hour. we ll get her reaction to what is happening on capitol hill and more. and bombshell new claims that the biden administration obstructed the years long investigation into hunter biden related to tax fraud and gun ownership case. i m harris faulkner. an i.r.s. supervisor is making those claims now asking congress for whistleblower protection. that person calls the hunter biden investigation infected by politics. the attorney for that i.r.s. agent says the protected disclosures would include details which contradict sworn testimony, a clear conflict of interest, and an abundance of preferential treatment adding fuel to the house republicans fight to hold the biden family accountable. james comer says the administration may have been working overtime to try to protect hunter biden and adding this about the president. i don t see how joe biden could not be compromised. these family members aren t energy experts. they weren t on boards. at least with burisma hunter actuall
rhetoric with a potential indictment looming, predicting death and destruction just hours before the manhattan da s office received threatening letter. van, marjorie taylor greene takes her political theater to a dc jail to visit a january 6th defendants. but what were conditions really like? and florida s culture war takes aim at michelangelo? how the rallying cry of so-called parents rights could shape the 2024 election, as the 11th hour gets underway on this friday night. good evening. i m mehdi hassan in for stephanie ruhle. and 1:00 this morning donald trump posted yet another insulting and threatening message to his social media platform. he called manhattan da alvin bragg a, quote, degenerate psychopath, and warned the potential death and destruction could follow a charging decision from brags office in the stormy daniels hush money case. at 11:40 this morning, da brags office received an anonymous threatening letter. that letter said, quote, alvin, i m going to kill y
but what were conditions really like? and florida s culture war takes aim at michelangelo? how the rallying cry of so-called parents rights could shape the 2024 election, as the 11th hour gets underway on this friday night. good evening. i m mehdi hassan in for stephanie ruhle. and 1:00 this morning donald trump posted yet another insulting and threatening message to his social media platform. he called manhattan da alvin bragg a, quote, degenerate psychopath, and warned the potential death and destruction could follow a charging decision from brags office in the stormy daniels hush money case. at 11:40 this morning, da brags office received an anonymous threatening letter. that letter said, quote, alvin, i m going to kill you for this. in all capital letters, with 13 exclamation points. we envelope contained white powder, which, thankfully, was not dangerous. a senior new york law enforcement official says there have been several hundred threats to the da s office and recent
Queen elizabeth ii. Those are the headlines on bbc news. You are watching bbc news. Now on bbc news, amol rajan interviews ian hislop. Even by recent standards, 2022 has been a tumultuous year in news. Russia launched a War In Europe. Her late majesty Queen Elizabeth ii died just months after her Platinum Jubilee. And britain went through three Prime Ministers and even more chancellors. One man whos tried to make sense of it is ian hislop, whether on tv or as editor of private eyes fortnightly magazine and latest annual. I visited his office for a conversation not just about recent news, but also why its been a turn off for some and why we need proper journalism more than ever. Ian, thank you so much for talking to me and to bbc news. Lets start, if youre happy to, with a few kind of reflections on this year, because in recent years the news agenda has often felt pretty crazy. Yeah. And overwhelming, but this year, even more than most, weve had War In Europe, the death of her late maje
bret: that was good. harris: thank you. brett is my friend. the candidates and pardons have had their say, and now it s your turn. control of the senate could come down to just a handful of states, as democrats are struggling to keep their grip on power. president biden, standing firm on his closing message that democracy is on the ballot. it s democracy when we vote. president biden: plenty of those moments come around every 3-4 generations. we know that democracy is at risk, and that this is your moment to defend it, preserve or protect it, choose it. harris: the president might not be sure that voters are buying this, and more difficult night. president biden: i optimistic, but i m always optimistic. will the democrats win the house? it will be tough. i think the house a lunar eclipse there. [laughter] harris: emily, i m starting with you then. [laughter] emily: at his rally last night, he showed impatience, the inability to take criticism, pushba