in an influence peddling scheme. it s a stunning allegation that raises a number of questions. who is the whistleblower making this claim? is that person credible? and what are authorities doing about it? the white house says the president has an unprecedented level of transparency and calls this a political attack. senior national correspondent rich edson is here with our top story. good evening, rich. rich: good evening, bret. house oversight committee chairman james comer claims the fbi likely has a document describing this alleged criminal activity involving then vice president joe biden. comer has issued a subpoena for the purported document. he and senator chuck grassley have been investigating the biden family and their business conduct. they sent a letter this afternoon to attorney general merrick garland and fbi director chris wray claiming, quote: a highly credible whistleblower maintains the justice department and fbi likely have a form that, quote: describes an
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owned by rupert murdoch has agreed to pay the equivalent of more than a 3 quarters of a billion dollars for its reporting of false claims of vote rigging in the 2020 presidential election. graham statchell reports. joe biden takes the lead in pennsylvania. trump is now trailing. the 2020 american election, one of the closest and most contentious in us history. in district after district there were recounts and for some conservative commentators a narrative started to emerge. we don t know how many votes were stolen on tuesday night, we don t know anything about the software that many say was rigged, we don t know, we ought to find out. fox news, owned by rupert murdoch and backers of donald trump, questioned the credibility of the election. they echoed and reinforced donald trump s view that this was. a rigged and stolen election. the focus of attention, the machines used to count the votes and dominion, the company that made them. we talked about the dominion software, i k
hello and welcome. starting with our starting with our headline starting with our headline stories. the high court has been hearing a council s bid to block government plans for an asylum centre at an raf airfield. braintree district council is bringing legal action over the proposed use of raf wethersfield in essex. with more on this from our correspondent dominic casciani. he is in the newsroom for us. take us through it. he is in the newsroom for us. take us through it us through it. yes, this is crunch time for one us through it. yes, this is crunch time for one of us through it. yes, this is crunch time for one of the us through it. yes, this is crunch time for one of the home - us through it. yes, this is crunch - time for one of the home secretary s key strategist to try to deal with what she says is a genuine emergency situation with regards to managing the flow of migrants coming across the flow of migrants coming across the english channel. the vast majority o