>> ainsley: we start with a fox news alert. president trump pleads not guilty 34 counts of falls phiing business records. >> steve: this as he maintains his innocence. mr. trump is labeling the probe by progressive d.a. alvin bragg in manhattan as persecution not prosecution. >> brian: mark mariucci dietl is all over this story. he joins us live from the white house. hey, mark. >> brian, ainsley and steve, good morning to all three of you. overnight president trump condemned manhattan's district attorney only hours after you guys mentioned he charged him

with 34 felonies. the president spoke before a pretty raucous crowd at his florida home mar-a-lago as you mentioned he vowed to fight these charges. he left of center says he has no plans to drop out of the 2024 republican presidential race. >> these radical left lunatics want to interfere with our elections by using law enforcement. we can't be let that happen. i never thought anything like this could happen in america. never thought it could happen. >> this is 5% cushion, not an investigation. >> the 34-count indictment released late yesterday accuses trump of essentially trying to cover up different payments, to cover up alleged affairs during the 2016 presidential campaign. for example, it's alleged from august of 2015 to 2017, trump orchestrated a catch and kill scheme through payments that he through months of false business entries and even covering up the case of alleged door man at

trump tower claiming there was a kid out of wedlock. alvin bragg spoke with the media telling reporters is he confident in this case even as other prosecutors, including those in the federal government, declined to go after these charges. >> i have been doing this for 24 years. and i'm no stranger to rigorous complex investigations. i bring cases when they're ready having now conducted a rigorous, thorough investigation, the case was ready to be brought. and it was brought. >> here at the white house, the official line is no comment. the white house press secretary says while this is an ongoing case, this is not something that president biden has been focusing on; however, reporters, we tried to get a question in yesterday. take a listen. >> let's go. thank you, thank you. thank you. [inaudible] >> the president laughing off the questions out there. we have seen him do that a few

different times when reporters shout at the same time. the big question when the case plays out in new york, guys, is what is going to happen in d.c. the presidential race inching closer every day. president biden has said he would be fortunate to run against trump next year. you will live this, the iowa caucuses are 10 months from today. steve, ainsley and brian, back to you guys. >> steve: that's right. >> mark, we don't know that mr. biden is going to announce that he is running for re-election any time soon. we have heard according that axios thing that came out a couple days ago apparently his advisers are saying let the republicans appear completely chaotic and then we will come in at the last minute. >> it certainly seems like the calendar has been shifting. i remember we were talking a few weeks ago in the morning and talking about is this going to happen in the next day, week, or months, and obviously you see this calendar being pushed back just a little bit because you also see the presidential field almost frozen at this time. >> steve: it is indeed. mr. meredith, thank you very much.

>> brian: the case was supposed to be -- speculating over and over again what else could be in this besides stormy daniels. what else in there besides kathy macdougall. door man. long time friend to the president personal and professional friend and also the michael cohen is going to play a major role but there are a lot of holes in this case and almost everybody on every station hoping to be able to say this is the end for donald trump. instead, many people have speculated that this was a swing and a big miss. the case that everyone had passed on up until yesterday. now you know why they passed on it. 16 pages. $130,000. $140,000. whatever it is. this is not something you bring a president to court for at this time. and there's going to be other cases. but, after this, i think people are going to be less apt to buy into. this. >> ainsley: his new attorney todd blanch said during the

hearing that trump is absolutely frustrated and upset and believes there is a great injustice happening. alvin bragg was asked why are you bringing up this case now if the -- and asked if the timing was political? he says his office now has additional evidence that his predecessor did not have. but we're looking through this and can't find a second crime. it's not listed. it doesn't specify an underlying crime. >> steve: right. exactly. nobody is saying that it didn't happen. filing of false business records which is a misdemeanor which, you know, first offense you don't wind up generally with prison time. ainsley, to your point, there has got to be a second crime. it is not listed. >> ainsley: in order to be a felony. >> steve: i will tell you what, you should read the indictment because it is interesting. it is -- it's interesting. it is very blunt, makes it very clear and they do a timeline. they have got the documents that show that the president of the united states donald trump the paper trail leads to the white

