Rachel its the 7 a. M. Hour of fox Friends Weekend starting with this, im out of breath a little bit. [laughter] ran up these stairs. All right, a Washington Post columnist is telling Vice President harris to, Quoteing Step aside. Why she says the vp is a burden to bidens reelection ticket. Pete plus, its been four years since we were told to lock down and mask up. Now a new report shines light on, eau eco oh, the many ways do will revisit this thing four years after it started. And to top of the morning to you. [laughter] there we go. Rachel youre going to have to relive. Will the second hour of fox Friends Weekend starts right now. Rachel so good. Rachel all right, you guys, good with morning. 7 a. M. , and as weve been talking about, its st. Patricks day, and and youre looking live at dublin thanks to our friends at earth cam. Will what time is it in dublin . Pete is a. M. . Rachel theyre just Getting Started here. Later this hour were going to learn some irish dance stepping. Pete
Special counsel jack smith against donald trump. In an interview with cnn, maralago employee brian butler painting a painting a very specific picture of trumps inner circle, and how it operated more like a mafia family than anything else. With loyalty prized above everything. A world where fealty to the boss led to criminal exposure. Now, nbc news has not independently confirmed butlers identity as trump employee number 5 and he declined nbcs request for comment. In his interview last night, butler says he helped trumps codefendants, walt nowta and carlos move those boxes containing some of our nations most Sensitive National security secrets. Watch. He followed me. He pulled out, got behind me, got to the airport, i ended up loading all the luggage i had and he had a bunch of boxes. You noticed that he had boxes. Oh, yeah, they were the boxes that were in the indictment, the white bankers boxes. Thats what i remember. Did you have any idea at the time that there was potentially u. S.
Also hitting the market, s p global just dropped the scale that measures environmental, social and governance factors when assessing a companys credit policy. No longer important and we are seeing it ripple across the board. Sandra. Sandra all really interesting stuff. Thank you so much on all of that for us. As we hit a new hour, President Biden is set to deliver remarks shortly on what else his climate agenda and while hes taking a victory lap out west, back home in washington brandnew evidence released in the biden family investigation. Trace we start hour two of america reports. Im Trace Gallagher in for john roberts, great to be with you. Sandra im sandra smith, good to have you here, trace. Trace House Republicans released bank records that appeared to show millions of dollars were sent to bidens and their Business Associates from foreign sources. President biden has not spoken to americans about this or congressional testimony from his sons exbusiness partner. Sandra also over a
Im bret baier. Breaking tonight, the issue of President Bidens memory and Mental Fitness on full display in front of a House Committee today. The now former Special Counsel who wrote controversial remarks concerning the subject was grilled today in a hearing about his decision not to charge the president over his retention of classified documents. Correspondent david spunt has all the highlights tonight from a contentious hearing. Good evening, david. David good evening. Robert hur took questions for almost five hours and it became clear right out of the gate that this was a proxy fight over who could possibly win the white house in november. I did not sanitize my explanation, nor did i disparage the president unfairly. Former Special Counsel robert hur defending his report and his credibility. The report critical of President Bidens handling of classified documents found piled up in tattered boxes in his Delaware Garage and personal offices. We identified evidence that the president w
And the man investigating hunter biden, the u. S. Attorney out of delaware had been saying up until now that he never asked for and didnt need the powers that came with that appointment. So why was david weiss made Special Counsel today . We have reaction from the white house. Hunter bidens team, and republicans on capitol hill. Joining me now is nbc news investigative correspondent tom winter, nbc News White House correspondent monica alba, and ms p msnbc political contributor and cofounder of punch bowl news, jake sherman. Tom, i want to get some details from you. Sure. The question that is nagging me is why all of a sudden does this investigation, this case need a Special Counsel . Yeah, i really dont understand. And its a question i think we need some more clarity on. So to be specific, what happened here is there was clearly an ongoing plea negotiation, after the judge said, look, im not going to accept this, im not going to reject this Plea Agreement. You all have to get back tog