night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. we begin this evening with the scope of the special counsel jack smith s investigation into donald trump and new signs that it is still growing. the latest revelation that investigators executed a search warrant of donald trump s twitter account and the company had to be held in contempt by a federal judge before handing over the material. here is one former prosecutor on the kind of evidence that they must have been looking for. the twitter files that the justice department wants to retrieve clearly relate to that time period, right around the election. all those materials could be relevant. it s fairly typical for prosecutors to obtain social media from the platforms like twitter, like facebook and others. i think the only reason this is getting so much attention is that they resisted in this case, and it had to go to the appeals court to get timely compliance. but clearly the evidence here that is important to jack s
oh. oh. welcome home. oh, my god, thank you. todd: the rock surprising uufc fighter with $7 to his name with a brand-new house. video has been going viral, we have update on which is probably the best story we ve heard in a long time. ashley: and it means soming to dwayne johnson, too. todd: you are watching fox and friends, i m todd piro. ashley: straight to a fox news alert. former president donald trump pleading not guilty for allegedly conspiring to overturn the 2024 election. todd: support is growing. brooke singman was in dc for all the festivities and joins us now. brooke: just yesterday president trump pled not guilty to four felony counties relating to january 6. former president calling it political persecution. listen. this is a very sad day for america. this is the persecution of the person that is leading by substantial numbers in the republican primary and leading biden by a lot. we can t let this happen in america. brooke: trump s defe
official who joins me in just a moment says there s no need to hyperventilate. put down the paper bag says jen psaki. she s here with us. first, let s get to our reporters with what the president is expected to talk about tonight and how democrats and republicans will react. joining us now, nbc news correspondent garrett haake, and chief white house correspondent and political analyst, peter baker. peter, bring us into the planning from the white house s perspective. what should we expect? i think you re going to hear the president talk about a few things. first of all, he s going to talk about his accomplishments. he s going to try to remind the country of how things were when they were in the country when he took other the period, in the middle of the covid pandemic, lockdowns, social unrest in the streets. there was of course the january 6th attack on congress and the economy was in free fall. i think he s going to try to remind people how things have gotten better over
there is a deep, bleeding hole in my heart. alexei was not only, like, a political leader, he was also a very close friend. and, you know, in the last years when he was imprisoned, and we were exchanging emails, were often discussing, like, the future and how we will go there and here, and discuss this and that, and do this and that. and it s hard for me just to get used to this new world where alexei isn t here any more, because he was a great personality who was, like, really able to fill any room where he was in. and he s very much missed. i understand the deep grief. would it also be fair to use the word despair about your current feeling? no, that s not correct. alexei was a very inspirational leader, and his main slogan was, like, never give up. and if there is one thing that we ve learned from him in the many years that we worked together i worked together with him for 13 years was this thing, like, never give up. to be in despair would make his sacrifice in va
hour, and we are told he will talk about the big u.s. supreme court victory for him today. the decision was unanimous, and it says colorado must include former president trump on the state s primary ballot. the high court issued a 9-0 rejection. wow. they all agreed a rejection of colorado s attempt to disqualify donald trump. and the effect could be far-reaching, because you know both maine and illinois have also taken his name off the ballots, and there are efforts pending all across the country. a big day for trump. i m harris faulkner. you are in the faulkner focus. a quick recap now. last year, the colorado state supreme court cited section three of the 14th amendment as grounds for removal of donald trump s name. that is the so-called insurrectionist clause. it was originally used to prevent former confederates from holding public office. colorado claimed it applied to trump over his role in the january 6th capitol hill riot. trump s appeal made it all the way to the