house. where he was signing checks to pay off hush money for the porn store, playmate. >> brian: i don't think he signed the checks. >> steve: he signed some of the checks. >> ainsley: some of them. >> steve: absolutely. it is a big, big story. and so it is extraordinary. mark was talking about how the reporters tried to get the president to say something. he smiled, a picture says a thousand words. nonetheless, peter doocy asked k.j.p. yesterday about it and, once again, the white house is stonewalling on an answer. >> why don't you have more to say about the trump investigation. >> it is an ongoing case and i have been very clear about that. we have been prudent about that, not commenting on ongoing cases and we are going to stick to that. >> ainsley: a "new york times" reporter his name is michael shear he got into a heated exchange with her because he is frustrated that she won't answer questions about this but the president was all over january 6th. listen. >> the president has spoken

repeatedly about january 6th. he gave at least two major speeches that i have can think of. there were more than 500 active legal cases going on during the time he made those speeches all of which potentially could have been affected, would have been affected by whatever his opinions were on the circumstances surrounding those cases. what is the white house's reticence and what is the difference between that and this. >> with all january 6th was a devastating day. it was a different moment in a different time. >> brian: as opposed to a former president being indicted. just to give you an idea, they write in the "new york post" today while we are looking back and that something may have taken place seven years ago with an incident that took place 17 years ago, you have charles lindsey. he has a string of felonies. he was giving a youth program to rehabilitate himself. michelle mckelly freed after 100 shoplifting theft. this guy travel coleman in jail

for killing people for murder. the d.a. is lobbying hard to get him early release while we have to really crack down on a billionaire's 130,000 payment to make history, 235 years of nonindicting a former president, even though we had a civil war, we could have indicted half the country for treason and he decides this is the moment. nobody thinks he did a good job. no one thinks this case is strong. deals, next hearing, another $200 million cost new york city. and wait six more months to get a jury. and then after that we are going to be into a new administration. and three more cases sin larr sr timeline. unbelievable what a distraction it is for a country that has so many challenges. >> ainsley: how expensive it was. they shut down the fdr. officers all around trump tower. all around the court house. is he due back in court in december. his lawyers are saying please don't let him appear in person.

it's too expensive. we have to bring in so much security. the prosecutors are asking for a trial inen gentleman. and trump's lawyers say please let it be in the spring. >> brian: remember what hillary clinton did when she was asked, the dossier was investigated, she denied that she funded it. she funded it. they guilty. they fine her $113,000 and they move on. we know when they tried to find out about these emails on devices, she wiped it out. and obstructed. we saw all that. and the previous administration didn't pursue it. >> steve: right. >> brian: that wasn't a former president and now we are doing. this. >> steve: let's bring in james comer house oversight and accountability committee. he is the chairman. he joins us right now live via skype. hey, congressman. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> steve: the problem what alvin bragg did yesterday 34-count indictment filing false business records it qualifies as a felony if there is a second crime. he doesn't say what the second

crime is. >> brian: he's busy. >> steve: and essentially, to most of the country right now, congressman, it looks like this particular indictment is a political hit job. >> it's a political scam i have said that for weeks now. if filing false business documents is as serious as the media and the prosecutors are claiming over the past 24 hours. then they better have a seat and a pallet of kentucky bourbon when they see what all the biden family has done over the past decade. i mean, it's ridiculous. every day we find another llc affiliated with the bidens that they were using to launder money from our adversaries around the world. and i am not exaggerating about that. the fact that i'm sitting here watching what all happened to donald trump yesterday, knowing what all the bidens have been engaged in and the shenanigans

and the bank violations that we're privy to right now at the treasury cabinet, where the banks pointed out all of the potential money laundering and they -- the banks couldn't explain all the different transfers and all the different llcs that this family had to try to basically launder money from our adversaries, it is just breathtaking. i hope the media is as serious about the evidence that we'll continue to be bringing forward about the biden family as they have been about this ridiculous political stunt that happened in new york yesterday with donald trump. >> ainsley: i wonder how this will effect the next election? you are watching those images of his motorcade driving down the fdr yesterday. we are watching images of him in the courtroom. we never thought that would happen. it's never happened before. and then kevin mccarthy is saying he is going to hold alvin bragg accountable. alvin bragg is attempting to interfere in political process

