administration and attempt to gather information on private citizens. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom. i m dana perino. bill: i m bill hemmer. emails sent by the white house reveal intense pressure on amazon to censor and suppress books that raise questions about covid-19 and the vaccine. happening now as biden s treasury department unable to refute accusations it put a target on the backs of maga republicans and tracked sensitive personal banking information as part of its investigation into january 6th. they searched for terms like maga, trump, cabella s. hillary vaughn from the hill. treasury secretary janet yell en did not deny the surveillance scheme to have banks snoop on their customers transactions as part of the investigation into january 6th. remember, fox news digital exclusively reported the federal government basically profiled who they thought would be a person of interest. it came down to people who love to shop at dick s sporting goods or ba
don t even think i could. it s shock, complete shock. [sirens] i need medical unit. the longer time goes on without him, it s really hard. that s how it ended. this is how it started. he took a gun and took it to my head. it wasn t until i heard the click that i realized it wasn t loaded. i let him take martial. he had the boys running drills and shoot live ammunition over their heads. what were they turning into, living with him? monsters. he was talking about police officers, if any cop got on my face, i had killam. let s call it what it was, an execution. i think is one of the most dangerous people we ve ever dealt with. the threat of death was very real from him. what i end up leaving, i would ve been in a bag in the ocean. it was deep country, dark, just after two a.m.. as the small town montana deputy cruised home. and of a quiet shift. it was may 2017, outside his car, the air was fresh with a smell of new planting. he was happy,
before that catastrophic implosion. a light fast repair just days after a fiery collapse. the major highway that millions rely on back open for business in philadelphia. and attorney general merrick garland commenting just a short time ago on those charges against president biden s son hunter. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. we begin with nbc news s ryan reilly on what we just heard from attorney general merrick garland. unexpected for the attorney general to talk about it. he doesn t answer a lot of questions. but what did he have to say this time? i think based on the allegations that had come out through the whistleblower, he felt responsibility to lay it out here. essentially what he said is he has not taken any action in regards to this hunter biden investigation. take a listen. mr. weiss, was appointed by president trump as the u.s. attorney in delaware and assigned this matter during the previous administration would be permit
i m jose diazdiaz-balart. u.s. and other coalitions announced retaliatory strikes in yemen. and we ll talk to mark pocan about what he says the white house must do first before launching anymore strikes. and this weekend will mark 100 days since hamas shocking massacre of at least 1200 israelis. how the families of the hostages are observing that day. and in iowa, blizzard conditions force at least two republican presidential candidates to cancel campaign events. how the weather could impact turnout with just three days until the caucuses. and we begin this hour with breaking news out of the middle east. the u.s. along with a coalition of other countries carry out a series of strikes in yemen targeting strike necessary say are being used by iranian-backed houthis. u.s. air force central command said it launched over 100 precision guided munitions across 16 locations used by the houthis. over the past several months, the houthis have launched more than two dozen attacks
we have a lot to cover in our second hour of chris jansing reports. right now more potential legal trouble for former president donald trump what the fulton county d.a. is saying about charging decisions and her investigation into efforts to overturn the last election plus, new details in the sweet 16 birthday party shooting that left four in alabama dead we hear from a teenager survivor who s still recovering in the hospital also, what former president trump says is inconceivable about president biden s new election bid we ve got new reaction from inside trump world and we just heard from the president for the first time since he made his run for re-election official his central message and what to expect from candidate biden this go-around. our nbc reporters are following all of the latest developments we begin with president biden kicking off his 2024 campaign at a union event and with a request to let him finish the job. kayla tausche is cnbc s senior white house cor