back to david spunt, john, at the justice department. david, did you learn anything new there? >> i'm at the famous justice department, ian sams mentioned several times about referring people to the justice department and i'm at the justice department. we asked these questions every day to doj officials, we ask these questions every day to special counsel robert hur's team and don't get answers. seems to be a black hole of information when the white house says i encourage you to ask the justice department and we ask the justice department and the justice department by nature does not speak about active investigations. an important point to bring up, yesterday we reported that the fbi searched the penn biden center, the first location where documents were found in early november. the fbi searched the penn biden center in mid november but this was not made public until it hit news reports yesterday. so the question is, if the fbi searched the penn biden center in mid november a few months ago, why did it take them a few months to even make it to wilmington, let alone rehobeth bea

david spunt. for being there this morning. >> john: acting head of the federal aviation administration facing questions from a senate committee over last month's computer out age the forced the first nationwide stoppage since september 11, 2001, and comes following several near collisions of jets at airports across the country. connell mcshane has the details for us in new york city. >> the faa blamed a contractor for that outage saying there were files that were unintentionally deleted from an alert system. we expect that system to come under scrutiny this morning called notice to arrow emissions. pilots have to read the alerts before they take off. today's hearings you look at the hearing room live now is underway in washington with opening statements before the commerce committee. billy nolan will be testifying throughout the day. he is the acting head of the faa. he said already late last month the faa has taken some steps since the outage to make the system more resilient as he has put it. we

but first i want to get to david spunt. dent found this material at the penn biden center, right? and they reported it to the white house as we mentioned a moment ago. david, do you know who found the material at the wilmington, delaware home? was it his lawyers or the president himself or was it a housekeeper? >> unclear. a question we've pressed, a question we want to know. special counsel's office is not talking, f.b.i. is not talking. white house is not talking specifically about that. bill yesterday we just found out that i was talking about this slow drip of information as these weeks go on. we found out the f.b.i. went to the penn biden center in mid- november. we find out about this on january 31st. the question is if the f.b.i. went to the penn biden center in mid-november why did the f.b.i. not go to the wilmington home until january? we know that biden's team and what not was looking at some of these documents in december but why was the f.b.i. not there until january when the f.b.i. was at the penn biden center i

correspondent david spunt reports tonight from the justice department. od evening, david. >> bret, good evening to you. a fiery hearing lasting the majority of the day. democrats argue there is nothing there but republicans believe something more sinister wer and. and this was the chance for republicans to make the case to the public. >> we don't know where the fbi ends and twitter begins. >> emotions running high. >> we are talking about hunter biden's half fake laptop story. i mean, this is embarrassment. >> front and center this "new york post" cover from october 2020. weeks before the election. >> we return not to focus on advancing this robust agenda progress but, instead, to take up an authentically trivial pursuit all based on the obsessive victimology of right wing politics in america. >> former twitter executives in the hot seat to answer allegations about suppressing that report. >> in hindsight, twitter should have reinstated the post account immediately. i will be the first to admit that we didn't always get it right. >> also testifying, james

david spunt is here with the case.o separate cases. >> two separate cases argued on two separate days, tomorrow and wednesday, but one overarching theme, and the overarching issue is immunity for big tech. the high court will hear the cases over the two-day period. the nine day justices will review section 230 of the communications decency act from 1996, 230 gives social media companies, think of the big ones and other digital platforms, protection from some criminal and civil claims. the issue in one case, whether companies like google and twitter can receive civil immunity when algorithms recommend what video and websites should be shown to users. the families sued twitter and google after the companies steered extremist online material to viewers most likely be interested in that. in congress, members from both sides of the aisle have complained about the scope of section 230, may sound bipartisan but democrats and republicans essentially, jacqui, want different things for different reasons. listen. >> i think we ne

david spunt is live on the steps of the supreme court to kick things off for us. david, how is it going so far for the biden administration? >> well, sandra, and john, from what we have heard so far over the past almost three hours, it's clearly going to be an uphill battle for the biden administration to convince a conservative majority supreme court that it's the right move to use $400 billion with a b in taxpayer money to cancel these student loans. that's what we are seeing from the justices, take a listen. >> people who have paid their loans, people who don't plan their lives around not seeking loans, and people who are not eligible for loans in the first place, and that half a trillion dollars is being diverted to one group of favored persons over others. >> listen to the term, favored persons, according to justice gorsuch. they peppered the solicitor general representing the administration over the plan. people earning less than $125,000 in 2020 or 2021 and married couples making less than a quarter million dollars could see up to $10,000 canceled. now, fede

