house republicans have set off a new fire storm on capitol hill today. minnesota democrat, elon omar, has been officially removed from the foreign affairs committee after a party line vote. republican cited her past eight months criticizing israel, with some democrats saying, it is just political revenge for the removal of marjorie taylor greene and paul gosar from their committees during the less conference. nbc s ryan nobles has more. tonight, democratic congresswoman ilhan omar divided. my leadership and boys will be diminished. if i am not on this committee for one term. after republicans took the dramatic step, but to remove her from the foreign affairs committee. how speaker, kevin mccarthy, says it is in response omar s past comments. with both republicans and democrats of condemns antisemitic. including support for israel was all about the benjamins. and that israel has hypnotized the world. comments omar has apologized for. when it comes to foreign affairs, e
over the western united states. it may have come all the way from china. national security correspondent jennifer griffin has details from the pentagon. hi, jennifer. good evening, gill i can t believe. the pentagon says it has detected and been tracking for the past several days a chinese surveillance balloon that entered u.s. airspace and appears to have been sent bye bye jing to spy on sensitive sites in montana. one of three sites where the u.s. houses it s siloed nuclear weapons. nbc first reported the news. a senior u.s. defense official just briefed reporters on the balloon which is still hovering over the continental united states. adding the u.s. government has very high confidence that this surveillance balloon was sent by the peoples republic of china. the balloon is currently traveling at an altitude well above commercial air traffic and does not present a military or physical threat to people on the ground. instances of this kind of balloon activity have been
coming right up. first hunter biden finally admitting the laptop filled with his emails incriminating documents and embarrassing photos does indeed belong to him. welcome to a new hour of in us news, i m dana perino. bill: how was the first hour? dana: good. bill: a plus? good morning. i m bill hemmer and good morning. after years of widespread claims dismissing the laptop as the work of hackers or russian disinformation hunter s lawyers conceding it indeed belongs to him and calling him hunter the victim. that change of tune coming as newly empowered republicans launch investigations into hunter s business dealings including his role with bhr, a chinese equity firm banked by some of china s largest state banks. he joined the board in an unpaid position in 2017. he pursued deals involving china s largest private energy firm. later that year a hunter biden associate says that joe biden was consulted on deals with china. one year after that, the department of justice laun
mid november after the president s attorneys discovered top secret material in his private office. sandra: we have fox team coverage for you to kick off this hour. miranda divine is standing by, the other huge story, hunter biden admitting notorious laptop she has been reporting on for two years now was indeed his. john: first to mark meredith, live on the north lawn at 1600 pennsylvania. what are we expecting to hear from the president today? john, we are expecting to see the president on camera a little later on this afternoon, it s unclear if he s going to be taking any questions. reporters no doubt will be shouting questions to him as well as the white house staff, trying to piece together exactly who knew what and when when it came to these documents. officials admit should not have been in the president s possession. big headline yesterday, the fbi was searching the president s beach home in rehobeth beach, delaware, his lawyers said no classified materials were f
at the way the administration has handled the investigation into classified documents, with the wall street journal now reporting the fbi is set to search mike pence s home in indiana. the reporter behind that scoop and our hill team standing by live. also happening, we re watching the white house where president biden is about to host a group of congressional lawmakers trying to get some momentum behind police reform. plus, one of the president s top economic advisers stepping away from that role. an exclusive live interview this hour with brian deese and our own steph ruhle, why he s leaving as tensions growing over the recession. i m hallie jackson, i want to bring in ali vitali, and vaughn hillyard. ali, let me start with you, senator mark warner, and senator marco rubio sending a letter to the biden administration today with frustration about the way these investigation into classified documents have unfolded. talk us through it. reporter: frustration has been the