fox news top of the hour, three big stories topping the news. china s military carrying out massive blockade drills around taiwan today. china announced three days of drills on saturday after taiwan s president met in california with house speaker kevin mccarthy. protests expected in tennessee today where the state legislature is back in session for the first time since it voted to expel two democrats for their role in a chaotic gun control protest. a at the detention of erin gershkovitch. more on those stories throughout the hour. first. someone got shot. dana: the army sergeant convicted in the death of a black lives protestors in 2020 says it is self-defense but facing a possible sentence of life in prison. texas governor abbott is calling for the state to grant a pardon. that is developing now. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. good morning. bill: i know you had a good weekend. excellent. great easter weekend, thank you. i m bill hemmer
jobs in and live in day in and day out. paul pelosi, he is the husband of speaker pelosi, was violently assaulted during an early morning break-in by an assailant who was reportedly searching for nancy pelosi. a source telling nbc news that mr. pelosi was home alone when the attacker broke in. the attacker was armed with a hammer. paul pelosi reportedly suffered multiple blows to the head and is currently in surgery. the speaker was in washington, d.c. at the time of the attack. as for the assailant, he is in the custody of the san francisco police department. officials say he will face a number of charges including attempted homicide. the motivation for the attack is still under investigation at this hour, but a look at his digital footprint reveals he posted a whole host of conspiracy theories including anti-establishment ideas as well as anti-semitism and vaccine conspiracies. this attack is raising questions about the security of our lawmakers and their families in this i
according to the washington post, but when it s time for the general election is the trump stamp of approval a maga scarlet letter. apparently some republicans think so. and now even the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is warning republicans may not retake the senate. let s discuss this with former republican congresswoman barbara comstock and former adviser for president, david gergen. congressman, what do you think about this? i know you used to serve in a sort of a swing district there in the northern virginia suburbs, kind of near where i grew up there in fairfax county. what do you think? it seems like a lot of these candidates are treating donald trump like beetlejuice try not to say his name too many times. what do you think? how should they handle this? well, certainly in the districts that make the majority, the swing and the purple districts, donald trump is an albatross, so you already have the situation in these purple states where, you know, as mitch m
where were you? out and about, where you go? whatever it is you do? don t do this to me. . no, don t, let s not compare vacations. because america, i guarantee you don lemon just went. [laughs] so that s okay, that s fine. at this, point i was out of the country. i m glad you had a great, time you look great, your tan is great, you look relaxed. great job as usual, i will see you tomorrow, laura coates. by, laura coates. by, don! [laughs] oh boy, it is monday everyone. how are you doing? this is don lemon tonight. we have a cnn exclusive, sources are telling cnn that the justice department is issuing a new grand jury subpoena to the national archives for more documents as part of the january 6th investigation. now, let us pause there. okay? to give you some perspective, that is also part of what we do. this former president has managed to launch not one but she s two in justice department investigations that involve the national archives. on into january 6th, one
gangel and i were told that there was a second subpoena that was a grand jury subpoenaed that will serve to the national archive to produce additional documents, you remember, that the archives responded to a subpoena from the justice department. back in may. to provide all of the documents that they had provided to the january six committee. it appears that tomlin and the team that are looking at things beyond the riders. they re looking at the effort to achieve the transfer of power and the role of the former president from his allies. it looks like they have decided that there is additional material that the january six committee perhaps did not know about. and did not ask about. that they are interested in as part of their investigation. it tells us that there is more that they know about. kim, doesn t tell you anything that the doj is going back to the national archives for more documents about january 6th and does this mean trouble for the former president or who else