lawrence? lawrence: the second hour of fox & friends starts right now and, remember, mornings are better with friends. steve: all right a fox news alert, t three hours, 10:00 easn time the supreme court will hear oral arguments on colorado s decision to kick former president donald trump off the state s primary ballot. brian: the high court in unchartered territory legal territory as justices wrestle with an historic election dispute. ainsley: lucas tomlinson joins us with the latest. good morning, steve, ainsley, and brian. the supreme court has never heard a case like this before in its history. oral arguments begin in less than three hours, as steve said, in protest of the former leading g.o.p. candidate. fencing has been erected outside the nation s top court near the u.s. capitol as you can see here. colorado kicked trump off the ballot citing the constitution insurrection clause section 3 of the 14th amendment to be specific, which has never been used in
trump s tenure in the run up to january 6th, particularly a meeting that occurred on december 18th, 2020, roughly six weeks after election and a few weeks below before january 6th in the oval office between donald trump and his most conspiracy obsessed outside advisers lawyers. it was just one of trump s last-ditch efforts to cling to power and overturn the election. on friday, december 18th, this team of outside advisers paid him a surprise visit in the white house that would quickly become the stuff of legend. the meeting has been called unhinged, not normal, in the craziest meeting of the trump presidency. they brought to the white house a draft executive order that they re prepared for president trump to further his ends, specifically they propose the immediate mask seizure of state election machines by the u.s. military. take a second to think about how that would ve gone over. the immediate massacre of u.s. voting machines by the military. what would that mean? what
is the prime minister s decision not to go to the cop27 climate summit in egypt next month. they ve swapped his red box for a green one. back to record profits. the telegraph leads with a story about windfall taxes and how the pm could target energy firms to raise billions of pounds to balance the books. the i features a photo the prime minister and the labour leader, and the findings of their own polling, which suggests sunak poll gives tories election hope. the times says the prime minister is seeking a deal to curb channel crossings and also has a picture of president putin who mocks the former prime minister liz truss and ells of dangerous decade ahead. and tells of dangerous decade ahead. the sun has an exclusive regarding the world cup in qatar saying prince william, who is president of the football association, will not be travelling to the middle east to watch england play. qatar has come in for criticism over its human rights records and its stance on lgbt rights.
dangers the men and women in the capitol faced that day. the perils that our nation faced as a whole and the former the president s justification for what happened. i went to washington because they were angry with an election that they think was rigged. a very small portion went down to the capitol. a very small portion of them went in. but they were angry from the standpoint of what happened in the election because they are smart and they see and saw what happened. among the crowd that day, far right extremists like the proud boys and oath keepsers welcome the focus of tomorrow s hearing along with trump s role encouraging them to march on the capitol. the president tweets on the wee hours of december 19th to be there and be wild. it was a siren call to these folks. and we ll talk in detail about what that caused them to do, how that caused them to organize as well as who else was amplifying that message. the committee member who will lead tomorrow s hearing says th
from msnbc will tecartus here in new york. welcome everyone to alex reports. we start with major developments in the january six investigation as two hearings are on the docket. this morning, a member of the committee gave msnbc s jeremy todd as a preview of what to expect on tuesday. we will lay out the body of evidence that we have that talks about how the president s tweet on the wee hours of december 19th have been a siren call to these folks. we ll talk in detail about what that caused them to do, how that caused them to organize, as well as who else was amplifying that message. it comes as former white house strategist steve bannon is saying that he is willing to testify before the committee after receiving a letter from donald trump waving his executive privilege. we ll have more than just a moment. first, new reaction today from president biden on abortion rights. he s delivering this message to protesters who were outside the white house yesterday demanding more