February 29th, it only happens once every four years its leap day and this is fox friends. Ainsley we have a Fox News Alert to start with. Illinois the Third Straight to kick donald trump off the ballot as the Supreme Court says it will take up his president ial immunity case. Brian as soon as he appeals it will go back on the ballot. Battle at the border today. Lawrence is live from brownsville, texas where President Biden will be this afternoon. There he is. And former secretary of security live in studio for a Brief Analysis on what is going to be taking place and what is at stake. Steve meanwhile, fit for duty, thats what President Bidens doctors say after he had a physical that surprised everybody yesterday in maryland. Steve but no cognitive exam. They said he didnt need it. Second hour of fox friends starts right now and, remember, mornings are better with friends. Brian what that day its going to be. Fox news alert. Former president of the United States donald trump now kicked
getting some of our biggest clues yet about the directions special counsel jack smith is taking the politically fraught and complex and unprecedented investigations of an ex president by the justice department. there are major developments in both the january 6 investigation and the probe into the classified documents. we ll get to that in a minute. but we begin with what we know about the sprawling criminal probe into the capitol insurrection and the coup plotted by the ex president and his allies and including those in the administration and in congress. as the new york times reports, jack smith steps us the pace, sorting through a mountain of evidence from the january 6 committee and looking to interview witnesses that did not speak to the congressional panel. from that times report, quote, did former president trump consume detailed information about foreign countries wild in office? how extensively did he seek information about whether voting machines had been tampered
justice department from getting back to work on more than 100 classified documents. also, in puerto rico, huge search operations happening to try to find trapped survivors after hurricane fiona. things may get worse before they get better. we ve got a team on the ground there with the latest. plus, what went wrong in the agency s response to the baby formula shortage? coming up. a lot of new details for you. i m hallie jackson with vaughn hilliard, tom winter, and msnbc legal analyst, barbara mcquaid. vaughn, i know this has just wrapped up. what went down? reporter: right. both sides just exited the course house seconds before we came to air. as well as the trio of trump attorneys provided no comment but this hearing lasted about 35 minutes rather speedy hearing in which really the central component of the argument at hand. i was talking the andrew weissman as we exited the course house, about whether trump s teams would have access to the documents marked as classif
they have a lot at stake. they are both practicing attorneys. you have to imagine that their livelihood is in limbo. based on these charges. they do have a reason to want to get them resolved as soon as possible. it also means that their case will be severed from the remaining codefendants who, although these two have requested a speedy trial, the judge can t force all 19 to go to trial in two months. those cases would be severed out. that also means that those cases, which are severed out, get kind of a sneak peek, right? at the evidence that is going to be presented in this case. although most of the evidence will be confined to the actions of these individuals, it is a rico case, so the state still has to make out the enterprise and the conspiracy. so some of that evidence will still come in in their trial. assuming and they may be tried together, since they both filed subsidies. they both have to be tried before the beginning of november. i would assume that they would both be tr
president biden, made a rare admission that he is keeping up with trump s legal woes. have you seen donald trump s mugshot yet? mister president i did see it on television. what did you think? handsome guy. wonderful guy. joining us now, aremelissa redmon, former prosecutor in the fulton county district attorney s office, and now a professor at the university of georgia school of law. we also have joyce vance, former u.s. attorney for the northern district of alabama. and barbara mcquade, former u.s. attorney for the eastern district of michigan. melissa, joyce, barb, it s great to have the three of you with us. melissa, let me start with you. talk to me about georgia s speedy trial law here. it s obviously now being front and center with what we ve seen. what does it mean, that both sidney powell and kenneth chesebro want to move up their trial? and is there any benefit to them in doing that? right, i think that for these particular defendants, they have a lot at stake