david spunt.ou. >> they continue to act like they don't understand why the house oversight committee would bother to request this information. they know exactly why we're looking into it and the family's influence peddling and the family controlsed the line and taken millions of dollars from our adversaries for no good reason. >> bill: james comer on hunter biden missing a deadline last night to hand over documents to the republican-led panel investigating the biden family. he is facing a potential subpoena. we'll see how it goes. the author of the new book uncovered and founder and editor of fourth watch. steve, good to have you on. good morning. you are getting a very interesting reception, i would say, based on your book thus far. one headline on our website right now. media censorship of the hunter biden laptop story was horrible and then it got worse. do you think that based on the book that you wrote, was this the canary in the coal mine for you? >> yeah, i do think the hunter biden laptop s

david spunt is live at d.o.j. with more on details there. >> good morning. for more than two years house republicans have wanted to hold a hearing involving the f.b.i., twitter, and the name hunter biden. they got their wish yesterday and now in a majority in a hearing that lasted most of the day. watch this. >> we don't know where the f.b.i. ends and twitter begins. >> we are talking about hunter biden's half baked laptop story. this is an embarrassment. >> the hearing focused on this october 14, 2020, "new york post" cover. biden's secret emails exposing information about hunter's business dealings overseas. it was suspended on twitter for the days leading up to the election. >> in hindsight twitter should have reinstated the post account immediately. >> i will be the first to admit we didn't always get it right. >> democrats template down the premise of the hearing arguing twitter can do what it wants. >> some people think it was the right decision. some people think it was the wrong decision. the key point here is that it was twitter's decision. twitter

jon: david spunt live at the white house. david, thanks. >> reporter: you bet.ll wishes from around the world tonight for former president jimmy carter who's now in hospice care. the carter center announced yesterday the 98-year-old has decided to spend his last days with his loved ones at his home after battling cancer and recovering from several falls. he has elected not to receive further medical treatment. jonathan serrie is live in plains, georgia, where the carters live with more. jonathan. >> reporter: good evening, jon. the carter center says the former president is moving to home hospice care with the full support of his medical staff and his family. the family asking the public if for privacy but also thanking the public for the outpouring of support and concern. carter's grandson jason, a former georgia state senator, tweeted saturday: i saw both of my grandparents yesterday. they are at peace and, as always, their home is full of love. and this afternoon president biden tweeted to jimmy and rosalynn carter: we admire you for the strength and humility

there's a demonstration going on right now outside the court and that's where we find correspondent david spuntonight. good evening, david. >> bret, good evening. the rain just stopped outside the supreme court. but you can hear the horns are just starting up. this group plans to be here all night to show their support for president biden's student loan forgiveness plan. >> it's about opportunity. it's about giving people a fair shot. >> tomorrow morning, these nine justices will debate the financial future of about 40 million americans anxiously awaiting to see if their federal student loans are reduced or eliminated entirely. they will be hearing two separate cases with a similar theme. six g.o.p.-led states are suing the administration arguing president biden overstepped his authority to pay off debt. president trump used the covid emergency to pause student payments. but biden also relied on the pandemic to justify expanding the education loan forgiveness program. arguing the financial pain of the pandemic will last for years. republicans in congress and some states see hypocrisy, citing th

we begin with david spunt live at the justice department where they're watching this no doubt. hi, david. >> hi, martha. employees at doj and the fbi paying close attention to this one. republicans have been waiting for years for such a hearing now they're in a majority. one of the witnesses today criticized it. congressman jamie raskin. watch. >> millions of americans already feared that weaponization is the right name for this special subcommittee. not because weaponization of the government is its target, but because weaponization of the government is its purpose. >> another witness, ron johnson, a frequent critic of the doj and fbi. >> i've written over 50 overso iing letters and the vast majority of the questions i've asked have either received an inadequate response or no response at all. >> one of the primary concerns, a school board letter put out by attorney general garland. the response the national school board association in september -- september 29, 2021 wrote to president biden arguing some parents actions at the meetings should be considered a form of domestic te

. >> sandra: david spunt has the breaking details. this search just wrapped, david. so, were any classified documents found at the president's beach house? >> sandra, john, no classified documents found. this is according to the president's personal attorney, bob bauer. the search began this morning at 8:30 in the morning at the rehobeth beach home, wrapped up at noon. three and a half hours, quite the contrast from what we saw just a few weeks ago when we learned on a friday the fbi spent almost 13 hours inside the president's wilmington, delaware home and did find more classified documents. president biden purchased this home back in 2017 when he was a former vice president at the start of summer, but right now doj not picking up any classified documents there at that home. i want to read the statement from bob bauer, a little long but i think it's important. doj plan search of the president's rehobeth residence concluded incoordination and cooperation with the president's attorneys, 8:30 a.m. to noon, no documents with classified markers were found, consistent wit

correspondent david spunt starts us off tonight from the justice department. good evening, david. >> mike, good evening. this latest search began at 8:30 in the morning when fbi agents pulled into the driveway of the president's rehoboth beach home. they were gone by noon. the president's personal attorney says no documents with classified markings were found; however, fbi agents did take several other documents with them. >> fbi agents pulled into the president's rehoboth beach delaware home wednesday morning on the hunt for classified documents. after three and a half hours, they left. the president's personal attorney in a statement said no documents with classified markings were found. adding consistent with the process in wilmington, the doj took for further review some materials and handwritten notes that appear to relate to his time as vice president. it's the third time a biden connected property was formally searched by the fbi. not even two weeks ago agents spent nearly 13 hours in wilmington looking for classified material. they recovered six items.

