i m john roberts in for bret baier tonight. a tough examination for dr. anthony fauci as he defends his actions during the coronavirus pandemic. we may be just hours away from an executive order from president biden on immigration. as an illegal migrant is arrested for allegedly shooting two new york city police officers. and what it takes to get american hostages back home. we hear from someone who has done just that. but, first, breaking tonight, just days after the conclusion of the first ever criminal trial against a former president, a similarly historic proceeding begins against the son of a sitting president. jury selection has been completed in the felony gun charge trial for hunter biden. correspondent david spunt is in wilmington, delaware tonight where he kicks off our conch. hello, david. david: john, good evening to you. it took all day but the judge, the special counsel and the defense were able to turn 250 prospective jurors into 12 jurors plus four alterna
shut down the border when illegal crossings surge, but the threshold reportedly mirrors the bipartisan border agreement that failed in the senate earlier this year and reportedly similar to a ban trump tried to impose but overturned by the courts as a violation of federal asylum laws. why are we waiting five minutmonths before the electiony wasn t this done five months into the administration when we started seeing these problems. the administration allowed 350,000 migrants with pending asylum claims to remain in the u.s. without a decision on case merits. according to the new york post ice lawyers told prosecutors in 2022 to dismiss pending asylum case force migrants that don t pose a security threat and don t have a criminal record. suggest they followed through. that s going to encourage more people to show up and for an administration that claims this is a humanitarian effort, ,you just created a whole population that has no status no, where to go. the biden administratio