we re going through a similar dance right now after the president s son pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges drawing a chorus of conservative criticism for a sweet settlement that includes only probation, but now we come to the irs whistleblowers who have been all but ignored by the press and, of course, we have to be cautious about unproven claims. but the new york times, to its credit, broke with the pack by saying it confirmed independently based on a source that a second unnamed irs official claims david weiss, the u.s. attorney in delaware, asked, the oj for special powers to the doj for special powers to pursue the case outside the state and was turned down. whistleblower gary shapley has said he was not the sole decision maker in the case and that he was constrained in the probe. you convinced looking back at this now that this was an effort to protect president biden and his family? there were definitely hindrances that aye never seen before in my 14
mike: the first in the nation primary in new hampshire kicking off less than 48 hours from now with all three top gop candidates set the make their rounds in the granite state today. florida governor ron desantis the heading back up north after spending some time in nikki haley s home state of south carolina. welcome to fox news live, i m mike emmanuel. coming up, brett bay spoke bret baier spoke with former president trump, we ll have him live to break it all down. but fist, fox team coverage with brian yen nas and madison alworth and alexis mcadams. alexis, good afternoon. reporter: [no audio] hey, mike, good afternoon from manchester, new hampshire. we can tell you it is another cold day out here, but that didn t stop trump supporters from waiting in line for hours just to catch a glimpse of the former president on that stage. finish one of the main if topics he hammered home here in the granite state is the issue on border security. watch. nikki haley will never s
you. i m alex witt in for chris jansing here in new york city. there has been a major development in the israel-hamas war. hamas says one of its senior leaders has been killed in an israeli strike inside lebanon. these are live pictures of the site of the attack in beirut. what it could mean for the war as israel s full cabinet considers a plan for gaza after the fighting is done. plus, the border crisis officially hits historic levels. roughly 10,000 people arriving every single day, simultaneously overwhelming processing centers on the border and packing city shelters 2,000 miles away. what will the white house do about it. and with new hampshire s first in the nation primary just three weeks away, an incredible 40% of voters there are undeclared. why that could lead to a result no one is anticipating. but we re going to begin with that major breaking news tied to the israel hamas war. a senior hamas official killed in an israeli air strike in beirut. it comes as mome
who, are you i really want to know who, who, who, who? ainsley: wisconsin, they still have the christmas tree up with all the christmas lights. look at the star on the building there. steve: keep it up until the epiphany january 6th this year. brian: i thought epiphany sudden idea you weren t expecting. ainsley: like i just had epiphany. steve: that isn t capitalized this one little christmas capitalized january 6th. ainsley: since you are catholic do you keep your lights up until epiphany? steve: absolutely. ainsley: how about you? lawrence: after january they come down. steve: end of january? brian: everything came down last night. most credit belongs to dawn. lawrence: did you help? brian: of course. bag ever the tree does not work. whose idea was that put the bag underneath the tree? it didn t work, there is a stand there. so it s underneath the stand. so you got to undo the stand, because my guy did it. in the customersry and he hammers
a year of hope. a year of endurance. a year of unity. the year of invincibility. the furious year of invincibility. following a devastating year of russia s war of aggression, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy vows to do everything to win this year. if putin s goal was to devour ukraine, he s clearly failed. from the beginning he s underestimated ukraine and the west with severe consequences within russia. and you have been following the alex murdaugh murder trial, we re not going to get into that testimony. instead, i m going to tell you about what this case tells us about generational power and privilege and the oligarchs living among us in america. we begin tonight with the somber one-year anniversary of russia s illegal and unprovoked invasion of ukraine. the war remains the biggest threat to peace and security in europe since the end of the cold war. the scale of human suffering is unimaginable for so many. according to the united nations, nearly 18 million p