. >> john: david spunt is at the justice department following the breaking news. close call, david. >> very close call. the good news is no power grid disruptions in this case. this was a plot thwarted by an fbi informant. this duo, they met in separate prisons by communicating online, they were serving time for other crimes. they had since gotten out and planned to attack power grids across maryland. the plot was thwarted. 34-year-old sarah clendaniel, accused of trying to destroy multiple power stations will appear before the federal judge at 2:00. official charge is conspiracy to destroy an energy facility. she had and brandon russell out of florida, he will face a judge in orlando, florida. she confided in an fbi informant just weeks ago, this comes just a couple months john after authorities in north carolina reported damage to power grids in the center of the state. per authorities this is not connected but they are continuing to investigate. >> the accused were not just talking, but taking steps to fulfill their threats and further their extremist goals. rus

david spunt as the story and on the case in washington. >> arguments began 30 minutes ago. for big tech companies. justices hear two cases, one today, one tomorrow dealing with the overarching theme of big tech and liability. the court will review section 230 of the communication decency act in effect since 1996. it gives social media companies and other digital platforms liability protection from some criminal and civil claims. the case today involving google, aka owns youtube from a lawsuit vochlg a 23-year-old killed in 2015 in paris as part of an isis attack of the her family sued google, facebook and twitter arguing all three allowed extremist content from isis-related groups. they appealed to the security and argued an algorithm was not protected by section 230. in congress, members from both sides of the aisle have complained about the scope of section 230. when it was written in 1996 the online landscape was vastly different. they want it changed for different reasons. >> we need to be blunt from the beginning. we know what right the central truth. big tech has rele

correspondent david spunt has new details tonight from the justice department. , david. >> special counsel robert hur officially on the job. his staff will go through documents seized by fbi agents from the president's rehoboth beach delaware home wednesday. in a carefully written statement, the president's personal attorney bob bauer is quoted as saying "no documents with classified markings were found." bauer went on to say agents took some materials and handwritten notes; however, it is possible some of those pages may contain classified information without markings. hur, a former trump appointed u.s. attorney now has complete control over the investigation after spending several weeks getting up to speed. hur, like other special counsel colleagues, is working at undisclosed location in washington, d.c. >> proof will be in the pudding. if he is willing to examine the evidence, i believe he needs, the fbi needs to search the documents of the university of delaware and it needs to search hunter biden's home and business addresses to see if there are classified d

neil: you know it occurs to me when we signed david spunt with the whole document thing with the president to say, david only a day or two story, have at it. it has been dragging on for many weeks. david has been relentless following all the latest developments including now the fbi searching apparently the biden as rehobeth home. can you tell us more about that? >> reporter: fbi agents began searching this morning. a source sass they will stay there as long as they need to find any potential classified documents. we know this is the president's vacation home in rehobeth beach delaware. he bought it in 2017 after the left the vice-presidency. when president trump was in the white house at the time, beginning of summer of 2017 when he bought it. this morning, fbi agents in unmarked cars came to the home and began searching this is consensual search without the search warrant. president's long-time friend put out a statement and lengthy. with the president's full support and cooperation the doj is conducting a planned search of his home in rehobeth delaware. under doj standard procedures in

david spunt picks up the story at d.o.j. hello. >> good morning to you. robert hur became special counsel appointed by garland a few weeks ago on january 12th. since that day he has been getting up to speed at a private law firm looking at this investigation into the president of the united states. he is now left has law firm in washington and fully on board dealing with this investigation. f.b.i. agents spent 3 1/2 hours at the president's vacation home yesterday in rehoboth beach. the president's personal attorney bob lawyer says no documents with classified documents were discovered. agents did take other paperwork and handwritten notes and it is possible, bill, there is something classified on those pages. they are just not marked classified. now all of the material will be in the possession of special counsel robert hur who was at the justice department yesterday getting acquainted with his staff. he will work off site at an undisclosed location, typical for a special counsel. these are the four special counsels we've had in the past four years, busy

the fbi told our david spunt the report is false but we are still waiting to hear back official wording for the fbi, bryan kohberger was the only suspect they had two full weeks before the cross country drive in mid december and they lost track of him according to the report. a washington state university police officer discovered that kohberger registered a white hyundai elantra on campus and the lead detective with moscow p.d. noticed the bushy eyebrows and the build matched description given by a roommate who survived the attack. and now a reporter quotes an fbi source said their surveillance team lost kohberger some time after he left his apartment to start that road trip with his father. for several hours they had no idea where he was. the source said there was panic and despair, but again, sandra, the fbi told david spunt the report is false. wait to hear back what they say officially to us, but they may have lost him for a little bit. >> sandra: stunning report. >> john: must have been surprised if they did lose him. new at 2:00, america's crime crisis hurting everyone, no mat

