of power to subvert the will of the american people. our democracy is being tested and strained time and time again, so i m sure doesn t shock you to hear that according to a new nbc news poll, voters actually ranked threats to democracy as the most important issue facing the country today. and while that fear is warranted, democracy and justice have racked up some notable winds lately. in defiance of his long held nickname, teflon don, donald trump has found himself backed into a legal corner in recent weeks, facing mounting re-legal peril on three important france. in new york, the states attorney general has filed a civil lawsuit, accusing trump and trump of massive fraud. in georgia, the district county seems to be closing in on trump and his efforts to subvert the 2020 election there. and the department of justice investigation into classified documents, stored at mar-a-lago, secured a major win this week and a federal appeals court granted their request to resume re
future is at stake. thank you all so much for joining us tonight. greatly appreciate your time and insights. coming up, on the second hour of ayman, democracy fights back, how people around the world are holding those in power accountable. plus, oh my pillow, the dangerous conspiracy theorist mike lindell, faces a growing list of legal problems. and the latest on the path of tropical storm ian as he let s get started. so on the show, we ve been frank second hour one okay about the often bleak state of american democracy, from rioters in the halls of our nation s capital, to elections deniers, using their elected positions of power to subvert the will of the american people. our democracy is being tested and strained time and time again, so i m sure doesn t shock you to hear that according to a new nbc news poll, voters actually ranked threats to democracy as the most important issue facing the country today. and while that fear is warranted, democracy and justice have racke
the trump team one day before a federal judge ortega expected to hear the motion in court. you re watching fox and friends first on wednesday morning, i m todd piro. ashley: i m ashley strohmier in for carley shimkus. doj faces credibility crisis prompting merrick garland into damage control mode over claims of political bias in the fbi. todd: marianne ortega live in los angeles. marianne: accusing trump s team of trying to hide documents saying plaintiff s motion to appoint a special master fails for multiple reasons, and the government developed evidence government records were likely concealed and removed to obs obstruct. doj may not be able to clean up its mess in the midst of political bias within the department. the politics of their agents, of the office not being able to contain is causing them to say we better do something. we sought in realtime and took care of it. it ortega a little too late. marianne: a.g. garland banned political appointees from parti
years after the feds invested billions to get the island back. the american people who live there are in the dark. we asked why. this is american voices! hello everyone. i m alicia mendes. mental gymnastics, it could be donald trump s favorites for. as we go into the classified documents at his mar-a-lago residents. trump claims that those were declassified. when boxes sean hannity asked about that the classification process let s call it this week. the latter made a claim so bonkers that you re going to have to hear it from trump himself. it doesn t have to be a process as i understand, it there s different people who say different things but as i understand there doesn t have to be. if you re the president of the united states you can be classified just by saying it s the classified. even by thinking about it. because you are sending it to mar-a-lago or to wherever you are sending it. let s just say if you consider these mental gymnastics he didn t quite stick the lan
motorcade driving through the edinburgh airport. he will fly then to northern ireland to meet with leaders and receive condolences while mourners in london prepare for the arrival of the queen s coffin to that city this afternoon. with us we have columnist and associate editor for the washington post, david ignatius, and host of way too early and author of the big lie, jonathan lemire. a busy day, the report out of the new york times that we ll dig into about new subpoenas issued to a wide range of people in donald trump s orbit around the effort to overturn the 2020 election. right. you know, at first glance, surprising, after you think about it, not so much. there is a reason, of course, why we have all of these investigations moving forward and whether it s the records investigation or whether it s around january the 6th or because donald trump obviously broke the law, time and again. and you even have the most hard right lawyers saying what attorney general barr