rachel: good morning, everybody, on a beautiful e we moral day weekend memorial day weekend. that was the navy band performing live, god bless america, and god bless our troops, especially on this memorial day. so glad to be the here this morning with my if friend will and with joey by who s in for pete this morning. and very appropriate to have you this weekend. joey: well, you know, pete would be appropriate as well rachel: of course. joey: but if you can t have pete, have joey. rachel: that s what we always say. joey: i make a career out of filling in for pete hegseth. will: i would like to think that there would be a fox & friends competition the i could sign up for and win, it would be pull-ups, but joey just squeezed out, none of us really cared about the count because he continued interview, talking throughout, and those were some beautiful pull-ups, joey. joey: you know, i m not to going to run a marathon anytime soon, i skip leg day, so i get my pull-up
numbers soaring and think the race is over. how about the year 2000. fighting for the nomination texas governor george w. bush. out of nowhere maverick senator john mccain. people were surprised when the bush coronation turned into a cage match. if you don t take care of social security, my friend, that s all hat and no cattle. that s cute. they are always cutest when they are true. it s not true. brian: bush would get the nomination and face al gore. it was not a tough battle. bradley would not win a primary. so much for the so-called experts. who could forget 2004. howard dean led john edwards, richard gephardt and john kerry in the polls. people would love howard dean but he finished almost as fast as he rose with the dean scream in california. we are going back to washington, d.c. to take back the white house. brian: former new york mayor rudy giuliani was leading in those polls. governor mike huckabee stole into prominence from behind. remember tv start fred thom
this legal pressure that is engulfing donald trump to a degree he s clearly aware of. his former white house lawyer made waves and concerned people by ricking trump will go to jail over white house documents. now we have this short but unusual letter from donald trump s lawyers, signed by them, publicized by donald trump that reads like a cry for help or some sort of freakout. i can tell you straight up it s not a normal legal proceeding. it s addressed to attorney general merrick garland. the wall street journal made waves that the quays may be nearing the intend although no one can say what happened, it clearly had bad news in there at a minimum for trump with insiders bracing for a possible indictment. again, that s not news you can go to the bank with, but it s wall street journal, which is own by the murdoch empire, and that may among other things may have led trump to write this letter. it basically tries to shake down the attorney general of the united states, whic
speaker kevin mccarthy left the meeting sounding optimistic about how things were developing. biden told reporters that he was confident about reaching a deal, and that all parties were in agreement that default was not an option. mccarthy had even said that it, was, quote possible to get a deal for the end of the, week but signs of renewed discord svelte back out on friday. republican aides pause the discussion, and saying that it was, quote, not productive. democrats and republicans remain far apart on a number of issues, including spending cuts, and work requirements for federal benefits, which mccarthy has said is a red line for him. talks between congressional republicans in the white house have yet to, presuming yesterday, mccarthy s made his dissatisfaction public. tweeting, quote, president biden does think that there was a single dollar of savings to be found in the federal government s budget. he d rather be the first president in history to default in the death tha
thanks so much. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. a we begin with this ongoing and conservative hunt for some kind of evidence or damning narrative about political opponents and how this keeps coming up empty in revealing ways. this is one a those stories that s crested this week because we had the trump era investigation end. i have new material on that, including how it s playing on the right and why that matters. at the same time, house republicans are struggling with their own investigations into the biden family. but it is telling to watch how people are dealing with the evidence this week, especially evident that was channelled but none other than a trump/barr hand picked prosecutor. part of this is playing out on a platform that s been recently discredited. i m talk about fox news, which was caught lying to their own audience and lying so badly and blatantly they were worried they broke illegal lies and they broke history the bad way work a $787 million settleme