sandra: a great piece he wrote there, really important questions, and we have some important questions for him as well. i m sandra smith in new york. great to begin another week with you, john. jonathan turley says if the white house truly wants transparency, now is the time to open up about the files. here is he will join us this hour. plus, we are following the twists and turns in the alec murdaugh double murder case and today defense attorneys got one witness to admit on the stand there could have been a second shooter. john: nancy grace is in the courtroom in south carolina following the case in-person. we will get her reaction to that bombshell all new at 2:00. but we begin with a fox news alert. if the bell did not tell the tale, it is a fox news alert. border agents are busy cracking down on illegal crossers at our southern border, authorities are now seeing a spike up north. migrants now braving the freezing cold temperatures along the 49th parallel and risking
i m victor blackwell. and i m bianna golodryga. in moments the nation s top defense officials are expected to take reporters questions, this after the pentagon says russia downed an american drone over the black sea. a high-level russian official said russia will try to retrieve the wreckage, while white house officials say finding the debris may be impossible. the u.s. military said on tuesday a russian jet dumped fuel on the unmanned u.s. aircraft which it says was doing routine operations in international air space. the russian jet then hit the propeller of the reaper, forcing its remote pilots to bring it down in international waters. the pentagon says the move was part of a russian pattern of aggression, but the kremlin gives a different version of events and declared today that u.s. and russia relations are at their lowest point and in a deplorable state. cnn s oren liebermann is standing by at the pentagon waiting for the press conference to begin. you have new de
Rishi sunak officiallyjoins the race to be the next conservative leader and prime minister, this Afternoon Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan has gone public with her support for him. Penny mordaunt is still in the running. She told the bbc she believes in cabinet led politics. I have my views but i will not be imposing i have my views but i will not be imposing policy that i have just made imposing policy that i have just made up imposing policy that i have just made up in a room by myself. The question now does borisjohnson have enough backers to stand as well . Labour leader kier starmer says his party hasnt Got Complacent and repeats calls for a general election. The schools struggling to keep the lights and heating on headteachers warn spiralling energy costs could see most schools in england run out of money next year. And Jodie Whittaker is set to make her final appearance as the doctor. More headlines at six oclock. Now on bbc news, unspun world withjohn simpson. Hello, and wel
what she said about a white colleague s black son and why her partial resignation may not by enough to quiet her critics. plus, one of the most inconvenient and important cancer screenings, what a new study says about how well colonoscopies works. welcome to the lead. i m in for jake tapper. russia as bombarded ukraine can more than 80 missiles in eight regions. monday s was the most intense stretch of bombing. russia is clearly targeting civilian infrastructure, walkways, water and power stations, even a playground hit. so far 11 people have died, dozens more injured. putin says it is revenge for this, a saturday morning attack on the bridge that connects russia to crimea. the explosion was a strategic attack, its dependence on rail. and for putin, it s personal. he made it a point to drive across this bridge when it opened back in 2018. the attack came just a day after his 7 0th birthday. frederik pleitgen has this report. reporter: it was in the middle of monday mor
new picture of the embattled republican congressman performing as a drag queen in brazil, pictures santos denies are of him. let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, president biden makes a promise, a promise to ukraine to give whatever it needs. all the help they need. it comes as the u.s. today targets the private russian military force the wagner group, designating it a transnational criminal organization. the wagner group is what is leading putin s war right now. right now making the only known progress on the battlefield for putin. that means the man running russia s most powerful private army is making a name for himself. here is yevgeny progozhin, publically declaring his men are the ones that captured a key city outside of bakhmut. translator: we can safely say that the settlement of one of the most important suburbs of bakhmut has been completely taken under the control of wagner pmc units, exclusively by wagner pmc units. klishchi