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by the way he leaves the f.b.i. because he is accused of leaking stuff to the press and now you have a company saying that's such an impressive resume you have to come work for us. >> bill: did the dnc know they had people working on the inside of twitter and the f.b.i.? go ahead, dana. >> dana: i feel like he covered it but i do wonder, i would like to hear from james baker. i worked with a lot of lawyers and sometimes they are overly cautious to try to protect people who work for the company. maybe they didn't deserve protecting. were there people within the emails that worked at twitter who like following orders from somebody else and now their information is out there and elon musk their emails should not have been included in the releases. so i don't know all that james baker was doing. i'm not defending him. i would like to hear from him. i don't know if we will. now he has been fired i assume he will now get a lawyer because he is going -- all of this is going to continue. >> bill: a good point. >> you would h

in shellenberger say the f.b.i.' may have been helped by the fact it was paying twitter millions of dollars for its staff time. i'm happy to report we've collected 3,415,323 since october reports. jim baker was twitter's former deputy general counsel avant the top f.b.i. lawyer for his alleged role in suppressing information. cornyn is outraged over this. >> this is not the role of the intelligence community, including the f.b.i. this ongoing welationship with social media companies attempting to censor some information and allow others to go through does indicate a bias and it is wrong. >> the f.b.i. tells fox, quote, we did not provide any specific instruction or details regarding the hunter biden laptop story. we are waiting a formal statement in writing from the f.b.i. >> harris: kellyanne conway, former counselor to president trump and now the president of ka consulting is in "focus." bottom line this for me. how serious is this? >> this is incredibly serious. i think it's the most damping and destructive to our

the f.b.i. is firing back over the latest batch of twitter files. >> there will be a lot of questions for the f.b.i. we need to make sure is that the government is not going through things helping twitter, facebook or anybody else hold fast to what they should or not on their platforms. >> new questions for the bureau after it calls the newly revealed emails the work of conspiracy theorists. brian kilmeade is up next. ♪ today, everything costs more: gas, groceries, cars. we all need cash in the bank to stay ahead. well here's great news for veterans who own a home. home values have climbed to near all-time highs, too. that means the cash you need is right there in your home. newday can unlock it with the newday 100 va cash out loan. it lets you borrow up to 100% of your home's value. not just part of it like some other loans. pay down high-rate credit card debt, consolidate your second mortgage and car loans, and have the security of cash in the bank. the va has granted newday automatic authority

but the f.b.i. n the crosshairs now and that is just -- what didn't get done with all the time they spent on that? >> i think we have many more questions than answers with regards to this seventh twitter dump. i'm hopeful that a republican house and a democratic senate can subpoena all of these records, not the cherry picked release by elon musk who is a political actor. we need to see everything. i want to see the f.b.i. come before these oversight committees both in the house and senate to talk about the process that went on. again, we also have to remember, this was donald trump's department of justice. this was his attorney general and his f.b.i. director chris wray that he appointed. so if they were approving a lot of these activities, i would like to hear from them as well. this is not obama's team. this was donald trump's team briefing the social media leaders both at twitter, facebook, what have you. we have many more questions than answers. i want full transparency. let's see all the records

so the f.b.i. had access to that. they had access to messages between me and rudy giuliani in october which would have alerted them to the fact the "new york post" was about to public. and they lied to twitter and told them that this was going to be a russian hacking operation. and that was why twitter on the morning that we published immediately censored us using their hacked materials policy. >> bill: miranda, one last question here. republicans will take over the house in the new year. we've seen investigations in congress. sometimes they go nowhere. where do you expect this story to go in the new year? >> look, i think that this time the republicans have an enormous trove of information. the twitter files has given them a lot and so have the f.b.i. whistleblowers and tony bobulinski and the laptop. there is a wealth of information from the treasury department showing the money coming from china, russia, ukraine into biden family coffers. they have said that they are investigating joe biden because this is about his

