Brandnew hour and fox news alert. Former President Donald Trump staring down four federal charges stemming from Special Counsel jack smith investigation into january 6th. Im sandra smith in new york. A brandnew hour of America Reports starts right now and it is a treat to have you here today. Hello, rich. Rich great to be here, sandra. Thanks so much. Im rich edson, john roberts has the day off. The former president is expected to be arraigned in Federal Court In Washington tomorrow. Sandra many think the latest indictment will do that again. Rich aishah, what are lawmakers saying . Rich, congress is still on its august recess, but we are already seeing House Republicans begin to strategize on what actions they might take next in response to this latest indictment of the former president , including pulling on the purse strings, that is congresss power. Republican firebrand matt gaetz and Marjorie Taylor greene are calling to defund Special Counsel jack smith. Some folks are eyeing the
for harris. lawmakers are starting to hear from witnesses as impeachment investigation is now official. one republican says his party needs to get the truth. going down these impeachment routes could be a problem politically? no, i don t come in fact, if we don t go down these impeachmt routes, a huge part of america is just going to say, we are not supporting republicans anymore. julie: on the other side of the aisle, denials all around as you can imagine. shifting from president biden who has never spoken allegedly to hunter about business. that is their story. now, in fact, he was never financially involved. some he did at the white house briefing about this. it is certainly baseless political stunt pier that is what we are seeing. there is zero evidence and you can ask me about engagement and what the president has done with his family but there is no evidence spirit weight, but there is no evidence! there is no evidence that the president has done wrong doing. th
we ll speak with him in just a little bit. we will be asking him about this new development, the israeli military just confirming that it mistakingly killed three israel hostages. two of them you can see on the screen, this is a developing story. there apieces to be increasing daylight between the united states and israel on the future of the middle east. watch this. i have and will continue to state president biden and the united states commitment to preserving space for peace. there s still a chance for a two-state solution? it s about time that the israel power time failed and we need to build a new one. let s begin live in jerusalem with nate foy. hi, nate. hi, martha. just hours after national security adviser jake sullivan left israel, the idf made that heart breaking announcement where we learned in the confusion of war israeli soldiers accidentally killed three israeli hostages believing that they were hamas terrorists. this happened in the northern gas stri
alert here in washington. it was the day the house was going to vote on green lighting the impeachment probe of president biden. it happened to be the day that hunter biden was supposed to show up urn subpoena to testify behind closed doors. suddenly, the cable news networks were throwing out banners, unclear whether hunter biden will testify. and, boom, there was the president s son who had insisted on testifying in public talking to reporters. for six years i ve been the target of unrelenting trump attack machine shouting where s hunter. well, here s my answer: i am here. in the depths of my addiction, i was extremely irresponsible with my finances. but to suggest that is grounds for an impeachment inquiry is beyond the absurd. it s shameless. howard: so hunter was using the media mob to try to turn the tables on the republican committee and make the case that he was ready to testify before the cameras knowing full well the panel had rejected the offer. and for all this t
maria: good sunday morning, everyone, welcome to sunday morning futures. i m maria bartiromo. today republicans dig in leaving for the christmas holiday with plans to double down on their investigation if into president biden amidst brazen defiance from first son hunter blowing off a congressional subpoena and instead trying to set the rules of any deposition congressional a investigators are asking for. coming up, house ways and means committee chairman jason smith with more on the republicans investigation of president biden along with his list of depositions he s pursuing in the new year. then, targeting trump. special counsel jack smith tries to get the 45th president on trial before he can cam pawn for president as campaign for president as the amount of surveillance, propaganda and censorship spikes across merge former department of defense chief of staff kash patel along with alan dershowitz on the soft attacks on america s way of life in plain sight. then, the pr