no good deed goes unpunished. this 77-year-old toll worker paid a toll of someone short on cash. he was fired. was that fair? let us know. fox & friends begins now. hey everybody. good morning from the heart of new york city. so many kids going to camp this morning. canoeing fire making, all heading out. how about studying hacking? it s the new face of camps for the summer. nsa hacking camp. would you go to that. doesn t sound like the fashion camp or cheer leading camp. big political news if you re just waking up coming back from a foreign country, you may not know the donald trump campaign is in a go this morning. the headline trump is toast. don voyage it says. here s the sound bite that started it all. he s not a war hero. he s a war hero because he was captured. i like people that weren t captured okay. i hate to tell you. he s a war hero because he was captured. okay. i believe perhaps he s a war hero. right now, he said very bad things about a lot
billionaires in a new round of campaign ads. now ads attacking on a carbon tax have been called false and not true. who is behind the attacks? the koch brothers. the billionaire koh brothers. they buy our refinery. just running it into the ground. what s different this time around is the political climate. we re coming off a week when the supreme court knocked down individual campaign spending limits and paul ryan released a budget slashing aid for the poor. the daily beast sums up the gop agenda this way. protecting the well off from redistribution of their wealth to those who don t deserve it. david linker takes it a step further saying the gop course is essentially a reverse course of the gop process which once belonged to only white mail property owners. births the lack of deaf rensz shown to the research. the immrekz being that those at the top of the economic pyramid sdefsh greater public honors and power than they currently enjoy. the washington post jonathan
bloopers. good morning. i m gary tuckman in today for randi kaye. thanks for starting your morning with us. it s 8:00 a.m. eastern time. we start in afghanistan with an american service member has been killed in an unusual attack. apparently there was a misunderstanding between coalition troops and their afghan counterparts and that escalated into much more. there s an unknown number of afghan casualties. now, remember this incident comes just three days after the pentagon lifted the ban on joint patrols. there s a news conference scheduled in kabul later this hour. earlier i spoke to ben farmer in kabul, mup reporter, and asked how unusual it is to have the news conference to soon after an incident like this. reporter: i think it is. these conferences are being held by the deputy commander of the entire coalition, and he is set to make a statement on what happened yesterday evening and then will answer questions. it is unusual for someone so senior to give a press confer
good morning. i m gary tuckman in today for randi kaye. thanks for starting your morning with us. it s 8:00 a.m. eastern time. we start in afghanistan with an american service member has been killed in an unusual attack. apparently there was a misunderstanding between coalition troops and their afghan counterparts and that escalated into much more. there s an unknown number of afghan casualties. now, remember this incident comes just three days after the pentagon lifted the ban on joint patrols. there s a news conference scheduled in kabul later this hour. earlier i spoke to ben farmer in kabul, mup reporter, and asked how unusual it is to have the news conference to soon after an incident like this. reporter: i think it is. these conferences are being held by the deputy commander of the entire coalition, and he is set to make a statement on what happened yesterday evening and then will answer questions. it is unusual for someone so senior to give a press conference after s
the calorie counts at your favorite restaurants? a new study says, nope, not always. good morning. i m alex witt. welcome to msnbc saturday where it s 8:00 a.m. here on the east coast, 5:00 a.m. out west. we have a dramatic twist in the race to lift the debt ceiling. last night republicans walked away from the latest deal. today at the white house both parties will scramble to put together a new proposal. president obama called the 11:00 a.m. meeting with democratic and republican leaders of congress and joining me now nbc white house correspondent mike vicara. mike, good morning. well, finger-pointing, abbing moneyy, and collapse. that s where things stabbed between debt talks and president obama and house speaker john boehner fell apart last night. the question now is ten days out from the deadline, can anything be salvage from those talks in time to avoid a potential financial disaster. reporter: after days of mounting hope for a breakthrough, last night a public bre