Peacefully, a number turned it into an opportunity for violence and mayhem, destroying property, looting and attacking police. Hundreds of officers have been hurt and at least one killed. In new york on monday night, terrifying scenes as looters smashed store windows and helping themselves to the content inside. The scenes that weve seen were unlike anything since the riots of the late 1960s. President trump demanded action, calling governors and mayors who didnt use an iron fist to quell the violence weak, dubbing himself the president of law and order and saying hes ready to use thousands of troops to stop the disturbances. But the president s tough message has drawn criticism even from republicans and from some former members of his own cabinet. The president s visible show of force on monday night when, in Lafayette Square throughout the white house, he had the square cleared and walked across to a Famous Church that had been fire bombed. That performance became a flashpoint as did
Last night at my direction, the United States military executed a flawless strike that terminated the terrorist ringleader responsible for gravely wounding and murdering thousands and thousands of people and hundreds and hundreds at least of americans. Qassem suleimani has been killed and his bloody rampage is now forever gone. Lou the commanderinchief obviously taking decisive and bold action to end the thuggish reign of irans Qassem Suleimani as leader of the iranian quds force. He had a lot of american blood on his hands, responsible for killing more than 600 of our troops in the iraq war. Some put the estimates much higher than that. Suleimani, the chief exporter of iran state sponsor terrorism, but because of President Trump, and our unrivalled military, the suleimani legend is ended. He got what he deserved. The president last night directing an airstrike in baghdad to kill suleimani, just days after an attack on the u. S. Embassy in baghdad by iranian backed militiamen who were
We turn to chief White House Correspondent john rob ergts at the white house. Reporter more than two weeks ago fox news was told prosecutor john durham was expanding his investigation based on what he found expanding into the spring of 2017 and the firing of james comey. Now that its become a criminal probe, durham can impanel a grand jury, seek testimony from witnesses. Hes interested in interviewing James Clapper and john brennan. President trump a lot of think that and they know they have problems because they were very dishonest. Reporter sources tell fox news the nature of durhams investigation changed because of new evidence in a trip bill barr made to rome and the information in the Inspector Generals report. Michael horowitz wrote that his draft report is lengthy and he anticipates the final report will be released publicly with few corrections. Despite the fact that durham has worked for both the democratic and republican administrations. The democrats ripped him by calling th
Will end the exodus of manufacturers from the u. S. And add more than a million american jobs. Our own Edward Lawrence live at the white house tonight with the very latest. Ed . Reporter and, gregg, yeah, the president having two fundraisers, two events in two different states this evening. Now, he started his day defending his decision to aggregate federal databases onto the 2020 census. The president saying its not a reversal, but more an accurate measure of what has, exactly how many citizens are here. Not only didnt i back down, i backed up. Anybody else would have given this up a long time ago. The problem is we had three very unfriendly courts. They were judges that werent exactly in love with this whole thing. And they were wrong. Reporter and right now the president is in the ohio on the second leg of his journey. Before going to ohio he held an event in wisconsin, in milwaukee, where he talked directly to voters to put pressure on democrats to pass or ratify the usmca. The pre
Kari lake, a rising star in the republican party. She responds to some 2024 rumors, too. Aoc in this super cringe moment dancing in front of protesters and mocking latinos. She may have won the gold medal on cringe olympics. Kim kardashian reportedly uses a Diabetes Drug to lose weight. How does he tell america he sucks without telling everyone he sucks. Hes the worst president we have seen in u. S. Lift. Its just before the midterms. Im glad to know political favors in exchange for sacrificing National Security are back in style. Im young enough at 47 to remember when a president by the name of donald trump was impeached for allegedly asking for political favors in exchange for some National Security compromise. Finally, have no fear, folks. Time out. A brave democrat is finally speaking out about joe bidens political favors. Check this out. Its a critical moment for the nation. If the president can get away with this, there is no stopping him from using any of the awesome power of th