bret: but, first, breaking tonight. house republicans are taking a microscope to the hunter biden scandal. the oversight committee grilling former twitter executives today about their censorship of the story in the new york post which many in the g.o.p. contended could have directly affected the 2020 election. the most pointed questions though aimed at the u.s. government influence into the censorship decisions. correspondent david spunt reports tonight from the justice department. good evening, david. bret, good evening to you. a fiery hearing lasting the majority of the day. democrats argue there is nothing there but republicans believe something more sinister wer and. and this was the chance for republicans to make the case to the public. we don t know where the fbi ends and twitter begins. emotions running high. we are talking about hunter biden s half fake laptop story. i mean, this is embarrassment. front and center this new york post cover from october
last night on the five. it is true. i did eat the salad with my fingers. i didn t have a fork and didn t use a comb. let s get back to the news. the second state of the unya than for president biden. his first before a divided congress. the president made lofty claims about his record. fact checkers are having a field day today. bill: headline, joe lieden. it had vocal pushback in the house chamber. president biden: some republicans want medicare and social security to sun set. we ll need oil for at least another decade. if china threatens our sovereignty we ll a act to protect our country and did president biden: fentanyl is killing more than 70,000 americans a year. let s also come together on immigration. we ve been sent to finish the job. let s finish the job this time. dana: among the issues the president made no mention of, cartels, chinese spy flight, afghanistan and didn t mention his classified document. bill: surprise. president spent 12 minutes about th
full display. he is hoping his rally will help him keep his job. polls open in an hour. tomi lahren is here with predictions. carley: and student loan bailout just ser erred a huge legal blow. what they say is coming next. todd: one big name comedian says he s out, leaving california because he thinks the governor is a joke. his parting shot at gavin newsom. i m todd piro. carley: i m carley shimkus. we have a fox weather alert and serious situation in midwest. the dam in southern minnesota is on the brink of collapse. downstream residents have been warned that the dam are in iminnocent nent condition. todd: two people have died across two states in flooding, more than three million people have been impacted. senior meteorologist janice dean has the fox weather forecast. janice: getting more rain in the region. top rain totals from thursday to saturday. rain in south dakota and iowa and storms over the same region and piled up and moisture couldn t handle it and we
No rest for people northeast of the center of the storm and these nighttime hours, Tornado Warnings are requiring people to stay up and stay alert. Harvey has been downgraded to the Tropical Storm but it continues to punish the infrastructures of central and coastal texas with wind and water. One confirmed death and injury. Most of them in one town that seem to take harvey dead on. Local media is reporting at least ten people in this one town were treated for injuries from a collapsed rooftops. It is rockport, texas. Take a look from the air. This is what is left of rockport. There was no escaping harvey. Rockport is a fishing town about 30 miles northeast of Corpus Christi and other areas like port lavaca and others pierced by the power of harvey. Leadership in the state of texas compared for assets deployed all over the region and we just heard tonight. Lets bring in the texas Lieutenant Governor dan patrick by phone. Always good to be with you. I wish it was under different circumst