logs for staff and regular visitors into and out of the west wing. president biden for his part not talking about it. deferring all questions to the secret service. listen. [shouted questions] gillian: mark morgan says someone could be intentionally hindering the investigation. he tells the daily mail, quote, they know who comes in and when they come in, they re checked and are video cameras everywhere? are they able to talk to the people they would need to without any roadblocks? let s bring in mark meredith joining us from the white house. tell us what you know. good morning to you. the white house says it is taking this situation seriously but they are also not engaging in hype that calls over who they believe may have brought in the drugs and whether or not anyone should or could face charges. it began on sunday with hazmat teams were called to a lower level of the west wing where they first saw the powder and investigators determined it was cocaine. the white house c
arguing in the courts that he is immune from prosecution means that it s all but impossible to start a trial on march 4th, just over a month from now. but that news could clear the way for another one of trump s criminal cases. the ex-president could be in the courtroom in manhattan just eight weeks from now. the manhattan d.a. charging him with 34 felony counts for trying to cover up a sex scandal this the weeks before the 2016 election. that trial is currently scheduled for march 25th, and in less than two weeks, a hear willing be held to decide if that date holds. according to reporting from the new york times, alvin bragg and his team of prosecutors have been quietly plugging away. last month, it was reported and news breaking just yesterday in a related case that could give bragg a boost. once again, from the new york times. he once said understand weeseleberg knows where all the financial bodies are burr yesterday, and while it does not involve him flipping on
i m bret baier. president biden promised a responded to the deadly drone strike that killed three american soldiers in jordan. he promised that would happen at the time and place of his choosing the time was today just after he attended the dignified return of those bodies at dover air force base. the place syria and and iraq, tied to iranian proxy. iran was not a direct target tonight, likely won t be. but senior defense officials tell fox this is just the beginning of a series of strikes. we have fox team coverage. rich edson is at the white house looking at the presidents day and new reaction just out from the white house. mike tobin in tel aviv with what s going on in israel and reaction from the region. and retired general jack keane here in washington has his strategic analysis of these strikes. but we begin with chief national correspondent jennifer griffin. security correspondent jennifer griffin at the pentagon. will. we are told the u.s. aircraft involved in the
involving everything from military strikes to cyber attacks. so why hasn t it happened yet? . and we re learning more about a potential israeli hostage deal just one day after the families of american hostages brought their questions and concerns to the white house. i ll talk to one of the women who was there about the possibility of a new deal and what the u.s. is doing to force the issue. but i want to begin with that contentious hearing on capitol hill, demanding answers from the ceos of the world s biggest social media companies, focusing largely on child sexual exploitation on their platforms. the heads of facebook and instagram, snap, tiktok, discord and x, formerly known as twitter, facing intense pressure from senators on both sides of the aisle. when a boeing plane lost a door in mid flight several weeks ago, nobody questioned the decision to ground a fleet of over 700 planes. so why aren t we taking the same type of decisive action on the danger of these platfo
region and drag the united states even deeper. the issue is what to do now that three american soldiers are dead. the president says he holds iran responsible and has made a decision on how to respond. is it the right decision? what can he do to balance risk? secretary of state blinken says no one wants escalation. is that true of iran whose leaders call for death to america? in the atlantic, american policy toward iran has failed because it has always taken a segmented approach to the iran problem, defining it as a hostage problem or freedom of the seas problem or a nuclear problem or an iraq problem. but rarely as what it is. an islamic republic of iran problem. joining us now, nbc news pentagon correspondent and traveling with the president in miami is mike memoli. all right, so courtney, the president says he s made a decision. what do we know about what the pentagon proposed for him? we know that it was a wide range of options here. there have been several times in the