Im bret baier. President biden and his team send mixed messages over whether he has Apentagon Guised for calling Immigrant Murder suspect illegal. Common ground suspect deals with how the Border Crisis is affecting congressional Threat Assessments and another major city contemplates using the National Guard to deal with violence and Public Transportation facilities. Bret but first, breaking tonight, we are getting new information on the dangers of illegal immigration as reports of arrests for Violent Crimes escalate across the country. The director of the fbi was grilled on the subject today during the senates annual worldwide Threat Assessment hearing. You can expect more of the same tomorrow in the house. Some headlines today. Correspondent Gillian Turner has details from the State Department tonight. Good evening, gillian. Gillian good evening, bret. We got a rare glimpse into the Intelligence Communitys thinking about what exactly america is up against in the intel chief did not pa
bret: but breaking tonight, a pair of journalists who were permitted to see through sources internal communications at twitter testified today before a house committee on the so-called weaponization of the federal government. republicans who control that committee are trying to show a link between censorship of conservatives, the biden administration, and the fbi. democrats today tried to pushback in a fiery hearing. correspondent david spunt takes a look tonight from the justice department. good evening, david. good evening to you. today s hearing delivered on a promise from house republicans to expose what was going on at twitter behind the scenes leading up to and after the 2020 election and, as we expected today, things got tense. can discuss. no one has yielded the gentle lady is out of order. and she is out of order because he interrupted. gentle lady is not recognized. you are not recognized. he has not said that. the new house subcommittee on the w
significant difficulties the russians were going to run into. i think they re unsettled by the reputational damage that can come with their close association with president putin. director burns made those comments yesterday during the house intelligence committee s annual threat assessment hearing. joe, what he was getting at is china is, perhaps, a little stunned by the reaction, the response, and the rallying of the west around ukraine. to do it so quickly, over just two weeks of this invasion so far. and intelligence is also showing that xi is frustrated with putin because he saw. yes. i think putin saw this, and they made a dreadful, historic miscalculation. they saw a divide between america and the eu. america and nato. that s the mistake people always make with america. didn t know until this began. we talked about this before. osama bin laden said america was
impacting their ability to safely carry out their duties at the nuclear site. russian soldiers have surrounded the perimeter of the plant. meantime, senior u.s. defense officials cannot confirm the killing of a top russian general near kharkiv, not the same as the head of russian s armed forces. u.s. defense officials also are not confirming the exact number of russian soldiers killed in ukraine, despite these remarks today by the head of u.s. defense intelligence agency, or d.i.a., at the worldwide threat assessment hearing on capitol hill with the nation s top intelligence chiefs. open session how many russian troops have been killed? with low confidence, somewhere between 2 and 4,000. that number comes from some intelligence sources but also open source and how we pull that together. analysts, putin is likely to be deterred by such setbacks and may double down to achieve ukrainian disarmament.
proposal is a tenable one. poland s offer to transfer its making 29s to ramstein air base in germany blindsided the u.s. government and it s clear the u.s. military would not accept the offer for near this would put the u.s. and nato into direct conflict with russia. i saw that announcement by the government of poland as i was literally driving here today. it wasn t preconsulted that they were planning to give the planes to us. asked about the number of russian troops killed to far in ukraine at the worldwide threat assessment hearing on capitol hill today. with low confidence, somewhere between 2,000 and 4,000, that number comes from some intelligence sources but also open sourced and how we pull that together. putin is angry and frustrated right now. is he likely to double down and try to grind down the ukrainian military with no regard for