to you, i m jim sciutto. and i m bianna golodryga. we are following several major stories for you this morning. soon family members and the memphis community will gather for tyre nichols funeral to celebrate the life of the 29-year-old whose brutal death at the hands of police sparked protests across the nation. the families of george floyd and breonna taylor who have experienced similar losses are expected to be there. vice president kamala harris will also attend after an invitation from tyre nichols apartments. we will bring you the funeral live when it begins. right now house republicans say they re talking strategy ahead of president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy s meeting over the debt ceiling this afternoon. both sides are standing firm so far. republicans threatening to bring the country closer to defaulting on its debt as they demand spending cuts. the white house vows there will be no negotiations when it comes to paying the nation s existing bills. p
Jon you wrapping up an Emergency Meeting as israels war cabinet wages a response to unprecedented direct attack. Good evening i am jon scott this is a special two hour edition of the fox report. World leaders are condemning irans launch of hundreds of drones and missiles overnight in an Emergency Group of seven Video Conference convened by President Biden. Meanwhile here at home lawmakers are reacting to the president s handling of the situation. What we are witnessing today as we are seeing joe biden to bend over backwards to pander to the hamas wing of the democrat party. We have gone from peace through strength to war through weakness because of the white house where they are weak on all these issues. It really demonstrates how it is astonishing we are not standing firmly with israel but they should never be any kind of conditions. When a nation could launch hundreds of drones towards israel. Jon live team coverage. Trey yingst and tel aviv, cb cotton is it for us. Tim inquired lets
Foundation has been fined for illegal activity when it made a political contribution to the Attorney General Of Florida at the time she was being asked by her constituents to investigate Trump University. Hillary clinton and her top aides knowingly destroyed evidence and covered up their actions. The big question now, are these attacks true . Did Hillary Clinton really destroy evidence . Did donald trump really pay off floridas ag . Cnns drew griffin did some digging on the claim. Reporter this story couldnt have come at a better time for the Clinton Campaign which is pushing back against all those pay to play allegations. Why its come up again is a fairly old story. I did this back in june. Is trump did have to pay a 2,500 fine to the irs for a 25,000 donation. The reason is, carol, it came from trumps foundation. Thats against the irs rules. Foundations cant give to Political Action committees. Its allowed the story to rekindle the allegations that trump essentially paid off the Atto
In ballots that early. A lot of them are active duty servicemen and women. And talk about the veterans here in a speech today, trump said he would boost defense spending, pumping up troop numbers, battalions, ships, cruisers, submarines, et cetera. And he laid out his plan for rebuilding the nations military. And he ripped into the foreign policies of Hillary Clinton. I will ask my generals to present to me a plan within 30 days to defeat and destroy isis. This will require a Military Warfare but also cyber warfare, financial warfare, and ideological warfare. What have we gotten from the horrible, horrible decisions made by barack obama and secretary clinton. Libya is in ruins our ambassador and three other brave americans are dead, and isis has gained a new base of operations. This reduction was done through what is known as sequester which youve all heard about, or automatic Defense Budget cuts. Under the budget agreement, defense took half of the cuts, even though it makes up only o
this as a big national security issue. i think we should be clear the biggest national security issue from my perspective, chuck, is the biden administration is continuing to put forward defense budget cuts during what everybody and the president agrees with this and so does the secretary of defense thinks it s the most dangerous time since world war ii, right? the budget for next year will take us below 3% of gdp spending. that s the lowest level in almost 70 years. to me that s the biggest national security threat and readiness threat we have facing us, and that s something the president needs to address directly. now to senator tuberville, you know, as you know, every senator has the right to place holds on nominees on an issue of policy importance. i certainly have done this myself. i m here in alaska right now. i had a hold on the secretary of the army, the chief of the staff