous, compassionate, principled, empathetic, kind, humble, honest and genuine. He is capable of behaving kindly, but he is not kind, he is not generous, he is capable of being loyal, but he is disloyal. Michael cohen goes to jail and comes out and writes a book and wants donald trump to pay the price. When you talk about Election Inte Interference they are saying if voters knew about Stormy Daniels and karen mcdougal, they would not have voted him into office. What is the crime . You would have to reconstruct hush payment into Campaign Payment or way to promote yourself as candidate to do that. These are all known things, star witness and case hinges on this guy. If the judge is concerned about ap appearance of impartiality and f fairness that gag order should not just be slap against trump, but Michael Cohen. When he does media interview, there is no penalty of perjury. He would know better than any anybody. He can go on tv and do shows with no consequence and say whatever he wants true or not. Lawrence does the judge have the ability, is there a law being broken, did he have the opportunity to throw this out based on standing . He could have thrown it out on a number of grounds. The judge could have looked at the indictment and said take this back and make it more particular, it is unclear to me what he did. How are we at felony stage when statute of limitation has run. He could have said come back with something more specific so the defendant knows what is going on. Brian clock was not ticking during the time well, it is because the pandemic but everyone is explaining why they did not do it at the time. Lawrence unbelievable. Brian only need one. That is right. Lawrence to another fox news alert, President Biden telling Israeli Officialsz will not participate in a Counter Attack against iran. Ainsley after iran attacked the jewish state over the weekend, most of which were intercepted. Brian Gillian Turner is live at the white house. Gillian defending Military Sfoert for israel and criticizing the Trump Administration iran policy, take a listen. It is hard to say we have gone soft on iran. Previous administration got us out of the iran deal and now iran is closer to Nuclear Weapon capability than before mr. Trump was elect. Gillian President Biden said mission accomplished. Thanks to deployments and extraordinary skill of Service Members we helped israel take down nearly all the incoming drones and missiles. Reporting on the ground bears out claims, fox news confirming half of irans Ballistic Missiles failed to launch or crashed. There is messaging the white house needs to account for. Message to iran in this moment . Dont. One word. Any actor, state or nonstate trying to take advantage of this crisis to attack israel, dont. We have just one word, dont. The Iranian Regime clearly did not heed that warning, john kirby was on another network and reiterated Biden Administration does not want this to escalate and as far as the administration is aware, israel has not decided if they will retaliate to the iran strikes. Brian last month white house extended waiver that Unlocks Frozen Funds into iran by enabling iraq to pay the iranian government for electric ity services. That is how they are getting money to get weapons that end up here and in ukraine and hezbollah and hamas. If people want to talk about weve been tough on iran and Previous Administration let them out of a nuclear deal. The Previous Administration said, we dont trust and and were going to separate you from money and income. These guys had given them money and not controlled the nuclear program. It is loselose. And promise of the nuclear deal put under on path to have Nuclear Weapons. Ainsley they wouldnt let inspectors in. Lawrence exactly, then you have Energy Policy which empowers them. On all elements of this, president empowering iran. Another thing, talking about the trial and for American People that is a lot of noise. When they look at Trump Administration compared to right now, if youre the president , you are worried with what the American People are saying right now. Do you approve or disapprove of bidens handling of the economy . Only 34 approve and 63 disa disapprove. Ainsley when asked about donald trump, i think we had it up, flip that, do you ashgsz prove of the way donald trump handled the economy . 