good morning. by the way, it is national ratification day, which is january 14th. the day the american revolution officially ended with the treaty of paris. i didn t know that. pretty fitting for fox & friends and more fitting for fox & friends, national dress up your pet day. if you have a pet, dress it up today. rachel: that would be fun. we should have people pete: maybe in a patriotic outfit for ratification day. will: i m not big on dressing your pets up. pete: i can t at all. i can t stand it. rachel: you re no fun. will: who else is not into december up your pets? the pets. rachel: that s probably true. pete: it is very true. will: we re glad you re with us on fox & friends and we re all back together for the first time since new year and we re bringing you this news that s ongoing this week. the latest on president biden s classified document scandal is he s traveled back to wilmington, delaware, this weekend and we learned his aids blamed president trump for
coast, we ve talked about how there is a new realization, it seems, over the past 24 hours, that far from being the perfect launch for donald trump s 2024 campaign, that this warrant, this search actually may turn out to be far worse than any of trump s allies suspected in the early part of the week. you brought up an example, i would lover for you to bring it up again for our friends on the west coast just getting up. but if you look at new york times and the washington post, and in both of those places, you have people close to donald trump telling republicans, you might want to step back a little bit, this is about to get really bad. well, i think a couple of things happened yesterday, joe. number one, the fever pitch of the anti-law enforcement rhetoric that we saw both from i will say importantly both from elected republicans, and from the right-wing fever swamp in the media over the course of these few days since the search of mar-a-lago, reached a pitch that was,
electric coverage. this has no been no ordinary august politically. then news week ahead promises to be dominated by the deepening implications of just what the justice department retrieved from donald trump s mar-a-lago estate nearly a month ago. that s thanks to two surrounding developments surrounding this investigation. a federal judge and florida signaling just yesterday her intention to appoint an independent special master to oversee the review of what the fbi retreat from mar-a-lago. as the director of national intelligence announces that her office will conduct a threat assessment of those documents. the news comes after this week s release of unredacted copy of the affidavit used by investigators to obtain the search warrants. wearing out the justice department s fears of possible national security risks. over classified documents that trump was holding on to. between all of trump s trouble, a busy summer of legislative winds and a resurgent president biden. democr
wander and to wonder in this life, to still have a child-like sense of the possible. and i this we ve lost that. and think what i m saying to people is, is that you ve got to get back in touch with you. because a happy mika, a happy sofia and a happy katty, means everything else in our life is happier. spouses, children, our relationships are richer because we re fulfilled and most of us just are not. we just drudge along, we re exhausted, we re tired, and we just accept our fate in life and we have to stop that. sofia nelson, thank you so much. the new book is be the one you need, 21 life lessons i learned taking care of everyone but me. and she has a new piece about the book up on know your value.com right now. and katty kay, thank you as well. starting super early this morning. we really appreciate it. it is now the top of our fourth hour of morning joe. 9:00 a.m. on the east coast, 6:00 a.m. out west. we have at lot to get to this hour including the last-minute he
investigating the january 6 capitol riot will unveil new evidence of how donald trump tried to get the justice department to help overturn the 2020 election. and keep him in power. despite the fact that he lost. three former top doj officials are slated to testify. also a slew of new information and evidence has forced the committee to postpone two future hearings. and the latest from the senate, which is set to pass the first major new gun legislation in years. we ll get the latest when senator tim kaine joins us and jerome powell heads to the house for testimony as the administration continues to battle inflation. we ll play for you the warning one democratic senator had for him. please don t drive this economy off a cliff. willie. we want to begin with the fifth and final june hearing of the january 6 house select committee set to get underway in a few hours now. today s focus, former president trump s pressure campaign on the department of justice. the house committee w