chinese government spy operation in the middle of manhattan. and that s just the start of it. the lead starts right now. chinese dissidents in the u. s harassed and intimidated from online to door knocks. the fbi says chinese government agents were trying to silence their words against the chinese government, even operating a fake cop shop in new york plus outrage in kansas city as if, after a black teenage boys shot after showing up at the wrong house to pick up his brother s. cnn is learning that the gunman was an elderly white man and was released. after less than two hours in custody. why critics fear he may never be charged with a crime and live from new york. it s the house gop their spotlight on crime in new york today in the backyard of the prosecutor indicted donald trump. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper and what appears to be a brazen act of espionage by the chinese government as us tensions with that country boil over, the u. s. justice department announced to
economic advances for underserved communities, expanded voting rights and a robust defense of democracy, but how much can he really get done? then finally, we ll look how the massive infrastructure legislation passed last year may help restore one historic black and brown neighborhood in new orleans to its former glory. not by adding anything but taking something away. that story later in the hour. but we start with the ethical dilemma staring republicans and democrats in the face. and the growing frustration with both parties over what some see as self-inflicted wound. for democrats, yet another call for information on the biden documents controversy. this one, from the republican head of the house oversight committee. he wants the visitors log from biden s home in wilmington after biden s attorney said five more pages of classified documents were found there earlier in the week. a spokesman for the secret service said, those logs don t exist. but republicans insist that
threatening. spaces online and real life where conservatives feel they get shut down for voicing unpopular views and where political correctness and wokeness force them to walk on pins and needles or just keep quiet for fear of getting cancelled. to put it mildly they don t like safe spaces, okay, they really, really hate them, but what s happened on the right and specifically inside the republican party in the last couple of decades is that their sense of victimhood and frankly fear and rage at an increasingly diverse country where they aren t automatically at center of everything, where other communities have gotten a chance to be focused on, like hollywood and books and in the culture and have elected political leaders who look like them, president obama, kamala harris and the guy recruited on to the bad list for being associated with both of them, joe biden. their anger has frankly corroded into something more like hate. to the point where they, even as the my north. only
With the latest, heres our North America editor sarah smith. As donald trump heads to court, waving at the cameras, it looks much the same each day, but theyre not the same. Today, he had to watch a woman who claimed she had sex with him, testify about it. He is accused of falsifying Business Records when he marked a Hush Money Payment to her as Legal Expenses. The Legal Expense that we paid was put down as Legal Expense. There is nothing more you could say. You dont have to put down anything like this, but we put down Legal Expense because it was ilLegal Expense. Is that right, mr attorney . Because it was a Legal Expense. Stormy daniels was paid 130,000 by mr trump to stop her going public with her claims of a sexual encounter, shortly before the 2016 president ial election. The court was shown this photograph of them together, as she described first meeting him at a Golf Tournament in 2006, the day she said they later had sex. It was at this golf course, she said, that donald trump
In los angeles in this is americas late news fox news at night. And breaking tonight the battle of the flags. The Palestinian Flag has flown on so many College Campuses this week but today administers at George Washington university ordered the large American Flag directly above a sea of pro Palestinian Protesters. You see right there flying high on the statue of George Washington. And earlier this week the nypd toward down a Palestinian Flag and raise the Stars Stripes once again on the university of new yorks campus in these unc Frat Brothers defended the flag amid pro palestinian protests on their campus. More on that later. Those of course our snapshots of the campus chaos that is gripped so many colleges this week. Campuses have been trash. Learning has certainly been lost in Graduation Ceremonies have been canceled. While many protesters argue a powerful point has been made. Certainly some universities will never be the same. Weve got Fox Team Coverage here in los angeles but fir