good evening, jacqui. pres good evening, bret. fighter jet decision will disownt disappoint ukraine. the president has moved from self-imposed red lines before just last week. today the president was asked to confirm report that he goal poland around the one year anniversary of the invasion he said he will go but he is not sure when. president biden is stamping out a push to provide f-16 fighter jets to ukraine as it plan as new offensive to retake territory occupied by russia this spring. the country s defense ministry tweeting simply f-16 three days ago. today a one word answer from president biden. no. meantime biden is still waiving off questions about his handling of classified documents. i don t even know. the doj says it will work with congress on some oversight requests. responding to bipartisan calls from the senate intelligence committee over national security exposure with the biden and trump documents. the assistant attorney general says prosecutors on
and the suicide bombing at kabul s airport. an intelligence failure, chaotic scenes and americans and afghan allies stranded in that country, some still today. yet, the white house officials say they were proud of how that exit went correspondent mark meredith at the white house with the latest on that live at the north lawn tonight. good evening, mark. bret, good evening to you. tonight the white house is essentially blaming former president trump for out how the end of the war in afghanistan was carried out even though the war ended in august of 2021 under president biden s command. critics are saying this report out today is an obvious attempt to try to shift the blame over how america s longest war came to an end. the president s decision to end the war in afghanistan was the right one. the white house is defending how it ended the war in afghanistan. even after images like these showing afghans fleeing for their lives sent shock waves worldwide. today the white hou
bret: but, first, breaking news tonight. the chairman of the house intelligence committee is describing president biden as a, quote: serial classified document hoarder. that comment from congressman mike turner comes after the fbi seized additional classified documents from the president s delaware home. turmoil over this scandal comments as white house chief of staff john kayleigh mcenany prepares to leave his job at the president s side. a big change in the white house now under peter doocy joins us. we learned tonight when the houses they are fully cooperating they mean with the doj because the white house coucounsel written back to james comer the oversight committee chairman saying they will work to accommodate legitimate oversight interest. they do not say they will work to accommodate all oversight interest. and that s as comer is also hoping for a response from the secret service about biden visitor information. the fbi was invited into the president s home.
still fully engaged. with that as a back drop we begin tonight on the north lawn with rich edson who picks up the story from there. hey, rich, good evening. richard: good evening, bill. job performance to the preferences of democrats and younger voters, a series of tough polling for the president here just a year and a half into his term. this is also a day that the white house held an event on the south lawn to commemorate a rare bipartisan legislative victory. though activists are pushing president biden to be more aggressive. have to do more than that. a gunman murdered manual oliver s son in the park land, florida 2018. this morning he interrupted a presidential speech. as president biden touted the recently passed gun law. this law had been in place years ago, even this last year, lives would have been saved. it matters. this legislation is real progress. more has to be done. with continued mass shootings republican opposition to stricter gun measures and the s
bret: breaking tonight and all day today president biden has covid. the white house made this announcement this morning just days after the president returned from a middle east trip and the trip yesterday to massachusetts. is said to be experiencing mild symptoms. the president will isolate at the white house and execute his duties from there, according to the white house press secretary. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich has the latest tonight live from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening to you, bret. the president is suffering only mild symptoms. a runny nose, a dry cough, and fatigue. but we did get conflicting information from white house officials and his doctor about when those symptoms started and why he only reported them after popping a positive on a routine test. but, most importantly, we re told the president is doing fine. but the team or the day rather that his team had long prepared for has finally come. hey, folks, yes you hea