hearings on capitol hill where lawmakers are probing whether or not the fbi and doj have politicized justice to attack american civil liberties. this is falling under that brand-new subcommittee on the weaponization of the federal government, ohio republican jim jordan. welcome back as america reports rolls into hour two. i m sandra smith in new york. john: sandra, good to be with you. as we watch our colleague, jonathan turley on the stand. two of the witnesses are senators leading investigations into the biden family business dealings. david spunt has been watching the opening statements. he is live ste justice department now. david, what are you seeing? senator ron johnson has paid close attention not only to the department of justice but the fbi. he noted in his testimony, john and sandra, he wrote more than 50 letters to the fbi and doj and said few of them were answered adequately, many were not even responded to. this is a hearing as you mentioned for a new subco
and it was not til 10, 15 minutes before my flight was supposed to take off i finally found out this all happened and so it is very frustrating. the one day we leave early, we got a delay and everything. now it s all backed up. this is insane. i don t know what to make of it. trying to be like calm and relaxed at the same time, but everything is very intense. john: begin america reports with frustrated travelers sounding off after a systems outage at the federal aviation administration grounded domestic flights nationwide. flights are back up in the sky, but there could still be trouble ahead for travelers. hello, i m john roberts in washington. sandra, welcome to wednesday. sandra: flying is frustrating to begin with, put this in the mix, it s a major headache. faa system went off, preventing pilots from receiving preflight safety notices. the president weighed in saying the cause for the outage is not yet known. what is known is the system failure will cause a
investigators. prosecutors say he was on video paying for cleaning supplies with cash. a bloody damaged knife was found in his home and block-soaked rug in a garbage near walsh s mother s home. walsh is held without bail and slated to be in court march 1. sandra: thanks, molly. john? john: may be months away from announcing a 2024 campaign decision but other republican white house hopefuls are taking aim at ron desantis hoping to knock him off of it s he perch. it comes as a new poll shows that he and former president trump are the only 2024 possibilities generating significant buzz. rich edson is watching the race. desantis has a sizable lied over the former president in a couple polls. he does, john. especially if you look at that
moment, but first we go to molly line in massachusetts, on the story for us, has been since go. investigators have found disturbing signs. what are we learning? yeah, the evidence discovered by investigators in this full week since ana walshe was reported to be missing has been sharp and bloody. a hatchet, a hacksaw, a rug with human tissue as investigators scoured the contents of a dumpster taken from the apartment complex of ana s mother-in-law. the blood soaked rug has been sent to the medical examiner s office. her husband remains in custody after a bloody damaged knife was found in the basement of the couple s home. for now, 47-year-old brian walshe is charged with misleading police as court documents give us some insight into his criminal past and relationship with ana. as brian walshe awaited sentencing after pleading guilty to federal charges for selling two fake andy warhol paintings,