war against hamas as fears of a potential escalation in the region intensifies. plus, russia pounds ukraine s two biggest cities in a new wave of attacks. the assaults are likely to strain nuclear s defenses as the country continues to plead for more military assistance from the u.s. and donald trump is appealing the landmark ruling from maine that disqualified him from the state s primary ballot. later in the program, we ll be joined by maine s secretary of state to talk about her decision there and charlie sykes with his new piece that asks, is disqualifying trump anti-democratic? we ll get the answer along with willie and me, we have the host of way too early jonathan lemire, u.s. special correspondent to bbc news, katty kay, and founder of the conservative website, the bulwark, charlie sykes is with us. willie, we are going to start with some political snapshots of where the race stands, and then we ll get to all the big major news breaking overnight. we have a lot to
I know you dont believe it [laughter] pete will and rachel are arguing again. [laughter] rachel no, were not. Pete shes taking credit for something well talk about later. Imaive degraw, soldier. I didnt know he had a song called soldier. Im going to have to check it out. Beautiful sunset sunrise, excuse me. Rachel wheres that at . Pete south carolina. That looks like south carolina, doesnt it . Oh, there the he is. Hes going out on the dock. Has no idea that rachel hes on fox friends. Pete lets hope he keeps it rachel doesnt take his clothes off. [laughter] pete keep it pg, buddy. Rachel oh, boy. Pete welcome to fox friends. 7 00 eastern time hour. Its also eastern time in texas, i guess thats true. Rachel are you thinking about rome . Pete i do think about rome, what it would have been like, you know . The roman soldiers that were there at the crucifixion. Its all very they were there at so many confluences. Rachel yeah. Do you think about rome . Will not as a often as this meme would
Attacks when people like vivek ramaswamy say, okay, this is a problem about diversity and hiring. this is racism as well. there are a lot of different layers here, but i don t want to miss the attacks on academic freedom. and i think it s much easier to target women or women of color, but ultimately, it s not going to stop there. and i really hope that we can stand up for academic freedom, you know, no matter who the target is of these campaigns. well, i respect and validate everything you re saying, at the same time, those were pretty simple questions that were being asked at the hearing, okay. that s number one. and in the case of claudine gay, the plagiarism aspect of this was an added problem. so a lot of things going on. very complex and ae conversation we should continue to have. willie? and a lot of people, it was
We do not want any more black faces that do not want to be a block voice. we don t want any more brown faces that don t want to be a brown voice. literally word for word i m not putting words in anyone s mouth. ibram kendi brought how to be anti racist. i wrote his sold more copies in mine. here s what it says, opening lines, the remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. the remedy to present discrimination s future discrimination. gas that you need to the stuff you just making that critical races stuff up, no, these are not my words. these are the words of the modern grant wizards of the modern. the man he s talking about there, ibram kendi, joins me now. he is the author of as mr. vivek ramaswamy say s, how to be an anti racist and is also the director of center for anti racist research at boston
Those candidates who want to be the next commander in chief have to be asked how they would deter a war with china over taiwan. what can they do to rebuild our military, stockpiles, key long-range precision flyers and the most stressing national security challenge. on the economic front the issue of what guardrails we put on outbound capital flows so we are not subsidizing china s military or our own destruction. and the issue of tiktok, a complex one to be sure. given the trump edna station s efforts, ran into a legal buzz saw. candidates need to be pressed, as far as cross-border data for which there is little to no regulation. you heard vivek ramaswamy say communist china is our number one threat, but he also said by supporting ukraine in