Its thursday, its april 18th, and this is fox friends. We start with a fox news alert. Protests flaring overnight right off Columbia Universitys campus after faced a reckoning on capitol hill. And happening today, former President Donald Trump due back in court case one as attorneys gear up for Opening Statements as early as monday. Plus snacks under attack but could be for a good reason from cheetos to lucky charms. Why they could be banned. That should be our lead story. Second hour of fox friends starts right now and, remember, mornings are better with snacks. We have a lot of Breaking News overnight we begin with your headlines, two suspected spies arrested overseas. Accused of plotting Sabotage Attacks on u. S. Military facilities in germany. On behalf of russia. German prosecutors say their goal was to undermine support for ukraine. The suspects are germanrussian nationals who were allegedly prepared to carry out a bomb and arson attack on military facilities. Including at one of
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donald trump dominating right now. this is the picture being painted from new polling out this morning, polling in georgia, polling in michigan and in iowa. will a president of harvard be forced out of her job for what she said about genocide before congress? major developments expected before the end of the day. and a trail of destruction in tennessee, six people are dead after multiple tornadoes ripped through the northern and central part of the state, including the nashville area. one of those tornadoes traveling more than 40 miles on the ground. we are following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right now right here to cnn news central. this morning there is some new insight into where the presidential race stands right now and also where it may be headed with new cnn polling out this morning from two key battleground states. donald trump is leading president biden in both in georgia has a five point lead in michigan in this hypothe
Senators equally divided republicans and democrats for a shortterm bipartisan agreement to reduce premiums and avoid chaos in the individual Insurance Market during 2018 and 2019. Im very encouraged by what has happened since we introduced that a week ago. From the Congressional Budget Office yesterday which said in effect that as we believed the Alexander Murray proposal, and which would continue costsharing payments for two years, 2018 and 2019, would provide benefits to taxpayers and consumers and not to insurance companies. Senator marie and i spent a lot of time trying to think of the most effective language to make sure that would be true in our language. President trump said repeatedly he doesnt want to bail out an insurance company. We are convinced our insurance does not end the Congressional Budget Office agrees. He says cbo and the joint Tax Committee estimate implementing the legislation would reduce the debt by 3. 8 billion over 2018 to 27. Almost all areas of the country
University administrators and legal analysts he was your first from the Senate Education chairwoman laura alexander. This is one hour and 45 minutes. The Senate Committee will please come to order. Today we are holding a hearing on free speech on College Campuses. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then introduce the witnesses where we are looking forward to the witnesses. This is an Exceptional Panel and we thank you for coming. After george testimony, we will each have five minutes of questions. Before we get into the hearing, i want to make a comment about the recommendations senator marie and i made it to the senate along with 22 other senators equally divided republicans and democrats for a shortterm bipartisan agreement to reduce premiums and avoid chaos in the individual Insurance Market during 2018 and 2019. Im very encouraged by what has happened since we introduced that a week ago. From the Congressional Budget Office yesterday which said in effect t