The lengths that the white house was willing to go to try to control the covid narrative on social media. Fox business Hillary Vaughn live now in capitol hill with this exclusive new batch of files. Hillary. Reporter good morning, maria. Fox business has obtained internal communications between the white house and facebook during the height of the pandemic and some of these communications that we have obtained we cannot air on tv. They need to be bleeped. The big take away here, white house officials had an fbomb riddled faceoff with facebook demanding they hand over more data on its users and asking for special tools to target users, all in an effort to get more shots in arms. President bidens then digital director asking facebook if Government Agencies could have access to more targeted tools, asking, quote, since its a Global Pandemic can we give agencies access to targeting parameters, that they northerlyy wouldnt be able to. The white houses Senior Advisor for the Covid Response j
Areas along the peninsula, but then the main storm is still well to the north of us, so we are going to see it slowly tracking into the bay area, and by this afternoon, well see it moving into san jose. While we do have a dry start now, we can see the rain drops coming down on the camera lens here as we get a look at low visibility and dense fog hugging the coast and moving across parts of the bay area. We are getting improved visibility where it was low this morning, cut down to just about 0. As we go into the rest of the afternoon, spotty showers here and there, but this storm system, not going to be a very big rainmaker here, some light amounts of downpours, and our rainfall totals into this evening, and well have lingering rain into day tomorrow. Most of us getting less than. 25 when its said and done. Another storm is in the forecast in the microclimate forecast coming up. When were not on the air, our bay area app is the best way to stay on top of the weatherment download it to w
The fire fg dozens of u. S. Attorneys. Joining me is cnn legal analyst, laura coats, attorney Stewart Kaplan a former special agent with the fbi. Good evening to you so glad that all of you could join us this evening. It was a total surprise to the u. S. Attorneys who were fired tonight, many of them are shocked, some are traveling on government business now. How was this handled . You know, its not particularly strange that a new administration has called for the exist are or the hold over u. S. Attorneys to actually resign in the usually happens at the beginning of every administration. What is odd is the abruptness, and of course youre dealing with a president who has some pending lawsuits across the United States which makes people kind of raise their eyebrows and thoink themselves, is this about a personal rebuke or is this about a professional administration trying to simply clean house to have people in place who will continue their policies or certainly look at their policies.
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But what is the motive . Details in a live report ahead. We begin with new calls for a russia investigation this time from President Trump casting suspicion on top democrats. Hallie jackson has the story. Reporter this 13yearold photoop back in focus for the president , trying to turn the russia spotlight to democrats with diversionary twitter tactics, blasting old pictures. Senator Chuck Schumer with vladimir putin, nancy pelosi with the Russian Ambassador in 2010. Official meetings that as senator schumer points out happened in full public view. And he everyone enjoyed a krispy kreme doughnut. Reporter the president clearly frustrated with continued questions about talks with the Russian Ambassador, some only disclosed in the last 48 hour, like carter page, now acknowledging he did talk with the ambassador at the Republican Convention reversing what he said before. Im not going to deny that i talked with him. Reporter and then there is attorney general Jeff Sessions who just recused