Was workg around the clock club. Jesse the judge is still talking im not sure if you got the punch line, bret. Bret can i wait for the rest of the Chicken Story good evening, welcome to washington. Im Bret Baier. Were following two big stories this evening. Israel takes out another high Ranking Hezbollah Commander as its forces step up Retaliation Rocket attacks. We will take you there. On the campaign trail, Vice President Kamala Harris renews her opposition to the Senate Filibuster over the issue of abortion. A position not that popular with several of her democratic colleagues. One democrat turned independent says he is not endorsing her over it. And another calls harris push, quote an absolutely terrible shortsighted idea. Senior white House Correspondent Jacqui Heinrich has that story live from the north lawn, good evening. Jacqui. Jacqui good evening, bret. A Vice President holding a position she staked out before diverging from other progressive issues where she has flip flopped
Gasoline on the outrage of nursing home deaths. And Elise Stefanik has been long calling for an investigation. Thats ahead. Before we get to that, President Joe Biden, the unity candidate delivering a welcome gift to emboldened progressive. Shoving his administration as far left as possible. The New York Times said here, a number of the Officials Biden selected would have fit easily into an Elizabeth Warren administration. Biden has signed Executive Orders increasing food stamp benefits, took steps to begin a 15 Federal Minimum Wage and replacing the federal fleet with electric vehicles. Hes looking at a child tax credit. The president demonstrating an aggressive use of the power of the pen to get things done. So far with 40 Executive Orders and actions to date and more on the horizon as progressives continue to push. Now more than 50 democratic lawmakers led by ilhan omar are pushing for monthly 2,000 covid Relief Payments to their constituents as the pandemic drives on. Heres more. W
Again, that wasnt the perceived goal here. That was the perception among his supporters that think its gone too far. Lets get more from Griff Jenkins. Thats right, neil. Fox news confirmed that former President Trump is indeed in the courtroom right now. He entered at about 3 52 p. M. So just under ten minutes ago. Hes wearing a blue suit, a red to you. Flanked by his two attorneys. Fox has confirmed that we expect him to plead not guilty to the four felony charges hes facing in this indictment. Three are conspiracy charges, one is obstruction. Before he entered that courtroom, a little less than an hour ago, his motorcade entered the garage here at the federal courthouse. He was processed and fingerprinted. Theres no mug shot taken because the court says theres plenty of pictures of him to provide. Hes not arrested. But he is obviously being processed. Now we wait for this Court Proceeding to get underway at the time of our note from our producer, jay gibson inside, the Magistrate Jud
Irs Whistle Blowers saying something coming to government treat the bidens different and informant claiming the biden family had been bribed. Should you ignore that or investigate that. Only way to investigate is impeach inquiry and the committee has the power to get all the documents they need. Paul lets bring in Wall Street Journal columnist kim sto is, sle and strossle and brian mcgun. They didnt seem to agree on the terms of the agreement. Its a first for me. What why did they not think on the same page here . Yeah, i mean, its absolutely mind boggling, paul. But, look, the central issue seems to be whether or not there was a Wink Nod Deal between the two the judge exposed specifically over the question of whether or not hunter biden was getting an Immunity Agreement related to other charges in the investigation. There was a paragraph in the Diversion Deal laying that out. Hunters team clearly viewed as completely making him immune from future charges and the problem that the prose
members at a base in jordan. joining us now, nbc news chief international correspondent keir simmons joins us from erbil, iraq. we do not have keir yet. we are waiting to get him. we are waiting to get in to you some of our correspondents waiting at the pentagon. help us understand the planning that did or did not go into this attack, the targets of this attack, the significance of this group. again, this is breaking news happening as we come on the air. we have learned that there has been a strike against an iran-backed armed group in iraq. the pentagon suspects led the broad coalition of iran-backed militias behind the attack in jordan that killed three u.s. troop members. we are getting on air, our correspondents at the pentagon to break down what this all means, the planning that was behind this attack, whether or not this was part of the tiered approach we have heard so much about from the u.s. government in the past few days, the significance of the attack, how these ta