>> david spunt from the justice department tonight. thank you, david. there's a report tonight that the documents seized from former president trump's florida estate contained classified secrets about iran and china. that's according to "the washington post." it writes "people familiar with the matter say the information

first david spunt starts us off at the justice department. good morning, david. >> good morning to you. our sources are telling us that this investigation is at a sensitive and critical stage. it has been that way for several months right now as you mentioned it began in 2018. we're also told at fox news that the investigation has moved from the f.b.i. to the u.s. attorney in delaware and investigators are no longer actively collecting evidence in this case. this coming with a source with knowledge of the investigation. the "washington post" yesterday was out with this report that agents believe prosecutors have enough evidence to charge the younger biden with tax crimes. a plural s right there. also a false statement related to a gun charge. investigation moved to the u.s. attorney in delaware. d.o.j. policy is not to file politically sensitive charges in the two months or so before a federal election. since hunter biden is not on the ballot, the rule may not apply. the grand jury in this investigation finished over the summer. d.o.j. is decl

with that we want to bring in our justice correspondent, david spunt with the back story on that. hi, david. >> hi, martha. chad was just taking about inherent contempt looking back through the pages of history that hasn't happened much but has happened. i can tell you the department of justice will be ready to hear the criminal referral. we have spoken to people close to merrick garland over the past several months. they say that he watches each one of these hearings, these january 6th hearings whether or not he does it live or may record it and watch them later. you have to know the justice department as we have also reported extensively is doing a separate look at january 6. we get updates periodically. we got a 12-month update and 18-month update. we got a 21-month update from the u.s. attorney's office in d.c. a week ago today. i'm reading, it says more than 880 defendants have been arrested approximately 412 individuals have pleaded guilty to charges.when you add the numbers up, it's not even giving you a huge percentage of the people thought to be outside of the capitol on j

>> bret: david spunt outside the courthouse. david, thank you.ong earnings reports led to another big day on wall street today. the dow gaining 338, the s&p 5 hurricane was up 42. the nasdaq jumped 97. up next, we will get some insight about what the polls are telling us now could happen in next month's midterm elections from pollsters from both sides of the aisle. first, here is what some of our fox affiliates are covering tonight. fox 28 in columbus, ohio where two people are dead after a plane crashed this morning into an auto dealership in marietta. the beechcraft king air e-90 went down about 7:15 a.m. no other injuries reported. fox 29 in philadelphia as police officers are targeted by bikers at an old city gas station. authorities say the attackers hurled bricks and bottles at the officers. no injuries or arrests reported there. and this is a live look at fort myers, florida. one of the big stories there tonight from fox 4, a winning lottery ticket worth a share of a $494 million jackpot was purchased in the southwest, florida city hammere

david spunt back on that today. department of justice beginning another interesting week there, david. good morning. >> good morning. dana, this comes from a federal judge in the state of louisiana after the attorneys general in louisiana and missouri filed a lawsuit earlier this year. now dr. anthony fauci who has been with the national institute of health since 1968, he was there in the press room with former president trump in the early days of covid. was the face of covid-19 for this country in many aspects. the lawsuit alleges that dr. fauci and others in the administration colluded with social media companies to censor free speech related to the virus. the judge who ordered dr. fauci and former white house press secretary jen psaki and others to sit for a deposition is a judge appointed and took the bench in 2018 during the trump presidency. missouri attorney general and the louisiana attorney general filed that lawsuit in may and argued in the suit that the biden administration pressured and colluded with big

but first, we go to david spunt. he joins us live from the justice department. hi, gillian. the department of justice is using the freedom of access to clinic entrances act or the face act. it's a 1994 law that was signed in to law by then president bill clinton and its aimed at punishing people that are using or threaten to use force or interfere with any one seeking abortion services or pro life pregnancy counselling services. pro life groups are calling foul. while the department of justice has plenty of cases pending court against those that have attacked abortion clinics, we have not seen one instance where someone was charged for attacking a pro life pregnancy center. we're talking about federal charges. the fbi has seen an unusual upticks on pro life centers following the overturns of roe v. wade. this is a fact because fbi director christopher wray told us this summer. watch. >> there's a right way under our first amendment to express yourself. violence and destruction of property is not it. that's what the rule of law is all about. we have seen a number

david spunt is live at the justice department on a story we are all intrigued by.bout it. >> hi, sandra and gillian. a growing problem, according to the fbi and you are going to hear from the daughter of a victim. >> this is my dad by the time i started taking care of him, he was in debt, a lot of debt. >> angie's late father, donald griffith, was defrauded out of more than $700,000 by a ring of nigerian scammers who posed as a love interest trapped abroad. >> she started asking him for money and started in smaller increments and then eventually worked up to 20, $40,000 at a time. >> romance scams like the ones that angie's father fell victim to are among the most commonly perpetrated types of elder fraud. >> how much money did your father give to this scam? >> about 750,000. >> the fbi agent who investigated this case tells fox news that multiple families were scammed out of more than $20 million. now, 11 are behind bars while one is still on the loose abroad. >> i've gotten i think a total of $500 over the course of a couple of years. >> out of everything. >> yes

