Stuffing and Everything Else going. Good morning emily and jason. Emily good Morning Griff and jason. Happy thanksgiving for you both. Im so thankful to be here filling in for ainsley and happy to be here with you two. We have a great morning in store for you. Jason this is fun. I love turkey day. I dont know if you think i delayed my start to turkey day. I have already had a little stuffing and the cranberries. I dont wait until 5 00 in the afternoon. You dont get a belly like mine by waiting for, you know, the starting bell. You sneak into the kitchen and grab what you can, especially at 2 15 in the morning my wife was just going to bed. I was just getting up and, you know,. Griff fair point, jason, i bought four pies for my family and at least one of them is half gone. I think you win that conversation. Send us your by the way, send us your what you are doing. Jason has already got things started. Emily, you have got to tell us what you have already done its friends foxnews. Com. We
senator lindsey graham plans to fight the subpoena. o figh good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this thursday, july 7th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. we have a lot to get to this morning. but we begin with breaking news from overseas. we re following reports that british prime minister boris johnson may resign today. this news comes amid a wave of resignations in his government and calls for him to step down. and taking a look at the famed front door there at 10 downing street in london. downing street spokesperson told nbc news that the prime minister will make a statement to the country later today. joining us now live from downing street, we have nbc news senior reporter alexander smith. thanks for hustling to be there for us this morning. what s the latest, what can you tell us about the situation there? this is really an extraordinary and unprecedented situation now. we have widespread reports that prime minister boris johnson will be
pat cipollone will sit down for a deposition with the january 6th committee tomorrow. will he help connect the dots? and the georgia prosecutor makes it clear if her investigation uncovers crimes committed by former president trump, he will be held accountable. we ll have her exclusive interview with nbc news. plus, two former fbi directors spurned by trump get swept up in highly invasive and rare tax audits that are supposed to be random. targeted? the odds on that daily double pretty extraordinary, really, for that s a coincidence. yeah, it was a special audit that very few americans got. but somehow, somehow, right after donald trump was upset with james comey and mccabe, both of them hit the daily double, the odds, pretty extraordinary. we ll be talking to michael schmidt who broke that story, willie. that s a tough exacta, even for the two of us. i think the odds are something like 1 in 20,000, to be audited that way. purely by coincidence, the two of the
what are the chances? there were 5,000 people that were picked out of the 150 million returns from 2017 for this type of audit. comey was one of them. in 2019, there were 153 million returns. out of those, 8,000 were picked. mccabe was one of those. statisticians will tell you that the chances of two people, you know, who knew each other being picked for such an audit could happen, but the chances are very, very, very small. michael, it s great to see you. thanks for that reporting. can you tell us a little bit from some of the details in your story about what this kind of audit feels like when you re the target of it? how did this affect the former fbi director and his deputy? so most audits are about something that the irs has picked up in your return. you filed a return and claimed a
after trump took office. that firing, you will recall, led to the launch of special counsel robert mueller s investigation into possible links between the trump campaign and russia. it also led to mccabe s promotion to acting fbi director before he too was fired just one day before he was set to retire. in a statement to the newspaper, the irs notes that any allegations of wrong doing are passed along for further review. a trump spokeswoman told the paper that the former president had quote no knowledge of these audits. the reporter who broke the story, michael schmidt will be a guest on morning joe a little later this morning. the georgia prosecutor investigating former president trump s efforts to overturn the state s 2020 election results say more subpoenas may be coming. multiple trump allies including rudy giuliani, and senator lindsey graham, were subpoenaed on tuesday. in an exclusive interview, with nbc news, fulton county district attorney fanny willis weighed in