Im bret baier. Breaking tonight the biden administration is under fire over its chaotic withdrawal of u. S. Troops from afghanistan. A new report from the republicans on the house of foreign Affairs Committee accuses the White House of misleading and even lying to the american public. Vice president Kamala Harris and her democratic colleagues are trying to blame former president Donald Trump for the afghanistan disaster. That is not stopping the issue from playing a role in the president ial campaign. Gillian turner starts us off tonight. Good evening. The Republicans Report is 350 pages long, contains thousands of pages of additional documentation from the chairmans two year long investigation. The biden administration iS Pushing back hard on the substance of this report and the timing of its release. Dueling reports from the house foreign Affairs Committee on the 2021 u. S. Withdrawal from afghanistan. Republicans ultrafast first major finding, the biden administration failed to deve
already closed last month. critics say that is by design, a slow motion strategy playing out little by little until it s too far and too late to stop it. sandra: shannon bream will be here what s at stake and cases at the supreme court, including the abortion pill. but first this. suspect accused of leaking our nation s secrets in court for the first time. 21-year-old national guardsman jack teixeira seen wearing hands cuffs and a khaki prison jump suit as he stood before a federal judge. bill: facing two federal charges for removing and sharing classified information. cameras captured his dad leaving the courtroom just moments after his son was formally charged under the espionage act. sandra: questions grow how a low level employee had access to top secret information. darrell issa slamming the system last hour. secure facilities should not trust everyone that goes in walks out with the briefcase and not looked at. and the system obviously failed at several levels.
and yet, more negative impacts in our society of covid s lockdown isolation. is this young man, allegedly escaped into a world online forming an alternate community that somehow evaded our top investigators for months. so how does that happen? congressman from the house intelligence community stands by with his thoughts. and she is having all the action happening this afternoon at the courthouse in boston, massachusetts, high alexis. mike hi, this is when the suspect was just in front the judge a short time ago. the question remains again this afternoon my thought of how does a 21-year-old with a high school diploma could have access to some of the country s top secrets into new topic at good chance to look at so that you look like he knew some federal authorities were looking into him. take a look at the new documents we got in our newsroom a short time ago. as of the newly released affidavit there saying that that air national guard had me using his clearance to search
plus more firepower for ukraine, the u.s. about to approve longer range missiles to counter russians on the battlefield. and too cold for school, classes in big cities like boston and buffalo canceled with the coldest windchills since the 1980s about to take hold. it is friday, welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. right now chinese spies could be watching you from above from a high altitude spy balloon. the pentagon says they have been tracking this balloon about the size of three buss for days. people on the ground in montana at any didn t know what to make of it at first. there is the moon. all right. and then there is that. what planet is that? that sighting raises two big questions, what is it doing here and what does the biden administration plan to to about it. we get more from oren liebermann at the pentagon. reporter: for several days now the u.s. has been tracking this surveillance balloon over northern u.s.,
looming nuclear holocaust. last night during a closed-door fundraiser with other top democrats biden claimed that this is the first time we have, quote, faced the prospect of armageddon since kennedy and the cuban missile crisis. now because according to joe vladimir putin is not joking when he talks about the use of nuclear weapons or biological weapons or chemical weapons. apparently there is nothing joe will do about it, but he did do this. the administration are buying $300 million worth of anti- radiation drugs. that s not reassuring. that is joe s big plan in the event that tucker carlson tonight uses nuclear weapons? that s it? no one in the white house has articulated a strategy to deter latimer potent or work on any diplomatic solution on the war in ukraine has no end in sight. it appears that joe biden is only bracing for the worst. get ready, it is line up and get your radiation bills. tonight we have a serious question. how worried should americans be. obama onc