come on and run. i mean, you know, real talk about like the sociologist teaching intro to sociology of race at 40 universities. stand back new college. all right, thank you as always, my friend. thank you. and thanks to you at home for joining us this evening. remember back in august of last year when the fbi searched trump s mar-a-lago home looking for classified documents, documents they believed the former president had knowingly stashed away? trump complained very loudly and very publicly about that, right? he also fund raised off of it, and really he took every opportunity to point out what a victim he was of the deep state witch hunt. but his first real defense, his first real justification for why he kept all those documents in the first place, that came in the form of a statement released exclusively to fox news. quote, president trump had a standing order that documents removed from the oval office and taken into the residence were deemed to be declassified t
this is, remember the big scandal under george w. bush about the program monitoring people s e-mails, elon said the federal government is doing that actively in private communication. todd: an eye-opening interview. you are watching fox and friends first, i m todd piro. ashley: i m ashley strohmier in for carley shimkus. another major focus of the sitdown is musk warning about artificial intelligence and he gives us information on the software he is working on now. jackie ibanez is here. good morning, jackie. jackie: elon musk s candid interview with tucker carlson aired last night. musk called for stronger government regulation of artificial intelligence. listen. it s a danger to the public. when you have things that are danger to the public, like let s say, food and drug, that is why we have the food and drug administration and federal aviation administration, the fcc, agencies to oversee what affects the public when there could be public harm and you don t want c
cover and lots of questions to answer, so they get started. on the trail, on trial. former president trump tries to jump-start his third run for the white house, a few of his favorite things. some rockets rallies, and hugging a supporter who called for pence s execution. i want to know what trump s civil rape trial, in the winding investigation surrounding him for 2024. my power panel break settle down, coming up. plus, breaking ranks. with a draconian near total abortion ban looming in south carolina, three gop lawmakers cross party lines to help lock at bill. one of those republicans who called to the abortion legislation, quote, crazily oppressive, joins me, a little later. and, what really makes a mother? a certain controversial congresswoman from georgia has some ideas, and they are pretty wrong, pretty discussing, and a slap in the face to all parents. this commentary ascending you will not want to miss, all of this war is combing up. a good sunday morning to you all, i
politicsnation tonight s lead, the turnin point. right now, donald trump is huddling with his attorneys in florida. and getting together his defense for possible crimina indictment they could come as early a next week according to the new york times for people with knowledge of the matter have said, hi lawyers say they have no plans to meet with the manhattan district attorney s office after prosecutors invited trum to testify before a grand jury next week about the hush money payments majoring his 2016 presidential campaign to actor damage stormy daniels. years after and alleged sexual in a fair. which trump has denied former chunk fixer michael cohen, who served time i prison for charges relate to those hush money payments, met with prosecutors for the 20t and final time yesterday ahead of his grand jur appearance on next week. meanwhile, current trump attorney joe tackett pinot tol nbc news this weekend, his client is an extortion victim. and that neither of them believe c
offers almost always indicate an indictment is close. the investigation you may recall centers on $130,000 that one time fixer michael cohen paid to buy the silence of stormy daniels near the end of the 2016 campaign. cohen was later reimbursed by the former president. according to the times he s yet to testify but is expected to. joining us now with more cnn s kara skinell. what are the details you ve learned? the new york times is reporting donald trump was offered to appear before the new york grand jury investigating on this hush money payment scheme. that is required under the law when there s a criminal investigation. that step certainly indicates and tells us this investigation is wrapping up. and that s also evident by the parade of witnesses met with prosecutors and appeared before the grand jury. we reported yesterday kelly anne conway met with manhattan prosecutors, hope hicks had also been in as well as executives at the trump organization. michael cohen had