of building. have a good weekend, my friend. see you next week. all right, we are now the unofficial start of the 2024 presidential campaign season, six months out from 2024, and in a confluence events this week, yesterday in fact, rex exactly two and a half years since the january 6th attack on the capital. it s humbling for our country, for our democracy, that the twice impeached, twice criminally indicted so far donald trump is the undisputed presidential front runner of the republican party. i don t know that on january 7th, 2021, right after all the republicans who mattered had condemned donald trump s role in the attempted insurrection, that we thought we would be here a year and a half later. we are very far away from the republican party returning to normal, perhaps even knowing what normal is. we are very far away from an america where both of the two majority political parties respect the system and stand up for democracy. we know where donald trump stands on demo
immediately. we believe that joe biden has been blackmailed by this for years, which would explain why he acts the way he does ukraine has tapes of joe biden. ukraine has tapes of hunter biden. the highly credible fbi informant says that the burisma executive who allegedly bribed joe biden $5 million to fire the prosecutor has audio recordings of joe and of hunter. these audio recordings were kept as an insurance policy in case the burisma executive got cornered. here with senator grassley on the senate floor moments ago revealing for the first time that joe and hunter biden may have been captured on recordings with the burisma executive in ukraine. are you ready? 17 different times grassley reveals that joe biden may have gotten hunter biden hired at burisma and if you thought couldn t get any more corrupt, it does. the fbi, when it finally released this document with these allegations to house oversight? redacted out the part about the audio recording. the 1023 produced t
i m john roberts in for bret baier tonight. a tough examination for dr. anthony fauci as he defends his actions during the coronavirus pandemic. we may be just hours away from an executive order from president biden on immigration. as an illegal migrant is arrested for allegedly shooting two new york city police officers. and what it takes to get american hostages back home. we hear from someone who has done just that. but, first, breaking tonight, just days after the conclusion of the first ever criminal trial against a former president, a similarly historic proceeding begins against the son of a sitting president. jury selection has been completed in the felony gun charge trial for hunter biden. correspondent david spunt is in wilmington, delaware tonight where he kicks off our conch. hello, david. david: john, good evening to you. it took all day but the judge, the special counsel and the defense were able to turn 250 prospective jurors into 12 jurors plus four alterna
the focus of tonight s the angle. donald trump lawyer paid off a porn star before the 2016 election, democrats inferred trump had intent to falsify records. they did not care the president ordered it himself. trump was guilty before the jury was enpanelled. how different their approach is with their demagogue dr. anthony fauci. although never officially charged with a crime, he had a senior adviser who found himself in hot water recently. he deleted e-mails and helped keep evidence secret. when the good doctor was asked about supporting this guy, we know he received federal grants for his work with the wouhan la. i may have discussed him because he is a grand you made that up, you are testifying he made that up? excuse me. you are testify ing the doctr made that up. i don t know where he got that, that is not true. laura: democrats were outraged dr. fauci were asked questions at all. dr. fauci, we owe you an apology for the way we have raked you through the
angle. laura: when donald trump s lawyer paid off a porn star before the 2016 election. democrats were quick to inary trump himself had the intent to falsify records. they didn t care that hush money payments aren t illegal or that the president didn t himself order invoices to be labeled as legal expenses, which i still contend is entirely reasonable by the way. but, in their small minds, trump was guilty before the jury was even impaneled. laura: how different their approach is demagogy anthony fauci. although he has with every charged with a crime he too had a senior adviser who found himself in major hot water recently. emails revealed he deleted records and even used back channels to help dr. fauci keep evidence secret. but when the good doctor is asked about this specifically on the efforts to evade foia requests and protect this guy named peter daszak how may remember we know he received federal grants for his work with the wuhan lab. fauci was all denials. i nev