six committee. former chief of staff mark meadows and deputy. the justice department, this week, letting these trump associates off the hook, declining to charge them with contempt of congress. scavino and meadows cooperated with the committee at first, but trump s former chief of staff, turning over more than 2000 text messages. consulting to the january six committee, even describing meadows as the mvp of witnesses. starting november 3rd, november 4th, in a middlesex messages, all the way to the end, it is a roadmap. and i would have to say at this point, i think mark meadows is the mvp for the committee. i think they should pay him. the data that we got from there actually allowed us to really structure and effective investigation. well, the committee now calling the doj s decision on meadows and scavino, quote, puzzling. while praising the swift indictment of former trump advisor, peter navarro. navarro was arrested friday for defying the january 6th committee subpoen
victims of gun violence from every u.s. state and territory. my fellow americans, enough. enough. it s time for each of us to do our part. it s time to act. for the children we ve lost, the children we can save, for the nation we love. let s hear the call and the cry. let s meet the moment. let us finally do something. the president laid down a marker to expected opposition from republican lawmakers. don t tell me raising the age won t make a difference. enough. my god, the fact that the majority of the senate republicans don t want any of these proposals, even to be gate debated or come up with a vote i find unconscionable. let s talk about the specifics of what the president laid out last night. tom foreman is here with that. again, some very specific plans put forth, tom. yeah, a lot of bullet points we can talk about here. i don t mean to make a pun there. the first one to ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines. this was they want to reinstate the 199
you are watching fox & friends first on this friday morning, i am carley shimkus. todd: i m todd piro and you are noticing a theme from today show, a band that is from england. the band you may have heard of them called the beatles. and today is the rolling stones. some attention there on the great city of london and the second day of the queens platinum jubilee. carley: yesterday was about the trip in the colorado s, this elaborate military parade with queen elizabeth at the balcony with the other working members of the royal family. she was wearing a blue dress. she looked great and you see her standing with her cousin there. today, we are not going to see her because yesterday evening, buckingham palace released a statement said she is bowing out of today s event which will be a church service at the cathedral where princess diana and prince charles were married. the statement reads the queen greatly enjoyed the birthday parade but did experience some discomfort taki
unemployment staying at 3.6 pers percent. bill: there are at the moment 11.4 million jobs open and 6 million unemployed americans which means the math says two jobs for every person that s looking for work today. gas is soaring. another record high today. $4.76 a gallon now. that s nearly twice as high as when president biden took office. bill: here is the good news. wages rising slightly up 5.2%. not enough to keep up with inflation is the bad news. that disparity creating a nationwide pay cut. team fox coverage this morning. jacqui heinrich and we begin with kelly o grady live from los angeles. kelly. today marks the first weekend of june. you would normally have people excited for weekend getaways, beach trips. instead drivers are facing more dread at the pumps. today is the seventh straight day of record highs. the national average jumped 5 cents overnight. that s just two cents shy of double the price when president biden took office. that means an extra $33 ev
wanting to raise the taxes on working families by an average of 1,500 a year. put medicare and social security, medicaid social security and medicaid on the chopping block every five years. every five years they will no longer exist unless they vote them back into existence. i disagree with that. what in god s name are they doing? i ll work with everyone who has real solutions and real savings for the american people. not take money out of their pockets. now, the other element i like to address that has impacts on inflation is to lower the deficit. the reason this matters to families reducing the deficit is another way to ease inflation. my friends the republicans like to paint me as the big spender. let s look at the facts. facts matter. under my predecessor the deficit exploded rising every year he was in office. under my plan we re on track to cut the federal deficit this year by 1.7 trillion. hear me now? this year by 1.7 trillion. that s a fact. the largest decline in