Every day in every state across the country, our political system is bankrolled by an army of fundraisers, pulling in millions of dollars a race. Sometimes it looks like you might imagine knocking on doors, calling every name in the phone book, and emailsso many emails. But for all those Little Fish throwing 100 to their local race, its the whales those campaign fundraisers really need powerful, rich individuals and companies. And when they donate 25,000, 100,000, A Million dollars, they want a Favor. Or 10. It should be obvious thats corrupt, but with a wink and a nod, political Deals Toe the Bribery Line every single day. And we may never have noticed that if a certain illinois Governor Hadnt flung back the curtain with an unrepentant ego, a political Rra Pocouption crime spree, and a set of unprecedented Audio Recordings that shined a bright light on the inner workings of american political power. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Rod Blagojevich. It was early morning, cause i used to get
Every day in every state across the country, our political system is bankrolled by an army of fundraisers, pulling in millions of dollars a race. Sometimes it looks like you might imagine knocking on doors, calling every name in the phone book, and emailsso many emails. But for all those Little Fish throwing 100 to their local race, its the whales those campaign fundraisers really need powerful, rich individuals and companies. And when they donate 25,000, 100,000, A Million dollars, they want a Favor. Or 10. It should be obvious thats corrupt, but with a wink and a nod, political Deals Toe the Bribery Line every single day. And we may never have noticed that if a certain illinois Governor Hadnt flung back the curtain with an unrepentant ego, a political corruption crime spree, and a set of unprecedented Audio Recordings that shined a bright light on the inner workings of american political power. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Rod Blagojevich. It was early morning, cause i used to get up e
Wednesday night of Jonathan Mccall Grant enjoying the night off and im vicki liviakis Oakley Union elementary School District has all new board members. And as of tonight. A new Board President. You may remember this all comes after the entire board resigned back in february after comments they made during a School Board Meeting that they didnt realize was live online. Kron fours, michelle kingston brings us the latest. This is been a remarkable civic display. The now former interim Board President of the Oakley Union elementary School District says being a part of the board over the past few months has been a great experience and productive for the community. Mike maxwell was brought on after the entire former board resigned back in february just hours after comments they made about parents in their district were caught on camera during a meeting they thought was no longer being recorded. Call me on that. Want to take on they want their babysitter fact. The video has more than 700,000
nursing home deaths in the state of new york. we will be following that as well. first, it is the day after. reactions have been pouring in from everywhere to donald trump s new status of being the very first president to be impeached and acquitted twice. there are also lingering questions whether the house could have done anything differently. house manager plaskett said calling witnesses would not have changed a thing. watch this. these are not honest people. kevin mccarthy has changed his story multiple times about what happened. prepare pence, his own president came after him and tried to assassinate him. and we are still waiting to hear from him. what does that tell but the fortitude of these individuals? at the end of the day, it wasn t more witnesses that we needed, it was more senators with spines. all right. let s get into this w. me now, alley vitale, who is on capitol hill. it has been quite a 24rks 48, 72 four years shall we say? we could go on. talk me th
benjamin: they are preparing for christmas covid surge as americans are left scrambling. a nightmare on one of the busiest travel days of the year, hundreds of flights canceled across the country. what you need to know before heading home for the holidays. it s beginning to look a lot like christmas everywhere you go take a look and listening once again with candy canes benjamin: good morning. merry christmas eve. griff:you are looking at the gorgeous christmas tree in new york on fox square in today you get the boy band version of fox and friends first, we share an office in washington and we are bring it to you, the first time we had all mail hosting fox and friends first . benjamin: a very modern show. there was no one i would rather be doing it with venue. it will be a fun two hours. it is christmas eve. a lot of news to get to. let s get started. griff:americans are celebrating the most expensive christmas in decades as inflation is soaring to close out