Brian its 8 00 a. M. On the east coast, it is friday, march 1, no longer leaping into the new year. This is fox. The funeral for Alexei Navalny is underway as Vladamir Putin threatens Nuclear Action in the west. Ainsley two border visits with the current president slamming the former one. Come to to being and this is a war zone, they view it as a war zone and mexico is doing nothing to help us. Ainsley lawrence is live in brownsville, after President Biden visited that area. Steve and Hunter Bidens transcript has been released. He admits he put his dad on Speaker Phone. Mark levine will join us by satellite. Brian remember for the last time, i cant keep telling you this, your mornings are better because you are with friends. Ance start with a fox news alert. The funeral for Alexei Navalny just concluded. Brian the russian Opposition Leader is being laid to rest. Heavy Police Presence in the area. Steve alex hogan is live in our european newsroom with the latest. There is a lot of quest
that democrats have closed the enthusiasm gap with voters less than three months before they cast their ballots. 66% of democrats expressing a high level of interest in midterm races compared to 68% of republicans with the surge of the democratic side attributed at least in part to anger over the supreme courts reversal of roe v. wade, also factoring in to the midterm picture. the web of investigation that appears to be tightening around former president donald trump. nearly three and five americans pulled by nbc news saying that those investigations into trump s alleged wrongdoing should continue after the fbi raid of the florida estate. and the revelation that it was related to possible espionage violations. of course, all of this new data is about to be field tested in a pair of state primaries tuesday. when in florida, when in new york, whose base comes out more energized ahead of november. we will be watching. alaska not one, but two state wide candidates in trump racist
even top secret. the revelation that the search was part of a federal investigation into possible espionage violations has launched us into uncharted political territory. trump enablers that once called down the swiftest punishment for democrats facing they are facing now state and federal probes. they are either complying with them or forced to. and the party of both law and order has largely signaled that it is not but rather democrats and the biden justice department should trump supporters execute any of the violent threats against the fbi that have search online since the raid during which time a pennsylvania man was arrested for threatening to kill agents last week. while a january 6th and selection assist, armed with a semi automatic weapon, actually attacked and fbi field officer in ohio. and it appears that for a biden administration is still prosecuting and insurrection, and now watching extremist threats to law enforcement explode on social media and play out
good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, there are tapes. cnn learning that some trump allies are urging him to publicly release surveillance footage of fbi agents searching his mar-a-lago home. we don t know what is on the tapes or not on the tapes. the footage has been held so close to the vest that a source close to the president tells cnn they re not sure if trump himself has even seen the whole thing. now, trump s son, eric, has been happy to talk about it, saying they re ready for the whole world to see the tapes. you still have the surveillance tape, is that correct? are you allowed to share that with the country? absolutely, sean, at the right time. absolutely, at the right time. well, the context here is we are awaiting a key decision on the mar-a-lago search. in just hours, the judge who approved the fbi search of mar-a-lago is holding a hearing, and the hearing is specifically on the merits of unsealing the affidavit. that was the affidavit that wa
unsealed by the justice department. among those documents, the search warrant and property receipt of once the fbi was after, both obtained by nbc, and confirming an investigation into potential crimes associated with violations of the espionage act. after the agency removed nearly two dozen boxes of material, 11 sets of qualified documents, some of them top secret. were removed from trump s mar-a-lago office six days ago. two months after a trump lawyer signed a letter saying all classified material had been returned to the government. that is according to new reporting from the new york times, citing four sources familiar with the letter. regardless, over the last week, their response from republican politicians has ranged from uncritical solidarity with trump, to an increasingly marked silence, as the depth of the implication becomes too extreme to dance around. of course, that hasn t stopped many from trying, as some republican lawmakers continue to demonize federal law e