I am here today to answer any legitimate questions and the House Oversight committee may have for me. Shall i allow hunter to give his Opening Statement first . It doesnt appear mr. Biden showed up for his public hearing. With any luck today marks the end of what may be the most spectacular failure in the history of an congressional investigations. State your iniry because we were a very important hearing what is your inquiry . It is not a stunned. I am simply asking you dont have a parliamentary inquiry . Chair recognize him mr. Chairman chairman recognizes mr. Does the committee how the Text Messages . Mr. Chairman we dont have time for games by democrats today. House Impeachment Hearing at 80 he did start, republicans and democrats taking shots at each other with two of Hunter Bidens former Business Partners. Hello and welcome everyone im sandra smith and dajohn craig to be with you. John great to be with you, what a hearing today, im john roberts in washington and this is america r
Migrants for now. Also tonight, the Chilling Bank robbery. The suspects 11, 12, and 16. And another royal image tonight that appears altered, too, this time, with the queen. First, the Supreme Court ruling, allowing texas to enforce its own terry moran at the Supreme Court. Tonight, after a horrific attack, two former deputies sentenced, part of a group of white officers accused of torturing two black men, shooting one of them and beating them. Tonight, one of those officers getting 20 years in prison. And what the judge said today while handing down the sentence. The race for president , and tonight, donald trump saying Jewish Americans who vote for democrats, quote, hate their religion and should be ashamed of themselves. The white house responding tonight, and trump doubling down on his comments. Rachel scott reporting. One of Donald Trumps former aides, Peter Navarro, sent to prison today, despite trying to appeal it all the way to the Supreme Court. 24 hours after President Biden
that number could rise even higher as search and rescue crews work to reach cutoff areas, removing debris from destroyed homes and businesses along florida s southwest coastline and we re learning that miami-dade fire rescue crews are conducting helicopter evacuations on sanibel island. boris sanchez is there in fort myers, florida. boris, you just spoke with the lee county sheriff a few moments ago. what was said? reporter: fred, there have been a lot of questions today about the timing of when lee county ordered evacuations. we re in lee county right now in fort myers. what we ve learned is lee county ordered its first evacuations more than a day after forecasts met the county s criteria despite the fact the county has an emergency plan that suggests evacuations should have happened earlier. the county s comprehensive emergency ma or more of water would indicate the need for hurricane evacuations in the most vulnerable areas. a lot of lee county is a vulnerable area. one
That number could rise even higher as search and rescue crews work to reach cutoff areas, removing debris from destroyed homes and businesses along florida s southwest coastline and we re learning that miami-dade fire rescue crews are conducting helicopter evacuations on sanibel island. boris sanchez is there in fort myers, florida. boris, you just spoke with the lee county sheriff a few moments ago. what was said? reporter: fred, there have been a lot of questions today about the timing of when lee county ordered evacuations. we re in lee county right now in fort myers. what we ve learned is lee county ordered its first evacuations more than a day after forecasts met the county s criteria despite the fact the county has an emergency plan that suggests evacuations should have happened earlier.
Going in and out of the country. if that were to happen, big if. then the u.s. military, who are there, they will work to defense any u.s. americans who are there and to keep the airport open so they can get the americans out safely. also, though, it s important to point out, you know, there were about 1,000, less than 1,000 u.s. troops who were already there. only about a1,000, not really full 1,000 have made their way in. that total of 5,000. they are not there yet. yeah. the current plach is according to defense officials is to continue to flow those people in. but this is all happening so in quickly, you have to wonder in the next 48, 72 hours f they are not in there, are they going to have time to get all of them in. a looking at pictures, with helicopter evacuations from the green zoneli to the airport, th are looking to get this place cleared out faster than it would probably take those extra troops