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federal investigation. the doj is pointing a special council. republicans say this is not aimed at seeking justice. the senior national correspondent kevin corke is live in d.c. with the breaking details on this. good evening, david weiss is the man. the very same same david weiss who says congressional republicans attempted to paint a sweetheart deal for hunter biden, despite possible or some would say obvious violations. that david weiss is leading an escalation into hunter biden. his title became special council today. his powers were the same yesterday. what s different? it does not make any difference to us given what we understood to be the case. critics argued weiss should not have been named special counsel citing this as section 6.3 in the doj regulations. a special counsel shall be selected from outside the united states government. this is a political decision, not a legal decision. they re trying to put out a fire, and they just poured gasoline on it ....
live. reporter: what we saw on the hill is of things to come. gop lawmakers appeared to eager to settle a few scores in the process, set the table for a major take down on the line. first up, it is twitter, former brain trust trying to explain away what gop lawmakers called election interference and partnering with intelligence agencies and lying and betraying the public trust. i think you guys got played by the fbi. twitter should have reinstated the post account immediately. what some called twitter s censorship regime which often labeled fact as disinformation, like you know the hunter biden s laptop story? i will be the first to admit that we didn t always get it right. we all know now. this was not russian disinformation. it was not disinformation. no, it was not. and as you can well imagine, gop lawmakers were slamming twitter today. marjorie taylor green saying to the executives, you discuss me. nancy macey saying, thank god for elon musk, who in ....
always great to be with you, my friend. lying is so hard and hardly makes people blush. let s go back a little bit of the hunter s laptop and the new jim crow lie or so on and so forth. the lie that the coronavirus could not possibly come from a lab leak in wuhan, china, that was said by many in the media or some in the government. that lie may top of it all. the energy department joined the fbi in saying, yep, the virus spread via mishap at a chinese lab. the white house is hopeful that the obvious made out the truth. there is still no consensus within the administration. the president believes it is important that we continue that work and that we find out as best we can how it started so we can better prevent futures pandemic. the community and the rest of the government is still looking at this. there is not a definitive conclusion. meanwhile, the chinese are pushing back that won t surprise you. if you follow the story at all, here is what they are saying t ....
louisville police officers arriving to the active shooting and racing into louisville s old national bank. but first, the hunt. now infinances for the person or persons who leaked classified pentagon intelligence materials which sources tell fox news could present a serious risk to national security. kevin cork is live with us p with more on this. evening, trace. they re calling this biggest leak of classified documents in about a decade and it has created a major crisis in washington d.c. the leaks detailed alleged u.s. spying on allies. insights into american thinking on the war on ukraine and at least 22 neutral 22 two neutral countries mulling plans to join russiament the da is overseeing a you pointed out a criminal investigation of the leak. among the revelations that the ukraine air defenses are in peril. that that that pentagon, the u.s. intel on ra could be compromiseed, supporting domestic protests that south korea is concerned about supplying munitions to ....
wondering what this balloon is after. this spy balloon has been over uss space at least two days now. it is a chinese government, high-altitude balloon that s being seen in videos like this one from montana posted on twitter. officials believe the spying balloon have been flying over sensitive military site to try to gather intelligence. montana is home to the air force space. that had one of the country s three nuclear missile silo fields. president biden did not response to shoutout questions about the balloon today. thank you. the pentagon press secretary did issue a statement confirming the balloon is being tracked and adding that it is, quote, currently traveling altitude at well above commercial air traffic and does not present military or physical threat to people on the ground. the senior official says it is not the first time these kinds of spy balloon have been seen over the u.s. it is obviously a diplomatic issue coming days before secretary state ant ....