called section 702 and part of the foreign intelligence surveillance contact and the fbi is really only authorized to search the 702 data base when there s reason to believe it ll produce evidence on foreign actor crimes, usually the suspect has to be abroad. but in the year ending 2021, the filing shows the fbi used the warrant lesser much powers against u.s. citizens 278,000 times. the gorge floyd protests in the summer of 2020 and a batch of 19,000 donors and unnamed congressional campaign and one fbi searcher described in the filing the analyst said she ran the queries to determine whether individuals had foreign ties and indicated she had run thousands of names within the fbi systems in retaliation to the capitol break investigation and did not remember why she ran these 13 queries on raw visa information . fox news learning in the year ending 2022, the number of section 702 searches dropped by 92%. seen yore fbi official sayre senior fbi official shares as a judge i
lying. tucker carlson was one of those hosts, according to court documents. now, a week after that giant payout to dominion, tucker is out at fox news, is he the sacrificial lamb or was there something else going on? fox news didn t give a reason and tucker isn t commenting, but we do have media reporter dylan byers with us to tell us all that he has so far gathered along with an expert in cable news to tell us what this means for viewers of the channel does anything change but that is not all. both cnn and nbc news have also made big media moves today, nbc that is. news cnn fired don lemon, he says he was blind sided. the network says he wasn t and comcast, the parent company of msnbc fired nbc universal ceo jeff shell after an investigation into, quote, inappropriate conduct. in a statement, shell said he deeply regrets an inappropriate relationship with a woman in the company. joining me now is nbc news senior reporter jane timm, and puck senior correspondent dylan byers.
maybe you don t have the whit to be a median. kamala harris still hasn t realized she doesn t have to take what it takes to be president or vice president or anything else that involves leadership. kamala harris has launched her well, we have lost count, fifth rebrand tour? trying to get america to fall in love with her and make sure biden doesn t kick her off the ticket? you can call this a re-re-rebrand. her first stop was on the stephen colbert show. now, these types of shows are highly choreographed. two or three preinterviewed before show time. kamala knows every question she is going to get asked. all rehearsed. should be a slam dunk for the v.p. it was a disaster. colbert eased into it reminding the audience that kamala shatters. my first guess this evening is the vice president of the united states. she is the first woman, the first black american, the first south asian-american to hold the office please welcome back to the late show vice president kamala harris.
is it time to pop that balloon? i m michael smerconish. it sparked kshs about national security regarding beijing. is it more a about symbolism? secretary of state antony blinken was due to travel to china this weekend. he postponed his trip calling the infiltration a, quote, irresponsible act that created conditions that undermine the purpose of the trip. the public first learned of the balloon s existence thursday while it was over montana, which is home to ballistic missile silos and bomber bases. china is saying it s all innocent. a spokesperson for the chinese foreign min city sits is a civilian air shift used for meteorological purposes affected by the westerlies and limited self-steering capability, it deviated from its course. the chinese side regrets the entry of the ship. but it was a clear violation of our sovereignty as well as international law. the balloon does not pose a military or political threat and a senior defense official said military officials a advise
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