over difficult proportions. fox and friends first friday continues right now. todd: the last two weeks off the chain when it comes to 80s hard rock going into the show. jillian: i was expecting a song because we talked todd: nothing gets you riled up like cranberries. who is trying to rock? jillian: i was thinking of that. good morning. todd: glad we are talking. jillian: i don t even know it. good morning. you are watching fox and friends first on friday morning. todd: i am todd piro. alejandra mayorkas will join the migrant facility in donna, texas. jillian: we are learning new numbers how many children are in hhs custody. reporter: a lot of them, good morning. the fourth visit to the border. unlike last month extra to el paso, they are holding a press conference at the donna facility is the secretary says the goal is family reunification. we are focused on reuniting the families. that is the justice we are focused on achieving right now. reporter: this after
are being held hostage. two law enforcement officials are telling cnn investigators believe the hostage-taker may have been motivated by a desire to free a woman serving an 86-year sentence at a facility near this synagogue in texas. sedeki was convicted more than a decade ago in 2010 on attempted murder and armed assault on a u.s. officer, multiple u.s. officers in afghanistan. that is the latest developments. the white house is monitoring the situation in colleyville, texas. police there are asking the public to stay away from the area even as law enforcement agencies step up security at synagogues and jewish establishments all across the country. first let s begin with my colleague ed lavandara, you have been reporting on your drive there. you just arrived in the last hour, you can update us, are they making progress? do they know the state of the hostages? reporter: well, from our vantage point here, we re a little more than a quarter mile away from the synagogue. you m
i m erica hill. welcome to cnn newsroom. i m victor blackwell. breaking news. the january 6 committee just subpoenaed donald trump. this historic move stems from their investigation into the attack on the u.s. capitol. cnn received a copy of the panel s letter and subpoena moments ago. the committee voted unanimously to compel trump to testify under oath and provide documents about his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. if the former president fights the subpoena the court battle could outlast the committee s mandate. cnn justice correspondent evan perez and political correspondent sara murray joining us now. evan, what is the committee saying here? the subpoena is demanding the former president produce documents by november 4th. this is everything related to his effort to overturn the 2020 election results. they re asking also for him to appear for a deposition on november 14th app nd to provide testimony to the committee. that could go beyond that single day accor
conventional, he said going forward his program is the only program allowed in this country. competing programs are not allowed anymore. they re illegitimate, they re dangerous, a threat to the republic itself. joe biden declared that his political opponents are enemies of the state, terrorists, in fact, comparable to al qaeda on 9/11. now biden and harris said this. they didn t say it in private, grousing bidderly to aides in the oval office, they said it in public on television, and didn t flinch as they did. so you have to think about the implications of this. the united states is a two-party political system. has for our whole lifetime. if the leader of one party, who happens to be the president, redefines the other party, not as a political party, but as criminal organization, what is he doing? of course he s demanding a one-party state. that s what biden is doing. he s using federal law enforcement to make it happen. so the question is, how is he getting away with it? h
kim jong-un s planned and very rare trip to russia. what it could mean to ukraine, and what a former american four star general makes of that and other key developments in the par. plus, is it passover already? the exodus is on from the burning man desert, where tens of thousands have been stranded by a plague of mud. good evening. john berman here in for anderson. we begin this labor day evening with a picnic, presidential politics, and polling. they all came together in new hampshire. several republican candidates stumping at the same picnic, and new polling that s no picnic for all but donald trump. it matters, the experts say, because now is when voters really start paying attention. and this is attention getting. trump now has the race nearly to himself. 59% report support from republicans. his nearest rival, ron desantis, now 46 points behind. as for a potential trump-biden matchup in the general election, it s 40-39 and a large number, 17%, undied. head to head wit