david spunt has more from the justice department. >> the supreme court overturned roe v. wade, fbi officials began seeing an increase in attacks specifically on pro life-related businesses. this includes pregnancy resource centers. broken glass and spray painted warnings covered these centers across the country. while the fbi has seen an increase in attacks, prosecutions are nonexist tent under a law called the face act passed in 1994, it punishes people that use or threaten to use force to injure, intimidate or interfere with anyone seeking either abortion services or pro life pregnancy counselling services. this year 26 people were indicted but none for attacks on pro life centers. over the summer, christopher wray told fox news the increase of pro life businesses is notable and concerns. >> there's a right way under our first amendment to express yourself. violence and destruction of property is not it. we have seen a number of attacks against faith-based organizations, pregnancy resource centers. >> the lack of prosecution has pro life organizations concerned with a m

fox news david spunt at the justice department with more. david, good to see you. you. unfortunately yes, you're right, liz the wrong direction, fbi puts out the numbers every year. as you mentioned numbers are not looking good. let me read some of them. from 2020 to 2021, murders increased from 22,000 to 22,009 hundred. 4.3%. murder rate significantly climbing between 2019 and 2020 where murders climbed 1.4%. fbi officials are quick to point out these are estimated numbers and even though they released them in this report today they don't give a complete picture of the situation because of the reporting system in place. it's a new reporting system. not to get too bogged down in technical details. the fbi is in transition after system that will collect more detailed data about violent crime. the problem we don't have data from nypd, lapd, phoenix pd, some of those other big cities. hopefully we will get that next year. the departments are not required to submit. they plan to next year. the authorities are hoping next year in 2023 we will have a much better picture

bret. >> bret: david spunt, we will follow.nk you for your federal appeals court to overturn a judge's appointment of an independent arbiter to review documents seized that former president trump florida stage. assigned the special master last month to inspect thousands of records taken in the august 8th search of mar-a-lago and to weed out from the investigation and any that be protected by claims of legal privilege. a third straight day of bad economic news for president biden. retail sales were again disappointing as inflation sets prices soaring, limiting what consumers can spend on nonnecessities. comes as the president strategy seems to be if you think it's bad now, wait until republicans are in charge. that is the message. jacqui heinrich has the story. >> it's been three consecutive days of tough economic readings, but don't expect any policy changes at the white house. >> the policies that we are doing to help mitigate and ease price pressures are having effect. look at goods inflation. it was flat if you take out ener

fox news david spunt at the justice department with more on this. david? reporter: good evening.eral judge in louisiana several months after the attorneys general in louisiana and missouri filed a lawsuit. dr. anthony fauci, who began at the institute of health in 196was there in the press room with president trump in the days of the covid pandemic talk tock public. they say that biden and administration colluded with companies related information about covid. fauci, former press secretary jen psaki and other insisted administration will sit for depositions. his name is judge terry dougherty. he was appointed by president trump. he took the bench in 28. the attorney generals from louisiana and miss sir filed the lawsuit in may. they argued in paper that the biden administration colluded with big tech not only stopping free speech on covid origins but also information about the hunter biden laptop story. the president's son has into the been charged charged with a cris under federal investigation and has been for years. we reported in recent weeks the u.s. attorney in delaware is

david spunt live at the courthouse in alexandria, virginia.e, good afternoon. deliberations began yesterday afternoon. still no movement from the jury as far as a verdict is concerned. this case is about lying to the fbi. special counsel john durham representing the government is looking past even danchenko in this case saying the elephant in the room is the fbi. danchenko charged with four counts of lying to the fbi. he's, according to durham, the man that was primary subsource for christopher-style that compiled the dossier aimed at taking down former president trump. the government led by durham says he never received such a call. cell phone logs show no calls came in. danchenko's attorneys say wait a minute. what about apps, what is what's app, signal, the encrypted apps? trace, wrapping this up, a government witness praised igor danchenko and said that he helped with 25 investigations through the fbi and defended him as an important asset, important fbi informant. still no verdict. we'll keep you posted when we get something. >> trace: i

