bret: let s all have town hall. vivek is going to be on this show little bit later. beers and town hall. thanks, jesse. bret: good evening, welcome to des moines iowa, i m bret baier. five days away from the first in the nation iowa caucuses. tonight at 9:00 p.m., we will hold the third of this week s candidate town hall meetings right here and our guest tonight on this stage former president donald trump. we ll have more on that in just a moment. but, we are following two major stories at this hour. hunter biden makes a surprise appearance at the congressional hearing today up on capitol hill on whether he should be charged with contempt of congress. but we begin with a late afternoon surprise. this one in the 2024 campaign. republican presidential candidate chris christie is suspending his campaign and is dropping out of this race. christie making that announcement just minutes ago. you saw it live on the five. congressional correspondent aishah hasnie is here in de
say they have reached a top line deal on spending. now they re going to raise to submit a final budget deal to avoid a government shutdown. hello everyone welcome to fox foxnews live i am eric shawn. hi arthel. arthel: hello eric, hello everyone i am arthel neville. both sides have been working for weeks to reach an agreement. congress is a fast leasing fast approaching deadlines to avoid a shutdown for the persons in less than two weeks and the second in less than a month. meantime the pentagon is under pressure to explain why it took so long to reveal defense secretary lloyd austin was in the hospital. even president biden was for days for. the disturbing story is one of many coming out of washington for lucas tomlinson has the details he is live in wilmington, delaware were the president spend the weekend at his home there. we are covering two big stories this afternoon. first congressional leaders say they have reached an agreement on a top line budget that keeps the
is the crowded gop field playing right into the former president s hands? welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get straight to the scramble to avoid a historic default on the u.s. debt. president biden and speaker mccarthy are both working the phones tonight as they try to rally support from skeptical lawmakers. cnn is covering the race to pass the agreement from every angle. the stakes right now for the american people and, indeed, the world economic situation are enormous. our correspondents are over at the white house and up on capitol hill. we re getting new details right now and a key democratic leader, congressman james clyburn, is standing by live. we ll get to him in a few moments. first to cnn white house correspondent jeremy diamond. what is the latest where you are over at the white house. reporter: this entire negotiation process was driven by the understanding this was
you have been great to me for 25 years. on that day s show you give the bs answer. i have serious fomo from interview that poppy did. poppy is at nba all stars weekend. we have so many good moments from that. including that whole interview there. good morning, everyone. don has the day off. pop poppy is in utah for the nba all star game. we ll get to much more that in a moment. we re learning more about the three object that s were shot down from the sky, not aliens, not even china coraccording to white house. who does president biden say is responsible? john fetterman is in the hospital for clinical depression. why his mental health issues became severe in recent weeks. plus what do people do when you walk in the bank? they better run to me. if that manager is sitting there when i get, there you better meet me at the door. the names need to introductions. poppy harlow hanging out with shaq, charles barkley and kenny smith ahead of the nba all star game. she s g
charges now. also new this morning, some amateur balloonists say that one of their small balloons is, quote, missing in action. it s last known location, somewhere over alaska on saturday. this as president biden has now spoken on the u.s. shooting down a chinese spy balloon, as well as three other objects. he says he makes no apologies for the first one, but is now asking his team to device sharper rules for dealing with other unidentified objects. questions as to whether those were real threats. also happening right now, vice president kamala harris, secretary of state antony blinken in munich, germany. world leaders gathering for a security conference as we quickly approach the one-year anniversary of russia s invasion of ukraine. we want to begin at the white house. cnn s jeremy die nond mr. the president addressing those downed objects now after mounting pressure over the last several days. what more did we learn from those remarks? reporter: biden made very clea