Alone can fix it. The authors detail the concerns ofhe army general mark milley about an attempted coup in our country. Saying he told his closest deputies, they may try, but they re not going to, expletive, succeed. You can t do it without the military and the fbi and cia. We re the guys with the guns. And the exchange between nancy pelosi and mark milley. Pelosi reminded milley of the oath he swore to the constitution, and asked for him to review precautions for preventing an unstable presideni from initiating a nuclear strike. He said, i guarantee you have we checks and balances, and i guarantee you these processes are very good. Ar there s not going to be an accidental firing of nuclear weapons. There s also important news tonight about the ongoing story of our time, the pandemic. What was supposed to be our summer of recovery now appears in someow places to be turning intoes a race to get ahead of t surge in new cases. Ur this is being fueled by the rapidly spreading delta variant
ready and prepared and early, good morning, you are watching fox and friends first on this thursday morning. jillian: why don t we do that? let s start here, announcing a plan to away four justices to the supreme court. republicans are furious calling the court packing move the power grab. griff jenkins joins us outside the high court with what we know about the democrats plan. reporter: i think they call that jumping the gun and that might be what the democrats are doing because president biden just ordered 36 person 6-month commission to study packing the courts but it seems the democrats here who will be here later today on the steps of the high court to unveil their legislation to do just that, pack the court, led by jerry nadler and johnson and jones. the legislation would add four justices bringing the total from 9 to 13. currently the nine, six conservatives, brett cavanagh, neil gorsuch, thomas, chief justice roberts and 3 liberals, sotomayor, alana kagan and br
congressman matt gaetz who s represented his district since 2017, made a name for himself as one of the trumpiest members of the house of representatives. the new york times reporting the justice department is investigating gaetz over, quote, whether he had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old and paid for her to travel with him. the investigation was opened in the final months of the trump administration under attorney general william barr. katie benner, one of the times reports who broke this story is standing by to join us in a few minutes. no charges have been brought against the congressman. tonight he up and down denied the allegations during an interview with tucker carlson. it is a horrible allegation and it is a lie. the new york times is running a story that i have traveled with a 17-year-old woman, and that is verifiably false. people can look at my travel records and see that that is not the case. what is happening is an extortion of me and my family i
the house of representatives. the new york times reporting the justice department is investigating gaetz over, quote, whether he had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old and paid for her to travel with him. the investigation was opened in the final months of the trump administration under attorney general william barr. katie benner, one of the times reports who broke this story is standing by to join us in a few minutes. no charges have been brought against the congressman. tonight he up and down denied the allegations during an interview with tucker carlson. it is a horrible allegation and it is a lie. the new york times is running a story that i have traveled with a 17-year-old woman, and that is verifiably false. people can look at my travel records and see that that is not the case. what is happening is an extortion of me and my family involving a former department of justice official. as we mentioned, much more on all of this just ahead in the hour. tonig
this time. it is going to take time before we see emergency authorization come through, at least another week or couple weeks. beyond that, you still need to have distribution of the vaccine. i think given that we already have 1such a large supply of th mo moderna and johnson&johnson vaccine, they have been trained to distribute those. i think it s highly unlikely the astrazeneca will be a major player in the united states. it further complicates the distribution process? it maybe speaks to the success of the vaccine rampup in the u.s. by the time astrazeneca will be available, there will be many more vaccines on the market. one other finding in this large, very large study was no serious side effects, including no sign of that blood clotting that they had been concerned about in europe so what does that tell us? right. i think that s what s really most important about this trial here in the united states is that we do have large supplies of this vaccine and are in a positi