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mother's day to all. welcome to "sunday morning futures." i'm maria bartiromo. today, joe biden crosses a red line for many voters with his anti-israel policy. biden's so-called ironclad support proving to be just another campaign talking point as the president threatens to hold back already congressionally-approved weapons to israel. coming up, utah senator mike lee with the consequences for america's number one middle eastern ally as israel battles terrorists for its own survival. plus, former speaker of the house kevin mccarthy recently in israel on bind's flip-flop amidst a new fight over speaker mike if johnson's tenure. then, georgia congresswoman marjorie taylor greene is here to defend her stance, why she is trying to push out another republican speaker. plus, foreigners flooding the border every single day into america. arizona senate candidate kari lake on biden's agenda and her chances to tip the senate majority if come november. then, a good excuse for the

media not to report on biden's policy failures, trump on trial. former acting u.s. attorney general matthew whitaker and fox news legal analyst are gregg jarrett on biden's department of justice's prosecution of his presidential opponent, donald trump. it's all right here, right now on "sunday morning futures." ♪ ♪ maria: and and we begin this sunday morning with president biden's policies against israel. and the president's decision to withhold u.s. military aid to israel if the israeli defense forces attack hamas terrorists in rafah. swift condemnation across the board from both sides of the aisle on capitol hill with house republicans pushing for legislation to force the president's hand to deliver on america's promise to provide weapons to the u.s.' closest ally in the middle east. over in the senate, pennsylvania democrat senator john fetterman if says israel is fighting for its survival after hamas killed

1230 people in israel reel on october 7th. >> when you have the kind of enemy that has no conditions or, you know, morals or decency or any kind of a bottom, and i don't think we should is have any kind of conditions. and let's never forget, this is exactly how hamas designed this. those are cowards and rapists s and they hide behind civilians. maria: joining me now in this "sunday morning futures" exclusive is senator mike lee, the ranking member of the senate joint economic committee. senator, it's good to see you this morning, thanks very much for being here. i want to start off with your reaction the president biden threatening he's not going to send those shipments of weapons to israel if they go into rafah. >> maria, this is just reprehensibling. you're taking a group of people who have been victimized. remember there were thousands of people killed innocently. innocent people who were killed in israel, men, women, children, even babies.

and they are the victims. now they're being restrictized by or, of all -- can revictimized by, of all people, the united states of america. congress has a passed an aid package, an aid package i voted against because among other things it spent too much on other countries and because i was concerned the aid wouldn't actually make it to israel. well, lo and behold, a lot of it's not going to israel or at least it's being conditioned on israel not being able to defend itself. this is the inexcusable, and i really d't know how joe biden can survive this. i thinkable this is yet another indication it's time for change at the white house. maria: you know, i was peeking with some voters last night and, you know, they felt that this was a are red line. they wouldn't believe it. this was, like, the final straw. these were democrats and end dependents. do you think this is going to affect how people see the upcoming election? >> without question, it will, and it certainly should. look, nothing calls out more for donald trump returning to the white house as the 47th president of the united states

quite like blunders like this one. and this one is a doozy. it's colossal. it demonstrates to the american people and it demonstrates to people all over the world that we've got flawed, we've got inadequate, we've got ineffective, feckless leadership in the white house that has to come to an end, and that'll happen, i believe, when americans go to the polls this november. maria: senator, let me just look at this up one story, i've got to get your take, from the washington post. "the washington post," apparently, got this leak, from i assume, the biden administration. the administration if is working or urgently to stave off a full scale israeli invasion of rafah, and they claim that they will give israel valuable -- listen, quote-unquote, valuable assistance if it holds back including the u.s. will share sensitive intelligence to israel to help the israeli military pinpoint the location of the hamas leaders to find them in hidden tunnels. so in other words, the "the washington post" is writing that

israel, that the united states will share information about where the terrorists are with israel if they don't go into rafah. are you kidding me? if in other words, the u.s. knows where the terrorists are, their -- they're not going to share the information with israel unless israel doesn't go into rafah? this story's outrageous. >> the story's outrageouses, the facts underlying it are tragic. look, this is extortion. we're saying we can help you locate your victims when have been kept under just horrible, horrific conditions, the worst anyone can imagine, we will share that information with you if and only if you choose not to defend yourselves. we are revictimizing the victim nation here. this is terrible. and, again, yet another reason why joe biden is unfit for office, and americans need to elect donald trump. maria: let's talk about the bill that you are pushing, the save act. i want to get your take on a free is and fair election come

