20 20 election. No surprise that former president coming out swinging against the charges and the Special Counsel. Welcome to our brandnew hour of americas newsroom. I am dana perino. Whats my name again . Dana murray. Whats my name . Build something. I cant remember. Its after royalty. As william and his George Barrett i was going to say charles. Here we go again now. That third indictment of trump under president bidens justice department. Burned former president charged with 4 Felony Counts in a sweeping 45page indictment. Critics complain it is a crusade against free speech. My concerns me as many of the people celebrating their second indictment are just simply dismissing the implications for free speech. Those are quite dire and real. This is criminalizing disinformation. But the Department Of Justice is saying is that we recognize that politicians can save most things but just not trump because he was told they were false. Begins anew brad baer has got The Big Picture in a momen
Social media. Hello, well come everyone, sandra smith in new york. We have made it to wednesday, rich. Rich we have indeed, im rich in for john roberts. According to documents, white house officials asked facebook if it could provide special access to tools that would target users hesitant to take vaccines and spreading misinformation. Sandra also show Biden Administration officials berated facebook employees for not sharing enough data and alluded to the site being more difficult to deal with than other social media platforms. Rich Hillary Vaughn is live on capitol hill. Hillary, did the white house try to have more control on covid content on facebook than it originally claimed. Thats the big take away from the documents that we obtained. Really publicly the white house was claiming they were just trying to help facebook combat misinformation on their platform. Behind closed doors, it is clear that white house officials were trying to have much more influence on the platform and get
Face questions any moment now, we expect john kirby to join Karine Jeanpierre on the podium after a busy weekend on the international front. More on that in just a moment. Sandra the briefing comes amid renewed questions about President Bidens age and the 2024 election. Well see if The White House gets pressed on any of that. John welcome back as America Reports rolls into hour number two. Im john roberts in washington, off to a rolicking start this week. Sandra we will be monitoring that Press Briefing and will bring the news as it comes in, but first this fox news alert. John major powers testing the United States on The World State yet again, starting with saudi arabia after the oil rich kingdom announced more cuts and threatening another summer of high gas prices. Sandra China Making Waves in the taiwan strait, a Chinese Navy Ship cutting across the path of an american destroyer. John dont forget about russia, Vladimir Putin leaning on the back of the Chinese Communist party as he
the u.s. capitol, field by donald trump s lie. but there is a new are bigger test for democracy that is in the hands of the court. also this hour, you will hear from a capitol police officer who defended the capitol that day. harry dunn is with us live with why he is running for congress. and also tonight, look here the man who led the nra four years into the ground is out. thanks in part to the legal process of new york s attorney general. i am paola ramos, in for a minute look at dean, let s do this. today, january 6th, marks three years since rioters violently stormed the halls of our nation s capital. three years since supporters of donald trump attempted to overturn the will of the, people and three years since americas nearly 250-year-long democratic experiment almost made its end. yesterday, president joe biden kicked off the 2024 election year by marking this anniversary with a grim warning, the threat to our democracy is still ongoing. trump is trying to stea
harris: get ready, a third batch of secrets spilling today from jeffrey epstein s court documents. fallout already being felt all the way from buckingham palace to hollywood and many places in between. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. so more than 300 additional pages unsealed. the largest takeaways about former president bill clinton coming to light. and these documents include a claim that bill clinton tried to stop publication of an article about the sex trafficking operation of the now-deceased pedophile jeffrey epstein. a legal expert with this take. bill clinton is a huge public figure. everywhere he goes there are security and eyeballs on him. you know, it s a cautionary tale your mom told you when you were little, you have to be careful who you associate with. who you associate with you can be collateral damage. they are so caught up in this jeffrey epstein web of scandal like being named in these dock also. harris: we re also learning ab