case after liberal justice brown jackson recused herself. all conservative justices siding with the majority. they decided both programs do violate the 14th amendment equal protection clause and therefore unlawful. shannon bream, chief legal correspondent is watching it for us. this is a big day. we look back 19 years ago. in 2003 justice sandra day o connor was the swing or deciding vote in what was a landmark supreme court case over race. perhaps the most divisive social, political and cultural issue in the country s history. fast forward to today. tell us about the conservative court majorities blocking colleges using race as part of the admissions process. this case came from a group of asian-american students part of the emphasis saying we re being harmed by the way the race is being used in admissions processes. justice gorsuch during the arguments about this policy said what are you supposed to tell asian american applicants who have coaches telling them try to hide
roof completely torn apart while children were inside. luckily no one was hurt. the governor declaring storm disaster emergencies for several counties, no deaths or injuries reported so far but the flood warnings are still in effect for some areas. on to another fox news alert, we are now learning that a u.s. navy detection system heard the titan submersible implosion on sunday and told rescuers immediately. you re watching fox and friends first on this friday morning. i m carley shimkus. and i m ashley strohmier in for todd piro. loved ones speaking out about the five explorers who lost their lives in that stripling i did with some of them questioning why it took the company so long to alert authorities that the sub was lost in the first place. marianne rafferty has the very latest. marianne good morning. good morning carley and ashley. a senior navy official says an implosion was detected on sunday, us navy detected an anomaly consistent with an implosion or explosi
infamous laptop in 2019 and just left it there and never picked it up? that case on top of what many are calling hunter s sweetheart plea deal reached after a year s long tax and gun probe. brand-new fox polling shows that voters are almost eight times as likely to say the justice department is treating hunter with kid gloves. 55% say they aren t being tough enough. only 7% say it is being too tough. one of the i.r.s. agents on hunter s case revealing nor damning information. he claims the main prosecutor knew about allegations that went far beyond tax fraud and a handgun. watch. as an i.r.s. criminal investigator we need to understand all the financial flows of money. whether it s president biden or elsewhere we need to follow the investigative steps to insure that happens and they were just not allowed in this particular
idea there is a two-tier justice system. they want to use this on a daily basis to make the point about their perceived grievance of a two-tiered justice system. that there is one for the elites and one for everybody else. that he is being treated differently because his name is president biden to there is no evidence of this being the case. two-tiered system of justice, what a bunch of b.s. media slapping down criticism that hunter biden got off easy in his federal tax and gun probe. now a whistleblower says the doj, fbi, and irs all interfered with that investigation. house oversight committee chairman james comer says we will not rest until the full extent of president biden s involvement in his family schemes is revealed. accountability is coming. you just saw her, congressman victoria spartz is on the house judiciary committee which is also investigating the bidens and joins us now. fresh off listening to john durham s testimony about a politicized fbi which we are
soledad. you look gorgeous. you like the hair. you satisfy. it s all about the hair at the end of the day. see you guys. it could be the end of the fen year war. leon panetta says there is a new goal, end come bad and switch the role of u.s. and nato troops from fighting and training. presidential candidates already weighing in. mitt romney s trashing the plan. the chairman of the house armed services committee calls it premature. we re going to talk about that? just a second. first barbara starr is at the pentagon. barbara, we ve got about 89,000 boots on the ground in afghanistan. let s talk about what this would mean for them. you know, kyra, good morning. this will mean they goin get some clear signals about when they will be coming home. that s important to so many military families. but let s go back to what you just said. you put it exactly right. it is a goal now that leon panetta is talking about to transition from combat to training the afghans by the end of