It is leap day, this is Fox And Friends. We start with fox news alert, illinois becomes the third state to kick donald trump off the ballot as Supreme Court says they will take up the president ial immunity case. Shannon bream on both of those in a minute. Steve plus, a Dualing Battle at the border, Lawrence Jones is live at the border. The Dhs Secretaries the border is a big problem. Its a crisis on multiple levels in multiple places. Brian very true. Fit for duty, that is what President Bidens doctors are saying after his physical. No Cognitive Test, i guess it will be a mystery. Ainsley he is feign. Steve he takes one everyday. Brian my bad. The finl hour of Fox And Friends starts now. Animation. Steve fox news alert. Our big story, two major stories this morning, President Biden and former President Trump are both making trips to the southern border today to discuss the border. Ainsley Dualing Visit as judge orders donald trump name removed from the illinois primary ballot. Brian l
Fairgrounds. Well have speeches and behind us the former vicepresident of the United States. Mike pence is the only one riding in the event with senator joni ernst. Pence is going to announce hes running for president in iowa next week according to sources familiar with the matter. A number of different bikes and got a couple of supporters here talking to us. Theyre going to be several, several candidates speaking later today at the Iowa Fairgrounds. Youll have Florida Governor ron desantis, former u. N. Ambassador nikki haley, others like and weve got all the bikes lined up with Senators Ernst who will be riding and pence walked up and switched out for a leather vest. Theyll move on from here, a day of barbecue and speeches up there. This has been a pretty busy week and several candidates have been here and desantis kicked off his campaign here. Former President Donald Trump was here, held a rally and had that town hall with sean hannity and theyve been going at each other, only inten
we re going through a similar dance right now after the president s son pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges drawing a chorus of conservative criticism for a sweet settlement that includes only probation, but now we come to the irs whistleblowers who have been all but ignored by the press and, of course, we have to be cautious about unproven claims. but the new york times, to its credit, broke with the pack by saying it confirmed independently based on a source that a second unnamed irs official claims david weiss, the u.s. attorney in delaware, asked, the oj for special powers to the doj for special powers to pursue the case outside the state and was turned down. whistleblower gary shapley has said he was not the sole decision maker in the case and that he was constrained in the probe. you convinced looking back at this now that this was an effort to protect president biden and his family? there were definitely hindrances that aye never seen before in my 14
u.s. ambassador to russia, michael mcfaul, former nato supreme allied commander, james to read us, and cia analyst from congresswoman, elissa slotkin. later, my sunday exclusive with house speaker nancy pelosi. get her reflections on the one year anniversary of roe v. wade being overturned in the future of abortion rights in america. over just the last 48 hours, the yevgeny prigozhin a brutal shadow commander of mercenary forces staged a short-lived attempt to seize more power in russia. briefly taking control over rostov-on-don a key military logistics have on his way to march towards moscow. in the 11th hour, a shady and mysterious deal was struck by valery gerasimov valery gerasimov a leader of belarus that led putin in power, and to prigozhin packing his bags to move to believers. we know the story is unlikely to end there. back in 1991, another russian leader, gorbachev, also survived a coup. he only relinquish power for months later. even a short-lived attempt to take
we can t have these conversations without you, so i know you are juggling a lot of things. but thank you very much for making some time to talk to us. we re grateful. e time to talk to us we re grateful . ,. . it to the to th according to russian state media, the criminal case against yevgeny prigozhin, the head of the wagner group, a private mercenary army in russia critical to russia s ability to wage war in ukraine, will be dropped. that s what they re saying at least. and he will be an exile in belarus. so far, it is not clear if you will actually give up leadership or commands of the wagner group. but he sent a voice note signaling that his forces would stand down. that order comes after a day of putin back negotiations with prigozhin to avoid russian losses inside russian territory. with promises of safety guarantees for the wagner fighters. until just a few hours ago, wagner forces were marching toward moscow. appearing to be ready to wage an armed result against