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this is fox & friends. phone a frenemy. president biden speaking with chinese president xi yesterday did. they talk about the massive surge of chinese migrants illegally entering our country with roller bags? ainsley: new polling shows trump is leading in six out of seven battle ground states and the former president has this message to joe biden. calling on crooked joe to debate any time any place we will do it anywhere you want, joe. steve: okay, joe. did you see this crazy video of a kid getting carried away blown across that courtyard? that s a person. amazingly, after that, they were okay. but would not do that again, ever. lawrence: fox & friends starts right now. and, remember, mornings are better with friends. all right, on this wednesday morning we start with this fox news alert. at least 7 people are dead and more than 700 hurt after a super powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake rocked the island of taiwan. ainsley: it is the strongest earthquake t ....
lifestyle. also ahead, the star-studded event with an obama cameo. how a state dinner for kenya became a showcase for the allies who president biden is keeping close during the heat of the campaign season. plus, they were bitter rivals, but is donald trump warming to the thought of nikki haley on his team? also could he be reading too much into her comment that she would vote for him. and the memorial day rush is on. what you need to know if you re planning to skip town for the weekend. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. we begin with nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian on that hearing for hunter biden. just got a slew of rulings from the judge about what can and cannot be referenced at trial. what can you tell us as this wraps up? reporter: that s right, chris. the hearing does appear to be over now, and the judge worked through a series of motions by the prosecution and the defense to admit or deny cer ....
good morning to our viewer in the united states and around the world. i m kasie hunt. it is wednesday, october 25th. 5:00 a.m. here in washington where we begin another day without a speaker of the house. about seven hours from now the house is scheduled to vote again to try to fix that. so who might the next speaker of the house be? well, you would be forgiven to not recognizing this man, that is 51-year-old mike johnson of louisiana whose relative complete lack of public profile might be exactly why he could become the last man standing. he was picked late last night after a tumultuous day on capitol hill. republicans spent most of the day voting to pick tom emmer as their nominee. and he is not exactly a house house name either, but he served in house leadership before. and that seems to be exactly the problem. emmer was selected as next pick for speaker yesterday around lunchtime, but he was out before dinner. and that was mostly because donald trump knew too much a ....
is you re not the subject of this. i mean it was just a search of every possible location he s connected to. he says you re not the subject to this and what do you know about donald trump? and then there is a ton of documents to suggest what s going on where he s trying to find out information. then he says this could all go away in one week if you just give information, which we know that didn t happen. i mean to your point that he gives bad advice. and that is true that he said that. that s not what happened. it didn t go away in one week. we have to leave it there. thank you very much. we kept talking during the commercial break. we ll try to post the commercial conversations online. the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts now. tonight, dramatic moments as the defense will begin their case. why the judge cleared the courtroom during the clash with the first witness. plus, iran s hard line president is confirmed dead in a helicopter crash. what it means in a r ....
wicked weather this week between heat and rain storms and winds in excess of 100 mile per hour in texas, houston, where at least seven are confirmed dead. and hundreds are still without power. katie, how do things look there now? a new shift of workers have arrived this morning and their work is underway after some cleanup crews worked through the night and they re trying to board up a lot of the shattered windows in some of the downtown high rise office buildings and hotels. and you can see the work is cut out for them and there are a lot of windows they re going to have to take care of, all of this damage, caused by the strength of 100 mile per hour straightline winds that hit right in downtown houston. the cleanup and power restoration efforts are likely to take weeks, not days. more than 500,000 people in harris county here are still waking up in the dark. it s a huge concern as we enter the stretch of 90 degree days coming up. we ve been speaking with a lot of pe ....