. >> sandra: before we get to him, bring in david spunt, live in washington with the latest on what we are learning from this. >> hi, sandra. 11 days ago, still chaos on the ground. people are getting sick, pets are dropping dead and no telling when it will be cleaned up and if this small village and border town on the border of pennsylvania can ever get back to normal. february 3rd in east palestine, an mile from the p.a. border. a freight train derailed and exploded. 50 cars were involved, ten had hazardous materials, including that vinyl chloride. some others that are carcinogens, cause skin burning and irritation. neighbors continue to complain about a myriad of health issues. >> you had vinyl chloride, and other bad chemicals. vinyl chloride itself. >> the epa is on scene and will be to test the town in the coming weeks and months. >> done 285 plus home air tests, they have 185 more scheduled. they are testing the water around the clock and you can better believe i'm going to be asking questions to make sure that we continue that until we are 100% sure that we really mitigated thi

neil: thank you for all of that, david spunt. to go to vance gin, a budget economist during the trump administration. vance, one of the things i was looking into when it was first offered how it would be paid for and i think i heard it correctly it was said it would be added to our debt in other words no additional taxes on the american people to pay for that. i'm thinking to myself, i'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, if you add it to the debt we're all indeed paying for it, aren't we? >> we are. nothing is free and this isn't free either. this is simply redistribution scheme of student loan forgiveness, you're redistributing some of those who went to college, racked up debt, maybe some didn't go to college or already paid off their debt. this admin talks about what is fair. how is that fair? this is not clearly a fair situation. it would increase education spending education costs over time. it does nothing to help people out today. neil: i'm also wondering, vance, about the unintended consequences helping one group when oth

correspondent david spunt shows us tonight. >> as promised, city crews in washington, d.c.est homeless encampment, forcing dozens to relocate. >> how can you put a man outside that's already outside? how do you put them out? >> the national park service spearheaded the clean up and supposed to clear mcpherson square blocks from the white house april 12th but moved things up two months because of crime, mostly drugs. >> we have to try to help and fight for the rights of people to have a place to live. and that's what i'm standing for. >> we're here to ask national park service to reconsider its decision. hopefully reverse it. >> but no reversal on this date. the park service in a statement tells fox news in recent months law enforcement and social service providers have reported increasing levels of violence, illegal drug use and significant criminal activity. records show approximately three dozen people have been arrested in the square in the last year. there were also three drug-related deaths in the past six months. within 1,000 feet of mcpherson square, over the past tw

fox news' david spunt at the justice department with the latest. reporter: hi, good evening, liz. first of all, you know, fights between the justice department and capitol hill go back decades,but what makes this unique is, as you said, democrats are starting to come out in bigger numbers, and they are being loud and vocal about it, opposing a democratic-run justice county when it come -- department when it comes to seeing documents taken from mar-a-lago, wilmington the, delaware, and also former vice president mike pence's possession. now, these members of congress want to physically see the classified documents taken connected the former president trump, president biden and former vice president mike pence. members of the senate intelligence committee normally review classified documents and sent a stern letter to the director of national intelligence, avril haines, and attorney general merrick garland last week. they wrote as of this writing neither of you have complied with these the requests citing the department of justice's ongoing investigat

david spunt has been watching the opening statements. he is live ste justice department now. david, what are you seeing? >> senator ron johnson has paid close attention not only to the department of justice but the fbi. he noted in his testimony, john and sandra, he wrote more than 50 letters to the fbi and doj and said few of them were answered adequately, many were not even responded to. this is a hearing as you mentioned for a new subcommittee, the weaponization of government. falls under the judiciary committee, it happens so that jim jordan is also the chair of this subcommittee and frankly it's a hearing that republicans have been waiting for for years, for several years. yesterday the house oversight committee took to bat the twitter issue with hunter biden, the president's son, and the fbi, and how some of the stories were suppressed, the original story that appeared in "the new york post," and today is about multiple different topics that republicans believe shows that they have been singled out and attacked by the justice department and fbi. >> john: david spunt with