. >> the f.b.i. said to have given twitter a heads-up that so-called state actors would try to smear the president's son with hacked materials. "new york post" columnist miranda devine writing about it and talking about it last night. >> the f.b.i. had come to twitter and told them in their weekly meetings before the 2020 election to look out for a hacked material. when twitter saw our story in october about hunter biden, they censored it immediately using -- what did they use? their new hacked materials policy that they had been coerced or encouraged, lobbied to modify by the f.b.i. during those weekly meetings. >> dana: fox team coverage plus reaction from "new york post" reporter john levine here on set. let's begin with alexandria hoff from washington. hi, alex. >> we're expecting another round of these twitter files to be released sometime soon. over the weekend musk said he gave sub stack writer access to the complete trove. he will report on the contents alongside him. the reporter detailed his

you play videos, the f.b.i. knew "the new york post" had the story, giuliani had the information on the hard drive. they go in, meet with social media once a week to talk to them. >> that's a lot. >> guess what's coming? you're going to get hacking information, you're going to get a story. just know it's hacking and it will probably involve hunter biden and probably drop in october right before the election. that's exactly what happened. the social media company said this is what the fib was telling us about. this must be the story. here's my question. why is the f.b.i. involved in politics? they need to be separate enters so we can trust this organization. there are a lot of wonderful people that work there. the information was held from the american people to benefit one political party. and imagine if this had happened to donald trump. imagine if this had happened to any republican? the story would be throughout and all the networks would be reporting it. >> instead, ironically, coming after the jim comb any e

the files show the f.b.i. acting as a doorman to a vast program of social media surveillance and censorship encompassing agencies across the federal government from the state department, pentagon and cia and writes twitter had so much contact with so many agencies executives lost track. is today the d.o.d. and tomorrow the f.b.i.? the weekly call or monthly meeting? it was dizzying. the f.b.i. doesn't deny the contact happened but trying to explain why it happened with this. the correspondence between the f.b.i. and twitter show nothing more than examples of our traditional longstanding and ongoing federal government and private sector engagements which include numerous companies over multiple sectors and industries. as evidenced in the correspondence the f.b.i. provides critical information to the private sector in an effort to allow them to protect themselves and their customers. but there are critics who say there is a line and the f.b.i. crossed it. >> look, i was mayor of miami-dade and in charge of one of

on allegations that the f.b.i. in back channel communications with twitter suppressed or spiked the hunter biden laptop story, the response from the f.b.i. officials is quote, we did not request anything of the sort. f.b.i. officials would not answer if they had any communications with the biden campaign in the fall of 2020, john. >> john: the language is very careful. we didn't say anything about hunter biden just watch out for a hack and leak operation. when it popped up in the "new york post," that must be what they are talking about. great report. mike. >> julie: republican florida governor ron desantis stepping up his fight against teachers union planning a new law that would prevent union dues from being automatically deducted from your paycheck. if you are a teacher, you have no choice according to that. according to desantis, he says this, if they don't have a majority of the teachers who are actually signing up to pay those dues, it should be de-certified. daniel buck is the author of the new book what is w

>> reporter: the f.b.i. 33 boxes of records august 8th at mar-a-lago, including records that were supposed to be in the hands of the national archives. last month, the justice department appointed special counsel jack smith to oversee the growing probe into those documents. trump has downplayed the importance of the seizures, but critics say mishandling of these records could have allowed highly sensitive material to fall into the wrong hands. >> the disregard and disdain for legal norms and rules simply cannot be accepted from anyone. no one is above the law. >> reporter: last week, an appeals court overruled trump's request for an independent special master to review some of the papers seized from mar-a-lago, which had slowed the investigation. though trump could still appeal that decision, the investigation into him grows, norah, it accelerates. >> o'donnell: quite a development, thank you so much. we turn now to some breaking news-- cbs news has learned of new online chatter from domestic extremist group

so you had the f.b.i. reaping the top former f.b.i. lawyer who was a top lawyer at twitter at the time on these very issues, and, of course, you know, baker is infamous for running this anti-trump -- or helping run this anti-trump operation at the f.b.i. that involves shady pfizer warrants and remember he had the meeting with hillary clinton's top campaign lawyer who supposedly didn't tell him that the hillary campaign wanted the f.b.i. to pursue this fake claim that russia was colluding with trump through bank -- secret bank servers and such so baker, it turns out, was a part of the deep state and still operating as a deep state at twitter, because you have, you know, the reporters suggesting he was withholding information and then separately, you had musk himself talk about information that had been withheld from the previous owner, jack dorsey, the previous c.e.o., and maybe that information had been deleted. i don't know who's involved in that but he needs to do an audit of the system there at twitter and get all of these documents

