skate in. the rest of us have to go home because eugene has upstage us all. congratulations of the further review. you re all separately great friends of mine and i love that this has come together so beautifully. we will be watching tomorrow and every weekend. congratulations and i will see while later. thank you. have a good night, ali. good morning to all of. u.s. saturday the 13th. i m ali velshi. we are two days away now from the iowa republican caucuses. the first in the nation khamenei to contest that kicks off the 2024 election season. caucuses, as you may know, originally from that old school political tradition that demands that participants physically attend the meeting in order to participate. caucus goers have to sign in, they report to the respective precincts on monday night. beginning at seven pm, local time, representatives for each candidate to brief speeches in each case caucus candidate for choice in a secret ballot. there s no early voting, ther
hello, i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. i want to get right to the breaking news we re following this morning. donald trump arriving just moments ago at a manhattan courthouse for the closing arguments in his multimillion dollar civil fraud trial, and he spoke just before going into the courtroom. there is high tension this morning because trump has suggested he could challenge the judge who has barred him from speaking during closing arguments. another big development, a threat we re following, law enforcement responding to a reported bomb threat at the judge s house this morning. a source with direct knowledge tells nbc news. i want to get right to our yasmin vossoughian joining us from outside the courthouse in lower manhattan. and also with us, former u.s. attorney barbara mcquade and criminal defense attorney danny cevallos. we just saw trump speaking before heading into the courtroom saying, you know, it s not fair that the judge won t let him speak at closing a
where he ll finally experience consequences for some of his actions. next week, tuesday, marks the beginning of the second e. jean carroll defamation trial. news on that later on. but first things first, developments ahead of closing arguments. tomorrow in new york s $250 million civil fraud lawsuit. the judge revealed he would not allow donald trump to deliver part of those closing arguments himself as he had requested. the reasoning, neither trump nor his attorneys ever got back to the judge agreeing to preconditions. in truth, it is hard to imagine what trump wanted more, an opportunity to put himself at the center of proceedings to deliver his message in his own way, or an opportunity like this, to complain, whine about being silenced, despite the fact his own team failed to respond to the judge on time. remember, in both cases, e. jean carroll s defamation and new york s civil fraud, trump s guilt has already been determined. these decisions will only settle the punish.
january 10th, 2024. this is the 6:00 a.m. hour of fox & friends eastern time. coming up, 2,000 high school students here in new york city forced to go remote today because their classrooms are being taken over by migrants. ainsley: plus, florida s governor ron desantis making this prediction about iowa during last night s fox news town hall. we re going to do well here. i think iowa rewards the intensive approach where you are showing up in 99 counties. brian: he did do just that talk about a super commuter, a journalist who works in new york city pays less to live in ohio and travel to work than it would to rent an apartment in new york city like a shoebox by the way. ainsley: i believe it. brian: in manhattan. i commuted to d.c. this morning as a personal experiment while steve and ainsley insisted on staying in new york city. fox & friends, according to reports starts and i think i remember right now and just also keep this in mind, mornings are better with f
and welcome to morning joe: weekend. let s dive right into the week s top stories. let s begin this morning with a new report from house democrats that alleges the first two years of donald trump s presidency. his family business received seven point $8 million from foreign governments. democrats on the republican-led house oversight committee yesterday released the findings of an investigation that began back in 2016 into violations of the constitution s foreign cause. the report finds from 2017, to 2019 alone, trump s businesses received at least seven point $8 million from 24 in governments. most of that money? according to the report came from china! whose government allegedly paid more than five and a half million dollars to rent out trump s own properties during that time. the government of saudi arabia where, trump visited on his first foreign trip as president paid his business is more than $600,000. the. information stems from documents obtained from the trump s fo