>> bret: david spunt outside the u.s. supreme court. david, thank you.icial intelligence and what somely o'grady is in los angeles tonight with that good evening, kelly. >> good evening, bret. the ai known as chat scrutiny artificial intelligence provides one sided answers. we decided to investigate asking the ai about a number of topics. what we found was a scramble to address bias concerns, something the company admits. chchatgpt adds disclaimers to wn asked to describe president biden negatively i'm sorry as ai language model i'm designed to remain neutral in my responses it's not appropriate or productive to engage in negative personal attacks on individuals. when we asked the same for former president trump though. the ai caveats its response but then says i understand your request, so here are some potential negative descriptions of donald trump based on public perception. these changes appear to be spot treatments though with contradictions potentially deep-rooted when asked to write a poem praising hispanics it did so without issue. when asked to

david spunt is live with the story. david. >> reporter: hi, good evening.ave been waiting for years to actually hold this hearing. it became a reality because now they are in control of the house of representatives. and to no surprise, each side of the political aisle had completely different takes on this. watch. >> i've written over 50 oversight letters, and the vast majority of the questions i have asked is have either received an inadequate response or no response at all. >> millions of americans already fear that weaponization is right name for this special subis committee. subcommittee. not because weaponization of the government is its target, but because weaponization of the government is its purpose. >> reporter: so you see ron johnson, obviously, he's not in the house, but he served as a witness today. one of the primary concerns for republicans, a school board memo put out by attorney general merrick garland in october 2021. parents that were fed the up with can covid restrictions and mandates across the country expressed themselves, sometimes ma

david spunt live from the white house with more. >> reporter: good afternoon.hen if you add in the one shot over the yukon territory of canada, that adds in number four. so four shot down, we know that the only one recovered in part is that chinese spy balloon. according to senior administration officials, there is a belief that the other three had no ties to china or any enemy nations. canada suspended the search to recover one over the yukon territory, but this gives you kind of an idea of where these different objects were shot down in the month of february. here's white house spokesman john kirby this morning. >> we've called off now the search in lake huron and the one over alaska, so we may never know completely. but the leading intelligence community assessment is that they were probably for benign purposes, whether it's weather, commercial, scientisttism the research. >> >> reporter: president biden says he plans to speak to chinese president xi jinping, although we're told by blinken members of the delegation did not apologize and appear to be spinning

is holding big tech accountable, but david spunt is live outside the supreme court and david, could thereme court completely wipe out section 230? >> john, it is possible, though it's unlikely. they may make some change to it. arguments to go over an hour, lasted for almost three hours today, justice kagan saying she did not know if the nine justices on the court were even equipped to handle this and maybe it's something congress across the street should handle. it's possible they could take away some of the power from section 230, now, section 230 is from the communications decency act of 1996. those against it say it's ancient, it needs to be changed, gives social media companies and other digital platforms liability protection from some criminal and civil claims. the case today, john, involved google, which owns youtube. all spawns from a lawsuit involving the death of 23-year-old naomi gonzalez, american college student killed in 2015 studying in paris as part of an isis attack. her family sued google, twitter, and arguing three related groups were allowing extremist content from is

david spunt is live at the high court. david. >> good to be with you. arguments began about an hour ago. technically we'll see two cases before the supreme court today dealing with the same overarching issue and already the justices including chief justice john roberts has questions about this plan. this plan to cancel this student loan debt. just last year the president fulfilling what some say is clearly a campaign promise came out and announced his plan to cancel up to $20,000 if you meet certain criteria. individuals earninging less than $125,000 in 2020 or 2021 and married couples making less than a quarter million a year could see up to $10,000 canceled. pell grants $20,000. $4 hundred billion price tag. administration believes they'll prevail because of a 2003 law called the hero's act to modify students loans following 9/11 and national emergency. they say it is still a national emergency. six states are suing to end this plan. president donald trump originally stopped those student payments but the current president relied on the pandemic to ex

mike: david spunt live on the north lawn. let's bring in political panel, founder and principal and former speaker, john boehner adviser and tim, senior adviser and former amy klobuchar communications director, great to have you onset. >> thanks for having us. mike: let's start in ohio. we are is republican senator eric schmitt. >> she's been a no-show in ohio. the american are right to be upset about this. they demand a presence by the administration to know they are going to take care of the issues. a lot of the folks who claim to be environmentalists they don't care about environment a -- >> what about the president's team response to it? >> thanks to some of the grilling of "fox & friends", governor mike stepped up and accepted help from hhs and fema and there was a question why that was taking so long. and to senator schmitt's point is that a problem with april safety in 2014 we put in new brake requirements for the federal railroad administration and we were using things that were developed during precivil war era prior

. >> john: first to david spunt, how long has this hearing, david, been in the works for? >> john, it's been in the works for a long time. republicans have been eying such a hearing since 2020 for about two and a half years, they have not been in the majority until now, doj and fbi watching the hearing, hearing from former chief legal officer, also from former deputy counsel james baker and yul roth, three names integral in making key decisions before during and after the 2020 election. is "the new york post" story weeks before the election. delaware computer shop owner contacted the fbi in late 2019 after he says hunter himself dropped it off at his shop and never picked it up. the fbi took possession. and then new york post ran this cover, biden's secret emails, exposing information about hunter's business dealings overseas. new york post account was suspended for weeks leading up to the election. >> in hindsight, twitter should have restated the post account immediately. >> i'll be the first to admit we didn't always get it right. >> days after the article, dozens of we

