presley came back live and then ticketmaster would have a problem. >> not to be -- serious here, i think you'll see more calls for a breakup of ticketmaster because of this. this is a serious thing. honestly, can you imagine that 15-year-old that didn't go to their shift at the restaurant because they wanted to get the pre-sale for taylor swift and got kicked out and a code that didn't work. a lot of hearts are broken. you have to acknowledge that's a shame. >> sandra: a lot of trouble. >> bill: thank you, cheryl. fox news alert now. deadly new drug hitting our streets, the cocktail agents now reporting a surge in what's called kety mean smuggling. dana is out today. i'm bill hemmer. >> sandra: we just roll right into the second hour here. okay. good to have cheryl here as

well. bill, good to be with you as we begin another hour. i'm sandra smith. the date rape drug or special k is being used to cut fentanyl. law enforcement officials say the two drugs are increasingly being sold together to give users a new type of high. and a potentially lethal one. >> the uptick has been surprising in the amount of -- the original purpose was a horse tranquilizer and now using it as a drug. it is concerning when you see a large amount like that and concerning it is being used in oh cocktail format with other drugs like fentanyl. >> sandra: laura engel is live in jamaica for us. as if the fentanyl crisis wasn't scary enough now we have to worry about the lethal drug combination that's out there? >> that's right. we got word of this and wanted to come and check it out and

bring it to our viewers, the international mail facility here at new york's jfk airport is responsible for handling 60% of the mail that comes into the united states, which means that u.s. customs border and protection officers see it all when it comes to handling contraband, including drugs like fentanyl and with the new spike in ketamine. it's known as a date rape drug or special k is an anesthetic with hall use -- it is marketed to users as a special kind of high by dealers who are attempting to get their dope delivered in the mail. >> this is all special k? >> yes. intercepted within the last 24 hours. four kilos, three keel east. >> the influx has ballooned from

50 kilos seized in 2020 to 400 in 2022. they deploy a multi-layered approach with canines, hand held devices and x-ray machines to stop the flow and help stop overdoses. >> the concern is that it's being used as a cocktail with other drugs. if it is mixed with fentanyl it becomes deadly. >> centers for disease control and prevention reports drug poisoning in america are at a record high. 107,000 people died last year 70% caused by opioids like fentanyl. the cbp says the shipping routes are coming from all different countries. many different countries, which is why they are constantly looking at this to see and stay on top of these new trends and that's where their technology comes into play as again we saw firsthand. >> sandra: laura engel outside jfk for us. thank you, laura. >> joe biden at the very least has been dishonest with the

american people. and we need to realize whether or not this administration is compromised because of hunter's shady business dealings. the purpose of our investigation moving forward in january when we become the majority and i have subpoena power is to determine whether or not joe biden is in fact compromised because of his family's shady business dealings. >> bill: that is james comer republican out of kentucky who will run the house oversight committee pledging to make the investigation into president biden and his son a top priority in the new congress. house hunters, gop vows to expose the biden cash scheme. ohio republican congressman jim jordan was there yesterday and ranking member house judiciary committee. good morning, thank you for your time. i'm trying to game this out. here is what i've come up with. tell me where we're headed here. you will not subpoena a sitting president. that means joe biden while he is in office. d.o.j. is not going to give you

what you want. you could subpoena hunter or jim biden and they could either refuse that subpoena or take the fifth. how do you get at this story come january 3rd? >> yeah, i think congressman comer has been clear. you look at the suspicious activity reports. what's interesting, bill, for the first time the biden administration changed the process and protocols around getting access to these suspicious activity reports. understand this is a report filed by a bank, a financial institution to the treasury department. previous administrations congressional committees can see those. this administration said no, we're changing the policy. 150 out there on hunter biden, jim biden and the biden family business operation. but the committee has only been able to see two. congressman comer, who will be chairman comer of the oversight

committee says i want to see the other 148. i don't know if he will go through the banks, financial institutions to get access or what he will do. i think that's probably where this thing starts. my concern is the politics at the justice department. you cannot have a justice department that's political. if you do, you no longer have what makes america the greatest country in the world. one of the greatest things that makes us the greatest country ever is legal treatment under law. we don't have that. that's my concern. we know that the f.b.i., one person was suppressing information about the hunter biden stories days and weeks before the presidentall election in 2020 and know the f.b.i. went and talked to facebook and said be on the lookout for russian disinformation and that happened to be just timely at the same time you had 51 former intel officials write the now famous letters that it has the earmarks

