It got a little heated. Senator Rand Paul demanding answers from Doctor Fauci over federal funding for the Wuhan Lab as the head of the cdc is grilled over a new report accusing the agency of exaggerating Covid Guidance. Ashley panic at the pump, the White House taking no action is americans Mob Gas stations sending prices surging even higher, Fox And Friends First wednesday starts now. Jillian you are watching Fox And Friends First on wednesday morning. Todd we start with the fox news alert, american struggling to find gas, the biden administration is our to address shortages across the southeast. Jenkins live in washington is more stations run dry. Taking off Objective Brown may be the perfect song because it is getting harder to fill up from texas to New York, the lines are getting along, prices are rising, Take A Look at the percentage of Gas Stations without gas as of midnight, 60 North Carolina, 10 in georgia and virginia, 8 South Carolina and almost 3 and a half in florida. Gove
china s involvement. here is kentucky senator rand paul earlier this morning. he needs to leave the u.s. attorney in place. if the u.s. attorney is fired in the first weeks of the administration and the investigation goes to a biden appointee you can tell the fix is in and there won t be justice. but hunter biden deserves the same justice that paul man fort got, nothing less, nothing more. sandra: colorado congressman ken buck calling for a special counsel in the hunter biden case. we have fox team coverage as we kick off a brand-new hour, dan henninger from the wall street journal will join us along with lucas tomlinson. we begin with peter doocy with the biden camp in delaware this morning. peter, what are they saying about hunter biden and china? sandra, good morning. the only direct response that we have from the president-elect about any of this came yesterday when i asked him about the federal investigation into his son. are you confident your son hunter did n
it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m victor blackwell. and i m alisyn camerota, trevor reed has been released by russia in a prison swap. reed, a former marine is reportedly on a plane to the u.s. as we speak. russian state tv broadcast the exchange of reed for a convicted drug smuggler. you can see it here on your screen. this took place on a tarmac in turkey. the 30-year-old former marine has been held in russia since 2019. this afternoon, reed s parents spoke to reporters from their home in texas. finally after waiting all this time i m going to be able to hug my kid, put my arms around him. the biggest issue is his health. if you ve seen any of the videos today of him getting out of the fsb van to get into the fsb jet he looks terrible to us. as his parents, we know he does not look well. he s very thin. he was walking strange. they had to help him get into the airplane. he didn t look good. on the battlefield, parts of eastern ukraine continue to
capital could fall in 72 hours. bill: u.s. forces arrived in poland over the weekend. the president dodged a question. national security advisor jake sullivan saying an invasion could be imminent. we re in the window. any day now russia could take military action against ukraine or could be a couple of weeks from now or russia could choose to take the diplomatic path instead. the key thing is that the united states needs to be and is prepared for any of those contingencies in lock step with our allies and partners. if war breaks out it will come at an enormous human cost to ukraine but based on our preparations and our response it will come as a cost to russia as well. dana: we ll talk to general jack keen. mark meredith is live at the white house. later today reporters will have a chance to ask president biden and germany s new chancellor about all things ukraine. what potential consequences russia could face if it invades. a lot of speculation what kind of action ge