conservative cabinet minister justine greening and ron christie former adviser to george w bush. welcome to the programme. it has been a fractious few days, nato allies openly criticising the decisions in berlin, the german chancellor refusing to send his tanks, unless the united states also had skin in the game. but out of delay and a whole lot of diplomatic wrangling, has come a momentous decision. nearly 100 nato tanks, will be sent in the coming month to the front line and the border with russia a move that was unthinkable months ago. we will provide battle tanks to ukraine, the leopard two. this is the result of intensive consultations with our allies and international partners. i want to stress that it is right that we did not allow anyone to pressure us but that instead we relied on close cooperation on the special issue and we will continue to do so. the americans took some convincing. the abrams while readily available, will take longer to ship, they are more compl
john: reversal from the manhattan district attorney s office, good tuesday afternoon to you and you as well. gillian: nice to see you on this happy tuesday. i m gillian turner, who is out on assignment. new york city bodega worker charged with murder is now off the hook after fending him off in his store. hi, alexis. the nation has been closely watching and waiting for the decision. manhattan d.a. office says after reviewing the surveillance video and interviewing witnesses and the people who called 911 they will not present the case to a grand jury. in the motion filed here, the manhattan d.a. office says the people have determined we cannot prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant was not justified in his use of deadly physical force. this case, we had an innocent, hard working new yorker that was doing his job and someone was extremely aggressive towards him and i believe after the d.a. review, made the right decision. that was mayor eric adams commen
president biden continues to defend his performance on the economy. why fact checkers say the numbers don t add up. the spike in crime could be worse than we think. we ll look at a new report that finds 40% of the country s law enforcement agencies have failed to report crime stats to the fbi in 2021 leaving us wondering what the real picture is. we begin with team coverage of another primary election night. mark meredith is in south carolina where there s a split decision to the two g.o.p. representatives who face off with two trump challengers. and bret baier joins us live in studio tonight to kick off our coverage on what would be a bellwether special election in the texas border district. very interesting one, brett. reporter: shannon, good evening. this is a really big deal. as we go to the big board here, i can tell that you this texas election, a special election in texas 34 which is a district that is essentially 84%, 84% hispanic. there s theboard i said would real
In u. S. History could be right around the corner. We need to support our union. If demands are not met, 75,000 people will meet the picket line. On the square with a number of Law Enforcement as janice dean brings three cups of joe. Lawrence we begin with fox news alert, congressman Kevin Mccarthy says he will not run again for House Speaker after eight members his own party voted with democrats to strip him of his title. Carley Griff Jenkins has the latest on the power struggle. Griff good morning, guys. It isseerily quiet here and house members wont be back until tuesday and history being made, first speaker to be kicked out of his job by a oneman trigger, matt gaetz that brought that to vacate. Kevin mccarthy took to the microphone and here is what he had to say. Doing the right thing is not always easy, but it is necessary. I dont regret standing up or choosing government over grievance. It is my responsibility. It is my job. I do not regret negotiating, our government is designed