belonged to any member of the biden family, including hunter biden. those questions are not allowed. they were not here friday, not here saturday, sunday or monday. they come back tuesday. so to ask that question is incredibly irresponsible. so they were there friday actually, which we have reported here. so this as we re also told that despite more and more substantive information that comes out about biden s business dealings, shakedowns, bribes, the fbi director said you can t ask me about that. that s an ongoing investigation. can t talk about the intensity, the focus of it. can t talk about anything. so merrick garland, the attorney general face as deadline, which is now less than two hours away to allow congress to interview, to talk to the u.s. attorney, david weiss. you know, what is going on with this investigation. there s a lot of conflicting stories. can you tell us a little bit about what is happening? in moments,ly speak with the speaker of the house, kevin
des moines, iowa. this is the story this hour. former president trump just held a news conference in new york city. the closing arguments on the other side of this equation are still underway in this fraud trial. the former president saying again today that he s innocent. he s done nothing wrong. watch. so they have no case. it s a shame that a thing like this is able to happen. businesses leave new york. martha: hunter biden on the other coast of the country, we re waiting for his arrival in court in los angeles on tax charges. one day after causing chaos on capitol hill when he showed up unexpectedly at his contempt of congress hearing as if he was open to testifying and speaking at the hearing except when he didn t like the way things were going, he stormed out. matt whitaker is standing by here in iowa where he s born and raised in iowa. let s go to nate foy, our correspondent covering the trump trials and he s in new york city on the latest developments in that today
extremists. a phrase you can expect to hear a lot of in the coming months. these two likely opponents and spends zero time on threats from a broad, on china or russia in this particular ad. 60% of americans have low confidence in the president s ability to handle an international crisis, which is likely on the watch of this next president. 80% of americans are dissatisfied with the way that things are going in the country right now. a lot to dig into as we start to get a look at the shape of what is to come over the next several months of this election. we ll talk to bill and brian in just a moment. first to peter doocy standing by. hi, peter. martha, a surprise. president biden s first remarks since the big announcement did not mention the big announcement. instead, he stuck to his recent stump speech with lines like this. it s a fact that our economic plan is working. we now have to finish the job. there s more to do. the republican national committee s first crack a
sandra: a great piece he wrote there, really important questions, and we have some important questions for him as well. i m sandra smith in new york. great to begin another week with you, john. jonathan turley says if the white house truly wants transparency, now is the time to open up about the files. here is he will join us this hour. plus, we are following the twists and turns in the alec murdaugh double murder case and today defense attorneys got one witness to admit on the stand there could have been a second shooter. john: nancy grace is in the courtroom in south carolina following the case in-person. we will get her reaction to that bombshell all new at 2:00. but we begin with a fox news alert. if the bell did not tell the tale, it is a fox news alert. border agents are busy cracking down on illegal crossers at our southern border, authorities are now seeing a spike up north. migrants now braving the freezing cold temperatures along the 49th parallel and risking
officer. it s coming from benjamin crump, an attorney for the nichols family. this sixth officer is white. keep in mind, the five other officers that have been accused of second degree murder all black. his name is preston hemp hill. according to crump, he tased the tyre nichols. he tased him and said i hope to stop his blank. according to trump, he s been relieved of his duties. no charges known to be filed against him yet per crump. and crump is saying he and the family are disappointed no charges yet against the sixth officer, a white officer. we re continuing to see now day by day more fallout from this violent activity on january 7. two emts have also been relieved of duty. these rescuers arrived at the scene of the second beating when nichols was slumped over and for at least 15 minutes according to the tape, it does not show them checking to see if he s breathing or trying to help stop the breathing. no criminal charges yet. we could see a series of more firings and mo