the f.b.i. d the laptop for a year so the question then becomes how much communication did the f.b.i. or people at the f.b.i. have with twitter during that period? it might have all been a grand heads-up. >> miranda devine says the f.b.i. was in contact with twiter and facebook as well. we'll hear more about this in terms of the investigation. the media will continue to downplay it like they are now and like they did in october of 2020. we saw the broadcast news networks give seven seconds to the story. the fact is that 20 million viewers still watch abc, cbs, nbc on a nightly basis. this will be dismissed or mocked. >> dana: "good morning america" has been in a little turmoil over the past week. two anchors have been having an affair and married to other people and they've been taken off air. a quote from abc news president saying that -- fox news digital reporting. they informed staffers monday morning the internal distraction is too significant. fox news digital has learned. i will take them o

who needs chinese censorship when you have the f.b.i.? >> yeah, we know now they got in bed with the government in ways that totally contradict their b.s. about their values and democratizing information. the real villain here is the government itself. >> harris: it is pervasive contact with twitter. we know jason chaffetz has something to say about it. he is in "focus" next. the long-lasting scent of gain flings made it smell like dave was in his happy place... ...the massage chair at the mall. but...he wasn't. gain flings with oxi boost and febreze. veteran homeowners: need cash? at newday you can borrow up to 100% of your home's value to pay down high rate credit cards, personal loans, even car loans. veterans get more at newday. after years of chasing the big idaho potato truck... i finally caught it. oh man. always look for the grown in idaho seal. >> harris: will he or won't he quit them? senator joe manchin dodge knowledge questions about his future with the democratic over the weekend. he is the party's only centrist senator follow

during your years at the f.b.i.? >> absolutely. you have these -- people, again, they can appear normal at times. and then they can fly into these rages, and kill, just for the sake and the thrill of killing. and it raises the question, nancy, of, is this the first time? that's one of the reasons the moscow police chief was casting about looking for more information about this person. i think they have enough to make an arrest, enough probable cause but they are still building their case and they are still trying to figure out motive and everything there is to know about this person going back to his childhood. my concern is, and -- >> nancy grace: we've learned a lot about this guy and his childhood. a former f.b.i. special agent, former navy seal, joining us, the art and awareness of attack. thank you for being with us. everybody on the panel, jump in, all right? if you have an idea or a thought or a lead, tell me. don't wait for me to call on you like a school teacher. jonathan gilliam, this is what we know, this guy was very soc

you look at the f.b.i. and their collusion with these big tech companies to censor our first amendment rights and speech. there is really no end to where this goes. we've seen under the usda where they have picked and chosen who gets their loans paid off completely but you have to check a certain box. this is really what is so egregious about the biden administration. they are picking and choosing winners and losers. when you look at a subcommittee, select committee like this it is critical. we need to explain to the american people how this administration has weaponized the agencies but how we will dismantle that and fix it so it doesn't ever happen again. >> molly: president biden signed the massive funding bill into law. another 1.7 trillion tacked on to the spending leg -- legacy. most on the right are upset about some of the pork. the liberal goodese. sky high spending bill. this is the optics of this. the white house actually flew this massive bill for signing to st. croix on the taxpayer dime. just th

the f.b.i. ponding to revelations from the twitter files that expose the agency's close contact with twitter employees to flag certain tweets and accounts. no surprise there. they are slamming accusations of conspiracy theories now. i want the read this statement on twitter and the suppression accusations. the correspondence between the f.b.i. and twitter show nothing more than examples of hour traditional long-standing and ongoing federal government private sector engagements. it is unfortunate that people are feeding the american public misinformation for the sole purpose of attempting to discredit the agency. what say you? >> what a really terrible statement by the f.b.i. nobody wants to fight the f.b.i. that's not a fun thing. you don't want to fight the c.i.a. the simple truth is if the twitter files had not been released by elon musk we all thought this was happening, now we know it was happening and suddenly they are pretending that everyone knew and it is standard practice and everything

