a dam north of city could exceed capacity sending a fresh torrent of water into the already flooded city. dana: we find meteorologist ian oliver. give us your update. i can see you there. yeah, dana. poor audio. transition from what as all this water rushes from the higher terrain into the lower valleys. the creeks, the rivers, those have been rising quickly. flood stage, the winooski river in front of me here, 100 yards that way is (choppy audio. dana: difficult to hear you, ian. we re having difficulty hearing you. there are distressing situations there. all right. ian, thank you so much. check back in with you. everyone stay safe and stay in touch with local officials on what you need to do. as i ve said before, we take nato takes, all of us take article five literally, one inch of nato territory means we re all in the war together against whoever is violating that space. we will defend every inch of it. bill: that was earlier today. president biden speakin
we re going through a similar dance right now after the president s son pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges drawing a chorus of conservative criticism for a sweet settlement that includes only probation, but now we come to the irs whistleblowers who have been all but ignored by the press and, of course, we have to be cautious about unproven claims. but the new york times, to its credit, broke with the pack by saying it confirmed independently based on a source that a second unnamed irs official claims david weiss, the u.s. attorney in delaware, asked, the oj for special powers to the doj for special powers to pursue the case outside the state and was turned down. whistleblower gary shapley has said he was not the sole decision maker in the case and that he was constrained in the probe. you convinced looking back at this now that this was an effort to protect president biden and his family? there were definitely hindrances that aye never seen before in my 14
so they say. we haven t used that in a while. also in the news david weiss trying to set the record straight once again. he said he never requested special counsel status in the hunter biden investigation refuting for the third time a key allegation made by an i.r.s. whistleblower. fox team coverage. byron york is standing by with analysis. first david spunt at the justice department. in his letter to senator lindsey graham yesterday the third letter to congress he said once again he was in charge of the probe. he never requested special counsel status and he was able to charge hunter biden anywhere in the united states he wanted to if he deemed necessary. he clearly indicated he did not think it was necessary. he wrote in part i was assured that i would be granted this authority if it proved necessary. this statement is in direct conflict with the multiple statements i.r.s. whistleblower gary shapley has said publicly. he said he was in a meeting with weiss and personally saw him co
we re going through a similar dance right now after the president s son pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges drawing a chorus of conservative criticism for a sweet settlement that includes only probation, but now we come to the irs whistleblowers who have been all but ignored by the press and, of course, we have to be cautious about unproven claims. but the new york times, to its credit, broke with the pack by saying it confirmed independently based on a source that a second unnamed irs official claims david weiss, the u.s. attorney in delaware, asked, the oj for special powers to the doj for special powers to pursue the case outside the state and was turned down. whistleblower gary shapley has said he was not the sole decision maker in the case and that he was constrained in the probe. you convinced looking back at this now that this was an effort to protect president biden and his family? there were definitely hindrances that aye never seen
hunter to the a chinese official demanding money and claiming his father was right there. reporter: president biden, how involved were you in your son s chinese shakedown text message? were you sitting there? were you involved? with you involved no, i wasn t reporter: were you? no! howard: joining us now to analyze the coverage, robby soave and aneesh shah cross with siriusxm. robby, are these whistleblowers finally starting to get some overdue media attention? they are getting some, and and i want to applause the new york times for finding the scoop that there was this individual backing up what shapley was saying. i will note it was 20 paragraphs in. i kept scrolling. if i were the editor, i would have put that front and center. interesting that they chose to bury it, but they can t avoid