Ron desantis during his speech while former texas congressman will hurd received a chorus of boos in response to his criticism of the former president. Our bill melugin tracking all of this, he is in des moines with the details. Bill . Reporter molly, good afternoon to you. The iowa gop caucuses are still almost six months away, set for january a 15th. But all these gop candidates here in des moines last night making their pitch to voterser at the lincoln dinner. Before the dinner started, iowas very popular republican governor kim reynolds got on stage to speak. She has not made an endorsement yet, and its highly sought after by these candidates. Well get right into what they had to say starting with former President Trump. He got on stage and talked about having the most secure border in American History under his presidency. He talked about his Polling Numbers being better than ron desantis, and he slammed joe bidens Foreign Policy specifically on afghanistan. Take a listen. The mos
hearings on capitol hill where lawmakers are probing whether or not the fbi and doj have politicized justice to attack american civil liberties. this is falling under that brand-new subcommittee on the weaponization of the federal government, ohio republican jim jordan. welcome back as america reports rolls into hour two. i m sandra smith in new york. john: sandra, good to be with you. as we watch our colleague, jonathan turley on the stand. two of the witnesses are senators leading investigations into the biden family business dealings. david spunt has been watching the opening statements. he is live ste justice department now. david, what are you seeing? senator ron johnson has paid close attention not only to the department of justice but the fbi. he noted in his testimony, john and sandra, he wrote more than 50 letters to the fbi and doj and said few of them were answered adequately, many were not even responded to. this is a hearing as you mentioned for a new subco
the area are reporting headaches, nausea and respiratory issues after the train ran off the rails earlier this month. good afternoon, mike. mike: good afternoon, mike, it looks like a communication breakdown has halted the clean-up of contaminated material here from east palestine. much of the contaminated dirt and water were being move today hazardous material handling facilities in wayne county michigan as well as harris county texas but officials on the receiving end said say that no one told them that the hazardous material was coming to their state. 15 truckloads or 210 tons of contaminated dirt have arrived in michigan. wayne county executive is not pleased. i don t know how you do that without contacting the local officials so that we can number 1, know how to respond to our communities and number 2, give at advice in terms of routes that you may take and those sorts of things. 5 truckloads or 70 tons contaminated have been returned to east palestine. expected
congress. for a closer look at these concerns, let s bring in our political panel. with us today, the founder of grv strategies and jonathan katz, a capital council llc partner. thank you, gentlemen, for your time on a saturday afternoon. we appreciate it. i just want to get your thoughts on what we ve seen recently. we know that this particular congress in general is older than some we ve seen in the past, and we ve seen a number of these moments in recent weeks and in potentially the last year. not just these two particular lawmakers. your thoughts on a potential age limit, jonathan. i don t think we need an age limit, but i ve always felt that a lot of public servants in the senate serve one too many. it s a hard decision to make and sometimes your body just isn t is up to it. let s not forget i may disagree with nearly everything mitch mcconnell has cone in his life, but mitch mcconnell and dianne feinstein have had storied careers, and i hope
director christopher wray. the fbi is the other federal agency that thinks coronavirus emerged from the wuhan lab. mike: lucas, thanks very much. for more on this let s bring political panel, gary, grv strategies and former senior communications adviser to senator chuck grassley and jonathan cott, gentlemen, welcome. welcome to fox news poll numbers. the economy is top issue although it seems to have slipped followed by immigration, border security, climate change and other issues in the single digits. any surprise in those numbers, jonathan? no, i think that s what people care about. it s pocketbook issues and impacts your daily life. once a lot of the policies that the president and the democratic congress passed in the last two years start taking effect all those numbers are going to change because americans are going to start seeing more money