>> david spunt at the justice department. thank you. the federal appeals court has agreed to appeal to appoint a special master in the mar-a-lago documents case. the justice department opposes having an independent arbiter review the information seized fay the fbi former 'president trump's estate. the issue willing reviewed sometime after november 17th today as we talked about earlier, president biden received first-hand look at the devastation left behind by hurricane ian. he and florida governor put aside differences to get relief to hurricane survivors and talk about that. yet the image of the two together brought talk of a potential 2024 matchup. it was unavoidable. nate foy reports on the hurricane recovery tonight from fort myers beach, florida. >> president joe biden assessed the damage from hurricane ian helicopter ride southwest florida. >> i'm sure it's much worse on the ground but can you see a whole hell of a lot of damage in the air. >> tonight over 298,000 floridians are without power. at least 109 lives lost in the united

let's get the latest with david spunt at the supreme court. e talking about here? reporter: neil, it is a big day today at the supreme court. no question affirmative action is an issue that has touched millions of students over the past few decades, arguments began this morning about 10:00. they started at you mentioned going over that north carolina case that took about two and a half hours right now the justices are hearing the case dealing with harvard. now, today the justices heard these two separate cases as you mentioned they have their own nuances but overall, it is a similar overarching theme. a group of asian american students are suing both universities, one private, one public, arguing criteria to admit an asian student is far more rigid than a black student or hispanic student. i want to play an exchange with the lawyer for the asian student 's group and the newest justice on the bench, katanji brown-jackson >> why does having race as a factor harm your members? >> the record in this case is that unc gives racial preferences to afri

we have the follow-up from david spunt. >> the one-page memo signed and released by attorney general merrick garland last october. while it doesn't include the word parents on this one-page document many parents across the country believe it spelled politics. we remember these scenes for much of 2021. angry parents frustrated at school board meetings across the country, fed up with covid restrictions and curriculum mandates like critical race theory and they expressed themselves. the national school boards association sent the president a letter in late september 2021 arguing some parents' actions at the meetings should be considered a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes. the group later apologized. biden administration officials say the memo foixed only on violence and threats of violence and say it was designed to facilitate communication between federal and local law enforcement. a year later republicans still aren't convinced. >> i'm very frustrated by the lack of transparency from the attorney general and i demanded details how this memo was drafted a year ago. we still d

always terrific reporting from david spunt. thank you so much.e show former federal prosecutor cully stimson. your reaction to that bombshell? can fbi officials do that, pay off to try to corroborate a flawed steele dossier? can they do that? >> they can in some circumstances. it is not the normal way you get information from somebody. typically you think they should just tell you the truth because lying to the fbi is federal crime but you can provide an incentive for people and what it shows you, liz, is that they doubted from the very beginning that christopher steele's so-called dossier was truthful and yet to david's point they not only went back, went to the fisa court and got a fisa warrant against carter page, but they went three more times. elizabeth: right. >> and had them renewed. so they knew along the way that it was bunk. elizabeth: we have to move on to this, reports that the fbi have put two heavy hitters on to facebook which ended up in facebook suppressing the hunter biden laptop story before the 2020 election. reportedly laura d

david spunt set up the question for you. room, the fbi is the elephant in the room. is that the theme of this trial? >> yeah, it's almost like the trial is secondary in the chase of the trial of danchenko. what is really important and this is in terms of the public interest as much as anything else was the performance of the fbi and what the trial has laid bear is the fact that the fbi relied on preposterous information under oath time after time after time going back to the fisa court. their own regulations as well as federal law require that information is supposed to be verified before you go to the fisa course. they don't bother to interview danchenko until they went to the fisa court. when danchenko told them in january 2017 that the information that they hadn't been able to corroborate to that point was bogus, instead of going back to the court and correcting what they said, they went back two more times and relied on the same information. >> trace: yeah, it's amazing to me, andy, because you make a very good point. bu

david spunt is live in districts court at alexandria, virginia, with more.rs went home 45 minutes ago after deliberating for 3 1/2 hours. did not come to a verdict today, not even a question for the judge. the judge gave them, or they began deliberating about 2:00 this afternoon. left shortly before 6:00. they will come back tomorrow morning at 9:30. now the judge in the case, anthony trenga dismissed one of the five charges over a technicality last friday. right now igor danchenko faces four counts of lying to the fbi. danchenko is the man the government says was that primary subsource for christopher steele who created that dossier aimed at destroying then candidate donald trump. durham alleged danchenko lied to an fbi agent four times when he claimed he received call from unidentified male from a russian sergey milina who had connection to republican politics. he never received a call. cell phone logs show no phone call came from danchenko phones. you can't prove the call didn't come from app, signal, another encrypted device. special agent, a government

david spunt reporting live at the justice department for us. doj is not disputing this report?artment of justice has not indicted one person this year in 2022 for waging an attack on some of these pro life businesses citing the face act. the face act is a law that was passed in 1994 by president bill clinton signed it into law, punishes people to injure, in dim tate or interfere with anyone seeking abortion services or pro life pregnancy counseling services. pro life groups are calling foul because while doj has plenty of cases in court against those who have attacked abortion clinics, we cannot find one instance where doj in the last few months really even this year has charged someone for attacking a pro life pregnancy center, and we know, sandra, the fbi is seeing an unusual uptick in attacks on the pro life centers, following the overturning of roe v. wade, christopher ray told me so this summer. >> there is a right way under the first amendment to express yourself and violence and destruction of property is not it. and that's what the rule of law is all about, and we have

