happy friday it s 4:00 in new york. he has held no press conferences, done no interviews that we know about he is elusive. the inner workings of his highly sensitive assignment a bit of a mystery outside of what some journalists worked to uncover. when it comes to the special counsel jack smith and his federal investigations, plural, into donald j. trump it takes an ear to the ground adept and trained to know when progress is being made this afternoon trusted voices suggest it is time to buckle up. here s why in dates since the federal appeals court in washington rejected the ex-president s bid to block former staffers from testifying in the january 6th investigation, ex-aides have paraded in and out of depositions without fig leaf protections of executive an attorney-client privilege. on tuesday it was stephen miller late yesterday it was former dni john ratcliffe soon it could be the star witness, donald trump s former vice president mike pence himself. last week an advisor
that trump s legal team also filed a motion to fight the subpoena on the grounds of executive privilege, basically that the president and his senior aides can have internal communications that don t have to be shared. this is a separate matter pence s legal time is trying to block it on. pence s team did not comment, nor did the justice department. what i m told pence is doing with this is basically trying to block the testimony they believe is related and pertains to his legislative actions on that day, how he was acting as president of the senate. that could potentially cover a pretty broad swath of his testimony. they re not saying he won t testify overall but that is the argument they re making. we ll see if the former vice president is successful in that. he has written a book where he talked about things that happened leading up to and on january 6th that could potentially complicate this fight when it comes to the former president and to pence himself with this motion.
going to be arrested, which, obviously we know did not happen at the time. there had been this idea of maybe having trump speak outside the courthouse after that arraignment happens in just a few hours from now. that idea was scuttled for security reasons. there were concerns about that and those considerations. but now i am told that trump is eager to speak. he hasn t done so since he arrived here in new york. we just saw him going in. behind closed doors at trump tower last night, so remains to be seen. because what we do know is that in hours trump is going to be here in this building behind me. that is where he is going to be a turning himself in here in manhattan, the first ex president in our nation s history to face criminal charges right now he is at trump tower is don was noting, preparing for this unprecedented arrangement, and we are expecting him to appear in court as a criminal defendant in the two p.m. hour today. after that, as we noted trump is going to return
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minnesota, is expected to get the worst of it. over half an inch of ice, that brings down branches and power lines. our intention is to run again. questions swirling around the 2024 plans. democrats are quietly preparing for a plan b. he may say no so they take the heat off hunter. the spirit of revival is contagious. marathon perry services inspired by as barry university. it was such a neat feeling walking to that room. we start this hour with a fox news alert. three people gunned down, dead, including a florida tv news reporter and a 9-year-old girl after a gunman returned to murder scene from earlier in the day and then started shooting. brian: the journalist has been identified. police say to kill other victims were critically injured. ainsley: todd piro joins us with more on this tragedy in ohio. they say the reporter and child were gunned down yesterday afternoon by a suspect wanted in an earlier deadly shooting at that exact same location. the 24