congress all about it. that s where we start on thursday morning as we get rolling here. i m bill hemmer live in new york. dana: good morning, i m dana perino. there is a lot of news. bombshell allegations come from an unnamed i.r.s. supervisor asking congress for whistleblower protection so he can tell them how the administration is mishandling the hunter biden tax probe. bill: that investigation started back in 2018. white house repeatedly promising to stay out of it. this agent says it has done anything but. according to his lawyer, he has receipts to prove it. my client wants to come forward to congress. he is ready to be questioned about what he knows and what he experienced under the proper legal protections. would you find any evidence or allegation of a political agenda? no. to him the truth is one truth. he wants to come forward with it. the things he has been through are very well documented in emails and other communications with the department of justice
lackey, a loyalist and a true believer, but no one can deny his ongoing seven tralt to donald trump s conduct after today we can likely also describe him as a key witness into the multiple criminal investigations threatening donald j. trump. today when jack met boris, boris epstein, that is, one of the central figures in today s trump world is sitting down with prosecutors from special counsel jack smith s office. it is a development that is sure to inspire questions about where either one of those two criminal probes investigating the disgraced ex-president s conduct is heading the new york times reports this, quote, given his expansive ties to trump, mr. epstein is in a position to provide information in both of the investigations that mr. smith is overseeing one focused on trump s efforts to retain power after losing the 2020 election, the other centered on his handling of classified documents after he left the white house until recently, mr. epstein played a critical ro
bank preparing for work monday morning, one of their colleagues opened fire. i opened the door to see where he s at and i see him shooting. i took off and run out the front door. we heard a click and the lady turned around and said what the hell and he started shooting. five people and the shooter himself were killed. among the dead, a close friend of the governor of kentucky. among more than half a dozen wounded. a police officer, nicholas wilt, shot in the head. he arrived within minutes when the first shot was fired. i want to thank them, our first responders and police officers, responding and doing their best. thank you, y all. the shooter live streamed the attack on instagram. he was being told being let go by the bank. this is the only time i will mention the suspect s name in this case. the suspect has been identified as conner sturgeon. white male, 23 years of age, who was employed at old national bank. his weapon of choice was a rifle. now, nicholas wi
president biden downplayed that balloon s significance in an interview this week saying the flight was, quote, not a major breach. let s bring in retired four-star general jack keane, chairman of the institute for the study of war and a fox news senior strategic analyst. general, good to see you. thanks for coming in. so do you think the administration did the right thing here shooting down this latest object so quickly after it had waited a long time to shoot down the balloon? no, yeah, absolutely. it s the right call. i mean, it s interesting what we don t know, as you indicated, we need a lot of answers. what s very revealing though and concerning is that this we did not pick this up before it entered u.s. air space which is very similar to the historical record we were able to put together after the spy balloon transversed the entire swath of united states. we went back and looked at what s the history of chinese fleet balloons, and we found several of them that had, in
the united states. the absolute opposite of what his public forwardly looking face was in the country under philippe calderon and previous presidents. this verdict is about to come. in it will have huge ramifications for the war on drugs. mexico is watching this jury very closely. we have alexis mcadams covering it. as soon as that verdict comes, in he could face decades in jail in the united states. a unique cast of characters have testified against him with names like the rabbit and people working in this drug world on both sides of the country. so we ll take you there as soon as that happens. it s in new york city. it s the same court where el chapo was convicted. he s in the highest security prison in the united states doing his time, his life sentence. we ll see if this man is going to join him or not. so in the meantime, the stakes extraordinarily high. they couldn t be higher on the world stage right now. biden, president biden and putin gave duelling speeches just a s