Good afternoon. Irans Supreme Leader has defended his Countrys Missile Attack on israel earlier this week as totally legitimate. Leading Friday Prayers in tehran for the first time in five years, Ayatollah Khamenei said it was the minimum Punishment Israel deserved. Overnight, there were more israeli Air Strikes on lebanon, including one near a Border Crossing which israel says targeted a tunnel used by hezbollah. Our diplomatic correspondent, caroline hawley, has the latest. This was designed as a show of strength from a regime deeply humiliated by a series of devastating blows to its allies, hezbollah and hamas. Supporters commemorated Hassan Nasrallah killed in an israeli Air Strike a week aGo today. Free transport was offered to those who came. And then the Supreme Leader appeared. Those who came. And then the Supreme Leaderappeared. Last those who came. And then the Supreme Leader appeared. Last friday he was reported to have Gone into hiding. Today he came out in public to delive
7 a. M. Ainsley 7. [laughter] brian i assumed. Ainsley i assumed it was me. Brian okay, go ahead. Ainsley it is 7 00 a. M. On the east coast. It is wednesday, march 20th, its my aunts birthday. Has been, lynn. And this is fox friends. We have a fox news alert to start with. A federal court flip flopped why a texas law cracking down on illegal immigration was good to go last night when brian was going to sleep. He went to bed in a good mood and woke up in a bad mood. Brian i know. Steve headline your aunt lynns story was ahead of our lead story. Plus, in other news, here in new york, aocs constituents tell us what they really think of her as a congresswoman. People, the pros stiewrks people getting robbed. I was a volunteer for her. She completely abandoned our community rachel camposduffy will join us live. Brian my aunt kathy was born in june remind me. Boyfriend. Used to be known as a great tight end. Boyfriend. And now Game Show Host travis kelce might be be doing a game show . Migh
clubs over concerns that more documents were stashed there. also ahead, a big win in the fight against the big lie. we ll go through the monumental decision from the supreme court and we ll get expert analysis on the situation in eastern europe following a failed revolt against vladimir putin. secretary of state, antony blinken will be on the show this morning. good morning and welcome to morning joe, it is wednesday june 28th. with us we have the host of way too early jonathan lemire. u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay and white house editor for politico, sam stein. joe is is on assignment but willy and i are here and donald trump is rolling out yet another excuse for that leaked audio tape that appeared to have him showing up classified documents to people. in an interview with fox news digital yesterday the former president professed his innocence and accused the media, even fox, of conspireing against him. here s a portion of the leaked tape from augus
him settling scores. he s shown himself, most particular he doesn t give a damn about the american people. former new jersey governor chris christie is the loudest voice against donald trump so far in the 2024 republican race. it comes as the former president is set to be arraigned what are we? the falcon here? chewbacca. i don t think our viewers can see what was going on and i was covering perfectly. you were covering perfectly. everything was going fine. if i m not telling people one minute before did you see the lights go out on lemire? were you supposed to pay the electric bill? we rotate who does the bills. i wanted to have sort of the 1950s murrow vibe. it started up and it sounded like when hans was hammering the millennial falcon. that s how i fix everything. as you can see, joe and willie are back together al with katty and me. former president trump is set to be arraigned this afternoon on multiple federal charges for his handling of c
we ve already produced there is a pattern across the globe of joe biden s family receiving money from foreign nationals. there is a pattern here that would suggest this allegation is more than credible and it is way past time for the f.b.i. to determine whether or not they need to move forward with an investigation. dana: the f.b.i. s refusal and allegations made in the document coming as president biden s 2024 campaign kicks off, very quietly. david spunt is live at the justice department with more. a story that is escalating quickly, no question about that. we know f.b.i. director christopher wray and house oversight chair james comer are scheduled to speak in a few hours early afternoon in this highly-anticipated phone call. comer claims he is being stonewalled by the f.b.i. but the f.b.i. is saying listen, we will cooperate with you but you have to give us a little bit more time to give you a specific reason for why we re not going to just hand over a document to cong