Send deceased agents to college and help fbi families in need they said on social media. Over the weekend, the editor of the legal news website law fare called for donations in the names of Andrew Mccabe and james baker after Congressional Republicans and the president criticized them, former cia director john brennan tweeted he had personally donated this as republicans continued their attacks including Frances Rooney of florida. In this exchange yesterday with Halle Jackson here on msnbc. Im very concern thad the doj and the fbi whether you want to call it deep state or what are off the ills rails. You look at the strozic texting and the Clinton Research people. This mccabe guy takes donations while running for state senator. Congressman you called the don and fib football off the rails. Fundamentally how is that something that are you okay with here. How does that not undermine the work these agencies are doing . I think the American People have high standards, to see those examples
The republican par. Party. If party was paired if he didnt get the nomination for president , they were worried he might still keep running anyway. He might become a spoiler the conventional wisdom if republican politics at that time, september 2015 if trump couldnt win the nomination or presidency, his stint as a candidate for president thus far was going well enough that it was really good for his celebrity status. It was probably good for his business. So he would keep going with his candidacy regardless. So republicans are worried about this worst case scenario, where trump would not win the republican primary but hed stay in the race and hed run as a third party or independent candidate. From that position he could definitely never win the presidency but seifen off republican votes to screw up the general election chances for whoever did become the republican nominee. That was the worry. That was what was going on in that moment in republican electoral conventional wisdom. Now, lo
For president if he had. We had new twitter reaction just this morning where he describes his behavior during the campaign as very legal and very cool. Well explain that. Well hear more from him live of from argentina at the g20 summit, as well. The president landing after abruptly canceling a meeting with Vladimir Putin citing russias aggression towards ukraine. Good morning, everybody. We have a great group to tackle both intertwining stories this morning. Donn donnie deutsch, Emily Jane Fox, matt miller and some of the best Foreign Policy experts out there, the president of the council on foreign relations, richard haas, associate editor for the Washington Post David Ignatius and washington anchor for bbc world news america caddie kay. Richard, you thought you were going to get yourself a g20, go down, have a couple sideline meetings and get out of town. No such luck. Three mine fields, the russian one, the saudi one with mbs, the crown prince trying to make believe that everything
The gunman died, too, but what he may have been planning next has taken this case in a new direction. Our Pete Williams has details. Reporter the fbi says tonight that the motive behind the shooting is still a mystery, but investigators say searches of the gunmans Electronic Devices turned up a list of places and organizations that might have been other potential targets. Police say the 19yearold gunman was wearing a bullet proof vest and carrying an ak47style Assault Rifle and six highcapacity ammunition clips, one hng he was shot several times by police before killing himself. The fbi says investigators found that he had drawn up a list of potential targets. Federal buildings, courthouses, churches and political organizations, both conservative and liberal, in addition to the california festival. And agents say leading up to the shooting he was exploring a mix of different violent beliefs we have seen a fractured ideology the shooter appeared to have an interest in varying competing
Why nancy pelosi may not greenlight a senate trial. In the border battle over whether a private company can build a wall of its own but with Cartel Violence forcing a travel alert why should us citizens be allowed to protect themselves. Entirely gone, just no more, that is it. Rise of an empire, is Jussie Smollett making a comeback . Fox and friends first starts right now. And good morning, you are watching fox and friends first on thursday morning and thanks for starting your day or ending it with us and we begin with this fox news alert. Nancy pelosi considering bypassing a senate trial after the houseboat to impeach donald trump. The president is not letting impeachment stop him, rallying thousands of supporters in michigan. Gift jenkins joins us from washington taking it all down for us. A lot to break down. It is mostly down party lines, nancy pelosi making history with the gavel and struggling to quiet her fellow democrats who cheered when she wanted them to be solemn, serious an