november. tell us about the save act. >> look, in our country it's always been one citizen, one vote she9. vote. and under federal law, only citizens are allowed to vote in federal elections. here's the tragic thing, maria, over the last three, three and a half years since the biden administration has been in power, they've let in about 12 million illegal aliens or an estimated nearly 30 million noncitizens in the united states. currently, with the laws we have in place, the so-called motor if voter law, the national voter e registration act, you do still have to be a citizen to vote, but the supreme court has interpreted it as prohibiting those at the state level who register people to vote from requiring the production of evidence of documents proving citizenship just like you have to show when you get, say, a passport. they're prohibited from asking

for that. so what that means is a person can fill out a form, and as a long as they check the right box and sign their name and willing to lie, they can vote in federal elections even if they're not citizens and they couldn't can prove it because they're not citizens. the save act would fix that loophole. it would make sure that, actually, it is going to be american citizens voting in federal elections. finish it would require the states to go in and review their voter registration files and eliminate those who are not citizens. maria: this is so important. and i know that the rnc and michael whatley and lara trump have been saying that a fair and transparent election is their number one priority. what kind of a reception are you getting op on the save act from your colleagues? because, you know, this wide open border has people questioning whether or not illegals are going to vote in the upcoming election and what is the motivation for the administration to keep this wide open border? ken paxton, the a.g. of texas, last week told me he thinks when

they cross the border, officials are giving them social security numbers. and they're giving them voter registration sheets. what about that? do you have any evidence of that? >> yeah, so -- well, yeah. it's happening all over the place. and in all 50 states now, you can get a driver's license without being a citizen. so that coupled with the motor voter law means it's going to be very, very easy if people requested and checked the box to actually become a voter who can vote in federal elections. now, with respect to you are your question about the kind of reception it's getting, universally republicans love it. i believe some democrats love it, but there are a number of democrats who are belittling it and saying there's no need for it because they come out and say, oh, well, of course, it's already illegal for noncitizens to vote. that's not the point. the point is that it's nearly impossible to enforce that law, and it's nearly impossible to stop people from cheating and just checking a box, signing their name fraudulently claiming

to be citizens. the save act would fix that. we need to pass the save act immediately. maria: real quick on inflation which was one of the topics last night for the president, president trump, at his new jersey rally. wow, the pictures were extraordinary of all of those people. senator, we are still looking at inflation up almost 20% on joe biden's watch. why? >> well, this is the predictable, foreseeable and, in fact, be many of us actually foreseen result of years of back to back multitrillion dollar deficits. it is no the mystery what inflation is caused by. maria: yeah. >> it's caused by the federal government spending too much money it doesn't have, effectively printing it. it makes every dollar go less far. household after household in america on average is shelling out an additional $1300 just to live, that's wrong, and it's another reason we need donald trump as president. maria: senator, thanks very much, see you soon is. senator mike lee in the utah.

thank you,er is. now over to the house where more than two dozen democrats told national security adviser jake sullivan on friday they were deeply concerned by the administration's decision to the withhold weapons shipments to israel as a it will only embolden america's enemies including hamas. joining me right now is georgia congresswoman marjorie taylor greene, congresswoman, thanks very much for being here. do you agree with the democrats that weapons how old go to us i reel right now -- should go to israel? >> maria, i went on record very early on saying anytime you give the biden administration a tool to use against israel or, they are going to use it. and that's why i think that if you support israel, we should support them in their war on their terms. not allowing the biden administration to withhold money, not allowing the biden administration to have any kind of hook into israel. and i was right. literally, what i said would happen is happening now. but it's great israel is able to handle this on their own.