so here we are in the middle of a conversation of collusion between the f.b.i. cial media and this effort to change a presidential election and what are we doing? are we talking about subpoenaing the leadership in the f.b.i.? no, we talk about giving the f.b.i. billion else of dollars more to have a fancy new headquarters in this omnibus bill. >> dana: the other thing in there that's a surprise to people. we led our show with the border. there is $25 billion in there for customs and border patrol but not actually to control the border. it is just for what, for housing more migrants? that's not solving the problem. karine jean-pierre has said if republicans would just agree to more money, this problem would be solved. it is not going to solve the problem. >> it won't solve the problem at all. it will encourage more illegal migration. we get the benefits the others got. we know we have a place to stay until we figure out our next plan of course more people will be coming. the supreme court is getting involved. no, it is really misleading to say that that money in t

the same f.b.i. that told us chris wray's comment in a hearing was you can sleep well at night knowing we fixed the fisa process and shortly after that we got a second report from the inspector general that showed all kinds of problems with that particular process. when the f.b.i. sends us that kind of letter i don't put stock in it. i put stock in 14 agents who have talked to us and took whistleblower status while we're in the minority. that's how bad the situation is. they come to us because they know they can trust us and because the problem is so bad. one of them said it is rotted to the core at the washington field office in the f.b.i. that's what i put stock in. i've never seen that in my time in congress when you have that many agents willing to come forward and say this is how bad it has gotten. never forget the first one who came forward was on the school board issue and they said they're putting tags and putting designation on moms and dads ratted out by the neighbor on the snitch line that

turns out this lawyer, jim baker, used to work at the f.b.i. as general counsel under director james comey and learning why he was fired from twitter. while musk was trying to get to the bottom of going on baker was secretly vetting internal documents is what we've been told before releasing them to reporters who were investigating twitter's suppression of the hunter laptop scandal. >> dana: republicans on the house oversight committee are calling for public testimony by twitter executives at the center of all this. >> we will subpoena some of these documents for the ones that were redacted and get to the bottom of what was going on. the biden administration and biden campaign before the election was colluding and conspiring with special media companies to censor the hunter biden story and people like james baker working there were doing their bidding at these companies. >> bill: full fox coverage ahead. fox news contributor guy benson. former congressional candidate also has reaction. gillian, nice to see you. >> journalist mat taibbi explained

the $600 million for the f.b.i., the new headquarters for the f.b.i., the $215 million for a.t.f., the $2.5 billion for the n.i.h., which is basically at war with freedom and forcing needles into the arms of the american people, and undermining the freedom of the american people in terms of their health choices and paying anthony fauci's salary, a c.d.c. of $67 to million, the world health organization, the -- $670 million, the world health organization, an education department which is administering biden's $400 billion student bail loanout, all of that stuff, let's ignore all of that. let's ignore all of the horrible policy, all the things it's doing to undermine our freedom and creating the alphabet soup and expanding the alphabet soup of bureaucracy that's tyrannizing the american people. let's put all that aside. we're just talking about inflation and we're spending more money and dumping more money while we're raising interest rates, we're going to spend more money, causing more inflation, undermining the dollar even more. and you had mitch mcconnell just saying in july of 2022,

the collusion between big tech and the f.b.i. and the intel community. you can trust the intel community. remember those 51 individuals, mr. speaker, the haydens, bren nans, they told the american public don't play politics. all of this stuff is just russian false. i want to tell you that two weeks before an election because you can trust me. well, now we find the truth. it's clear that instead of focusing on actual threats to our country and the people, they colluded with the private companies. by the way of personnel and direct payments s there any money in here for the f.b.i. to pay twitter to go after americans? because you know best what they want. you wouldn't want to do that with politics. why does the f.b.i. want to go after them? because they want to go after free speech because they may be talking about politics. those people must not know that they are putting people before politics, too. they are taking care of those people. shut them down. not only is it wrong, it's illegal. it is time congress conducts real oversight and accountability in 1

especially at a time when you're about to give an extra half billion dollars annually to the f.b.i. i think the committee tried awkwardly in a lot of spaces to pivot back to donald trump, even when there are obvious failures. these things aren't mutually sleeves you can contend that donald trump did these things that were who and work and you can also say there was a not of information that showed the f.b.i. and capitol police were more prepared for vinals on january 6. yamiche: when you look at this report and all the commendations, theleft hook central count a.c. -- electoral count act is being reformed in the omnibus bill. will we see other things come out? scott: it had unanimous jump almost from the jump. the baseline change is that on january 6, 2021, you needed only wasn't member of the house and one member of the senate to stop the certification process and force a detective. iin this new legislation which was forced by the congress this week, it's got to be 20% of the house and 20% of the senate, which nation it more difficult to gulf of mexico up the works. the house bill s

