welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. this hour, oh, canada. the standing ovation that created scandal for our neighbors to the north. how a roomful of canadian lawmakers got a standing o for a ukrainian veteran who fought for the wrong side in world war ii. after he was found out he fought with the nazis, there was an apology from justin trudeau. look at this video, a night in center city, philadelphia. shocking images of lawlessness, prompting for ing more question basic safety in the cities in the united states. and leading this hour, yes, the election music. you know i love it. a critical night in the republican presidential race. only seven will be allowed on the stage in this second debate instead of eight in the first round. asa hutchinson, the one not making the cut tonight. sorry, governor. the dominant candidate also will not be on stage, donald trump. though that is voluntarily. instead, he s going to michigan with a message for union workers, oddly he s chos
history of athletics the us justice department is saying about its deal to try to close the books on its investigation into the larry nassar s sexual abuse case against girls and women in gymnasts next, we re going to get reaction from the attorney representing the gymnast survivors of larry nassar s abuse, and leaning this our a-major de and the new york city pasha funny cover-up case. a key witness for the prosecutors was back on the stand. his name? david pecker, the former tabloid publisher, and he detailed how he says donald trump used the national so enquirer tabloid to help his 2016 presidential campaign cnn s paula reid has a look now at today s task testimony as former tablet executive pecker went from killing damaging stories about trump to spilling all on the witness stand. former national enquirer publisher, david pecker, back on the witness stand today, where he shared details of his decades-long friendship with donald trump and how he eventually used his posit
stress that thing that he did not interfere while refusing to answer specifics about these ongoing investigations. john jim jorda n pressed on why it took so long for david weiss to be named special counsel. garland just appointed him special counsel last month even though the investigation has been ongoing for years. here s the exchange with jim jordan. after five years what stage are we in, beginning, middle, keep hiding the ball stage? i would go back to the videotape where i said i m not permitted to discuss ongoing investigations. isn t that convenient. something changed from july 10th to august 11th. i think it s two brave whistleblowers came forward and the judge called bs on the deal you try to pass. the attorney general never said what led to the ultimate appointment of the special counsel but he insisted throughout this process, weiss was never given limits. there was one republican that did seem to come to garland s defense somewhat, it was colorado republi
and we had standards of what he would accept and not. and that process intensified. we had very intense negotiations in doha. and we re grateful to qatar and oman for helping in this. and when the arrangement came together on terms that we could accept, the president made the difficult but right decision to move ahead. one of the we had an activist on earlier in the show who expressed concern that this only incentivizes hostage taking by governments such as irans. there is no question that president biden with a statement just three days ago on the anniversary of the death of mahsa amini about the support for the rafrn why not people. and at the height of the protests last year, about one this three were using anti-censorship stools stools united states. and we see an opportunity to bring home five american citizens and as you said, in the case of simak namazi, he was in prison for five years. sharghi the same amount of time. and iran really gain no benefit. there are n
fox and friends site, click on it. third hour of fox and friends about to start right now. the sun is shining and so are you. dry your tears and hold tight, i have news for you. the sun is shining and so are you. carley: live thea a jam-packed sixth avenue, flooding the streets of new york city to watch the macy s thanksgiving day parade. kids are excited. parents are happy and everybody celebrating thanksgiving today. good morning, happy thanksgiving to you all. you are watching fox and friends on this very special thursday morning. lawrence, joey. lawrence: you can feel the love, look at the ki kids that are excited. parents are excited. baby yoda will be there, paw patrol. carley: one of the floats? lawrence: one of the floats, they bought it two years ago. is that your favorite float? lawrence: my favorite float. carley: i like the pillsbury dough boy. joey: i think i do like baby yoda. carley: does your daughter get excited about the activity?