david spunt has the very latest from washington. david? >> hi, neil.m officials almost two weeks after this february 3 train derailment. a scary scene. ohio governor mike dewine held a news conference that begin about 90 minutes ago. he's furious and pressing for account ability. watch this. >> even though some rail cars didn't have hazardous materials on board and while most of them did not, that's why it was not categorized as a high hazardous material train. frankly, if this is true and i'm told it's true, this is absurd. >> a lot of questions there. the derailment happened 11 days ago, february 3 and the secretary of transportation, pete buttigieg, has been facing criticism for his personal response. he's been talking about it via twitter. his first tweet about it last night, ten days later, not in front of cameras when he had the opportunity earlier in the day. this happened in east palestine, about a mile from the pennsylvania border. a freight train derailed and exploded. 50 cars on a the trail, involved about ten that had hazardous materials. a

but first, david spunt live outside the supreme court with what we can expect. vid. >> hi, martha. consequential day here tomorrow at the supreme court. if the justices rule in favor of the biden administration, millions around the country will be breathing a sigh of relief because they will see up to $20,000 in their individual student loan debt just completely wiped out. this is a campaign promise made by president biden and candidate biden on the campaign trail. he promised to go ahead and cancel up to $20,000 if you meet certain criteria, individuals earning less than $125,000 in 2020 and 21 and married couples making less than $250,000 could see up to $10,000 cancelled. you could get the full $20,000 wiped out if you received federal pell grants. it's expected according to the congressional budget office to called $400 billion with a b. >> it's about opportunity. it's about giving people a fair shot. >> the administration believes they will prevail because of a 2003 law called the hero's act aim to modify students loans following september 11th. in the words

. >> john: david spunt has the latest from the justice department. any reaction to the hearings, david? >> john, sandra, waiting for an on the record statement from both the doj and fbi, but privately officials with both agencies tell me it's simply not true that either the doj or the fbi weaponizes against american citizens. however, that's not sitting well with republicans, they now run the majority in the house. that's why we are seeing today's hearing and will see more in the future. here is a little bit from the hearing that just kicked off about 30 minutes ago. watch. >> my time in congress i have never seen anything like this. dozens and dozens of whistleblowers, fbi agents coming to us talking about what's going on, political nature at the justice department. >> i'm deeply concerned about the use of the select subcommittee as a place to settle scores, showcase conspiracy theories and advance extreme agenda that risk undermining american's faith in our democracy. >> one of the primary concerns for republicans is school board memo by attorney ge

david spunt for us at the you. stocks were mixed today. dow 16. the s&p 500 nasdaq fell 71. just flat. the s&p 500 nasdaq was so, pretty considered. new statistics for you the soutn border. in brownsville, texas tonight he has got an exclusive interview. >> good evening. night dump by p members confirming figures first reported by fox week. total 156,274. december still higher than this time last year. now, upon context,john, months e administration points a recent asylum program for the reduction. interview just momens ago. we conducted patrol chief raÚl ortiz. the numbers are encouraging but he increase in chinese migrants of technology like god away numbers in the right direction. >> a huge increase it appears right >> yeah, we have nationals. around so fiscal year compared to the last year areostat sky. how much will that impact you and do you need those tools? >> any time we have technology out there it provides us the situation so we can interdictions right on the border. certainly an why are gog to try to do everything to fund those stats as long as we can. >> griff:

david spunt. >> it's getting underway right now. yesterday justice kagan asked the question to laughter in the courtroom should these nine justices be wading into the waters saying they may not be the best people to understand the internet. today's case focused on liability. can twitter be held liable by the families of terror victims. the second big case involving big tech before the court this week. family of a man killed in an isis attack in turkey in 2017 sued twitter, google and facebook arguing the platforms posted terrorist videos on their sites helping to spread propaganda. justices must decide how much responsibility if any social media company should bear for the content posted online. yesterday's case focused on section 230 of the 1996 communications decency act which shields social media companies or gives those companies immunity from lawsuits based on what is posted and shared on third party web sights and platforms. america college student 23-year-old was killed visiting paris in an isis attack and her family sued goo

correspondent david spunt leads us off tonight with the latest from the fallout from the derailment. od evening, david. >> bret, good evening. incredible pictures not only is it a mess have scene, it's a toxic scene. tonight ohio governor mike dewine has more questions than answers. >> now toxic fumes continue to pour into the air of east palestine, ohio. almost two weeks after a train derailed. >> we were faced with two bad options. one option was to do nothing. and wait for the car to explode. we then made a decision to go ahead with the second option, which was the controlled release. >> officials say around 50 cars were involved in the february 3rd norfolk-southern derailment. about 10 had hazardous materials including vinyl chloride. neighbors in a town of around 4700 are scared and confused. >> normalcy. that's what i hope for. normalcy. and nothing in the future. like that my kids are good from this crap. >> the white house pledging full support. >> e.p.a. is working hand in glove with the state of ohio and we think that's really important. >> a sentiment echoed by ohio governo

