all of these signs, reports and indications that donald trump s team is at least concerned about a possible indictment in the doj classified documents case. that doesn t mean they ve given up. that doesn t mean it s inevitable and we are not reporting on a future possibility. we are reporting on a current set of concerns and let me walk you through it. if indicted donald trump will be the first-ever person who served in the white house to be indicted for a federal crime. here s what s brand new and we ve never reported this before, our cameras caught trump s legal team going into doj in washington today and we got footage of them leaving. they spent roughly two hours inside and wait until you hear who they met with. i will not make you wait longer than this. this wasn t some routine catch-up. we have reporting that they sat down face to face in a very rare showdown with the man who has been leading this high-profile rest gagz of donald trump. they sat down with special counse
hi, nicolle. i only ask of you one thing, and we make no predictions. i just ask that you don t go on vacation or stay near your phone or facetime and broadcasting abilities, okay? i feel like the whole summer is potentially hazardous for vacation planning. i haven t totally broken this until this moment on live tv to my family but i feel like between jack smith and willis it s dicey. to your family and everyone, we say, that s a little bit of personal breaking news. good to see you, nicolle. have a good show. thank you. our thanks to our colleague nicolle. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. while we try to do it all with good spirit, ace mentioned, there is a lot going on. facts and precise aspects of what we know, because we don t know everything and don t know the future. here s something i know, it will be a pretty packed broadcast. donald trump s number one aide during the insurrection in the classified documents handover, chief of staff mark meadows just w
and we ve got we re celebrating our first responders and heroes this morning too. rachel: absolutely. pete: let s head there right now, head back down to 1 world trade center, the freedom tower, where rick reichmuth is live from the tunnel to towers 104-story tower climb in new york city. rick. [cheers and applause] rick: i m not doing this to the act like i m on tv with this, i literally it s really how old in here, i can barely here you. you recognize abby hornacek? she was really nice to come on with us morning. i was not prepared to go on television this morning. [laughter] rick: we all look like this when we re not prepared to go on television. no, no, not at all. rick: talk about this team and how this experience was. this experience was unlike anything. this organization is one of my favorite organizations. to be here with our amazing coworkers and also amazing people here, there were three cats catastrophically injured veterans who did the stair climb, so ev
reconnaissance plane. during a security summit overseas, defense secretary lloyd austin saying the u.s. will not be bullied. we have late reporting from washington. the race for 2024 heating up. most top republican candidates minus donald trump descend on iowa, mingling with voters, trying to stand out as more gop hopefuls prepare to announce a run. rachel scott in des moines. the president signs the debt ceiling deal two days before the country could have faced its first of a kind default. what it means for the average american, and why the u.s. credit rating could still be downgraded. elizabeth schulze at the white house. the search for answers in two serious building collapses. what witnesses say about the connecticut structure that caved in sending workers 30 feet into the basement. and the newly uncovered 911 call in iowa describing a bulging wall the day before the collapse. a weekend washout for millions. remnants of a tropical system bring torrential rains to florida,
fight o er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming. and the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. o, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave o er the land of the free and the home of the brave pete: we begin. this sunday morning with a fox news alert. a chinese warship coming within 150 yards of a u.s. destroyer in the taiwan strait in the latest chinese provocation in the region. u.s. indo-pacific command slamming their chinese counterparts for maneuvering in an unsafe manner. rachel: china says it s the monitor thed the two ships but made no mention of the close call. this comes days after a chinese fighter jet did its own unnecessary aggressive maneuver by buzzing around an american recon plane. will: all this as the ccp if cracks down on activists as today marks 34th anniversary of tiananmen square massacre. eight people were detained, accused of disrupting order in publi