On Monday, Homeland Security Investigations searched Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's Washington home in a probe tied to her immigration paperwork. On Tuesday, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro went on Fox News and opened a second front, per Fox News and the Daily Caller: her office is investigating Omar's financial disclosures. Those filings showed her husband's businesses, a California winery and a venture capital firm, jumping from almost nothing to as much as $30 million in a single year; she later amended them and blamed accounting errors. Pirro: "We're looking at the facts. Based upon the facts, we'll follow them wherever they take us." And on the search: "That judge would not have signed that warrant unless there was probable cause." Omar calls it political retaliation and has not been charged with anything. Two federal investigations in two days. Chuck reads what is known, as reported by Breitbart News and Fox News.
Also in today's episode:
– Six live World War II grenades turn up in a box from an Austin estate sale; the bomb squad says call 911, don't touch (CBS News, Houston Chronicle)
– Consumer prices rose 0.6% in September and 3.7% for the year, with gasoline up 9.1% in one month (Labor Department, CNBC)
– Houthi missiles hit Saudi Aramco's headquarters in Dhahran; the top three floors damaged, per company sources, and Trump says Iran is "purposely trying to drive up oil prices" (CNN, AP)
– Trump says "massive" oil, gas and mineral exploration is set to begin in Greenland; AP notes no companies, sites or timetable yet (Fox News, AP)
– A Washington State runner goes from 76th on the boys' JV team to first in a girls' race, and about a dozen Camas girls walk off the course (Fox News, OutKick)
– Billy Crystal tells CBS he no longer talks to God: "I don't trust him." Chuck's answer: the Lord is near to the brokenhearted (CBS Sunday Morning, TheWrap)
– Colombia opens its embassy in Jerusalem, the tenth country to do so; Israel's foreign minister: "He made a promise, and he kept it" (Times of Israel, Ynet)
There is a famine of truth in our land. Eight stories. Seven o'clock. The truth starts now.