they're continuing on with their war and what they think they should do. you know, i'm unapologetically all-american. i think the border we should be focused on is our own southern border, and that's my focus. maria: yeah. and you have been unable to secure the border, you meaning republicans. you have also been unapologetic about trying to take down speaker mike johnson. your motion if failed last week. you're being criticized, congresswoman, because of the timing. we're six months away from an election, and you are, quote, creating disruption. what do you want to say to those people who are criticizing you for these efforts? >> thank you very much for that question. you know, the disruption, the chaos and the drama is in american people's lives. my friends aren't rich billionaires like many of the donors that my colleagues only listen to. my friends and family are regular people, and my con stitch wents are regular people that are sick and tired of being

kicked in the teeth every single day by the stupid decisions in washington d.c. you know, our wide open border is the only border we should be focused on. also a i asked mike johnson this week, i said is, look, if you'll defund jack smith, then i'll reconsider this motion to vacate. and he told playbook last week, no, he will not defund jack smith. the weaponized government is one of the most terrifying things we're seeing. president trump is being prosecuted not only by biden's department of justice, he's being prosecuted by radical d.a.s that are funded by george soros and in multiple states. and this is something the american people are sick and tired of. they're fed up with republicans that will not defend president trump, and that started all the way back with special counsel robert mueller. so when i asked mike johnson, i said defund jack smith and the so-called special counsel, special counsels have only been around for 25 years, maria. they're not baked in our constitution. and our republican party, if we

want to own the majority coming many january 2025, we need to prove to the american people that we're worth their vote. maria: okay. >> and right now under mike johnson, we haven't proven that. maria: so this is new, because when we first talked about you trying to oust mike johnson, it was really about nancy pelosi's budget and continuing to spend without securing the border or. but now you're talking about jack smith and defunding these indictments. let's take a look at what playbook reported, because you're right, playbook asked mike johnson about this, and mike johnson said that's not something you wave a wand and just eliminate. the special counsel as a provision. there's as inty for the function like that -- necessity for the function like that because sometimes, he goes on to say, that -- let's see, sometimes the department of justice which is an executive branch agency can't necessarily without a conflict of interest investigate or prosecute the president who's their boss. or their family. and he writes, he says we

followed up. so are you prepared to write language eliminating smith's job9 into the appropriations bills? his answer, no, he will not eliminate the special counsel. look, people are trying to figure out where is the crime that president trump committed as he sits in that manhattan courtroom all day. why do you think mike johnson won't defund jack smith who? well, jack smith's owned by the democrats, and that proved me to be right again. when i called the motion to vacate, it wasn't republicans that saved mike johnson, it was democrats that saved mike johnson. and when you have nancy pelosi who was speaker of the house when they impeached president trump twice and and you have jerry nadler who was chairman of the judiciary committee that led e the impeachment against president trump voting to save mike johnson, that tells the american people everything that they need to know. mike johnson is owned by the democrats and refuses to protect president trump even though he runs down the mar-a-lago every

chance he gets and hugs him as a tightly as possible. maria: well, look, we all know how the democrats see this. hakeem jeffries, the minority leader in the house, was on "600 minutes" last sunday, and here's what he said. let's roll it. >> even though we're in the minority, we effectively have been governing as if we were in the majority because we continue to provide a majority of the votes necessary to get things done. those are just the facts. maria: i mean, congresswoman, he said it, those are the facts. they are, they're providing the bridge to get passage of laws. >> that's right. and what hakeem jeffries said is absolutely correct. in the two-part omnibus that johnson passed, literally delivered hakeem jeffries and the democrat agenda directly to chuck schumer, and joe biden couldn't wait to sign it into law. when we have a are republican-elected speaker that is unwilling to fight for just a

few things that i offered him, it's proven to republican voters that we're not doing the job that we were given in 2022 when america gave us the majority. and, you know, i stand with president trump. i support him. and i'm going to fight for him as a hard as possible. but if we're going to be a republican conference that can actually deliver president trump's agenda, help we need to get in shape and be prepared to do that. and while the election is only six months away, we aren't ready. and our voters know it, maria. our voters know it. maria: yeah. >> you're going to get representatives' names on the ballot, they're going to vote for president trump, but they're going to skip our names, and that's the most dangerous position to be in. maria: as we wrap up, final question, and i go back to what i asked earlier about the timing. you say you're supporting president trump, but is now the time for this disruption, six months before the election, to fight to get a new speaker in place? you know why the democrats always roll over the republicans, because they all stick together. they all vote the same way. you don't.