of russia disinformation. >> bill: i grant there are a ton of questions out there. you have two years to do this and they can run the clock on you. that must be a concern when you are trying to find an answer. >> it's always a concern particularly when they haven't complied with any of the requests from mr. comer that he has already sent. they have changed the process on access to suspicious activities report and denied us to do it when we've been able to do it before. yesterday they set up a special office, the democrats have, to come after mr. comer and mr. mccarthy, myself and to attack the people doing the investigation. so what we are going to do is everything we can within the constitution, do our duty to get the facts and truth to the american people. you don't change the politics at the d.o.j. if you first don't expose just how bad it's gotten and what really has been going on there. so that's part of our duty as members of congress and we take the oath of office on january 3rd to uphold the

constitution, part of our duty is to make sure the country get the truth and facts. >> bill: this might be your first witness. on with sean hannity last night tony bobulinski. >> it is crazy we're still talking about this two years after i went public. 1,000% joe biden is the big guys. multiple whistleblowers have come forward with facts that corroborate what i said and added information to it. and i think the american people will see those facts. i think they will be shocked by those facts and hopefully justice is served. >> bill: last comment. hopefully justice is served. >> yeah, think how the story has changed. when it first came out two years ago it's not his laptop, then maybe his laptop but russian disinformation and then it was okay, it's his laptop and not russian disinformation and jobe wasn't involved. now it's joe biden knew about it even though he said he didn't but it didn't influence his

decision making, his son's business dealings had no impact on the decisions he made as president. that's a long way from i had no knowledge of my son's business operations and it was russian disinformation. so the story has changed dramatically from the white house and from the democrats. our job is to get the facts and the truth for the american people. >> bill: does it start in january yes or no? >> mr. comer indicated yesterday that he plans on starting right away. it's already started and why we issued the 30-page report that the committee put out yesterday. >> bill: thank you for your time, jim jordan. we'll speak again. thank you. >> sandra: with the mid-terms in the books some big name republicans now looking ahead to 2024. potential presidential candidates will gather in las vegas. that is happening this weekend. looking to sway political donors with deep pockets. alexandria hoff is live in las vegas. what can we expect to hear from the possible candidates? >> sandra, we're expecting to

hear a lot of talk how the party needs to redirect and focus on issues rather than past leadership. maryland's outgoing governor hogan told us mid-term candidates who did this were successful. here is how he followed up. >> the people that just we're trying to relitigate the past and focused on other issues that the average voters weren't concerned about cost us. we lost every single race and we can't let that happen in 2024. >> so the annual leadership meeting is a time to introduce potential turn tifshs. over the next two days we hear from florida governor ron desantis, former vice president mike pence and tim scott and nikki haley and ted cruz among others. president trump is the only declared candidate slated to speak. it will happen by satellite feed tomorrow. he won't be here in person. the chair of his 2016 transition team is here.

former new jersey governor chris christie feels the former president's impact on the gop is no longer helpful. >> i did everything i could to help make donald trump the best president he could be. he let us down and now politically he has become a loser. he is losing campaign after campaign after campaign and what we get in return are these awful policies from joe biden and kamala harris. >> so this is likely going to be a common sentiment over the next two days. the other challenge that the big names have while they're here and embark upon a potential presidential exploratory session that this could become, they will want to differentiate themselves as well. >> sandra: i imagine a lot of folks behind you are heading to bed in las vegas at 7:00 in the morning there. thank you. >> bill: long night. more than two dozen cadets injured east of l.a. a driver ramming them on a

