instead, biden has opted for informal questions and answers that don t leave much room for follow-up and allow him to pick and choose a lot more as you can imagine. republicans are taking notice of this. the official gop twitter account posted joe biden has not held a press conference in 68 days. the american people deserve a president who doesn t hide from the crises he has created. also this. politico has a nickname hiding biden. we ve been hearing it for a while but it is a thing. white house deputy press secretary defended the president but also promised change. the president is always eager to take questions. i hear you, this is the first year and this has been an unprecedented year. if we will look at this in a full lens, this has not been a normal year and so there will be more to come. harris: from the deputy to the head white house press secretary jen psaki. he takes questions multiple times a week. his schedules is quite packed. he would like to do it. hopef
external factors that you don t get to control, like the weather. so lots of things go into making a decision about when you execute a raid of this complexity and this danger. and there were a lot of factors that had to line up to be just right. you have to make sure that your intelligence is solid and that the individual that you re going after is, in fact, at the location you believe him to be and that all the external factor s, not just the weather, but the ability to operate at that particular time of day and have enough visibility. all those things factor in. so it was a multiple factors. it all came together such that this was the best window to execute this mission. and i would remind you that it s not like we were just sitting on our hands for those months. as you probably saw in the secretary s statement, these special operations forces conducted dozens of rehearsals to make sure that they could get this exactly right. okay. mike breast. hi, mr. kirby. i m hoping y
alert. elite american commandos taking on isis near the border of syria. no american casualties in the two-hour raid. good to be with you on this friday eve. sandra: and big news day, indeed. aftermath of this raid shows heavy damage on a multi-story home. sources telling fox news abu ibrahim al-hashimi al-qurayshi blew himself up as special forces moved in. the terror leader killing his wife and several children in the attack. complete coverage begins now. florida congressman and former green beret with more on that in a moment. john: jennifer griffin at the pentagon with the latest from there. jennifer. john, i just came out of the pentagon press briefing, we learned the elite american commandos on the scene were able to collect d.n.a. and fingerprints identification of the head of isis that they killed overnight in the daring raid. they describe it as incredibly dangerous, and reminiscent of the osama bin laden raid. intelligence in early december. calculated effor
could accelerate an impeachment inquiry into president biden. but we begin with that plea deal or more accurately a plea deal no more after things turned south at a hearing in the hunter biden case. the first son now pleading not guilty to federal tax charges. senior national correspondent kevin corke joins us live from the nation s capitol with all the details. good evening, kevin. reporter: evening my friend. the headline is hunter biden s plea deal fell apart today. that s the top headline of the day, pleading not guilty as federal prosecutors confirm once again that, yes, he is still under investigation. but beyond the top headline, there s still plenty to unpack here jonathan. first of all, the president s son was expected to plead guilty to a couple of misdemeanor tax counts of willful failure to pay federal income taxes as part of a plea deal to avoid jail time on a felony gun charge. but district court judge marry ellen morika slammed the brakes described did deal s
tonight, straight from the source, a not so done deal for hunter biden. the plea agreement struck by the president s son unravels in a dramatic court hearing. the twist and turns from inside the courtroom, and what this all means for the ongoing federal investigation. plus, mitch mcconnell standing frozen mid sentence for 23 seconds before the senate minority leader was escorted away. he did return, but the whole incident is renewing questions about the 81-year-old s health. and new information tonight on the help of lebron james 18-year-old son bronny james. what we know about the tests that were done before his cardiac arrest. i m kaitlan collins, and this the source. tonight, straight from the source, what was supposed to be a 30-minute formality turned into almost three hours of drama as season hunter biden s plea deal hangs in limbo, raising new questions about where this leaves the president s son and his legal team. hunter biden entered the courtroom today, prep