i m john roberts in for bret baier tonight. a tough examination for dr. anthony fauci as he defends his actions during the coronavirus pandemic. we may be just hours away from an executive order from president biden on immigration. as an illegal migrant is arrested for allegedly shooting two new york city police officers. and what it takes to get american hostages back home. we hear from someone who has done just that. but, first, breaking tonight, just days after the conclusion of the first ever criminal trial against a former president, a similarly historic proceeding begins against the son of a sitting president. jury selection has been completed in the felony gun charge trial for hunter biden. correspondent david spunt is in wilmington, delaware tonight where he kicks off our conch. hello, david. david: john, good evening to you. it took all day but the judge, the special counsel and the defense were able to turn 250 prospective jurors into 12 jurors plus four alterna
underway in his federal gun case. it is the first time ever the son of a sitting president will stand trial. we ve had a lot of first time evers, america. hunter is accused of lying about his illegal drug use on a gun buy form in 2018. first want to get to this because on the hill today he was the public face of the government s response to all the covid pandemic matter. now a house panel set to question dr. anthony fauci one hour from now amid allegations of misconduct. app apparently there is a lot there. hope you had a grand weekend. i m bill hemmer. dana: i m glad to be back with you. i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. we move from one trial to another trial. we have somebody else kind of on trial today anthony fauci. nearly two years since he testified publicly. this hearing could get contentious fast. republicans have a lot of questions. democrats are speaking ahead of the hearing. some of them are preemotion actively defending dr. fauci. today s appear
folks lining up for today s highly-anticipated question and answer session with dr. anthony fauci. the scene is the house subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic featuring the first public testimony of dr. fauci. lawmakers will dig into procedures during the pan emotion dick and embarrassing emails, an advisor was seeking ways to look at public records laws and fauci s personal email accounts and leading republicans saying there are indications he may have used them for government communication during covid. a frequent fauci critic laying out his expectations. we now have his emails from the exact time when he was saying it was natural, nothing to see here. that the nih had nothing to do with it. we have the private emails where he and everyone in his inner circle was saying oh my goodness.
suggestion that covid leaked from the wuhan lab. the accusation being circulated that i influenced these scientists to change their minds by bribing them with millions of dollars in grant money is absolutely false and simply preposterous. after the house committee found evidence, other public health senior advisers were using private emails to get around public records laws, fauci said those who did acted inappropriately. dr. fauci, did you ever delete an official record? no. on the 6-foot social distancing rule which kept schools and businesses shut down for an extended period, fauci said that was not based on scientific study. we have discussions at the white house about that. we did. but the cdc s decision and was their decision to make and they made it. and you didn t feel an obligation as the lead scientist at the nih to challenge that.
So New Jersey politicians — on both sides of the aisle — are spending this week putzing around with the state’s open public records law. Now understand: I usually write about things like butts, bikinis, food, and football. I’m not doing a lot of open public records requests. But the idea of the state government […]