The judge also found that there was clear and convincing evidence of johnsons innocence. After more than 28 years behind bars, he was more than a free man. 49yearold Lamar Johnson had finally been exonerated. Bailiff . Yes, sir. The hearing is adjourned. All rise this time, he would leave the courthouse not in a prison van, but in a black sedan. When i first met you, i asked you to identify yourself. My names Lamar Johnson. Ive been in prison for 26 years now. If i asked you to identify Lamar Johnson right now, what would you say . I am a free man. An exonerated man. And a blessed man. How important was it to have greg elking take the stand and tell the judge what he had done at trial . That was very important. He intentionally, you know, falsely identified me. But not only did he acknowledge that he made a mistake, he took steps to try to correct it and im extremely grateful to him for that. And during that time he spent in prison, he says he never forgot about his friend markus boyd,
ruling against rudy giuliani, a sum that will bankrupt the former mayor of new york city. his attorney said it is basically a death penalty for him, an economic death penalty. plus an update from capitol hill on foreign aid negotiations, the package which would provide critical funding for ukraine. it s been held up by republican demands for stricter immigration policies. but it looks like there s progress there. might be some. we ll get analysis on the biden administration s push to get israel to scale back its war in gaza, what s going on there. with us, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. former state department official, elise jordan. politics nation reverend al sharpton. and presidential chair at vanderbilt university, historian jon meacham is with us. so let s get to it. at a rally on saturday, donald trump again used the language of 20th century authoritarians while separately praising this country s
always dark. will:ed good morning, california. welcome to the fourth you are hour of fox & friends . pete: when you go out to people, i talk to people and say does anybody watch, it s so early, and there are people that get up real early. will: yes. rachel: they re getting up to go fishing will: or they dvr it. a little bit earlier in the show i told pete and rachel and you at home about a little bit of a parental debate that the id had. my son had sort of accepted a dare/bet with his buddies at school to get the haircut called the r9 haircut. he had a huge head of moppy hair and his friends dared him for him the get that haircut. i was, like, i don t want him to learn van i the, i don t want him to the not take himself seriously, but should i let him collect money? long and short is of it, you see the answer. i gave it to him, he did get the haircut, and he has to wear it for the entire week. so i put it to pete and rachel, did i do the right thing as a parent? pete didn
i m going to break your cra cranium, you got that? we are quick to flare, aren t we? one, two, three, four, five, six. is that why you played that song? we re going to do it. he walked on to set this morning playing this song. i m going to get you a blue tooth speaker. i loved laverne and shirley. happy days, and later it was joanie loves. you re like, what are you talking about. good morning, everybody. we re talking about someone we love. hollywood has lost another star, we re talking about actress cindy williams who played shirley on happy days , more on her life in a moment. two more memphis police officers taken off the street, including the one who said he wanted to stomp tyre nichols. coming up, what they did on the night of that deadly beating. and a dangerous ice storm spreading misery across multiple states right now. 40 million americans enter winter weather alerts. travel nightmares beginning this morning. you have treacherous icy outside and a th
we re glad to be together on this couch. rachel: we are glad to be together. will: petition and i were talking, it s like we were talking in code and rachel s like i m not following. we were speaking in sports pet s metaphor. rachel: we do speak in code sometimes. we don t talk in code with you. we re grateful you re here, fourth hour of two days, four hours, we re in the home stretch. we have a lot of big news. rachel: we sure do. there s no bigger news in my house than our baby valentina turned 3 years old. she celebrated with a birthday dinner and we got her cake. she has come along way. she doesn t just have down s syndrome. she had a serious heart condition when she s was six months old, had open hearth surgery so we re so glad and i want to be put it up because so many viewers prayed so hard for her and her doctors during the surgery. she is doing great. she just started school. they start school for children with special needs with down s a little earlier so she s st