Ainsley good morning, 7 00 a. M. On the east coast. It is wednesday, september 25th, this is Fox Friends. We start with a Fox News Alert. A Brand New report outlines the secret Services Failures in butler, pennsylvania. Including that one secret Service Agent who had to call a 1800 number with questions about the drone he was using to protect the president. Senator Rand Paul is here with his committees findings. Plus, Vice President Kamala Harris talks on the Economy Today as fellow democrats Nancy Pelosi tries to defend the vps vague plans. I get that she is from middle Class Family but what about here are the five things im going to do directly for you. Dolls she need to be doing more than that . People like to have a connection to whoever is running for office. Steve all about running for connections. Meanwhile, shear a healthy connection. Making America Healthy again. Jillian michaels was just on Capitol Hill and joins us on the curvy couch this wednesday morning. Her laptop find o
indication yet that investigators remain skeptical that trump has been fully cooperative in their efforts to recover documents the former president was supposed to have turned over to the national archives at the end of his term. here s how team trump responded to brat according to the new york times reporting. the outreach from the department prompted a rift among trump s lawyers about how to respond, one camp counseling a cooperative approach that would include bringing in an outside firm to conduct a further search for documents. and another camp advising trump to maintain a more combative posture. the more combative camp, the people briefed on the matter said, won out. to put all this in perspective. after months of pleading by the national archives, a subpoena from the department of justice back in may, a court-approved search of president trump s private golf club and residents which yielded 11,000 government documents, all in all, a process that has now gone on for m
Good afternoon, so good to be with you. Im jose diazbalart in for katy tur. This is just the beginning. It has been a historic day inside the manhattan courthouse. Both sides completed their Opening Statements in Donald Trumps criminal Hush Money Trial. The prosecution, Zeroing In On Donald Trumps alleged attempts to interfere with the 2016 election saying they have receipts that prove the former president , quote, covered up a criminal experience by lying in his new York Business records over and over and over again. Now, the defense meanwhile says that former president simply didnt do anything wrong. Quote, theres nothing wrong with trying to influence an election, todd blanche told jurors, its called democracy. We heard from our first witness in the trial. Trumps long time friend and former ceo of the National Enquirer, david pecker, a man at the center of the alleged scheme to bury claims from women who say they had affairs with donald trump. Well tell you what he said and what his
very outstanding presidential record. that s not the reception that trump is used to receiving. the former president was boo d and heckled saturday at the libertarian national convention. we ll have more from that event in just a moment. plus, the latest on a bipartisan show of support for taiwan. a group of u.s. lawmakers visiting the island days after its new president took office. and we bring you a live look at arlington national cemetery in virginia, where a memorial day ceremonies will get underway in a few hours from now. good morning, welcome to msnbc s live coverage on this monday, may 27th. it is indeed memorial da thank you for being with us. we have lots of in touz bring news to bring you over the next couple hours. polls showing a tight race for the white house, donald trump made a pitch to libertarian voters over the weekend who were less than enthused to hear from the former president. without further ado, i would like to welcome to the stage, the 4
Announced his president , which David Pecker met at Trump Tower with Michael Cohen, and Donald Trump, to find stories that may come out before the 2016 election, salacious ones like the ones of Stormy Daniels, purchased the stories and ensured their silence so that they never got to the public before the 2016 election. And then in 2017, that Donald Trump knowingly was reimbursing Michael Cohen for that 130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels. The prosecution made it clear theyre going to have a litany of witnesses from Stormy Daniels to Michael Cohen himself. David pecker, he took the stand for just over 30 minutes. He is expected on the stand tomorrow. On the other hand, the defense laid it out in a different way. Starting out right at the top with the declaration that Donald Trump committed no crime, and you may hear a salacious story from the likes of Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels who Donald Trumps defense made clear that