the dirtbag s first son s laptop was russian disinformed. ? turns out that t the biden campaign orchestrated the entire thing. ex cia director mike morell revealing in sworn testimony s that secretaryworn of state, now secretary of state state anthony blinken, who was then a senior biden campaign adviser, led the effort to release that letter. republican jim jordan ripping t into the revelation that lettere became the basis for keeping ama this information from the american people. and the other thing that was im important, we learned that deposition with mr. morrell is they were even mr. morellh rt was even trying to directbiden who the biden campaign told himi who tos to i get to in the medi. it was that coordinated. that s the scary. itary thin was a totaland the political operation. and the most important fact. is it was false. both joe and hunter use that letter as proof to dismiss the laptop or 50 former national intelligence folks fols who said that what this he s ac
the beat with ari melber starts right now. it is friday. i appreciate you sharing that story and i wish you a great weekend. thank you. and it is friday and one of the fridays with a lot of news. there is even more fallout from the scandal engulfing fox news and rupert murdoch. my colleague chris hayes is here with us his fellow author, one place and one show and stick with us, you ll hear from them by the end of the hour. we begin with the political heat emanating from the cpac gathering in the beltway and it upd scores a dilemma for republicans in realtime. after the midterms where they recoiled from the big lie and the trumpy obsession with the party, and this gathering is televising the out right domination, sometime even self-parity of once fringe figurers in charge. candidates who may run against trump decided to cut and run from even trying to make a cpac appearance leaving to to leaders doubling down on things that turned off many voters in november. the far
people of ukraine. he also announced additional sanctions against russia. china was continuing to stick a finger in america s eye cozying up to russia. all of this was yesterday at this time. today a top diplomat traveled to moscow and met with the dictator putin celebrating the meeting was putin and teasing a bigger step in the china alliance. i would like to note that russia/china relations developed like we planned if previous years. everything is ongoing progressively, developed. we achieved new front ears. of course we re waiting for the head of china people s republic to visit russia. harris: you heard it. new frontiers for the two biggest threats to america and to the world really. critics calling for diplomacy over a blank check to ukraine. what biden should do is what he should have been doing all along. urging a diplomatic solution to the dispute between ukraine and russia. he has failed utterly to do that and instead at every turn ratcheted up. going to ukrai
coming right up. first hunter biden finally admitting the laptop filled with his emails incriminating documents and embarrassing photos does indeed belong to him. welcome to a new hour of in us news, i m dana perino. bill: how was the first hour? dana: good. bill: a plus? good morning. i m bill hemmer and good morning. after years of widespread claims dismissing the laptop as the work of hackers or russian disinformation hunter s lawyers conceding it indeed belongs to him and calling him hunter the victim. that change of tune coming as newly empowered republicans launch investigations into hunter s business dealings including his role with bhr, a chinese equity firm banked by some of china s largest state banks. he joined the board in an unpaid position in 2017. he pursued deals involving china s largest private energy firm. later that year a hunter biden associate says that joe biden was consulted on deals with china. one year after that, the department of justice laun
It is the top of hour on cnn newsroom. Im alisyn camerota. And im victor blackwell. Today two Border State Republicans are taking their immigration battle up north. But families are stuck in the middle. Greg abbott ordered more than 1 100 migrants but bused and dropped off at Kamala Harriss home at the conservatory. They have already bused thousands of migrants to other states in recent weeks and they are said to be used as political pawns. The fact that fox news and not the department of homeland security, the city or local ngos were alerted about a plan to leave migrants, including children on the side of a busy d. C. Street makes clear this is just a cruel premeditated political stunt. And then there is Florida Governor ron desantis and hes gloating that he chartered two flights to carry migrants to Marthas Vineyard. Including Young Children who were arriving without any warning to local officials who scrambled to set them up in a nearby church. But here is how Governor Desantis see