Completely unfiltered. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. Up next, a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hears testimony on the National Institutes of health 2025 budget request. During the hearing, n. I. H. Director dr. Monica bertinoli and others field questions on fentanyl overdoses and maternal care with other topics. This is an hour and 45 minutes. The Senate Appropriations subcommittee on labor, health, and human services, education and related agencies will please come to order. Good morning. Today is our fourth hearing on the biden administrations fiscal year 2025 budget request, and im happy to welcome dr. Bertinoli to testify for the first time in this committee as the director for the National Institutes for health. As the granddaughter of a n. I. H. Funded doctor myself, i understand the Important Role Biomedical Research plays in treating and curing disease and bolstering our Economic Growth and ensuring america is a Global Leader in innovation. I know my colleagues
wallace. ever since charged were handed down against donald trump, the ex president has seen returning to the white house as his best defense. no one is more aware of this than jack smith. jack smith asked the supreme court to rule on donald trump s bid to have the charges ruled out because the alleged crimes took place while he was president. this is not new. judge tanya chutkan rejected that claim and trump appealed. jack smith is asking the supreme court to leap frog the appeals court and settle the matter once and for all. the special counsel s move setting up the first, but maybe not the last time, the supreme courtla a role in the united states versus donald trump. prosecutors say, quote, this caserents a fundamental question at the heart ofur democracy. whether a fmer president is absolutely immune from federal prosecution for crimes committed ile in office or is constitutionally protect from federal prosecution when he s been impeached by the house, but not convicte
editorial report . i m paul gigot. hunter biden was indicted in los angeles thursday on nine new federal charges with the justice department accusing the first son of willfully failing the file and pay his taxes on time. hunter s9 latest legal woes come as republicans get set to move forward with vote to formal oohize their impeachment inwiry into his father, president joe biden, next week, with speaker mike johnson calling the move a necessary step. wall street journal column is dan dan henninger if editorial board members kyle peterson ask kate bachelder odell. abby if lowell, hunter s attorney, says the charges are wrong, hunter s innocent, and they would never have been brought if his name weren t biden. well, you ve got to put up a defense of some sort, don t you? and that s abby lowell s defense for hunter biden who evaded taxes for four years. isn t it kind of an irony that the biden administration is asking for a lot more money for the internal revenue service to
the first groups of hostages being released by hamas 50 days after they were captured in the october 7 terror attack that killed 1200 people. 13 israelis were freed and idf confirms they are back in israel, alonging with 10 tie hostages and one filipino national released separately under a separate deal. total of 50 israelis expected to be freed as part of the ceasefire deal arranged in exchange for 150 palestinian prisoners. we are getting new video showing convoy of red cross carrying the hostages out of gaza, you see it there. uplifting sight comes as american hostages are still being held in gaza, that includes abigale, who turns four yearsode today. she is not expected to be included in today s release. we are hopeful she will in the future. prime minister netanyahu is monitoring the situation as this deal unfolds. hello, welcome to special edition of outnumbered, i m kayleigh mcenany, joining me is tammy bruce, director of tech policy center at heritage foundation,
limited four day cease-fire with hamas. it will take effect sometime in the next 24 hours. lawrence: this is what we know under the deal 150 palestinian prisoners will be handed over in exchange for 50 hostages taken by the terrorist group. carley: that includes a 3-year-old girl killed on october 7th. jeff paul joins us this morning. good morning. it took the israeli government more than six hours debating here into the early morning in tel aviv. this agreement between israel and hamas might not only offer a pause in the fighting it. could give a sliver of hope to all the families of the hostages that were taken back on october 7th. now, under this u.s.-qatari-egyptian brokered deal israel will receive 50 hostages, women and children, in exchange israel will then release 150 palestinian prisoners. now the hostages as we understand it will be freed in groups of 10 to 12 people over a span of four to five days. during that time, there will be pauses in the fighting. prim