nothing i can see but you when you dance, dance, dance, girl [laughter] rachel: you guys, sometimes we just talk too much in the commercial break and we we forget that we re actually on tv. pete: uh-huh. i guess we are. [laughter] rachel: and here we are. dance dance, dance, guys. good miles an hour, everybody pete: good morning. rachel: welcome. joey, thanks for filling in for will with. joey: thanks for having me. pete: the second to last fox & friends of 2023 here on december 30th. rachel: yeah. we re so close to the the end o- pete: but we re actually at the end of nothing, okay? [laughter] it s the end of nothing. it s. the end of an arbitrary calendar. it s actually we re heading into madness. wonderful i mean, political season. we re heading into rachel: i don t think it s wonderful madness, i m just going to be really honest. i think the next year is going to be extremely pete: but if you love chaos like mentioner it s going to be great. joey: if you t
have now disqualified donald trump from appearing on primary election ballots. these decisions are based on an interpretation of the 14th amendment, and trump s actions during and after the 2020 election. but late thursday, california s secretary of state, decided the former president should appear on that states primary ballot. all this sets up an explosive legal and political drama that will inevitably end up before the justices of the nation s highest court. nbc s ryan nobles has more. for the second time in two weeks, a state has ruled that donald trump is ineligible to run for president of the united states. it was not a close call on the question of whether january 6th, 2021, was an insurrection. the events of january 6th 2021 were impressive dented and tragic. reporter: shenna bellows, the secretary of state in maine, a democrat, determined that trump s actions on january 6th constitute a violation of the 14th amendment. the weight of the evidence makes clear tha
were so many running that debates, they had a kids table. this time trump announced first and then nikki haley and then vivak, larry elder, asa hutchinson, tim scott, and now ron desantis, who by the way is only 44 years old. by biden/trump standards, he s got three more decades to run for president. so why run now? why get into the steel cage with a wrestler who always carries a foreign object? mike pence said he ll soon make a decision. chris christie sure sounds like a candidate. sununu might get in. even glenn youngkin is taking a second look. so what s going on? maybe that they don t think they ll have to beat trump. that that work will be done by a combination of alvin bragg, fani willis, jack smith and merrick garland. this week trump appeared remotely in a manhattan courtroom in connection with the stormy daniels case. the judge told the parties not to make any plans around the scheduled start of trial, march 25, 2024. trump reportedly reacted by shaking his head. the
trump for the gop presidential nomination? think about it. he s a former president, essentially a gop incumbent, who is consistently polling around 50% of the gop vote in the polls. and we learned in 2016 that give continue hard core support that trump enjoys from some, he s the beneficiary of a large field. remember, in that cycle there were so many running that debates, they had a kids table. this time trump announced first and then nikki haley, and then vivek ramaswamy, larry elder, asa hutchinson, tim scott, and now ron desantis, who, by the way, is only 44 years old. by biden/trump standards, he s got three more decades to run for president. so why run now? why get into the steel cage with a wrestler who always carries a foreign object? mike pence said he ll soon make a decision. chris christie sounds like a candidate. even glenn younk gkin is taking second look. what s going on? maybe they don t think they ll have to beat trump. that will be done by a combination of al
just remind them to keep an eyen eye on their drinks. for linda, that most were gay adds to her family s pain. to see a group of people who have been persecuted just for being themselves, targeted, just really hurts it angers me it grieves me. reporter: she s hopeful her son s story will be a warning that may save people lives stephanie gosk, nbc news, new york we have a lot to cover in our second hour of chris jansing reports. let s get right to it. at this hour, up in flames, a training carrying ethanol derails and catches fire in minnesota forcing people earlier today to flee their homes. what we know about this latest derailment. also, an update on the health of pope francis who the vatican says is progressively improving in the hospital. we ve got a live report from rome. plus, an investigation underway after nine soldiers were killed in an army helicopter crash in kentucky what we just learned from pentagon officials. and any minute now, we re expecting