edgar hoover and the f.b.i. as the number one threat to this nation? it just doesn't make sense. mr. speaker, j. edgar hoover's f.b.i. started to follow fred and put him on their list, listing him as a key militant leader. they went so far as to hire a fellow by the name of william o'neill, a street-wise black criminal and operative as and f.b.i. agent. as and f.b.i. informant. he was assigned as they report back to them about our every move, our every activity. and then, mr. speaker, on december 4, 1969, at about 4:00 a.m. in the morning. chicago police department along with the f.b.i. and cook county state's attorney. they entered into an apartment at 2377 west monroe where my friend lived and where my friends were staying. they came with the premeditated plan to murder, to murder me and any other person that they saw in that apartment. they came armed with machine guns, high-powered pistols intent on killing everyone in that apartment. they came of executing a warrant but had every intention of murdering fred hampton and others in that apartment. they killed fred. mr. speaker,

well, the f.b.i. ved in the investigation, as the power company warns, it could take das before electricity is fully restored. cbs' mark strassmann is in moore county, north carolina, and is going to start us off this evening. good evening, mark. >> reporter: good evening, norah. and, a community wondering who is behind this attack. the major utility here may need until thursday to get electricity flowing again. >> what happened here saturday night was a criminal attack. >> reporter: criminal, and targeted-- an attack in the heart of north carolina. someone shot up two power substations. gunfire that wrecked major utility equipment, pushing moore county into crisis. who and why is unclear, but the impact was obvious. like these traffic lights, all of carthage, north carolina, has no power. >> no heat. >> reporter: steve and meg wilkins' unheated house-- 55 degrees. tick you off? >> absolutely. this is not what i wanted to be doing today, or last night, or the night before-- stringing power cords, eatin

s role was in warning twitter about the hunter biden laptop story, and if former f.b.i. general counsel and then at the time twitter deputy general counsel james baker helped the f.b.i. shut down that story, and what he did to help facilitate that. so far, there are no tweets from bari dealing with the government intervention at all but we continue to get these. 15 so far. 16 and 17 just came in. talking about tik tok, they were on the trend's blacklist and was taken as a do not take action or users without consulting sip. it goes to the whole theme here of shutting down conservative voices. when matt was posting his twitter files he made it clear there were, both sides were censored to some point but because almost all of the employees at twitter were liberal or democrats, the democrats had twitter's ear and those are the ones that mostly got censored and we're seeing proof positive of that right now. we'll continue to cover breaking news as i comes in. >> tucker: amazing. no one can sum up a story with no script ab-lib any better. do you think -- what do you think is go

it ensures the f.b.i. gives children's advocacy center personnel access to critical case information so victims can get the medical, mental health, and services they need. finally, the bill requires the child sexual abuse and child trafficking cases are reviewed by a multidisciplinary team that regularly scheduled times so that the team can share information about case progress, address any investigative or prosecutorial bear yrs, and ensure victims receive support and needed treatment. this provision will ensure mon of these serious cases is neglected, that children are not endangered by failure to investigate. i thank senator cornyn, senator comes, senator grassley, and senator cloa by sure for introducing this important legislation in the senate. i thank congressman costa and congressman gonzalez for championing it in the house. i hope my colleagues will join me in supporting these bipartisan, bicameral legislation. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the ge

and twitter just gave in and at the behest of the f.b.i. with whom they were having weekly meetings. the biden campaign and 51 former intelligence officials. we need to get to the bottom of this came about. not just the story, they deplatformed the "new york post." it's incredible. >> bill: clapper and brennan, they were the ones ironically guilty of disinformation, marc. >> 100%. think about this. twitter allowed the ayatollah to have the twitter account and vladimir putin to continue tweeting and the taliban and chinese foreign ministry to continue tweeting but they suppressed the "new york post." that was their priority. and as part -- at the behest of these 51 intelligence officials. now that republicans have control of congress they need to call up the 51 intelligence officials under subpoena and find out how this letter got started. i've been on letters like this where you sign your name and calling for a specific policy. it gets started by somebody. somebody has the pen and it is circulated by somebody and a campaign to do it. who is

