It is leap day, this is Fox And Friends. We start with fox news alert, illinois becomes the third state to kick donald trump off the ballot as Supreme Court says they will take up the president ial immunity case. Shannon bream on both of those in a minute. Steve plus, a Dualing Battle at the border, Lawrence Jones is live at the border. The Dhs Secretaries the border is a big problem. Its a crisis on multiple levels in multiple places. Brian very true. Fit for duty, that is what President Bidens doctors are saying after his physical. No Cognitive Test, i guess it will be a mystery. Ainsley he is feign. Steve he takes one everyday. Brian my bad. The finl hour of Fox And Friends starts now. Animation. Steve fox news alert. Our big story, two major stories this morning, President Biden and former President Trump are both making trips to the southern border today to discuss the border. Ainsley Dualing Visit as judge orders donald trump name removed from the illinois primary ballot. Brian l
it because we put so much on the onus of individual shoulders. and the broad aggregate sense, it s way better than i feared it would be. we will take that statement and run with it. thank you, my friend. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. one of the many revelations to come out of the january six committee hearings was trump attorney general bill barr described, in his own words, how he pushed back against trump s claims of election fraud. he called those claims bogus, crazy stuff, and, most incuriously, complete bias. despite the heroic headlines generated by barr s testimony, it is a good point to remember that barr did not say anything publicly debunking those same claims of election fraud until december 1st, which was nearly a month after the 2020 election. in fact, before his post trump rehabilitation tour, this was the bill barr we knew. what happened to the president in the 2016 election, and throughout the first two years of his administration, was a
across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. i ll see you then tomorrow. you then tomorrow one of the many revelations to come out of the january six committees, was trump attorney general bill barr described in his own words how he pushed back against trump s claims of election fraud. he called those claims bogus, crazy stuff, and most notoriously complete bs despite the heroic headlines generated by barr s testimony, it is a good point to remember that barr did not say anything publicly debunking those same claims of election fraud until december 1st, which was nearly a month after the 2020 election. in fact, before his post trump rehabilitation tour, this was the bill barr we knew. what happened to the president in the 2016 election, and throughout the first two years of his administration, was a point. it was a grave injustice, and it was unprecedented in american history. the law enforcement and intelligence apparatus of this country who are involved in
wanted to order the doj to prosecute his enemies. hillary clinton and james comey. that of course failed fantastically what his white house counsel refused the request. so, once out of office trump took matters in his own hand. in march, trump sued hillary clinton, the democratic national committee, james comey and a whole host of other characters. accusing them of being part of a conspiracy against him. in what he refers to as the trump russia conspiracy. this is all circa 2016. all of these people, according to, trump made up evidence against him in an attempt to deny him to russia hillary clinton and her, quo cohorts, orchestrated in unthinkable plot. trump sought $24 million in damages. that s not an insignificant amount of money. and he chose to file that lawsuit roughly 70 miles from his palm beach home, because the judge presiding in that jurisdiction just so happen to be his appointee. that judge whom we all come to know very well over the past few weeks, of course,
their sights to old faithful, a hillary clinton conspiracy. in other words, when their probe turned up nothing, when durham came up empty handed, barr and durham chased down a new hypothesis. hillary clinton and her campaign had colluded with the government to push a trump russia conspiracy, because when all else fails, there is always the republican party s number one enemy, hillary clinton. quote, by summer 2020, with election day approaching, mr. barr pressed mr. durham to dropped a potential interim report centered on the clinton campaign, and fbi gullibility, or willful blindness. while durham never ended up releasing this report, the sheer desperation by the attorney general to give trump a hail mary in the months before the election is astonishing. it became clear in the months leading up to the election that there was absolutely no evidence of a deep state conspiracy against donald trump. what did bill barr do? quote, by summer 2020, it was clear that the hunt for