direct contact with stormy daniels s lawyer at the time, so that donald trump, through michael cohen, could just buy stormy daniels s silence directly. that didn t mean that the bossxd of the national enquirer escaped prosecutors s s attention. when they were prosecuting finance law, in an attempt to effect the outcome of the election by making a 130,000 dollar hush money payment to stormy daniels, three weeks before the 2016 presidential election. because silence of starlight stormy daniels was official put it mildly. the $130,000 violated campaign finance laws by exceeding the limit of campaign contributions and by not being recorded as a campaign contribution. the boss of the national enquirer, who was supposed to be the mastermind of the catching till scheme for donald trump, was a man named david pecker. here is how the new york daily great at the revelation in court, in the michael cohen case, that david pecker was a witness in the grand jury investigation. ther
minutes every year to how much time she needs to spend on me but i strongly recommend more than two minutes in the makeup room. yes. i, mean i need a lot more minutes with every passing year. i am eventually gonna need them to start with the snowplow when they start. seeing them react under pressure to how we have not prepared for this at, all we had no idea, will pull it together it really is plenty in their hands. we work with very, very amazing people and working on the stress makes them value the. more congress not here tonight because she had to run off but i mean i could go on with, this it is like watching a sergeant at work and rushing is not supposed to be part of surgery except emergency surgery, obviously. we saw just give her an extra minute. someday, lawrence you and i we will get together and we will do a horror franchise where we show people what we look like. no, we want. no we won t. nope. not going to do that. nope. and we ll have it radar. nop
missed the vote last night. he of course was in the hospital a week ago after feeling lightheaded after a democratic retreat. everyone of course is cautious about his health months after he suffered a near death stroke. of course that could lead to more episodes of seizures and other things that require urgent medical attention, but here it is his mind, his emotional state. here he is saying that he s been feeling depressed. he suffered from bouts of this during his life, his chief says. he met with the capitol physician on monday who urged him to go and check himself in and do some routine tests. at the end of the statement, it says after examining john, the doctors at walter reed told us john is getting the care he needs and will soon be back to himself. obviously a rocky start for the senator, freshman from pennsylvania who came off the heated victory in november, just in the senate for a little over a month now, but already having missed days of votes in the hospital, in
were so gallantly streaming and the rocket s red glare, the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there o say does that star spangled banner yet wave o er the land of the free and the home of the brave . will: good morning. welcome to fox & friends. we go straight to a fox news alert. the u.s. shoots down the chinese balloon after a hovered across the u.s. for days after it moved over the atlantic ocean. pete: navy divers and fbi are searching the area for degree. rachel: alexandria hoff is here this morning. the heavy payload of spy gear fell into 47 feet of water with a debris of seven miles long. fox news was the only network to capture it live. exclusive video shows the moment a f-22 raptor fired off a sidewinder heat-seeking missile destroying the chinese balloon. the takedown happened 2:39 p.m. six miles off the coast of south carolina. prior to that the surveillance balloon ventured across the country maneuvering over
early with us on this thursday morning. morning joe starts right now. this isn t a question of vindication. it is not a question, as i stated before, about revenge this is a my position is that, at the end of the day, donald trump needs to be held accountable for his dirty deeds if, in fact, that s the way that the facts play out that was donald trump s former fixer after wrapping up his testimony to a manhattan grand jury by the way, former fixer who went to jail, actually got convicted and went to jail for being part of this scheme that donald trump is now being investigated for. michael cohen spent two days on the stand answering questions about the hush money given to stormy daniels, the porn star. now, we re learning that she is talking to prosecutors also ahead, we ll dig into the new reporting out of georgia on another phone call the former president made to an election official there in the aftermath of the 2020 election. it s like the end of the hunt