he was the former f.b.i. ame to twitter as deputy counsel just before the 2020 election and who we now know this week was vetting his own internal communications and holding up the release of the next batch of files before giving them to journalist matt taibbi and bari weiss. this as oversight committee chairman james comer sent a letter directly to baker and two other twitter employees to appear before a public hearing on capitol hill next week and answer questions over possible suppression of information. now committee member donalds had this to stay. >> well, you cannot save democracy if you have potentially agents of the government and media companies suppressing information. that is far worse than russia collusion. so we have to get down to the bottom of this for the sake of the entire republic. you cannot have people going in the back door suppressing information and suppressing free speech. >> as for the next dump of files we expect it to come from bari weiss. we don't have a date or timeline for when i

now, this came out after musk discovered that the controversial x f.b.i. russian gate lawyer james baker was personally reviewing and approving the initial batch of twitter files that were put out by matt -- and baker was still serving as the top lawyer for twitter until musk fired him earlier this week. this is a huge story. now, instead of voicing concern about twitter's collusion with the dnc and potentially the federal government, many so-called journalists are now more worried that musk stall beds at twitter's headquarters in case employees were tired, working a lot of overtime, so they would have a place to get a few hours sleep. san francisco, what's their reaction? to being nice to your employees? oh, let's open up an investigation on elon musk. that prompted this response from elon musk. so the city of san francisco attacks companies providing beds for tired employees instead of making sure kids are safe from fytinol. adam schiff is so deeply troubled by elon musk that he's now flat out lying about hate speech on the platform, siting zero evidence

the tennessee man is accused of targeting the f.b.i. agents who handled his investigation.he f.b.i. field office in knoxville as well. nancy. >> cordes: scott macfarlane, thank you. the c.d.c. said today the u.s. got slammed earlier and harder by the flu this season than in previous years. all but five states are considered to have high or very high flu activity. so far, at least 15 million americans have fallen ill. for the first time this season, though, flu hospitalizations have actually fallen week over week. the white house insists it is prepared to handle an influx of migrants when title 42, that pandemic-era measure that blocked many of them from entering, expires next week. thousands of people a day are expected to try to cross into the border city of el paso, texas. cbs' lilia luciano is there. >> reporter: "it makes me sad to leave my wife, my kids, my mother," says 36-year-old edwin antonio cruz, while in a damp, makeshift shelter in el paso, as he makes plans to provide for his family of five in nicaragua. what does your daughter tell you when you talk to her? t

the police are saying this case isn'ting cold. they are actually more f.b.i. the case 60 now up from 46 and even though we're just five days away from christmas, the police chief says in a video yesterday finding the killer is their only focus. >> that does not change anything for us. we will continue to push through the holidays. we have a team that will continue to do the investigation and work on that as we move through the holidays. >> dane dana, it has been a long five weeks for him and his department and how much of this investigation he already has turned over to the f.b.i. or idaho state patrol. publicly his department is still the lead in this investigation and taking a lot of criticism right now, dana. >> dana: dan springer in idaho. thank you. >> bill: disgraced and defuncted ftx founder sam bankman-fried has been ex extradited to the united states. he has been held in the bahamas for a week's time. fox news learned that once he is here on bail, he could be released. but that's a decision for the courts to decide. andy mccarthy, former assistant u.s.

. >> bill: remember, the f.b.i. had the laptop for a year, john. >> i think it's just a grand idea to subpoena those people. for me it's a classic question of what did they know and when did they know it. not just that they had the laptop for a year before it was published but also these were people that held senior position in the obama/biden white house. clapper, brennan, panetta. they could have launched a precision drone strike. for them to say we didn't know what hunter biden was up to in those days. they must have known what the vice president's son was doing in china and russia during that period. so my question would be what did you know, when did you know it and why did you lie to the american people in that letter calling it russian disinformation when you knew it must have been true and you knew what was happening? i would want to know these things under oath. >> dana: at the very least super careless and just said put my name on it, it's fine and they violated -- >> where did the letter come from? who org

