Bret former President Donald Trump will not have to appear in person for the next hearing hes facing following this weeks indictment regarding alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The trial judge making that ruling today. This comes amid growing questions about the Justice System in the midst of dozens of criminal charges against the former president and multiple investigations involving the family of President Biden. Congressional republicans are vowing a strong response to what they feel is a twotiered application of the law. Senior Congressional Correspondent chad pergram starts us off tonight live from capitol hill. Good evening, chad. Bret, good evening. The g. O. P. Says there are two sets of rules. One for the bidens, another for former President Trump. The right intends to level the playing field. You cant beat them, you persecute them. Republicans believe there is something nefarious going on. It seems as though every time trump goals higher in the poll he gets a new
illinois. he 7th gulf shore. jesse: again:silent. tyrus: i will have a new show where i turn watters into a pretzel. jesse: pretzel waters. jesse: go see his show. have great weekend. everybody. martha: bye, everybody. bret: good evening. welcome to washington. i m bret baier. is the justice system different for former president donald trump than current president joe biden? iowa farmers say china is trying to steal vital agriculture secrets and it could impact your dinner table. we ll explain. and our common ground segment deals with bipartisan efforts to learn the truth about ufos. is there a secret government program holding crashed alien craft and even alien pilot bodies?
steal billions of dollars worth of america s secretly patented engineered seeds is costing farmers and potentially threatening america s food supply. when china steals that i.p. from a seed company, that money has to be made up somewhere. and so, unfortunately the u.s. farmer is the one that s going to deal with it. over the last few years, chinese nationals have been convicted of stealing genetically engineered corn seeds in iowa. rice seeds in kansas. a company s software farm ago gori them in missouri. they don t innovate like we do. we have a frequent economy. so the only out for them is to steal our secrets. you are being robbed every day. congressional round table in dysart, iowa the select committee on china how china is pleepg for conflict with the u.s. over taiwan. china now owns 384,000 acres of land in the u.s. that s up 456% since 2011. particularly alarming are
attempted agricultural land purchases near u.s. military bears land that lawmakers warned could be used for spying or for spreading bioweapons that could disseminate our crops. what keeps me up at night is that they are stealing our seeds and they are reverse engineering to know what makes them hardy and what makes them drought resistant and pet resistant. what says they couldn t turn that around to us. our food supply is a national security issue. here s the problem, one out of every three rows of soybeans out here is sold to china. u.s. farmers are asking congress to get tougher on china without alienating their number one customer. bret? bret: there are also concerns about potential chinese influence in america s energy policies at large. bret, tonight, fox news digital is exclusively reporting energy secretary jennifer granholm had multiple undisclosed closed door conversations with china s top energy official days before the white house decided to tap into
case after a judge earlier this week ruled against them. the next donald trump-related court hearing next week in for the piers, florida in a separate classified documents case. several house ago he pleaded not guilty to paper on three additional charges added last week, middle of last week. he is not expected to attend that court appearance. bret, he has a busy calendar campaigning and dealing with these cases. bret: david, thank you. you bet. lawmakers concerned over china s growing influence in the u.s. participated in a field hearing today in iowa. they are looking into china s expanding purchases of large amounts of american property, particularly farmland. correspondent bryan llenas is in iowa tonight. the bottom line gets thinner and thinner and tighter and tighter. sixth generation farmer says china s relentless efforts to