Congresswoman over what critics call antisemitic language. One of her fellow democratic members of congress who says he is deeply alarmed by her comments joins us live in minutes, will the house discipline congresswoman omar. The africanamerican Lieutenant Governor deny new allegations of Sexual Assault as the governor is fighting for his political life, he learned from his mistake and is not going anywhere after blackface controversy. I am shannon bream, Fox Team Coverage tonight, jeff paul and Kristin Fisher live from el paso, texas, the president versus beto and chad program and the late breaking news over an agreement in principle on the wall and ice detention beds. Reporter a meeting between the 14 members of the house and Senate Appropriations committees. A funny moment when the top democrat Patrick Leahy from the senate side stuck his head into the hall and so theres no white smoke yet but it 8 30 there was. Something they agreed to is 1. 375 billion for 55 miles of wall along t
He announces he has known the female accuser for a decade or, quote, she deserves the opportunity to have her story heard. The accuser is breaking her silence with graphic details. Problems with Lieutenant Governor and attorney general may shed light on why rob northrom is refusing to resign. Kristin fisher has the latest breaking news, liberal senator Elizabeth Warren with an upcoming president ial announcement already overshadowed, new development come to light about her claim of native american ancestry, just the latest president ial hopeful embarking on the 2020 apology tour. The field expected to grow bigger this weekend. Welcome to fox news at night, we begin with Kristin Fisher with the latest on political disaster for democrats in virginia. One of the more remarkable aspect of this story and theres a lot of them but one of the more remarkable ones is virginias attorney general has admitted to doing the same thing he said governor northrom should resign for. Here is the a statem
Energy secretary calls the plan impractical. More on the cracks within the Democratic Party later. Sick around until the end of the hour, a duck dynasty start is here. Has america lost touch with its core values, full robertson will answer that question but first lets go to Allison Barber with the latebreaking details. Duke university tells us they asked Justin Fairfax to step down from the board at Duke Stanford school of Public Policy after a woman claimed the Lieutenant Governor raped her in 2000 at Duke University when they were students, the Law Firm Says Mister Fairfaxs attack was premeditated and aggressive and miss watson shared her account of the rape with friends in a series of emails and Facebook Messages that are in our possession and went on to say we have statements from former classmates that miss watson immediately told friends that Mister Fairfax had great the Lieutenant Governors that i deny this latest unsubstantiated allegation. It is demonstrably false. I never for
democrats identity meltdown. imagine the cognitive democratic dissonance if mister fairfax who is black is forced to resign because of improved allegations of sexual assault he denies while the two white men survive despite racial offenses that they admit. that is the conversation a lot of friends brought up this week in. i m a republican, justin fairfax is a democrat, we don t agree a lot of policy or politics but i think he s getting a raw deal. the accusations made against him are very serious and deserve to be heard but he deserves to be heard as well. due process is not just a legal construct but a societal one that must be adhered to in this case. he has spoken out about that and in the washington post as everyone deserves to be heard even when faced with allegations, i m standing up for everyone s right to be heard but also due process. despite the things going on with the governor and attorney general, which issues about racial insensitivity in the past
many congressional democrats called for his resignation as others reserve judgment. we should lead to process take its course and then asked once that is done. take these allegations seriously. investigate them. make a decision afterwards. lieutenant governor justin fairfax facing sexual assault allegations from 2004 and just 2 hours ago abc news reported virginia democratic congressman scott was aware of those allegations over a year ago. he was made aware by the alleged victim herself. fairfax described the encounter is consensual but today his accuser put out a statement saying what began as consensual turned into a sexual assault. mister fairfax put his hands behind my neck and forced my head towards his crotch as i cried in greg s, he forced me to