it is january 18th. steve: almost the weekend. almost. fox news alert. u.s. forces striking houthi strikes overnight. that action coming afterthe terrorist groups hits a second cargo ship in the red sea. the pentagon insists the conflict in the middle east is not expanding beyond gaza. that does not make sense. lawrence: vice president kamala harris says she is scared of heck of donald trump taking back the white house. i guess she did not hear this from the ceo of j.p. morgan chase. this negative talk about maga is going to hurt biden s election campaign. brian: and rob rob gronkowski is tackling issues, including california push to ban kids flag football. final hour of fox and friends starts now. your mornings are better because you re with friends. get dressed. steve: what a pretty view of the atlantic off the jersey shore, that is seaside heights. it is 31 degrees. there are snow flurries. i see cloud cover. we see the sun in the distance warming thi
hill. house investigators set to interview a key hunter biden associate who you might recognize. good morning, everybody. that s the tease from last week if you were watching. bill hemmer live in new york. hello, nice to sigh. nice red, i see you. dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. great to be with you as always. impeachment investigators sit down with hunter biden s close friend kevin morris as questions swirl about his financial relationship with the president s son. bill: who is kevin morris? an entertainment lawyer and author who first met hunter biden at a political fundraiser in 2019. morris took on the role of legal aide advising hunter on his paternity and child support lawsuits. most importantly morris was hunter s bankrolling paying off the president s son s debt with the i.r.s. and a business partner in a chinese controlled company and now funding a documentary titled redemption story. dana: let s go to david spunt live on capitol hill wi
This is trump s issue. he uses the issue in a way that a lot of people in his own party wouldn t use it. they don t often speak up if they disagree. the other thing that is sort of amazing is these two issues, crime and illegal immigration are not actually issues that are at peak problems. the crime rate has been going. in 88, crime was a serious problem and democrats were vulnerable as controversial as that ad was. violent crime has been on a decades long decline. there was a dip up in some cities. two, illegal immigration is not the massive problem the way it has been in certain years. trump s ability to manufacture an issue and create a sense that people are coming to harm you and that nonwhite people are coming to harm you and playing up this invading force that is
from turkey. reporter: fredricka, the syrian government held state funerals for some of the more than 50 victims from a massive bombing that took place thursday at the capital of damascus outside the headquarters of one of syria s intelligence and security department. now, a shadowy group that identifies itself claims responsibility for the blast in a web posting. they previously claimed responsibility for other large explosions in syria. meanwhile the syrian government has claimed to have foiled an attempted suicide truck bombing in the large city in the last 24 hours. meanwhile the families of two turkish journalists are celebrating right now. they went missing in syria nearly two months ago. they weren t heard of at all until about a week ago and many feared they were dead. well, it turned out they had been held at a sear yaus prison and a turkish islamic charity has helped negotiate their release. they were flown there earlier today. it appears as part of a prisoner swa