immunity. then there s also we re waiting for a ruling in the civil fraud trial against trump in new york. his sons and trump organization also on the hook there. and this comes after trump was ordered to pay e. jean carroll $83 million after her defamation suit last month. can you take us inside trump s mind right now? what must he be thinking? i mean, we know he s a man who embraces grievance, but this is a lot. it s a lot but he is also an expert conpartmentalizer in a way we ve seen very few people in the political realm be. so he looks at these a couple of different ways. the carroll verdict has infuriated him. we know it s a huge amount of money. we know it s a huge amount of money he doesn t want to pay and he ll have to pay some even as he s appealing it. the colorado ballot case, his team actually feels pretty good about its chances at the supreme court. and they see that as helping them politically, which is why you saw something like that filing today. so, there
this is the story this afternoon. the exploding middle east is what the wall street journal editorial page is calling the greatest crisis that faces the biden presidency. and now the president says that he s ready to make his move in response. martha: we ll see says the president and the commander-in-chief. so there you have it. retaliation plan is in motion. when and how are the questions. one thing was clear. i think we are now up to 166 including the attack that is just been reported late this afternoon on u.s. bases and interests in the middle east. it was a matter of when our service men and women would become the target of these casualties. relentless attacks throughout the entire region on our interests. so now three people, three u.s. service men proudly serving this country and women, two of them are women, i should say, have been hit and killed. the parents of army sergeant kennedy sanders, one of the three kills in jordan say that they re still in shock. re
court. meanwhile, we re learning more about where exactly the cocaine at the white house was found and who has access to that area. plus we re following developments out of china this morning where treasury secretary janet yellen is criticizing beijing s relationship with some u.s. companies. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this friday, july 7th. friday, we made it. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll get right to today s headlines. former president trump s personal aide and codefendant walt nauta has been arraigned on six federal charges in the classified documents case. nauta pleaded not guilty to all counts in federal court in florida yesterday. this was the third attempt to actually arraign nauta who was finally able to hire a florida-based attorney which allowed the proceeding to take place. the hearing only lasted about five minutes with nauta s attorney entering the not guilty plea on his client s behalf. nauta is accuse
minister about what is happening with the hostage negotiation and the gaza war as well as the latest attacks by iran-backed proxy groups. but, first, the world is awaiting president biden s response to the death of three american soldiers from a drone attack in jordan, blamed on iran proxy terrorists. the president says he has made a decision but is not saying what that is. chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin starts us off tonight live from the pentagon. good evening, jennifer. good evening, bret. it s unclear if the iranian proxy group had knowledge an american drone was returning to the base at the same time it chose to attack or if it was coincidence. officials still don t know if the drone was launched from iraq or syria. president biden says he has made his decision on how to respond. i don t think we could be any more clear that we have called on the iranian proxy groups to stop their attacks. they have not. and so we will respond in a time and ma
have you spoken to him about the senate proposal, and are you simply trying to kill this to help me out in the campaign? that s absurd. we have a responsibility here to do our duty. our duty is to do right by the american people, to protect our duty. the first and important job is protect its citizen. i have talked to former president trump about this issue at length, and he understands that. he understands we have a responsibility to do here. of course president trump wants to secure the country. house speaker mike johnson with a pretty weak denial yesterday on donald trump s very clear desire to kill any border deal. we ll bring you the latest from capitol hill on the bipartisan senate measure and the future of the house. plus president biden said he decided how to retaliate for the droep strike that killed three u.s. soldiers and injured dozens of others. and we ll show you the new comments from prime minister benjamin netanyahu now bringing even more uncertain to a