Out front tonight, putin breaks his silence, speaking for the first time publicly since december. Putin taking questions during a meeting with ironically a nato country, claiming the United States has broken its word and is forcing his hand in ukraine. There are mk41 launchers on which tomahawks can be installed. That is, these are not antimissile but strike systems that will cover our territory for thousands of kilometers. Isnt that a threat to us . Let us imagine ukraine is a nato member and stuffed with weapons and there are State Of The Art Missile Systems like in poland and romania, who will stop nit crimea, let alone dumbas, a russian sovereign territory. Let us imagine ukraine is a nato member and venture such as combat operations. Are we supposed to be at war with nato . His demands have not changed, trickling down, crimea was originally annexed by russia. No one has done much about it. Which remains the reason why putin believes he can control more of ukraine. Here is somethin
Oh. Oh, my god. Fox news alert. The Hawaiian Island of maui has burned beyond recognition. Devastating wildfires have roaredthslandeyond across the ie and residents compare it to the apocalypse. Ntat least 53 people have been killed already with the death toll expected to increase significantly. Dozens more are missing as thede island now resembles a war zonne. Oh, my gosh. Look a oh, mt the harbor. Baok a oh, mt the harbor. This looks like baghdad or something. The historic popular Vacation Town of lahaina is almost unrecognizable. Thousands of people have evacuated it, leaving behind Charcoal Cars and homes. Rescuegnizable crews are workind the clock to fight the fire. Joe bidens asking for 12 billion in fema aid to help hawaii. The scorched islands home to everyone from surfersg ev to workers, retirees. Even Oprah Winfrey owns a home surfe. Rah winfrey owns a home the devastation will take years to recover from. Lets turn it over to traceac gallagher, anchor of fox news at night wit
and i get there early in the morning. i go to a biden witch hunt, and then i come here in the afternoon, and i stop and we make speeches and we get you votes and all that stuff, but nobody s ever had to do this before. that was donald trump in new hampshire last night as he travels back and forth between courtrooms and the campaign trail. we ll have the latest on the race for the republican nomination now just days away for the first primary of the contest. also ahead, an update from capitol hill on the push to pass another short-term funding solution to avoid a government shutdown. and we ll go through the new developments out of the middle east including the escalating attacks from the houthi rebels in the red sea. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, january 17th. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin with politics, and former president donald trump is now focusing on the next big contest in the republican pr
on nearly $400,000 missing from his campaign filings. he says he doesn t know anything about it, and despite lying about everything from his family to where he went to college, he says he s, quote, operated honestly. and the extraordinary pressures of public life taking a toll on government officials around the world like never before. what s behind it and what can be done about it? but we start in east palestine, ohio, where even as the governor holds another briefing, residents remain skeptical and scared, having trouble believing their town is safe even after federal and state officials have come there to tell them otherwise. they say the evidence that something is wrong has been in front of them since the day that train packed with toxic chemicals derailed two weeks ago, from the noxious smell to the growing number of people getting sick. don t say you re safe, you re fine, raise your babies here even though they re getting sick and having nosebleeds, god nose what we
i will never be young again or any younger than i am today. i will never be faster or more flexible. i will never win competitions against 22-year-old wrestlers in my weight class. i will never be a black belt. none of those things will happen, but none of that matters anymore. i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder san francisco is changing. we all know it. you can t stop it. were you born here? yeah, both generations of my grandparents are from san francisco. my dad s side came out after the gold rush, so came here in the 1850s. author john birdsall grew up in this town, and he s a close observer of the changes happening here. you know, when i first came out to san francisco, i was making all the same sort of tired jokes that everybody from new york that comes out to san francisco the first time makes. you know, i thought it was all