mike: david spunt starting us live, david, many thanks. uk government is accusing russian president vladimir putin of plot to go install a prokremlin government in ukraine, this as families as united states embassy and personnel in ukraine could start evacuating as soon as tomorrow. fox news live in ukraine senior foreign affairs greg palckok brings us the latest development from kiav. >> the forces up to 125,000, the new information we are getting today, deployment of soldiers arrived in the town in neighboring belarus. that's just about 30 miles from the border with ukraine and just a little over 60 miles from the city. all this caring with it the threat of invasion. eastern ukraine, government troops have been facing off against separatist fighters for year, they are back massively russia. newly deployed rocket launchers, moscow said to be sending fuel arms making this weekend's arrival to military aid to ukraine even more important. 100 tons worth including ammunition for ukrainian troops. all this getting the attention of the locals o

i want to get to david spunt who's at the u.s. supreme court. you were learning new details such as, may be by summer or the end of the current term? >> yes, at the end of the current term appears that's when justice breyer will officially step down, they could be the end of june or early july, it depends on when the high court finishes its docket. but we just found out this news in the last 15 minutes or so about the 83-year-old justice to retire, and already, u.s. senators are sending out press releases into inboxes. i'm reading one from patty murray, the democratic senator from washington state, calling on president biden to move forward to appointing the a black woman to the high court. some of the other names as kaylee atomic kayleigh mentioned, we've not heard any mention of vice president, irs or any official appointment but some other names mentions, judge cuts cut tonja brown jackson, also lee andre kruger. >> harris: they have put out notices from lawmakers, are those letters on the record or are these just being talked about? >> they

jon: david spunt live at the white house. thank you. armed with 180 tons of u.s.eapons and ammunition ukrainian forces are gearing up for a fight especially with more than 120,000 russian troops camped across the border live in the capital city of kyiv with more. the u.s. is ramping up its military aid to ukraine and it may be just-in-time. the shipment arriving in kyiv sunday night is the second installment of a 200 million-dollar weapon from the state and earlier delivery with ammunition ukrainian shoulders in eastern ukraine. this sounds like more of the same, that could be a good thing in the east it is reported the revolution of multiple rocket launchers, new deployed thereby russia moscow has also been sending other stuff into the region including fuel and other weaponry. if it worked for neighboring, big new movements there and hardware record numbers instead the total strength of russian forces are well over 125,000, some are just about 30 miles from the border that is more than the bad news people flocking to area churches today saying prayers and lightin

>> bret: david spunt at the justice department. david, thank you. let's bring in wyoming republican congresswoman liz cheney vice chair of the committee. congresswoman, thanks for being here. >> thank you for having me, bret. good to be with you. >> bret: what did you make of the vice president and the president wants speeches today in statuary hall? >> well, i thought that there were a number of things that they said that i agreed with. i think when you look at what happened, the attack that happened on january 6th, i think it's different from what happened on 9/11. different from pearl harbor. obviously 3,000 americans died in each of those events. each of those attacks. but this was a mob that was summoned by and provoked by the president of the united states. in an effort to stop the counting of electoral votes, which is a constitutional process. and so i do think the attacks are very different. i think there is a grave threat, certainly, to our system, to our constitutional institutions. and i think we have to set partisanship aside and party p

>> bret: david spunt at the justice department. david, thanks. house minority leader kevin mccarthy refusing a request by the house panel investigating the capitol riot on january 6th to submit to an interview. and for him to turn over records pertaining to the incident. >> there is nothing that i can provide the january 6th committee for legislation of them moving forward. there is nothing in that realm. it is pure politics of what they are playing. >> bret: mccarthy's refusal forces the committee to consider a subpoena for the top republican in the house. let's talk about all of tonight's legal issues jonathan turley is a professor at george washington university law school. jonathan, thanks for being here. >> thank you. >> bret: let's start with the supreme court. there were a lot of reading through the tea leaves in the arguments by the way the questions were coming out that this might be a split decision how did you see it and the fact that the white house chief of staff plays heavily into the osha ruling part of this? >> well, this is how i

