:[the star-spangled banner] [the star-spangled banner] will: here we are. welcome to fox and friends weekend on saturday morning. these are checkered flags, not the real ones but we are here because tomorrow at 2:30 the daytona 500 kicks off. this is one of my favorites. rachel: it has been amazing so far and hasn t even started. will: it hasn t. there have been some preliminary races. we know what the lineup is. pete: you have been doing more than just being here. will: i m not the other one. daytona 500 is one of my favorite races because it s not only the adrenaline filled event of nascar. on the beach, we get to go out into the infield, hang out with people and do fun things. while i did some things, i don t win the crown for going fastest. the most adrenaline filled event of the week. that would be rachel campos duffy. rachel: we were here yesterday at the track and they were practicing and it was pretty spectacular. i got to go fly with them. i will say i mad
will: good morning live from daytona, florida, for the daytona 500 tomorrow. 2:30 eastern time on fox. fox & friends live from the track and pete hegseth, will and rachel c cam pose-duffy with you here this morning. pete: 65th running of the daytona 500 and they ran on the beach before that. when it comes to nascar, daytona is front and center all the time and it s their super bowl. it s fun to be there with them. rachel: you re right, it s so pat i can t tell ick here patriotic here it feels like super bowl. will: pete has done this and i ve done this, if you ve gone up with the air force and taken a ride. let me tell you something, when you do te away incredibly impressed with america s fighters. rachel: yes. will: it is a hupabling experience that humbling experience that rachel got to participate in yesterday. you went up with the thunder birds and did over 9gs. you didn t black out our throw up and you re here to brag this morning. rachel: i aim. am. i m here to br
jacqui heinrich starts us off tonight from 1600 pennsylvania avenue. hi, jacqui. hey, gillian, good evening to you. u.s. officials revealed today that the u.s. has not formally requested a phone call with chinese president xi jinping despite president biden saying yesterday that they expected to be talking soon. we re learning that they re hoping that secretary of state antony blinken will first be able to smooth things over and make contact with his chinese counterpart at the munich security conference next week. but, if no meeting ends up happening, it will be a telling sign of where u.s.-china relations stand. chinese spy balloon lifted from the ocean store from south carolina. quantico. we learned a lot already from the balloon by surveilling it while it was flying over the country. we re going to learn even more, we believe, by getting a look at the guts inside it. but u.s. officials are warning we may not learn much more about the three likely harmless objects sho
Bret good evening. Im bret baier. Shooting of chechen immigrant we first brought you last night. We will add advance the story tonight. Take you to the epicenter of the border crisis where some migrants wait hours before ever encountering Border Patrol agents. And additional women accuse Sean Diddy Combs of sexual violence. Bret but, first, the push for third party voters is on. Libertarians are getting a real taste of the 2024 president ial campaign this weekend. Presumptive republican nominee former President Donald Trump addresses the National Connection in d. C. Tomorrow. Today independent candidate robert f. Kennedy jr. Tried to convince the audience that he is a viable contender if he got the libertarian nod. R. F. K. Jr. Could quickly qualify for all ballots. Senior National Correspondent rich edson starts us off tonight. Good evening, rich. Rich hi, good evening, bret. Well, those two president ial candidates are addressing the Libertarian National convention this weekend to tr
rachel: nascar is gearing up for its 75th anniversary season. will: nine legend in the sport will come together to serve as grand marshals of the daytona 500 for three of them, jimmy johnson, kevin harvey, competing in this year s daytona 500. pete: that is a list of pictures of nascar superstars, joining us is daytona international speedway president and friend of the show frank keller. thanks. glad you are here and we are ready to go racing. pete: 75 years of nascar, the 65th running of the daytona 500. talk about why this remains the signature race in america. it it is so cool this sport 75 years ago started a few