if completely embarrassing to the democratic party and the biden administration. comer says he has discovered one of another one of biden s family members may be involved in influence peddling. no denying it with the bank records. we will keep following the money. there it is. for the win. it is no good. no good. and pittsburgh advances in the ncaa tournament. steve: we start with a fox news alert on this wednesday morning. hoosegow and washington, d.c. engage in a tense war of words after a russian fighter jet downed a u.s. reaper drone at 35,000 feet above the black sea. brian: the pentagon calling out the kremlin s unsafe action as russia s ambassador demands the u.s. put an end to hostile flights in international waters, mind you. ainsley: lucas tomlinson is live in washington with the latest. good morning. the reaper drone went down southwest of crimea near ukraine after a russian fighter jet complied with it. the kremlin says the will on its own. pot
completely embarrassing to this administration and embarrassing to the democratic party. republicans getting new documents of the hunter biden financial dealings. comer says he has discovered another one of biden s family members may be involved in influence peddling. no denying it now with the bank records. we will keep following the money. davis. there it is. 3 for the win. it is no good, ball put back, no good and pittsburgh advances in the ncaa tournament. steve: now i m hungry again. good morning, capitol hill. if you were in that building walk out the door 33 degrees feels like 21 on this 15th day of march. that s right. beware the ides of march. remember what happened to julia caesar. he was warned. ainsley: saint patrick s day falls on a friday this year. so the pubs in boston and new york packed. brian: people show great responsibility during the work day and leave early. they got work or school the next day. ainsley: wear green. gentlemen wear gr
mexican cartel claiming the border was open, saying the u.s. was rolling out the welcome mat, all that not true. bill melugin live for more on this today. hello, bill. bill: bill, good morning, that is right. fox news spoke to the migrants involved in the ush are at the border and they told us it stemmed from a facebook post that went viral among the migrants that promised them they would be let into the country if they showed up at the bridge. show this video, exclusive fox news video from juarez, you see hundreds of migrants pushing past border guards and running to the bridge. a lot of them are cheering and sound excited and jubilent. they think they will run across that bridge and get into the united states. they were blocked by cbp and the mexican military. it was a facebook post and they shared the post with us, if we can pull that up. it is in spanish. it essentially says it claims to be from somebody who crossed two days prior and that person claims cbp told them th
the billionaire is here, too. let s get the latest from kelly o grady in los angeles outside first republic bank that yesterday at this time, its very future was in question. not so much today. kelly? that s right, neil. first republicly closed down 62% yesterday. i just checked and looks like it s up 28% today. that s a good sign for them. we re seeing more concern with scb. the fdic is looking to avoid a bailout and look for a buyer. we re learning that the fdic is looking to hold another auction to sell svb after attempts failed this weekend. my sources tell me a number of private equity firms are considering the acquisition but they re not sold on buying the bank in its entirety yet. this comes as a shareholder class action lawsuit has been filed against the bank and the former cfo and coo. there will be many suits to follow on this front. this comes as governmental scrutiny ramps up on what went don at svb. the doj is investigating the collapse. this is routine in a si
obviously, tensions are already high between the two nations over involvement in ukraine. senior correspondent mike tobin is in kyiv tonight with the latest on this. good evening, mike. good evening, bret. a brazen violation of international law. that s the way the state department describes this contact between a u.s. drone and two russian fighter jets that ended with the u.s. drone being ditched in the black sea. the pentagon says for a half hour this morning two russian su-27 fighter jets harassed a u.s. mq 9 reaper drone in international fuel space. dumped fuel on it and pass sod close struck one of the propellers dropping it down into the southwest of crimea. this is the first contact of this sort since the height of the cold war. this incident demonstrates a lack of competence in addition to being unsafe and unprofessional. russian defense ministry denies that the jet impacted the u.s. drone and says the drone was headed in the direction of russia with its transpo