[laughter] >> well, actually, this time the democrats and the republicans stuck together and exposed the uniparty like it's never been seen before. you know, i just spoke with president trump yesterday with about this, and while he says now is not the time, i'm going to be listening to him, but he also said and he said it in his e statement publicly that it e may happen, that the time may come. so even though if i wanted to do it again which week, the democrats -- this week, the democrats have already stepped in and saved johnson. but i'll reiterate this maria and the most important thing people want to know, people want a republican party that will fight. maria: congresswoman, thank you. we'll be watching your work. congresswoman marjorie taylor greene. quick break and then stunning new details on how many people have illegally crossed into america, evading apprehension this fiscal year on president biden's watch. arizona republican senate candidate kari lake is here with reaction. but first, president trump takeses on new jersey last night if on the campaign trail for a day after spending another week in a a new york city courtroom

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>> whether you're a republican, conservative, independent or even a registered democrat, i'm asking for your help in saving america. our country's in trouble. it's in big trouble. we've never been in trouble -- we'll with end up in world war iii. these guys are grossly incompetent. they have no idea what heir doing. they have no idea what they're doing. you know in your heart that this country is not going to survive. maria: and that was former president trump at a massive rally last night in wildwood with, new jersey, as the 45th president juggles his campaign schedule around court. he faces criminal charges brought by president biden's department of justice as well as democrat prosecutors in new york and georgia. despite being hamp orerred from fully campaigning, a new poll from morning consult shows 37% of independent voters back president trump for a second term compared to3 2% for biden -- 32%. joining me now is the former speaker of the house, kevin

mccarthy. speaker mccarthy, thanks so much for being here this morning. >> well, thank you for the ini have ration to join you. maria: well, you, your reaction the that rally last night in new jersey and this idea that foreign policy is being criticized of president biden just as much as his economic policy. >> well, that was extraordinary. you have to understand new jersey, not a place that people think republicans would with ever compete, but the size of the crowd, could president biden get that crowd in the heart of new york? or in the most democrat state? could he do it in california? the answer is, no. the other thing that we're hearing coming out of the white house itself is the white house is now saying president biden needs to campaign less, talk less because he gets in trouble while doing it. this is president trump showing no matter what they throw at him, he's going to fight back. he's going to heed this nation on the issues they care most about. and a very compelling issue, you

had an interesting statistic up there about independent voters. there was another that showed independent voters by 53% to 42 believed a second term of the biden administration if would be a greater harm to democracy because all of this is backfiring. this persecution of president trump, using -- going after him because of politics, no one in america believes president trump would be in a trial today if he was not running for president. maria: yeah. >> they're coming after our democracy. maria: yeah. >> and it just shows last night with that crowd, you've got lawrence taylor, you have democrats in that crowd, independents. i would be very concerned if i was in the white house today. maria: independents are also very upset by president biden's decision to hold back shipments to israel. you were just in israel, i know, and he's basically saying do it this way, or we're not even going to share information with you, intelligence that it has, about where the9 hamas terrorists are if they go into

rafah. >> we will study this decision for a century. this is one of the greatest harms to more than philosophy going -- to american philosophy going around the world. remember, when israel was created 75 years ago, the first country to recognize them within 11 minutes was america. we've always saidst one of our greatest allies. even president biden said within the last year he will always stand with israel. then what has transpired? israel was aa tacked on october 7th. there are hostages being held to this day. there are american hostages being held. and now president biden, just weeks after republicans and democrats bound together by overwhelming numbers to fund israel, to withhold it for a terror theist organization -- terrorist organization. he's picking a terrorist organization. he's picking politics -- college campuses. you have to think how this will set us back with our allies and our enemies. since president biden came into office, we have now -- something

that hasn't happened in 80 years, you now have an axis of evil, iran, russia and china bounding together like the 1930s. you have five american embassies that had to be evacuated. you have russians now entering american base in africa and asking americans to leave. you now watch that china has entered the middle easts, brokering relationships with saudi arabia and iran. a job that america used to do. this is all based -- and then afghanistan. the decision on afghanistan, those 13 american gold star families, leaving americans behind and now israel? this is some of the greatest damage to american foreign policy we have seen in decades and will take decades to solve it. maria: yeah. >> and he's doing this based upon a political decision that is fundamentally wrong, playing into the hands of the terrorist organization while keeping our border wide open and america vulnerable more than we've been in centuries. maria: well, that's the most

