Rachel its the 7 a. M. Hour of fox Friends Weekend starting with this, im out of breath a little bit. [laughter] ran up these stairs. All right, a Washington Post columnist is telling Vice President harris to, Quoteing Step aside. Why she says the vp is a burden to bidens reelection ticket. Pete plus, its been four years since we were told to lock down and mask up. Now a new report shines light on, eau eco oh, the many ways do will revisit this thing four years after it started. And to top of the morning to you. [laughter] there we go. Rachel youre going to have to relive. Will the second hour of fox Friends Weekend starts right now. Rachel so good. Rachel all right, you guys, good with morning. 7 a. M. , and as weve been talking about, its st. Patricks day, and and youre looking live at dublin thanks to our friends at earth cam. Will what time is it in dublin . Pete is a. M. . Rachel theyre just Getting Started here. Later this hour were going to learn some irish dance stepping. Pete
November rematch. Both candidates clinching their Party Nominations last night with primary wins in georgia, mississippi, and washington state. Trump, taking a victory lap in this video released by his campaign its your favorite president speaking to you on a really great day of victory, the Republican National committee has just declared as the official nominee. And so whether the official nominee of the republican party, which is a big deal the biden trump rematch will be the longest General Election president ial campaign ever. Once it became clear, the president had clinched the democratic nomination team, biden released this slickly produced video ready to protect our brain our panel is with us this morning. Lets bring in republican strategist, Kristen Soltis anderson, democratic congressman Jake Auchincloss of massachusetts remains with us. Former White House Communications director Kate Bedingfield is here and Zolan Kannoyoungs White House Correspondent for the New York Times we
Extended from nine to 19 years. Mr navalny was found guilty of inciting and financing extremist activity and creating an extremist organisation, charges he denied. Hes already serving a nine year term for fraud and contempt of court, in a case which many see as politically motivated. Todays Court Proceedings were held in the prison in melekhovo, where he has been held, and from where our russia editor, steve rosenberg, reports. This is the closest we were allowed to get to russias most famous prisoner. Wed been let inside the High Securityjail where Alexei Navalny was already incarcerated. But journalists werent allowed into the makeshift courtroom. All we could do was watch on a screen. At this trial behind bars, the kremlin critic was found guilty on extremism charges and handed a new 19 year prison sentence. Hell be transferred to a so called Special Regime colony and harsher conditions. We may have been allowed in here to watch the verdict on a tv screen, but keep in mind that in t
In a high security penal colony. Western governments and human Rights Groups universally condemned it but there is little they can do to help him. Having already allegedly poisoned him with nerve agent, it seems the kremlin intend to silence him forever behind the highest walls in the country. His treatment during imprisonment has been grim hes been subject to sleep deprivation, there have been long stretches of solitary confinement, he has even been forced to listen to Vladimir Putins speeches repeatedly. And he has been Hunger Strike. The Alexei Navalny on our screens today is a pale shadow of the man that was arrested two years ago. In the last hour or so following his extended sentence,we heard extended sentence, we heard from navalny in a post on x, the app formerly known as twitter. He told his almost Three Million followers 19 years in a maximum security penal colony. The number of years does not matter. I perfectly understand that, like Many Political prisoners, i am sitting on
Our russia editor, Steve Rosenberg reports. This is the closest we were allowed to get to russias most famous prisoner. Wed been let inside the High Securityjail where Alexei Navalny is already incarcerated. But journalists werent allowed into the makeshift courtroom. We had to watch on a screen. For the kremlin critic, this is a trial behind bars. He was found guilty on extremism charges. Punishment more jail time. He was handed a 19 Year Prison Sentence. We may have been allowed in here to watch the verdict on a tv screen, but keep in mind that in this court case, the actual proceedings were closed to the press and to the public and held in a high security prison. Describing this trial as Behind Closed Doors feels like an understatement. Ahead of the verdict, in a message online, mr navalny wrote that a long Prison Sentence for him was designed to scare russians. He revealed hed soon be on trial again for terrorism. They chant. A charismatic Protest Leader and Anti Corruption crusade