I spent an extraordinary 12 months in american politics. Twice impeached president is facing multiple criminal investigations, civil and praise across jurisdictions. Its antisemitic in some cases and the platform. As the conservative Supreme Court and the 50 real constitutional right to an abortion. We get all that and more tonight but we begin at the end of this year with historic results with the Midterm Election or democrats came to see in the senate and republicans managed to have defeat from the victory and historically the elections had been a disaster for a first term president in the party in power. As and as nbc noted democratic president s in their first midterms have seen the party lose an average of 40 have seats in five senate seats so watergate i look even worse for the party. Democratic president s in the first midterm at cnn part of those an average of 44 house seats and six senate seats. Many political observers had a bloodbath on the level of 1994 republican evolution
i spent an extraordinary 12 months in american politics. twice impeached president is facing multiple criminal investigations, civil and praise across jurisdictions. it s antisemitic in some cases and the platform. as the conservative supreme court and the 50 real constitutional right to an abortion. we get all that and more tonight but we begin at the end of this year with historic results with the midterm election or democrats came to see in the senate and republicans managed to have defeat from the victory and historically the elections had been a disaster for a first term president in the party in power. as and as nbc noted democratic presidents in their first midterms have seen the party lose an average of 40 have seats in five senate seats so watergate i look even worse for the party. democratic presidents in the first midterm at cnn part of those an average of 44 house seats and six senate seats. many political observers had a bloodbath on the level of 1994 republican
under trump this kind of government will perish from the earth. in a surprise move the biden campaign sent a surrogate of its own to lower manhattan yesterday. two-time academy award winner robert de niro. we ll have more of the actor s warnings about the dangers of a possible second donald trump presidency. and of course we ll go through what happened inside the courtroom as well. during closing arguments in the former president s criminal hush money trial as we are now just hours away from the start of jury deliberations. plus we ll go through new reporting on the deadly israeli air strike in rafah and the biden administration s response to the tragedy. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, may 29th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. and we have a big show this morning. and in just hours donald trump s fate will be in the hands of a juror. both the defense and prosecution delivered their closing arguments yesterday in
benjamin: a day on the slopes turns into a terrifying ordeal. benjamin: to turn things around, one of the most beautiful cities in the world. good thing it is friday, beautiful weather in london. hope you can enjoy the day. i like golf. benjamin: since having three young daughters, haven t had much time for the golf course. i live and hope. jillian: maybe one day this year you can do that. benjamin: you are watching fox and friends first on friday morning. jillian: thank you for being ending your day with us. president biden addressing the nation, one year since the coronavirus pandemic began. no one could have imagined what we were about to go through. now we are coming through it. benjamin: doug was a live in washington as the president signals when life may return to normal. reporter: mark your calendars for may 1st when the president says we should have enough vaccine supply for every american to be eligible for a shot. we need everyone to get vaccinated but