will: good morning. welcome to fox & friends . has the navy band s northeast ceremonial band hanging out with us on fox square pretty much all weekend long here as welcome you in and extend your memorial day weekend through monday. joey, you here on monday? joey: i am. and so much discipline, so much respect for what these guys have gone through over there. they stop on a dime the. [laughter] standing there at attention, really impressed by that. i can t carry a tune in a bucket, as we say in georgia, so very impressed by the band. rachel: yeah, love that. i played the clarinet badly. will: i played the recorder. remember that? everybody played the recorder. rachel: i ve always been jealous of people who have a musical a tall lent. god didn t give me that gift. joey: i m still looking for the gifts god gave maine president biden and speaker mccarthy coming to a tentative agreement to lift the debt ceiling last night. here s what the speaker had to say about it. i j
good day, i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. the defense with its final chance to keep alec murdaugh out of prison on murder charges. his lawyer picking apart the prosecution s theory about why he would have killed his wife and son and accusing state police of faking the evidence, the very latest from south carolina as we get close to jury deliberations. plus, president biden heading back to his old stomping grounds on capitol hill this hour, his mission and his message focused squarely on keeping democrats in charge in 2024. and as if delays and cancellations aren t enough to worry about, multiple cases of weapons trying to be smuggled to planes, a near collision, dangerous turbulence, the latest worries for an already exhausted flying public, more on the search for answers and for someone to fix this mess coming up. but, we begin at the alec murdaugh double murder trial. the defense had e wrapped up its closing arguments on an emotional note.
you can see the piece on the bottom of it. that is the piece that gathers the intelligence for this what loan. we ve known about this being in the skies over our country illegally for several days at least. some say going back months. so far, we have not done anything to impede this balloon from collecting surveillance over the country even though it s of clear violation of u.s. airspace. no word from the president of the united states at 3:00 eastern time. we ve known about this since last night really. twice now he has avoided shouted questions. watch this. mr. president, when will you remove the balloon? when and how will you remove the balloon, mr. president? [question inaudible] are you worried about the balloon? martha: apparently not worried about the balloon as he walks across the lawn there. we know that it launched this instrument from china. you can see on that quick animation. maybe we can play it again from mainland china. now it has hovered over montana, h
engaging in the anti-catholic, anti-christian mockery. t it s just too much, rachel. and, again, if people want to the help, he can go to catholic vote.org and make a contribution. our ad campaign will start next week. the dodgers have is until june 16th to decide do they want to continue honoring, celebrating, holding this group in esteemsome the their motto, go and sin some more, no american should be celebrating this group. rachel: why do you think the dodgers i mean, i m sure you ve thought about this before launching this campaign. why do you think the dodgers are engaging in this? it s in los angeles, such a large i m so glad to hear that you re doing spanish radio ads as well. hispanics, catholics deeply offended by this. why would they do this? you know, it does beg the question, is it the dodgers ownershipsome certainly, the buck stops with them. but you have a lot of times these woke employees that don t understand that there s a whole segment in america that doesn t b
we deserve it. i m not sure how much either side s really solid base is going to be affected one way or another, but for that middle, who s got the stronger argument? yeah, well, to those republicans, i think the kids would say cry more, right? republicans are coming up against an administration that has been remarkably successful from creating more jobs to an infrastructure package, to trying to lower student loan debt to addressing the price of prescription drugs, and so up against that, republicans really cannot argue, chris, about the economy and about the president s accomplishments, so they have grabbed on to a very powerful culture war issue, largely around empowering parents and education in the classroom and this radical, woke ageneral agenda as republicans call it. i would suggest in 18 and 20 and 22, we saw republicans go too far trying to create that