greg: yes, it s friday and you know what that means, huh? i really have to go to the bathroom. but i m not. i m going to wait until it s over. let s welcome tonight s guests. this early bird sure is special, fox and friends first cohost carley shimkus! [cheers and applause] greg: believe it or not, he s the only guy on the show tonight named hotep, youtube host hotep jesus! [cheers and applause]. greg: he looks like the guy who came to cut down your trees. comedian jim florentine! [cheers and applause] greg: and, finally, she s the first author to weigh less than her book, fox news contributor kat timpf! [cheers and applause] greg: all right. yeah, lively bunch tonight. okay, before we get to some new stories it s friday. so let s do this. greg leftovers. greg: yeah, it s leftovers where i read the jokes we didn t use this week and as always it s my first time reading these, so if they suck we ll just chemically castrate joe mackey. not that it would make a
extraordinary effort to reassure americans that the u.s. banking system is safe plus, poland is set to become the first country to send fighter jets to ukraine. it comes amid new reporting that china s leader will visit russia next week. those new developments are also straight ahead. and donald trump goes off on a frenzied defense amid a series of investigations. we will have the latest on the probes involving the former president. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, march 17th happy st. patrick s day. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. in the words of cnbc, wall street rides to the rescue 11 of the country s largest banks are depositing a total of $30 billion to first republic bank to avoid a third collapse of the u.s. bank in less than a week first republic serves a similar clientele as silicon valley bank and signature bank, both of which failed in recent days. those banks had a high number of uninsured deposits as d
Last friday, the dutch, the dutch government collapsed. this after they couldn t agree on splitting a check for lunch. i know, it s stupid, but should i explain it for people who are under 40 what dutch used to mean. you know what it means, kat. [laughter]. greg: a new jersey couple stole $91,000 from a youth soccer club to pay for a trip to disney world. yeah, like 91 grand would cover it. [laughter] greg: after an e learning i can reaction to smoking while on anti biotics an ohio man s tongue turned green and hairy. doctors say they haven t seen a tongue this green since ms piggy and kermit went to third base. yeah. where do you think her hand is
Iowa and penn state rolled over number 7 texas a&m if your bracket is busted just halfway through the first round, you are certainly not alone. after yesterday s contests concluded the march madness twitter account posted that only 787 brackets of unspecified millions remained perfect. espn s tournament challenge only 658 perfect brackets remained with 20 million getting at least one of the 16 games wrong. in a yahoo sports only 23 perfect brackets still survived. according to ncaa.com the longest verifiable streak of correct picks to start the tournament is 49 49 chosen by an ohio man back in 2019 so here is a look at where things stand right now, the madness resumes this afternoon, there is your bracket, i will say my final four remains intact for the moment time for the weather and let s go to meteorologist bill karins for the forecast.
Six teenagers are kill and two others injured in a single car accident in warner, ohio. police say a honda suv went off the road around 7:00 this morning, hit a guardrail and then rolled of near a pond. divers were called in to help rescue the injured. police say it looked like the car was overloaded and no one was wearing a seat belt. a federal jury has granted one of the largest civil rights ver doikts an ohio man who spent 11 years in prison for a crime he didn t commit. david aers was awarded $13.2 million for wrongful prosecution and imprisonment. the 56-year-old former security officer was freed in 2011 after dna tests cleared him in the killing of a 76-year-old woman at the public housing complex where he worked. he talked about what it felt like when he finally got his freedom. i was in tear it is. i was just crying because, i