administration s targeting of parents unhappy with their children s educational experience. house republicans say a whistleblower email shows how the fbi tracked some of those parents and that the president s attorney general has not been truthful about his involvement in all of this. chief washington correspondent mike emanuel starts us off tonight with this story. good evening, mike. bret, good evening. a number of republican leaders speaking out that eternal email turned over by fbi whistleblower raises questions about the candor of attorney general merrick garland. he either didn t know, which is terrible, or he mislead the committee when he came in front of us. the october 20th joint message from the criminal investigative division and counter-terrorism division directs fbi personnel to apply a new threat tag a means of compiling active threats to education officials. the fbi email says, quote: we ask that your offices apply the threat tag to investigations and ass
duncan: taiwan tensions, the self-ruled island rejects china s reunification call with a show of military force. and imagine this: iceland with no ice, because it s melting fast. cbs news is there. and later, a phlebotomist treats his patients to a song. this is the cbs weekend news, from new york, here s jericka duncan. duncan: good evening to our viewers in the west and thanks for joining us. this has been a rough weekend if you are flying southwest. nearly 2,000 flights have been cancelled leaving passengers scrambling. the airline blames disruptive weather and air-traffic control issues, although the f.a.a. attributes the disruptions to staffing and aircraft issues. no other airline has reported similar problems today. cbs lilia luciano is in los angeles at the international airport there. lilia, it appears those problems really started before today. reporter: that s right, jericka, they started friday afternoon and flights have been stacking up ever since, all o
reasons. today the former president attended the wake of new york police officer jonathan diller who was killed during a traffic stop in queens earlier this week. president trump criticizing the current administration s policies calling for law and order. president biden is also in new york today for a previously scheduled fundraiser with former presidents bill clinton and barack obama. we have fox team conch tonight. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich has additional details on the president s high profile fundraising event but we begin with correspondent bryan llenas on long island as family and friends honor officer diller. good evening, brian. bret, good evening. a lion of mourners wrapped around the funeral home to pay their respects to officer jonathan diller. foer president trump was in attendance as he seeks to contrast his presidential campaign with the current policies of president joe biden. what happened is such a sad, sad event, such a horrible thing. a
and i don t have any cookies either. thanks, dana. bret: good evening, welcome to washington. i m bret baier. a rematch of the 2020 election between president biden and former president donald trump, seems inevitable on this wednesday after the super tuesday primaries. the current president was essentially unopposed and the former president has vanquished his lone remaining serious challenger. former south carolina governor, former ambassador nikki haley suspended her campaign today after winning just one of the 15 state primaries on the republican side last night. she is not, however, throwing her support behind the presumptive nominee at least not yet. we ll have the first fox news power rankings for the presidential election shortly. first up though, correspondent bill melugin starts us off tonight live from charleston, south carolina. good evening, bill. bill: bret, good evening to you. nikki haley had been facing mounting questions about the viability of her camp
impeachment inquiry being discussed openly by house speaker kevin mccarthy. the top republican in the houses the evidence being recovered in investigations of business deals involving the biden family is rising to the level of such an investigation. senior congressional correspondent chad pergram starts us off live tonight on capitol hill. good evening, chad. bret, good evening. impeachment is all consuming in congress. rank and file republicans talked about impeachment but it s different when the speaker uses the i-word. house speaker kevin mccarthy going further on impeachment than ever before. when more of this continues to unralph, it rises to the level of impeachment inquiry where you would have the congress to have the power to get to all these answers. while mccarthy talks impeachment, he is not ready to launch an actual impeachment inquiry. define what this is right now that we are in and how this would work mechanically. we re no different than where we w