Fight a Judiciary Committee subpoena for the testimony of his former white House Counsel don mcgahn. This as the white house stopped another former official from testifying before congress. Ram p hampering information on how Jared Kushner got a security clearance, against the advice of career professionals. Trumps treasury secretary mnuchin is delaying the irs from complying with a law, with a law, that requires him to turn over the president s tax returns. Missing a second deadline from the ways and means committee. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. Its wednesday, april 24th. Along with willie geist and me, we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle. National Affairs Analyst for nbc and msnbc and the cohost and exec fif putive producer of th circus, john heilemann. Former aide to the george w. Bush white house and state departments, and msnbc political analyst, elise jordan. And cofounder and ceo of axios, jim vande h j jim vandehei. Mika has the morning off. Its never been quite
Reporting today begins with a question. Where was secretary state mike pompeo . We dont know and his office will not say. Secretary pompeo was scheduled to travel to germany for talks with Angela Merkel and his counterpart about russia and other matters. Instead, a change in plans. The secretary caught another flight. Destination untold. The unusual move comes after the secretary talked yesterday with the Russian Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov at an event in finland. As russia announced, pompeo would hold talks in russia with lavrov and possibly putin. The state department instructed the press pool travelling with the secretary that they wont be able to report from where his plane lands. So far we have nothing from the traveling press. In the past when theres an information blackout, its come when a high ranking official was travelling to a war zone. At the moment, we have a notice from the state department that the abrupt change is due to pressing issues. The secret trip comes as the
In the battle between the white house and Congressional Democrats, the administrations to block former aides from testifying to house committees investigating the president , including former White House Counsel Don Mcgahn and former white house personnel director carl klein. The president called the subpoena for mcgahn ridiculous. Vowing to fight every summons from democrats. Its still my chief White House Correspondent john roberts has more from the north line. John question mexico melissa, good afternoon to you. As he watched the president and the first lady on their way to the opioid event in atlanta, where it is currently sunny and 80 degrees a Beautiful Day but nice here in washington as well. They say the white house is going to fight the subpoena of don mcgahn that was handed to him earlier this week to appear before the house judiciary committee. On may 21st, additionally, the white house is going to try and resist all the blizzard of subpoenas expected to come down off of cap
Republican. Steve you are not Brian Kilmeade you are in for him today. Ed no. He will be back tomorrow. Not red. Yankees have won five games in a row. Im just putting it out there. Steve ed is such a yankees fan. His house key is a yankee key. Ainsley you grew up in new york . Ed grew up in new york. I love the yankees. We have a lot of injuries but we are coming back. Steve you picked a great day to join us on fox friends. We start with this a socalled mother of all caravans made up of, perhaps, 10,000 migrants is inching towards our southern border. Ainsley this as Border Patrol releases disturbing new video of mugger. S. Dressed in gear as well. Right side of the video. They are helping the immigrants cross into the United States. Ed disturbing story. Griff jenkins live from washington. Good morning. Good morning, ed, ainsley and steve. This video is nothing short of troubling. Heavily armed smugglers escorting a family unit in this case a guatemalan woman and her son along the mexi
Ainsley stay naked if you want. Get dressed if you want. We are glad you are watching. Brian thats our theme fox friends get naked join us every day. Over the weekend we got this horrific news and happened in california. Victims and survivors of that deadly attack on a california synagogue. Ainsley this is horrible. The rabbi injured in that attack came facetoface with that shooter and said that rifle miraculously jammed likely saving many lives. Steve live in our newsroom with the very latest. Rabbi says it would have been a blood bath otherwise. Listen to him describe what happened when the shooter came after him. There is a young man standing with a rifle pointing right at me. I looked at him. He had sunglasses on. I couldnt see his eyes, i couldnt see his soul. You could see the wrap around his arm. He was shot in the hand. Shot and killed lindsey kay. Listen to what happened next here. Iraq combat vernal oscar stuart was in the congregation and actually went after the gunman here.