second trump presidency. the first clips of that will roll out this hour on the lead. and leading this hour, nikki haley has a bit more momentum with ron desantis now out of the race. but are desantis voters willing to back her? or are they going to side with the gop front runner? chris sununu will join us this hour. first we start with kristin holmes in new hampshire where trump is expected to speak tonight. kilie atwood is in salem, new hampshire. a big three days for donald trump. he picked up the endorsements of former competitors, tim scott, ron desantis. what is the trump campaign s message? has trump spoken to desantis since danys dropped out of the race yesterday? yes. that s what we ve been hearing from senior advisers all day. they want the message to be that republicans are coalescing around donald trump. that s what you ll see tonight, when tim scott, vivek ramaswamy take the stage with donald trump. republicans are joining together. these were my opponents. n
$1 billion! sorry, i ll do the dr. evil for you. that s what i did. wouldn t that be great, though? if all of you won instead of me and everyone else here, we would be so happy for you. this is what would happen on friday or monday if i won. this is what would happen. [ laughter ] tim said, my fiance said, if we win, do you promise to quit and travel the world? i said one of those. i would not quit, but i would travel the world. i would be the should i say this on tv? i would be the don matto of cnn. i would be here maybe on a friday or a monday. not every single night. i tell you what, for all ofi wedding date just got moved up. we re going to win, guys. don t forget me if you win. have a good one. so we ve got to get to the news now. enough fun and games. it s serious. the lotto is like over a billion dollars. $1.1 billion here in the northeast, and it is crazy. everybody is playing. so there you go. and there s always hope. this is don lemon tonight. we
approval rating. gas prices trending upward and the blue line in the opposite direction indicates president biden s approval average. oh, boy. you re watching fox and friends first on friday morning, i m carley shimkus. ashley: i m ashley strohmier in for todd piro. by the looks of the graphic, not looking so great. carley: story of the day congressman fred keller was on last hour and he said what many are feeling. he spoke to a woman at a gas station yesterday and she put four gallons of gas in because she couldn t afford anymore. diesel $5.75 for a gallon of gas, that affects grocery prices, people are stuck between buying gas and groceries. ashley: they are going to pick buying gas because they have to go to work. no room for extras right now. republicans trashing democrats prime time january 6 hearing as nothing more than a partisan spectacle orchestrated for the midterm. carley: speaker nancy pelosi refused people on the committee. brooke singman has the latest
welker and michael crowley and barry mccaffrey. thanks for joining us. molly, let me start with you. we see russians make key advances, especially as they are being more concentrated in the eastern part of ukraine. they are hammering the area of severodonetsk. talk me through what you are hearing when it comes to the battlefield in ukraine. reporter: that s exactly right. they are hammering severodonetsk and all of the villages surrounding it. there s been a pocket, a horseshoe-like area, a-in-law fighting area, but that s where all of the russian aggression for the last week has been concentrated in the donbas. severodonetsk has the biggest city, the most strategic in lieu luhansk. this morning. we heard the front line cut the city in half. as of an hour ago, we heard from the head of the city military that told reuters, 60% of the city is under russian control, the eastern part. 20% under ukrainian control and there s a portion of that city which is no man s land. evacuat
well, guess what? they re going to be getting that check soon. that $1,400 check could land in your bank account as soon as this weekend, president biden said. democratic congressional leaders were also present to tout the plan. though not a single republican was there, given that not one republican voted for the legislation. president biden is going to try to boost public support for the law as he marks two new dates on every americans calendar, may 1st. that s when he says every adult will be eligible to get a covid vaccine. and july 4th, to mark sfg a new independence from coronavirus with small gatherings with friends and family. though, we should note, many americans did that last fourth of july. right now about 66 million americans have gotten one vaccine dose with 2.2 million doses being administered every day. now president biden wants to m maintain and speed up that pace. wish i could come out and shake hands with every one of you. reporter: moments ago, a ros