place down near the situation room down below. the west executive entrance is closer to the situation room. it is also next to west executive drive, where for example, the vice president s vehicle was parked. ashley: we will bring the administration s latest excuse for dodging reporter questions. carley: did you hear this, brittney spears said she was backhanded by a security guard while trying to talk to wendy. how both are reacting this morning. you are watching fox and friends first s, i m carley shimkus. ashley: i m ashley strohmier. after haul nothing 35 million for second quarter fundraising. carley: white house hopeful ron desantis raking in $20 million as gop candidates look to gain momentum. alexandria is live with more. alexandria: in council bluff, iowa, this is the largest crowd he has seen. will take a hit from agricultural policy. here is what the trump campaign released. they said desantis has problematic policy position that hurt farmers and demon
cocaine addict. republicans hoping for so much more blamed the justice department. there continues to show a two-tier system in america. if you are the president s leading political opponent, the doj tries to literally put you in jail. if you are the president s son, you get a sweetheart deal. howard: and donald trump likened it to the a traffic ticket, but president biden who has often said his son has done nothing wrong was tight-lipped after announcement. [inaudible conversations] i m very proud of my son. howard: now, you can find similar cases where defendants drew hard hard harsher punishment, but this is no hunter biden has been an embarrassment, and this is hardly the end of the story. i m howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. howard: ahead, my sit-down with chris christie and my interview with conservative firebrand marjorie taylor greene. the pundits immediately clashed over hunter biden plea deal coming just a week after donald trump was formally charge
steve: thank you, carley and todd. good morning everybody, it s tuesday january 9th, 2024. come up this morning on fox & friends. president donald trump is in washington at this hour. three judges later today will hear arguments on whether he has presidential immunity in the federal election interference case that has been brought against him by the federal government. we got a live report in 25 seconds. ainsley: steve, we have a fox & friends exclusive. lawrence is down at our southern border. is he getting a firsthand look at the migrant crisis on the ground there and in the water of the rio grand river. brian: we haven t solved that crisis yet. plus, three s company. job interviews are apparently getting a little bit more crowded. yeah, i m sorry, who s this gentleman sitting behind you? hello, miss lady. miss lady? employers say i want to watch the rest of the movie. employers say gen z job seekers are bringing their mom and dad to job interviews. ains
questions from children. it comes as concerns over the president s age and ability to did the job if re-elected. hello, welcome. i m sandra smith. we have made it to friday. john, hi. did you say friday? we call it fri-yay here in washington. the president struggling with fairly simple questions about his grandchildren and even the last country that he visited during a take your child to work event at the white house yesterday. where are your grandsons or granddaughters? i have one in new york, two in philadelphia, or three no, three, i have one granddaughter who is, i don t know the last country i traveled, thinking what the last one i was in. um i was yeah, you are right, ireland. that s where it was. i heard you had to get back to the oval office. by the way, the one thing i thought when i got to be president, i get to give orders. but i take more orders than i ever did and you are right. sandra: all right. a few interesting moments and exchanges there.
rahses says inaccuracies and lies when it comes to the this issue, and i don t know where to the even begin to answer this question because, again, it s been lies and lies and inaccuracy, and i m just not going to yet into it are from the here. maria: coming up, wisconsin senator ron johnson on questions over biden s influence peddling that will not go away. plus, former acting attorney general matt whitaker and constitutional law professor alan dershowitz on the efforts to take down donald rump there. whatever the case. then the disinformation campaign goes on. independent journalist matt taibbi on how the fbi and other government agencies helped keep biden s inconvenient truths out of the media. then the it has been three years since president obama told us exactly what he wanted after leaving office. i used to say, you know what, if i could make an arrangement where i had a stand-in, a frontman or frontwoman and hay had an earpiece in and i was just in my basement in m