Donald trump says he has told his team to co operate with the transition to a joe biden presidency, after the agency which oversees the process ruled that it could formally begin. The General Services administration will now release funds to mr biden, and his officials will receive security briefings. This is how mr trumps acceptance came, in a tweet that says its in the best interests of the United States for his team to co operate with protocols. Joe biden has unsurprisingly welcomed the decision, saying todays decision is a needed step to begin tackling the challenges facing our nation, including getting the pandemic under control and our economy back on track. In the days ahead, Transition Officials will begin meeting with federal officials to discuss the pandemic response, have a full account of our National Security interests and gain a complete understanding of the Trump Administrations efforts to hollow out Government Agencies. Ive been speaking to our North America corresponde
Zuckerberg and elon musk. Bret we begin with a weather alert. Tonight, Severe Weather over much of the eastern part of the country. More than 130 million americans are at risk of seeing the Severe Weather outbreak either late this afternoon, into this evening. Here in washington, d. C. , Federal Government offices closed early today, sending employees home ahead of these anticipated storms. Plane travel up and down the east coast, largely grounded at this hour. No sense of when that stops. This is the most serious threat of the storm that the nations capitol has faced in years. Fox weather correspondent katie berne is in d. C. Tonight on the streets. Good evening, katie. Good evening, bret. Yeah, rain is moving into d. C. Now and we could feel hurricanestrength winds gusting as fast as 75 miles per hour. In fact, in a suburb of d. C. , centerville, virginia people already have reports of 80 mileperhour wind gusts there just in the last hour or. So the storm system is impacting heavily
[laughter] bret: good evening. i m bret baier, breaking tonight, a new attack on u.s. forces in the middle east. senior defense officials say five rocket landed near the al asod air base in iraq. no injuries or damage reported in this, the 24th attack on american forces in the region since october 17th. all to be at the hands of iranian proxy grout. hamas enter second stage troops prepare for what he calls a long and difficult battle. the prime minister calling it a battle between situation and barbarism. american tanks and personnel moving deeper into gaza and today a female israeli soldiers was rescued from captivity. senior correspondent mike tobin is in southern israel tonight with the very latest, good evening, mike. mike: good evening, bret. daniel agarry says the freed israeli soldier has excellent memory. providing valuable information that will be used going forward she has been reunited with her family after being taken hostage october 7th. freed by the elite is
in, what they expected would happen as opposed to what actually did happen. they have not been very transparent about this. and, yeah, this is going to be a huge campaign issue because, remember, joe biden came in as being the adult in the room. he was going to be the experienced foreign policy hand in one of the most important things any president could do he messed up. bret: one of the things, hugh is, that critics of this administration say that that moment emboldened our enemies or our challengers. you see what happened with china and russia, very close to the alaskan coast. senator dan sullivan, republican from alaska saying the incursion by 11 chinese and russian warships operating together off the coast of alaska is, yet, another reminder that we have entered a new era of authoritarian aggression led by the dictators in beijing and moscow. obviously there is a lot of things that factor in here. but, does it go back to that initial, original sin if you will about the afghanista
this testing on a day when support for impeaching the president and removing him from office is on the rise. now at 50% for the first time. it is trademark trump to turn up the volume when he wants to distract you from something important, like today s witness or today s numbers. so this morning the president deploying a word with historic meaning, calling the democratic investigation, quote, a lynching. bill taylor is the crucial witness behind closed doors this hour. taylor is a career foreign policy hand who the trump administration pulled out of retirement to take the top diplomatic job in ukraine. he s the one who told another trump diplomatic appointee that freezing military aid and investigation into the president s political opponents was, quote, crazy. today cnn told taylor they plan to walk through those text messages and provide them a clear timeline in his five months as acting ambassador to ukraine. expect those questions to cover