what a story over the weekend. two teenagers were shot outside of new york congressman lee zeldin s long island home. one of the bullets hitting the congressman s fence. his twin daughters were inside doing homework at the time. they ran upstairs. closed themselves into a bathroom and called 911. the detectives now investigating this incident as gang related. zeldin, who has made rising crime one of his top campaign issues, boy did it come home for him over the course of this weekend. here he is earlier today. we get a phone call from our daughter, mckala, we hear our other daughter in the background crying. they were at the kitchen table doing homework. all of a sudden they hear multiple gunshots. they hear screaming. they run upstairs, lock themselves in the bathroom. this is day after day after day. the reality right now in this state is that new yorkers don t feel safe. that feeling of safety may be less common with numbers like this, violent crime in new york city up
steve: good morning, everybody, it s thursday, december 14th, 2023. we start this 6:00 hour with a fox news alert. the house of representatives yesterday voted to formaize an impeachment inquiry into the current president, joe biden. brian: president biden is now one of six presidents in u.s. history to face an impeachment inquiry in the house. lawrence: now his son hunter could be held in contempt of congress for skipping a closed door deposition on capitol hill yesterday. that s right. brooke singman is here with the latest. good morning. good morning. this is a huge step for house republicans who argue that a formal inquiry is the only way to get the white house to actually comply with their investigation. they are accusing president biden of influence peddling during his time as vice president. and they say they are collecting evidence that shows he was involved in his son s foreign business dealings. but, president biden is writing the whole thing off saying in
congressman gaetz saying quote, thoughts and prayers as he works through his grief. congress said we have moved on to a much better speaker, who is honest and trustworthy. of course, that new speaker is speaker mike johnson, dealing with a lot of the issues that kevin mccarthy faced as house speaker. we will see that on display in the coming days. meanwhile, thank you so much for joining us, cnn news now with abby phillip starts, right now. democrats and republicans giving us an instruction manual on how to make hard things harder. that is tonight on news night. good evening, i m abby philip in new york. and right now we are watching both major american political parties ignore history, and its lessons, and really not learning from their mistakes is always a good mess recipe to repeat them. but which party will ultimately bear the brunt of its is the big question. for democrats, joe manchin is the man in the middle. what i will be doing is traveling the country, and s