nikki haley, vivek ramaswamy and ron desantis will hold events today. we are just six days from the iowa caucuses, which will kickoff the presidential election cycle. todd: former president donald trump will be in a washington, d.c. courtroom asking a judge for immunity in his federal election case. you re watching fox and friends, i m todd piro. welcome back, partner. carley: i m carley shimkus. brooke singman has the latest on the court drama. hi, alex. alexandria: a president cannot be charged with acting within his or her acting duty. if absolute immunity is granted, it would allow for presidents to commit crime. former president trump made this statement on truth social. if i don t get immunity, crooked joe biden doesn t get immunity. with millions that went into his pocket, joe would be right for indictment. by weaponizing political poen p pon, me, joe biden opened a pandora s box. in december the supreme court declined to fast track trump s immunity request. la
RUTHERFORD COUNTY, TN - Legislation pushed forward by Senator Dawn White of Murfreesboro State Representative Mike Sparks of Smyrna calls for the creation of a task force to determine the best method to end illegal street racing in Tennessee. Barnhardt, a 15-year Special Forces Army Veteran, was only 34-years-old when police say one of two vehicles believed to be racing one another slammed into Barnhardt's car at 100 miles per hour.
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comes out and there is no control over that. there is legislation sponsored by chuck schumer and mike brown, republican of south dakota, with several co-sponsors who set up a framework whereby the information that the government has would be released to the public in a judicious manner and that legislation was killed by the house. that is an interesting story. we could have more elections. it is fairly unlikely the biden administration will open ki moano on the programs, that is another possibility. third possibility is congress gets serious and.
because the bill sanctions germany, not russia. this bill i think will be defeated today. my hope is we will immediately take up legislation sponsored by senator menendez, the chairman of the foreign relations committee. it could bring them together through a set of sanction on russia if russia moves forward with this invasion. and would give people the back story the reason why senator schumer permitted action on this cruz maybe today is that was the price they needed to pay the day before the christmas break to finally get ted cruz to stop single handedly blocking 40 nominations, including the ambassador to china, critical ambassador nominations and judicial nominations from even getting a vote on the floor. am i correct on that? that s right. all last year senator cruz blocked every single biden nominees. all the nominees that would be helping ukraine, our ambassador to the european union, the european ambassadors. he did so to secure this vote a.
. i got good news and bad news. which one do you want? let s start with the good news? the house of representatives has passed a new bill targeting islamophobia. here s the bad news. as the associated press writes, there was a quote, 219 to 212 party line vote to approve legislation sponsored by democratic congresswoman ilhan omar, that would establish a new special envoy position at the state department to monitor and combat islamophobia worldwide. how d you get any no votes on that? that s right. the bill to fight islamophobia passed, but only over the objections of 212 republicans. their votes signal an unwillingness to address a hateful and dangerous mentality that has been on the rise in america lately, which is one thing, but it s also on the rise inside the halls of congress. republican congressman marjorie taylor greene and lauren boebert have repeatedly attacked the