Pair of legal bombshells here in washington today that could have huge ramifications for the 2024 election. Last hour, attorney general Merrick Garland announced a federal prosecutor who is raiding hunter biden has been Special Counsel, at his question. David weiss requested the status change. Garland did grant that. This comes just a few hour after trumps lawyers and Special Counsel prosecutors appeared for the first hearing in the election interference indictment. A key ruling could come down at any moment. Were on top of this. Lets star with the hunter biden news. Kara, tell us about this special appointment. Merrick garland announced this a little less than an hour ago, that david weiss, overseeing the investigation into hunter biden, requested Special Counsel on tuesday. Garland said he agreed to grant that. What this Special Counsel status means is david weiss, the u. S. Attorney for delaware, will have authority to investigate this case anywhere in the u. S. Thats been an issue,
New yorked. Jilgillian turner. We have kevin oleary and jim jordan. First up, President Biden addressing the backlash from within his own party for using the word illegal last night in referring to migrants. Take a listen. Do you regret using the word illegal last night, sir . Probably technically not supposed to be here. Well have more on that with democratic senator chris coons. He co chairs President Bidens Reelection Committee and we got more from the head of the Border Patrol union. Hes responding to the president s state of the Union Address. Last night saying the union endorsed the bipartisan bill but claimed the bill was derailed by politics. Heres Brandon Judd Telling Martha Why The Union supporting the bill. President biden has put us in this situation. Hes put us in the situation that we have never thought that we would ever be in. Were apprehending seven times more people than what we normally apprehend. We have more than ten times the gotaways. We have more fentanyl coming
Welcome to Sunday Morning futures. Im maria bartiromo. Thanks so much for joan ising us today ahead of a major week with Super Tuesday. The chairman of the Fed Testifying in front of congress. President biden and his tate of the union and the Chinese Communist party with new ways to undermine america while trying to buy american leadership. Coming up right here ahead of this upcoming Super Tuesday, more than 800 gop if delegates at stake. Ohio senator j. D. Vance on the election, the agenda and why he wants to see google broken up. Then, home homelessness, crime, potentially under the boot of Communist China. California in the pot light ahead of its primary this tuesday where adam schiff is trying to tightennen his grip on government with a senate seat win. Coming up,. Steve garvey is former Los Angeles Dodgers First Baseman and 1981 world series champion on his effort to take on schiff this november in the general election. Then, a new Soft War On America with the creation of chinese
Maria good Sunday Morning. Welcome to Sunday Morning futures. Im maria bartiromo. Thanks so much for joan ising us today ahead of a major week with Super Tuesday. The chairman of the Fed Testifying in front of congress. President biden and his tate of the union and the Chinese Communist party with new ways to undermine america while trying to buy american leadership. Coming up right here ahead of this upcoming Super Tuesday, more than 800 gop if delegates at stake. Ohio senator j. D. Vance on the election, the agenda and why he wants to see google broken up. Then, home homelessness, crime, potentially under the boot of Communist China. California in the pot light ahead of its primary this tuesday where adam schiff is trying to tightennen his grip on government with a senate seat win. Coming up,. Steve garvey is former Los Angeles Dodgers First Baseman and 1981 world series champion on his effort to take on schiff this november in the general election. Then, a new Soft War On America wi
it is january 18th. steve: almost the weekend. almost. fox news alert. u.s. forces striking houthi strikes overnight. that action coming afterthe terrorist groups hits a second cargo ship in the red sea. the pentagon insists the conflict in the middle east is not expanding beyond gaza. that does not make sense. lawrence: vice president kamala harris says she is scared of heck of donald trump taking back the white house. i guess she did not hear this from the ceo of j.p. morgan chase. this negative talk about maga is going to hurt biden s election campaign. brian: and rob rob gronkowski is tackling issues, including california push to ban kids flag football. final hour of fox and friends starts now. your mornings are better because you re with friends. get dressed. steve: what a pretty view of the atlantic off the jersey shore, that is seaside heights. it is 31 degrees. there are snow flurries. i see cloud cover. we see the sun in the distance warming thi