good evening, shannon. the department has called on the fbi to step in amid increasing unrest school board meetings across the country. dissuade parents from speaking out against elected leaders. it started with a letter sent to president biden from the national school board association asking for federal assistance to deal with what the board calls threatening behavior by parents. quote: the classification of these heinous actions could be the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes. following an inquiry from fox news, the department of justice announced that they would oblige the nsba request. the backlash was immediate. if this isn t a deliberate attempt to chill parents from showing up at school board meetings so their elected school board, i don t know what is. in response, deputy attorney general lisa monaco insisted that government agencies would only intervene in cases of violence. the job of the justice department and local law enforcement
and the effort to overturn the 2020 election, several key figures of the capitol riot have already been convicted and are now being sentenced. a judge today sentenced one of them to 17 years in jail for seditious conspiracy. that is a long time behind bars. but it s actually a much lighter punishment than what the department of justice was hoping for. in most of these january 6th cases, government prosecutors are throwing the proverbial book at defendants. correspondent david spunt is at the justice department tonight with details on the sentencing of the former leader of the proud boys group. good evening, david. hi, bret. good evening to you. this sentencing comes more than two and a half years after the attack on the u.s. capitol in just hours ago joseph biggs learned his fate as you said 17 years behind bars but not nearly the amount of time that the department of justice prosecutors wanted. they want him behind bars for 33 years, almost double. ultimately the judge dis
be filed at this time. the guy decided he want to be let go he punched me. lowe s has turned the corner they have rehired this woman. got a black eye after she tried stop some shoplifters. perfect job was that mine. today is hire a vet day. these are companies looking for people who want to work. we want to empower and honor our veterans. we should expect more from our veterans and find a career after military service. steve: good morning, everybody. 7:01 here in new york city. we start this 7:00 hour with this. house speaker kevin mccarthy is issuing a stark warning that the republican party s investigation into the biden family s overseas business dealings could lead to impeachment for joe biden. joey: we re now learning the american people may finally hear from u.s. attorney david weiss on how the doj handled the federal probe into the president s son. ainsley: gillian turner has the very latest for us. gillian? gillian: good morning. major news out o
all right, it s happening again and it s even worse than let s say six months ago because now president biden knows that we know that he knows he is losing it. every time i hear hail to the chief i turn around and say where is he? thank you. that bird that pay gone. laura: i mean, of course most voters would like to direct biden off the stage permanently it s so pad that master politician nancy pelosi can t even keep a straight face on the subject. age is a relative thing. it is and i think this president our country is very well served by his leadership. he is a kid. is he a kid. [laughter] it s relative. is he younger than i am so he is a kid to me as well. [laughter] laura: oh my gosh. did they go to the kamala harris school of laughing? don t you miss nancy as speaker? well, biden doesn t because he think she still is. she is she is going to be my speaker her whole life i think my whole life and i want to thank nancy. there is nancy. well, she is
his ton aides here in bedminster, new jersey. we learned today he is facing 37 felony charges for his handling of classified documents after leaving the white house and in some cases prosecutors say he showed those documents to people who should not have seen them and in one case he is accused of showing a plan of attack put together for him by the department of defense. our laws that protect national defense information are critical to the safety and security of the united states and they must be enforced. violations of those laws put our country at risk. special counsel jack smith announced the first federal criminal case ever against a former u.s. president. the federal felony charges trump faces include willfully retaining national defense information, withholding and concealing documents. making false statements, and conspiracy to obstruct justice. the former president calls the indictment the box hoax and smith a deranged lunatic. they can t stop because it s elec