say they have reached a top line deal on spending. now they re going to raise to submit a final budget deal to avoid a government shutdown. hello everyone welcome to fox foxnews live i am eric shawn. hi arthel. arthel: hello eric, hello everyone i am arthel neville. both sides have been working for weeks to reach an agreement. congress is a fast leasing fast approaching deadlines to avoid a shutdown for the persons in less than two weeks and the second in less than a month. meantime the pentagon is under pressure to explain why it took so long to reveal defense secretary lloyd austin was in the hospital. even president biden was for days for. the disturbing story is one of many coming out of washington for lucas tomlinson has the details he is live in wilmington, delaware were the president spend the weekend at his home there. we are covering two big stories this afternoon. first congressional leaders say they have reached an agreement on a top line budget that keeps the
christopher wray on a flurry of issues. the fbi director expressing deep concern over rising violence in the united states. without a lot to unpack. with that fox team coverage done it, greg palkot is in london with the latest on china s escalation towards taiwan. but we begin the correspondent david spunt at the justice department with the fbi director s compelling testimony. good evening, david. bickel good evening to you, shannon. fbi director christopher wray was in the hot seat for just under four hours today on capitol hill. the conversation moved back and forth from threats overseas to the crime that we see daily in this country. fbi director christopher wray pressed repeatedly on a wide range of questions about the hunter biden investigation and a nationwide tic in crime. i feel like every day i m getting briefed on somebody throwing a molotov cocktail at someone for some issue. it s crazy. wray, who is halfway into his 10-year term, says solving crime from smash
making them billions and billions of dollars richer. and so what we found is the islamic republic took the biden administration s appeasement policies as a sign of weakness and here we are today truly on the brink of a regional war. see for help on the hours to teran by these administrations, you give them a fig leaf make it give them an arm and take the whole thing as you say. how come they keep on repeating the same behavior? and you know what they say if you do something and you keep repeating it the same thing s going to happen progress exactly rights. the biden administration i think at this point need to understand the policy is a failure it s time for them to pivots. here s a sad reality in a hard reality for the administration. but in order to avoid the regional war they are going to have to telegraph strength to the islamic republic they have to stop this appeasement and every time you are the biden