Ari melber starts right now. Nicole, one week down, thousands to go. Eternity to go, we hope. Have a great show. Eternity, we could be so lucky. Have a great weekend, our thanks to Nicolle Wallace first big week back. Welcome to the beat, im ari melber, we have a special show for you tonight. We have a lot to get to. Lets get right into today. Jack smith making a new pitch on behalf of the doj on why donald trump must be put on trial before the election. If that sounds like a familiar issue, jack smith has more than one case against Defendant Trump. So, the defendant was actually down in Federal Court today watching as doj prosecutors argued for a july beginning to a trial in the other jack smith case, earlier in the week discussing the big coup case and the Supreme Court slowing that down. This is the classified documents case, you probably remember both, and they are saying, over at the doj, there is nothing in their rule or precedents which prevents this trial, on the documents, fro
landslides. more on a potentially historic storm impacting millions this morning. plus, breaking news out of the middle east. the u.s. military revealing new details about the scope of damage from those retaliatory strikes in iraq and syria, and not ruling out more strikes including potentially inside iran. also ahead, lawmakers finally unveiling that long-awaited bipartisan border bill, but it s already facing a partisan wall with the house speaker calling it dead on arrival. this as house republicans push forward today with their effort to impeach the secretary of homeland security. we ll have the latest from capitol hill. hello. it s 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. a potentially historic storm impacting millions this morning. 38 million under flood alerts across california, warned of life-threatening conditions with evacuations under way. we re seeing torrential rain, high-speed wins leading to dangerous spinouts and landslides. it is still co
friends weekend on sunday february 4th year of our lord 2024 start with the fox news alert coalition forces launching more strikes against iran, back houthi targets in yemen as leader of the terrorist group warns of more escalation. plus a new york state judge slamming new york city district attorney alvin bragg what he calls cherry picking who to prosecute more on that. rachel: latest gen-z trend catches more z s how young americans are prioritizing sleep over socializing. wow that s like a positive trend we re going to break it down in the latest pop culture roundup and the third hour of fox & friends starts right now. to a fox news alert u.s. and u.k. carrying out a new wave of air strikes yesterday. this time targeting sites in yemen occupied by iranian linked houthi rebel. pentagon confirming strikes on 36 targets in more than a dozen different sites in yemen and hitting control and weapon centers. rachel: u.s. conducting another self-defense strike just hours l
his mountain of legal troubles. new reporting from the new york times revealed the ex president has spent a staggering $50 million of donor money on his legal bills and he has a lot of legal bills to pay. he faces 91 felony counts in four cases. a lawsuit that threatens to take down his family business. not to mention the millions he owes e. jean carroll after losing two lawsuits. from that new york times reporting, quote, mr. trump has used funds in his political action committee known as save america to underwrite his legal bills. the account was originally flooded with donations that were collected during the period immediately after the 2020 election. he was making widespread and false claim of voter fraud. with save america s coffers nearly drained last year, mr. trump sought to refill them through a highly unusual transaction. he asked for a refund of $60 million that he had initially transferred to a different group. a pro trump superpac to support his 2024 campaig
rnc meeting which shows the maga elitism problem the party faces. this is behind the closed doors. the r fl rnc meeting has a behind the doors closed meeting. this is a departure from the past. you can see how it used to look in the old days. take haley barbour, 94 rnc chair or michael steele who so many people know from the similar meeting they held when he was chair to the closed press secret meetings. this is a file photo that shows the contrast over the years, the tightening secrecy. why is it a secret? the rnc is clearly trying to duck any further pressure, scrutiny or efficacy to end the employ primaries which would have tried to declare the primaries over and trump the nominee. the rnc said haley should drop out, trump has to be the winner. this morning nikki haley did something unusual, something trump hasn t done, which is face questions from a different and more adversarial set of interviewers. she went, just like biden has, to the breakfast club and took the que