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difficulty that our front line personnel face every day. their bravery and selfless service should be recognized. >> the homeland security sector on the customs and border protection agent killed in a shoot out with a suspected smuggling boat just off the coast of puerto rico. two other agents injured as they approached that vessel. former ice and dhs agent joins us in a moment. casey stiegel live with the story today. >> the agents were on patrol in a boat off the coast of puerto rico on thursday. it happens to be a major route that cartels use to move cocaine out of south america. officials say agents came under fire from a suspected smuggling vessel and a shoot-out ensued. all these u.s. agents were hit and airlifted but one died, two others gravely wounded. cbp commissioner troy miller released when statement late yesterday. our hearts are heavy today due

to the death and injury of marine interdiction agents following an exchange of gunfire with suspected smugglers off the puerto rico coast. working with partners to insure those responsible are brought to justice and will share info as we're able. that particular spot has been awfully busy lately. the day before $2 million worth of cocaine was recovered from a capsized boat about a mile off the puerto rican coast. 198 pounds worth of the drug but pales in comparison to a bust earlier in the week when agents nabbed 13 bails of cocaine off a vessel there. that's weighing in at 851 pounds. a street value of $7.1 million. all the while hundreds of miles away the same picture is day in and out in eagle pass, texas, hundreds of migrants continue to illegally cross the border in

record numbers. not only there but across the nearly 2,000 mile-long stretch as we have been reporting. yesterday's shoot-out a tragic reminder of just how dangerous it is for the men and women of law enforcement who are out there working the front lines of this crisis, bill. >> bill: casey stiegel in dallas, thank you. >> sandra: let's bring in victor avila retired ice special agent whose partner was killed by a drug cartel. horrific to see what played out as you heard from mayorkas calling the brave members saying the difficulty of this job cannot be compared to the difficulty of our front line personnel and what they face every single day honoring their bravery and selflessness. you have experienced loss firsthand when it comes to the drug cartels. what was your reaction to this cbp agent getting killed? >> first of all my condolences

to the family of the agent lost in the line of duty and to those that were injured i wish them a speedy recovery. i know, i've been there. it is a tragedy but also shows the times we're in and the brazen activity by these cartels. and it goes to show it is just not happening just in the southern border but also on our oceans. cocaine making a big comeback. i have been talking about it for several months now that we have a fentanyl crisis, methamphetamine but also cocaine continue to pour into the country from every direction. the cartels are now responding with lethal force. this is even a more indication that we must secure our borders throughout all of our borders from every side to continue to keep our country safe. >> sandra: these two others that were gravely injured. we'll continue to wait for an update on them. this happens just one day after

border agents discovered $2 million worth of cocaine in a capsized boat off the puerto rican coast and agents discovered a -- it seems there are so many of these stories and so much of this happening every day. is this a situation that is only getting worse? >> it absolutely is only getting worse. you are absolutely right. i want people to understand the activity of the cartels have and no regard for human life. and they will continue to do whatever they can to bring their drugs, human trafficking and human smuggling into our country for the billions of dollars money they're making. they are foreign activity organizations and start designating them as such because they have been terrorizeing other countries, especially mexico and our own country with the deaths of thousands of people with fentanyl poisonings. it is importance we face. it is unbelievable to me that

people still sometimes deny what's happening at the southern border. you guys have done a wonderful job in showing these pictures. somehow it is not enough showing the thousands of people coming into this country illegally but the national security and public safety effort that we must pay attention to to secure our border, to keep our citizens safe in every border and every state. these seizures are happening in puerto rico and portland and in wisconsin, all over the united states. we must take control of our borders and hold mayorkas accountable for it. >> sandra: the texas governor taking matters into his own hands saying it is an administration doing nothing and invoking the invasion clause of the constitution because of what he is labeling failures of the administration to tackle the crisis at the southern border. what do you make of him going in that direction? >> well, he has no choice because of the failures of the biden administration. i will head down to the border

right after thanksgiving and see if, in fact, it is being enforced. one thing is to be said and the other thing is to be enforced. i want to see if they're keeping people away. as of today i haven't seen it. we'll see if this declaration by governor abbott will be enforced. i hope it is. the same thing in arizona and other states. we need to get together and defend our borders and save lives. >> sandra: we'll check in with you after your visit to the border. >> thank you for having me. >> sandra: bill. >> 70% of our abortion-related violence cases or threats cases are cases of violence or threats against pro-life. the victims are pro-life organizations. and we're going after that through our joint terrorism task forces. >> bill: that's the head of the f.b.i. the bureau is seeing a surge of violence against

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>> sandra: fox news alert. state of emergency in western new york over a million people bracing for a crippling snowstorm there. this is live video out of buffalo, new york. the national weather service says buffalo could see up to four feet -- not four inch, four feet of lake-effect snow by the end of this weekend. here is a live look at the conditions. snow already blanketing that city. of course, you point out obviously this is heading into a big holiday week.

