now. thanks, chris. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. we start with breaking news out of the new york times. special counsel jack smith has interviewed donald trump s son-in-law and former top white house aide jared kushner. the times reports in an interview last month the special counsel focused on whether trump had privately acknowledged that he had lost the 2020 election. in other words, when trump claimed the election was rigged, did he know he was lying? did trump have corrupt intent when he allegedly tried to subvert the election? also today jack smith s senior assistant special counsel, a lawyer named tom wyndham, was spotted leaving the d.c. federal courthouse for a second time this week. mr. wyndham is one of the top prosecutors working on special counsel january 6th s probe, a role he played before jack smith was appointed special council. and this afternoon he was back in court indicating the grand jury is meeting. so with all these new deta
Absolutely speaks for. Dana calling for an investigation is a great way for members of congress to not have to take responsibility for getting something wrong. They that could get people killed. Dana war efforts between israel and hamas and efforts to release all the hostages and call ifs more humanitarian aid and more. Bill House Republicans trying to pick next nominee to be speaker and if one of the next candidates gets enough support, a full vote on the floor of the house as early as midday and one of the eight candidates has already dropped out so where we stand, nobody knows. Dana coming facetoface with long time lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen. Cohen is expected to give testimony in the State Attorney General Civil Fraud Trial Against President Trump and more on those stories throughout the hour. Sirens sounding across Central Israel and the west bank and a heavy barrage of rockets from gaza and israel continues to bombard with air strikes and hamas releases two more hostages. Wel
7:00 a.m. hour of fox & friends weekend starting with this. houston residents hold ago vigil to honor a 12-year-old girl allegedly murdered by illegal immigrants. associated press, they won t mention those de- tiles. charlie: plus, former secretary of state condoleezza rice is talking about school choice. we have a school choice system in education. if you are of means, you ll move to the district where the schools are good and houses are expensive. rachel: i m sorry, condoleezza rice is not aging. and americans ditching democrat-run states and people saying leave politics at the door. second hour of fox & friends weekend starts right now. rachel: good morning. it s 7:00 in new york city and maybe a little earlier. you re watching us this morning and we re joining us and charlie filling in for pete hegseth and good morning, will. will: nobody s going to commit the crimes and deep in that and playing some of rachel s favorite 80s music. this is about to commit a serious
i don t know he has to say something. i think he runs his race. what would he say? he would say there s a dangerous agenda that he that he followed, the maga agenda. you know, he disrupted our democracy, he doesn t respect our democracy. he doesn t have to go to the indictments. i don t see why he would ever have to be in a position where he has to comment any real way on the indictments. that s an interesting and important caveat, in a real way. because the whole argument is this guy is chaos and the indictments are another man fsation of the chaos. that was the argument of the candidacy in the first place, to restore the soul of america. he s a great contrast. obviously we ve got a lot to talk about. keep your tushes in the seat because we re going to talk much more about 2024 and the republican war on woke, the craziness presently unfolding right now on capitol hill as house speaker kevin mccarthy
clearly russians were going after those targets and maybe that s why the tushes decided to knock out that plane. you buy that explanation? we know for a fact that the russians have been targeting moderate opposition forces. they say they re going after isis. but we know that they have been using their air strikes to go after moderate opposie assad. if that s what they were targeting, it could very well be possible that the turks knew that they were attacking those forces. that s the problem. there are too many players all doing their own thing without coordinating the effort to go after isis. you know the russian president putin, the turkish president erdogan, who is going to blink first? these are two tough guys. they are, both tough guys. they both believe deeply in what they re doing. and you know, this is a situation where it seems to me the united states has to provide