amounts of money time and star power to pennsylvania where republican mehmet oz and democrat john fetterman have been running neck and neck. sandra: former president obama and president biden appearing with fetterman in philadelphia this weekend while former president trump rallied with oz just outside of pittsburgh. we have you covered over the next two with hours with political analysis you will not want to to and cannot miss. john: plus, our team of reporters on the campaign trail following all of the closest races. we re going to start with bryan llenas in bucks county, pennsylvania. what s dr. oz s message to voters there today, bryan? reporter: hey, john, good afternoon. well, dr. oz s message to philadelphia s suburban message here is simple, elect him and and you ll get bipartisanship and balance in washington d.c. elect his opponent, john petterman, and you ll get a radical. bipartisanship was a focus of a round table discussion here in bucks county featuring senat
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
reporter ryan riley and kelly o donnell. i m andrea mitchell in washington. ryan, can you get us up to speed on the latest? in my read of this, she is also enjoining the government from using the seized materials for investigative purposes, but is not preventing the director of national intelligence from proceeding with the damage assessment, correct? that s right. it s a pretty devastating ruling for the government. the biggest question here was whether or not the special master was going to have authority over the executive privilege claims. that was really the biggest issue. if this was solely limited to attorney/client privilege, i don t think we d see as much strong opposition necessarily from doj. it would have been something they could have potentially lived with, because it s such a limited amount of the materials. but when you get into these questions of executive privilege, this really blows up the investigation and could really be a major setback to the investiga
rejecting a special master. a filing that included this, a striking photo of highly classified documents found at mar-a-lago. among trump s arguments, an admission that there were classified documents there. but that was to be expected among presidential records. no big deal. and should not have triggered an fbi search. joining us now, legal analyst loni coombs. so nice to see you. thanks for getting up our staying up late for us. so lawyers for the former president, they are,ing that it is the justice department that is unchecked and that these highly classified documents stashed away at the president s resort are no big deal? yeah, this is a really interesting reply brief. it was supposed to be a reply to all of the very strong arguments that were made by the department of justice in their response to this request for a special master. but instead it really read more like a pr statement, you know, going after the fbi and the doj as usual saying that they are unchecked and
Maccallum this is the story. Right now former President Donald Trump facetoface with his ex trace attorney in Court Michael cohen getting into specifics about conversations he said the former president had about a payment to porn star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 election. At the crux of the case is whether prosecutors prosecutors can prove trump intentionally falsified documentation of the payment. Cohen pleaded guilty to lying to congress the former president saying again today he did nothing wrong. Watch. Im innocent. This is a political witchhunt. This trial is rigged. Its a disgrace to new york and its a disgrace to the country. I should be out campaigning now instead of sitting in a very cold courthouse. All day long. Trace former federal prosecutor Andy Mccarthy study my butt first to nate foy live for us outside the courthouse and or manhattan. Good afternoon nate frontmack good afternoon trays. Michael cohen right now if you seconds ago starting to go over the actual wiring