congress is opening an investigation into the allegations warning the wealthy institution could lose federal funds as the school down plays the importance of gay s academic misconduct. now congress is involved. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. morning. bill: a good year, huh? merry christmas. dana: happy shortest day of the year as well. happy greg gutfeld day. bill: the president, claudine gay, becoming an embarrassment for harvard announcing it found more cases where she copied the work of others without giving procrit. instead of punishment she is being allowed to update her doctoral dissertation and make corrections. the house committee is expanding its investigation into anti-semitism at harvard to produce all the documents related to the allegations of plagiarism. dana: virginia fox writing is standards aren t be applied consistently resulting in different rules for different members of the academic community. if a university is no
drones houthi launched from yemen this morning, this comes as the international shipping industry is on high alerts for attacks in the region. i m griff jenkins. aishah: hi, i m aishah hasnie. that makes the houthi drones shot down 37. military officials reporting these are only defensive measures. lucas tomlinson is live from the white house on these attacks. if they want to disrupt international shipping it appears they are succeeding, a number of shipping companies told them to go dead in the water or get to a safe port. hard to do in yemen. the national security advisor is holding iran responsible for these attacks. while the houthis are pulling the trigger, so to speak, they re handed the gun by iran and iran has a responsibility to take steps themselves to cease these attacks. there have been over 20 drone and missile attacks against international shipping in recent weeks. to date, there has been no response. shot down a $32 million reaper drone off the coast of y
the fbi relying on unconfirmed data was susceptible to confirmation bias and ignored evidence that did not fit a preconceived narrative. those were the most damning conclusions of the report, into ties between russia and donald trump s 2016 presidential campaign. special prosecutor writing, quote, the fbi s ability to critically analyze information that ran counter to the narrative of a trump russia collusive relationship exhibited crossfire hurricane is extremely troublesome. the former president for his parts of the report proved that the original fbi probe was a charade started by the democrats. and added that there must be a heavy price to pay for putting our country through this. his allies agreed. there needs to be prosecutions. there needs to be accountability. and the fbi has got to be overhauled now top to bottom. it has got to be completely reformed. it cannot go on like this. jonathan: but with no new prosecutions announced in the report and many procedural r
believe the fbi possesses an unclassified internal document that includes very serious and detailed allegations implicatin the current president of the united states those are the words of the senate budget committee ranking member chuck grassley who is tapping his proverbial watches as time runs out for the fbi to put up or shut up and produce the documents that congressional leaders are looking for. it s mcconnell and house oversight committee chair james comber working together demanding the bureau to produce an unclassified record alleging a criminal scheme involving the vice president joe biden and a foreign national. document and ftb i generated form allegedly details an arrangement involving an exchange of money for policy decisions. it s going to be interesting to see what joe biden has to sa and he lied about the laptop he lied about his knowledge of his family s and business dealings and he lied about his involvement in his families shady business dealings and he
doesn t face any prison time. for has the jury found him guilty of raping miss carroll but found he defamed her and sexually abused her. for that, the jury has ordered him the pay $5 million in damages. we ll take you through these two stories and indeed how they link up in a political sense a little later this hour. let s first get the latest on this e. jean carroll case. bryan llenas in new york with the latest. good afternoon. in less than three hours, this jury came to their decision remarkably quick considering that they were considering ten different issues whether former president trump was liable. this jury found that former president trump was and is liable of battery, more specifically of sexually abusing and forcibly touching e. jean carroll in a new york city department store in 1996. they also found him liable for defamation founding that he maliciously smeared carroll s reputation. that did harm to her professionally and personally and asked to award her with