Trump administration is at work on sensitive us intel. We are live with the latest in washington. Rob joe biden held a press conference for the first time in 89 days, how did it go . Appealing to the less healthy side of society. Jillian fox and friends first starts right now. Good morning, you are watching fox and friends first on wednesday morning. Heather thank you for starting the day with us and we begin with a fox news alert, new york city passing next years budget Cutting Police Department Funds by 1 billion. We break it all down as cities across the nation work to replace our men and women in blue. The moved to the front police gaining traction is new york city leaders approve a budget for 2021 that includes major cuts for the nypd. Large groups of protesters gathered outside new york city hall, the socalled occupy city hall protesters setting up barriers taken from a nearby construction site using bicycles to set a perimeter using brooms to coast nypd cameras with red paint, c
Donald trump had threatened to bring all american troops home by christmas. Hes not going quite that far, but he will reduce the us military presence in iraq and afghanistan before he leaves office. So, lets look at that plan in a bit more detail. At the moment, there are 3000 soldiers stationed in iraq. 500 of them will be pulled out. The drawdown looks much more meaningful in afghanistan, where 2000 of the a500 us troops will be withdrawn. They are part of the nato force in place to support what is a fragile government. The acting defense secretary, christopher miller, made the announcement at his first news conference. Together we have mourned the loss of more than 6900 american troops who gave their lives in afghanistan and iraq. And we will never forget the more than 52,000 who bear the wounds of war and all those who still carry its scars, visible and invisible. In light of these tremendous sacrifices and with great humility and gratitude to those who came before us, i am formall
Breaking news this hour, President Trump has fired the director of the us cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, chris krebs, because of what the president claims were failings in the electoral system. Writing on twitter he said the recent statement by chris krebs on the security of the 2020 election was highly inaccurate. Heres our washington correspondent lebo diseko. Its quite incredible really, that the president of the United States of america, a country that represents Democratic Values right around the world, would fire the head ofan the world, would fire the head of an agency because they released a statement contradicting his claims that the election was unfair or fraudulent and just to be clear, the statement that was released, wasnt just clear, the statement that was released, wasntjust that agency which is part of the department for homeland security, it was in conjunction with a number of other organisations and groups including the secretaries of state, they ar
There is this developing case out of california, two men facing felony charges in los angeles accused of submitting thousands of fraudulent Voter Registration applications on behalf of homeless people. It is part of a nonprofit form of homeless votes matter. Part of his pitch was a claim that he was a target of white hate. Right there. What happened was i was in a situation where i thought we are being harassed by white supremacist groups and the police were involved and they burned my factory down that i had and they never investigated. We cant verify with dispute that claim but heres we know, prosecutors say montenegros case to the california homes as part of a scheme to get himself elected mayor in california but even he admits the ballots also covered the general election. La says it doesnt think any votes were actually cast in the case shows how hard it is to commit widespread fraud. Nevertheless the case is remarkable for its sheer ambition. The president firing a top security of
Donald trump had threatened to bring all american troops home by christmas. Hes not going quite that far, but he will reduce the us military presence in iraq and afghanistan before he leaves office. So, lets look at that plan in a bit more detail. At the moment, there are 3000 soldiers stationed in iraq. 500 of them will be pulled out. The drawdown looks much more meaningful in afghanistan, where 2000 of the a500 us troops will be withdrawn. They are part of the nato force in place to support what is a fragile government. The acting defense secretary, Christopher Miller, made the announcement at his first news conference. Together we have mourned the loss of more than 6900 american troops who gave their lives in afghanistan and iraq. And we will never forget the more than 52,000 who bear the wounds of war and all those who still carry its scars, visible and invisible. In light of these tremendous sacrifices and with great humility and gratitude to those who came before us, i am formall