It is leap day, this is Fox And Friends. We start with fox news alert, illinois becomes the third state to kick donald trump off the ballot as Supreme Court says they will take up the president ial immunity case. Shannon bream on both of those in a minute. Steve plus, a Dualing Battle at the border, Lawrence Jones is live at the border. The Dhs Secretaries the border is a big problem. Its a crisis on multiple levels in multiple places. Brian very true. Fit for duty, that is what President Bidens doctors are saying after his physical. No Cognitive Test, i guess it will be a mystery. Ainsley he is feign. Steve he takes one everyday. Brian my bad. The finl hour of Fox And Friends starts now. Animation. Steve fox news alert. Our big story, two major stories this morning, President Biden and former President Trump are both making trips to the southern border today to discuss the border. Ainsley Dualing Visit as judge orders donald trump name removed from the illinois primary ballot. Brian l
arraignment for former president trump. good morning, everybody. hope the weekend was grand. dana has the day off today. welcome back to our friend from washington aishah. aishah: historic week here in new york city. this is america s newsroom. right now the former president is getting ready to depart palm beach, florida, for new york city. that is where he will be arraigned on a reported 34-count indictment related to hush money payments made in the run-up to the 2016 election. the former president flies to new york at noon eastern. tomorrow at 11 eastern is arriving at the courthouse. aishah: the hearing to last 15, 30 minutes. after that he will head back to mar-a-lago and give a televised address at 8:15 eastern. bill: the nypd says it has been put on high alert. officers putting up barriers and closing streets. we ll see whether or not that s necessary in the end. they get ready to move a former u.s. president in and out of that courthouse swiftly and safely.
years. i like the secretary actually. he is a smart and savvy person. his personal journey and professional career, he set himself up to be one of the best dhs secretaries. that being said i completely disagree with what he said. this is a crisis and ongoing for the last two years plus. the numbers and facts don t tell anything other than crisis. look, it is a mess. we need to clean it up and need to solve this problem. look, when you see what bill melugin just reported on, children being abandoned in the river. smugglers putting 50, 60 people in trucks, that s a crisis. people dying, fentanyl getting through and getting into our communities. that s the crisis. we can call it different names, whatever. we need to solve it and fix this problem because american people are suffering. aishah: geraldo, what did you make of his answer? i thought it was too cool for school, aishah.
well it was interesting. you re talking about an agency that has definitely changed the face of what travel looks like in the wake of 9/11. i did speak to the secretary who was one of the first dhs secretaries in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. he came in as number two in that order and he was talking about how much had changed and how under his leadership, the liquid ban came into place because they were able to get intelligence working with the british intelligence to find out there was a plot to blow up airplanes overseas. this is back in the mid 2000s. using what looked like sports drinks and there were people who wanted to drill holes this those. it was an example of something that started as intelligence, it s a reason we have our liquid limits on airplanes.
critically ill children your collateral damage in the process. after declaring that i am not a white supremacist, as you alluded nor is the president. okay. facts matter. well, ken cuccinelli has even rubbed his own party the wrong way. so much so even with republicans in control of the senate, reporting indicates he probably would not get confirmed. they re bearing a grudge from some past political actions he took. so now the white house is trying to explore a loophole to let donald trump put whoever he pleases in that position. the way they plan on doing that is appointing that person to a completely unrelated position and moving that person into the dhs job. that is how they plan on getting a trump, a crueller homeland security secretary. it is unclear if it will work. trump keeps going through dhs secretaries, though, because the real person pulling the administration on immigration policy is white house senior policy adviser stephen miller. we ll talk about him and what he