Crimes. The gun violence archive finds that there have been nearly 300 Mass Shootings, meaning at least four people shot at once, since this year began. Cnn chief White House Correspondent Kaitlin Collins is with us now. So give us a look at what we expect to hear from the president. Reporter i think, number one, the fact that were hearing from President Biden taking the entire day at the white house to focus on this publicly shows that the white house is wanting to look like President Biden is on top of this, that he is taking steps to address the spike in Violent Crime that youve seen happening in several cities across the u. S. So thats why hes sitting down with the attorney general, with those Law Enforcement agencies and mayors to talk about this. Whats important, though, is what were going to hear from President Biden is he is viewing all of this through the lens of gun violence. That is primarily going to be his focus when he comes out a few moments from now to address this. One
Im going to look straight ahead right now. Tuesday, march 12th, this is fox friends. Top of the news. Special counsel Robert Hur Heads To The Hill today. Set to defend his report that among other things painted President Biden as Quote Elderly Man with a poor memory, closed quote. Anxiously . Ainsley and, brian, a major warning from fbi director Christopher Wray about the border. Pretty scary. The overseas facilitators of the Smuggling Network have isis ties. Steve that doesnt sound good. Meanwhile, look at that big trouble in the big easy. New Orleans Police are prepping for a wild and crazy spring break. Division that watches the social media to see if there is any influencers or disrupters. We are prepared for it, we always are. Lawrence jones, there he is right there, live on Bourbon Street. Ainsley what did you say beads and ben yeas. Indeed. Office starts right now remember, mornings are better with Friends States of georgia, mississippi, hawaii and washington state. A total of 2
his top military adviser says a hold on military promotions by one republican senator is having a negative impact not just on those officers but their families. air force chief of staff general charles q. brown is up for the chair chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. alabama republican senator tommy tuberville is blocking more than 250 military promotions over opposition to the pentagon s abortion policy. chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin leads us off tonight with that from the pentagon. good evening, jennifer. good evening, bret. the pentagon said this months long standoff with the senator from alabama is now threatening readiness and benefiting russia and china. general c.q. brown is the president s pick to be the next chairman of the joint chiefs but his confirmation and that of 265 senior officers are being held up by one senator tommy tuberville of alabama. for the first time in 150 years, the marine corps is without a come dantd because of
the committee says bank information will show some dozens of deals now. so far, records show hunter biden, the president s brother james, his daughter-in-law and one other unknown for now, unnamed, unknown biden received payments from the chinese firm. here is the chairman of oversight comer. right now it looks like the biden family just pocketed this money. this is one deal we have 11 more to go and i m confident we ll get more bank records in very soon. the white house hasn t been truthful about this from day one. i don t think they dreamed we would get bank records. i have bad news for the white house. this is just the beginning. we ll get a lot more bank records and they will have to continue to back pedal and come up with a reason why the biden family has received millions of dollars from our adversaries. harris: bank records. the ultimate in financial receipts. when asked about it, his family members getting that foreign money, here is what president biden said. one
u.s. believes that china may give the go-ahead on lethal aid to vladimir putin. taking a question from our own peter doocy about how biden is viewed by xi and putin. specific to these two leaders, you think putin and xi fear president biden? you d have to ask them whether they fear or not. it is not about fear. it s about president biden advancing our foreign policy goals around the world. it s about president biden revi revitalizing partnerships. that s what we re focused on. martha: with that, we bring in republican senator marsha blackburn from tennessee. she s traveled to taiwan in the past. she was there in the past. always a bold move for a u.s. lawmaker to travel to taiwan. your thoughts on what we watched in this briefing and john kirby s explanation as these two meet. perception is reality. when they look at joe biden, they see someone who is weak, who i think they believe is compromised. he is not going after them. he doesn t go after them on great power com