by against president trump. admittedlily using federal funds while arguing that the people's representatives in congress lack jurisdiction to street this farce. not so. bragg's weaponization of the federal justice process will be held accountable by congress. how do you plan to do that? >> well, we are going to be having a call with mccarthy later this week, jim jordan and myself. and we are going to try to figure out a path moving forward. this is very serious. alvin bragg doesn't even know where his funding comes from. but he guess federal funding that's where it falls into the jurisdiction of the house oversight committee. the weaponization of his office is how it falls into both the house judiciary and weaponization of the department of justice. we are not going to stop on this. nothing changed. we believe he has overstepped. i will tell you one of the things that i don't think has been picked up a lot that's going to be a problem and i had two calls yesterday. one from a county attorney in kentucky and one from a county

attorney in tennessee. they were republican, obviously, both states are heavily republican. they want to know if there are ways they can go after the bidens now. and they have opened up a can of worms. they set precedents now that we can't go back on. and now we're going to see a judicial system that's already bogged down with doing what they are supposed to do and that's going after real criminals. people that are committing real crimes, burglaries, rape, robberies, things like that. and now you are going to start seeing ambitious political people like alvin bragg try to make a name for themselves and go after big pie in the sky federal cases and it's just not a good path that we need to go forward on in our judiciary. >> brian: yesterday you talked to president biden's former assistant with links to hunter about how those documents got into the penn center and others. who was picking up stuff and who wasn't? what did you find out?

>> well, i appreciate ms. chung for coming forward and answering all of our questions for four hours during a transcribed interview. what we learned was that these documents were interest. ed from the vice presidency, from his office to the private sector in private cars. they went to at least three different locations. initially. one of which was in chinatown. the other of which was in the penn biden center which we are finding more and more evidence that it was almost exclusively funded by china. and there was no lock on the door. all the things that the special prosecutor is apparently going to try to indict trump on on mishandling classified documents and biden did and did it about 10 times worse. this was very valuable information we learned yesterday. we still don't know what those classified documents were. and we're still concerned about one document in particular that was found on the laptop that hunter biden had sent to his cronies on burisma in ukraine.

so, this is another. >> ainsley: can you give us details of that. >> there is another story that's not going away. >> brian: what can you tell us about that. >> we know and ted cruz. email from hunter biden that he sent to his people at burisma. burisma corrupt ukrainian energy company that he was getting paid excelsive salary for that was a government document. it was written like a government document. it could very well have been a classified document. but we don't know yet exactly how he obtained that document. >> steve: keep us posted. congressman, thank you very much for joining us live. >> thanks for having me. >> brian: remember what they point out countless boxes from the university of delaware. his lawyer. we have no idea what's in there. that prosecution has no leaks. >> ainsley: special prosecutor going after trump is there a special prosecutor going after biden. >> brian: this guy doesn't leak it doesn't seem. he doesn't have "the washington post" to take everything down verbatim to write nice columns on sundays. >> steve: all right. a quarter after the top of the

hour and ashley joins us right now. today is a wednesday after an election tuesday. >> ashley: it is. we are going to start in chicago progressive brandon johnson narrowly defeats moderate democrat paul vallas to become the windy city's next mayor. johnson will officially replace lori lightfoot as mayor when he is sworn in on may 15th. then in wisconsin, the democrats win a crucial swing seat on the state supreme court. the victory by judge janet -- means left leaning justices will control the state's highest court ahead of a major abortion ruling and in denver the city's mayoral election is likely headed to runoff. mike johnsston and kelly brough leading a crowded field of 16 can democrats many on the far left. bob lee was stabbed to death in san francisco yesterday. the tech executive who started the mobile payment service was attacked in a downtown neighborhood around 2:30 a.m. so far there is no arrest and

police have not released any details on the killer. lee was only 43 years old it. overnight first responders in maryland battling heavy wind. the fire is now contained but some residents forced to evacuate their home as blaze spread through the area 20 miles outside of baltimore. several roads remain closed and crews put out those hot spots. and the champs are back in kentucky cut mass new england patriots plane back to campus. that is where the player's coach dan hurley and hundreds of husky fans gathered for victory rally. that comes as kaitlin clark white house invitation floated around by first lady jill biden despite losing to lsu in sunday's final, watch. >> i don't know. i don't think runners up usually got white house. you know, you should enjoy that moment for them. >> jill biden's office enough to walking back that statement saying the first lady was certainly trying to applaud the

