voicing their concerns at school board meetings. another fish whistle-blower discloses that the fbi employees are being out of of the bureau for attending conservative political events. another fbi whistle-blower discloses the fbi accepts private user information from facebook without the user s consent and information is from only the conservative side of the political spectrum. martha: the committee s top democrat calling the baseless rhetoric that is dangerous. watch this. i m deeply concerned about the use of this select subcommittee as a place to settle scores. showcase conspiracy theories and advance an extreme agenda that risks undermining american s faith in our democracy. martha: two very different takes there. we have britt humes with us today, nancy mace who had a very interesting exchange about whether or not the twitter executives have medical expertise and marc thiessen joining me on set. we begin with david spunt live at the justice department where th
it is economically ill literate. it raises more taxes, creates the biggest government we ve ever seen in the history of the united states. they want to spend money. they want to raise taxes on you. it is wildly irresponsible. julie: wall street journal board sums it up this way. all the president s tax increases for the wealthy, corporate stock buy backs, certain unearned income on the spendsing side the defense increase doesn t even cover inflation when compared to last year s budget. now the plan calls for thousands of new employees for the epa and i.r.s. the border on the back burner yet again. no boost for the dhs budget. the plan also adding only 350 border agents. that won t make up for a shortfall of 1,000. biden s own dhs secretary is even worried. so what do you propose? how do you propose that we handle 8,000 people each day when we are not resourced for that personnel, facilities, transportation an the like? how should we handle that? by redistributing mo
clarified by any authorities own upending arrest. nonetheless, in the past 2 hours since comp made this claim key republican figures like house speaker kevin mccarthy, south carolina senator lindsey graham, they have all echoed trump accusations. the manhattan da s indictmen is politically motivated speaker mccarthy going eve further. clay meaty he would use hi powers to investigate somethin that has not actually even happen mike pence, a potential 20 202 potential candidate who wa targeted by the mob who storme the capitol on january six als fell in line with a talkin point. he says he does not think that this is what americans want. watch this just feels like politically-charged prosecutio here for my part i just feel like i is just not want the america people want to see i believ that people understand that if they give voice to this, i this occurs on tuesday, that they need to do so peacefull and in a lawful manner the manhattan distric attorney s office, which i i
very good wednesday morning to you, i m jim sciutto. and i m erica hill. today president biden taking that state of the union message to the battleground state of wisconsin. it s part of a two-day swing where he will be touting his administration s accomplishments and also which of course were laid out during last night s address. sounds like the start of a campaign. president biden s speech set the stage for a likely 2024 bid. he vowed to, quote, finish the job. while making a point to call for unity and bipartisanship, asking to work with republicans even as he sparred with a handful of republican lawmakers on a number of topics. instead of making the wealthy pay their fair share some republicans, some republicans, want medicare and social security to sunset. i m not saying it s a majority. i m not politely not naming them, but it s being proposed by some of you. look so, folks, as we all apparently agree, social security and medicare is off off the books now,
good evening. speaker of the house kevin mccarthy weighed in late this evening on his decision to give tucker carlson first dibs on footage from january 6th, footage that carlson used to portray the attack as something it was not. several senators criticized his decision. documents revealing that carlson s contempt for the former president for his viewers and for the facts. we ll have more on that shortly. first, though, some of what the speaker just said. the one thing i always want to make sure is this capitol is protected and secured. i want to make sure the officers here have everything they need to provide that. my whole role for january 6th is just to bring transparency. people can make their own decision. mccarthy held this press conference today following a congressional budget office report on the debt. what did he say about the january 6th security footage? how much concern are you hearing from members of the house? members of the senate have spoken out but does