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we launch on the trial. >> martha: mass protests outside the supreme court as the justices hear arguments whether cities can ban people from sleeping in public. this case stems from a lawsuit in oregon. attorneys are split on the potential impact of this. >> the ninth circuit held that cities are not allowed to regulate camping in their jurisdictions until they have enough shelter for everyone. that has made it impossible for cities to address very unsafe and unhealthy conditions. >> it is completely incorrect when people say that this case and this decision somehow limits what cities can do to regulate encampments. >> martha: think about all the cities across the country that have these tent areas in them. wide ranging implications, david spunt is live with us at the supreme court.
was a line of protest organizers standing in front of me linking arms so that i could not walk forward. the rest of the students at the rally noticed this. the other 500 students at this violent rally, and they saw me and so they began to taunt me as well because they recognized that i was something that they view as an enemy. finally the taunting continued and escalated and i was just there to record them. the taunting escalated until somebody waved a palestinian flag in my face and jabbed me in my left eye. when i tried to run after him the human blockade of protest organizers continued to stand in front of me to stop me from catching my assailant. so i went to the hospital. >> martha: it is extraordinary. it is stunning. we're looking at the banner they are holding up and liberation. there is a great irony. right behind it is a memorial on campus to those who fought --
roommate, her best friend. right after october 7th her roommate started speaking anti-palestinian -- pro-palestinian statements to her and it destroyed their friendship. she moved out of her dorm and now she lives with her grandmother on the upper east side because she doesn't feel safe on campus. it is terrifying. >> dana: incredible moment and story. we'll continue to bring all of it to you. [chanting and shouting] >> martha: anti-israel protests -- she said he was stabbed in the eye at yale. the school allowed anti-israel students to run rough shed over their most basic policies. yesterday i paid a price for their inaction. yale student needed hospital treatment for that injury and doing well now, which we're
forward. >> we hear president biden say all the time when he thinks of climate change he thinks of jobs. he is claiming the $7 billion worth of climate awards he will announce will create 200,000 new jobs. that hinges on everything going according to plan. as we have seen recently with the government's plans for electric vehicles and charging stations, the plan is hard to get to, dana. >> dana: it is. today at perino in politics i will talk to daniel turner, amazing discussion on the other side looking at it from an energy worker perspective. we'll have that tonight and tomorrow morning. thank you. beautiful day at the white house. >> bill: happy earth day. >> martha: the prosecution is reading open statements in trump's criminal trial and we are just getting some color what's going on in there in terms of back and forth between the attorneys as they listen to the opening arguments here as he goes through it. saying this case is about a criminal conspiracy and a cover-up, dana. >> dana: a couple of other
going on right here should never be happening. it's a very sad day in america, i can tell you that. thank you very much. >> martha: down the street from the rush money trial new york state attorney general letitia james is another courtroom saying the $175 million agreed-to bond secured in cash by trump which allows him to appeal the judge's ruling in the civil fraud case she claims the bond is not financially valid according to the former president it was backed by cash. i don't know how that works. >> dana: full coverage on fox. jonna spilbor and lydia hu is with fox business outside the new york state supreme court to give us an update. hi, lydia. >> good morning. that hearing about this bond issue is about to get underway any moment. lawyers took their seats inside the court for both trump,
the indictment. we know the theme for the prosecution is going to be hey, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, i've got all this smoke and mirrors and i need you to just pay attention to that and hopefully you will be confused into a guilty verdict when all is said and done. >> martha: is andrew cherkowski back with us, guys? welcome, great to have you with us this morning. so in terms of the opening argument here. they have to establish exactly what needs to be proven in order to find the former president guilty. to let the jury understand this is the bar that you would have to meet in this case. so they have to prove that the former president falsified or caused to be falsified business records, checks that were written, to cover this $130,000 payment. that's not enough. that's a misdemeanor. i believe the statute of limitations has run out on it.
$464 million. that was a move that many legal experts say suggests appellate judges may be sympathetic to trump's appeal on this case on the merits. scheduling today's hearing on this bond issue is judge orther en groan. if this bond is voided, the a.g.'s office wants to give trump seven days to file a new one. if he couldn't or didn't, then his assets would become vulnerable all once again. dana and martha, back to you. >> dana: thank you so much. joining us now criminal defense attorney -- the key players in the trial. let's pull it up for everybody to see. the prosecutor is alvin bragg. donald trump at the center of everything as always. michael cohen is a star witness and they begin with david pecker the former publisher of the
>> martha: networks have said they want the candidates to debate and i hope they strand strongly on that. the polling that dana brought up. necessary mental and physical health trump is plus 19 in that category. thats the most revealing part of why they don't want the current president to get up on that stage. >> the few press conferences he has done it doesn't end well. in some cases it is dangerous where staff has to walk back a foreign policy statement. generally voters think he lacks the mental sharpness for the job. >> dana: thank you. a busy monday. we are glad to have you here. speaking of president biden fox news alert. president biden is set to depart the white house an hour from now doing a campaign stop focusing on green energy and younger voters. he will leave the white house. beautiful day in washington, d.c. we'll be right back. turbo-hybrid... (♪)
good to have you with us today, may. >> thanks, martha. >> dana: fox news alert. opening statements in the hush money trial against former president trump are underway in new york city. moments ago the judge read his decision on what prosecutors can bring up from trump's previous court cases if he testifies in his own defense at the trial. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino. bill hemmer is off and thankfully i have martha with me here today. >> martha: great to be with you. i'm martha maccallum. for the first time in history prosecutors are set to present the first-ever criminal case against a former united states president and the manhattan district attorney has accused the former president trump of illegally hiding payments, hush money payments they've been called in this case, and he claims that those payments, which trump says were legal expenses, were done in order to effect the outcome of the 2016
apparently at one point president trump nudged one of his lawyers to look at a piece of paper and whatever was on the paper and laughed and trump turned to to the other one and he nodded. talk with your lawyers to communicate. from inside the courtroom he has been looking straight ahead the whole time. they did read the transcript of that access hollywood tape. it won't be played so it had to be read by the district attorney folks in there, martha. >> martha: interesting they included that in their opening statement as well. >> dana: it was a heck of a monday morning to get us started on a busy week. we have you covered with all of the breaking news from the universities across the country dealing with anti-semitism and, of course, the trump trial. martha, thank you. see you at 3:00. here is harris.