This is breaking now. They Biden Administration set to accuse russia of meddling in the 2024 president ial election. The administration will announce a plan to target what it calls russian disinformation and propaganda. So how will the Biden Administration decide Whats Disinformation . Remember, this might all sound familiar. 2016 there was russian meddling. 2020 the hunter laptop. That was disinformation. Oh, wait, that was not. It was verified. Merrick garland expected to answer questions in about 90 minutes. Hello, everyone. This is outnumbered. Im Kayleigh Mcenany with harris faulkner, emily compagno. Also joining us carley shimkus, and Fox News senior medical Analyst And Professor of medicine at nyu health, dr. Marc siegel. Lets bring in spunt david. The Attorney General will be joined by the Fbi Director christopher wray. There meeting for a Task Force meeting. They do this fairly frequently especially leading up to the election but we are told there will be an Announcement Today
that president biden retained and disclosed classified materials from his time as vice president. the justice department declined to bring charges in part because, quote, at trial mr. biden would likely present himself to a jury as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with an important memory. president biden addressed those remarks in a rare primetime press conference. president biden: i am a well-meaning elderly man, i know what i m doing. i am the president, i put this country back on its feet. neil: dan heninger and kyle peterson, what do you make of this report? at least the decision not to prosecute and the reasons for it? dan:this is an exercise in prosecutorial discretion, that trump was indicted primarily for lying or misleading the fbi and instructing others to. that is a crime. whether keeping classified documents is a crime, or one that has been prosecuted, is a different question. that is included in the indictment of
pace since june. and that could have major economic and political fallout. lucas tomlinson is live at the white house with more on this. lucas. reporter: jon, jp mayor began ceo jamie dimon thinks the fed has lost some control over inflation. a chemming contact congressman representing joe biden s home hometown in scranton responded earlier on fox. i wouldn t go that far, but what i will say is i think they got a late start. i think they should have started ticking interest rates up a little bit much earlier, maybe six months earlier than they did. reporter: new economic data shows inflation is getting worse. the personal if consumption execs pendtures price index, the fed s preferred gauge for inflation, rose .6% in january. the annual inflation rate also rose to 5.4%, the first increase since it peaked in june making some wonder if the fed is behind on inflation. president biden reacting to the economic news in a statement which read in part: annual inflation in janua
president biden downplayed that balloon s significance in an interview this week saying the flight was, quote, not a major breach. let s bring in retired four-star general jack keane, chairman of the institute for the study of war and a fox news senior strategic analyst. general, good to see you. thanks for coming in. so do you think the administration did the right thing here shooting down this latest object so quickly after it had waited a long time to shoot down the balloon? no, yeah, absolutely. it s the right call. i mean, it s interesting what we don t know, as you indicated, we need a lot of answers. what s very revealing though and concerning is that this we did not pick this up before it entered u.s. air space which is very similar to the historical record we were able to put together after the spy balloon transversed the entire swath of united states. we went back and looked at what s the history of chinese fleet balloons, and we found several of them that had, in
new cnn reporting spotlights the momentum and the maneuvering inside the house gop effort to impeach the homeland security chief. and a revenge plot stoked by delusions of a rigged election. police arrest a former republican candidate in new mexico. they say he paid cash, gave gunmen address, even pulled the trigger in a scheme targeting the homes of elected democrats. up first for us this hour, the president of the united states unable to escape the gravity of a self-inflicted crisis. just moments ago president biden at the white house, you hear it there, appearing with the dutch prime minister. you can hear the president getting shouted questions. he gave no answers about the documents story that simply will not go away. the president s public posture sticking to the confines of what his lawyers have already said or avoiding questions altogether belies private angst inside the west wing. sources telling cnn the west wing mood where aides waiting along with everyone else to