steve: thank you, carley and todd. good morning everybody, it s tuesday january 9th, 2024. come up this morning on fox & friends. president donald trump is in washington at this hour. three judges later today will hear arguments on whether he has presidential immunity in the federal election interference case that has been brought against him by the federal government. we got a live report in 25 seconds. ainsley: steve, we have a fox & friends exclusive. lawrence is down at our southern border. is he getting a firsthand look at the migrant crisis on the ground there and in the water of the rio grand river. brian: we haven t solved that crisis yet. plus, three s company. job interviews are apparently getting a little bit more crowded. yeah, i m sorry, who s this gentleman sitting behind you? hello, miss lady. miss lady? employers say i want to watch the rest of the movie. employers say gen z job seekers are bringing their mom and dad to job interviews. ains
nikki haley, vivek ramaswamy and ron desantis will hold events today. we are just six days from the iowa caucuses, which will kickoff the presidential election cycle. todd: former president donald trump will be in a washington, d.c. courtroom asking a judge for immunity in his federal election case. you re watching fox and friends, i m todd piro. welcome back, partner. carley: i m carley shimkus. brooke singman has the latest on the court drama. hi, alex. alexandria: a president cannot be charged with acting within his or her acting duty. if absolute immunity is granted, it would allow for presidents to commit crime. former president trump made this statement on truth social. if i don t get immunity, crooked joe biden doesn t get immunity. with millions that went into his pocket, joe would be right for indictment. by weaponizing political poen p pon, me, joe biden opened a pandora s box. in december the supreme court declined to fast track trump s immunity request. la
it would allow for presidents to commit crime. former president trump made this statement on truth social. if i don t get immunity, crooked joe biden doesn t get immunity. with millions that went into his pocket, joe would be right for indictment. by weaponizing political poen p pon, me, joe biden opened a pandora s box. in december the supreme court declined to fast track trump s immunity request. last week the former president s lawyers asked to hold jack smith ands had team in contempt of court for continuing to file motion while appeals have paused
so oral arguments are going to be heard today. they shouldn t take so much time at all around 9:30. former president expected arrive shortly before that. this is new territory what is happening here today. because no court has ever had to rule whether a president has immunity from criminal charges, mainly because no one in that position has ever been charged with a crime the former president posted this yesterday on truth social, quote: if i don t get immunity then crooked joe biden doesn t get immunity. afghanistan surrender alone not to mention the millions of dollars that went into his pockets from money from foreign countries, joe would be ripe for indictment. by weaponizing the doj against his political opponent, me, joe has opened a giant pandora s box. take that look at the timeline in this case and remember back northwesterly august, former president trump was charged with attempts to overturn the 2020 election results. he pleads not guilty a short time later. in december the s
pretty cut and dry they are say ifing if the court were to side with that immunity. simply go out and commit crimes. guys? steve: that s what they say. result 34589ly this is supposed to go to the supreme court left of you about half a mile, alex. this particular appeal regarding this one case is bigger than this one case. trump used it yesterday to say that the georgia case should be thrown out. yeah. this would if the court eventually does decide that president cannot be charged with a crime, that can a absolve almost all of trump s legal problems, at least criminally. civilly it might get a little more complicated. you are looking back, when you look at some of this case text they are talking about, james madison, richard nixon, this would change a lot about the way that the u.s. government system looks at the office of presidency. yeah, if that s the law. that s the law. presidential immunity. his team says it shields him from crawl prosecution it.