david spunt, thank you for that. >> we can confirm all three deceased were m.s.u. students. we can also confirm at this time that all five of the injured victims at the hospital were also m.s.u. students. >> john: michigan state university police identifying the man they say went on a deadly campus rampage. they say 43-year-old anthony mcrae went on a rampage, and on the run for several hours before turning the gun on himself. idea of the motive? >> still a mystery. he was not a student, but the immediate threat has passed because mccae killed himself. an off campus locations, they confronted him and he turned the gun on himself and he died. new york post is reporting on his person was a note threatening school districts in a municipal in new jersey. ewing district was shut down out of abundance of caution, and also that he had a long history of mental illness. not identified to this point, pending notification of next of kin, are all the students killed and injured out here. three killed, five are considered in critical condition after having gone through surgery last night

now, we began with david spunt live at the department of justice who has more for us, david. >> goodernoon, good afternoon to everyone. fbi agents will be searching rehobeth beach home as long as it takes. the hunt is defined in the classified documents and the search began just a few hours ago. as we mentioned this is the president's vacation home in delaware. he bought it in 2017. fbi agents pulled up this morning in unmarked cars and out of search warrant meaning consensual search. by the is a longtime friend and attorney to the president said today with the president and full support and cooperation. the dea to search under doj standard procedures and in the interest of operational security and integrity. it will do this work without advance public notice and will cooperate. today is a further step in a thorough timely doj process. we will continually further support and the conclusion of today search. today, also doj in washington, robert and his staff at the justice department and he has a special counsel appointed a few weeks ago and getting up to speed over the last few weeks

correspondent david spunt takes a look tonight from the justice department. >> behind these walls, thed states constitution. beacons of free speech. what happened inside this building three weeks ago raises questions about the first amendment, freedom of speech. >> to be told i can't wear my shirt in there, that those documents guarantee that right is just mind boggling. >> wendy lee lassiter and others were in washington for march for life. lassiter says when she and her group walked into the national archives an employee confronted them. >> he said i had to take my sweatshirt off before i could enter the building. and i was just kind of like, what? this is america. things like this shouldn't happen. >> she also claimed pro-choice activists were allowed to wear their ideological clothing in the building. lassiter and others are suing the national archives. the agency out with a statement sasay its policy typically allos such express si clothing. as the home of to the original constitution and bill of rights enshrine the rights free speech and religion we sincerely apologize for this o

david spunt is live in washington with more at what's at stake.court. >> very busy week. we're talking about two arguments over a two-day period on tuesday and wednesday that could easily change the social media landscape by holding social media companies accountable for third party content. the nine justices will remove section 230 of the communications decency act which has been in effect since 1996. it gives social media companies and other digital platforms immunity from some criminal and civil claims. in congress members from both sides of the aisle have complained about the scope of section 230 arguing when it was written in 1996 the online landscape was very different and section 230 protections need to be changed and modernized. whether companies like google and twitter can receive civil immunity when algorithms recommend what should be shown to users. they allegedly -- any decision would not only affect web search results but could hurt social media feeds, online marketplace listing community and streaming services and apps. if stricter m

correspondent david spunt previews arguments tonight. >> it's been called the 26 words that created thecial shield for big tech companies that has allowed them to grow from websites to apps to online marketplaces. >> i'm calling on congress to get rid of special immunity for social media companies. >> but if congress doesn't make a change, the supreme court may. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle want section 230 reformed but for different reasons. drafts seek regulations to block harmful online content. republicans say section 230 allows big tech to censor viewpoints. >> if they are going to receive protection you could the law they can't be moderating content in a way that is biased against conservatives. >> the internet has more than 4 billion users. up from 40 million in 1996. but tech experts argue even the slightest modification to section 230 could have a chilling effect on free speech. >> potentially controversial content such as political content might get swept up in that net. and that would damage the way that many people currently use the internet as forum for discourse. >

. >> dana: david spunt live-out side court for us this morning. >> good morning. no matter where you land in this fiery debate i have yet to meet someone that has not formed some sort of opinion on this issue. off to my right you can hear noise. demonstrators have been out here since 3:00 p.m. yesterday fighting for the president's plan and fighting for this student loan forgiveness. some slept outside hoping to get a seat inside the court today lining up very early to watch this process unfold. if the justices rule in favor of the president, millions of people could have up to $20,000 in student loan debt wiped out. >> our government is supposed to be about people, right? they shouldn't be making money off of us going to school or seeking higher education. it shouldn't happen that way. >> just last year the president fulfilled a campaign promise announced his plan cancelling up to $20,000 if you meet certain criteria. individuals earning less than $125,000 in 2020 or 2021 and married couples making less than a quarter million dollars could see up the $10,000 canc

