Claudia you are looking live at the butler, pennsylvania fairgrounds where a massive crowd is gathered to hear Donald Trump in the same location where an attempt on his life was made at a july rally. He says the rally delivers another message that he will fight for america and never back down. As we head into the Home Stretch before Election Day, this is democracy 2024 Special Coverage. We are waiting Donald Trumps returned to the podium in the small town of butler three months since that Assassination Attempt. We will take you there when he goes live. Republican congressman Jody Arrington and Byron York are standing by. We take you to butler, pennsylvania where a long list of special guests are about to join Donald Trump including Elon Musk who endorsed trump shortly after the first Assassination Attempt and is expected to deliver remarks today. Also in attendance is trumps running mate j. D. Vance who finished speaking a few minutes ago and the family of Cory Comparetory who was kill
forget that. cher, thank you for joining us. thank you for having me and happy new year. rachel: happy love life for you. bye. third hour of fox and friends starts right now. wake me up before you go-go don t leave me hanging on a line like a yo-yo. joey: welcome to the first hour of first fox and friends of the year. it is january 1, people rang in the new year about a block from my hotel. they must have kept it dissents, i didn t hear a thing. rachel: you didn t hear a thing? griff: anyone would have heard me snoring through the nine hours i got. happy new year. i ve been going to bed early up here getting to fill in with you, going to bed at 8:00 p.m. one night 7:30. rachel: you don t have a problem going to bed that early? griff: there is a secret, beer. rachel: i need to try that. joey: much more natural. i lean into the nyquil, i might being addicted. it tastes good, it is not supposed to taste good, i am tasting it often. rachel: the secre
but there are some major issues on the national security front, the u.s. is interested in getting russia up and dealing with north korea, in syria, in ukraine, crimea and certainly, i don t know if the president will raise it, if they were to have a meeting, russian involvement meddling in the u.s. presidential election. these are important issues. yeah, and they may be discussed behind closed doors because when they happen in a real way, they are discussed. again, the public meetings are done to send a signal to the public. i m not sure it is in the president s political interest with the photograph sitting next to president putin right now. yeah, there s lots of things we need there, we need russian cooperation on, the ones, the ones you listed, you know, whether this president is willing to push vladimir putin on those things, or, you know, bizaarly, one of the strange things where we are today.
to put your countries first. reporter: the president paid tribute to vietnam war veteran who is gathered where mr. trump remembered the sacrifices made at this once crucial battleground, touting the administration s efforts to build up the u.s. military. i got to know him for a few minutes up front. and they are definitely tough, smart cookies. we like them. i think they like me, too, i m not sure, but i think no, i think they do. i think they see what we re doing for our military. reporter: and at this point, the white house is all but ruling out the chances of a meeting between president trump and vladimir putin. press secretary sarah sanders said reports of a sait-down wer wrong. and said sergey lavrov were wrong. it seems the kremlin wants a meeting, the white house doesn t. wolf? we ll see what happens. jim acosta, thank you very much. let s get back to congressman
condemnation of this. and part of it gets at the party loyalty over morality. and sort of if they re going to take a stand on morality, and mark was eluding to this, the party gets more fractured if you have a write-in candidate. so you ll see people sort of sticking by him. you also see the close parallel with todd aiken, everybody distanced themselves from todd aiken and his comments controversial, but the party funneled a million toward the end of the race. listen to steve bannon, the president s former chief strategist talking about what has just happened in alabama. listen to this. it is interesting, the bezos washington post that dropped that dumb on donald trump is the same bezos amazon/ washington post that dropped the dime this afternoon on judge roy moore. now, is that a coincidence?