joining us. first it was the lawyers. trump attorneys john eastman and rudy giuliani were subpoenaed to testify by the fulton county district attorney in georgia about their involvement in trump s scheme to overturn election results in that state. the d.a. also subpoenaed three other lawyers whose names you may remember from the january 6th hearings. all of them appeared before the special grand jury in fulton county. at the same time those subpoenas went out, the fulton county d.a. also subpoenaed senator lindsey graham, again, related to his involvement in that scheme. for context ten days after the 2020 election, senator graham placed a phone call to georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger. the georgia secretary of state told the washington post at the time he was stunned by graham s request to toss out huge swaths of legally cast ballots, and a few days later senator graham denied he d ever said such thing. instead he said he wanted to talk about the process for
now, santos was completely denying the allegations. he also was making a reference to the fact that this prospective staffer who is a former reporter made some audiotapes, recorded conversations with santos and then leaked them. but this is just the latest serious allegation in a long string of allegations against the embattled congressman. a long string that keeps on getting longer. melanie, thank you. it is the top of the hour. just a short time ago the pentagon defended the president s choice to delay shooting town a suspected spy balloon from china. a fight jet brought it down saturday. after the balloon crossed the continental united states, multiple republicans have criticized it calling it a weak response. but commander at norad says the intelligence gathered will be of value. there was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons. this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilit
wednesday. this balloon is going down. this balloon has been taken down and falling from the sky. ashley: but officials want to know why it took seven days for the biden administration to handle this. china has been for some time and will be the primary strategic adversary of the united states. a message they are trying to send the world we can do whatever we want in the america can t stop us. they should not have this encouragement in the united states. we have a real problem. this bible and has become testing president biden strength and unfortunately the president failed that test. griff: brooke singman has more exclusive reporting and kicks things off for us on this monday morning. hey, brooke. with the gang of eight will be meeting as her list tomorrow for the briefing on the chinese spy balloon floating across the mainland last week. navy divers are working to recover debris after air force after air force f-22 fighter jet shut down the balloon on the coas
gorgeous at last night s emmy awards. my wife said the hip-hop performance was fantastic, although i m hearing a bunch of woke stuff too, i m surprised. speed went just getting more and more proof everything back to normal and the only time to come up to you and says vaccine or wear a mask. but truly when you see that, that is in the heaven of masks. steve: you are right. brian: the most woke place around. ainsley: i m glad we are past that, the mus the beautiful music with christian singers and you had r&b and a lot of country as well. i didn t watch it. steve: i didn t watch it either. good performers. ainsley: the one good story, navy divers to recover the debris from chinese five flight that was shot down over r the weekend. brian: i heard about this recovery effort underway as china conducted three other flights over the u.s. undetected during the trump administration, undetected flights discovered. pete: we have detected the undetectable somehow after-the
it s 4:00 in new york on a monday. an empire built on lies. that is how one veteran prosecutor describes the twice impeached disgraced ex-president s family business. the trump organization. it is the linchpin of the image of a successful businessman that donald trump sold to his voters for years. but those are the words of mark pomerantz. you re going the hear a lot about him in the coming days. he is a former prosecutor for the manhattan district attorney s office, a man who spent a year poring over financial statements from the ex-president s businesses and interviewing potential witnesses about them. he came to one inescapable conclusion, that donald trump committed financial crimes. here is what he said to cbs news about his boss, manhattan d.a. alvin bragg s decision to halt the grand jury probe that was looking into trump s finances, a decision that led pomerantz to resign in protest. if you take the exact same conduct and make it not about donald trump and not about