extraordinary part of it and, speaker, i want to get your take on what you just heard from marjorie taylor greene. i've got to get your reaction about another effort to take down the current speaker, mike johnson. what goes on in these meetings where you go in there and you can't get any leeway whatsoever in terms of securing the border, and you keep going with the way things are going and the way things have been doing? again, we're seeing this with mike johnson. >> well, i disagree with our ability of not being able to secure the border. you know, yesterday was the one-year anniversary that we were able to pass h.r. 2. maria: that's right. >> the strongest border security bill congress has ever watched. we passed that. what you have to do is not give up on it. watch everything we were able to accomplish in the first nine months. not justrd border security, because cut $2 trillion, reform welfare, parents' bill of rights, energy independence, knocking down washington, d.c. when they wanted to

decriminalize so many different bills, standing up for individuals. we were able to stop the pandemic when the president said he would not sign it. when you stick together, there's nothing you cannot achieve. don't play into the hands of democrats. look, i opposed when 8 republicans joined all the democrats to do a motion to vacate, and i oppose if it when more republicans today do it. it is wrong. let's bound together, stick on the issues of what america cares most about, the border, inflation, american foreign policy, making our parents have a say in their kids' education -- maria: yeah. >> -- bringing down the price of fuel, making sure that a government is not dictating and this weaponization of government. remember, i created a select committee on the weaponization of government. maria: right. >> we created a select committee on china. we have the tools to govern. the the republicans just have to bound together and not let hakeem jeffries say that he is the speaker and the majority of the house. maria: and you just heard it, he

said it. specifically, speaker, do you support mike johnson? >> i support mike johnson. and, look, it is a tough job. but the thing republicans need to do, focus on what -- do not give up on h.r. . maria: right. okay. >> you can do ukraine and the border at exact same time. a that's what we would have done last year. that's what we would have been able to accomplish. maria: i want to thank you so much for being here today, speaker mccarthy, especially since i know that this is your first mother's day without your mom who passed earlier this year. how wonderful it must feel to you that you took her to this state dinner at the white house. you actually even took her on some travel, you took her to israel as well. >> yes. to all mothers out there, happy mother we's day. give your mother if an extra hug from me. i lost my mom just a couple months ago. god blessed me with a tremendous mother, and i was able to the take her to israel. she talked to bibi. she went to locations that, on

october 7th were raided. maria: wow. >> and she saw firsthand. and i took her to the state dinner as well. mothers make such a difference in everyone's lives, and i wish every mother a happy mother's day. maria: our condolences to you, speaker mccarthy. thank you for being here this morning. we will see you soon. kevin mccarthy. we'll be right

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nearly 53,000 for all of the previous fiscal year, last year. meanwhile, customs and border protection sources telling fox news approximately 175,000 so-called gotaways have crossed illegally so far this fiscal year. of course, that's only the numbers we know of. the figures do not count those who have entered undetected and have disea a peered in the country, and and we have no knowledge of what a hair motivations are. joining me now with more is arizona republican senate candidate kari lake. kari, thanks very much. your reaction to these new numbers that we're showing this morning, and what kind of a reaction are you getting when you aren on the campaign trail as you run for a senate seat? >> well, thanks for having me, maria. those are astronomical numbers of gotaways. remember, the gotaways are the ones when don't want to be captured. right now you walk into the country, you just get processed, you're here, you get your plane ticket, you get set up. these are people who are probably so dangerous that they don't want to bo through that process, they need to sneak in.

they're probably on terror watch lists, they've got a criminal background, and the pouring into arizona, i just talked to a rancher who has a large ranch on the border. he said every day he gets reports from his workers on the ranch 8-9 gotaways are spotted or caught on his property that his workers catch. and he said it's most concerning when they see a couple of, you know, men in their 30s with a group of 12-year-old girls. it's been shocking what they're seeing come across his ranch. and he said, kari, for comparison, 8-9 a day, it started right e when joe biden became, when he was sworn into office, and with president trump he would see 8-9 a year. that's how tight our border was under president trump. and so it's very concerning. it's very concerning in communities like nogales where with i was just about a week ago, and the people there say they're doing can street releases of folks from all different countries from africa to the caribbean, to china, asi-

