glad you re with us. it is a big day. glad i have victor black well by my side. we re here. we have a lot the to get to. five things to know for this thursday, august 24th. donald trump is expected to surrender in georgia. this will be the fourth time he s turning himself in to be arrested. he faces charges to overturn the georgia election. the fist gop primary debate, 6) of the 8 candidates rauzed their hand when they would ask if they would support trump;í a the nominee. vivek ramaswamy finds himself in the spotlight. he was the center attention at center stage last night and sparred with a lot of candidates and contentious exchanges on issues including the war in ukraine. nikki haley challenging her rivals on abortion rights, clashes with mike pence and arguing a federal abortion ban is not politically realistic. there are new questions about a presume edod dead in a plane h two months after he led a rebellion against vladimir putin. new eyewitnesss are sharing
pennsylvania. president trump still refusing to concede, refusing to drop baseless claims of widespread voter fraud. he s also refusing to do anything to ada smooth transition to the biden administration. we are starting to see daylight between trump officials, former and current, who are reaching out on their own to biden counter parts, some quietly because they fear reprisal. today, president-elect joe biden and vice president elect kamala harris hear from members of the national governor s association executive committee. these are governors on the frontlines of the fight against the coronavirus. and while the biden team formulates plans to battle the virus, president trump largely ignores it, even as the u.s. is crossing a grim milestone here. take a look. a quarter million people dead. there are no tweets from trump about that. there s no sympathy for the dead or for families. in fact, the president s twitter feed presents as if we re not even in a pandemic. we are heari
jedediah: i did. i have to say, pete, you are not a true britney fan. you have to be able to detect the britney voice right away. i give will a pass because i didn t expect him to know that this is not knowing pete: that s a little different. will doesn t even know what you are talking about. will: i m highly disappointed in you is all i have to say this morning. pete: dave off camera thinks every sings christmas music it s a big revenue stream. will: everett actual can become a tradition. going down to the corner and buying your tree and carrying it home with your boys, which is odd to carry a tree down the street to manhattan, but that s become one of our family traditions. here is the question for you at home. when do you put up your christmas try? do you use a real tree or fake tree? send us photos of your patriotic decorations. you messed up on year brittany s and i messed up on decorations. pete: friends@foxnews.com are you a retree or fake tree? so you can save it. j
but what people may not remember is what a surprise it was at the time that it happened. a month earlier, nixon had famously resigned the president under the threat of impeachment, and he left the white house aboard marine one, handing the presidency off to his vice president, gerald ford. as donald rumsfeld, george w. bush s defense secretary, who served in the ford administration, later recalled, those of us close enough to observe it ourselves could see how tormented ford was by the decision. and when he finally made it, it caught many of us by surprise. it was a surprise because ford s pardon came on a sunday morning, september 8th, 1974. as the times reported, quote, government buildings were almost empty, and no one was expecting any dramatic presidential action. mr. ford attended early morning communion at st. john s episcopal church, then returned to the white house to make the announcement. and i have sought such guidance and searched my own conscience with speci
as donald rumsfeld, george w. bush s defense secretary who served in the ford administration, later recalled those of us close enough to observe it ourselves could see how tormented ford was by the decision. and when he finally made it, it caught many of us by surprise. it was a surprise because ford s pardon came on a sunday morning, september 8th, 1974. as the times reported government buildings were almost empty and no one was expecting any dramatic presidential action. mr. ford attended early-morning communion at st. john s episcopal church, then returned to the white house to make the announcement. and i have sought such guidance and searched my own conscience with special diligence to determine the right thing for me to do with respect to my predecessor in this place, richard nixon, and his loyal wife and family. theirs is an american tragedy in which we all have played a part. it could go on and on and on, or someone must right the end to it. i have concluded