Im bret baier. Breaking tonight, the issue of President Bidens memory and Mental Fitness on full display in front of a House Committee today. The now former Special Counsel who wrote controversial remarks concerning the subject was grilled today in a hearing about his decision not to charge the president over his retention of classified documents. Correspondent david spunt has all the highlights tonight from a contentious hearing. Good evening, david. David good evening. Robert hur took questions for almost five hours and it became clear right out of the gate that this was a proxy fight over who could possibly win the white house in november. I did not sanitize my explanation, nor did i disparage the president unfairly. Former Special Counsel robert hur defending his report and his credibility. The report critical of President Bidens handling of classified documents found piled up in tattered boxes in his Delaware Garage and personal offices. We identified evidence that the president w
Zuckerberg and elon musk. Bret we begin with a weather alert. Tonight, Severe Weather over much of the eastern part of the country. More than 130 million americans are at risk of seeing the Severe Weather outbreak either late this afternoon, into this evening. Here in washington, d. C. , Federal Government offices closed early today, sending employees home ahead of these anticipated storms. Plane travel up and down the east coast, largely grounded at this hour. No sense of when that stops. This is the most serious threat of the storm that the nations capitol has faced in years. Fox weather correspondent katie berne is in d. C. Tonight on the streets. Good evening, katie. Good evening, bret. Yeah, rain is moving into d. C. Now and we could feel hurricanestrength winds gusting as fast as 75 miles per hour. In fact, in a suburb of d. C. , centerville, virginia people already have reports of 80 mileperhour wind gusts there just in the last hour or. So the storm system is impacting heavily
Im bret baier. President biden and his team send mixed messages over whether he has Apentagon Guised for calling Immigrant Murder suspect illegal. Common ground suspect deals with how the Border Crisis is affecting congressional Threat Assessments and another major city contemplates using the National Guard to deal with violence and Public Transportation facilities. Bret but first, breaking tonight, we are getting new information on the dangers of illegal immigration as reports of arrests for Violent Crimes escalate across the country. The director of the fbi was grilled on the subject today during the senates annual worldwide Threat Assessment hearing. You can expect more of the same tomorrow in the house. Some headlines today. Correspondent Gillian Turner has details from the State Department tonight. Good evening, gillian. Gillian good evening, bret. We got a rare glimpse into the Intelligence Communitys thinking about what exactly america is up against in the intel chief did not pa
Jesse i could use water, too. Thank you. Bret gogood evening. Im bret baier, breaking tonight. The u. S. Supreme court will decide whether former President Donald Trump has immunity from prosecution in the Special Counsels federal election interference case. Now, this means the justices will decide a huge Election Year dispute that will have blockbuster legal and political implications for the nation. And for the upcoming election, obviously. Fox news chief Legal Correspondent anchor of Fox News Sunday Shannon Bream is here with the breaking details. Good evening, shannon. Shannon hello, bret. Well, tonight, this is a big win for the trump team in the sense that it delays the federal criminal trial that Special Counsel jack smith had originally pushed to start marc. After a loss at the d. C. Circuit, which issued a Sweeping Decision Ruling against President Trump on this issue of immunity, we have been standing by to see whether the Supreme Court would actually get involved. Well, toda
his top military adviser says a hold on military promotions by one republican senator is having a negative impact not just on those officers but their families. air force chief of staff general charles q. brown is up for the chair chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. alabama republican senator tommy tuberville is blocking more than 250 military promotions over opposition to the pentagon s abortion policy. chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin leads us off tonight with that from the pentagon. good evening, jennifer. good evening, bret. the pentagon said this months long standoff with the senator from alabama is now threatening readiness and benefiting russia and china. general c.q. brown is the president s pick to be the next chairman of the joint chiefs but his confirmation and that of 265 senior officers are being held up by one senator tommy tuberville of alabama. for the first time in 150 years, the marine corps is without a come dantd because of