a lot of people have travel plans. we hope people are safe. this is going to be a big one, bill. >> bill: i would say. we're getting nothing. >> sandra: look at that sky. holy cow. >> bill: be that way all day. that's from buffalo. this from washington, d.c. now. the f.b.i. director announcing yesterday that 70% of abortion-related threats of violence in the u.s. since the dobbs decision have been against pro-life groups. yet not a single case has been prosecuted by d.o.j. david spunt is looking for an answer on that. >> good morning. pro-life advocates say it's a double standard and are using the words directly from the mouth of f.b.i. director christopher wray. when the supreme court overturned roe v. wade back in june the f.b.i. director told a senate panel roughly 70% of the violence abortion-related violence cases involve attacks

on pro-life businesses, people or groups. this according to wray yesterday. federal prosecutors have 26 cases in the type line involving people who attacked abortion clinics and pro-choice side of the argument. the department of justice has prosecuted not one person for attacks on pro-life centers. >> we have 20 field offices involved in this. we take it very seriously. i don't care whether you are motivated by pro-life or pro-choice views you don't get to use violence to express it. >> f.b.i. released new footage of someone attacking a pro-life pregnancy resource center in buffalo, new york. authorities are offering a $25,000 reward. call the f.b.i. with information. pro-life groups want attorney general merrick garland to put more resources in prosecution. >> apply the law fairly and

equally and look into these many attacks. >> no prosecutions yet on the pro-life side. attacks on pro-life centers. however, in june is when they started to pick up. i'm told they could trickle in down the pipeline. takes a while to build a case but something we'll be watching. >> bill: david spunt at d.o.j. >> sandra: the biden administration not giving up on its student loan forgiveness plan saying it will take the fight all the way to the supreme court. here on that is shannon bream host of "fox news sunday" ahead of the big show this weekend. shannon, good morning. where do you see this all going? >> we know there have been attempts at the supreme court level by those who oppose this forgiveness plan who want to shut it down or block it. the supreme court under justice amy coney barrett went on her based on geography said we won't get involved at this point. the lower courts have been very involved. at least one federal sir account

appellate court that put the plan on hold. a judge in texas did the same thing. the biden administration saying they will appeal directly to the supreme court to make sure the plan can move forward. whether they want to get involved on that part of the issue before the merits of it are decided we'll have to wait and see. >> bill: a couple things. does the court have to take this case? you have millions of people who applied and the program is on hold. go ahead. sorry. >> no, they do not have to take anything that comes before them. that's what justice barrett has done twice to say we aren't getting involved and turning it away for now. so they have all the prerogative in the world. it takes four of the justices to start to get involved and eventually get it onto their calendar. when the emergency appeals come in it's a 6-3 vote. majority vote about whether or not they'll get involved in keeping these programs running. in the meantime there is just tons of litigation on both sides

of this as it would be billions of dollars in forgiveness. >> bill: i don't remember all the numbers off the top of my head here but i think there were like 36 million outstanding loans and there had already been 20 million who had applied online. it was that fast. they were going for it. now it could be on hold for how long we don't know. but the power of the purse is determined by congress and this was an executive order that the president issued. i would imagine that is what is at stake. >> it is. the entire issue. the supreme court has weighed in a number of times on the use of executive power and pushed back against president trump and president obama. this is something they regularly do. this federal judge in texas who put the thing on hold said we aren't ruled by an executive with a pen. there are separation of powers issues and separate branches that handle things. this is fundamental to respecting the constitutional integrity as put together by the founders of this country and

that the biden administration did not have the right to simply go and say we're going to cancel this debt for everybody. we know it gets paid off somewhere. doesn't trickle into thin air. this judge said you can't do it. that's the entire argument. can the president go this far? >> sandra: under secretary of education said in a court filing this. these student loan borrowers had the reasonable expectation and belief they would not have to make additional payments on the federal student loan. this belief may well stop them from making payments even if the department is prevented from giving debt relief unless the department is allowed to provide one-time debt relief. higher loan default rates due to the ongoing confusion about what they owe. so make sense of that for us, shannon. >> so if they are going to say it is about potential confusion because the executive branch

