coverage continues now with t te swituation room. a scathing report describing the president as an elderly man with a poor memory. voters concerns about the president s age weigh on his re-election bid. donald trump is courting people in pennsylvania. we will get a read on his message a day after his ballot battle at the u.s. supreme court that seemed to go his way. fresh tense between the united states and israel after president biden calls the israeli military s operation in gaza over the top. this as israel is facing backlash over a planned evacuation and ground offensive in the refugee-packed city of rafah. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m alex marquardt and you are in the situation room. president biden lashed out at the special counsel for portraying him as a forgetful old man who can t remember when his own son died. arlette saens has more. we saw a full court press by team biden. repo
lawrence? lawrence: the second hour of fox & friends starts right now and, remember, mornings are better with friends. steve: all right a fox news alert, t three hours, 10:00 easn time the supreme court will hear oral arguments on colorado s decision to kick former president donald trump off the state s primary ballot. brian: the high court in unchartered territory legal territory as justices wrestle with an historic election dispute. ainsley: lucas tomlinson joins us with the latest. good morning, steve, ainsley, and brian. the supreme court has never heard a case like this before in its history. oral arguments begin in less than three hours, as steve said, in protest of the former leading g.o.p. candidate. fencing has been erected outside the nation s top court near the u.s. capitol as you can see here. colorado kicked trump off the ballot citing the constitution insurrection clause section 3 of the 14th amendment to be specific, which has never been used in
fatigue and morale issues, and in thele meantime republicans a playing politics. they are playing politicwise the vital resources ukraine needs to defend its democracy from invaders. the democrats agreed to work with republicans and to craft a bipartisan bill to increase border security measures in exchange for that aid. but then donald trump came out against the deal. he did not want to hand president biden a victory on trump s favorite campaign issue, which is drumming up fear about what s happening eaautothe bord. and so today republicans voted to kill their own bill in the senate. the finaln vote was 49-50 with all but four republicans voting against r it. after that stunning defeat democrat chuck schumer put a second bill on the floor. it strips out the border stuff and juste funds aid to israel d taiwan and ukraine, which is what the democrats wanted in the first place. 58 voted to advance that bill. that is just shy until the 60 they need for final passage. now the sen
i did it, america. can i just say, tucker carlson getting an hour-long history lesson from latin vladimir putin on eighth or ninth century russia is must-see tv. it maybe is must-see tv. now. the most painful thing you can possibly see. but the premise is, wow, here we are 21st century. have a great rest of your night the doesn t involve all in. and thank you to home, thank you to you at home for joining me this hour. so yesterday, was supreme court day, a day when you at home may have familiarized yourself with the civil war origins of the 14th amendment of the united states constitution. as justices on the high court heard arguments for removing donald trump from the colorado ballot for stoking an insurrection in violation of section three of the 14th amendment. and by all accounts, the justices posture during this arguments suggest the court is looking for ways to punt on that central question, did donald trump incited insurrection, and instead hand the issue may
welcome back to the weekend everyone. this morning, the world is reacting to new round of airstrikes from the united states and the middle east. last night, the united states and united kingdom targeted houthi rebels and iran-backed militant group in yemen. the government says they struck 36 targets and 13 locations across the country. all of this comes just one day after a separate series of very consequential strikes by the united states targeting iran- backed militias militants in iraq and in syria. let s get right to an msnbc news correspondent, matt riley, in tel aviv. thank you for being with us this morning. matt, these airstrikes and these retaliatory met, these airstrikes and retaliatory strikes, how do they complicate things for secretary blinken as he heads to the region? well, i think that this is a perfect timing for secretary blinken. and what he will be doing, he ll be coming here to israel. he ll also be going to places like egypt, saudi arabia. these