>> david spunt at the justice department. david, thanks.tment spokesperson is now denying that secretary miguel cardona solicited a letter from the national school board association comparing parents who disagree with education leaders to domestic terrorists. this comes despite an email obtained by a parent's rights group. we showed you suggesting that he did. the department of education spokesperson says, quote: while the secretary did not solicit a letter from the nsba, to understand the views and concerns of stakeholders the department routinely engages with students, teachers, parents, district leaders and education associations. the university of georgia bulldogs are college football national champions. georgia defeated alabama 33-18 last night in indianapolis to end the school's 41-year drought without a national sch p. congratulations to the dawgs. ♪ fair and balanced. the biden administration big guns on the coronavirus pandemic on the hot seat on capitol hill. we will get reaction from the panel. >> what we are all trying to do her

>> bret: david spunt at the justice department. david, thank you. in moments former trump white house press secretary stephanie grisham will meet with the house select committee investigating the january 6th riot. grisham says the committee has yet to ask her for any specific documentation. grisham resigned on january 6th of last year in the wake of that riot. stocks were off today after a tech-lead sell off. the dow lost big 393. the s&p 500 dipped 793. the nasdaq plummeted today 523. fears that the fed moves are going to effect everything. new york city's new district attorney says he will stop seeking prison sentences for a number of offenses ranging from certain robberies, weapons, possession charges and drug dealing offenses. that announcement comes while new york city's new mayor, eric adams, pledges to take a tough stance on crime. senior correspondent eric shawn shows us tonight from new york. >> you can do the crime and now not get the time. critics say that's the message from the new progressive manhattan district attorney alvin bragg. in

>> bret: david spunt at the justice department. david, thanks.his comments. we brought you those yesterday that no one cares about the human rights abuses against the uyghurs in china. venture capitalist chamath pat pill his comments lacked empathy. he did not apologize. the team. we are hearing alarming stories tonight about afghan refugees here in the u.s. national security correspondent jennifer griffin takes a look at the story tonight from the pentagon. >> abdullah worked as a driver at the u.s. embassy in kabul. he took this photo the day he was evacuated in august. he and his pregnant wife made it on to one of the last military flights and eventually to charlotte, north carolina where he has been living with about 50 afghan families in a motel. >> supermarket [inaudible] >> unlike most of the 124,000 afghans airlifted out of kabul, abdullah has received a social security number. he is one of the lucky ones. >> they have been sitting in hotel rooms for months on end waiting for that card to come in that says they are allowed to work. >> sea

david spunt has the latest now from the justice department. david?is building yesterday in an address to the american people and he said that this investigation is not over. meanwhile, over on capitol hill, the house committee that's investigating the january 6 attack on the u.s. capitol has issued so far 50 subpoenas, more are expected. there's also a small group of people that have been asked to voluntarily appear before the group and give information. one of those , the most high profile at this point, is stephanie grisham, the former white house press secretary under president donald trump. you see her last night leaving capitol hill. she has agreed to cooperate without a subpoena, and she said last night briefly before getting into an suv, that she fully cooperated when leaving the building but several big names that have been subpoenaed have ignored those subpoenas, including trump confidant steve bannon, neil he turned himself into the fbi in washington in november after the department of justice charged him with contempt of congress, if convi

. >> sandra: david spunt live in virginia, what do we know? court case just getting underway right now in federal court, and sandra, we get a lot of cases from the department of justice speaking specifically about people related to isis. this one is different. we want to show you a mug shot of this woman you mentioned, allison from kansas, allison fluke irkin, and federal authorities say she organized this all-female run military battalion on behalf of isis, picked up in syria, flown to the united states and is in federal custody. she uses multiple, multiple different names, left kansas to go to syria to lead the batallion. planned an attack on a college campus in the united states which never happened. according to the indictment, took part in a plan to train women in the use of firing ak-47 assault rifles, and suicide belts. and provided isis and isis members with services, lodging, translating, speeches made by isis leaders and training children on the use of ak-47 rifles and suicide belts in teaching extremist isis doctrine. a witness clai

david spunt has more on the story. david. reporter: this is big news. be end of june, july, depending on the supreme court's docket. we do know that stephen breyer the 83-year-old supreme court justice, the oldest member on the supreme court appointed in 1994 by then president bill clinton will step down at the end of the term. we were told by multiple sources close to justice breyer that an official announcement or a official letter tendering his resignation to the white house, i.e. president biden, chief of staff ron klain, sometime in the next 24 to 48 hours. some of the names, as you can already imagine, there is speculation, some of the names being speculated are judge brown jackson, she is on the d.c. circuit court appeals and judge leandra krueger on the california supreme court. the reason those two are being considered to rise to the top of the list is because during the campaign then candidate biden promised to appoint a black woman to the united states supreme court. it would be the first time a black woman would sit on the high court. so tho

