>> brian: athletic and slim fit. guys, live today i have to tell you what to look forward to. first president trump goes back to his civil trial today. he had a big week this week. president biden will be talking about 8.2 billion in spending for ten new rail lines. this just in, guys, give me some details on this. lawrence's birthday is sunday, ladies and gentlemen. because it's your birthday, we're -- it's true. we have confirmation. it is your birthday sunday and look what you have. >> ainsley: and horses. >> why do you have horses? >> lawrence is a cowboy. have a good weekend, everyone. >> bill: lawrence, happy birthday. honing in on hunter.

the d.o.j. indicting the president's son on nine new tax charges, three are felonies. a maximum prison sentence of 17 years. you've already made it. it's friday. dana has the day off today. she drew the good straw. i'm bill hemmer live in new york. welcome back. martha. >> martha: two more hours and it is good to be with all of you and bill with you. i'm martha maccallum. this is "america's newsroom" on a friday. there is a lot popping this friday morning. >> bill: the list is pretty interesting. we were talking about it. >> martha: getting ready for your morning coffee and how hunter spends his money. it centers on a four-year period where he failed to pay his taxes and most of you pay your taxes but he went several years according to this indictment, if everything is in it turns out to be factual. so he spent a lot of money. look at line number two, various

women $683,000. adult entertainment at the bottom $188,000. that was more expensive than his legal fees. >> bill: if you're the i.r.s. and going through this wow, put that in this column. this in that column. the charges come as republicans accelerate their investigation into his overseas dealings trying to link it to his father. see whether or not it happens. jonathan turley saying this could use -- the latest indictments could be used to his advantage because of the following reason. >> the question is what are they charging and what did they lose? the second issue that is going to become more of a problem next week is whether hunter biden uses the indictment to invoke the fifth amendment to refuse to testify. to say well, now i'm charged with tax charges and i don't want to go into a closed session

where you ask me these questions. now i have been indicted just before i was to appear before congress. and now i'll invoke my right to remain silent. that's a possibility. >> martha: certainly is. team fox coverage this morning on "america's newsroom." james freeman has his reaction to this blockbuster news that hit late last night. peter doocy is at the white house. first david spunt who broke the news for us last night. good to see you this morning, david spunt in washington. hi. >> the indictment, 56 pages filed in los angeles where hunter biden has lived since 2018. as you mentioned, nine charges, three felonies, six misdemeanors. the main point from the department of justice is that hunter biden didn't pay his taxes but had plenty of money to do so. according to the indictment between 2016 and october 15th, 2020, the defendant spent this money on drugs,s courts,

girlfriends, luxury hotels and cars, clothing and other items of a personal nature. everything but his taxes. the charges include a failure to pay in 2016, same in 2017, also a failure to file in 2017 and a failure to pay in 2018. now felonies come in with tax evasion in 2018 filing a false return in 2018. another false return in 2018 and failure to pay in 2019. you went through the expenses before. now abbe lowell, hunter biden's attorney saying based on the fax and law if hunter's last name was anything other than biden the charges in delaware and now california would not have been brought. now after five years of investigating with no new evidence, in two years after hunter paid his taxes in full, the u.s. attorney has piled on nine new charges when he had just agreed months ago to

resolve this matter with a pair of misdemeanors. the plea deal that fell apart in delaware. these charges are in addition to the federal gun charges that he is facing in his home state of delaware brought by the same special counsel. if convicted on all of these tax counts in california and if he gets the maximum sentence, he could see up to 17 years behind bars. legal experts admit even david weiss admitted yesterday it is unlikely federal sentences are less. it is clear that hunter's team plans to take it to file and fight it with intensity. the case is assigned to a donald trump-appointed judge. i reached out to hunter's attorney to see if he will testify before congress next week but haven't heard back. >> bill: analysis. james freeman "wall street journal" here to react. high level questions whether or not anything has to do with his dad going into an election year. is it not clear at the moment? >> what is clear is that this is

