From washington tonight. The regime is getting nervous. Thats the focus of tonights angle. Laura the weaponization of legal system against Donald Trump has backfired royally on the democrats as more americans see the cases against him for what they are. Political payback. Of course, Trump Wasnt shy about calling this out at the debate which meant Kamala Harris chief surrogate over at the doj felt the need to respond. Our norms are a promise that we will not allow this to department to be used as a political weapon. And our norms are a promise that we will not allow this nation to become a country where enforcement is treated as an apparatus of politics. Laura okay. What norms is he talking about exactly . The norms that allowed for Hunters Sweetheart Plea deal to get all The Way to is a federal judge before being tossed . Or how about the norms that led the fbi to question the authenticity of hunter Bidens Laptop in the fall of the last election cycle. Or the norms that fani Willis Lov
good evening welcome to washington, i m mike emanuel in for bret baier. border crossings set another record. officials report the highest monthly total ever recorded for december. with the new year comes new laws. we ll tell you where minimum wage is up and which states are implementing new gun restrictions and bret baier looks at the reece of internet use and how they re impacting the electric grid. but, first, breaking tonight, president joe biden says his favorite memory of the year is bringing jobs back to the u.s. he also says the country s in a better position to lead the world than any other nation. the president s new year s message comes amid a year of low approval numbers criticism of the us handling of the war in israel and the crisis at our southern border. the first family s scheduled to return to, wa ton tomorrow after a week-long caribbean vacation. lucas tomlinson is traveling with the president and reports from st. croix. good evening, lucas. mike, the wh
for people in england, scotland and wales, average energy bills are set to fall by over £400 a year, that s over $500. the energy regulator ofgem has lowered its price cap for the typical household bill to £2,076, though the actual bill will still, of course, depend on how much energy people use. at its peak last year, the price cap reached more than twice that level, but households were shielded from the full impact of energy prices by a government price guarantee of £2,500. let s get more now from our personal finance correspondent kevin peachey. finally some good news. bills are still high but not as high as they were? ., , , still high but not as high as they were? . , , . ., , were? that this is certainly the case. were? that this is certainly the case- energy were? that this is certainly the case. energy prices were? that this is certainly the case. energy prices clearly - were? that this is certainly the case. energy prices clearly a i were? that this is certain
in for carley shimkus. officials at cook county jail recruiting prisoners to vote illegally. here jackie ibanez. the nine-candidate field is likely to prevent one person from getting the 50 plus percent necessary to win. officials say we should have a clear winner this weekend. it is uphill battle for incumbent mayor lori lightfoot, accused of coercing inmates to vote for her. guards are recruiting prisoners to vote for lightfoot. reporter william jay kelly spoke to one inmate. i said, no, i m registered in another jurisdiction, i can t vote. you can vote for mayor. that would be a felony. then they would back off. they are doing this with all the inmates and being that aggressive? yes. that reporter joined jesse watters with the implications, listen. it would be ironic if mayor lightfoot makes theun areoff due to the jail vote, considering she has made chicago known throughout the world for nothing, but violent crime. this is the latest in a string of scand
while they were flipping pages over at the one in wilmington. after the fbi spent 13 hours at that house on friday and found yet another batch of classified documents. some of them dating all the way back to his time in the senate which ended 15 years ago. republicans have lost all patients today. house oversight chairman james comer will formally request records from the secret service now after that agency said it would share the list of visitors to biden s wilmington home. comber and house intelligence chairman mike turner shared their frustration over the scandal. what s amazing about all of this is it takes us to the question of why were these documents here when now we learn some of these go back to his senate time and clearly he has become a serial classified document holder. edge took the president at his word when the first set of documents were found at the biden center for diplomacy that he just inadvertently misplaced those documents, but now this has gone fro