And it is sock eastern. Thanks for joining us. Im Ana Cabrera Reporting from new york. We begin with the breaking news from capitol hill, where we are waiting the highly anticipated testimony of former Special Counsel robert hur. He is set to appear in just moments, before the house judiciary committee. And you can see him arriving there at the capitol, moments ago. Hes being held, were told in a holding area before this Committee Hearing gets going. Now, hur is the Special Counsel who investigated President Bidens handling of classified documents. Ultimately he chose not to bring charges, but he also questioned the president s Mental Acuity and fitness in his report. He is expected to defend that today in his opening statement, saying, quote, my task was to determine whether the president retained or disclosed National Defense information willfully, meaning knowingly, and with the intent to do something the law forbids. I could not make that determination without assessing the preside
three narratives at play during this hearing. fbi director wray talked about the good things the fbi are doing. democrats talked about donald trump and republicans talked about what they perceive as weaponization of government. i m curious are you protecting the bidens. absolutely not. hold on you won t answer whether that s a shakedown. he pledged to stay above the frey. fbi dricket christopher wray could not escape the politics. i come from a fairly rural district is weaponization of the fbi and the doj coming after conservative citizens who just simply want to have a voice in the process? the idea that i m biased against conservatives seems somewhat insane to me given my own personal background. wray is a republican. democrats accused the republicans of having an ulterior motive. it is an elaborate show designed with only two purposes in mind to protect donald trump from the consequences of his actions and to return him to the white house in the next election
on that. he will bring us the breaking news as it continues. meantime, breaking today, it is now in the supreme court s hands to decide whether or not former president trump is eligible to run for president. the nine justices hearing arguments today around this question. is colorado correct in barring trump from its 2024 ballot for engaging in insurrection , which is something the former president has never been criminally charged with. all of the states that you see on the screen also weighing challenges to trump s eligibility.so the decision really has massive implications for millions of voters across the country. here s reaction from the former president. watch. i listened today. i thought our arguments were very strong. an argument is you re leading in every race and every state. and biden, you re leading in the country, by a lot. and can you take the person that is leading everywhere and say hey, we re not going to let you run. you know, i think that s tough to do. b
agent found a white powdery substance during a patrol of the west wing. this prompted a shutdown of some of the white house campus and. the d.c. fire department s hazmat team identified it as cocaine. and their dispatch initially said it was found in the library. then on tuesday afternoon, a secret service spokesman confirmed the details, but clarified the initial reports that it was found inside the library were incorrect. and then also on tuesday afternoon to law enforcement, officials told the associated press that the cocaine was found in area accessible to tour groups. but on wednesday, karine jean-pierre clearly appeared flummoxed when describing where the cocaine was discovered, where this was discovered is a heavily traveled area where many white house west wing. i should be even more specific ,a west wing visitors come through this particular area. i just don t have anything more to share. it is under investigation by the secret service. and yesterday, the story ch
this can mean for our national security. this is not anything new from the mainstream media, s latest example of hypocrisy when it comes to hard drugs in the white house. his campaign, leading to the 2000 election the media could not get enough of the rumor that george w. bush had done cocaine when he was younger and even at the end of his second term in office, nice like this, were succumbing out. then barack obama came on the young charismatic democratic admitted in his memo, using cocaine when he was younger. this is what the reaction of the media look like. about must cocaine confessional locus yes and the new york times even their own investigation and found a former classmate of obama s pet the dog saying this, as far as talk, please prevalent part of his life, i doubt it. maybe democrats impress change the issues nothing that cocaine is a big deal and maybe they now believe we should focus on rehabilitating set of stigmatizing the folks and here s the reaction to donal