david spunt is life from the supreme court.the difference between yesterday and today's case? >> john, yesterday was by immunity, getting into the door to the courtroom to even begin with. as you said, today is specifically about liability and can social media giants like twitter be held liable. arguments just wrapped after two and a half hours, same story yesterday, they were supposed to be scheduled for an hour and ten minutes, but these seem to go longer and longer, especially when you have such an important case. this is the second big case involving big tech this week. family of a man killed in an isis attack in turkey in 2017 sued twitter, google and facebook, arguing those platforms posted terrorist videos on their site helping to spread propaganda. the justices, john, must decide how much responsibility, if any social media company should bear for the content online. a lot of questions about liability and aiding and abetting. a twitter attorney in court argued the company did not provide assistance and was not aware of

david spunt has been keeping track of this. not the punxsutawney thing but the document thing. justice department. sir? >> hi, neil. it's been almost six months since the fbi went into mar-a-largo in florida. things look to be the same for president biden as how long this investigation will last. the special counsel is under no time limit to get this done. his name is robert hur. he's on the job, moving full steam ahead. they found the documents at the penn biden center in november and also documents found at the president's home in wilmington, delaware. no documents with classified markings were found. we know documents were taken from the president's vacation home in rehoboth beach, delaware. the president's personal attorney issued that carefully-worded statement saying no documents were found at rehoboth with classified markings. it's possible some of the handwritten notes and other paper work that was taken contains information that may be classified, just not marked classified. the senate intelligence committee just a couple hours ago sent another letter to attorney gener

. >> dana: david spunt is at the justice department as things kick off this morning. >> safe to say some folks at d.o.j. and the f.b.i. across the street will be paying attention to what happens in these hearings. the reason that these three former twitter executives are appearing in the first place is because of the old-fashioned subpoena. who will appear today will be gaty, the former chief legal officer and deputy general counsel james baker and yoel roll f. it will look into suppression of a "new york post" story regarding hunter biden's laptop before the 2020 election. a delaware computer shop owner says it was dropped off at his shop and never picked it up. the f.b.i. took possession in late 2019. journal lift michael shellenberger has released information in december of 2022 to the republican. the shop owner gave a copy of the laptop to rudy giuliani who gave the information to the "new york post." shellenberger reports the f.b.i. asked twitter to provide information without search warrants. in october 2013 and f.b.i. agent sent ten documents to twitter's head of site integrity th

. >> john: david and juan are here, and rich edson from washington, but first david spunt, the president's document scandal, what's the latest on the special counsel investigation? >> robert hur is at work today going through all of the information since this investigation broke that includes searches at the penn biden center here in washington, d.c. by the fbi, the president's home in wilmington and even some documents taken yesterday and while the president's attorney, and he wrote a very carefully worded statement saying no documents with classified markings were recovered by the fbi today, we do know that some handwritten notes and other pieces of paper were taken from rehobeth beach and we also know, john, it's possible, it is possible that some of those handwritten notes and documents may have some classified information, though they are not labelled classified. now, all of that material is back at special counsel robert hur's team and his purview. he'll work off site at an undisclosed location in washington, d.c., typical for a special counsel to be somewhat removed from doj. the wh

thanks, david spunt. let's bring in dr. marty makary from johns hopkins. doctor, good to have you with us. i'd like to start this afternoon by playing a bit of sound from another doctor who we rely on as well. dr. marc siegel. i want to see if what you think about what he says about these toxins. >> vinyl chloride has a lot of cancer exposures. it breaks down to hydrogen chloride and gasses that were used in world war i as a weapon. that's why people had headaches and burning eyes. they hoped to have a controlled release. doesn't sound controlled to me. >> martha: do you agree with that assessment and people told back to go back home should do so? >> it's unclear whether or not they should go back home. we're getting mixed messages. what dr. siegel said, he's correct. vinyl chloride causes liver cancer, which is interestingly the only cancer in the united states that is on the rise when other cancers are going down. and phosgene is a known toxic substance used in warfare. things don't add up. that's my assessment. vinyl chloride is a colorless, odorless ga

david smunt is live -- spunt live at the white house with more. david. reporter: hi, arthel. the other objects shot down, administration officials believe they are from private entities and not any other enemy nation states but the question is why are those being forgotten? that's something we still cannot seem to get from this administration. on the chinese spy balloon, they call it a weather balloon, we call it a spy balloon. we know that antony blinken met with his counter part in muay niche, germany -- munich, germany. just a few weeks ago the chinese weren't even taking our phone calls and see where we've come in a couple few weeks and china is engaging with the white house while the president and his team tell china what happened is unacceptable and secretary blinken met with the communist giant's foreign minister and yi called the response to the spy craft absurd and hysterical. >> what i can tell you is this was a opportunity to speak very clearly and very directly about the fact that china sent a surveillance balloon over our territory violating our sovereignty and i