this. evan gershkovitch and paul whalen are americans. a chance they could come home. putin hopes to find a solution to release them from jail. they have been in moscow for some time. what it all means is not clear. gershkovitch is the reporter for the wall street journal detained since last may. whalen has been behind bars for five years, december of 2018. so we re watching that story. we ll bring you updates if they become available. meanwhile we are off to the races, america. a federal prosecutor accused of running interference for joe biden will testify this morning all part of the official house impeachment investigation which became official as of 5:29 yesterday eastern time. good morning, everybody. it s thursday. you almost made it. i m bill hemmer. dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. the news broke during the five yesterday. we got all our opinions out there and more news today. they aren t wasting any time. today s witness is lesley wolf. a
A whopping 60% of registered American voters believe President Joe Biden was somehow involved in his son Hunter s business dealings, as per a Harvard CAPS-Harris poll.
James Biden is expected to testify before the House panel investigating the first family s alleged influence peddling, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) told investigative journalist John Solomon.
of state mike pompeo. sondland is asking for $1.8 million in legal fees he accrued during the first impeachment of president trump. pompeo failed to follow through on a legally binding promise in which the federal government would reimburse sondland for the legal fees he incurred during the 2019 house impeachment investigation against trump. but as the suit alleged, once pompeo learned of sondland s testimony, which the former ambassador s lawyers described as entirely candid and truthful about trump s quid pro quo, the ukrainian leader, pompeo reanythinged on his promise. a spokesman for pompeo called the lawsuit ludicrous and confident the court will agree. we ll see. still ahead here. we ll take a look at where things stand after two republicans express possible support for the legislation. but, before we go to break, we want to know why are you
not much. i ve never been impressed by the clinton situation as a precedent for this, showing us what might happen. clinton was in the high 60s in approval, very much different from donald trump. the offenses he was accused of were in retrospect a lot more modest than the possible crimes that we re reading about in the mueller report. so if you re looking at the clinton case and saying does this show us that if the democrats begin a house impeachment investigation, they have to worry about losing the election next year, i think that s a really false parallel. and the other thing, i think you said it a little earlier in the program, you know, all very nice, the more important thing, those members of the house, they all took an oath to protect and defend the constitution. and if they do not do anything about these possible crimes that robert mueller has described very vividly in this report, they re essentially saying we re not going to we don t care about the rule of law. and obstru