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tampering. that s where we start. i m bill hemmer. it is wednesday, midweek. dana: good morning, i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. that a lot of legal stuff we ll get to today. politics as well. murdaugh issue, six months since a jury found him guilty of killing his wife and son. the former south carolina prosecutor is serving two life sentences without parole. his attorneys say that should be thrown out because they say the court clerk tampered with the jury. bill: the defense is saying the clerk tried to sway and pressure jurors saying she wanted to insure a guilty verdict so she could write a book and make money and go on a media tour. i want to take you back to her talking with us on fox nation about the trial. my breath was knocked out for a moment but then i have to tell myself to treat it just like any other trial, any other verdict that i have to read and i have to place my mind there and take out any personal relationships. the murdaughs ....
this is fox & friends. phone a frenemy. president biden speaking with chinese president xi yesterday did. they talk about the massive surge of chinese migrants illegally entering our country with roller bags? ainsley: new polling shows trump is leading in six out of seven battle ground states and the former president has this message to joe biden. calling on crooked joe to debate any time any place we will do it anywhere you want, joe. steve: okay, joe. did you see this crazy video of a kid getting carried away blown across that courtyard? that s a person. amazingly, after that, they were okay. but would not do that again, ever. lawrence: fox & friends starts right now. and, remember, mornings are better with friends. all right, on this wednesday morning we start with this fox news alert. at least 7 people are dead and more than 700 hurt after a super powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake rocked the island of taiwan. ainsley: it is the strongest earthquake t ....
jesse: karine jean-pierre try to defend a big baby in the white house, after a new book shows how the president feels tired and can t hold an event before 10:00 a.m. americans agree that joe biden should be headed for retirement. a whopping 73% of voters say yes, president biden is too old to run. but your concern is just all a big joke to the big guy. you will live to be 90! [laughs] oh. [laughter] i tell you what, someone said, you know, that biden is getting old, i tell you what. well, guess what, the only thing that comes with age is a little bit of wisdom. i have been doing this longer than anybody. and guess what, i m going to continue to do it. jesse: and like a true baby, he needs his rest. getting called out for being on vacation all the time and especially during natural disasters like the one we saw in maui. but little did you know he was not actually on break. i will let joe explain that one. not here today, just for one day, i am not on vacation, ....
classes because of uptick in covid cases. some businesses hospitals and universities have brought back masking. even the white house press secretary says the president will sport a mask again after the first lady tested positive for covid. since the president was with the first lady yesterday, he will be masking while indoors and around people in alignment with cdc guidance and as have been the practice in the past, the president will remove his mask when sufficiently distanced from others. shortly after that, the president appeared in doors at crowded medal of honor ceremony didn t ask before taking it off. near covid infections or mask mandates near pandemic levels. study earlier this year found on a population wide level masking made little or no difference in contracting covid. now, ohio republican senator j.d. vance is introducing a bill that would ban mask mandates across the country. he told fox, quote: this legislation will ensure that no federal bureaucracy ....
that special council jack smith is looking into trump s fund-raising off false voter fraud claims. as some of trump s codefendants may be getting ready to throw trump under the bus. plus, the extreme gerrymandered maps that helped republicans win the house are now rapidly getting struck down by the courts. alabama is just the latest state to feel the judge s wrath. good evening. i m jonathan capehart in for joy reid. we begin tonight with breaking news. the former national chairman of one of the most prominent neofascist white supremacist militia groups in the country is going to prison. henry enrika tarrio was sentenced just a short time ago to 22 years in prison for seditious conspiracy in connection with the january 6th attack on the capitol. that is the longest sentence in any january 6th case so far. but notably less than the 33 years prosecutors were asking for. judge timothy kelly told the court, quote, i don t have any indication that he s remorseful for the ....