Blinken says that u. S. Has no leverage there because all u. S. Diplomats have been pulled out. The white house briefing set to begin any moment now and we expect there will be questions. Fox team coverage begins now. General jack v6 is standing by. In trey, you had some breaking news for us at the top of the hour here. We ve got a lot of new information here. According to a source familiar, that flight with foreigners on board has landed in qatar. According to the sources there were actually about 113 passengers on board come out lower than the original estimat of 200 and these are foreigners from all different parts of the world. American citizens, canadians chemically ukrainians, german, and british citizens. According to the source additionally we know the passengers will be processed here in qatar, they will head from the airfield to a facility near to where we re at right now. They will take corona test and be given food in allowed some time to rest before ultimately they are pro
But first, joe biden had a very busy week caving to the far lef radicals driving or hunting jeeps and wearing a pantsuit. He did all of that instead of trying to fix the disaster he has turned our country into. Don t believe me? homicides are spiking across th country since last year. 327 percent in portland. 58 percent in oakland for a 25 percent in philadelphia. Great american cities, the washington post even warning th u. S. Could see the highest recorded increase in homicides and more than 20 years. Down at the border, customs and border protection encountered more than 200,000 individuals i july. The highest in two decades. You know what it was for the month of january we re invited and assumed the presidency? just over 78,000 just this week more than 800 unaccompanied children were apprehended at th border in one day. But the white house will still try to tell you that the border is closed, there is no crisis. We certainly have it challenged at the border. A plan is in place and
I am ari melber, we are also working hard here. We have a lot of stories we track here. Including a bombshell of donald trump. Donald trump demanding the doj to overturn the election in ways that experts and people with government experience are calling it, quote coup attempt. We see how far the campaign got because it went deep inside the justice department. These emails newly released by abc showing doj officials rejected colleague s request to intervene in the certification of georgia s election. A top official tried to draft the letter and this is truly damming. I will use my words carefully here. This is not something we have seen before at this high level inside the doj. I will read to you what you see here. It is very clear. They want it to do trump s bidding and say the governor of georgia should have called a special session to consider the important and urgent matter of trying to overturn what the voters there decided to overturn georgia s results and to have a staterun coup
Portland, oregon, today. Breaking yesterday s record of 112 degrees. To state the obvious, it should not be 115 degrees in portland. Normal high temperatures at this time of the year in the city are in the lowtomid 70s. This is not just happening in portland. Oregon s capital city of salem also reached 114 degrees. Seattle, washington, hit a recordbreaking 107 degrees today. The weather across the pacific northwest of the united states is down right dystopian right now. Like something out of a climate science fiction knowledge but a peak into the future that is made present. All this is happening because of the heat dome where high pressure in the atmosphere traps hot ocean air kind of like a lid. Heat domes are not uncommon in the summer. But this one incredibly intense and vast. The kind of extreme weather event that climate change is making more and more common. The national weather service in seattle put out this straightforward warning last night. Quote, with morning lows already
Breaking news. The new york state attorney general expanding its investigation of the trump organization, saying it s actually investigating the company in a criminal capacity along with the manhattan district attorney s office. It s also continuing its own ongoing civil investigation. The house expected to vote tomorrow on the creation of an independent bipartisan commission to investigate the deadly january 6th capitol riot, but gop leader kevin mccarthy trying to derail the commission before it even gets off the ground, now saying he s opposed to it, siding with republicans who are trying to downplay the violence that day. It s important to point out that mccarthy originally blamed trump for helping to incite the insurrection. The president bears responsibility for the attack from mob rioters. He should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding. But then two weeks later, mccarthy completely changed his tune. And let s not forget that mccarthy made a pilgrimag