20th, this is Fox And Friends. Fox news alert. The President Of Iran confirmed dead after a Helicopter Crash, we have a live report. Steve we do. President biden heads back to wash washington, d. C. After making his pitch to black voters and addressing Morehouse College, some turning their back on him in this eyebrow raising speech. Started a college just as george floyd was murdered and there was a reckoning on race. You have to be 10 times better than anybody else to get a fair shot. Lawrence and a brawl after last nights allstar race. Brian wow, i was caught up in that video. Final hour of Fox And Friends starts right now. Ainsley well show more in a minute. Brian promise . Ainsley President Of Iran is dead after Helicopter Crash. Lawrence crash killing the 63yearold president along with the countrys Foreign Minister. Steve trey yingst is live in tel aviv. What is the reaction over there . Trey good morning. Ira iranian president Ebrahim Raisi is dead, along with the countrys Foreig
No part in this. We all know that trumps promise to testify was just dishonest bravado, and now the defense has begun its case, its becoming increasingly clear that trump will not be called. Plus, a whole lot of things happened while i was on vacation, including the news that an upside down distress flag flew over Supreme Court justice sam alitos home. Tonight, ill explain why alito and others are in such distress that they think they need a trump dictatorship to solve their problems. But we begin tonight with these five words from the prosecution in Donald Trumps hush money election interference trial. Your honor, the people rest. After 15 days and 21 witnesses, the prosecution handed over the reins to the defense who began making their case this afternoon, beginning with testimony from Robert Costello, a criminal lawyer with ties to rudy giuliani. Costello was in talks to represent trumps former lawyer, Michael Cohen, in 2018, as cohen faced federal indictment for taking out the very
Prosecutors werent asking him questions and that he would say things that the grand jury would basically hurt the prosecutions case so they didnt ask him questions. I will say them anyway. The indictment came down. But dana, important point on that. Something he said along those lines hits me like a thud. I have always been puzzled why it is the way they structured this indictment was the grand jury narrowly indicts on the business records. No recitation in the jury indictment. At the same time bragg puts out a statement that is a statement of fact. Not a grand jury document, just braggs document and his big recitation about the theft of the election and all that stuff. I wonder if they didnt put usually the prosecutor puts the statement of fact in the grand jury, in the indictment as context for the charges. I wonder if bragg did that document separately because after costellos testimony he didnt think he would make his story fly with the grand jury. I think thats very possible. Bill
John throughout the whole process the prosecutions star witness admitted time and time again today that he lied under oath in many situations from being deposed, from being in front of congress, all kinds of opportunities where he was facing legal jeopardy and lied under oath. All of that laid out by todd blanche in great detail. Also making it vary clear that 1 of his deepest hopes is to see the former president locked up. Well be under the presumption that theres Justice For All Of Us what cent me to prison needs to turn around and sent to the send this guy as well. John martha the former president calling the case scam and a sham and saying he didnt commit any crime. This was a case that was not going to be done and when i announced i was running it couldve been done 7 years ago. They wanted it smack right in the middle of an election. Martha the underlying misdemeanours exceeded the statute of limitations your ago to the form years ago to the former president s point. Thats how he
Monday morning when crossexamined amination continues in the prosecution certainly has its work cut out for them. The lead with jake tapper starts right now these cnns Breaking News welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Court has just ramped up for the de and Donald Trumps hush money coverup trial. It is a day you should remember because if if donald trump, the former president is acquitted the History Books may well point to Michael Cohens testimony today as the biggest reason cohens crossexamination will resume. Next week, were told after he endured hours of brutal questioning on The Stand Today, trumps Defense Attorney todd blanche laid out cohens past lies under oath, and then introduced evidence claiming that cohen has also lied in this trial under oath cohen previously testified on tuesday, i believe, about a key october 2016 phone call. He says he had with donald trump about the hush money reimbursement. But todd blanche today reveal Text Messages and a call log from that day tha