Christie jeb bush, and senator marco rubio are among the speakers this afternoon and evening. You will have a chance to respond with phone calls and social media starting at 2 00 p. M. Eastern. A coverage starts at 12 15 eastern. President obama is hosting the time Prime Minister of the white house. The leaders will hold a News Conference at 11 50 eastern this morning. You can watch that live on cspan2. Coming up next, segment from todays washington journal on food safety. The u. S. House will devil in at 10 30 eastern for what is expected to be a brief pro forma session. Host the center for Public Integrity. Chris young and erin quinn. Thank you for being here. Firsttime guests, both of the. The topic is what the fda does and does not know about what is in our food. They have written a piece at the center for Public Integrity about all of this. Quite a lengthy piece so we are going to learn a lot in the next 45 minutes but i wanted to start with a photo from the piece. A tragic story.
Prospect of flynn entering a plea is not unexpected and, quote no one should draw the conclusion that this means anything about general flynn cooperating against the president. Instead, they believe any charges against flynn will likely be related to his lobbying work on behalf of turkey and have nothing to do with the president or russia. Some legal experts are also suggesting that even if Michael Flynn had damaging evidence against the president , there are real questions about his credibility. Given the potential charges against flynn including false statements, you know, his credibility is suspect. And im not trying to run down a guy who served his country for years. But ultimately, when you have to look at as a prosecutor to put him on the witness stand against those charges, theyre going to need some corroborating evidence to support his testimony Going Forward if he agrees to cooperate. Reporter and the fact that flynns attorneys have ended their informationsharing agreement wit
Jillian joe bidens former staffer tara reade sending a strong message to the president ial candidate. Rob socially distanced dating. Jillian getting tourists back on the beach, fox and friends first continued right now. Rob you are watching fox and friends first on friday morning. Jillian thank you for setting the day with us. A lot of news to get to. No evidence of collusion. Adam schiffs House Intelligence Committee releasing dozens of transcript. Rob the doj drops the case against Michael Flynn. Griff jenkins with the fallout from capitol hill. The fallout it fast and furious, final words, flynn is a freeman questioning the foundation for the fbi case against him. Attorney general william barr called an easy decision, citing legal problems with the fbis tactics. The investigation which didnt fly, they had not technically close the investigation. The express purpose of trying to lay a perjury trap for general flynn. The president calling it treason, raising questions what this might
Is defending himself or his political career. Senator franken will return tomorrow. Likely facing an ethics investigation. He said the only lawmaker luppercaseletter accused of Sexual Misconduct. The top democrat on the House Judiciary Committee announced today he will resign from that post and claims that he sexually harassed staffers. Hes already been the subject of a ethics probe. Molly has more. As franken says hell be back to work tomorrow, this has been embarrassing, shock to him that women have accused him of groping him. Franken said he does not remember grabbing the women. Four women have come forward so far. Franken says he will go along with an ethics investigation, he is not leaving the senate. The Ethics Committee is looking into all of this and i will cooperate fully with it. I know i have a lot of work to do to regain the trust of people i let down. People in minnesota, my friends and supporters, my colleagues. Especially everybody who can send me to be a champion an all
I think that in the end we have members who are expressing what are legitimate concerns, who have ideas about how to make the bill stronger and better, and were certainly open to those, and were going to have an open process on the floor of the United States senate where people can offer amendments. Those amendments can get debated and voted upon. Plenty of opportunities to change in the bill in the direcn that some of our senators want to see. Arthel we have complete Team Coverage on this continuing story. Lets start with Molly Henneberg live in washington. Molly, senator franken is taking responsibility, he says, for what these four women are saying, but is he admitting what some of them are accusing him of, which is that they, he groped them . Reporter well, arthel, he said he would never, quote, intentionally do that. Senator franken says he will come back to work tomorrow and says this has been a, quote, shock to him, that women have accused him of groping them. Im someone who, yo