service members spending an hour on the ground. over 100 u.s. personnel removedd from the capital city of sudan and involved a week of intensive planning. in a statement late last night. president biden thanked unmatch #-d skill of american service members part of that as well as country s of ethiopia and saudi arabia and j j djibouti saying t cost hundreds of lives already and it must stop. the army and para military group rapid support forces battle for control of the country and the two sides were allies working together in seizing power in a coup two years ago and now fighting over which sides general would lead the military. a bulk of the fighting has taken place in cartoom and operations at the embassy have been suspended and they ve mobilized their diplomatic staff and spread to other cities and civilians are left scrambling to move to safety and flights have been halted as the airport has been pummeled and shelling roadblocks in place and it s really terrible to try a
million fentanyl pills found in the border town of tijuana known to be used by cartels as a manufacturing ground for counterfeit tablets. also this week a texas grandmother and 7-year-old granddaughter were killed in a car crash that involved human smugglers. dana: terror watch listen counters are on track to outpace last year s record as democrats continue to turn a blind eye to the crisis. bill: all 15 democratic members of the house homeland security committee boycotting that field hearing at the border. democratic senator mark kelly questioning the wisdom of that move. what would you say to democrats who didn t go to that hearing? i think it is always beneficial to go and visit a place and do it with your republican colleagues. you will get a better result. get more relevant questions from both sides. it affects the entire country. this has an impact on all 50 states. dana: president biden now reenacting some of his predecessor s border policies. the left wing h
to russia. the kremlin says it does not consider the arrest warrant to be legal. all of this comes against the back drop of chinese president xi jinping s scheduled visit to rue tonight, gillian turner at the white house with how the administration is reacting to the putin war crime story and next steps in ukraine. we begin with senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot. good evening, greg. hi, bret. president biden recently called russian president putin a war criminal for his conduct of the war in ukraine. now, someone else has with a bit more international legal punch. wanted for war crimes in ukraine, russian president vladimir putin. the international criminal court issuing an arrest warrant charging him and another official in the abduction of ukrainian children since russia s invasion last year. kids allegedly taken out of ukraine and sent to russia. children special protection under the geneva. russians say humanitarian reason and don t recognize the cour
were so gallantly streaming and the rocket s red glare, the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there o say does that star spangled banner yet wave o er the land of the free and the home of the brave . will: good morning. welcome to fox & friends. we go straight to a fox news alert. the u.s. shoots down the chinese balloon after a hovered across the u.s. for days after it moved over the atlantic ocean. pete: navy divers and fbi are searching the area for degree. rachel: alexandria hoff is here this morning. the heavy payload of spy gear fell into 47 feet of water with a debris of seven miles long. fox news was the only network to capture it live. exclusive video shows the moment a f-22 raptor fired off a sidewinder heat-seeking missile destroying the chinese balloon. the takedown happened 2:39 p.m. six miles off the coast of south carolina. prior to that the surveillance balloon ventured across the country maneuvering over
interior shows that as you point out the point out the biden administration actually moved forward increasing royalty fees on fossil fuel drilling of the alaskan coach that is despite their own assessment that lower fees would increase energy security for the state. the decision made by former bureau of energy management director amanda lefton and back by assistant secretary laura daniel davis. now, for her part, she said it would attract more bids and be more likely to facilitate expeditious and orderly development of offshore resources adding that the higher rate quote constitutes the most reasonable balancing of environmental and economic factors for the american public. it was switched on capitol hill but democrats senator joe manchin saying he is appalled and that the leaked memo makes it crystal clear that this administration is literally putting their radical climate agenda ahead of the need for people of alaska and the united states. and well, over at the white house,