California, just as President Biden prepares to survey damage on maui. This is a really hard disaster. As the Climate Crisis gets worse, is the u. S. Ready . The fema administrator will be here. And take four. Donald trump will surrender to georgia officials. Now two legal experts say hes disqualified from being president again. Gop senator bill cassidy who voted to convict trump after january 6th will be here as well as Michael Luttig and lawrence wade. It is time to put the negativity and drama behind us. David axelrod talks Debate Strategy ahead. Hello. Im casey hunt in washington. Hurricane hilary is barrelling toward the west coast of the United States and could dump more than a years worth of rain where the state has forced evacuations, closed beaches and marks and forced the governor to declare a State Of Emergency on saturday. As they also prepare for the pr president s visit to survey the devastating wildfires as they face a record breaking year of billion dollar disasters. Ad
outfront next, russia seizing on tucker carlson s exit from fox. why this obsession? it comes as a top putin official tonight tells our matthew chance about the possibility of a prisoner swap for americans detained in russia. plus, what s old is new again. biden s message today for re-election, eerily similar to what he said on this very day exactly four years ago. will it work a second time? and then a story you will see first outfront tonight. outrage over lawmakers making decisions of white lawmakers making decisions for a city that is overwhelmingly black and democratic. outfront tonight, russia is hiring as a top putin mouthpiece offers tucker carlson a job with russian state television. the most senior russian official to visit the united states since putin invaded ukraine. you heard me there, today, said this, unprompted. translator: perhaps it would be useful to consider how things are with freedom of speech in the united states. i ve heard that tucker c
pete: kevin. rachel: i can t believe that. i know it s kenny. will: i once said deke bentley. if you wake up and tell your man he s a big star, it s going to be a good day. that s all every manments to hear when they wake up. today is national hunting and fishing day. will: where s the hunting and fishing? pete: unclear. it didn t make the rundown. we re doing the show from central park from the reservoir or pond. rachel: i don t know if you can shoot pidgeons but that would be fun. pete: you ve seen the famous video come across and the fly fishing and the reservoir and the pond and wherever. will: somewhere in central park. pete: he was in central park doing that and he comes up with a cell phone and acted like he got tucker. you re doing something wrong. i got you. he s like, what? rachel: was tucker like on his own? will: he d go to central park and fish and someone thought he had a got ya moment. pete: he s like this is legal. you re allowed to fish here. rachel: i d love
the attention to be on him and not all of the other candidates and to some extent he ll probably have some success with that, but there are going to be people tuning in to this debate and i think it s a great opportunity for each of them to try to make their case. i think, you know, it would be a better debate with trump there, but i think it s still going to be important to watch. david axelrod, is there any chance, is the ability as strong as it once was. he s got tucker s star power, as well and i think there will be quite a few people with that assuming twitter doesn t collapse and i middle from the beginning that trump would be nuts to show up. he s got a gargantuan lead. desantis said the other day he implied that trump followers were like listless vessels and
darcy is outfront. nearly 90 tapes, abby says today that she still has. how worried is fox about them? they re not flattering tapes, and keep in mind, as you said, she not only worked as a top booker for tucker carlson, but she was a top producer for maria bartiromo, who was someone who factored big in this dominion lawsuit, and is also in the smartmatic lawsuit. so, in total, i imagine that the revelation that she has 90 tapes is probably more reason for the murdochs to settle this case with her. she s filed a lawsuit against them, and not let this drag on. so, in terms of what s happening at fox, you ve got tucker gone, the biggest star there. how is it affecting them so far? well, last night the ratings were a lot softer than normal in the 8:00 p.m. hour, which tucker carlson normally hosted. and, notably, the ratings for the right-wing channel newsmax, which is a much smaller competitor, but they were up big last night in the ratings two to