leading our coverage, david spunt. we'll hear from a mom in virginia who says her kids were turned away from school for not wearing a mask. talk to her 25 minutes and get her perspective. >> dana: an op-ed by governor youngkin in the "washington post". virginia's parents have had enough with the government dictating how they should raise their children. on the campaign trail i listened to parents and as governor i will continue to listen. school boards throughout the commonwealth should do the same. interesting, bill, because virginia seems to be leading as a state in the nation. and other states are looking at this and it has an impact on the mid-term elections. a lot of republicans saying are you in a swing state or swing district is glenn youngkin the model you want your campaign. >> bill: you'll hear that leading up to mid-terms. elections have consequences. for youngkin to back down now would go against everything he campaigned on. >> dana: he has the backing of the parents in virginia. florida governor desantis b

fox news correspondent david spunt is at the justice department with the details on this story. afternoon this goes all the way up to attorney general merit garland. he is feeling the pressure to make a decision about the china initiative. it began in 2018 under then- president donald trump's administration and those close to the initiative say it has been successful. just yesterday, ashley, outside here at doj protesters stood outside doj begging for an end to the three-year-old program just this week, 192 yale professors signed a letter to ag garland arguing that the strategy is problematic on many levels because it includes racial profileing. >> hope that they will end the prosecuting of china's american scientists and allow them to go back and do their research rather than fear for their future. reporter: in the letter from those yale professors they wrote that the organization is one that avoids racial profiling and discouraging beneficial and important collaborations and the influx of talented personnel but experts in chinese government espionage point ashley to the recent

first we'll go live to david spunt at the supreme court with more on the big picture. , trace. an important day here at the united states supreme court. both cases deal with vaccine mandates. both cases are related to joe biden's administration policies. coming directly from the white house and affect more than 100 million employees across the united states so people want to pay attention to what happens today at the supreme court. the first is the biden mandate that calls on companies with 100 or more people to become vaccinated or submit to weekly testing or wear masks at all times. this mandate was scheduled to go into effect this week as the court hears this case. the other mandate calls for workers in a healthcare setting receiving medicare or medicaid money to get fully vaccinated. the white house is looking for a win today in court. >> recent polling by usa today and other outlets have suggested that 60% of businesses are moving forward on putting these requirements in place. you know why? makes sure they have a healthier workplace. >> a group of republican-led s

fox news correspondent david spunt is here with the latest and, david, he did tell us that he would submitof february. >> reporter: he said before the end of february, and we also know that it's going to be a black woman. and this was a campaign promise made in early 2020 by then-candidate joe biden. of course, the speculation ramped up almost immediately when we found out that justice breyer was going to be stepping down from the supreme court. i want to go over a few names. the first is a federal circuit court of appeals judge named ketanji brown jackson. she was a former law clerk for justice breyer on the supreme court, has a long list of stellar credentials, and something important is that she has already been vetted. president biden nominated her to fill the federal judiciary ship that was formerly held by judge merrick garland who's now the attorney general of the united states. here she is at her senate hearing last april. >> i'm both humbled and very grateful to be here once again. i'm also truly thankful to president biden for giving me the honor of this nomination to the circuit

david spunt with the news in washington >> good afternoon.meeting was in loudon county, virginia, outside washington, d.c. and the mask issue was not even on the official agenda. though it did not take long for that issue to arise. seven school districts in the commonwealth of virginia are suing over governor youngkin's executive order arguing a law passed by the virginia legislature just last year which mandates masks in schools is righteous, just and he cannot overturn it. we spoke to parents on both side of the issue last night. >> if you want to keep schools open this is literally the smallest inconvenience we could do to keep schools open. there is a pandemic, it is real. it is happening. i would like to get rid of masks but i want to keep the kids in school and this is how we do it. >> a group of students who refused to wear masks in school argue they were quarantined unnecessarily and parents are furious. >> they are discriminating and bringing us back to the 60s. it is not right. >> youngkin this week told parents and students to list