historic game and all women athletes. the many lsu star angel reese called that idea a joke. >> ainsley: she walked it back but did she say only one team is coming the winners are going. >> brian: iowa is not going to go. >> ainsley: iowa said we don't want to go. >> steve: all right. thank you, ashley. >> brian: coming up. president trump's indictment sharing similarities with the case against a former republican house leader nearly two decades ago that forced him from his post. his general counsel will explain that story next. >> ainsley: plus, after a nearly 40 year career of a navy seal, retired four star admiral is sharing greatest leadership cases and advice. you don't want to miss that. >> steve: the mystery of the bullfrog ♪

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♪ >> brian: fox news alert. manhattan d.a. alvin bragg laying out a list of charges against former president trump in historic arraignment as trump pleads not guilty on all counts. but, have we seen something like this before? >> steve: let's get in the way-back machine. nearly two decades ago a district attorney brought questionable legal charges that knocked former texas come tom delay out of his post as the house majority leader. >> ainsley: elliott burke was the general counsel at the time and said the prosecution was an absolute travesty of justice. good morning. >> good morning. thanks for having me. >> ainsley: elliott, how do these two cases compare. >> i must admit sitting there yesterday watching the press conference it did feel like deja is view all over again even though it was 18 years ago since tom was indicted. it is a very similar.

you have a district attorney in a very blue district going after a very high profile republican. and then when you look at the case that they are bringing. you have got sort of this convoluted legal theory and you really can't do that in these high profile political prosecutions. you have got to have a rock solid sense of the law or the american people start scratching their head and see what is going on here. >> brian: how many grand juries did they go through? >> they went through three. that's just part of the case. and you have a parallel again with what alvin bragg has done. with delay's case, you know, it was -- he went through three grand juries. there were allegations grand jury shopping. and bragg's case, i mean this clearly bounced around many prosecutors who declined the case including himself and why was it resurrected after all these years? >> steve: and, ultimately, there was a conviction but an appeals court found that mr. delay's comply with the law. in fact, as i remember, elliott,

what he was accuse much doing was not against the law in texas at the time. >> well, that's correct. and, again, drawing the parallel, he was accused of conspiracy to violate the election dead and money laundering are part of the third grand jury that returned the indictment. you have the same sort of thing here in new york. you have got a case where this is -- the underlying issue is whether or not business records were falsified. and, yet, it's the cover-up another crime. and we don't even know what that crime was. it is eerily similar. >> ainsley: tom had to step down from his post even though he wasn't ever convicted. it was appealed. >> well, that's correct. he was initially convicted but that's what ronny early knew. he knew if an indictment was brought then delay would have to step down and then he was initially convicted in the district court. but it was absolutely overthrown on appeal. >> ainsley: now that you have gone through it before 18 years

ago, how do you sigh this playing out next year in the middle of a presidential election for donald trump? >> that's just it. they knew what the timing of this would mean. even if he were -- he could have brought this case earlier, but the fact that the next hearing is going to be within weeks of the iowa caucus, it's going to continue to be a circus. and what it does is i think give a real challenge to our sense of justice when you have got, you know, what looks like a political coup or at least that's how it's being perceived by a local district attorney who typically doesn't bring a case like this with national implications. >> steve: lots of questions. e.m.t., thelliott, thank you fos historical pepper. >> my pleasure. >> steve: tiny town in florida, shot dead in less than 48 hours. cops are ruling out a serial killer. we will tell you what we know coming up. >> brian: all right. nancy grace on the murder mysteries next severe plaque psoriasis.to

