good afternoon. two hours and counting until david weiss has to meet this deadline for house republicans to answer questions about the hunter biden probe. i think we can say with confidence he won t meet the deadline. the reason we can say this with confidence, he said so himself in a letter to republican house judiciary chairman jim jordan late last week. i want to read party of it. this is from weiss to jordan. he said in his letter last friday to jordan, the donald trump appointed u.s. attorney quoted a prior letter from june where he wrote clear cheer. a few weeks later, trace, how judiciary chairman jim jordan wrote to weiss asking him who told him to sign that letter. jordan doesn t believe that weiss called the shots in the probe. he think us it was doj. jordan believes this based off of the testimony of irs whistle-blower shapley who investigated the hunter biden tax probe since 2020. he s been on the record numerous times say he saw weiss complain that he was
Last night. Bret that was very good. Im going to have to come back on. Greg one day. Bret if you will have me. Greg of course. Bret good evening. Im bret baier. Fighting on the northern border with lebanon is increasing. Magnifying concerns a new front in the war may be opening. Israeli forces are conducting raids into gaza to look for hostages and assess the situation. Meantime President Biden will speak to the nation about the israelhamas war and the situation in ukraine. 8 00 p. M. Eastern, can you see that right here on fox. We have fox team coverage. Peter doocy is at the white house with a preview of tonights speech. Steve harrigan in beirut with a look at the worldwide demonstrations over the war. Greg palkot is watching the fighting along the israel lebanon border. We begin with Senior Correspondent mike tobin again in southern israel. Good evening, mike. Good evening, bret. While the world watches nervously for the forces to begin the ground offensive troops waiting for orders
from the besieged arab red crescent. western diplomats say that iran is trying to clean up something at its military base. inspectors believe the site may have been used to test triggers for nuclear bombs. this is what a solar flair looks like up close. the flair erupted and was captured by scientists in this dramatic video by nasa. we should be feeling its effects today as radiation distorts the magnetic field possibly disrupting the gps signals. those are the headlines from cnn. i m juanita raj paul. world business today starts now. good morning from cnn london, i m nina dos santos. and a very good afternoon from cnn hong kong, i m andrew stevens. welcome to world business today. the top stories this thursday, a boom town in the midst of devastation. we ll tell you about a japanese city doing brisk business as its neighbors struggle to rebuild. the deadline for the greek debt swap is fast approaching. the signs so far are good as people sign up to push the dea
united nations building in new york. let s go straight to mohammed jamjo jamjoom. how close are these two americans from touching down where you are? reporter: well, brooke, we re here at the royal airport. armani officials are saying that the plane should touch down within the next 20 to 30 minutes. we also learned from the families of josh fattal and shane bauer that the families are indeed here, that sarah shourd, the third american hiker who was detained along with the two men and the fiancee of shane bauer, she s here as well. they re eagerly awaiting the reunion. we do not see any of the families yet or any of the hikers. but clearly there s a sense of anticipation here. we got word two hours ago the omani officials were involved in a negotiation to secure the release of the two hikers. not too much surprise considering there was some anticipation that they would be involved, that they paid the bail because last year when sarah shourd was released, nad her bail and he