Dead. Well have the latest in just a minute. The biggest oneday strike to hit los angeles in a generation is under way right now. Everyone from mechanics to Traffic Officers are walking off the job. The latest in the series of union labor actions that disrupted the city in recent months. Well explain what it is all about and whats next coming up. We start, though, with former President Donald Trump and federal prosecutors locking horns over what will be one of the central themes of his upcoming federal trial. The right to free speech. Right now the legal teams from both sides are under orders to agree on a hearing date to hash out the scope of a protective order which would set ground rules for what Evidence Trump can and cant disclose. Last night, his Team Rejected the governments original proposal to restrict everything it hands over, arguing that would violate trumps First Amendment rights. Instead, trumps attorneys proposed more narrow limits for only genuinely sensitive materials.
just hours from now a high-stakes hoe doun in a florida courtroom. i m john berman with brianna keilar and this is a new chapter in the battle over sensitive documents recovered from mar-a-lago. the immediate issue whether a special master will be appointed to oversee the documents that were seized from donald trump s beach house by the fbi. donald trump wants a special master. the government insists there is no need for one. a judge will hear arguments at 1:00 p.m. eastern time. in the blockbuster filing from the department of justice tuesday night the doj argued that the appointment of a special master would impede the government s ongoing criminal investigation and if the special master were tasked with reviewing classified documents, would impede the intelligence community from conducting its ongoing review of the national security risk that improper storage of these highly sensitive materials may have caused. trump s lawyers made several arguments in a court filing las
you re watching fox and friends first, i m carley shimkus. todd: i d todd piro. 42% backing the president as inflation rocks the nation. take a look at this, cost $300,000 to raise a child through high school, $18,000 a year as food, housing,s and chair cuts cost more. the biden administration vowed cost will come down eventually. past week more immediate way to save money is by spending on new energy-efficient appliances. solar panels can be financed and they are financed in way that reduces your energy bill even though you have solar panels with 30% off, significant incentive. this comment was met with sark sarkasm. average price of an electric vehicle is $61,000. kentucky congressman andy barr says the message is clear. there is a massive, massive disconnect between the priorities of politicians in washington and the concerns of the american people. president biden in a tough position as the latest nbc news poll shows approval rating 42%. america not faring b
inflation was high before, certainly before the war in ukraine broke out. martha: senator john kennedy was in that hearing with jerome powell. he s here to react to that and respond to it in moments. first, we re glad to be joined by james spurling, senior adviser to president biden. thanks for making time for us today. what is your reaction to what jerome powell just said about the real driver of u.s. inflation? there was no contradiction at all with what president said and your tape of federal chairman powell. president biden is talking about what has happened with gas prices. on that, there s no controversy. on january 17, when putin starts doing military exercise in belarus, the price of gas is at $3.31 at the pump. that is actually below the average for real prices in the previous decade. after he does that, after that unthinkable aggression by putin and the response to it, gas prices have gone up $2 in much of the world and $1.7 oh. martha: the truth is they sta