Sandra fox news alert, a live look at capitol hill, screen left. Screen right, the Southern Border. Eagle pass, texas, as we count down to a Blockbuster Hearing on capitol hill. Cia and the fbi director set to testify about the growing threats facing americans and we do expect the border crisis to play a starring role. We are watching it all for you live at the top of a new hour. Im sandra smith in new york. John and john roberts in washington. Good to be with you, sandra. This is america reports. Just months ago the fbi director warned congress that so many migrants are flooding across our border that Law Enforcement cannot possibly keep up. The threats that come from the other side of the border are very much consuming all 56 of our field offices, not just in the border states. Any time you have a group of people in the United States that we dont know nearly enough about, that is a source of concern for us. Sandra and now an illegal immigrant has been charged with killing 22yearold N
New yorked. Jilgillian turner. We have kevin oleary and jim jordan. First up, President Biden addressing the backlash from within his own party for using the word illegal last night in referring to migrants. Take a listen. Do you regret using the word illegal last night, sir . Probably technically not supposed to be here. Well have more on that with democratic senator chris coons. He co chairs President Bidens Reelection Committee and we got more from the head of the Border Patrol union. Hes responding to the president s state of the Union Address. Last night saying the union endorsed the bipartisan bill but claimed the bill was derailed by politics. Heres Brandon Judd Telling Martha Why The Union supporting the bill. President biden has put us in this situation. Hes put us in the situation that we have never thought that we would ever be in. Were apprehending seven times more people than what we normally apprehend. We have more than ten times the gotaways. We have more fentanyl coming
White house was willing and able to censor the truth on social media. Republican president ial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy will join us in moments but first to Ashley Strohmier live in the New York City news room with the very latest on this. Ashley, good evening. Reporter hi, trace. Yeah, the Biden White House has routinely denied involvement in suppressing Negative Information about covid19 vaccines on social media. You might recall this exchange with our own peter doocy and then White House Press secretary jen psaki during the summer of 2021. Take a listen. Is there any concern the things youre trying to block or taken down might some day turn out to be we dont take anything down. We dont block anything. Facebook and any private Sector Company makes decisions about what information should be on their platform. Reporter but internal communication between Top White House officials and facebook employees obtained by fox business appears to paint a vastly different picture, even when face
Someone with the temperament of donald trump is not in charge of the law in our country. Because you would be in jail. After all those years of lock her up, trump and his rapidly shrinking inner circle dont see the hypocrisy of whining about the possibility of trump going to prison. As his lawyers test out long shot defenses for the serious charges he faces. And vindication is complete in tennessee. The two expelled state reps win special elections to keep their seats. One of them, justin j. Pearson, joins me tonight. We begin tonight with one of the most striking aspects of Donald Trumps third arraignment yesterday. Besides the fact that a former president of the United States has been arraigned for crimes three times. And it is that all of his frenzied truth social posts and for all of his republican speechifying and about political prosecution, the man who showed up in a washington courtroom on thursday was basically alone. None of his family came to support him, no melania, no ivan
Tab thank you all so much for joining us this night and every night this week, Cnn News Night with abby phillip starts now proof that Donald Trumps legal strategy is working. Thats tonight on this side good evening im abby philip in new york and go all the way back to Donald Trumps very first legal filings and you can spot his legal strategy in plain view. One, make villains out of the people who are bringing you the cases against him. And to delay any and all Legal Proceedings until the latest possible day a day that he hopes comes after the 2024 election. Now, tonight, the former president appears to be winning his two front war on the calendar and on the prosecutors seeking to try him, take georgia, for example, Fani Willis Sat there and listen to trumps attorneys accused her of systemic misconduct prosecutors dont act like this. They said they dont hide affairs with coworkers. They said because she did, according to trumps lawyers, at least, they demand that she be cast out of that