Voting right advocates in South Carolina and alabama sought to prevent americans to choose between voting and risking their health to make it easier and safer to complete an absentee ballot during a pandemic but your doj intervened to block that accommodation. Mr. Barr, did you discuss either of those cases with the president , yes or no . No. The American People i dont even what two cases are you talking about . Cases in which tell me the name of the cases. I dont know the name of the cases. Where were they . North carolina and alabama. Youll have a chance to comment after your testimony is done here today. The American People have good reason to believe that you will continue to use your authority to carry out the president s wishes to suppress the vote and there are fears you and the president are laying the foundation to interview with the upcoming election to vote by mail because you had false conspiracy theories, mr. Barr can you commit you will not interfere with the decisions o
Hundreds of millions. Where are they going . Todd donald trump sparking a tidal wave of backlash suggesting election day be delay. Jillian the concern over mail in ballots is becoming a major talking point for both campaigns. Jillian they are taking a knee for the National Anthem as the series gets back underway. Jillian the controversial restart. Jillian what you might not know, across the studio, unless i am leaning over the camera i saw a little glimpse of dancing going on. Todd they did not have to see me dance. Jillian good morning, you are watching fox and friends first. Todd thank you for starting your friday with with us. Election day delay . Donald from defending his suggestion to postpone the election citing concerns over mass mail in voting. Jillian lawmakers are divided over the president s comments. Reporter the president had a tweet floating the idea of postponing the election. 2020 will be the most inaccurate and fraudulent election in history, a great embarrassment to t
Bipartisan deal on covid relief may be on the verge of coming together. Welcome to monday. Its meet the press daily. Im kasie hunt. We begin today with yet another new and dire warning from the nations top Infectious Disease expert. Youd expect that the effect of the thanksgiving surge would be probably another week from now. The problem is thats going to come right up to the beginning of the christmas hanukkah potential surge. So you have a surge upon a surge, so if those two things happen and we dont mitigate well, we dont listen to the Public Health measures that we need to follow, then we could start to see things really get bad in the middle of january without substantial mitigation, the middle of january can be a really dark time for us. That warning, the that january could be a dark time is more ominous when you consider where we stand. More than 16,000 americans have died since i last hosted this show one week ago. 16,000 people. The 7day average of new cases nationwide is appr
New developments on a number of controversies around the n. F. L. The league launched an effort to deal with the issue of Domestic Violence, former Baltimore Ravens ray rice is said to file an appeal of his suspension. Michael eaves has more. Rice has until midnight tomorrow to enter his appeal. As of now, he has not done so. The n. F. L. Nor the Players Association has made an announcement pertaining to the appeal. While the legal waits for it, the commissioner continues to address the evolving Domestic Violence protocols. Reporter one day after banners flew over two stadiums demanding Roger Goodells stadium an advise Christopher Gibson board has been announced. Lisa freel, jane randall and rita smith will help to lead and shape n. F. L. s policies relating to Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. Freel was the head of the Sex Crimes Unit for a decade. Randall is the cofounder of no more, a campaigner against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, and smith former director of a coaliti
That does it for us. Early start begins now. Gun control on the table. The Vice President s task force gets down to business bringing in the nra for the meeting. Responding to the backlash. Brent musburgers bosses apologizing for his on air comments about the football stars beauty queen girlfriend. Balloon ride from hell. A camera is rolling as a Wedding Partys sky high tour takes a terrifying turn. They crashed. On their wedding day. Good morning, welcome to early start. Happy to have you with us. It is january 9th, 5 00 a. M. In the east. And at the white house today, the National Rifle Association Face to face on guns and gun control. Actually thats tomorrow. Nra confirming it will meet with Vice President and its gun Violence Project tomorrow. But they dont sound excited about it. Putting out a statement that reads were sending a rep to hear what they have to say. Listen to the response from the president s spokesman. We look forward to hearing from a variety of organizations and c