related but money he didn't pay his taxes on is the indictment makes clear related to the flood of cash from china, from ukraine, from elsewhere. so we've had a lot of evidence lately tying his dad using alias email accounts, communicating to the hunter associate schwerin speaking to him. i think this is getting toward, we hope -- maybe this is a reason hunter cannot say anything. but i think what we're hoping is finally accountability. i think anyone knows looking at the facts that it was wrong of joe biden as vice president to fly around the world conducting official business while hunter was tagging along with his hand out. now we hope we're finally getting to the question of what did they give in return for all that money? >> martha: as you say, it is becoming increasingly clear. something most people have been able to assess looking at this,

that the business was the vice president. the business was the potential influence. whether or not there was influence and they are still working on tying these checks to joe biden. we know he got about $40,000. a lot more money involved in all of this to be sure. i'm curious what you think about abbe lowell said. if his name wasn't biden he wouldn't be -- he wouldn't have seen this indictments in delaware and california. seems ironic. david weiss has done a big 360, 180. >> is job as the defense lawyer is to make his case. it flies in the case of i.r.s. whistleblower testimony which was going to this question of he got special treatment. if his name was biden it wouldn't have gone down this way. the point why didn't he take the plea deal, two misdemeanor

counts. plus last month october the indictments on the gun charges plus these. why didn't he take that deal? he is looking at a harsher penalty. it is because he wanted the investigation walled off into just taxes and guns. they don't want to get into these questions. the latest emails raise why was hunter not registered as a foreign agent? we've got new windows into the burisma work. no one is surprised. not because he was a natural gas expert, they weren't asking him about his expertise in corporate governance. it was influencing washington and make charges go away in ukraine. >> bill: james comer wants to have this interview. he wants to have this hearing. i don't think it is going to happen. i don't know if you disagree with that or not. that's on the table right now.

do you think any of this is resolved before november of next year? >> possibly depending on how aggressive mr. weiss now wants to be. i guess given the history, maybe you aren't optimistic about that. but i think -- you know, this question of if his name wasn't biden. normal people when there is a lawfully issued subpoena, don't get to decide the manner in which they comply or don't with it. so that's a tough question. i hold out hope that, you know, the justice system will give us the accountability. >> martha: you can argue weiss almost gave him a pass because his name was biden and now weiss is taken a different posture on all of this. interesting to see where it goes, james, thank you. >> bill: thank you. >> martha: president biden denies he talked with his relatives foreign business associates. but evidence to the contrary is mounting. house oversight committee chairman james comer says the walls are closing in according

to him. peter doocy joins us live in washington. hi, peter. >> how republicans are trying to trace money that originated overseas and was paid to hunter biden into accounts controlled by joe biden. >> we have now deposed witnesses who have testified under oath that he talked to them on the phone. the evidence is overwhelming. the american people see through this. it is time for the bidens to tell the truth. they cannot lie to the american people anymore. the walls are closing in on the president of the united states. >> white house disagree and says the baseless stunt is based in extreme house republicans' shameless desire to use their power to smear president biden. in the latest indictment, the only biden accused of wrongdoing is hunter. >> the charges are against hunter biden. i don't think there is any proof, any proof at this point that there is a connection

between the allegations involving hunter biden and his father. >> the house oversight committee has been at it for years and so far failed to provide any concrete evidence that joe biden personally profited from his son's overseas business dealings. they'll try again with the impeachment inquiry. >> martha: thank you very much. >> bill: let's roll this fox news alert on the economy. 40 minutes ago the number is out. added 199,000 jobs, better than expected. the unemployment rate ticked down a notch as well. there was good news in this report. so we'll get to larry kudlow later this hour and break it down for you and what it means for your money coming up on this friday morning. stay tuned for larry. can't wait to talk to him. u.s. is a sovereign nation very much in doubt. if you've followed the numbers at the border by the day we just keep on shattering records from all over the world they keep coming. we're watching this closely and

