that john eastman continued his hunt for widespread voter fraud even after president biden was inaugurated. hours after president biden s inauguration, mr. eastman emailed rudy giuliani, donald j. trump s personal lawyer propose that they challenge in georgia for two senate seats that were won by democrats. according to the times eastman hoped that by trying to overturn another election and finding fraud in that race he would find proof that the 2020 election was stolen, but as we all know, was there no fraud. the election wasn t stolen and the big lie is still just that, a lie. the times also reports that eastman charged the trump campaign $270,000 and no surprise, given trump s long history of not paying his bills, it looks like trump never paid him. by the time mr. biden became president mr. eastman tried to be paid directly although two people with knowledge of the campaign s finances said he never was. john eastman has been under a lot of scrutiny from the justice depart
nationwide failed in the senate. we will explain what happens next to turn roe v. wade into law. and where the supreme court stands right now, as justices prepare to meet for the first time since that leaked draft opinion. and the latest from ukraine, talk of another russia annexation, but first, a war crimes trial and the u.s. works to limit intel sharing. good morning, welcome to way too early. on this thursday, may 12th. i m jonathan lemire. as expected, a senate bill that would expand abortion projections nationwide fell to a republican filibuster and failed to get majority support after democratic senator joe manchin joined all 50 republicans in voting against it. the west virginia democrat said we support a clean bill that codifies roe v. wade into federal law, but not the bill that was put on the senate floor yesterday. i was hopeful that the democratic party had control of the agenda with a piece of legislation that would codify roe v. wade. 70% of the ameri
They talk to us right here on fox friends this hour. In about 10 minutes. Plus, joe biden taking on the economy in an interview yesterday, listen to how good things are going. We have the strongest knee in the world. If you take a look at what the people have. They have the money to spend. I think people are talking to their television right now because the numbers tell a different story and we got the numbers. Ainsley plus its the Gavel Battle Speaker Of The House mike johnson Sur Riffe Vifing a move to oust him. Is he going to join us Fox News Live a few minutes. Seconds hour of fox friends starts right now. And, remember, mornings are better with friends. Lets get loud. Brian this is the speakers bumpin music . This is true. I didnt know that. Ainsley people were referring to people are getting loud screaming at their tvs when they hear joe biden talking about the economy and how great it is and how donald trump didnt create any new jobs. Brian rare sitdown, no doubt about it. Rare
politicsnation. tonight s lead, more hostages released. right now, right now, after nearly two months of hostilities, israel and hamas are in the second day of a cease-fire, and with that, a series of prisoner exchanges that has included women, children, and the elderly at this hour, after long and dramatic day that saw a few delays and a personal intervention by president jill joe biden, 13 additional israeli hostages have been released by hamas. eight children and five women, along with four foreign thailand nationals. israel, saying that the red cross has confirmed the release. they are on their way to the rafah crossing in gaza. meanwhile, 39 palestinian prisoners have been released by israel. have promised to continue tomorrow with the third round. but in the interim, the white house is trying to figure out how to push this truce forward into a lasting peace, and how to get as much humanitarian aid into gaza as possible. democratic senator, chemo smith, joins me
released audio of an interview of donald trump by jonathan carl. it shows the ex-president knew full well the power he had over the mob that stormed the capitol. just take a listen. but if you look a the real size of that crowd, i was never reported correctly. there were the biggest crowd i ve ever spoken in front of by far, really, by far, that went down to the washington that went back to the washington mo. you told them you were going to g up to the capitol. were you just i was going to a the secret service said you can t. and by the time i would have and wanted to go back, i was thinking about going back during doing it myself.top the problem secret service didn t like that idea too much. so i ve done that. and you know what, i would have been very well received. don t forget, the peopl that went to washington that day in my opinion, they went because they thought the election was rigged. that s why they went. trump s desire to go to the capitol was flushed ou