soon because time is running out. congress is ready to get on the easter recess. they had gop priorities, too, into the administration, all sidelined because they re rallying again to the defense of donald trump who continues to exert influence over the party thank you, as always great to see you this morning. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early with us on this thursday morning. morning joe starts now. after he was arrested, apparently today, donald trump has called for america to de-fund the police, ithe fbi, te department of justice, because the democrats have weaponized law enforcement. all right. who in this panel, who thinks that is a good idea? all right. nobody oh, man well, yeah. donald trump s vengeance messaging doesn t seem to be resonating with his base the former president continues to rage post that s a thing, on social media. despite a warning from the judge not to do so meanwhile, mike pence will have to testify before a federal g
they used a single digits missile 20 shoot the unmanned air ship out of the sky. arthel was on air when discussing the threat to taiwan and the war in ukraine. watch. other thing is we have to up gun taiwan. if we learned anything out of the ukraine war because we weren t able to deter it and most everything the ukraines are using now pardon p me, general, we hava live shoot of the balloon going down. it s been taken down. it s now falling from the sky. they re over surf side beach, south carolisouth carolina arthel: they say that i had geopolitical the take down from president biden on wednesday and waited until it was out of the way for debris to not harm people on the ground. the page reading pop secret, spy balloon shot down after white house hid it for a week . live news coverage alexandria hoff near the south carolina beach town where it was shot down but lucas tomlinson at the white house with more. brian, the u.s. navy dispatched three warships to comb the
the balloon had been flying over the country and parts of canada for more than a week prompting secretary of state tony blinken to postpone a planned trip to beijing. welcome to fox news live, i m miken manuel. the balloon was shot by f-22 fighter jet and raising questions about u.s.-china relations. we have fox team coverage with alexandria hoff, charles watson in surf side beach, south carolina and lucas tomlinson on the north lawn of the white house. lucas, let s start off with you. good afternoon. lucas: the u.s. navy dispatched 3 warships and salvage team to combwaters, records spread 7 miles and 47 feet of water. tom cotton say it is chinese spy balloon was a trial balloon for president biden. the president was paralyzed the entire week by a balloon. we should have shot the balloon down over the illusion islands. we should never have allowed to transit the entire continental united states. that incident had not been previously reported until today the pentagon 3 other
shoot down that chinese flight as soon as possible. the pentagon waited until safely over the atlantic. now there are more questions about why the white house did not brief the public about the situation with the present did not act sooner senator marco rubio believes try to use the aircraft to send a larger message. is not a coincidence this happens leading up to state of the union address. leading up to blinken s visit to china. chinese do this to be spotted they knew we would have to react to it as just a bullet it s a message to try to sum the world that we can do whatever we want in america cannot stop us. arthel: fox team coverage for you bright alexandria hoff has more reaction from lawmakers in china as charles watson, he is in south carolina with an eyewitness account of the shoot damper first up lucas tomlinson life in the white house with the reporting, lucas would you have? u.s. navy s dispatch three warships to calm the waters off of south carolina salvage cr
and another loss for the trump movement sweeping across the state. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early with us on this wednesday morning a jammed back morning joe starts now. on a basis that every single pundit and legal analyst said there is no case. 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. he knew there was no case. it was a felony to falsify business records with intent to defraud. everybody said this is not really an indictment, there s nothing here. these are felony crimes in new york city state. my lawyers said there s nothing here. the defendant repeatedly made false statements. they re not not saying what you did. he always caused others to make false statements. charging a former president of the united states for the first time in history. everyone stands equal before the law. donald trump and manhattan district attorney, alvin bragg, held two very different news conferences following yester