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>> bill: got breaking news now. the sun is about to come up there with the skies in lukeville, arizona. we've been watching the story

throughout the week. it's 7:15 in the morning looking to be some sort of processing center. like a scene out of the old mash film and they continue to come across the border at that spot. bill melugin has been down there throughout the week. we'll check in with him in a matter of minutes. remember the fight on capitol hill. republicans stuck together in the u.s. senate saying if you want money for ukraine you have to give us money for the border. it is stuck right now and how you resolve that remains to be seen. whether or not you will give the money toward the border we'll wait and see from washington. meanwhile, all the calls to resign after presidents of three top universities struggle to answer a simple question, does calling for the genocide of jews breach their school's code of conduct? that was the question what repeatedly to all three presidents sitting at the table and bryan llenas has the follow up today that continues to be a story. >> the morning of presidents of harvard, mitt and the university of pennsylvania are facing

enormous pressure to resign as a result of their inability to unequivocally say that calling for the genocide of jews violates school policies. now the board of penn's wharton school of business is calling on university president liz mcgill to step down immediately, quote, as confirmed in your congressional testimony yesterday, the leadership of the university does not share the values of our board. penn mega donor hedge fund ceo ross stevens is calling on mcgill to resign withdrawing his $1 hundred million donation to the university following her congressional testimonies. lawyers writing mr. stevens and stone ridge are appalled by the university's stance on anti-semitism on campus. harvard president gay is apologizing for testifying that calling for the genocide of jews violated school policy depending on the context. gay now telling the harvard crimeson newspaper i'm sorry,

words matter. the only rabbi on the task force for harvard has resigned. the painfully inadequate testimony reinforce the idea i can't make the difference i had hoped. now republican congresswoman elise stefanik who grilled the university presidents is pointing out the hypocrisy writing an op-ed called harvard shrugs anti-semitism. the lack of moral clarity is shocking. the only acceptable consequence is that the boards replace the presidents with leaders to restore moral clarity. they are opening a formal investigation into the universities and other universities potentially as well. >> bill: bryan, thanks. we have this from the "wall street journal." looking at this for two days now. ron hasner is a professor of

political science at berkeley. he did a survey. let's set this up properly. a survey among students about what they thought when they chant river to the sea, etc. here is part of what it reads. when college students who sympathize with palestinians chant from the river to the sea do they know what they are talking about? only 47% of the students embraced the slogan were able to name the river and the sea. some alternative jordan and eastern mediterranean. some were the nile, euphrates, dead sea, atlanta. these students had never seen a map of the middle east and new little about the region's geography, history or demography and what he writes on his survey he did in california. what do you make of that? >> martha: i'm glad he did this. this is something we wanted to know ever since we've seen all these college protestors chanting this. i asked the question and people on the street. most of the protestors were shy about answering this question. so i'm glad that he asked it.

it is also very interesting that he writes that once he explained to them what the river to the sea actually meant that it meant erasing an entire jewish state of israel, they said yeah, actually, i'm not for that and their signs slowly come down. >> bill: of the 80 students who saw the map 75% changed their view. >> martha: he is saying they've never seen a map of the middle east? that's not on them. that's on us. that's on our education system. the fact that these kids at mostly prestigious schools have never seen a middle east map before? >> bill: the history is complex, it takes time to learn it. and if you aren't going to take the time you are not -- >> martha: don't protest about it. >> bill: you won't have the right answer. >> martha: talks to release american and other hostages being held in hamas captivity have hit another roadblock

dashing biden administration hopes that they could be freed by the end of the year. there are several americans, eight among this group, among the complications the chaotic nature of the fighting in gaza and allegations of horrific sexual violence committed by the iranian-backed terror group hamas. >> bill: 23 past now. a month now for the past seven days plus houthi rebels attacking several commercial ships and a u.s. destroyer in the red sea using drones and ballistic missiles. what have we done in return? so far the biden administration holding back if retaliating against the iranian-backed group. michael waltz sits on several committees with us now. former green beret commander. good morning to you. a couple ways to look at this. the thought that the houthis could do a peace deal with the government in yemen backed by saudi arabia. in the meantime you have iran backing the houthi rebels.

