The faces of local News Layoffs and cutbacks. Well talk about whether Local News should be considered infrastructure. And later a first look at my brandnew reporting about Fox News from the new Paperback Edition of hoax. But first, a big story developing this weekend. Gag orders against the american news media. That sentence doesnt make any sense, right. It is axio moronic. The Media Shouldnt be gagged but that is what happened. The government forced a Gag Order against a New York times against a leak investigation. There is the front page headline, Justice Department wages secret fight to get emails of times reporters and they couldnt even talk about. The Newspaper Lawyers were gagged and couldnt tell the people involved about this secret fight. This is part of a wider pattern seen first in the obama years then in the trump years of a Leak Investigations that end up involving snooping on reporters. So lets just be clear here, spying on journalists is a front to the first amendment. Th
dana: only 36 hours. the president s original comments sent off alarm bells staring down the barrel of 100,000 troops. russia has refused to pull back the forces. antony blinken met with the russian counterpart. they say they have no intention of invading ukraine. but again we re looking at what is visible to all and it is deeds and actions, not words that make the difference. bill: we re watching this from all angles. senator tom cotton has reaction coming up in a moment. greg palkot in kiev but first to the white house we begin this morning with peter doocy from there. good morning. good morning. we have a brand-new update about the president s effort to try to stop this russian invasion of ukraine with diplomacy. the united states and russia have diplomats meeting in the middle in geneva right now. the secretary of state says his focus today is on defense and deterrents. tony blinken says that more u.s. security assistance will head to ukraine in coming weeks while
long time senate majority leader harry reid, her former colleague, his wife of 62 years announced in a statement that reid passed away peacefully while surrounded by friends following what she called a courageous four-year bat well pancreatic cancer. combative but soft spoken, reid was elected to the united states senate in 1986 after serving two terms in the house of representatives. he held the role of senate majority leader from 2007 to 2015 and was a pivotal figure on capitol hill touring the administration s of both george w. bush and barack obama. president biden worked for two decades in the senate and eight years while vice president paid tribute to a person he called a great american and a dear friend. in a statement the president wrote if harry said he would do something, he did it. if he gave you his word, you could bank on it. that s how he got things done for the good of the country for decades. president biden also listed a number of reid s accomplishments inc
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transported from the scene. we have learned this from our affiliate in the area. this person of interest to you see on the screen is apparently now in custody according to our local affiliate. we will monitor the news there and we will bring you any updates as we get them confirmed. a search forward in two separate efforts to hold donald truck accountable in the aftermath of the 2020 election. in fulton county, georgia, the chief of staff was face-to-face with a federal judge this morning who heard arguments on a request that was made by meadows to move his case to federal court from georgia. we will spend more time on that particular case later in our two hours. a look ahead to the arraignment of donald trump which is scheduled today for next week. will you have a calendar out, dry circle around march the fourth of next year. that is the major development in the other developments we are watching today. brought by the special counsel, jack smith. march 4th is the day that th