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fox news team coverage, miranda divine will join us in a moment, but david spunt is live at the justicet on this. david, what are you hearing about the people involved in the hunter biden investigation? >> sandra, i'm hearing there is a palpable sense of frustration from people who have been on this case for four years. the investigation began in 2018. the investigation has officially shifted from across the street from the fbi to up the road in wilmington, delaware a few hours, where u.s. attorney david weiss is. his team has the ability to make the decision if he wants to go down that path. after all, agents, fbi agents are not the ones that make the charging decisions, but the washington post is reporting that agents believe prosecutors have enough to charge the younger biden with tax crimes and i say crimes with plural and a false statement related to a gun charge. the justice department policy typically stays away from sensitive charges in the two months or so before a federal election. but hunter biden is not on the ballot, neither is his father. so, that rule may not apply, it's

david spunt is live from the department to the of justice. david. >> reporter: hi, rich.l, this trial is in many ways the culmination of more than three years of work for special counsel john durham, appointed by then-attorney general with bill barr in 019 to look at origins of the russia investigation. when it was announced late yesterday afternoon in court in northern virginia that the judge was going to allow out one of five charges, john durham and his team clearly were not happy. as you mentioned, the defendant in this case, igor danchenko. he still, though, does face four counts of lying to the fbi after the judge removed that first count over a technicality. danchenko is the man the government says was the primary subsource for ex-british spy christopher steele who filed that infamous dossier. durham alleged that danchenko lied to an fbi agent when he said he hadn't, quote, talked to a democratic political operative named charles dolan about the zeal dossier. dolan gave danchenko information that ended up in the dossier, but the two communicated via e-mail. technic

correspondent david spunt has the latest information from the justice department. good evening, david. >> bret, good evening to you. a source with knowledge of the investigation tells fox news it has reached a significant and critical phase also federal investigators are no longer collecting evidence. it's moved past that point and is now in the hands of the united states attorney in delaware. "the washington post" reported that agents believe prosecutors have enough evidence to charge biden, hunter biden with tax crimes, plural s there. >> and a false statement related to a gun charge. the investigation moved over the summer from the fbi to the u.s. attorney in delaware. justice department policy is not to file politically sensitive charges in the two months or so before a federal election since biden is not on the ballot. this rule may not apply. we previously reported, bret, hunter biden was being investigated for possible federal tax and gun paperwork violations as well as foreign lobbying crimes. the post is reporting that federal agents believe that tax crimes

david spunt has more for us. david? >> hi, neil.danchenko, the russian national accused of being the subsource for christopher steele found not guilty. igor danchenko not guilty in a court. a jury of his peers, 12 jurors decided they would not put him behind bars or find him guilty on four counts of lying to the fbi. danchenko was in the courtroom at the time. we don't know exactly if he breathed a sigh of relief. we had to get the news out as soon as possible. this is part of john durham's investigation, the special counsel appointed by attorney general bill barr to look at the origins of the narrative that pinned donald trump to russia back in 2016 or 2017. we covered efforts by the fbi and others to investigate trump. that was kind of the purpose of the entire mueller report. so john durham was tasked with looking at the origins of the russia narrative to see where it came from. he charged a hillary clinton campaign attorney named michael sussmann last year. he was on trial also for lying to the fbi. he was acquitted in may. this

david spunt has more on that. >> on paper this is not lying to the fbi but as things unfolded last weeke courtroom you can see john durham who's been investigating this three and a half years, the potential origins of a trump russia narrative moving bass igor jen janco and taking the fbi in 2016 shortly after the election in 2016. igor is in the united states, he'll face for charges of lying to the fbi after federal judge anthony removed the first count over a technicality. danchenko is the man government says was the prior sub source for a british spy christopher steele who compiled the infamous dossier into destroying donald trump. he lied to an fbi agent when he said he did not quote talks to democratic political operative charles dolan about the seal dossier. it proved he gave information the end up in the dossier but technically they communicated via e-mail, they didn't talk and why the judge throughout that charge. dolan is a witness and has connections to russia according to two employees on the stand specifically to dimitri, the two employees claim robert mueller investigation t

