Questions swirl as Fox News reporter arrives just in time for secret FBI raid on key Dem

Fox News London correspondent Alex Hogan was repositioned to Portsmouth, Virginia, just in time to cover an FBI raid on a Democratic politician who led redistricting efforts that could help her party take control of the U.S. House of Representatives.

In a social media post on Wednesday, Fox News congressional correspondent Bill Melugin noted that Hogan was on the scene "where the FBI is raiding the office of Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore L. Louise Lucas, a Democrat and close ally of VA Governor Spanberger."

Moments later, Hogan was live on Fox News to give a report to anchor Harris Faulkner.

"State Senator Luis Lucas is at the center of a major FBI corruption investigation," Faulkner announced. "Right now, in fact, agents are executing search warrants across the Commonwealth, including her office."

"So the FBI here telling us today that these are court-authorized criminal search warrants that they are issuing and they're going into the building behind me," Hogan reported. "This is the office here in Portsmouth of state senator Louise Lucas. You can likely see some of the FBI agents behind me."

"SWAT teams arrived with their weapons drawn, telling anyone in the building to come out of the building with their hands up," she recalled. "We also saw at least three people being taken away, taken into custody. First, they were put in handcuffs, put on the ground, and then they were taken away."

Hogan said that she was at the scene in time to speak to Lucas.

"I was able to speak with her. I asked her what her reaction was to all of this," the reporter explained. "She told me she had no idea what they were doing here."

"Alex, great job getting her right as this was going on," Faulkner concluded.

Fox News critics wondered how Hogan got the scoop on the FBI raid.

"Some pretty remarkable instincts by Fox News to have its London correspondent placed in Portsmouth, Virginia right in time for the FBI raid of Louise Lucas," The Bulwark's Sam Stein said in a social media post.

"How did Fox News get someone live on the scene of a raid in Portsmouth? Do you all have an office in Portsmouth?" journalist Tim Miller asked.

Correspondent Scott MacFarlane pointed out that the Department of Justice manual required "high-level approval" for any advanced notice of raids.

Fox News has been critical of CNN after its reporters showed up at Roger Stone's home as the FBI arrested him in 2019.