Between former President Trump and special counsel jack smith. A short time ago, the federal judge overseeing trumps election case responded to a court filing from smith theres night. Smith is seek a protective order after trump posted this yesterday evening, saying, quote, if you go after me, im coming after you. Smith is pointing to that message and asking the judge in the case to set limits on trump and his legal team when it comes to publicly discussing sensitive evidence and the judge has given the trump team until 5 00 p. M. This sunday to respond. Just this afternoon, lawyers asked a judge for more time to weigh in on what restrictions should be imposed. Joining us now to discuss, democratic congresswoman Veronica Escobar of texas. Thanks for joining. When you saw these words that trump wrote in that threatening post, what did you think of that . What was your concern there . Well, good afternoon, jim. It was as predicted. I mean, i knew he would not be able to help himself. He
speaker has been brian now changing his story after a prosecutor found blood and a knife in the family s basement. there s a slew of red flags here. i want to thank president biden for giving us this opportunity. pacing the presidents border policy. meeting with president lopez obrador after visiting the southern border the first time. it s a photo up. hamlin set to the next phase of his discovery, jumping around watching the bills. i m a little bit country i m a little bit rock n roll brian: i think this is the first time they sang the song. they went on to be a variety show and the famous family. anyone who says they meet in osman, you always hear about how nice they are. and marie will be here in 15 minutes. steve: the last time donny osmond was here, he wanted to knock me off the couch. it was the sound guy s idea. go grab steve and drag him off the couch. ainsley: do we have video that? i d like to see it. brian: where is donny now? ha
i m here to tell you guys, republicans will not impact defense spending aside from efficiencies, waste. it s the domestic spending that we re going to go after. neil: all right. back to business or are we back to business? you re looking live at the capitol where the next big vote is about to go down on a lot of those promises that kevin mccarthy made as lawmakers set the rules for the new congress. we re all over it with aishah hasnie on what s at stake and bob good who helped lead the fight against kevin mccarthy to get the kind of relief that he wants to see right now. the only question is, will he see it? he s coming up. delighted to have him. welcome. delighted to have you. i m neil cavuto. let s get to it. aishah hasnie on promises made and now whether they can be delivered, i guess, right, aishah? right. hey, good afternoon to you, kneel. i just caught up with representative nancy mace who you know just yesterday was still on the fence on this house rules package
we know that at least 10 have been confirmed dead. officials are warning us that that number will likely be higher. significant damage i saw was on fort myers beach there have been more than 700 confirmed rescues and likely many more than that. ainsley: florida s governor ron desantis there. he is going to have a press conference today at 8:45 a.m. with an update on ian and we will bring you that live. these before and after photos are showing the extent of the damage down in fort myers. a crew is being enforced is being enforced there to prevent all of the looting. brian: that s sad to think people would be thinking about florida. 2 million people still have no power. team coverage this morning trying to cover it all. it s not easy. meteorologist adam klotz is standing by with ian s latest track. robert ray is live in fort myers with a look at the damage. robert? good morning. as we are starting to see the beginnings of sunlight on this friday, which normally would
down, you have trees that are down, you have a lot of hazards right now. we do anticipate a lot of the water will subside in some of the barrier islands, in some of the coasts, but some of those inland places off rivers and off these inlets, you know, you re likely to have standing water there throughout all of today and even in the days ahead. so that is a hazard and just please be aware that that is something that you if you weathered the storm to this point, going and doing and getting involved in that is just totally not worth it, and we want to minimize any harm to anybody as a result of what we re seeing right now in the streets. we have had 26 states provide support. we really appreciate that. it s going to be put to use. this is i don t think we ve ever seen an effort mobilized for this many rescues this quickly. but we appreciate it and we will make good use of it. we want people to be safe. those who have who are in need of life support right now, help is on t