we are ck at >> o'donnell: tonight, the f.b.i. joins the hunt for those who knocked out power to tens of thousands after opening fire on electricity substations. the rush to restore lights and heat with cold temperatures expected overnight. cbs' mark strassmann is in north carolina as authorities search for a suspect and a motive. a community in mourning. after a seven-year-old girl is allegedly abducted and killed by a fedex truck driver. tonight, the new details as a small town comes together in grief. worst flu outbreak in more than a decade. tonight, the stress on hospitals. free speech versus gay rights. cbs' jan crawford is outside the court as justices hear what could be a

the f.b.i. today out with a cover story calling elon musk twitter gate revelations fed lies. ari fleischer is a former white house press secretary. great to see you. the conclusion that matt, the reporter after going through all this stuff essentially is that here is proof that he presents that both biden and trump campaigns had inside lines to twitter senior executives to make decisions. the key difference, though, that is late bare in the emails. there is no record that twitter accommodated requests from the trump campaign like they did the biden. >> i have been around the government and campaigns long enough to know everybody tries to get access to people in communications every where whether it's abc, nbc, cbs. it is the job of operatives to have numbers and access. >> and the job of journalists. >> the job of journalists is to be fair, objective and neutral. what they have here is proof of a collaboration effort between the biden and came an twitter, social media. it reinforces everything co

and admit that they were influenced by people from the democrat national committee, people from the f.b.i even people from the biden administration. >> unclear who comer may intend to call for hearings. we have to wait and find out. >> bill: thank you, griff jenkins in d.c. >> dana: more on this let's bring in "new york post" reporter john levine. let's play james comer congressman in charge of the investigation and listen to this from "fox & friends" first earlier and get your take. >> the more we learn about hunter biden's business associates and the worse it sound. now we have joe biden hired one of his former business associates in the commerce cabinet. it is wrong and has to stop and why we're investigating joe biden and the biden family influence peddling. >> dana: people go through a lot of checks. this makes me think the white house isn't worried about this at all. >> any time you see a close business partner of hunter biden taking a white house job it should raise red flags. there are questions of improper access, question of conflict of interest. whether this man is still profit

how about the f.b.i. and twitter and so on? so, you know, people say what can we do? maybe we should think first about the fundamentals about our children and grandchildren, teaching them what it means to be an honorable and decent and responsible human being. it's what this book is about. i think we need this about as much as anything else. it starts early. reading and understanding what a decent and honorable thing life can be. that's where we need to focus our attention. reading, math and learning the virtues. >> julie: you are right. thank you for writing this book. a lot of patients like myself want to thank you. about time somebody addresses what's the root most important base for our children to grow into successful and also good people as adults. bill bennett, thank you so much for talking to us. >> rich: state and military police are taking a travel ban in buffalo this morning as the city recovers from a historic blizzard. with intense fighting ongoing more than ten months into the war, russia is rejecting ukraine's proposed peace plan. >> i don't hold out a l

on christmas eve showed coordination between twitter and the government agencies went way beyond the f.b.i. critics of the reported government overreach are sounding off. >> whether it's from a republican administration or democratic one, government officials should not be tilting the scales of public debate and only worsened by the fact that twitter operates with one-sided political bias. >> molly: hillary vaughn is here from washington. >> this latest release of twitter's internal company files show that both administrations under former president trump and president biden tried to insert politics into science and censor things that were not in their favor. as a result, some doctors and scientists who had opposing views on covid were banned. independent journalist reporting on the files tweeted that both the trump and biden administration pressed twitter executives to moderate the platform's pandemic content according to their wishes saying in his review of internal files, i found countless instances of tweets labeled as misleading or taken down entirely, sometimes triggering account sus

the collusion between big tech and the f.b.i. and the intel community. you can trust the intel community. remember those 51 individuals, mr. speaker, the haydens, bren nans, they told the american public don't play politics. all of this stuff is just russian false. i want to tell you that two weeks before an election because you can trust me. well, now we find the truth. it's clear that instead of focusing on actual threats to our country and the people, they colluded with the private companies. by the way of personnel and direct payments s there any money in here for the f.b.i. to pay twitter to go after americans? because you know best what they want. you wouldn't want to do that with politics. why does the f.b.i. want to go after them? because they want to go after free speech because they may be talking about politics. those people must not know that they are putting people before politics, too. they are taking care of those people. shut them down. not only is it wrong, it's illegal. it is time congress conducts real oversight and accountability in 1

