hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. a new chapter in the house gop s plan to govern for fox news and fox news only began today. the committee set up for one purpose only, that is to fuel the right s favorite conspiracy theory, but somehow, the deep state, is out to protect democrats and persecute conservatives and the disgraced ex-president and his allies. the so-called select subcommittee on the weaponization of the federal government held its very first hearing today. republicans invited a panel that included senator chuck grassley, who once said this, that the fbi was, quote, corrupted to its core. senator ron johnson, who has never met a conspiracy he didn t really like a lot. and former congresswoman and current fox news regular tulsi gabbard. here s just some of what they had to say. it s clear to me that the justice department and the fbi are suffering from a political infection that, if it s not defeated, will cause the american people no longer to trust thes
in the faulkner focus. today s hearing comes after the twitter files exposed execs conversations around the hunter biden laptop story and the biden family business dealings. lawmakers looking to those witnesses, among them twitter s former deputy general counsel james baker to explain how the true story on hunter biden s laptop was censored by social mead and dismissed by media outlets including the new york times and washington post as disinformation. the republican and democrat leaders of the committee are already clashing from the jump. america witnessed a coordinated campaign by social media companies and intelligence community to suppress and delegitimize the existence of hunter biden s laptop and its contents. now mainstream media outlets have verified the laptop. the damage has been done. silly does not begin to capture this obsession. the conspiracy theory have gotten what they want, an apology. what more do they want 57bd why does congress have to be involv
it comes but once a year for politics junkies, it is the christmas and new year s and arbor day and obscure state specific holiday you can t really remember the reason for rolled into one. it is state of the union night, and we are so happy that you re here with us for it. here s a live look at the u.s. capital tonight. members of both chambers of congress, guess, supreme court justices, cabot secretaries, admirals, ambassadors, they re all gathering to hear this big heavy on the pomp and circumstance annual address the president of the united states. on the other end of pennsylvania avenue of the white house, we are watching for president biden to part from the white house for the capital. the is expected shortly. i am rachel maddow here at msnbc headquarters. joined by my colleagues of chris hayes, joy reid, nicole wallace, alex wagner and ari melber. i also do mean it when i say thank you for being home with us. we know you had every choice in the world were to watch thi
flight as it crossed the country. we re monitoring both hearings and bring you news as it happens. first to another congressional hearing about to begin. chief border patrol agents will testify before the house oversight committee about the front lines of the border crisis. we re looking forward to hearing their testimony. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. bill: i m bill hemmer. a lot of the guests we ve talked to for the past two years on the border every day, right? administration tried to block top border officials from testifying today. now it s allowing this emotion to appear under the threat of subpoena. all this happening as agents have encountered more than 700,000 migrants at the border since the fiscal year first began since the first of october. dana: more 300,000 migrants in the last three months have gotten away from agents after crossing and agents have caught 38 terror watch list suspects. bill: border czar vice president kam
u.s. military sites. i told them to shoot it down. what specifically was the chinese government looking for? how might the incident affect the u.s.-china relationship. marco rubio joins me ahead. making his case. president biden gears up to address a divided congress. the state of the union and the state of our economy is strong. ahead of the suspected 2024 bid, how will he make his pitch? i ll speak to cabinet secretary pete buttigieg next. debt dilemma. biden and speaker mccarthy plan another meeting as democrats wait for the gop to put their cards on the table. are these the numbers that could come to a deal and avert financial catastrophe. baip chair of the house problem solvers caucus will join me in moments. hello. i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our kbrun june is deflated. the u.s. military is recovering the remnants of a 90-foot-long suspected chinese spy balloon shot down just off the south carolina coast on saturday after an f-22 rap