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greg palkot is life in kiev -- live in kiev, but first to david spunt live on the north lawn of the white house with the latest on what the administration is doing to confront vladimir putin. david in. >> reporter: no question that tensions are escalating, but the big question right now, what will russian president vladimir putin do, what exactly are his intentions. you just mentioned many that intro to greg and i about this british report, this british intelligence report that uncovered an alleged plot to put a pro-russian sympathizer atop government in ukraine, specifically in kiev, to replace president vladimir zelensky. we know for months on the border of ukraine and russia, russian forces have been there with military equipment, tanks and other type of tactical gear, clearly taking an aggressive posture. this weekend that a report by british intelligence claims that russians want to put a man by the name of vladimir -- on top. according to the u.k. intelligence report, it says, quote, we have information that indicates the russian government is looking to install a pro-russian leader

. >> sandra: ok, david spunt live outside the court for us. thank you, john. >> john: incredibly important case for a lot of businesses. brandon is the owner of ralph's market, a grocery store chain in louisiana. he is one of the business owners challenging the vaccine mandate in the supreme court. he's also a former republican candidate for the louisiana state house of representatives. brandon, november 10th when it became an issue and you wrote an op-ed piece in u.s.a. today "i am faced with an incomprehensible choice. force the workers fueled by business success to take a covid-19 vaccine, submit to weekly testing at my or their expense or show them the door." what would the impact of this mandate be on your business and other businesses that you are familiar with? >> thanks for having me, john. this would be a huge impact on my business and many businesses across america and in my opinion this mandate is not a health saviour or anything, it's an economic disaster. you are looking at millions of americans that are going to be given the door

david spunt live from the justice department with more details on this. >> good morning.law students to help those who cannot afford to pay rent because of the burdens of this pandemic. the justices last summer ruled that no more for the cdc moratorium which put a halt on evictions a year and a half into the pandemic. the attorney general appeared with white house officials on friday to tell those who can't pay rent don't worry. he called on law students to help. listen. >> once again asking you to be our partners in this effort. as law students and leaders of our nation's law schools and as lawyers, we are uniquely positioned to help fill the gaps in our legal system. >> we want to be your partners and your demonstrated commitment to build a legal system that is just, fair, and accessible to all. >> again this work is not only literally keeping a roof over someone's head. >> some landlords feel differently. last summer i spoke to a new york based landlord to try to get rid of her tenant. i'm scheduled to interview her to get her reaction to the new move to come with the

let's go to david spunt live at the justice department to set us up. >> as of this exact moment the committeee assault on the capitol one year ago today the committee has issued around 50 subpoenas. most honored those but expect many more. there is also a handful of people that have voluntarily agreed to provide information to the committee. the highest profile name at this point that has agreed to voluntarily give some of that information right there former donald trump press secretary stephanie grisham. she was on capitol hill last night and had direct access to the president and agreed to cooperate without a subpoena. grisham said walking out last night she fully cooperated when leaving the building last night. several big names have been subpoenaed and ignored them. including steve bannon who turned himself into the f.b.i. in wash in november after the department of justice charged him with contempt of congress. if convicted he could face a year behind bars. he is fighting the charge in court and it will go to trial next july. former white house chief of staff mark meadows is suing the co

david spunt thank you from the department of justice. >> dana: an illinois judge making an outrageousf sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl. the judge decided mr. clinton has served almost five months in county jail for what happened in this case. that is plenty of punishment and a just sentence. joining us now is nancy grace host of crime stories on fox nation. the victim saying i asked him to stop multiple times and he wouldn't. i finally got off the couch and pushed him off me and he jumped up and played video games as if nothing happened. there are a lot of people that look at a case like this and think how could somebody guilty of rape be given such a slap on the wrist? >> i agree with you. and after she stood up -- by the way she had a pillow over her face when she woke up. she had been drinking at a party. a lot has been made of that. nobody bothered to ask had the defendant been drinking. they leave and she leaves with her girlfriend and she tells her father. now, that's the last thing a teen girl is going to do is tell her father she has been having sex with another teen bo

david spunt is live at the justice department and getting some attention. >> it certainly is.d. key words supposed to be. with every rule there are exceptions in this case exemptions religious exemptions. we did digging around looking on different federal register sites for the federal government. over the past few weeks and months the federal government has quietly started to create internal databases, secured databases that track vaccine status but specifically religious exemptions. >> this is different and concerning because of the type of data being gathered. >> we looked through the records at the departments of justice, interior, treasury, housing and urban development and transportation. all are taking part in the collection. >> not surprising the government is keeping a record of religious exemptions. the government does have to track its workforce. the question is how detailed that listing will be. >> as omicron continues to surge in the united states, i'm told to expect more of these databases to pop up in other agencies across the government. >> dana: we'll pay atte