the f.b.i. this video of her two days before she was last seen at her home in north carolina on november 23rdrd. here is the problem. police have arrested her mother and stepfather for failing to report her disappearance until three weeks later. ted williams is a former d.c. homicide detective, defense attorney and there are so many troubling aspects to this case. not only the parents waited until december 15th and the f.b.i. joined local law enforcement efforts in the ongoing investigation, but on saturday police arrested the girl's stepmother -- stepfather and mom until december 15th. how do investigators get to work? >> that is the $64,000 question of how you are going to get the mother and stepfather to talk, julie. this is a very sad case and the mother would not have reported this child missing but for the school system stepping in and asking for a check on this child. this is very sad. what authorities are having to do is to work from that home. they are trying to determine whether there w

a lot of investigations into the f.b.i. d i think a lot of it will reach back to the president. >> congressman comer will be the head of the house oversight committee says he will copy and paste the requests he has been sending over the last couple of years. won't really slow him down much. the white house says if they're greeted with what they are calling a barrage of subpoenas, a barrage of information requests, that would break with long-standing practice. would it? >> i'm not so sure about that. look, it will be a barrage if they weren't responding up until now. the republicans have made their intentions clear over the last 2 or 3 months. so they had time before. look, there is going to be a lot of oversight this time. there are a lot of republicans asking questions that need to be asked about the poll itization of the f.b.i. and so far, withdrawal from afghanistan, covid. there are all these questions. i think the biden administration is going to be under scrutiny. it hasn't been before. >> rich: where do you republican

was twitter working with the f.b.i., too? we'll get into it. man mike waltz, will cain, jimmy failla, "the faulkner focus" top of the hour. >> bill: thank you, see you then. california homeowners thought they were getting a good deal by installing solar panels but they might be holding the bag if state regulators get their way. william la jeunesse in l.a. has details on that. what's up, william? >> bill, that's because the state is reconsidering how much and how long those without solar will subsidize those who do. industry calls this a mistake. right now rooftop stole are in this state generates the same electricity as 12 nuclear plants. is too much of a good thing bad? this as california considers putting the brakes on rooftop solar. >> where california goes, so goes the nation. if we make solar more expensive here it will threaten the avail built of solar throughout the united states. >> how much those who don't have solar subsidize those who do? >> those people without solar are paying even higher rates, essentially because we're subsidizing

> cbs evening news with norah o'donnell ♪ ♪ ♪ captioning sponsored by cbs >> o'donnell: tonight, the f.b.ie hunt for those who knocked out power to tens of thousands, after opening fire on electricity substations. the rush to restore lights and heat, with cold temperatures expected overnight. cbs' mark strassmann is in north carolina as authorities search for a suspect, and a motive. a community in mourning, after a seven-year-old girl is allegedly abducted and killed by a fedex truck driver. tonight, the new details, as a small town comes together in grief. worst flu outbreak in more than a decade. tonight, the stress on hospitals. free speech versus gay rights. cbs' jan crawford is outside the court, as justices hear what could be a landmark case.

government secrets found in trump's florida storage unit, and turned over to the f.b.i. bs's scott macfarlane has the new details. the power grid attack manhunt. tonight, the warning, as law enforcement says there is online chatter from extremist groups calling for more plots to take out power in major cities like new york and d.c. tiktok crackdown. the states banning the use of the social media app on government phones. cbs's jeff pegues on why the platform is considered a

tonight the f.b.i. has joined the investigation into an american college student who went missing in france. kkennedyland, jr. a st. john university student was studying in the alps. he was last seen senterring a store on december third. >> it's a night mare. it's your son, you want him to come home. you want to hear from him. at least hear that he's okay. >> o'donnell: french investigators say deland may have had trouble adjusting dure his semesterser abroad and left the campus voluntarily. deland' parents saith out of character for him to be out of touch so long. to ukraine where russian forces continue their relentless bombardment in the south. the city of odesa was plunged into darkness. in the east russian drones struck a village near the front lines. today the pentagon said russia is depleting it stockpile of artillery and rockets and using ammunition more than 40 years old. american scientists are expected to announce tomorrow that for the first time they've successfully generated energy through n