Following the Money Raising lots questions, David Cay Johnston is joining me to talk about Donald Trumps bond problem. As i bid you all a good day from the tom brokaw news center, welcome to alex witt reports. President biden is hosting st. Patricks day events today. His campaign announcing raising 53 million in february, and reporting 155 million in cash on hand. New reaction today to donald trump ramping up dark rhetoric at a rally for a Republican Senate candidate in ohio yesterday. More on that in a moment for you, and new reaction from republicans on the hill to trumps rhetoric, casting january 6th defendants as hostages and patriots. As you know, he did not call for the storming of the capitol. You we are a nation of laws, and those folks were convicted, and pled guilty. If you plead guilty, obviously you are not a patriot. You are someone who committed a criminal act. We have Breaking News on the israelhamas war as leaders negotiate directly for the First Time Since the start of
may have we may lose the ability to leave. the agents text each other afterwards about what they went through? were they texting before the fact about their concerns about what happened that day or what the president was saying or doing? we still don t know. however, tonight we do know more about when the agency s top watchdog knew the messages were missing. tonight, multiple sources familiar with the matter, tell cnn that the inspector general first learned of the missing messages back in may of 2021. now, that s significant because that s not what secret service officials told congress. they told congress that the inspector general, joseph ka far ri, knew in december of 2021. and if he knew in may of 2021, that means it was more than a year before he told the house select committee that potentially crucial information might have been erased. the secret service, as you know, says the messages were lost during a scheduled data migration that began on january 27th, three w
we still don t know. however, tonight we do know more about when the agency s top watchdog knew the messages were missing. tonight multiple sources familiar with the matter tell cnn that the inspector general for the department of homeland security which oversees the secret service first learned of the missing messages in may of 2021. now, that s significant because that s not what secret service officials told congress. they told congress that the inspector general joseph kafari knew in december of 2021, and if he knew in may of 2021, that means it was more than a year before he told the house select committee that potentially crucial information might have been erased. now, the secret service as you know says the messages were lost during a scheduled data migration that began on january 27th, three weeks after the capitol attack. it s also a week after several house committees directed dhs to produce all documents or materials relevant to it so they knew congress wanted to
the way here. we will be joined in a moment. john: but first, a fox news alert, a furious china and military on high alert. house speaker pelosi s trip to taiwan is now over, as the world awaits the fallout promised by the chinese government. good wednesday to you. gillian: pelosi met with taiwan s president and other senior leaders during her 20-hour stay in taipei. reaffirming the commitment to taiwan s democracy and supporting the island militarily. critics say it does more harm than good in an already unstable region. john: communist regime planning a series of live fire exercises tomorrow. ten miles off the coast of taiwan. tennessee republican senator bill haggerty has expertise as a former ambassador to japan. gillian: aishah hasnie joins us this afternoon. how is the white house responding to china s plans? hey there, good afternoon to you, gillian and john. the white house is really trying to get china to not increase tensions any more, to not escalate the
some signs that the temporary ceasefire agreement due to end in a day s time could be extended. hamas and us presidentjoe biden have said they would like to see an extension, but the israeli prime minister said he was open to the idea but has also warned that the war will resume at the end of the deal. 0ur senior international correspondent aurier garin has more. rejoicing in israel after the darkness of recent weeks. the latest group of hostages freed from gaza waved to supporters as they are welcomed home. both israel and hamas are signalling their deal could be extended to free more of those being held. for reunions like this, after 50 days apart. young hostages finally home. emily hand embraced by herfather, thomas, who at one stage believed her dead. now she is free and, he says, doing well. yesterday, we finally got emily back from the hands of the gazan terrorists. she s lost a lot of weight. from herface and body. but generally doing better than we expected. emily s f