64 approve and 33 disapprove. This is why trump is going up in the polls when slapped with new charges and more use of the judicial system. Most people, it is noise, they dont care about it, it is like entertainment on tv. What they care about, what they are paying at the gas pump and grocery store, or a crime. Those things matter to them and this is proof that democrats dont have solutions and they want to change the subject. Brian who do you think is too old to be president . Joe biden. And only 41 say trump. I guess they dont have television or have seen video. Au how respondent views of trump have changed . How he left the country better off, up 9, maintaining Law And Order, up 8, unifying america plus 4, covid plus 3 and Supreme Court plus 1. His four years against joe bidens four years. So far people are looking at last four years even with pandemic better. Ainsley barack obama Approval Rating went up after he left office and george bush went up and donald trump has. It may have helped him take last four years, hes doing better in the polls than joe biden. Ainsley he is helping, we show video of them at the border and joe biden is barely wal walking holding on to border chief and donald trump is shaking handing with the Border Patrol agents. Lawrence every single issue, when you have two president s across the street campaigning, they are seeing donald trump is a threat to democracy. Not saying donald trump is secured border and not saying we have peace, can you not look at every International Issue right now . We didnt have this going on. Remember, we were told that donald trump was the one going to break out world war iii. You cant trust this guy with nuclear code and now this guy is inching close. Iran is empowered and russia attacking ukraine. Reasonable voter, looking at issues on daytoday issues cant go with joe biden, which is why, you saw in the George George stephanopoulos with the governor. You are broke and you cant afford things at the grocery store, how do you vote for this guy . For these people who have blind Trump Derangement be syndrome, if they let trump win in 2020, he would be gone and leaving now. But because of everything that happened, we stha they are going to have to put up with trump for another four years. Ainsley many are critical because of the way donald trump has acted. Imagine if this were happening to you, you felt like you were innocent and as carrie said, they are changing the rules to indict and prosecute donald trump to get him behind bars, wouldnt you act the same way . Hes strong, how he deals with this and plays golf or has a good day and in a positive spirit. Brian and stress of trying to pick a college for your son, he is a senior. It helps he is tall. Brian 69, unbelievable. Ainsley power bills have surged 30 since President Biden took office. Brian jeff flock is in philadelphia. Explain this story. Im in front of an old coalfired power plant in philadelphia. Been out of business for 40 years. Weve been decommissioning power plants. It is more complicated than that. Take a look at numbers, cpi numbers, you would think you are talking about food prices, this is gasoline. Electricity is highest of the big numbers and we have had pretty calm Electricity Prices for a long time under obama and trump. Up about 5 over last seven or eight years and then President Biden comes in and it is up 30 . Not just decommissioning of coalpowered power plants, we need more electricity, they are eshg lectifiying cars, data centers, updating the grid and now we have ai. Listen. The most recent thing is artificial intelligence, it uses a lot of electricity, we were not planning for these things to happen together and not planning for new information after chatgpt took off and ai is everywhere. So hold on to your electric bills, the states where it is worse, we researched that and maine in the last year had 25 increase. Washington, d. C. , almost 18 , connecticut and arizona, up there. So you think gas and food costs a lot, electricity, too, shocking. Ainsley turn The Lights Out when you leave the room. As my father would tell us. Lawrence mine, too. Brian or put on a sweater or clap on, clap off, are you surprised we have not done that more, didnt you think you would do that forever . Lawrence what is that . Ainsley hes too young to know. Brian like this and ainsley they had commercials like elderly people in bed and didnt have to get out of bed. Lawrence im glad ainsley found that cute. Carley there was a song, clop on, clap off. Ing now they just spy on you and send it to china. Carley fox news alert, horrific story. Police officer and deputy are dead after shooting in state new york. Authorities say Syracuse Police officers tried stopping a s suspicious vehicle and the suspect fled and fired at officers after they tracked him to his home. Officials say the suspect was killed in the shoot out. Australian police have arrested a subject accused of stabbing a bishop. The attacker swiped at his face and head, this is just days after a man killed six people in sydney before officers shot and killed him. And terrorizing los angeles highways with a brazen string of daytime robberies. One jeweler was ambushed while driving home with valuable merchandise in the back of her car in october. Number of thieves from South America nations to commit robberies has soared over five years. Today is tax day, if youre still waiting to file taxes, experts say dont Use Tax Advice from tiktok. 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