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speculations of a serial killer but still believe they might be connected here to react is fox nation host nancy grace. good morning, nancy. >> good morning. i have have handled many, many cases that have had multi homicide victims and i can tell you right now these three murders are connected. now, local authorities are saying there's not a, quote, serial killer. they could put whatever title they want on this, but there are three dead teens found within a couple miles of each other all the same mo, all shot all near the side of the road. one found in the vehicle of victim 1 layla silvernow partially submerged in water but yet also she was shot. no way these were not connected. >> ainsley: what do you think happen? are they giving you any information? do these three teenagers know each other? >> they absolutely knew each other. the three victims knew each

other. that makes me believe that the perp or perps knew them. this is not random i promise you this is not random. in a town this small they had to know each other or each other's family whether it be through school or some other way knew somebody's brother, knew somebody's mom. they had to at least be aware of these victims prior to the shooting. that should narrow down the suspect pool. now, 60 miles northwest of orlando. that opens up a whole pool of suspects. but i doubt very seriously somebody came from orlando to this town to commit triple homicide. when local authorities are saying this is not a serial killer that doesn't mean the same perp or perps are doing. this they mention a wannabe gang group. but seems to me in a town that small you would want to know who the wannabe gang members are.

>> ainsley: let's talk about the idaho murders. brian corg might have known these students, at least the three women. tell us what we know, nancy. >> this somewhat we know. we are just learning about some recently executed and that means the search warrant wasn't handled earlier and get your return months later. we are talking about online giants like google, like tiktok and for two of the victims tender. that would have been for killing gostles and madison hogan. interesting, the male, ethan was not part of this search you believe what they're looking for is any connection all the way back to 2021 tweeng between kohberger and his victims specifically the females victims. because, at this point, he

was -- at the time of the murders, he was only a couple of weeks into his studies at washington state university. so, this far predates that time. had he somehow found them online? had he found them at some student event? is that why he even attended wsu? you know, before that, he had been at depaul. so, did that lure him there? the desire to meet these girls. so that's what we are trying to find out right now. it's revealed in these search warrants. >> ainsley: wow. okay. and they are cooperating, tiktok, google, they are all handing over this information? >> well, it's hard not to cooperate when you have a court-ordered subpoena. >> ainsley: okay. nancy, thank you. you can watch "crime stories with nancy grace" on fox nation.com. coming up, florida senator marco rubio has a bold message following the trump indictment. >> put aside for a moment whether you like trump or not like him, whether you are for him or not for him. today is a bad day for all of us. >> ainsley: our political panel will weigh in next.

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>> put aside for a moment whether you like trump or don't like him for him or not for him today is a bad day for all of us. today american politics crosses a line it's never going to come back from. after today -- after today, especially on the basis of how ridiculous these charges are, after today every prosecutor in america that want to make a name for themselves now is going to have permission to basically go after someone in the other party. that's going to stop some republican or conservative prosecutor now from saying well now i'm going to go after joe biden or his family? or bill clinton or hillary clinton or nancy pelosi, whoever? what's going to stop them? nothing is going to stop them because today we set a new normal. today we set the new normal that if you really want to take someone down, nothing should stop you. you should be able to manipulate the law any way you want to charge someone. of. >> brian: senator marco rubio casual but serious. back now with a fox news alert.

senator marco rubio echoing the concerns of many of you warning the historic indictment of president trump sets a dangerous precedent in american politics, especially when you read the indictment. let's bring in former federal prosecutor brett tolman, lisa boothe who is not there and -- is there. okay. all right, lisa. i did not know if you would be there or not and co-chair of let ghirntion janel king, let's start with you. basically the same thing we knew six years ago. what changes today? do you echo the concern that marco rubio has? >> i absolutely echo that concern. and, you know, as i was looking at this. the first thing that came to my mind is where are all the social justice warriors. where is blm. where are all the people and convinced half of the country and most of the gen zer's that our system is systematically racist and that old white men are not going to be charged for things and that they are the ones who get off.

so where are they now? they are standing in solidarity with the justice system in is what we have been saying as conservatives about our justice system we have a great judicial process the problem comes in when you have a few bad happen pells i do feel like alvin bragg is answering to donors. push things forward unfortunately half of america feels the same way. i saw that fox news poll that showed that over about 52% of americans feel that this is being done cue to political reasons. that is why we are right now. >> brian: you picked up the phone and talked to the doj officials. they are not happy about what they see so far, are they? no, brian, to them it's a major issue. historically you give deference to the agency that has the most

serious investigation they have a special prosecutor, they have classified documents that they are looking into. january 6th in their mind. they felt like it would cheapen the effort to hold donald trump accountable. and let's face it, it's not just bad apples. when you have a prosecutor that is willing to abuse their discretion, it's what the supreme court warned 90 years ago that a prosecutor willing to manipulate the law is no longer the servant of the law. that's going to scare every single one of us if they are willing to do that to donald trump. >> brian: after this happens last night around 8:15. lisa boothe, the president gave a very crisp speech. there wasn't a lot of ad-libbing looking that the audience. he was very direct and clear about this. your sense about how he is taking all of this. >> it's got to be hard, right? it's not just this investigation either. he is also facing incoming fire from georgia as well as the federal -- two federal investigations. that's a lot to take on.

