of america s newsroom, i m claudia cowen. mike: i m mike emanuel. the act of retaliation coming after an anti-american sanctioned group launched a drone attack on erbil air base in northern iraq that injured three service members, one critically. former national security member telling us last hour president biden should have taken action sooner. i m glad that he finally hit back, but he should do it earlier in the cycle. his red line seems to be if a u.s. troop or a u.s. contractor gets hit, injured or killed, then the united states will hit back. i would rather us hit hard earlier in the cycle so that we can prevent someone from being injured in the first place. mike: right now black smoke rising over gaza as the idf ramps up attacks on hamas terror targets. israel s prime minister visited troops in northern gaza saying there can be no peace until hamas is destroyed. claudia: bring us up to speed, trey. good morning. overnight president biden ordered the u.s. mi
establishment players. here s this program two weeks ago. it seems like mitch mcconnell would rather have a minority that he can control rather than a majority that he can t. after this lisa murkowski will owe him a lot of favors, and she just does the bidding of d.c. insiders. maria: coming up, two republican gubernatorial candidates who are winning. kari lake in arizona takes the lead over incumbent katie hobbs. she will join me morning. tudor dixon is closing in on gretchen whitmer in michigan. both ladies here in just a few moments live. then, corruption in plain sight. the e-mails that will not go away. evidence of influence-peddling showing hunter and jim biden making millions on the big guy s name and his role as vice president filling up the biden family coffers with millions for decades. here s house oversight ranking member jim comber on this program last week. you look at the facts with hunter biden and jim biden, the entire biden crime family, as i would cal
coworker, politics did not come up, we were too busy investigating and prosecuting real crime, we knew then that politics ruins whatever it touches. religion, education, sports, and our justice system. now we are trying to reconcile competing realities, prosecutors like to ask question, who, what, where, when and how. and the evidence. what does the law say. we focus on the law because we re a nation of laws. no one is above the law. but no one is beneath it either. fairness, impartiality, equality should mean something, the best way to prove their meaning is by applying them equal to friend and foe, lead justice is blindfolded for a reason. the competing reality we confront is the past 6 years of watching the department of justice and fbi, they are seen as extensions. the political parties now, we were jim comey s press of conference. we remember the fbi agent who desmirched a republican presidential candidate, yet put in charge of investigating that same candidate. we remem
coworker, politics did not come up, we were too busy investigating and prosecuting real crime, we knew then that politics ruins whatever it touches. religion, education, sports, and our justice system. now we are trying to reconcile competing realities, prosecutors like to ask question, who, what, where, when and how. and the evidence. what does the law say. we focus on the law because we re a nation of laws. no one is above the law. but no one is beneath it either. fairness, impartiality, equality should mean something, the best way to prove their meaning is by applying them equal to friend and foe, lead justice is blindfolded for a reason. the competing reality we confront is the past 6 years of watching the department of justice and fbi, they are seen as extensions. the political parties now, we were jim comey s press of conference. we remember the fbi agent who desmirched a republican presidential candidate, yet put in charge of investigating that same candidate. we remem
come up, we were too busy investigating and prosecuting real crime, we knew then that politics ruins whatever it touches. religion, education, sports, and our justice system. now we are trying to reconcile competing realities, prosecutors like to ask question, who, what, where, when and how. and the evidence. what does the law say. we focus on the law because we re a nation of laws. no one is above the law. but no one is beneath it either. fairness, impartiality, equality should mean something, the best way to prove their meaning is by applying them equal to friend and foe, lead justice is blindfolded for a reason. the competing reality we confront is the past 6 years of watching the department of justice and fbi, they are seen as extensions. the political parties now, we were jim comey s press of conference. we remember the fbi agent who desmirched a republican presidential candidate, yet put in charge of investigating that same candidate. we remember that agent said he coul