david spunt is live outside the supreme court. many high profile cases the court will hear this term. >> that's exactly right, and the first of several just this week, justice brown jackson, sandra and john, wasted no time getting into it, asking several pointed questions within minutes of the supreme court term officially kicking off behind me as you mentioned, the first monday in october, justice jackson, who officially joined the court a few months ago, joined opening arguments for the first time today, asked those questions just moments into when this happened. this comes as a tumultuous time surrounds the supreme court, figuratively and literally, a few months ago, high fences surrounded this court, people were protesting, this was after the court overturned roe v. wade, it sparked intense protests, even the attempted murder of justice brett kavanaugh. justice jackson was not involved in that decision overturning roe but those effects will last for years when she will remain on the bench. she got to know her colleagues during

david spunt joins us live with details, david. >> good morning, paul pelosi recovering from a terribleearly friday morning in san francisco. as you mentioned, there are public reports that the suspect david depape did not live far from nancy pelosi and had a list of other potential targets. there are other reports according to investigators that the suspect with zip ties plan to tie up mr. pelosi until his wife, the house speaker got home. she was 3,000 miles away in washington, d.c. but this morning and over the weekend and since this happened, both sides of the political aisle are coming together to denounce this attack. listen. >> this is disgusting. this violence is horrible. you know, this has happened and we had a doorknocker photographer that was attacked. this has to stop here and here and speak a white house press press secretary karine jean-pierre connect at the crime to january 6th. >> he was yelling out the things that we heard during january 6, which is where is nancy? and you know, again, we need to end this type of rhetoric. it needs to stop. >>> before the suspect will

david spunt is outside the courtroom. what do we know today, david?>> court kicked off a few moments ago and see what happens today. what today has to bring. yesterday it was quite something in the courtroom when the special counsel himself was questioning and went after his own witness, a government witness who happens to be an analyst, counter intelligence analyst with the f.b.i. as you mentioned, the defendant in this case is a russian nationalist living in northern virginia named danchenko. he is on trial with five counts of lying to the f.b.i. primarily about his work with the steele dossier. it was full of salacious allegations about former president donald trump leading up to the 2016 election when weighs a candidate. now f.b.i. intelligence spent some of the first day and all of yesterday on the stand. he is a government witness but john durham who called him turned on him several times in an effort to go beyond this case, dana, and take the f.b.i. to task on a larger scale. he was involved looking into the potential connections between the tr

david spunt has a details. >> pointed comments from justice alito. no question they came from a place of frustration. we're six months out from the original draft leak of the overturning of roe v. wade in the dobbs decision that came out from "politico". no one has punished or reprimanded publicly that we know about. justice alito not holding back last night in a conversation with the heritage foundation in washington saying that the justices and quite frankly much of the country are still shaken to the core by this leak. listen to him. >> i think also made those of us who were thought to be in the majority in support of overruling roe and casey targets for assassination that gave people a reason to think they could prevent that from happening by killing one of us. >> the california man who came to washington and took a taxi to kavanaugh's home and contemplated killing him. he called the authorities on himself, dana, saying he planned to break in and kill the justice. he found kavanaugh's address online. privately court employees and plenty on capito

david spunt outside of the courthouse, david. >> brian was on the stand for a day and a half and also we just heard from carl stolen a democratic public relations operative and according to john durham and durham is doing a lot of questioning specifically in this case to show how invested he is, charles dolan admitted he saw some information on television news, gave that information for gossip as durham may want to call it to igor danchenko. igor danchenko then put it in the steele dossier saying it was from a republican or a trump operative. igor danchenko is charged with five counts of lying to the fbi and three and a half year or little bit more than three and a half year investigation into the origins of the russian probe. this is john durham second trial. he lost a trial against former campaign attorney michael sussman back in may. to wrap this up what john durham is trying to do with the special counsel is showing despite the fact that the fbi had no cooperation from multiple sources, the fbi kept going forward with that fisa warrant on carter page to survey all carter page. in

david spunt is in new jersey tonight. >> bret, good evening to you.witnesses in this case, and ha

. >> dana: andy mccarthy has legal analysis and david spunt is live outside federal court in virginia. hi, david. >> this is an interesting case because on paper it is about lying to the f.b.i. but in the actual courtroom special counsel john durham is going far beyond this case and trying to expose or uncover some riffs and problems within the f.b.i. leading up to the 2016 election and shortly there after, after donald trump became president in the early days. the man on trial is a russian national named danchenko charged with five counts of lying to the f.b.i. primarily about his work with ex british spy christopher steele on the steele dossier full of allegations about donald trump leading up to the election. long time democrat strategist charles dough lon was on the stand yesterday. he emailed danchenko information about problems within the trump campaign. danchenko took that information and put it in the steele dossier. dolan admitted in court yesterday he lied to danchenko when he said he got the information from a republican source. he said it was actually from television news.