he has already been able to withstand a lot of incoming fire. they have been going after him since day one. their desire is to destroy donald trump. sadly they are destroying america in the process. i valley look at this as much bigger than just donald trump. right? this is about a constitutional republic. this is about the rule of law. also about punishing political dissidence in america. about punishing us for wrong think. this isn't just aimed at donald trump. look at what they did to mark houck, a pro-life catholic they arrested him. we have the depa department of justice labeling concerned parents as domestic terrorists. joe biden took the stage seven months ago in philadelphia flanked by the military behind him labeling 75 million americans as enemies of the state. so, you know, yes, this is about donald trump and their desire to destroy him but it's also about coming for all of us who engage what the ruling class deems as wrong think. this should be disturbing to every single american whether

you love donald trump or not. >> brian: janel, here's the thing. december be back in court here demanding the president it's going to cost new york another $200 million for him to come back with all the security. two other cases most likely in the process. this is going to dominate american news for two years minimum. >> yeah. that is a problem. i was watching "the five." bill hemmer made a good point. xi jinping china president putin they are still having meetings and conducting business. that's a problem for us. you know, we have hunter biden still selling art. i mean, there are so many things that is happening that is outside of this that we need to be focusing on as a whole. and i do think that that's part of the strategy. what i think about when i see this, too, is this is about how we, as conservatives are going to handle this. if we'll respond to this in a way in which it causes more conversation, it's going to continue to be a distraction. we have got to kind of move it

to the side and get the focusing on what matters in america. >> brian: that's why in a way, bret, i was hoping for the gag order. i want to see what these candidates think about oil price. i want to find out about how we are going to get the dollar back and make sure it remains the world's currency. but, brett, that's not going to happen. we have grand jury in georgia and we have another one mar-a-lago investigation, jack smith on steroids. trying to calling in the president's attorney. and his attorney, his valet as well as the secret service. >> well, right, they have been subpoenaed by the doj. and you are not hearing about it. what you are going to hear about is donald trump 24/7. the real issue though, brian, think about those that are now political targets for other prosecutors willing to weaponize their office. i'm talking about conservative prosecutors. that are watching this and disgusted with it. >> brian: and they are angry.

>> you don't think in arkansas they are going to look at the tax issues that we all know about with the clinton foundation? absolutely they are. >> brian: 20 seconds, real quick, lisa, desantis and others, if they start taking the lead from trump, they are going to get the same scrutiny, real quick. do you agree? >> yeah. i mean, look, they are going to try to destroy anyone that might be the republican nominee. my concern is that, obviously, we as conservatives care about the weaponization of government. but i don't know how much the general public cares about it or independents. if we are not talking about joe biden's failures and kitchen table issues. issues that care about in the general election we will lose. >> brian: i would love to hear about american successes and strategy and not intramural play. i am sure you agree. thank you, appreciate it. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> brian: this story ♪ going away either. several people injured by a tornado that touched down in missouri overnight. about 100 miles south of saint lewis. the twister destroying several

homes and buildings in its path. officials on the scene surveying the damage. let's check in with janice dean for fox weather forecast. >> janice: unfortunately we will have more tornadoes across heavily populated areas. show you the maps. show you the temperature difference. one of the main ingredients we need for severe weather is a very powerful cold front and we have got that this time yesterday it was 30-degree difference in oklahoma city than it is right now. and then you have got temperatures soaring in chicago and cleveland. so, part of the reason to believe we have that lift in the atmosphere is because we have a very unstable air mass ahead of that cold front and tornado warn warned storms arkansas up toward the chicago area severe thunderstorm warnings. tornado watch until 9:00 a.m. local time. extend that that one going from texas up toward illinois and then we have a severe thunderstorm watch that extends up towards the chicago area we could see hail, damaging winds and tornadoes.

