china. president biden is facing ongoing questions about why he allowed his son hunter to attend a state dinner last week as more information is coming out about other investigations. critics say the decision was poor. the president s defenders disagree. jackie is live from the north along with details tonight. when we have questions about the ongoing federal probe into the president s son, officials redirect us to the white house counsel s office or the doj, saying they can t talk about it. when it comes to the decision to bring hunter to official events and presidential spaces, the answer is we are not going to engage on this. the former spokesperson believes hunter biden asked to attend the dinner days after accepting a plea deal with prosecutors in an ongoing investigation. his son wanted to come, so his son is going to come to the dinner. is the love for his son greater than the love for his country? that is what it looks like. the leader of the free world is a r
bret: but, obviously, breaking tonight, an historic day. one that both republicans and democrats described as, quote: a sad day. the first former or current president of the united states to be arrested and booked in federal criminal court. former president donald trump pleaded not guilty to all 37 counts in the indictment alleging that the former president illegally kept hundreds of classified documents at his mar-a-lago home, even after a subpoena to return them. potentially risking the disclosure of top secret national defense secrets. the former president is defiant, proclaiming his innocence from what he describes as as another witch-hunt and he accuses president biden s administration of targeting him, the leading g.o.p. challenger. the former president is on his way to his golf club in bedminster, new jersey where he will hold a fundraiser tonight and is expected to deliver remarks about this day and the charges he faces. correspondent mark meredith is outside the mi
professional repudiation. even charges of racism from the supposed experts so now what? white house correspondent jacqui heinrich starts us off live tonight from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening, bret. the department of energy overseas national labs and now reportedly concludes a lab leak in china most likely caused the pandemic albeit that conclusion with low confidence. but, this theory became a political lightning rod after former president donald trump embraced it and top scientists shot it down. now, team biden is holding back of talk about lessons learned and also, responding to china s denials. china has repeatedly blocked the world health organization s covid origins probe and now is swiftly rebuking the reported findings from the u.s. department of energy. china s foreign minister saying in part a laboratory origin of the pandemic was considered to be extremely unlikely is a science-based authoritative conclusion reached certain parties should s
good evening, jacqui. pres good evening, bret. fighter jet decision will disownt disappoint ukraine. the president has moved from self-imposed red lines before just last week. today the president was asked to confirm report that he goal poland around the one year anniversary of the invasion he said he will go but he is not sure when. president biden is stamping out a push to provide f-16 fighter jets to ukraine as it plan as new offensive to retake territory occupied by russia this spring. the country s defense ministry tweeting simply f-16 three days ago. today a one word answer from president biden. no. meantime biden is still waiving off questions about his handling of classified documents. i don t even know. the doj says it will work with congress on some oversight requests. responding to bipartisan calls from the senate intelligence committee over national security exposure with the biden and trump documents. the assistant attorney general says prosecutors on
first, breaking tonight, a controversial emergency immigration policy remains in place. if the southern border crisis shows no signs of slowing down and a plan on how to manage the post title 42 border is nowhere to be found. we have fox team coverage, matt fin is on the ground in eagle pass, texas. we begin with correspondent isisha isisisha hasnie. democrats did not do enough to secure the border when they had the chance. they are struggling of the white house staffers and i hope homeland wins this fight. reporter: congressman cuellar voicing his frustration after one day president biden did not do anything differently. the administration is still relying on a year old homeland security plan while blaming republicans for not passing immigration reform. it is not immigration reform. it is border security. that s where the focus has to be right now. reporter: conservatives are blasting democrats like cuellar alo aloalon alon along along 27 party and the spending p