a matter of hours they took control of a key military base in southwest russia. they got as close as 120 miles from the russian capital. their leader struck a sudden deal agreeing to go into exile in belarus and avoid prosecution. antony blinken calls the weekend s events extraordinary. we haven t seen the last act. we re watching it closely and carefully. 16 months ago russian forces were on the doorstep of kiev in ukraine thinking they would take the city in a matter of days and thinking they would erase ukraine from the map as an independent country. now over the weekend they have had to defend moscow, russia s capital of mercenaries are putin s own making. it raises profound questions and shows cracks. putin has more to answer for in the weeks and months ahead. sandra: a former russia ambassador said it is a fresh reminder of a long-held nuclear fear. he is known quantity. hardened adversaries of the united states. the alternative could be worse. i think the biden a
a minivan. bill: close quarters for people inside. oxygen limited and complicating the effort to get them home safely. dana: the submarine s last known location is 400 miles off the coast of new foundland. bill: officials lost contact an hour and 45 minutes into the sub s descent on sunday morning. it s 13,000 feet. the deepest ocean recovery mission ever. dana: this is what we know. there are five people on board. they departed sunday morning. the coast guard is leading the search with help from canada. the passengers are estimated to have 45 hours of oxygen remaining. bill: the third voyage for this mission. the third year they ve done this now. pass passengers pay to see the titanic. dana: the coast guard is working to reassure passengers families. officials are mobilizing every resource possible. we re working very closely at this point to make sure that we re doing everything that we can do to locate the submersible and rescue those on board. the location
go. could be fireworks. welcome to our broadcast today. i m bill hemmer. dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. what i like about when republicans run the committees, they re on time. allegations the f.b.i. bias will be front and center. the judiciary committee chairman will question durham on his report. he concluded the bureau had no business investigating the trump campaign. republicans are touting that be in their push to reform the justice department. committee chairman jim jordan. i think today for mr. durham you will hear why it s necessary. he will give detail and add more color to what we already knew, this whole trump/russia thing was a lie. dossier was garbage. they used it anyway to sfie on four american citizens. bill: right now jim jordan is sitting in his seat and could get rolling any moment. one of the democrats is adam schiff. the house could vote to censure him today for pushing the debunked claims of the trump-russia collusion. dan
harris: we begin with a fox news alert. a critical day for donald trump inside washington, d.c. courtroom. some of his rivals are on the ground in iowa. the former president is appealing for the all-important immunity in his federal election case. oral arguments just wrapping up in that moments ago. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. the former president arrived to the court earlier today. a three-judge panel heard arguments in connection with special counsel jack smith s election interference case. no ruling will be issued from the bench and the court gave no indication when their written opinion would be issued. trump did not testify today but he was there and the u.s. supreme court denied special counsel jack smith s request to leap track the appellate progress to get to the court date in march. the issue could come back to the u.s. supreme court, though. the criminal trial before the district court is on hold until this whole thing is cleared up. i
3:00 p.m. eastern and we expect the former president to plead not guilty either today or in a separate formal arraignment. we ll find out. much of the republican party has been rallying behind trump. they are trying to utilize the d.o.j. as an influence operation within the campaigns within elections. america is seeing a double standard. perhaps president trump should have gone after hillary clinton. he didn t. should joe biden be allowed to aggressively go after the former president? i think president trump has not been treated equally like everybody else in this process. harris: 2024 challenger nikki haley has reversed course. two things can be true at the same time. one, the d.o.j. and f.b.i. have lost all credibility with the american people. the second thing can also be true. if this indictment is true, if what it says is actually the case, president trump was incredibly reckless with our national security. harris: so why trump, though? and not biden? plenty