[national anthem] [national anthem] rachel: good morning, everybody. it s 6:00 here in new york city, i m so happy to be sitting next to my friends will and pete this morning. yesterday i brought in three bananas so we could start to be hell think, andstair healthy, and they re still there. [laughter] pete: yeah, look at that. rachel: all three. pete: i haven t eaten a banana many in ten years. will: i ate one four minutes ago. rachel: good for you. pete: they re still good though rachel: no, i m going to attack those bananas. will: i have contended and introduced a massive debate on the office floor around jesse watters prime time, and i think bananas are the number one fruit. i think they are easy, portable, thank you, dave, a lot of i appeal, not messy. i would rank bananas one. rachel: i think they are just like the egg, the perfect egg is the perfect to protein, that s the perfect fruit. will: i defy you, pete, to come up with a fruit that beats the banan
undercuts the defense of a rally just getting out of hand, and this was revealed by furtive texts from trump s own aides. potus is going to have us march there/the capitol. potus is going to caller fit unexpectedly. it was planned, so it was expected. that text shows how donald trump was cooking up a lie to make it look spontaneous. that s also bad because it shows some of trump s intent by hiding it in advance and that the whole march was what trump turned to after a grave meet that was plotting a military role in a coup in the united states to take over your country, democracy and government. this is heavy stuff. this was also part of what was documented today, where some of trump s most extreme plotters pushed for him to abuse pow we are an illegal order to seize voting machines. his team of outside advisers paid him a surprise visit. they proposed the immediate mass seizure of state election machines by the u.s. military. it got to the point where the screaming wa
defense s first witness. meanwhile, we ll tell you why the former president is asking for his federal 2020 election trial to be televised live. new this morning, republican senator tim scott abruptly drops out of the presidential race, even shocking his staffers. what he told them on a call right after. overseas, the world health organization says gaza s main hospital is no longer functioning with several babies dying and more still at risk. also, the u.s. military launches air strikes for the third time on locations in syria used by iran in retaliation for attacks on u.s. troops in the region. and back at home, there are only five days left for congress to come to a deal to avert a government shutdown. the new house speaker has a plan, but does he have the votes? and we begin this very busy hour inside a new york city courtroom where former president trump s eldest son, donald trump jr. has taken the stand again. this time he s the first witness for the defense in
chicken and forcing the u.s. warship to slow down, and a similar thing happened between a chinese jet and u.s. spy plane in recent weeks, there is at this point in time no hotline between the u.s. military and the chinese military. the chinese stopped taking our calls back when then-u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi visited taiwan. so in the immediate moments the pentagon wants that line back open. the concern is that one of these minor incidents could lead to the kind of could spark the kind of conflict that could lead to some all-out armed confrontation. i know that sounds extreme, but things can snowball from a direct confrontation. when it comes to the wider strategic side of the relationship, basically, blinken wants to start getting bring
convincing. we re about to see a rise of all of this in a way that is going to start scamming us in ways we ve never if even cent of. so, i mean even dreamt of. this is now a reality. i hate to say this but, you know, don t answer an unknown number anymore, remove any personal voicemail greetings you have on your phone. i know that sounds extreme, but that s a place they can get a copy of your voice. and, of course, avoid posting videos online to the general public. and narrow that down to your friends or just those you want to share it with. pete: all right. so you and i are in trouble, that s a fact on that one. yeah. if you work in tv, you work in radio, you work in broadcasting, you re in big trouble. pete: but in this case, the scammer was asking for a million bucks. the mom on the phone panicked negotiated it down to 50,000, and over that time was able to find out her daughter was just fine, just with out with another family. it s staggering