mcenany, here with my co-host emily compagno, fox business anchor and co-host of the bottom line, dagen mcdowell, and cheryl casone and fox and friends weekend s pete hegseth. we are live outside the federal courthouse in birmingham, alabama. jonathan. jonathan: hi, joran van der sloot was brought to the federal courthouse you see behind me, earlier this morning. we expect the arraignment to get underway momentarily, will joran van der sloot will answer the federal charges of wire fraud and extortion. legal experts are expecting he will plead not guilty, in which case this case will go to trial, possibly within a year or maybe a little bit later. the charges stem from allegations dating back to 2010, when joran van der sloot allegedly approached natalee holloway s mother telling the missing woman s mother that he would reveal the location of her daughter s body in exchange for a quarter of million dollars. after receiving a down payment of $25,000 joran van der sloot pr
hi, nicolle. i only ask of you one thing, and we make no predictions. i just ask that you don t go on vacation or stay near your phone or facetime and broadcasting abilities, okay? i feel like the whole summer is potentially hazardous for vacation planning. i haven t totally broken this until this moment on live tv to my family but i feel like between jack smith and willis it s dicey. to your family and everyone, we say, that s a little bit of personal breaking news. good to see you, nicolle. have a good show. thank you. our thanks to our colleague nicolle. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. while we try to do it all with good spirit, ace mentioned, there is a lot going on. facts and precise aspects of what we know, because we don t know everything and don t know the future. here s something i know, it will be a pretty packed broadcast. donald trump s number one aide during the insurrection in the classified documents handover, chief of staff mark meadows just w
state senator roman guterres of the impact it could have on his state and country. and frank floozy on the far-right s rush to push violence incidents as a false flag. why it is so when dangerous and what else is going on. later, what we learned about the case manhattan d.a. plans to bring against the former president. this is american voices. we begin this hour in texas where the state house led by republicans voted to impeach republican attorney general ken paxton. that vote coming just over an hour ago. here is the moment when it happened. of all members voted. 121 knows, and the resolution is adopted. paxton has been defending himself, i guess you can call it that. listen to what one republican said on the floor during the hearing. i would like to point out that several members of this house, while on the floor of this house, doing the state business, received telephone calls from general paxton, personally threatening them with political consequences in their nex
america. the president saying today s gop is, quote, dominated, driven, and intimidated by maga republicans. we ll have complete political and historical analysis of his address to the nation. plus, the latest developments in the investigation of former president trump s mishandling of classified documents, as another conservative legal voice predicts trump will be indicted. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is friday, september 2nd. with us, we have u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay with us. the host of way to early, white house bureau chief at politico and the author of the big lie, jonathan lemire. pulitzer prize-winning columnist at the washington post, eugene robinson. and nbc news presidential historian, michael beschloss joins us this morning. glad to have you all. so much to talk about. jonathan lemire, i must start with you. it is like secretariat at the kentucky derby in 1973. starts out slow and then, boom, takes off. i kn
understand about january 6th and the conspiracy, the plan to carry out a coup. the hearing centered around the explosive testimony of a single witness, 25-year-old cassidy hutchinson. she s a trump white house aide who did what so many of her colleagues and her bosses, including her direct boss, chief of staff mark meadow have so far refused to do. she told the truth. she cooperated with the panel having sat for four taped interviews before today s testimony. this afternoon in public she made it clear that the brutal unsparing violence that took place at the united states capitol was not just something unexpected, something that got out of hand, as many in the republican party would want you to believe. it was part of a planned, premeditated coup attempt. hutchinson testified that the white house was fully aware that january 6th could turn violent before that day. they let it happen anyway. chief of staff mark meadows was told on the morning of the 6th that the attendees for