do you believe this administration is concerned with upsetting iran that may spoil some sort of deal down the road that's still hopeful for it? >> yeah, bill, i would point out that the biden administration delisted the houthi rebels as a terrorist organization its first month in office part and parcel to what concessions could we make to iran on this fantasy that we could reenter a jcpoa deal? the other thing i would point out, the rockets that hamas is firing out of gaza are relatively dumb, unsophisticated and easy to manufacture and light off. these anti-ship cruise missiles requires intelligence to know what ship is coming through the strait into the red sea, targeting and they are not easy to fire and use effectively. so this is absolutely iranian

resourced, trained, provided, and directed. 100%. the navy calls this environment the archer and the arrow. right now our ships are authorized to shoot down the arrow. the missile. they are not authorized -- this is bad policy coming out of the pentagon and the white house, to go after the archer, the houthis and radars shooting these things, much less to go back to iran and actually impose costs on iran itself. at the end of the day as long as iran is flush with cash and unfettered and we're not imposing costs on iran itself it will all continue. i don't know what it's going to take. us losing a ship or some type of catastrophic attack before the white house changes policy. >> bill: here is admiral kirby. >> attacks represent a direct threat to international commerce and freedom and navigation.

except are diesed the lives of merchant sailors from countries around the world. while they are launched by the houthis we have every reason to believe they are being enabled by iran. national security advisor said the houthis are pulling the trigger and iran is providing the guns. >> bill: i gave a couple theories, what is your as to why there is no response? >> well, at the end of the day, i think there is still this fantasy and hope that they could enter into a deal in iran's nuclear program. no other explanation for why you would go to the podium, tell the world that iran is behind this, they're doing this and eventually they are going to get through and then not change policy on iran. they have to go back to maximum pressure. you have to dry up the coffers. you have to put the regime on its back foot. right now when you hear from the administration de-escalation, de-escalation, what iran hears

from that is opportunity and space to continue to push. >> bill: thank you, sir, michael waltz, we'll talk about again. thanks for being here. >> all right. thank you. >> martha: we're just reeling watching the images that have come across the border on tuesday, 12,000 people crossed the border, and now what we're seeing, these are live shots from lukeville, arizona, where apparently the border patrol is having the migrants there clean the place up. so you see the orange garbage bags as they collect the extensive debris that has been all over this area and i think we have some of the images that show how bad it was yesterday. we'll work on getting those for you. yeah, the border patrol asking these migrants to at least do their part and pitch in and get this place cleaned up. it is a disaster inside our country in arizona. >> bill: all those people you see there are single white males.

>> martha: not all white by single working age men. >> bill: when bill melugin puts his micro phone and goes down the line and says where are you from everyone lists a different country and when he asks them where are you going, they all answer a different part of america. so they have a destination and destiny. >> martha: right now they're cleaning up the border area in lukeville, arizona for the people who live there. it has been an unbelievable situation on that border. we'll go back to that in a moment. our top story this morning, the president's son is facing up to 17 years in prison if you add up the potential for these charges. the latest new indictment against hunter biden. could a simple blood test tell about alzheimer's? we'll talk to dr. marc siegel

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american people and what is happening on the ground is two different stories and getting it from the migrants themselves. >> bill: that gentleman has been on top of the issue from the beginning and looking at lukeville, arizona. record crossings smashing records at the border yet again. we recorded more than 12,000 encounters in a single day this week. our cameras were capturing long lines of mostly adult men from all over the world slipping through breaks in the fence led by smugglers. bill melugin has been there all week and live again in lukeville, arizona. has much changed today or the same pattern so far, bill? good morning. >> same pattern, bill. good morning to you. it's been a wild week down mere in lukeville. border patrol needs a lot of help. every time they fix a hole smugglers cut it elsewhere. more last illegal crossing. single adult men wasting for processing coming from all over the world. see if we can talk to them.

what country are you from? >> india. >> where do you want to go in the united states? >> california. >> what city? >> don't know. >> why did you decide to come? you want to work? >> work, yeah. >> where are you from? >> senegal. >> you want to go to new york? >> yeah, i want to go there. >> why did you come to the united states? >> because is the freest country and democrat also that's why we want to be here to planning a life because we see so many people always here and the life is very great. >> did you pay anybody to come here? any smugglers? >> no, i tried myself. i was work hard and i tried so much and do my best to see here in america is so much democratic.

