the midterms ahead. welcome to meet the press dally. for the first time since the war this ukraine began, two biden administration officials have set foot in kyiv. secretary of state antony blinken and defense secretary lloyd austin met with president zelenskyy over the weekend in ukraine s capital city pledging military aid and diplomatic support. that includes reopening the u.s. embassy in kyiv and the the nomination of a new u.s. ambassador. this morning from poland, secretaries blinken and austin spoke to reporters about their visit and their assessment of the conflict. we re seeing that when it comes to russia, russia is failing. ukraine is succeeding. russia has sought as its principle lane to totally sub jet indicate ukraine to take away its independence. that has failed. what those comments suggest about the u.s. s wartime policy a major question as defense secretary austin spoke about the administrative s objectives. honestly, ukraine remain a sovereign cou
between former president trump and special counsel jack smith. a short time ago, the federal judge overseeing trump s election case responded to a court filing from smith there s night. smith is seek a protective order after trump posted this yesterday evening, saying, quote, if you go after me, i m coming after you. smith is pointing to that message and asking the judge in the case to set limits on trump and his legal team when it comes to publicly discussing sensitive evidence and the judge has given the trump team until 5:00 p.m. this sunday to respond. just this afternoon, lawyers asked a judge for more time to weigh in on what restrictions should be imposed. joining us now to discuss, democratic congresswoman veronica escobar of texas. thanks for joining. when you saw these words that trump wrote in that threatening post, what did you think of that? what was your concern there? well, good afternoon, jim. it was as predicted. i mean, i knew he would not be able to help
coverage of the extreme weather with meteorologist adam klotz standing by and robert ray on the ground in san antonio, texas. but we begin with matt finn who is live in santa monica california, with the latest on the blistering heat. hello, matt. reporter: hi, mike. it s been pretty hot and sunny here all morning long here in santa monica. now these clouds or perhaps the ma rein layer has rolled through which is serving as some relief from the hot sun. traditionally, the beach is an escape from more inland los angeles. we actually talked to a family a short while ago who came here all the way from las vegas to escape the heat there, and all morning long we ve been talking to people who say they just want to get out of their hot and stuffy neighborhoods inland in l.a. and come here along the water. we don t want to come later on, cool, crisp weather. it totally depends where you live. if you live in the valley, you re sweltering. if you with live anywhere near the beach,
beach, a guy on a surfboard waiting for the next set to come in. what a wonderful saturday morning. carley: watch the sharks though. maybe not in north carolina. i hope not. pete: we re glad you re here. come on in for the fourth and final hour of fox & friends on a saturday, july 8, year of our lord 2023. we re outside where where there s a heavy ambience of urine. carley: it feels very thick pete: smells great. carley: because it s human. not the best. pete: not great. carley: could always be great. pete: it smells better where you are. will: later in the show, apparently, we are going to take an ice plunge bath. i just saw the bath set at 45 degrees, and i m, for one, dreading this moment in the show. pete: if i am too. [laughter] will says he s going to go with the gradual entry technique which is terrible, and i m going to go with carley: you guys are both doing it? if. pete: there s only two tubs carley: oh, usually i like to be included in things, and this is
former vice president mike pence says he does not recall donald trump putting any pressure on him to ask arizona s governor to find fraud in the 2020 election. he does recall making calls to the governor and he did pressure the governor to make changes to the election. more problems and growing holiday headaches as a recor record-breaking number of americans travel. and drones in the air, and other violence on the ground between palestinian and israel. this is cnn news central. this morning, former vice president mike pence is defending his former boss, and rival in the 2020 presidential candidate donald trump. pents say pence says he called ducey and he did asking him to look into the election, and we have kristen holmes looking into this. so we do know that there was a phone call with president trump, and representative due si. now, i did learn from a certain familiar with the conversations, that due si said that the allies pressured him to find fraud in the as as