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first of its kind for a former or sitting president. reaction to last night's announcement of the indictment has fallen heavily along political lines. democrats contending it is justified. republicans expressing outrage. we have fox team coverage tonight chad pergram is on capitol hill to tell us what he is hearing on the hill about all of this. david spunt in washington looks at other legal cases involving the former president. we begin with brine llenas in new york where preparations for tuesday's activities are already underway. good evening, brian. >> bret, good evening. sources ...

Political is how this history unfolded. how it got here and including the fact that bragg ran on a pledge that he was going to bag trump. >> bret: here is former assistant u.s. attorney to southern district of new york. take a listen. >> the justice department, the seventh district of new york, when it came time for michael cohen's sentencing here's what they said in their letter to the judge. in particular, and as cohen himself has now admitted with respect to both payments to daniels and macdougall he acted in coordination with and at the direction of individual. of course we know individual...

Wasn't charged. even if you get beyond that the federal election violation its 168 was erejected by fec commissioner, rejected by the department of justice in the sense that they didn't charge it. so this thing has layers of problems the question is why. why would bragg work so hard to brink out this misdemeanor and turn it into a felony in the answer does appear to be politics. he fulfilled trump's narrative with this case of all of the cases that could be charged first, this is the one trump would want. >> bret: but you don't think that there is anything possibly that will get revealed on tu...