grilled republican fbi director is there evidence for their allegations i will ask the republican former u.s. attorney who recommended him for the job of presidential candidate chris christie joins us. later ray apps the 6th protests are now in hiding after right-wing media painted him as an fbi so we have a lot of plant. his people taking, ship attorney joins me to talk about the obviously no one is lawsuit they ve just flying into out of chicago right now filed against fox news. and the good, evening the breaking news incoming threat for starts us off tonight. new tornadoes. and again, word that another top state these two areas circled out election official has spoken with federal prosecutors in connection with former presidents efforts to overturn the election. she is jocelyn benson, michigan secretary of state. she now joins her georgia counterpart, brad raffensperger, former arizona republican lawmaker, rusty bowers, and to nevada republican party officials, in talkin
that does it for us on this friday morning, ana cabrera picks up the coverage right now. happy friday. so glad you are with us. it s 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york, and it may be friday, but there s still a lot of news this morning, including big economic shifts. we just got the april jobs report, and instead of the decline economists expected, unemployment numbers ticked down. the unemployment rate is 3.4%. jobs were added, many more than expected. that is some good news, but with interest rate hikes, banking turmoil, layoffs, and store closures, how do you assess the state of the u.s. economy? former new orleans mayor mitch landrieu who s also a senior adviser to president biden will join us. plus, a judge could hand down a record sentence for a january 6th rioter today. how long that defendant could spend behind bars. and we re following reaction to the historic verdicts against members of the proud boys. what does it all reveal about the
ray epps, the january 6th protester targeted by january six conspiracy theorists who falsely claimed he then president trump look bad. fox news ran with that story, and epps is now suing the channel, accusing former fox coast host tucker carlson of ers no comment yet from carlson or fox news and in the lawsuit filed today, epps s legal team writes in the aftermath of the events of january six, fox news search for a scapegoat to blame other than donald trump or the republican party. eventually, they turned on one of their own. ray epps is living in hiding after receiving death threats. in a moment i will talk with his attorney. but first, a look at how we got to this point. rapes talk to my 60 minutes colleague, bill whitaker. here s a clip from that april report. what exactly was the role of reyes in the chaos of january 6th? the theory, epps, a former member of the oath keepers, was an fbi informant who incited the crowd on january 6th bubbled up from a right-wing news site ca
prosecution of extremist groups moving forward? well, i think that merrick garland started his career in some sense with the bombing that killed all those people in oklahoma. he s been at this for a very long time in his heart, and i think that he takes this stuff very, very seriously, and i think he s going to continue to pursue this until the end of the cases to be made. and we ll see if he then switches gears to the organizers, the people who raised the money, who incited the crowd by speech without being there, and the prosecution and conviction of tarrio, the guy who wasn t there at the time is a good portend of their capacity to convince a jury that you don t have to be on the ground to be criminally liable. katherine, let s turn to the series of legal entanglements surrounding former president donald trump, where there are a number of headlines this morning