again, millions of population here. that is the concern. you get one tornado in a heavily populated neighborhood that's going to cause damage and threaten lives. meanwhile, the blizzard across the northern plains and upper midwest, look at that, close to 3 feet of snow and blizzard conditions for parts of the dakotas in towards wisconsin, ice storm warnings as well. we have got everything on the map. brian, fox weather.com is on it 24/7 they will keep you up to date. over to you. >> brian: or you will see me by the filing cabinet and you will give me the personal. >> janice: you got it. >> brian: 40 year career as a navy seal. sharing lessons in leadership with you and with us. a brand new book. you will love it. the wisdom of the bullfrog, next. ♪ king's hawaiian sliders are ready.

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career both in the field and the command center and admiral mcraven joins us now. >> steve, good to be with you. >> steve: i love "make your bed" i think this is a better book. it is a fantastic book.

let's start with bullfrog. what is the wisdom of the bullfrog who is the bullfrog. >> bullfrog title given to the navy seal serving the longest on active duty. >> i became bullfrog 011 and held for three years. navy frog men when you are the senior frog man you are the bullfrog. >> steve: okay, mr. bullfrog. i love the premise of this because right in the beginning you say for thousands of years militaries have relied on mottos, creeds, parables and stories to inspire to motivate and guide leaders. you think 18 of these motto displirchesd life. for instance, we'll do a couple. how many times have you heard this expression, the only easy day was yesterday. what does that mean? >> well, that's the seal motto. the only easy day was yesterday. the implications to a leader is look, if you thought all your hard days were behind you,

you're mistaken. every single day as a leader is going to be hard. so you have got to bring it every day. you have got to come prepared when you come to work, it's going to be tough. just accept that and be engaged. >> steve: absolutely. here's the thing. it's not -- this book is not written for just military leaders. >> oh, no. >> steve: it's applicable. this is for anybody. you are a boss. if you work at a business. if you want to, you know, operate in your neighborhood, this is all great stuff. what does, once again, another expression we have heard a million times, "run to the sound of the gun?" >> this is a thought. leader think back on the great generals, when the generals were on the battlefield they would see the guns firing in a certain area and their job was to move to where the guns were. the implication is when you see a problem don't run away from the problem. move to where the problem is to try to solve it. >> steve: one of the stories that i love in the book is regarding this express "a

shepherd should smell like his sheep." once again this applies to people in business. >> this is a quote from pope francis but the implication is if you are a leader then you need to be with the rank and file. you need to be down there on the factory line, understanding what the men and women that work for you are having to go through. you need to smell like your sheep. >> steve: can you stand before the long green table? >> so, in world war ii, the long green table, started in world war ii was, you know, just a long conference table but had green felt on it. and the thinking here is are you able to make a case to the men and women that are sitting at the long green table that the actions you are about to take would pass the reasonable sanity check? so, if you can't stand before them and make a case for what you are trying to do. then maybe you need to rethink what actions and decisions you are about to make. >> steve: right. i love the book because you tell so many of the stories of your illustrious career. and explain how this can be

applicable to people in whatever field of life they are in? >> steve, you said it. it's certainly not a military book. the idea is i don't care whether you are a leader as a ceo level or whether you are running a hamburger joint, leadership qualities are important whether you are leading two people 20,000 people. so the lessons here that i learned from my time in the military and as chance lore of the university of texas i think are applicable across all spectrums of leadership. >> steve: it came out yesterday. the book is called the wisdom of the bullfrog. you can get it wherever books are sold. bullfrog. >> thanks, steve. >> steve: thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >> steve: sit down, we are not done yet. i just bossed around the bullfrog. coming up the chairman of the house judiciary committee ohio congressman jim jordan is going to join us in the next hour of "fox & friends." ♪

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>> steve: good morning, everybody, 8:00 in new york city and back with a fox news alert. former president trump remained defiant after pleading not guilty to 34 felony accounts here in new york after he was arrested. >> ainsley: not guilty; right. >> steve: would have been a different show. >> ainsley: not is important. alleged for hush money payments. >> former president trump says

he will no