maria: yeah. >> and they're being released onto the streets with nowhere to go. maria: well, it's a mystery as to why the biden administration would put our country in such jeopardy and at such risk by having a wide open border with so many people coming in that we have no idea what they are doing. as we report all the time, hundreds of people were already an rehedgedded who were on the terrorist watch list -- apprehended. do you believe one of the motivations here is to get illegals, foreigners, to vote for the democrats? >> oh, absolutely. a thousand percent. otherwise they would be working hard to get the save act through which will prevent that. instead, in every state around the country you're seeing democrats fight tooth and nail any piece of legislation which will prevent illegals from voting, which will solidify and codify that already existent law. what they want, maria -- we're not going to see all these people pouring across the border showing up at polling places. what they want is to have the a line in the voters' rolls so

that somebody can vote for that person. and that's why they're asking them to register to vote when they get set up for medicare and medicaid, because they're giving them all of these services. maria: wow. >> they're asking them to sign up to vote. then they have a line in the voter roll, and somebody will vote under that name. maria: so how confident are you then that we will have a fair fair if in november? >> if it were today, e wouldn't be all that confident, but i know we have a lot of people including myself fighting to improve the laws and make sure they're following the law9. we've got many lawsuits running, one of them in arizona fighting to make sure illegals aren't voting. we have the save act that i know mike johnson and president trump have been pushing. and as american citizens, we need to contact our members of congress and politely tell them that they must sign on to that and approve that to save and protect our election. our vote is sacredments it is the way we decide -- sacred. it is the way we decide the trajectory of our country and

must be decided by american citizens. a lot of people around the country are working. i have faith that we will break through, one of these cases will break through the dam s and we will have secure elections. i pray for that. maria: what more can be done at this point? to ensure -- >> i think just pressuring our lawmakers, pressuring your county folks politely to do the right thing and making sure that you're getting involved, becoming a poll watcher, becoming an activist to get involved in your elections, signing up your friends to vote, asking your neighbors, are you registered to vote. it's going to take each and every one of us. no american citizen can sit home. i want to speak to the mothers out there on this mother's day. we've got to get involved. i know we're busy. we're multie taskers, we're taking care of the little ones. this is about our children's future, and if we don't get involved in the next six months to be trying to save our country, we will have looking our country with a -- children with a very bleak future. maria: well, happy mother's day

to you, kari. thanks very much for being here this morning. >> thank you, maria. maria: kari lake, thank you. quick break and then president trump on trial. manhattan democrat d.a. alvin bragg set to put his star witness, michael cohen, on the stand tomorrow in the trial against the former president. former acting attorney general matt whitaker is here along with fox news legal analyst gregg jarrett next. stay with us. ♪ ♪

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leagued guilty in 2018 to 8 criminal counts including tax evasion, campaign finance violations and lying to congress in 2017. now house judiciary chairman jim jordan and cover sight committee chairman james comer are demanding once again the department of justice investigate cohen for allegedly making false statements to congress can, this time in 2019. joining me now is former acting attorney general matthew whitaker and fox news legal analyst gregg jarrett. gentlemen, thanks very much for being here. matt, let me kick it off with your with expectations of michael cohen tomorrow on the stand. >> hi, maria. right. well, michael cohen's going to come to the stand with probably more baggage that a will -- than will fit up there with him. as a convicted felon in perjury, he's going to have a hard time telling a story that's not completely impeachable, and remember, the case based on him, and they have to believe him beyond a reasonable doubt, and i just don't think that's a standard they'll be able to

accomplish with somebody of his background. maria: great point. gregg, your or reaction and expectations. >> well, we're entering the fourth, week, still no evidence connecting trump to any criminal wrongdoing. stormy if daniels, she knew nothing about the business records which is the bay e access for the charges -- basis for the charges. she was an irrelevant witness who was there for one reason, to slime trump, and i think it backfire pd. she was dismantled on cross-examination. that sent -- sets the stage, of course, for the notorious michael cohen. this guy is a disgraced, disbarred, convicted perjure perjurer, went to prison. he's incapable of telling the truth. but you know what, maria? that is precisely what alvin bragg is counting on. by putting on an admitted liar on the stand, no credibility, the d.a. is essentially supporting perjury. he knows cohen will lie. so, you know, cross-examination is the e engine of truth, and this won't be just a beatdown of

