the fbi director on defense. the lead starts right now. are you protecting the bidens? absolutely not. the fbi does not hold on. you won t answer the question. the fbi, christopher wray on the hill questioned by some of his harshest republican critic. calling for a culture shift at the fbi. and more promises for ukraine but president zelenskyy is not getting the thing he really wanted, entry into nato. why not? plus, taxpayer beware. it s not just uncle sam getting your data, the report out today on who else can see your most sensitive tax information. welcome to the lead i m jake tapper. we start with that explosive battle on capitol hill. republicans released a tsunami of accusations and attacks against the fbi and its trump-appointed director christopher wray accusing wray of weaponizing the bureau against conservatives, lambasting the bureau s participation in last year s search of trump s florida home. american speech is censored, parents are call t
belonged to any member of the biden family, including hunter biden. those questions are not allowed. they were not here friday, not here saturday, sunday or monday. they come back tuesday. so to ask that question is incredibly irresponsible. so they were there friday actually, which we have reported here. so this as we re also told that despite more and more substantive information that comes out about biden s business dealings, shakedowns, bribes, the fbi director said you can t ask me about that. that s an ongoing investigation. can t talk about the intensity, the focus of it. can t talk about anything. so merrick garland, the attorney general face as deadline, which is now less than two hours away to allow congress to interview, to talk to the u.s. attorney, david weiss. you know, what is going on with this investigation. there s a lot of conflicting stories. can you tell us a little bit about what is happening? in moments,ly speak with the speaker of the house, kevin
married her. [laughter] that s going to hurt. get him. if someone gets caught with cocaine it s usually a slam dunk case but when cocaine is found in the white house, the secret service can t tell us where they found it. and we re starting to believe that the reason they won t tell us where they found it is because that would tell us whose coke it was. instead the secret service isn t telling us anything. in response to a freedom of information request put forward by bloomberg. the secret service is saying they can t release any records about the coke found at the white house. why? they said it would interfere with an ongoing investigation but what s the investigation? police charge people with cocaine possession all the time when they find it in someone s house. today we learn the fbi is a part of a cover-up. does the fbi assistant the secret service in the investigation into how cocaine wound up at the white house? yes, i want to be a little bit careful what i can
those in. judge jeanine: thanks, bret. dana: that s a lot of money. bret: i got some. i m going to do it. thanks, dana. bret: good evening, welcome to washington. i m bret baier. breaking tonight, president biden is promising the u.s. will respond to the latest attack on american personnel in the middle east. and iranian backed group is being blamed for the death of three u.s. soldiers and injuries to more than two dozen others during a drone strike in jordan near the syrian border. at the same time, white house officials emphasize they are not looking for a wider war in the region. we have fox team coverage tonight. gillian turner at the state department with alarming news with how deeply united nations personnel are allegedly involved with terrorist groups. jeffrey heinrich at the terrorist group with the political response to the latest violence in the middle east. first, to chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin who starts us off from the pentagon
badly. the data however paints a different picture. the us economy grew 2% in the first three months of this year. that is almost double initial estimates. consumers spend more, exports held up and prospect for the second quarter also look better with the housing market focused on recovery and subsidies for semiconductor and electric car parts beginning to kick in. the challenge for america s central bank is to keep inflation trending down. data due out later this friday from the us commerce department is likely to confirm prices are cooling. but with inflation still stubbornly hire, policymakers here as in many other developed economies are not done raising interest rates. susannah streeter is senior investment analyst at hargreaves la nsdown. susannah, biden is obviously on a re election campaign. but if we look at his economic track record as president, how successful have his policies been? well, the problem that the us has faced, as have other economies around the world