decided to waive all this you can apply it to a million different things. the cdc tried to ban the rent evictions and said no you can live where you live and not get evicted and nobody can make you pay rent. the supreme court said no, this isn't something a federal agency can decide on its own. if so they could just swipe a pen over all kinds of things and people could complain and claim they were confused about what their rights were. it is under legal consideration at this point on a number of different levels. maybe at the supreme court. you can't simply say you were confused as the argument for allowing the program that maybe illegal to move forward. >> bill: yeah. there is an answer there somewhere. shannon, tom cotton this weekend. what's coming up? >> he will talk to us. he said if you have tiktok delete it and get a new phone. we are talking about foreign policy. also talking about the whole ticketmaster taylor swift

fiasco. calls in washington to break up the monopoly. brit hume and peter doocy will join us to talk about his unique relationship with president biden. >> bill: looking forward to it. throw the phone away not just delete the app. >> get a new one. >> sandra: oh man. >> bill: thank you, we'll see you on sunday. now a fugitive california couple is back in custody a year after being convicted for stealing $20 million in covid relief funds. justice department saying that couple used dozens of fake or stolen identities to apply for 150 loans, spending the money on homes, jewelry, handbags and harley davidson motorcycle. they fled from the united states in june. both will appear in federal court this afternoon. it might be the tip of the iceberg. >> sandra: that's a lot of money. the fentanyl poisoning of america devastating so many

families. we will speak with a woman who is now raising her grandchildren after her own daughter died of a fentanyl overdose. but first america's farmers warning their industry is under threat. madison is live in a new jersey farm for us. hello, madison. >> yeah, farmers are telling me our current energy policy and labor policies are threatening agriculture here in the u.s. this all playing into a larger shift that we could see with exports that would have sweeping impacts on our national security. i will break it all down after this. before we begin, i'd like to thank our sponsor, liberty mutual. they customize your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. and by switching, you could even save $652.

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>> bill: american farmers fearing the coming months as the u.s. imports. many farm owners blaming the policies of the administration for putting their live le hoods on the line. we're in long valley new jersey west of new york city. madison, what are you hearing? >> bill, what i'm hearing from these farmers is that politics are impacting their livelihood.

that's a concern. a farmer's livelihood turns into our meal. i want to hit that one thing you said. it is so important. the united states department of agriculture are saying and showing for the first time ever we are expected to import more food than we export. that furthers our dependence on foreign nations. of course, this is because it is so hard to compete in this global economy. a big part of that for farmers is the cost of energy. diesel, crude oil goes into pretty much everything on a farm from the tractors to the crops to the fertilizer. fertilizer in particular up so much in cost. here at this farm they say increased cost is 45% year-over-year. but it's not just international competition. domestic competition is tough, too because of labor laws. in new york they are the latest state to pass an overtime policy for over 40 hours for agriculture workers. that impacts the bottom line. the farmer here says if similar

policies came to new jersey it would be really detrimental to their business. take a listen. >> if that would change, i think it would cause at least 10 to 15% cost and we would have to probably end up looking for more labor and giving them less hours which would be a direct challenge in itself. it would be very hard to navigate. >> like she mentioned and what is so hard about all of this . it would mean less hours for those farm workers. nicole says during peak season when they are harvesting people are working between 50 and 60 hours and would have to cut the hours as a result. it is hard to compete against states like georgia where that is not the case. >> bill: you picked a beautiful day. thank you for that on the farm in new jersey. >> sandra: a growing number of americans are raising their grandchildren after losing their own child to fentanyl. including denise shanahan. her young daughter struggled with addiction for years. the 25-year-old died back in

