a.m. on the east coast. thursday, january 25th. welcome to fox & friends. well, it s a texas-sized showdown with the white house and governor greg abbott invoking the founding fathers insisting on defending the texas, mexico border his way. carley: and new revelations in the mysterious death of those three chiefs friends as a fifth man at the party claims he wasn t the last person to see them alive. we re going to talk to one of the victims brothers about the developments. brian: froze to death. 30 years later hillary clinton still hasn t mastered the macarena. hey m macarena. i thought that was american version of a spanish dance. steve: macarena guy right there. brian: fox & friends starts right there. remember, mornings are better with friends. get dressed. barnes. lawrence: the border battle down in texas intensifies with democrats now calling on the president, joe biden to federalize the state national guard. ainsley: but, governor greg abbott
the last scheduled decision day of the term, we could finally get some answers on some massive undecided cases. rulings on affirmative action, student loan forgiveness, and lgbtq+ rights among others. decisions that could impact all of us, and they could come down at any minute, and we have a full lineup of guests and experts on this. i want to begin with nbc news correspondent julia ainsley who s standing by at the supreme court for us. julia, set the scene there, how might this go down? reporter: well, you re right, this is the last scheduled day, ana, but we re expecting another day possibly to get on the court s schedule for tomorrow. that would leave just two days left in june when they typically wrap up their term, and they have these three huge decisions left. so doing the math, we expect at least one of those big decisions to come today, either when it comes to religious rights versus free speech, religious rights and lgbt rights. of course affirmative action, and h
sandra: a short time from now the white house is set to hold its first on camera briefing since former president trump s victory in iowa, the landslide victory in iowa on monday night. that historic win brings him one step closer to a rematch against president biden. and vice president kamala harris has this thought about all of it. i am scared as heck which is why i m travelling our country. we have done a lot of good work, we need to let people know who brung it to em. and so we have to do that. sandra: ok. hello and welcome, everyone, sandra smith in new york. john, great to be with you. john: good to be with you as well, what is she scared of heck of. i m john roberts in washington. this is america reports . as president biden works to improve his campaign message, his son s legal message only adding to his re-election headaches. prosecutors found traces of cocaine on a pouch hunter biden used to store his gun. sandra: he s trying to dismiss the charges filed
. today on inside politics, a courtroom stunt. donald trump is stepping away from the trail and choosing to sit inside a new york city court right now. the reason is pretty simple. he thinks it s the best place to boost his campaign. plus, four days left. nikki haley and ron desantis are crisscrossing iowa after facing off in our heated cnn debate. they were quick to fire off attacks on each other, but did they spend enough time taking on the far and away front-runner? and hunter biden is heading to a los angeles courtroom today to be arraigned on federal tax charges, as the white house worries his legal troubles could lead to more political troubles for his father. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. we begin in new york where closing arguments are under way in donald trump s civil fraud trial, with hundreds of millions of dollars and the future of the trump organization on the line. the former president is inside the courtroom right now
tonight on the reidout what about 2024? we will see if this is a legal and valid election. just to be very clear, i don t hear you committed to certifying the election results. will you only commit to certify the results if if they re constitutional. does that mean former president trump wins? it phenes if they re unconstitutional. what we saw in 2020 was unconstitutional circumventing of the constitution. elise stefanik refusing to commit to certifying the will of the voters if trump loses. as trump himself refuses to sign a pledge not to overthrow the government. also tonight, president biden who unlike trump, supports democracy, took his message to mother emanuel ame church in charleston. amid growing concerns about his standing with black voters. but we begin tonight with the january 6th insurrection. more specifically, what went down before the violent mob stormed the u.s. capitol. at a, quote/unquote, news network called fox. as author and journali