20 minutes joined by a friend of one of those people trapped in the vessel but we have a lot of news out of d.c. this morning. let s get to this. hunter biden is set to plead guilty to two misdemeanor charges related to his tax filings. brian: many are calling his agreement a sweetheart deal that s why we put it in bold in the prompter. drop his felony drug charge after two years of probation. house republicans say they won t stop their investigations. ainsley: lucas tomlinson joins us. good morning. the chairman of the house oversight committee says he wants to see transparency. he says he s not getting it. unfortunately, we saw a lot of redactions in these documents. i would estimate that 55 to 60% of the two documents were redacted. it s just a complete waste of my time. it s another example of the fbi stalling, stonewalling, doing everything they can to obstruct the house oversight committee s credible investigation of biden bribery. bill barr says the justice d
majority of both republicans, 149 and democrats 165 got it across the finish line and 70 goppers voted against it. 46 democrats giving it thumbs down. leader mccarthy and his leadership claimed victory. this is fabulous. i thought it would be hard, almost impossible. we won public narrative with support of the american people. between president biden and speaker mccarthy, won from start to finish. griff: president biden who vowed not to compromise did just that. this agreement meets the testing according to president biden. rescinding 30 billion in unspent covid money, keeping nondefense spending flat for next couple years. now it heads to the senate, four days to get it done and already decent on the right. i cannot support it and will vote no absent material changes that will render this bill something more than what it is, a fake response to burden some debt. griff: senators may offer amendments like senator mike lee and whether they will slow things up as we get
shot down, we are getting new information on past incursions by china, including three during the trump administration. we are also getting new details on president biden s state of the union. now just days away. new developments in two major criminal investigations of the former president in new york city, georgia as well. we will take a look at the very latest there. and then a dire warning from a mental health professional in the state of utah who says a new law aimed at trans teens could literally cost lives. all of that, plus, in my next hour, a little girl gets a very big honor. i m going to talk to nine-year-old bobby wilson, her research on bugs caused a neighbor to call the cops on her but that incident has not led to a major honor for the scientists. a conversation you will not want to miss. we begin off the coast of south carolina, where navy divers are retrieving what remains of that chinese spy balloon after being shot down by an air force fighter jet. we are a
may wish to send spy balloons. we will shoot it down as soon as it s safe for us to do so and we won t hesitate, and we will in fact also retaliate against your country and other ways in which we will determine for ourselves. you will not enter our airspace. there will be punishment. this is. and that s the sort of messaging i hope the biden administration will engage in. and viscera string. we mentioned biden there. we could listen again now for him. just to recap. breaking news over the last few minutes. phone but wasn t big enough just to see with your eyes? a chinese spy balloon has been shut down by the us, they waited for it to get over the sea, they didn t want to wait while it was overland but it cleared south carolina, got over us waters, they took it down with a jet and a missile and they are now recovering that balloon from the sea. once we had confirmation that that had all happened, president biden gave a short interview to reporters, let s take a listen. i i
well. we have our team here to help us figure it out and how voters might interpret all of these numbers. we have four days left and fresh polling underscoring the edge republicans have on enthusiasm ahead of the final messaging blitz from democrats. hitting the airwaves this morning with four days left until election day. thank goodness that the republicans are finally at the table wanting to talk about crime. it s not something that we should only talk about during political season. they want a common purpose, a common mission and that s what we re doing. we have a stark choice between somebody is here with a career who served pennsylvania, compared to somebody who is here to use pennsylvania. we ll get to all of that coming up. and it s the looming political earthquake many have been waiting for, anticipating. 2022 is not even over yet, but the former president s inner circle is eyeing a 2024 announcement in the coming days, more on that reporting in moments. m