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that is another issue that there is not enough beds and the time they have to wait. during that time a lot of them pass. >> sandra: no mother should have to go through what you have. we are seeing pictures of your beautiful grandsons on the screen. you are now raising them. this is something we're hearing about more and more, grand parents losing their own adult children to this drug and then in the position of raising your grandchildren as your children. looks like you are doing an amazing job. they look wonderful, happy and healthy. how is that going for you and how are you doing? >> it's hard. it's very hard. imagine, you know, in your 30s raising children. that's hard. and then when you are 61, it is a lot more difficult. it sort of has taken what i thought would be my, you know,

almost retirement years and then now being the mother to them, i love them more than life itself. i have had jordan since he was tiny because she was in and out and in and out. caden was only eight months when she passed. i don't know any better or any different, but it is hard. >> sandra: what is your message to people that are listening right now who are watching this fentanyl crisis unfold in this country? there is obviously a debate at the leadership level how to handle this and how to stop this or at least stem the flow of this drug over our borders? what is your message as someone who has lived through this crisis and is living through this crisis firsthand? >> i would have to say start young. it used to be maybe middle school age and maybe high school. start with elementary, make them

understand not to take anything from anybody. not to share anything. don't think that something isn't there when it may be. try not to close your eyes to this. it is there. they are targeting even elementary school kids now so just be aware. i know the government is trying to fight this. it is really, really difficult but i think it comes from the home that you have to just keep your eyes open to this. >> sandra: denise, thank you very much for sharing your story with us and with our viewers. we know it is hard. thank you. >> thank you. >> bill: a lot of courage. sound advice for everyone. he is accused of driving his car with intent plowing into dozens of police recruits in l.a. county. why is the suspected driver walking free today? a disgraced ceo finding out how

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>> bill: he was allegedly behind the wheel but not behind bars. the suspect in the crash that injured dozens of cadets. police call it a deliberate attack. he has been released. what's up, william? >> the key word there that you said was deliberate. l.a. county sheriff saying detectives believe the driver intentionally tried to kill these recruits and his foot was still on the gas pedal even after the car had crashed into a light pole. this is 22-year-old arrested on charges of attempted murder of a police officer. the sheriff had to release him last night because investigators said they needed more time to present their case to the d.a. who has the file charges within 48 hours after an arrest. deputies served a warrant at his home wednesday night. the department says it hopes to

present their case today to prosecutors. according to the sheriff they have quote developed probable cause to believe the crash was intentional. shortly after sunrise on. no stopping, no swerving, no horn. he crossed the middle lane if his s.u.v. and slammed into those cadets at 40 miles-per-hour. 25 were injured. five critical. broken bones and head trauma. as of last night seven of those recruits remain in the hospital including one with extensive leg fractures. he told investigators he felt sleepy after the crash and marijuana was found in his car. his family claims that he is a good kid who would never have done this intentionally since his family is in law enforcement. >> bill: more to come on that. >> sandra: we are awaiting a

sentencing hearing for elizabeth holmes. she is facing up to 20 years if prison for defrauding investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars. we're live at the courthouse in san jose on that for us as we await her fate. >> hi, sandra. that's right. she is 38 years old. she faces 20 years in prison and just ahead of being sentenced here elizabeth holmes is relying on friends, family and former colleagues who have written to the judge urging him to show mercy. the disgraced woman was convicted in january on four counts of fraud and conspiracy after a jury found she knowingly lied about the effectiveness of her blood testing technology and bilked investors out of millions of dollars. according to court filings her romantic partner sent a 12-page letter to the judge last week

letting him know holmes is expecting their second child. they have a 14-month-old son and describes her as the best person he ever met. the judge received 130 letters of support from former employees and investors and new jersey senator cory booker. holmes has within her a sincere desire to help others and be of meaningful service and possesses the capacity to redeem herself. they say she should be sentenced to home and community service. prosecutors wants her to get 15 years behind bars and pay investors over $# hundred million in restitution. she has tried to get a new trial to no avail. her defense team will file an appeal as soon as she is sentenced. will elizabeth holmes get to stay at home while she appeals this conviction or if she gets jail time will she be ordered the start serving her sentence

right away? remember, she is pregnant and she has no criminal record. those could be factors in the judge's decision here today. we'll let you know what happens. this hearing begins in about two hours. >> sandra: we'll be watching for that. we'll have the news this afternoon. >> bill: 1 to 3 eastern see you then. >> sandra: you'll join us on monday. look forward to that. >> bill: i said can't wait. >> sandra: i can't wait. >> bill: here is gillian in for harris. we'll see you next week. >> thank you. the new republican leadership in congress says they're bringing with them new investigations into the president and his family's foreign business dealings. house republicans in their opening bid are accusing the president of being involved in his son's business overseas. they are pledging to make these investigations a top priority in the new congress hoping to expose influence peddling by the sitting presiden