david spunt is live outside the cross where all of this will take place in virginia. nko is charged with five counts of lying to the fbi. the judge wanted a jury seated as quick as possible. he got his wish. john durham in the courthouse behind me today. he says that danchenko, a russian national living in virginias the primary source for british spy christopher steele that compiled the steele dossier full of accusations about former president trump. the indictment says he lied to the fbi about working for steele as his primary source of information. the indictment mentioned danchenko's involvement with chuck dolan, a p.r. executive who has ties to hillary and bill clinton that date back to the 90s. danchenko is the third person to be charged looking at the origins of the russia investigation to trump. the other two, kevin klinesmith pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi. bottom line, durham is building a pattern charging lower level officials of lying to the fbi. now, durham's grand jury in this overall investigation has expired. some believe this may be his final stand

moments devin nunes that was all over this from the very beginning, but first justice correspondent david spuntovering this live in alexandria, virginia. hi, david. >> hi, martha. this was big news when this broke in the fbi agent brian autin that revealed up to $1 million offer to christopher steele. he relayed that information to john durham, the special counsel who has taken the lead in questioning at least for the first witness. that shows you how invested john durham is in this case. this is only his second trial in a 3 1/2 year investigation. he was appointed by bill barr in 2019 to look at the origins of the russia investigation. igor danchenko is in the hot seat charged with lying to the fbi. durham's team revealed in an e-mail from danchenko to democratic operative charles dolan. danchenko said he's working on a project against trump. our goals coincide. danchenko was the primary source for the dossier and autin identified that the fbi offered a million dollars to steele if he could corroborate. there's another name, martha, sergei millian, a russian with ties to trump. danchenko tried

life from the doj, david spunt, thank you. and gillian, thank you for joining us. great to have you. >> gillian: thanks so much, sandra, it went by quick. >> sandra: it flew >> martha: thanks very much. good afternoon. this is "the story." escalation as vladimir putin un unhere -- unleashes revenge attacks all over the ukraine. a fireball engulfed the bridge. scores were injured as the russians attack all of these cities that are marked here including kyiv and kharkiv. this young woman was talking on her phone recording this as the blast went off around here near the national university. a man on a pedestrian bridge in kyiv when the explosion goes off. where to go from there? he run towards the surveillance camera. ukraine's president reacting to this. he beliefs that they're using suicide drones, the russians, and that they're coming from iran. he vows he will not back down. >> we are dealing with terrorists. dozens of missiles. they want to destroy our energy system. now there may be temporary e interruptions with electricity. >> so all of this days a after presi

david spunt starts us off live outside the supreme court. did justice brown jackson recuse herself. >> that's right, because of her position on the harvard board of overseers, and her connections to harvard university. she thought it was best she sits out. there are two separate cases, overall affirmative action affects millions of students across the country and the justices began hearing two arguments three hours ago. started with the case out of the university of north carolina. one deals also with harvard university going on now, which is a private school, unc is a public school. a group of asian-american students arguing criteria to admit asian students is more rigid than admitting a black or hispanic student. here is an exchange, listen. >> why does having race as a factor harm your members in a redressable way? >> the record in this case is unc gives racial preferences to african americans, hispanic americans and to american indians, it does not give racial preferences to white applicants and to asian applicants. moreover. >> are you

da david spunt. >> busy and interesting. the first monday in october.raditionally when the court kicks off. as you mentioned not only a new term but a new justice. the first black woman to sit on the high court. that's notable in history making there. also the first time, bill, the building has been open to the public since february 2020 shortly before the pandemic hit the united states en masse. observers can go in after a 21/2 year halt. justice jackson got to know her colleagues to the ceremony to welcome her. president biden and the vice president attended. she is the fourth woman justice on the bench. four of them posed for a picture to celebrate the women representing on the court. jackson will get to work immediately with several high-profile appeals that may come before her and her colleagues. these cases include issues of gun rights, vaccine mandates in schools and businesses and content restrictions pertaining to social media. the court is in session two days this week. two arguments of note. property rights case originating in idaho looking a

david spunt explains outside the courthouse. >> on paper of this trial is about lying to the fbi. in the courtroom it is a much broader theme according to special counsel john durham who is trying to uncover some problems within the fbi back in 2016 and 2017 inside the agency itself. the first witness on the stand today a political operative on the democratic side named charles dolan. he was in contact with igor dan janco during the summer of 2016. he told him he had inside information about problems within the trump campaign from a g.o.p. source. he gave the information which wound up in the widely reported steele dossier a collection of allegations aimed to take down candidate trump. under questioning today he admitted he lied that the info about the campaign was not from an inside source but from television news. he denies knowing that but it did wind up in that dossier of the fbi use the dossier to justify a wiretapping campaign aide, we talked about the steele dossier for half a decade now but are finally finding out some of the sources of information that made it inside, and

