it s 4:00 in the east. big day of news today. on capitol hill today a brutal collision between reality and delusion, a republican effort to whitewash the ex-president s ties for russia culminating in a veteran prosecutor under oath seemingly unwilling to acknowledge basic facts in service of republican conspiracy theories. just a few weeks after releasing a 300-page report after an investigation that went on for four years, cost the taxpayers $6.5 million, a report the washington post described this way as, quote, landing with a thud resulting in no new charges and none of the widespread abuses trump and his allies have alleged for years now. special counsel john durham testified today before the house judiciary committee. now, despite all those facts durham described his findings sobering and it was left to it democrats on the committee to point out the truth of his own investigation, an investigation that trump and his hand picked attorney general bill barr setup to inves
crashing into the ocean near japan overnight. six people are said to have been on board. carley: there are reports that one of the engines looked like it was on fire as the aircraft went down. more hostages have been released the fighting set to begin again. direct link between ground operations and pressure on hamas. more than 140 israeli hostages remain in gaza. every day counts for that baby. dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas is heading to texas today. couldn t come at a more critical time because the holiday week did nothing to slow the surge. law that mayorkas want is accelerant to every single aspect of the border crisis. now underway and it s a big one. at least 5 to 8 inches of snow are expected across the upper midwest, new york, and new england. an unrelenting hoard of super pigs already spreading out of control in canada. now we have an invasion coming from the north. i don t know how to handle an invasion of pigs, you need to kill them and gri
military aircraft crashing into the ocean overnight, local people are reporting one confirmed dead. fishermen found some crew members. carley: so sad, officials have located the osprey and there are reports one engine looked like it was on fire. we re working to confirm what happened and will bring updates on this developing story as we get them. you are watching fox and friends first, i m carley shimkus. todd: i d todd piro. you hear there are no routine missions. israel has received a list of hostages hamas says it will release today. carley: it is believed eight or nine americans are being held with truce set to expire at the end of the day. greg palkot has more. hi, greg. greg: we are back in israel, we near tel aviv. as we speak, at various hospitals in this city, hostages are being treated after their incredible ordeal at the hands of hamas terrorists in gaza. another 12 hostages released overnight. red cross and family members were greeting them all. horror s
deeply rooted amid american conservatism for decades, but the attempt to root it into mesh government has new energy sparked by donald trump s first presidency and now fueled by his promises for a second. they want to tear down crosses where they can. and cover them up with social justice flags. but no one will be touching the cross of christ under the trump administration. i swear to you that will never happen. never happen. what more exactly do christian conservatives want in government. we see hints at the congressional level. the separation of church and state is a misnomer. mike johnson, the speaker of the house said shortly after he was made speaker last year, people misunderstand it. it s not in the constitution, he says. we see it in legislation at the state level from laws that ban abortion based on religious opinions of when life starts, to louisiana s just passed mandate to prominently display the ten commandments it every public school classroom. rulings from
but something higher, and many do hold themselves to that standard. going to the wall street journal editorial page, when you re talking about trying to avoid the appearance of partisanship? the journal editorial page is not known in journalism circles. i used to work on the wall street journal on the news side, which is a really respectable news organ on the news side. we did hard reporting, accountability reporting that was, you know, free of bias. the journal editorial page, you can t say the same. i want to read one of the paragraph that leapt out at me. alita s pr responsesh let me read this on another day the group flew on one of the lodge s bush planes to a waterfall where bears snatch salmon from the water with their teeth.