and the effort to overturn the 2020 election, several key figures of the capitol riot have already been convicted and are now being sentenced. a judge today sentenced one of them to 17 years in jail for seditious conspiracy. that is a long time behind bars. but it s actually a much lighter punishment than what the department of justice was hoping for. in most of these january 6th cases, government prosecutors are throwing the proverbial book at defendants. correspondent david spunt is at the justice department tonight with details on the sentencing of the former leader of the proud boys group. good evening, david. hi, bret. good evening to you. this sentencing comes more than two and a half years after the attack on the u.s. capitol in just hours ago joseph biggs learned his fate as you said 17 years behind bars but not nearly the amount of time that the department of justice prosecutors wanted. they want him behind bars for 33 years, almost double. ultimately the judge dis
accommodations are being made. team biden is secretly helping joe appoint countless embarrassing moments like when he stumbles up the stairs. so what is their solution? give him shorter stairs to get on and off air force one. i wish i was kidding. biden uses small steps toward every flight on his recent nato trip. they are also making biden change his footwear. joe is rocking casual sneakers instead of dress shoes, which could be more prone to slipping. there is, however, one top biden challenger who doesn t need accommodations to run for the presidency. democrats prorated and censored rfk jr. during yesterday s government censorship hearing, and now they are defending their behavior. what is the fear of having rfk jr. come to the hill to testify? what are you afraid he would say? i m not afraid of anything he would say, i just want to hear him. rfk jr. s point that he is being censored by democrats? i don t think you want to bring him before congress. trying to cen
bret: good evening, welcome to washington i m bret baier and two big stories featuring big numbers. customs and border protection say within 300,000 people illegal immigrants and countered by border patrol attempting to enter the u.s. illegally across the southern border and just the month of december. we will head to the border to report on the major showdown between texas and the biden administration. but first the other big numbers tonight. we begin in new york, a jury or during former president donald trump to pay more than $83 million in a defamation lawsuit brought by e. jean carroll. a jury found previously sexually assaulted by a trump in the 1990s. the former president vigorously denied the allegations and wondered how he did that is the subject of the defamation case. alexis mcadams outside of the federal courthouse in manhattan with the latest tonight. good evening, alexis. good evening, bret. huge numbers in the courtroom in manhattan. e.g. harrell said dona
university of north carolina violate the constitution, justice society a may or as says it decades of progress and precedent. president biden weighing in he severely disagrees with the ruling. our coverage begins with fox news legal correspondent and anchor of fox news sunday shannon bream, at the supreme court tonight. hi shannon. hello gillian. in the wake of the decision applicants will still very much be able to share their personal stories in their essays and statements and that can include stories about race and ethnicity and they re alloweded to consider those but they cannot be used as an end run at the heart of today s decision. let us embark on this transformative journey towards a more fair inclusive educational landscape. the supreme court made clear today race can no longer be used as a factor to determine who gets admitted to colleges aname. plaintiffs in the companion cases involving harvard and unc argued that the use of race was working against specific
special edition of the i can gramg gram angle from new york city tonight the second batch of documents tied to jeffrey epstein has just dropped and we are going through it page by page. we will bring you all the details as soon as we can but, first, tomorrow is the big day. biden s first campaign speech of the year. he is heading to valley forge, pennsylvania to do what the associated press describes as deviling into some of the country s darkest moments jacqui, what can we expect from joe biden tomorrow? good evening, judge. president biden s under water approval ratings and voter anxiety about his age have reportedly pushed the campaign to have the 81-year-old president stop competing with himself, where he is losing, and start competing with trump. or as one aide told cnn, quote: it s about when to go full hitler when the leading republican candidate s speeches and actions go so far that the biden team goes all the way to a direct comparison to the nazi leader rather tha