on dozens of federal charges, including obstruction of justice, conspiracy and violating the espionage act and because of documents or mary lago and his new jersey golf club. which brings me to my overarching point. how about fairness? do i think that president trump is always right? do i think he s always unfairly accused? absolutely not, and doesn t mean a payment for an alleged affair and arguments over classified documents, causing global shockwaves and possibly jail time is actually indicative of the seriousness of all this. no especially because we re watching a president skate on his family s international entanglements, which could compromise him in office and classified document hall. which one is all said and done could outstrip anything. donald trump has hey. doj fbi democratic attack squad if you want to destroy trump, pick up your head. look around. you fired up his crowd and if you wanted to help the rest of the gop field , beat him. watch the news. almost all h
todd: such a poignant start to the 8 a.m. east coast hour on fox and friends, quantico marine corps band performing amazing grace with a shot of arlington national cemetery tomb of the unknown, makes you realize what today is all about. thanks to tunnel to towers for flags on fox square. welcoming you inside, joey jones, kayleigh mcenany, todd piro. thank you for allowing us to celebrate this important day each year with you. kayleigh: shots of the tomb of the unknown shoulder gives me chills. i went with former president tr trump. what a beautiful testament to those who served. joey: when you lay your life down on the battlefield you, sacrifice yourself so that the country may live, the sacrifice doesn t enter your mind and this built your country and quite a bit still left. kayleigh: amen. president biden and kevin mccarthy are on the clok to get a debt deal. todd: house rules noticed a 3 p.m. hearing for tomorrow on the debt limit bill. mark meridith joins us
[god bless america] kayleigh: hello, everybody. in honor of memorial day and fleet week quantico marine corps band performs the star-spangled banner on fox square with service members in attendance. we want to thank tunnel 2 towers on fox square. they are beautiful. we thank them for this. joey jones, what an honor to be here with you today on this memorial day. todd piro. we have had some amazing guests earlier. gold star families. incredible. todd: whenever you hear god bless america gives you chills. i don t care if it s on car radio or out there listening to the band. especially on a day like today. kayleigh: joey and i spoke about the president s own and i had the honor of seeing the marine corps band play at the white house. they are incredible quantico corps band. joey: marine corps is the smallest service, least funded. often looked at as little brother of the navy. that is not true. marine corps and navy are equal branches in the department of the
president biden is making the case for congress to pass the debt ceiling accord. no either side liking the bill, there is thunderous bipartisan criticism about the bill, that is why law lawmakers from both sides are nervous. one g.o.p. member told fox, a vote against the bill would be a vote to under cut mccarthy. there is a 72 hour clock for members to reveal the bill. trey. trey: if i could ask you one question, some of the names of the folks that have been most critical over the last 12 to 24 hours are some of the same names that didn t vote for kevin mccarthy the first time for speaker, or else were slow to do so, is there any danger or threat this will lead to a motion to v vacate the chair. reporter: kevin mccarthy was asked that and said there is no fear there, keep in mind it only takes one member to do that a lot of people i talked to said they don t believe there will be anything like that. speaker will lose 25 members on his side, you need democrats to make up a
conference at the capitol. i just got off the phone with the president, i talk to him twice today, and after weeks of negotiations, we have come to an agreement in principle. we still have a lot of work to do, but i believe this is an agreement and principle that is worthy of the american people. i expect to finish the writing of the bill, checking with the white house and speaking to the president again tomorrow afternoon, and then posting the text of it tomorrow, and then voting on it on wednesday. thank you for your time, and i think this is very worthy of the american public. we do not have the full scope of the agreement, as the speaker, noted the bill is still being written as we speak, with the intention of completing it by later today. now, from what nbc news has gathered so far, the deal will to raise the debt limit until 2020, five it will keep it roughly flat while giving a slight boost of funding to defense, and if we are providing a new controversial work r