. >> martha: david spunt, we will bring in bret baier, executive fox news chief political anchor in new york today. >> hey, martha. >> martha: this is an eye-catching story. we are digging into it but what is your initial reaction? >> the initial reaction, as david reported we have not heard from the attorneys department we knew the grand jury came to an end. the timing seems like it works if they are going to make a decision whether to go forward with charges or not. not in this article, to david's point, the foreign agent registry, the affairs of all the things he was doing with foreign countries peer that is not in here. what is in here are lying on a gun registration form and also tax charges. so, it is a big moment if they are going to go forward with it. it obviously is close to election and largely to david's point, the justice department, the u.s. attorneys choose not to do that close to an election, but it seems like there is movement "the washington post" and others picking up on this. >> martha: it is interesting the reaction from biden camp, from his attorneys, is basically

david spunt is live in alexandria, virginia with the latest. jury selection could start today?e know closing arguments will begin any moment about an hour for each side. then those deliberations will begin, jurors have to decide if danchenko, the russian national, is guilty of four counts of lying to the f.b.i. only four counts. late friday the judge removed the first count over a technicality. danchenko is the man the government says was the primary sub source for ex british spy christopher steele aimed to destroy then candidate donald trump. durham said he lied to an f.b.i. when he said he hadn't talked to a democratic political operative named charles -- the two communicated email and didn't talk. it was enough for the judge to get rid of the first charge. a special f.b.i. agent told jurors danchenko was a valuable informant adding american national security is more at risk without him. he claimed danchenko helped the bureau with some 25 investigations. not clear how it will turn out. john durham began his investigation more than three years ago. ultimately as we saw unfold

fox news david spunt live from federal court in alex, virginia. david, great to see you again.to see you. day three of this trial we continue to learn new revelations from both sides of this overarching argument we did not know before. the first person on the stand today, a man names charles dolan a democratic operative, public relations operative who has decades of experience in the democratic party, he was on the stand. he served as a source for igor danchenko who was on trial right now for lying to the fbi, charged with five counts of lying to the fbi. dolan admitted on the stand gossip about donald trump that he emailed danchenko was nothing more than talking points he saw on television news. that gossip actually made it into that steele dossier we've been talking about more than five years to get the fisa warrant against trump aide carter page. that he came from a trump official, not charles dolan. igor danchenko charged with lying about the work with ex-british spy, christopher steele. that steele dossier full of allegations about donald trump leading up to the 2016 elect

united states and katie pavlich will join us with announcement of this but first correspondent david spuntartment of justice. hi, david. speak audibly but this investigation began four years ago in 2018 with the fbi over the summer and it transferred across the street at the doj and fbi headquarters two and a half hou, delaware, with david weiss. he is a trump old older that president biden kept on. that is where it is right now. david weiss has a big decision i make. "the washington post" out with the story yesterday that indicates agents, not prosecutors but agents believe prosecutors have enough evidence to charge the younger biden with tax crimes. that is plural and a full statement related to a gun charge. but agents don't charge, as i said, prosecutors do. fox news with a firearm report where hunter biden answered no to a question asking if he was an unlawful news or are addicted to drugs. the post says the crimes involved tax careers and lying on that gun registration form. since there are countless tax crimes on the ball no macbooks, it is hard to say with the punishment would be b

david spunt. thank you for that. >> dana: before we go, i have to check this out.don't. >> dana: royal caribbean is checking this out. the world's largest cruise ship out of miami in 2024. the 20 deck ship is 1200 feet long making the titanic look like a toy boat. it is a floating amusement park coming to new york harbor. might do that one. isolate maybe. harris faulkner is up next. here she is. >> harris: fox news alert. who has the power? fox power rankings out today and it is obvious that both political parties are in play. however, democrats seem to be playing mostly a game of defense now. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus". we're exactly two weeks out from mid-term elections today. we took up a whole floor to put that 14 down for you. one of the closest races in the nation right now, a republican catching up to a democratic governor of new

fox news david spunt live at the u.s. district court in alexandria, virginia. with more.rter: good to see you too, liz. court is going late every day until 6:00, late for federal court time. the entire day today focused on brian auten, the fbi intelligence analyst that john durham, the special counsel personally questioned today. that shows you the stakes of this trial to the special counsel. how important this is, the fact that he is actively participating. ultimately though, even though the fbi offered a million dollars to christopher steele as brian auten revealed in court this week ultimately he did not get that money. igor danchenko though, he is the one on trial behind me. he is charged with five counts of lying to the fbi about some of his overseas contacts and some of his communications especially with a public relations expert official named charles dolan who has contacts with bill and hillary clinton going back to the 1990s. now special counsel durham's team revealed an email from igor danchenko to charles dolan. in that email, liz, danchenko wrote, i'm working

david spunt with more. >> special council durham is questioning this f.b.i.himself out there. his reputation out there in the courtroom and handling this questioning shows you just the high stakes of this and how important this trial is to him. it is his second trial in an investigation that began more than three years ago. he was appointed by then attorney general bill barr to lure at the origins of trump/russia probe. danchenko is charged with five counts of lying to the f.b.i. durham insists that danchenko was the primary source for british spy christopher steele who compiled that widely talked about steele dossier that was debunked full of salacious accusations about former president trump. danchenko lied to the f.b.i. about his connections to that man there, the former british spy christopher steele. an f.b.i. agent said the f.b.i. offered $1 million to corroborate. the agent testified the f.b.i. still used the unproven dossier to get a court-approved surveillance warrant for carter page, the former 2016 trump campaign advisor. the government argues danc

