On this new hour, blood bath at the rnc. With his sisterinlaw in charge, trump solidifies his grip on the Republican National committee with massive layoffs. Could the hostile takeover backfire . And how his team is plotting to campaign from the courtroom. And my thoughts on this weeks speech from Senator Schumer sending shock waves to israel and why i believe it came 30,000 lives too late. Im ayman mohyeldin. Lets do it. This week it was extremely maga makeover rnc edition. After locking in the republican president ial nomination, donald trump has now set his sights on remaking the Republican National committee in his own image. On monday, the disgraced expresident timed his grip on the party further, using his newly installed rnc leadership team, which includes his daughterinlaw, to push out dozens of officials at the committee. More than 60 employees got the pink slip, including five members of the senior staff. Trumps rnc also began implementing a complete overhaul of the committee
good evening, my friend. we have a big news making interview tonight. we will get right into it. today, i saw down with former secretary of state presidential candidate hillary clinton and we covered a lot of ground. we talked about conflicts overseas in the middle east and in ukraine. we talked about donald trump s legal jeopardy and the utter chaos and the republican party. chaos that, by the way, it s in full display tonight. with the senate now scrambling to find a path forward after republicans killed their own bipartisan border legislation in order to appease donald trump. for weeks, republicans have insisted that they would not pass aid for israel in taiwan, as well as urgently needed funding for ukraine unless democrats agreed to have new border policies. just to put this all into perspective for, ukraine is facing some of its biggest challenges since this war began. russia has ramped up missile strikes across the country, as ukraine has been forced to ration muniti
griff: we begin this second hour of fox & friends with this: secretary of state anthony blinken and homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas are expected to head soon to mexico to meet with mexico s president obrador about the growing migrant crisis. joey: this is coming as a massive caravan can you see it there is moving toward the u.s. why cbp faces a record number of migrant encounters. carley: david spunt joins us live from washington with more. hi, david. hi, this is a big trip for secretary of state blinken and homeland security mayorkas. a way to end a record year for illegal border crossings into our country. cbp sources reveal to fox news more than 35,000 migrants crossed the border over christmas weekend. adding to more than 730,000 migrant encounters in less than three months. as we have reported, some people aren t getting court dates for seven or eight years from now because of the backlog in immigration courts. now, what to do. well, the ad
unprecedented case to the other one that s likely going to go in front of those nine justices. trump has been barred from the 2024 primary ballot after the state supreme court found he violated the 13th amendment s insurrectionist band. trump s lawyers taking of course the opposite approach straight to the court on this. we have cnn tracking both of these stories. walk us through the immunity issue, what we are expecting compared to what happened. donald trump headed to trial in march in the court in washington. the supreme court has to resolve, they are going to have to figure out whether donald trump is immune from going to trial beakers because he was trialed in the senate and acquitted there. before they can do that trial, someone will have to figure it out and it will be the supreme court. the justice department wants to skip the middle court and go to the supreme court straightaway. the supreme court is considering that, we have this new brief in from donald trump
is losing support within his own political party. one analyst says the numbers could not be worse for the democrat commander-in-chief who wants america to hire him again. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. the president last night dismissed the truth. mr. president, why are you losing to trump in the polls? they are the wrong polls. harris: hum. among democrat voters a majority want a different presidential nominee. you ve heard me say it over and over. anybody but biden. a panel of dem contracts from michigan aren t enthusiastic. i want the candidate that i vote for to earn my vote. i will probably agonize again once i m in the ballot box about what to do. so are you saying that you at this point are planning to vote for president biden but reluctantly? very reluctantly. there is no way i will vote republican but reluctantly yes, i will vote biden. harris: on the other side of the political aisle presidential candidates hoping to capital