were so gallantly streaming. and the rockets reed glare 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 pete: good morning. that was our nation s anthem as is the tradition here on fox & friends weekend. thanks for sending in presumably maybe some fourth of july photos with the kiddos there. and. a lot of beautiful babies. pete: speaking of beautiful babies, will cain, carley shimkus in today for rachel campos duffy. carley: love to see the kids in the red, white and blue, nothing like it. i hope that you are still feeling the fourth of july spirit into the fourth of july weekend. this is the fourth of july weekend, isn t it? will: i think a lot of people took the entire week off, made it a 10-day carley: isn t that a beautiful way to do that? will: i don t know, tell me about it. pete: it was great. [laught
it, with a republican primary dominated by an ex-president who has centered his candidacy around his legal woes, look no further. this morning donald trump, fresh off a decisive win in the iowa caucuses, was at a federal courthouse in manhattan as the defendant in a second defamation trial brought by the writer e. jean carroll. this time there s no question of whether trump defamed her. judge kaplan has ruled trump is liable for remarks he made in 2019 mocking carroll s claim that he sexually assaulted her in a chance encounter at a department store dressing room in the 1990s. and trump is not allowed to dispute carroll s account. the question now is how much a jury should award e. jean carroll in damage for those comments. opening statements are currently under way. we ll have a live report from the courthouse when the trial wraps from the day. so far, donald trump was in the courtroom. alongside his lawyer, alina habba, as well as e. jean carroll and her attorneys. the firs
brand-new numbers this morning show 276,000 migrants crossing illegally in december. the highest monthly total ever. border patrol sources report more than 760,000 migrant encounters since october 1st. that s another record. the highest first quarter of any fiscal year. more on this breaking story throughout the hour. but first. former president donald trump is off the 2024 ballot in the state of maine. potentially big factor in what is expected to be a close race for the white house. good morning, i m mike emanuel in for bill hemmer. good morning, molly. molly: i m molly line in for dana perino. maine s democratic secretary of state following colorado s lead disqualifying trump based on the insurrection clause of the 14th amendment. a crime for which he was never charged. mike: colorado s ban is on home after the state gop appealed it to the supreme court. the former president faces challenges in many states including wisconsin and november. bellows is the first election
detroit news. apparent recordings of donald trump himself in 2020 allegedly pressuring to election officials in michigan not to sign the certification of joe biden s victory. plus, the special counsel strikes back, urging the supreme court to immediately consider trump immunity claims, as his former lawyer, rudy giuliani files for by cropsey, hours after being ordered to pick election workers for lies he told for trump. will he pay up? giuliani s attorneys are here. even more accusations of plagiarism against harvard embattled president. the two student journalist who broke the story joining us this hour. kaitlan collins is off tonight, i m brianna keilar, and this is the source. we begin with breaking news. there is brand-new work reporting on another recording of a phone call allegedly made by donald trump in 2020, pressuring local election officials. this time in michigan, on november 17th 2020, two weeks after he had lost the presidential election in that states by
e 11th hour starts right now tonight, rudy giuliani ordered to pay millions of dollars for his lies about two election workers, and from republicans formal impeachment inquiry to stalled aid to israel and it crane, michael beschloss puts the wild week into perspective. then, looking back at america s response to depend to make. a stark fraud and what went wrong and the lessons learned, as the 11th hour gets underway on this friday night. greetings, everyone, i am symone sanders-townsend, and for stephanie ruhle. we begin here in washington d.c. with a massive verdict and a defamation case against former trump attorney rudy giuliani. he s been ordered to pay georgia election workers shaye moss and ruby freeman, more than $148 million in damages. that includes 60 million to benefit him for defamation, 20 million each for emotional distress plus another 75 million in punitive damages. the judge ruled earlier this year that giuliani defamed the two women, basically accusing bos