Running mate. Ill ask him this morning. Plus challenging biden, the new Special Counsel appointment fuels more criticism from republicans. If he were a republican he would have been in jail a long time ago. Biden is also facing critics from within his own party on his capacity to serve. Ill talk to democratic congressman dean philips of minnesota who is actively calling for more primary challenger to biden. And red alert. That vote in ohio is pretty sobering. Ohioet voers deliver a victory to supporters of Abortion Rights and offer another warning sign for republicans. If republicans are just focused on one issue theyll have a bit of a challenge. Support for legal action for abortion is winning inside red and blue states from kansas to kentucky to michigan. Will it be a motivating factor for voters in 2024. Joining me for insight and analysis are. Politico mriback coauthor eugene daniels. Republican strategist brandon buck. Is imoen sanderstownsend, former spokesperson for Kamala Harri
Oh. Oh. Welcome home. Oh, my god, thank you. Todd The Rock Surprising Uufc fighter with 7 to his name with a brandnew house. Video has been going viral, we have update on which is probably the best story weve heard in a long time. Ashley and it means soming to dwayne johnson, too. Todd you are watching fox and friends, im todd piro. Ashley straight to a fox news alert. Former President Donald Trump pleading not guilty for allegedly conspiring to overturn the 2024 election. Todd support is growing. Brooke singman was in dc for all the festivities and joins us now. Brooke just yesterday President Trump pled not guilty to four Felony Counties relating to january 6. Former president calling it political persecution. Listen. This is a very sad day for america. This is the persecution of the person that is leading by substantial numbers in the republican primary and leading biden by a lot. We cant let this happen in america. Brooke trumps Defense Team Pointing out the odd timeline coinciding
President and not facing a ramifications politically. As a medium effect, short term effect and a long term effect the immediate is hell raise a lot of money. In intensive of support from his core base. In the short term we will see that it benefits him most likely within the republican primary put up as he is being indicted more and more often which is a bizarre thing to say, what weve seen is it reinforces trumps Court Message that the government is rigged against him, theres a two tiered System Ofjustice and so forth. All of which i think is false but it reinforces that political argument from trauma. In the long term is of youre an independent voter, somebody who voted for donald trump and 2016 but then voted forjoe biden in 2020 for the especially important in states like arizona and georgia, we see more scepticism about donald trump coming back. Benefits him in the short term, long term still very real problems with this. Thats on the political fight, much less whats happening in
children were on lockdown this afternoon. i have two small children and their schools were on lockdown responding to this tragedy. they re there, i m here hoping and praying that they are safe. but the truth is none of us is safe. that s senator rafael warnock of georgia on the senate floor yesterday addressing another mass shooting in america, this one at a medical center in atlanta. we ll have much more on the deadly attack and the senator s call to action in just a moment. also ahead the latest on the suspicious claims out of russia accusing ukraine of a drone strike on the kremlin. plus donald trump s legal team makes an odd choice for its defense strategy in a civil rape and defamation trial. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this thursday, may 4th. i m jonathan lemire, thank you for starting your day with us. we begin with the latest mass shooting in america this time in atlanta, georgia. at least five women inside a medical center there were shot,
i hope mike is gonna do the right thing, i hope so i hope so. if mike pence does the right thing, we win the election mike pence gets another chance to do the right thing this is big, we have just learned and are able to confirm, mike pence testified before th grand jury today tonight, what we know about the former vice president participation and the criminal investigation of his forme boss then, the explosive scen inside a new york courtroom, where e. jean carroll s rape allegation faced cross-examination from donal trump s lawyer a eventually, she just sort of lost it and said, you don t get to beat me up for no screaming. some women scream, some wome don t. he raped me. whether or not i screamed. plus, michael schmidt of th new york times, on what we actually know about the firing of tucker carlson. they literally fired hi because they came to the wok mob. senator bernie sanders on why he s endorsing a secon term for president biden when all in starts rig