Dana we wish her the best. Thank you. Now fox news alert. White hot spotlight highlighting one of the biggest liabilities for President Bidens reelection campaign, his age. As we await todays Testimony By Robert Hur concerning the president s mishandling of classified documents. The Committee Hearing is live. Jim jordan already there. Welcome to a new hour of americas newsroom. Im dana perino. Bill good morning. Here we go. Bill hemmer. Good morning at home. Todays testimony coming as fox news obtains the written transcript of President Bidens recorded interview with Special Counsel robert hur. It went for five hours. There is a lot there. Opening statements will get underway in moments as the House Judiciary Committee takes a deep dive into hurs testimony. In a moment well hear from jordan. Word there are protestors inside that room from code pink. They might be Cleaning Everything out and resetting as we speak. Anyway, hur will explain why he declined to recommend charging President
behind us, end quote. not really. our coverage continues now with wolf blitzer. he s in the situation room, actually he s replaced by alex marquardt today. i ll see you soon. happening now, donald trump brushes off questions about a report you heard first right here on cnn, that is, federal prosecutors now in possession of audiotapes undercutting trump s defense over retaining classified documents. we re also getting reaction from one of the former president s previous attorneys. in the senate the debt ceiling deal could come to a final vote as soon as tonight. even as members of both parties raise serious concerns. majority leader chuck schumer telling senators, they have to stay in session until the bill passes. and russia says that regions near the border with ukraine have suffered dozens of attacks in just the last day. the kremlin condemning international silence over the recent strikes on russian territory. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and
the story with martha maccallum starts right now. martha: i m martha maccallum. think about this. a 3-year-old american toddler whose parents were killed in this attack has been confirmed to be among the nine americans being held by hamas terrorists. this child s parents were killed in the attack. jake sullivan said he will be speaking to the families of the americans. people are asking, why aren t we hearing more about the americans being held? we have talked to one of the families. it s a strange dynamic of all of this that they re not front and center all the time in these pictures with americans thinking about them and focused on them all the time. there s a lot going on. part of that are the protests that keep stealing the headline as the country s hot spots boil over against the white house pro israel policy. watch this. you have a whole generation of voters coming up that will be able to vote in this next election. if you don t stop this genocide now, you won t g
boarding air force one. just a misplaced sandbag to some degree, alex. we hope he s okay. phil mattingly, thank you very much for that. le let s get more from senator chris coons from dell care. back to the debt ceiling deal, you say that you will be voting for it. but, of course, there was a very strict time constraint. they re right up against the clock. if there were more time, what changes would you have wanted to see the white house push for in this final bill? well, alex, i think this is a positive for the american people and a success for the white house. if you look back at the bill that passed the house controlled body just a few weeks ago and the sharp, steep cuts they were demanding in nondefense domestic spending, i m comfortable with where we re ending up. to your question, i would have liked to see a serious conversation about closing some of the tax loopholes some of the efforts made by the house to make the trump tax cuts