new poll numbers reveal this, 74% of americans think the country is on the wrong track. that is pretty extraordinary. same nbc news poll say americans are concerned about biden a age and health and it is a concern for his campaign. 80-year-old biden is getting image advice from top hollywood producer jeffrey karngs tsenberg. the movie mogul is counseling president biden to own his age and turn into an assive according to people familiar with the conversations. biden should lean into longevity as sign of wisdom and experience, while offer ing offr about it, same way harrison ford has. hitting the big screen as indiana joey jones or like mick jagger who performs to crowds around the world and turns 80 next month. videos like this show biden may not have moves like mick jagger. turning age into an asset, i get it, like ronald reagan, i will not expose my opponent s age and inexperience. with 68% concerned about biden s age, up from 51% in 2020. people do not like what they are s
steve: all right, welcome aboard, hour three of fox and friends. coming up defense secretary lloyd austin seen there. apparently still in the hospital. u.s. forces in iraq and syria hit with a dozen attacks since his secret hospitalization. impea impeachment ainsley: fox and friends exclusive, lawrence is at the border getting a look along the rio grande river. do you mind asking them where they are coming from. nicaragua and going to houston and california. brian: wow, plus a couple says i do, the venue says we don t. pop-up wedding without permission, that couple off to a bad start and final hour of fox and friends will be brilliant. remember this, mornings are better with friends, so put something on. steve: a developing story. the latest developments involving secretary of defense lloyd austin. he is still in the hospital as the political fallout continues over his health trouble that he kept secret for days. ainsley: griff jenkins is live in washing
inflation. doug luzader joins us live in washington. good morning, doug. doug: the fed meets tomorrow to talk interest rates, a lot going on, and the white house is laying the groundwork. we may find on thursday gdp has fallen, according to the white house economic advisors, some maintain two consecutive quarters of falling real gdp constitute a recession, that is neither the full definition or how economists evaluate the business state. former obama administration says recession is likely. there is high likelihood of recession when we ve been in this kind of situation before, recession has followed when inflation has been high and unemployment has been low. doug: the fed starts their meeting tomorrow, expected to raise interest rates to reign in that 9.1% inflation rate. inflation is way too high, the fed is charged with putting in place policies that will bring inflation down and i expect them to be successful. republicans meantime, say the administration is makin
Under oath. Cohen is the last prosecution witness and the question that remains this morning, what, if anything defense will trumps legal team mount . Nbcs Yasmin Vossoughian is outside that courthouse. I also want to bring in our legal panel, former u. S. Attorney and former senior fbi official Chuck Rosenberg, new York Law School professor and director of the schools criminal defense clinic. Ana coe min ski and criminal Defense Attorney and former federal prosecutor duncan levins. There was a little bit of uncertainty this morning in court, a long Bench Meeting before the Cross Examination got underway. Bring us up to speed on all of it. Reporter the last day week five of this trial, a 19minute Bench Meeting at the start of court before the jury was brought in. We dont know what they talked about. Once we get the partial transcript out this morning, were going to figure that out and let you know. A couple of things that have come out so far even just in the last 30 minutes or so, the
american history we really do need a new word for unprecedented. former president trump vows to appeal his historic guilty conviction. a presidential candidate found guilty on 34 counts is clearly unlike anything we ve ever seen. trump s conviction is a first. the clean sweep guilty on all 34 counts an especially strong vindication of the new york d.a. s case. and sit one that all news viewers and citizens and people around the world are actually hearing and absorbing as one fact. people can have different reactions to this legal fact, but unlike so many other civic and political feuds that deinvolve into competing claims almost from the start, there s only one legal outcome here, an outcome that is sinking in, no matter what one s views of the defendant are, and no matter where you get your information from, your phone or the internet or newspapers or tv news where may 30, 2024 played out with the same big verdict news no matter which station you watch. to that end