with the hunter biden investigation. john: andy mccarthy has a brand-new op-ed and writes of course biden officials are interfering. why else has hunter skated? we talk to andy mccarthy new at 2:00 and whether or not the whistleblower will turn up the heat on biden s doj. sandra: welcome back as america reports heads into a second hour on this friday afternoon, it s been a heck of a week, john. john: continues to be a heck of an afternoon. john roberts in washington. also this hour, deflate-gate hits boston again. dozens of folks waking up to find the tires on their suvs slashed and ominous notes from a group calling itself the tire extinguishers. sandra: patting themselves on the back, a do-it-yourself movement. taking aim at suvs in the name of environmental justice. john: and in the next few minutes, the president will unveil his own environmental justice plan at the white house. we expect he will take aim at republicans. here is a little bit of a preview from
great to have you, paul. second show of the week so i get a bonus today. let s get to it. we begin with this, new details emerging about the biden campaign s last minute effort to cover up the new york post hunter biden laptop story before the 2020 election. and the origins of the infamous in new sworn testimony morel said secretary of state antony blinken played a key role that led to the now debunked letter. blinken was working as senior biden campaign adviser at the time and house republicans are asking blinken to testify in their investigation of the coverup and many argue that the now debunked statement helped save president biden in the 2020 election final days. he uses it to defend his son during that year s final debate. there s 50 former national intelligence folks saying he s accused me of a russian plan and has all the former five heads of cia, both parties say what he s say asking a bunch of garbage. nobody believes it except his and his good friend rudy giulian
and it was all apparently to impress a bunch of his teenage friends in a video game chat room. the washington post interviewing one of the members, who says teixeira acted like a father figure to the group during covid. it felt like i was on top of mount everest. it felt like i was above everybody else, to some degree, in that i would be able to brag to some people that i knew stuff that they didn t. he is not interested in helping any foreign agencies with their attack on the u.s. or other countries. he was a young, charismatic man, who loved nature, god, and bottom line, if they want these to be private, it is because they have something to hide. dana: so, the biden administration appears to have been caught flat-footed by this leak. teixeira was essentially an i.t. worker with the highest level of clearance and access to military intel systems. we had been circulating information for months on line with the pentagon only learning about it last week through the media.
counts of falsifying business records. we are expecting to hear from president trump later tonight. bryan llenas is outside the courthouse in lower manhattan to break down the charges. bryan? jesse, good evening. former president trump charger 34 felony counts of falsifying business records here in the state of new york. just moments ago, but a couple hours ago, the district attorney of manhattan alvin bragg laid out his case. listen. donald trump was arraigned on a new york supreme court indictment, returned by a manhattan grand jury, on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. under new york state law, it is a felony to falsify business records with intent to defraud and intent to conceal another crime. that is exactly what this case is about. so, d.a. bragg is charging former president trump with 34 felony counts, that is a felony count for every single falsified business record that they have in evidence, apparently. now, as he mentioned,
nick also nichols for about three minutes. officers also hit him with a baton and pepper sprayed him as he appeared to show no resistance. nichols also cried out for his mom. his home just 60 yards away. president biden spoke with tyre nichols parents before the video s release expressing his and the first lady s condolences. he and the snuck also nichols family called percent protests to be peaceful and most of them were. rich: lucas tomlinson with more on the reaction there, but first, steve heir began is live in memphis, and we want to warn you again video is difficult to watch. with that in mind, here s steve. reporter: rich, we re expecting more protests later in the afternoon in front of police headquarters here in memphis. so far things have been peaceful since the release of that police body cam video footage last night, 7 p.m. eastern, put on the internet for all to see. basically, it shows what looks like a traffic stop at first of 29 years ago tyre nichols.