garland. controlled by the democratic party in a radical left. as somebody who served there for many years, first it is associate deputy attorney general and then it is special assistant to the attorney general and then finally chief of staff to the attorney general and in my view the greatest attorney general ever. this department, this department is destroying america. it is destroying the 2024 election. it is violating every norm, every tradition, everything it inherited to ensure that that department would be trustworthy and could be reliable. it has criminalized politics and i want to say this, if we do not break the back of the department of justice, and i will explain what i mean in a moment, it will destroy this country and we will not be able to claw our way back. this is not hyperbole. i don t need to be. let s start. cnn. exclusive special counsel prosecutors question witnesses about chaotic oval office meeting after trump lost the 2020 election. multiple sources t
agent found a white powdery substance during a patrol of the west wing. this prompted a shutdown of some of the white house campus and. the d.c. fire department s hazmat team identified it as cocaine. and their dispatch initially said it was found in the library. then on tuesday afternoon, a secret service spokesman confirmed the details, but clarified the initial reports that it was found inside the library were incorrect. and then also on tuesday afternoon to law enforcement, officials told the associated press that the cocaine was found in area accessible to tour groups. but on wednesday, karine jean-pierre clearly appeared flummoxed when describing where the cocaine was discovered, where this was discovered is a heavily traveled area where many white house west wing. i should be even more specific ,a west wing visitors come through this particular area. i just don t have anything more to share. it is under investigation by the secret service. and yesterday, the story ch
place down near the situation room down below. the west executive entrance is closer to the situation room. it is also next to west executive drive, where for example, the vice president s vehicle was parked. ashley: we will bring the administration s latest excuse for dodging reporter questions. carley: did you hear this, brittney spears said she was backhanded by a security guard while trying to talk to wendy. how both are reacting this morning. you are watching fox and friends first s, i m carley shimkus. ashley: i m ashley strohmier. after haul nothing 35 million for second quarter fundraising. carley: white house hopeful ron desantis raking in $20 million as gop candidates look to gain momentum. alexandria is live with more. alexandria: in council bluff, iowa, this is the largest crowd he has seen. will take a hit from agricultural policy. here is what the trump campaign released. they said desantis has problematic policy position that hurt farmers and demon
readout on the florida governor s standing in the 2024 race and the uphill fight to catch donald trump. new reporting this hour on why he said what he said. plus, mike pence is doing it today, tim scott is doing it, so is ron desantis and francis suarez, but donald trump is not. most are walking in parades, but not the former president. he s giving more evidence he s running a very different kind of campaign. no labels says they want to give voters a third-party alternative, but some critics wonder if what they really want is to deny joe biden the presidency. i m dana bash, let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. we start today with that old saying, honesty is the best policy. at first blush, that might seem like what an operative for the ron desantis super pac is doing, stating the obvious, that things in the desantis campaign are not going so well. listen to steve cortes and his assessment of how his candidate is doing. look, right now in national polling
and in some cases until today to even comment on this scandal. now, the first tactic.hi it s no big deal. this is saying that the irs wanted actually tougher charges for hunter biden. it s not unusual forl fo investigators and prosecutorsth to have disagreements beforeey they you know, as you go through these cases, how many times do they have disagreement they ha way? alonga all the time. yeah, all the time. i mean, this is the waf thy thi is part of the process. this is the way that it and it s what we wan e t. onl this is what we want. well, that s the only honest thing said that exchange.co oh, that, of course, refusesurse to acknowledge the most incredible claim of all thatjoe joe was in the room where it happened when hunter was demanding money for his family from a chinese businessman, which are all ccp approved, ofe. course. here s how they cover that. hewe have not verified it s basd on a whatsapp. we don t know the verification of that. we don t know whether