we see all over in the world. >> here for opportunity and democracy. anybody else from senegal? senegal? few hands raised up. where new united states, what cities? new york? >> michigan, where in michigan >> for my brother. >> your brother is in the u.s. where do you want to go? >> no english. >> dominican. [speaking spanish] >> philadelphia. you get a flavor of some of the places the folks want to go. we want to show you some video we shot late yesterday afternoon before sunset talking about the wall breaches. another cut in the border wall here in lukeville. you will see on the right side of your screen illegal immigrants pouring in through the breach in that wall. hundreds of them end up coming through. border patrol overwhelmed in the area. you will see them start walking

down the border road waiting to be processed. looking for border patrol to turn themselves in. it happens every single day out here. a lot of african men, families from ecuador and mexico as well. what happened once they got past the border wall. they got onto the local highway in lukeville. the only road that goes in and out of lukeville and goes into mexico and rocky point. these illegal immigrants were walking in the middle of the highway. thankfully no cars or traffic. the port of entry is closed down out here. you can see what agents have to deal with day in and out. lastly we want to show you what is happening in san diego sector. border patrol releasing these images thermal video showing another wall incursion down there. 75 people scaled the border wall led by smugglers. you see them coming up and down one after another and see them all gathering and then they go running into the united states

as a large mass. the san diego sector border patrol saying human smugglers are doing this every day down there. dangerous for the migrants and agents. this is happening all along the southern border. back out here live just a short time ago before we came to you guys border patrol had all of these men take trash bags and pick up trash in this area. we're actually in the national monument. it has been completely trashed through illegal immigration over the last couple of weeks. before these guys get processed and transported they gave them trash bags and pick up as much trash as they could. >> martha: a couple of questions. i don't know if you're able to ask some of this. if they're coming from india and senegal, how did they get to where they are? how did they get to south america, latin america? and also, what -- have any of them said to you what their credible threat was?

that's the bar for asylum was for them in those countries. >> for the first question it's a good one and asked them all that question. a lot of them said they have flown into south america first either columbia or brazil and start making their way through central america. one guy told us he flew into brazil and went to honduras, guatemala, southern mexico and ride the trains up or take buses and get to the northern border. they go through a handful of countries before they get here. to your second question we've been talking to guys out here all week long, martha. not a single one of them have told us they plan to claim asylum or that they have fear of their governments or fear of persecution in their home countries. every single guy out here told us they are here for work, for opportunity, or to link with family and that again does not qualify for asylum. asylum law is very strict in the united states. you have to demonstrate fear of persecution and everybody we've

talked to out here so far says they are here for work and opportunity. >> bill: one last thing. of that given that answer, how many will be deported. ? >> it's hard to know, but overall looking at the big picture, most will likely be released into the country with is called a notice to appear in a future court date. a handful may get deported. when we have guys from syria coming in the u.s. doesn't have diplomatic relations with these countries. can't call up assad and have them land in damascus airport. some will be here to stay. a large majority, border patrol is doing a lot of mass releases, a lot will get notice to appear with future court dates. some years out in advance for those court dates. >> bill: good work down there. thank you, bill. add one more thing here part of the debate in washington. read the "wall street journal."

fiscal year-to-date 42 people on the terror watch listen countered. last year 736. year before 478, 19 hijackers in 9/11. keep that in mind. >> martha: if they could fly into the airports they would. they are flying to brazil, etc. , because the border is open. that's the only way you can 100% get in. >> bill: at the airport you can't take a bottle of water on the airplane. >> martha: new data shows american students are not making strides. an understatement, when it comes to math scores. what do we need to do to fix this crisis situation that we have been in for the last many years actually? bill bennett on that. plus new november jobs numbers came in. is the labor market cooling down? we'll get analysis from the -- about the good numbers this

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>> bill: employers adding 199,000 new jobs. that news came out last hour. they had expected 180, so that's better. on wall street they call it a beat. unemployment rate beating expectations falling a tick to 3.7%. bring in larry kudlow host of kudlow on fox business 4:00 fox business. i don't know what you'll say later today, larry. there is good news in this report. how do you score it so far? >> there is some good news and there is some mediocre news in this report.

