martha: just a short time ago president trump announcing he will nominate kelly knight kraft ambassador to the united nations, correspondent david spunt in washington with what we are learning about her and about this nomination tonight. hi, david. hi, martha, good evening. the president made the announcement via twitter an hour ago praising kelly knight craft ambassador to canada. kelly has done outstanding job representing our nation and i have no doubt under her leadership our country will be represented at the highest level. congratulations to kelly and her entire family. now, kelly knight craft took the diplomatic post back in october 2017. she is the first woman to hold this position. originally coming from kentucky, she served in a diplomatic role overseeing u.s. engagement in africa under president george w. bush. she is married to joe craft. he runs alliance resource partners. the third largest coal
that robert kraft is going to want. martha: good to cece you tonight. email we received from carson i was watching a mom error on the screen. computer key barred covers the screen right before the commercial break and error on the keyboard and z is where the y should be. i seem to always notice details, carson says like this. and i thought martha would want to know, too. and carson, you could not be more correct. he says i try to write to her but i m not allowed to have a social media account yet. which means you have a very smart mom, carson. i am only 12 years old. thank you and have a good night. i have to get back to my homework now. good catch, carson. i am a stickler for typos of any kind. so you and i are on the same wavelength. we are so happy that you corrected that and please let us know, carson, if we get anything else wrong. thank you. we read all of your email and you are about to see we listen this is for the story tonight for a friday
producer in the united states. this is a position the president has been waiting to fill for several months after former u.n. ambassador nikki haley announced at the end of last year she was returning to private life. and knight craft s nomination comes after heather nauert states department spokesperson and former fox news colleague was withdrawing her name for personal reasons just last week. now the focus is on kelly knight craft who just won t walk into the position. she will face senate confirmation and the trump administration wants to get her up to speed and up to the u.n. as soon as possible no. word yet on her rice placement as ambassador to canada just yet. martha: david, thank you. sure. let us reaffirm a fundamental truth all children born and unborn are made in the holy image of god. martha: that s from the state of the union. today president trump announcing a new rule that will take millions of dollars away from planned parenthood. you can no longer take federal
there is no evidence there that this is some actual increase in violence and that it has something to do with our current political situation. that s a drawing connections that the media sometimes does that are not warranted by what the actual data shows. martha: interesting piece. robe, thank you very much. good to have you back here tonight. my pleasure. martha: my next guest writes in u.s.a. today jussie smollett s alleged plan to manufacture outrage diminishes impact of real hate crime. james robbins is a member of u.s.a. today s board of contributors and an author to the author of erasing america, losing our future by destroying our past. james, good to have you with us tonight. first of all, your reaction to that conversation and this idea that we are being constantly told that hate crimes are epidemic and that they are rising at a quick pace in this country? well, it s an article of faith among the left that, you know, the era of trump has unleashed all of this hate.
martha: the white house watching this one they say they are quote looking into the role of alexander acosta in the case of jeffrey epstein. a judge ruling that the prosecution team acosta headed broke the law in their plea deal with the well-connected billionaire, who is accused of molesting dozens of underaged girls who were never permitted to tell their story. trace gallagher has the back story for us tonight from our west coast newsroom. martha, what s paramount in this case is that some 80 women came forward claiming that from 2001 to 2006 think were molested and abused by billionaire jeffrey epstein. fbi and court records also show that epstein put together a network of underaged girls and forced them to perform sex acts at his palm beach mansion and he was suspected of trafficking minors from overseas to various sex parties at his homes around the world. bottom line, he was facing a