michael cohen, this'll be a savage mauling. it's too easy is, maria. maria: wow. matt, how would you assess these indictments against trump overall? the tell us where we are many these cases. >> well, many of the cases are falling apart either on their own weight, for example, in fulton county with fani willis, i think that case now on appeal, judge mcafee wrote an opinion that is very much going to be the overturned. fani and her office a will be exclude ared because it's a very fact-based evidence of how conflicted she was. you know, the fort pierce, florida, case, judge cannon is looking into selective prosecutions, is going to have a hearing on that. that's a very interesting argument where they can say joe biden was treated entirely differently than donald trump which i think a lot of people believe is true. and then you have the d.c. case which the supreme court is listening to and considering and going to to have an opinion probably by the beginning of summer, late june, early july on

the presidential immunity which could change everything. maria: yeah. and you know what else can change everything, a jury here in terms of how they view things, gregg. i mean, what would you say about the possibility that trump can get a fair jury and a fair trial in new york? >> if jurors abide by their duty to examine the evidence presented within the four corners of that a courtroom and not to make a decision for a political or a personal reason that they may dislike the accused, then this case should take about five minutes for an acquittal. obviously, it's going to take a lot longer than that offul they've got to go through it al. but think about what he is charged with, falsifying business records with a felonious intent to commit another crime, a crime that's not charged and a crime in which prosecutors won't even tell the defendant what it is.

it's a mystery crime. [laughter] you know, that is such an egregious violation of the sixth amendment. an accused is entitled to know the specific accusations against him. this judge is so biased, juan merchan, that he's not making alvin bragg do that. it's as if merchan has taken off his black robe, stepped down from the bench, and he is now sitting at the prosecution table determined to help engineer if a wrongful conviction. so, you know, with all that, you know, can jurors see through this charade? if i hope so. maria: i want to ask you more about the judge and about what john ratcliffe has called coordination with the doj. stay with us, we've got more on all of with our -- this with our (♪) (♪)

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maria: welcome back. i am back with our legal panel this morning, matthew whitaker and gregg jarrett. and, matt, john john ratcliffe was with me last week, and he said there's been real coordination between some of these democrat prosecutors and the white house and the white house counsel. michael coangelo works for the prosecutor in new york, and others, john ratcliffe said, have met with white house counsel. what do you think about that?

if has there been coordination to take down donald trump, joe biden's number one opponent? if. >> i don't think there's any doubt. and i think that what john says is absolutely true. it plays out with the visits to the white house, the department of justice moving mr. kohl anglo around so he could help coordinate with letitia james and alvin bragg with. but, you know, this is an effort by the left to interfere with this election to keep donald trump off the campaign trail and keep the american people distracted from the important issues they're facing like an insecure southern border, high prices of what they're, you know, food and gas, you know? if all of the issues that are joe biden is failing at, it is keeping the more than people distracted from seeing those. maria: it's such a great point that you make because, that's right, inflation, you know, is up 20 since joe biden walked into the white house, but the media's not talking about that, gregg. they're talking all about trump. >> yeah. you know, i think the most

egregious case of all of the misconduct is jack smith if's classified documents case in florida. we've now learned from unredacted documents that smith tampered with evidence ask is was forced to admit it to the judge. yes, your honor, documents were altered, we manipulated those records. and, no, we destroyed exculpatory evidence that would have helped donald trump. he also anytime canned in a a boot note, gee, mys led you and i -- misled you and i deceived you, your honor. separately, the fbi planted some of the evidence at the scene. maria: wow. >> classified cover sheets, and then they staged photographs of it. that's not all. turns out joe biden's white house engineered the charges against trump instructing the national archives to file a criminal referral to biden. 's justice department and all the while biden and his lackeys were trying to cover up his own classified documents scandal.

maria: unbelievable. >> i think that is the worst abuse of justice. maria: gentlemen, we'll continue the conversation. thank you, matt whitaker and gregg jarrett. i want to wish everyone a happy mother's day. happy mother's day to my dear mother, josephine, who i love so much. i'll see you tomorrow morning on fox business

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