199 minus 35 lower revisions, so that's 164? but it was three categories. leisure and hospitality, government, and healthcare. retail sales and most of the private stuff was down. so it wasn't fabulous but it wasn't bad. the unemployment rate fell. that's good. 3.7%. in terms of wages, average hourly earnings up 0.4, up 4% the last year. the private work week was actually down, so wages up 3 1/2%. that's about the same as the inflation rate. so real wages a push. not rising, not falling. so come christmastime real wages should be rising but they're not. but -- >> bill: you're santa claus, how

is kudlow scoring this. i'll read it and let you answer. majority of americans, 55%, report cutting back on their holiday shopping list because of high prices. that number apparently has steadily increased from 46% who said the same last year and 40% back in 2021. does that sync with what you're seeing, larry? >> i was losing you there. look, some prices are high, some prices are falling. i don't know where these surveys come from. look, the trouble here this story has been plaguing the country for the last several years. the inflation rate has come down from nine to about three, 3 1/2. real wages have been falling for most of the time. in this jobs report real wages are flat. that doesn't really help anybody. people have to be careful what they shop for. they have to be careful what

they shop for. i don't want to make it too negative. i don't want to make it too positive. the economy, i think, is very soft. consumer spending looks very soft. manufacturing looks very soft. the leading indicators look very soft. this jobs report today was not bad. i would give it about a b. again, too much government jobs. i would love to see some manufacturing and retail. we didn't get that. i think the economy is slowing and i think as far as christmas cheer is concerned, i think everybody should be as optimistic with their chin up as dana perino. >> bill: okay. all right. i will put santa claus down for a b. i think it's what i heard. we'll see you at 4:00. >> that's it. i'm giving santa a b, pretty good these days. >> martha: you guys might end up on the naughty list.

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no let up. feels like they're hitting the gas when it comes to taking a chance to make it here. and bill melugin was just talking to a bunch of people 30 minutes ago. they want to go to philadelphia, south carolina, california. they have all got a destination in mind and there has been no let-up to what we've seen at the border. back to that. >> martha: they flew in on places to brazil from all over the world. back to that in moments. a great story here. >> martha: a lot of people will find this encouraging. the suggestion from research that a simple blood test could detect alzheimer's years before symptoms appear. diagnosis of alzheimer's typically occurs after symptoms of cognitive decline appear. it could help identify the disease and drugs could slow the

progression. we bring in marc siegel. >> there are two parts to a disease. one is diagnosing it early enough. the other is having a treatment available if you do find it that works. the problem with alzheimer's is by the time we find it, it's too late usually to do anything about it. now, 6 million people in the united states suffer from alzheimer's, 40 million have something called mild cognitive impairment. the question is how do you know if you have mild cognitive impairment and slipping a bit that you will go on to develop actual dementia or alzheimer's. it is a study out of utah developed a way to look at dna in your brain. and if parts of that dna,

fragments of it splinter off as brain cells die the prediction was there that you could see who was going to go on to develop alzheimer's. very small study. needs to be shown in a lot more people before i'm convinced i could use it in my office. 50 people studied. martha, of the 13 who had alzheimer's all had elevated fragments. of the six with mild cognitive impairment all had the dna fragment. the other six did not have an elevation in that fragment. that fragment of dna may be able to guide me to say look. i have this discussion in my office all day. i say, you know, is it worth giving that drug? it can be, the new anti-plaque drug. it has a lot of side effects, less than the previous generation. it can cause brain swelling. it may be worth it if it will

improve your function. i need to know in advance before a lot of damage occurs before i know if it's worth it. one more thing, alzheimer's is not just a disease of 6 million people as you know. it is entire families and communities are affected by this. it's a very tragic disease. we need to no early who is going to get it and need to know the treatments. >> martha: we can put up the warning signs of alzheimer's here on the wall while we talk about this. so as i understand it, what you are saying, marc, it would be helpful to do a blood test to say whether or not you are on the road towards alzheimer's or that you might be. but then you're concerned whether or not you would want to put someone on these drugs if it shows up that they have these markers because of the side effects. so that's a real doctor decision that has to come into play there. >> exactly right what you just said. i firs