the house january 3rd and they re waisting no time lining up a flurry of investigations. rich: the administration points out republicans do not officially take power until next week. it says gop can rerequest for fear at that time. republicans call it an attempt to deflect and distract. the important thing everyone needs to understand about those respects, 100% of that pertains to taxpayer dollars. to money being spent with covid, money being spent in afghanistan with weapons being left behind, money being spent with different projects and different agencies within the federal government. that s what the oversight committee s role is. julie: we have team fox coverage. let s get to peter doocy who joins us live from the white house. good morning. the white house says they ll play ball but since the last congress is over all the subpoenas written while temp was speaker will have to be resent when republicans take over. a spokesman for the white house counsel s office is
the fbi and police were able to crack the case. here s what we know. according to law enforcement sources the suspect is 28-year-old bryan kohberger. he was taken into custody in scranton, pennsylvania, by local police as well as the fbi. 2500 miles from the murder scene. he appeared before a judge this morning, we are learning it was a phd student at washington state university. investigators have been tight-lipped since the murders took place in mid-november only revealing they were searching for a white hyundai a elantra. a criminal defense attorney is standing by. fox team coverage. david spunt has breaking details on the fbi s role in locating the suspect. now we go to william la jeunesse our west coast newsroom. after more than a month and a half, 19,000 tips, thousands of police on the case, law-enforcement has made the arrest in connection with the death of four university of idaho students. according to bay board filed by the pennsylvania state police 28-year-old
hello again, everyone. thanks for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. we begin in georgia where a contentious race could determine which party controls the u.s. senate. democratic senator raphael warnock faced off against republican herschel walker last night after weeks of bombshell allegations leveled at the former football star. a week before this debate, a former gifford made public accusations saying you paid for an abortion and encouraged her to have another. in an abc news interview this week you said that the accusations are, quote, all lies. for the voters watching tonight, can you explain the circumstances surrounding these claims? you have 60 seconds. s as i said, that s a lie. i put it in a book. one thing about my life, i ve been very transparent. not like the senator. he s hid things. but at the same time, i said that s a lie. cnn s eva mcken joining me live from savanna, where the debate took place. this will be their only debate. no promises there would
house minority leader hakeem jefferys. happy new year to you. happy new year to you, my friend. absolutely. i want to welcome everybody to the beat, and i wish you a happy new year as well on our first show of 2023. so, thank you for starting the new year with us. now, we are already tracking new developments tonight. i have a special report coming up about the pressure on d.o.j. to act on the evidence that is in that lengthy january 6th report which dropped heading into the holiday period. while our stop story is the election eve, of sorts, in washington. democrats expanding their power in the senate and republicans taking over the house where the faces of each caucus leader here actually reveal a lot about the state of these parties. hakeem jeffries replacing nancy pelosi with a show of democratic unity, while republican kevin mccarthy is in the fight of his career as his own close allies now find it hard to see a path for him to win tomorrow. mccarthy facing down r
but this source says that it was january 27th, after the request. what do you think of that discrepancy? they clearly have some explaining to do here. the secret service certainly has nor explaining to do. and the department of homeland security, which houses the secret service, really needs to take more of a leadership role in helping to manage this response to congress and get to the bottom of what has happened to these messages. i think congressional overseers at this point, what they really need to start asking from the secret service and from dhs is what are the steps that they are taking to determine first of all whether any of these messages are still recoverable. i think i am holding out, don, that there is still a possibility that this agency will be able to turn up more of these messages. let s not forget the secret service is a law enforcement agency. it is an investigative agency, and it has substantial forensic capabilities. so recovering messages, investigatin