we re getting everything we wanted. we wanted hunter biden to come in and answer questions and we have a lot of questions and now he will have to come in and sit down and answer specific questions about specific transactions, specific meetings. bill: the stonewalling is now over and the date has been set so mark your calendar. hunter biden slated to sit down for a closed door deposition with two house panels on the 28th of february if he shows up, right? that s what we thought last time, right, dana? good morning, it s friday. i m bill hemmer in new york. dana: good morning. i m great. bill: getting ready for the weekend. dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. great to be here with you. hunter biden s plans to testify part of house republicans impeachment inquiry into the president a far cry from the scene on the hill last week when the president s son crashed a house oversight contempt hearing, took a seat and then left a few minutes later. now hunte
sandra: a short time from now the white house is set to hold its first on camera briefing since former president trump s victory in iowa, the landslide victory in iowa on monday night. that historic win brings him one step closer to a rematch against president biden. and vice president kamala harris has this thought about all of it. i am scared as heck which is why i m travelling our country. we have done a lot of good work, we need to let people know who brung it to em. and so we have to do that. sandra: ok. hello and welcome, everyone, sandra smith in new york. john, great to be with you. john: good to be with you as well, what is she scared of heck of. i m john roberts in washington. this is america reports . as president biden works to improve his campaign message, his son s legal message only adding to his re-election headaches. prosecutors found traces of cocaine on a pouch hunter biden used to store his gun. sandra: he s trying to dismiss the charges filed
19 dead students, two dead teachers, and the police force that failed them. the lead starts now, what went wrong, on may 24th, 2022, the justice department is out with its new uvalde report, what families of victims killed that day say now about the long list of failures the attorney general is calling out. donald trump s latest immunity defense, presidents can do anything, even when they cross the line. online, in the middle of the night, was it a message to his base for the u.s. supreme court? the disturbing find in gaza by israel looking for hostages , the discovery at a cemetery leading to a brand-new investigation. i am jake tapper in new hampshire, the side of our call with nikki haley. i will be moderating the town hall and there is so much new hampshire voters want to ask the former united nations ambassador and south carolina governor. much more coming up on the race for 2024. we begin with law and justice, the 2022 elementary school massacre in uvalde
being with us. it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. we are following breaking news this morning. charges have just been filed against hunter biden, the son of the sitting president has agreed to a plea deal for two tax misdemeanors and a separate gun possession charge that will likely be dismissed. we ll have more on the latest in just a moment, including new reaction from the white house. plus, more breaking news, save the date for the start of donald trump s federal trial. august 14th, this year, as in less than a couple of months from now for that classified documents trial to start. also ahead, the race against time to find a submersible lost in the middle of the atlantic ocean. five people set out to the wreckage of the titanic deep underwater, but according to the coast guard, there is only enough oxygen in the vehicle to last to until thursday. what we know about who is on board and the search efforts currently under way. we begin with
breaking news stories tonight, with a major shake-up in the race for the 2024 republican nomination. former new jersey governor chris christie just suspending his presidential campaign, just five days before the iowa caucuses. our new reporting tonight on who he might endorse and if it will change the republican battle. plus, those major winter storms slammed the northeast with flooding in new hampshire, connecticut, and new jersey, and authorities in florida are now assessing those tornado damages. but first, there is more breaking news tonight, with a major avalanche closing down a popular lake tahoe ski resort in california. search teams and emergency crews just finished scouring the slopes in search of any missing skiers or snowboarders. we know that at least one person has died and at least three people are hurt. we are tracking storms, too, from coast to coast, with another round of severe weather ahead, so tonight we have team coverage, and cbs s andrew haubner will st