all right. dana, thanks. dana: have a great show. bret: gogood evening. i m bret baier. breaking tonight, we are following two major stories, first former president donald trump is appealing a decision by maine s democratic secretary of state barring him from primary ballot in his role january 6th, 2021 capitol riot. expecting a similar appeal over colorado s decision to remove the decision from that state s ballot. we begin with claudine gay s resignation as the president of harvard university. the departure comes amid several plagiarism accusations criticism over her december congressional testimony where she was unable to say unequivocally calls on campus for the genocide of jews violated the policy. gay is the second person to resign following the testimony along with former upenn president liz magill. mollie lyon has that story from our boston unit tonight. good evening, bret. harvard president claudine gay making it official announcing her decision with heavy hear
agency of unfair treatment and alleging retaliation. republicans say this is further proof of what it calls institutional rot and anti-conservative bias and adding to the argument just before the hearing, the fbi yanked security clearances of two of the agents. working as an fbi special agent was my dream job, my whistle-blowing was a political up oath, but the fbi closed ranks and attacked the messenger. my family and i have been surviving on early withdrawals from the retirement account while the fbi has ignored my request for approval to outside employment. i swore an oath to the constitution. do you believe that the fbi is hostile to you for that reason to keep agents from speaking up? yes, yes, no question. dana: chairman jim jordan morning the whistle-blowers they would face heavy attacks from democrats. we talked to two dozen whistle-blowers, people have come to us and we have interviewed several of those in today three of them. three of those brave whist
general jack keane but breaking tonight, house republicans looking into what they call the weaponization of the federal government. they say federal employees, fbi employees specifically who have talked about it, have faced retaliation. it s another blow to the bureau that s already enduring greater scrutiny in the wake of the special counsel conclusion that it should not have opened an investigation into the trump-russia collusion case. the john durham report. democrats on that committee today called it a lot of hot air in one of the most heathed hearings on the hill in years. correspondent david spunt starts us off tonight from the justice department. good evening, david. bret, geographic to you. witnesses told congress stories of retaliation and intimidation because they questioned a prominent investigation. meanwhile, this letter obtained by fox news is from the fbi and explains that these men policy why their security clearances were revoked. the fbi suspended secu
in for carley shimkus. officials at cook county jail recruiting prisoners to vote illegally. here jackie ibanez. the nine-candidate field is likely to prevent one person from getting the 50 plus percent necessary to win. officials say we should have a clear winner this weekend. it is uphill battle for incumbent mayor lori lightfoot, accused of coercing inmates to vote for her. guards are recruiting prisoners to vote for lightfoot. reporter william jay kelly spoke to one inmate. i said, no, i m registered in another jurisdiction, i can t vote. you can vote for mayor. that would be a felony. then they would back off. they are doing this with all the inmates and being that aggressive? yes. that reporter joined jesse watters with the implications, listen. it would be ironic if mayor lightfoot makes theun areoff due to the jail vote, considering she has made chicago known throughout the world for nothing, but violent crime. this is the latest in a string of scand
one leaves you alone. what s wrong for christ s sake look at him, money. ferris? he doesn t have a fever but he says his stomach hurts and he is seeing spots. jesse: if anybody knows what it s like to not be left alone while they are sick it s joe biden. since the president was diagnosed with covid on thursday, the left sensed an owning. the washington post ran an op-ed this weekend telling biden to quit, joe, quit. and the squad want nothing to do with him. do you want to see joe biden run for a second term. he has got to go. that s an easy question it s not going to take long. i don t want to answer that question because we have not that s not, yeah, i don t want to answer that question. okay. i mean, he is the president. he has the right to run for a second term, absolutely. but i don t want to i don t want i would rather you not do that we got to go. jesse: so that s a no from cory bush. take a look at the polls. democratic primary voter