Good morning and welcome to Fox News First. Here's what you need to know as you start your Friday ...Trump mulls FDR-like 'fireside chat' over Ukraine phone call President Trump said Thursday he may read the transcript of his July 25 telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky aloud to Americans in the style of the famous fireside chats delivered by President Franklin Roosevelt during the 1930s and 1940s. “This is over a phone call that is a good call,” Trump said in an interview with the Washington Examiner. "At some point, I’m going to sit down, perhaps as a fireside chat on live television, and I will read the transcript of the call because people have to hear it. When you read it, it’s a straight call.” President Franklin D. Roosevelt talks to the nation in a fireside chat from the White House in this November 1937 photo. Roosevelt's series of informal radio addresses, dubbed fireside chats, were meant to garner support for his New Deal policies and update Americans on the course of World War II, among other issues. A public reading of the call transcript by Trump would mark his latest effort to thwart congressional Democrats' impeachment inquiry against him and sway public support in his favor. Click here for more on our top story. Ex-White House official testifies he wasn't concerned 'anything illegal was discussed' on Trump-Ukraine call The president's consideration of a fireside chat came amid two developments: A sharply divided House voted Thursday to approve a resolution setting "ground rules" for the impeachment inquiry into Trump. In addition, a top White House adviser on the National Security Council who recently resigned testified to the House impeachment inquiry that he was not concerned that “anything illegal was discussed” during the president's call with Ukraine’s president. Still, Tim Morrison, whose resignation was first reported Wednesday, appeared to confirm details about Trump's efforts to push Ukraine to investigate his political rivals. Morrison -- who handled Russian and European affairs for the NSC -- was listening in on the call between Trump and Zelensky from the White House Situation Room, he acknowledged Thursday. His resignation takes effect on Friday. Click here for more. Obama Clinton emails demanded amid Dems' impeachment inquiry Access to "all email communications" between former President Obama and Hillary Clinton was demanded Thursday in a letter to the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said the messages could shed light on whether the former secretary of state discussed sensitive matters on her unsecured personal email system while she was overseas. In October, a State Department report into Clinton's use of a private email server for government business found dozens of people at fault and hundreds of security violations. Firefighters walks on a road leading
Trump considers FDR-esque 'fireside chat' on Ukraine call; Trump decides to leave New York
Good morning and welcome to Fox News First. Here's what you need to know as you start your Friday ...Trump mulls FDR-like 'fireside chat' over Ukraine phone call President Trump said Thursday he may read the transcript of his July 25 telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky aloud to Americans in the style of the famous fireside chats delivered by President Franklin Roosevelt during the 1930s and 1940s. “This is over a phone call that is a good call,” Trump said in an interview with the Washington Examiner. "At some point, I’m going to sit down, perhaps as a fireside chat on live television, and I will read the transcript of the call because people have to hear it. When you read it, it’s a straight call.” President Franklin D. Roosevelt talks to the nation in a fireside chat from the White House in this November 1937 photo. Roosevelt's series of informal radio addresses, dubbed fireside chats, were meant to garner support for his New Deal policies and update Americans on the course of World War II, among other issues. A public reading of the call transcript by Trump would mark his latest effort to thwart congressional Democrats' impeachment inquiry against him and sway public support in his favor. Click here for more on our top story. Ex-White House official testifies he wasn't concerned 'anything illegal was discussed' on Trump-Ukraine call The president's consideration of a fireside chat came amid two developments: A sharply divided House voted Thursday to approve a resolution setting "ground rules" for the impeachment inquiry into Trump. In addition, a top White House adviser on the National Security Council who recently resigned testified to the House impeachment inquiry that he was not concerned that “anything illegal was discussed” during the president's call with Ukraine’s president. Still, Tim Morrison, whose resignation was first reported Wednesday, appeared to confirm details about Trump's efforts to push Ukraine to investigate his political rivals. Morrison -- who handled Russian and European affairs for the NSC -- was listening in on the call between Trump and Zelensky from the White House Situation Room, he acknowledged Thursday. His resignation takes effect on Friday. Click here for more. Obama Clinton emails demanded amid Dems' impeachment inquiry Access to "all email communications" between former President Obama and Hillary Clinton was demanded Thursday in a letter to the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said the messages could shed light on whether the former secretary of state discussed sensitive matters on her unsecured personal email system while she was overseas. In October, a State Department report into Clinton's use of a private email server for government business found dozens of people at fault and hundreds of security violations. Firefighters walks on a road leading
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