Fox and friends first continues. Up on the housetop yeah yeah up on the house tap up on the house top click click click jillian closer to christmas. Take a live look outside the studio, pretty nice, reindeer lit up. Rob the warm weather gone too. Jillian you are watching fox and friends first on thursday morning. Heather breaking news breaking overnight. Heather jillian a driver intentionally gunned down pedestrians with an suv in melbourne, australia. A deliberate act. However we do not know the motivation and in these early stages of the investigation. Rob we dont know if this was terrorism at this point. Two men in custody this photo showing one of them being dragged out of that vehicle by police. Jillian it happened at 4 4 05 pm near the main train station used by 100,000 people every day. The victims standing there. A preschool age child suffered serious head injuries, witnesses say bodies went flying as they were hit, the driver running the red light going 40 miles an hour and ne
That. I mean successfully or not, they would at least try. You remember like george w. Bush trying to sell his privatized Social Security plan, right . He did this traveling road show on that. Which ended up making that idea less popular every time he did a new event. But at least he tried. You might remember president obama and Vice President biden going off on a road trip and making appearances with preschoolers to try to promote the prekindergarten initiative from one of the obama state of the Union Addresses at the start of his second term. And who knows if these kinds of hammer home the message tours actually do anything after a state of the Union Address in terms of persuading congress to pass legislation to effectuate that president ial idea and pass appropriations to fund it. But at least those stunts, those trips, they did at least have the effect of keeping the press focused on the president s message from the speech. For a few more days after the biggest speech of the year w
Bus tour or any other kind of political event somewhere out in the country, trying to sell the elements of his state of the Union Address from last night. President s always used to do that. I mean, successfully or not, they would at least try. You remember like george w. Bush trying to sell his privatized Social Security plan, right . He did this traveling road show on that. Which ended up making that idea less popular every time he did a new event. But at least he tried. You might remember president obama and Vice President biden going off on a road trip and making appearances with preschoolers to try to promote the prekindergarten initiative from one of the obama state of the Union Addresses at the start of his second term. And who knows if these kinds of hammer home the message tours actually do anything after a state of the Union Address in terms of persuading congress to pass legislation to effectuate that president ial idea and pass appropriations to fund it. But at least those
They dont want to upset him here, two years later. Is the president going to do anything about the threat of 2020 election interference . Well, jim, this has been a feature of president Trumps Administration from almost the very beginning, where aides knew that this topic of russian interference made him upset, it made him believe that even just the mention of it was undermining the legitimacy of his election. Whats stunning about this report is that two years later in the leadup to another president ial election, as Kierstjen Nielsen tried to draw attention to this issue, she was rebuffed by the chief of staff and essentially told keep it to lower level officials. She had been trying to organize a Cabinet Meeting at the white house with all the various agency and cabinetlevel officials who would need to be part of an all of government approach to deal with this problem, and she was she failed. She was not able to do that. So much so that she took it upon herself to try to organize her