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Scene. Crisis at home and abroad, threatening to upend the race for the White House as we look into Southern Lebanon there overseas. Good morning, everybody. Bill hemmer. We have a ton to get to on this tuesday. Thank you for being with us today. Dana im Dana Perino and this is americas newsroom. Well take you through the breaking news. Israel launching a limited Ground Invasion to fight hezbollah in lebanon. At home american Dock Workers beginning to strike which could send ports and the economy reeling. Recovery efforts from a catastrophic storm still underway in the southeast. The stories are evolving by the minute and all three could impact the election. Bill 35 days until america votes and despite these major developments at home and abroad the Vice Presiden ....
conference. one of the issues the president s team has been dealing with this week the determination by his own energy department and the scientists there that the covid pandemic likely began with a leak in a chinese laboratory. last night, fbi director chris wray told me in the most straightforward way of any public official so far that the bureau has reached the same conclusion. the biden administration are still not on board. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich is with the president tonight in baltimore with the latest, good evening, jacqui. good evening, bret. white house sources say they are not fully embracing any single agency s findings because there isn t consensus yet about origin. leaving questions unanswered about when or even if that will happen and what it will mean for china. with two federal agencies declaring its most likely covid originated in a wuhan lab, the white house is facing questions about why there haven t yet been consequences. th ....
complaining of illnesses since the chemical exposure they are. welcome to fox news live. hello, everyone. we have two other big stories that we are this moment. presidential race 2024 talk heating up as the republican candidates, they sharpen their attacks on president biden. he has not yet announced he is running for reelection. the former governor now says he is out. tensions with china rising yet again amid fears it plans to invade taiwan. beijing just announced a $230 billion increase to its military budget. house foreign affairs military on that in just a moment. eric: talking about china and the threat from beijing, but first we have live team coverage. lucas with the latest on the presidential race but first nate with the developments on ohio train derailment. it s happened again. yeah, it has. the good news is it does not appear it is a repeat of last month s toxic derailment in east palestine. they say that there is no evidence of any spillage after this ....
found brittney griner guilty as she was led away in handcuffs. britntney, how do you feel? i love my family. we start with fred pleitgen. what happens now? where do we go? hi, erica. essentially the court sentenced her to nine years in the penal colony. if she would send her, the fields are very far away from the russian capital. they re usually tough places as well. our understanding is that because her legal team say they re going to appeal this verdict, for now she s going to remain in the same detention facility outside of moscow that she has been insofar as long as an appeals process would take place. brittney griner, of course, was essentially appealing to the judge for leniency in a very long speech to the judge asking for leniency. let s listen to some of what she had to say. i know everybody keeps talking about political pawn and politics, but i hope that that is far from this courtroom. again, i had no intent on breaking any russian laws. i had no inte ....
the island. 27 chinese war planes have buzzed through taiwan s defense zone in the last several hours. it s a show of aggression by china that we have not seen in 30 years in this kind of force. we ve seen smaller versions of this over the last year. but now russia has decided that they want to get in on this whole conversation scolding the united states for her visit to stay out of taiwan. watch this. i have no doubt that this same line that we ve been talking about regarding the ukrainian situation. it s a desire to prove to everyone impunity. i do what i want, something like that. i see no other reason to create an annoyance out of the blue knowing very well what it means for the people s republic of china. with that, we bring in congressman mike gallagher a marine veteran that serves on the armed services committee. very good to have you with us today. there s a piece in the post today new york times, and they talk about two competing blocks that are forming ....