in the faulkner focus. today s hearing comes after the twitter files exposed execs conversations around the hunter biden laptop story and the biden family business dealings. lawmakers looking to those witnesses, among them twitter s former deputy general counsel james baker to explain how the true story on hunter biden s laptop was censored by social mead and dismissed by media outlets including the new york times and washington post as disinformation. the republican and democrat leaders of the committee are already clashing from the jump. america witnessed a coordinated campaign by social media companies and intelligence community to suppress and delegitimize the existence of hunter biden s laptop and its contents. now mainstream media outlets have verified the laptop. the damage has been done. silly does not begin to capture this obsession. the conspiracy theory have gotten what they want, an apology. what more do they want 57bd why does congress have to be involv
for police reform. stephanie ramos in memphis. that dangerous ice storm, winter alerts across 30 states. 50 million americans. that ice storm causing those multiple accidents already. concerns over the power grid tonight. hundreds of flights canceled. and the record-breaking cold right behind it. wind chills well below zero by tomorrow morning. mireyavil villarreal in dallas. ginger zee timing it out. police appealing for the public s help. the suspect accused of brutal by beating and kidnapping a woman who is now in critical condition. authorities say he may be using social media and their warning tonight. matt gutman reporting. secretary of state antony blinken in israel tonight, urging calm on all sides after some of the worst violence in years. and the mysterious drone attacks in iran. what we re learning tonight. back here at home, the alec murdaugh trial. the new interview played for the jurors. and what he told investigators just after the murders. 6 and the de
fox news captured the dramatic event as it happened live. the china spy craft fell into the ocean off south carolina. it had traveled across the entire continental united states by then. a closer look at its course. it was in american airspace for eight days hovering over montana, spending some time in a specific area there where most of our nuclear arsenal is stored. pentagon said it with as doing some kind of surveillance triggering questions of widespread national security concerns. new reports now another china spy craft like the one we saw recently crashed off the coast of hawaii. with all the facts stacked against the president s response to the dangers of an enemy craft in our skies for days, biden decided to take a victory lap. president biden: zbloo you were saying one step, the recommendation. president biden: they said to me let s wait until the safest place to do it. harris: china said when we shot it down it was an attack and overreaction. republican la
it s how you use your radar. we typically are focused on things that are moving fast. and so it s a bit more difficult to collect on slow moving objects like a balloon. and as they made adjustments, they were able to seize that. the secretary of defense giving an explanation for the string of unidentified objects over the northern united states. it comes as president joe biden may address today how his administration will deal with other objects in the future. also happening this morning, we ll get our first look at pieces of the grand jury report investigating donald trump s attempts to overturn the 2020 election results in georgia. and meanwhile the former president s only challenger so far in 2024 kicks off her campaign with comments about her former boss and president biden that are getting a lot of attention this morning. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, february 16th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. president j
got hit with a subpoena from house republicans over the afghanistan withdrawal. more on the documents republicans are trying to get their eyes on. hundreds of thousands of protesters taking to the streets of france yet again denouncing president macron s controversial pension reform plan. and nashville police just give an update on monday s school shooting. the details about the guns legally purchased be i the shooter and what law enforcement learned from an interview with the parents. we ll have a live report. our nbc news reporters are following the latest development, but we begin with catie beck in nashville where police say the suspect legally bought the firearms she later used to kill three 9-year-olds and three adults yesterday. what more have we learned? reporter: yeah, the police chief speaking to the media a few minutes ago saying there were actually seven guns purchased at five different stores, purchased legally, and the shooter was in the middle of treated