ainsley: it is 6:00 a.m., fox & friends right here on this beautiful monday morning. we are live from new hampshire. it s monday, january 22nd. and the news broke last night or yesterday afternoon, then there were two. tomorrow, is the all-important primary and this morning we have exclusive reaction from former president trump. lawrence spent the day with him. nikki haley, steve spent the day with her. and all the news on ron desantis dropping out of the race. look, he endorsed me. we have policies very similar, actually. i think those people will all come to me. i think his supporters are up for grabs. think about it. his supporters love america, they wanted a new generational leader. we give them that. steve: as you can see i went that hockey came game and the governor showed up and crashed the party. inside look on the last day. actually the penultimate day on the campaign with nikki haley out on the trail. seven stops, yesterday. all day every day. i have bee
machine is loyaling. we got no answers at the white house press briefing does this not under mine the president s claim during the 2020 campaign and by his 2 press secretaries since he never discussed his son s over seas business dealings with them. no and i will not comment further. i will save you no. let me save you some breath if you are going to ask about this i will not address. i know you do. more than i d like to you have i m not going to address this issue from this podium i will not do t. i believe my colleague at the white house council has answered this question already and dealt with this. his made it clear. i don t have anything to share outside what my colleagues have shared i refer you to him and the doj not going to comment from here. texts. what i can tell you i than my colleague has dealt with this. address third degree. at the white house council was the president. gi just steven. upon steven, i just answered the question. i just said this
his mar-a-lago resort. we ll go through the charges and what s next in the case. plus, this indictment from a florida grand jury is significant when it comes to a venue for a potential trial. we ll explain why. and we ll have the reaction from trump s republican rivals in the 2024 presidential race. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, june 9th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. nbc news can confirm that former president donald trump has been indicted by a grand jury in florida in connection with special counsel jack smith s investigation into his handling of more than 100 classified documents discovered last year at his mar-a-lago resort in palm beach, florida. two sources familiar with the matter confirmed the indictment. one adding that trump received a summons to appear in u.s. district court on tuesday. this is the first time in american history that a former u.s. president will face federal charges. the sources say that
earlier today, president biden told reporters, he is confident a deal will reach his desk. and no more sticking points to iron out. msnbc news has also learned part of the deals raising the debt limit for two years, avoiding another debt showdown before the 2024 election. the deal also clause back some unspent pandemic funding, we ll talk about what that means. and shaves off some irs funding. it also expands work requirements for certain adults on food stamps. speaker mccarthy also spoke to senate republicans this afternoon about his deal at the white house, two sources tell msnbc, republican retold the bill 150 pages. and will include 15 pages of spending cuts. this morning, he told reporters, he expects a vote on the bill as soon as this wednesday. we did a conference call with a conference over 95% were overwhelmingly excited but what they see. they re getting the text today, the process, look, in every single negotiation, when it comes to debt ceiling and others, you
you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin with president biden playing salesman in chief. the white house has been briefing house and senate democrats on the tentative deal to raise the nation s debt ceiling. a source says that a midafternoon phone call between president biden and house spe speaker kevin mccarthy has not happened yet. the call was to finalize the remaining details. experts say a default would be disastrous for the u.s. and global economies and that threat is still looming ominously at this hour. on capitol hill, lawmakers sound like they re unhappy with this deal. so passage is not guaranteed yet. this is unfolding as a june 5th deadline is drawing closer. we re following all of these latest developments. priscilla alvarez is at the white house for us. what are you learning about this phone call? is it going to happen? there s ever expectation that it is going to happen, jim. as you mentioned, president biden had said it wa