. >> dana: david spunt on the latest. >> bill: new york city's largest fentanyl bust to date. task force agents stopped a vehicle in manhattan on friday carrying about 15,000 rainbow colored pills inside a lego box hidden under toy blocks. a woman from new jersey arrested. pills made to look like candy and destined for distribution throughout the city. no more on that. >> dana: the poisoning of america hits too close to home for this actress. they opened up in a tiktok video about the pain of losing her beloved brother devon. he died from fentanyl poisoning. >> the number one cause of death of people between 18 and 45 is fentanyl poisoning. the amount of people that have no idea what that is blows my mind. i did not know what it was a year and a half ago when my 23-year-old brother passed away from fentanyl poisoning. i have decided to make this video so that i can provide you some education and hopefully stop people from making this choice because it is ruining families. >> dana: she joins us now. it is good to have you here. i am sorry for your loss. i know you were very clo

outside the federal courthouse in virginia our david spunt. >> hi, harris. danchenko is the man on trial a russian national living in northern virginia. john durham is heavely involved in this case. as you mentioned, yesterday was day two. today day three. we had the second witness dolan finish on stand a few moments ago. a democratic operative providing political gossip to danchenko. that political gossip made it into the steele dossier used to investigate former president donald trump. we're hearing a lot about the steele dossier. danchenko is charged with five counts of lying to the f.b.i. primarily about his work with the ex spy christopher steele. dough lon admitted on the stand was nothing more than gossip he got from television news. it made it into the dossier. danchenko told the f.b.i. according to the government he got it from a trump official, not democratic operative. the first witness was f.b.i. intelligence analyst, a government witness. john durham turned on him several times in an effort to go beyond this specific trial and take the f.b.i. to

david spunt live at the justice department with the latest.re out but it's not a complete picture. >> bret, that's right. it's not, and it's a little bit of a head scratcher. nypd and lapd numbers are not included in the formula. still, fbi is confident they have a number, a statistic they can present to the public to show where we are when it comes to the crime in the united states. the news, the preview here, bret, is things are not looking good, numbers continue to show we do have a crime problem in the united states. these numbers look at violent crime and it is ticking up. murders increased from 22,000 to 22,900. 4.3% increase, that's in addition to the murder rate significantly climbing between 2019 and 2020, that's when murders jumped 29.4%. robbery, though, however, decreased 8.9% from 2020 to 2021, perhaps a silver lining there. fbi officials are quick to point out these are estimated numbers, even though they released this report, they don't give that complete picture as you mentioned because of the reporting place, it's a new report

david spunt is live at the justice department on this double standard. >> the department of justice isess to clinic entrances or face act. 1994 law passed and signed into law by president bill clinton punishing people who use or threaten the use of force to quote injure, intimidate or interfere with anyone seeking abortion services or pro-life pregnancy counseling services. pro-life groups are calling foul. while the department of justice has plenty of cases against those attacking abortion clinics we can't find one instance in 2022 where d.o.j. in the last few months has charged someone for attacking the pro-life pregnancy center. we know the f.b.i. is seeing an unusual uptick in attacks on pro-life centers following the overturning of roe in june. we know that specifically because christopher wray told me so this summer. watch. >> there is a right way under our first amendment to express yourself and violence and destruction of property is not it. and that's what the rule of law is all about. and we have seen a number of attacks against -- >> 26 people have been indicted under the fa

first to david spunt to get us up to speed what is happening today in that fascinating courtroom in alexandriarginia. hi, david. >> hi, martha. we have breaking news in the last 45 seconds. one of the counts against igor danchenko was just thrown out. not only did john durham completely finish his case, the defense, igor danchenko's attorneys say they won't put on a case. this case will go to the jury money. jury instructions will be read monday. the first count deals with igor danchenko's communications with charles dolan. dolan has about 30 years going back in democratic politics. danchenko and dolan talked to each other about phrases inside the trump campaign. igor danchenko took some of that information and put it in the steele dossier. dolan did not get that information from a republican source as he told danchenko. he lied to danchenko. the judge threw out that charge. there was some debate whether or not danchenko spoke to dolan on a telephone by voice or spoke to him -- i shouldn't say spoke to him or typed an e-mail to him. the judge felt that charge needed to be thrown out. the other