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progress and who isn't. two other points to make. a big study out of cornell is looking at body and brain aging to be able to predict it. another big study just came out that shows that women who take estrogen replacement therapy post menopausal decrease risk of alzheimer's dramatically. we're looking deeply at alzheimer's now. how do we prevent it and treat it and the new thing today, can we diagnose it by a simple blood test before you ever get it? that's a big advance. we need a bigger study. >> martha: always good to see you. thank you very much. >> bill: the u.s. embassy breaking news, u.s. embassy in baghdad, iraq attacked for the first time since israel started the war in hamas. a rocket hit baghdad's heavily fortified green zone that houses a number of iraqi government buildings. getting from jen griffin at the pentagon.

senior u.s. defense official describing seven rockets landing inside the compound causing minimal damage, no injuries. it is not clear if the u.s. intercepted this swarm of rockets. there were between eight and nine fired at the embassy compound. that's breaking news from the pentagon by way of baghdad and we'll be back on that story in a moment as we start a new hour right now. not once, but twice, hunter biden hit with a second indictment charged with evading millions of dollars in taxes in order to pay for a lavish lifestyle. you have to be paying for a lot of thing to get to the millions of dollars. dana has the day off today. i'm bill hemmer. >> martha:. the justice department indicting hunter biden on nine counts this time. these are california charges. you saw the delaware charges back a couple of months ago. now three of these new charges from california are felonies.

so if he were to be convicted he could face 19 years in prison. >> bill: as the legal problems continue to mount the front page of the "new york post" sums it up this way. wild child. now hunter is facing a lot of tough questions as his legal problems pile up. here is turley on that. >> 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 particularly a closed session where you ask me these questions. >> bill: andy mccarthy will tell us what it means in a moment. to the news and jonathan hunt outside federal court in los angeles with the latest on this. good morning. >> good morning to you, bill and martha. this, of course, is the federal court building where hunter biden will possibly today but more likely we understand next

week make his first court appearance to face those nine tax-related charges, including three felonies. now the bottom line according to special prosecutor david weiss is that hunter biden spent millions of dollars on an extravagant lifestyle rather than paying his tax bills and where that money was going makes for fascinating reading in the indictment. quote, between 2016 and october 15, 2020, the defendant spent this money on drugs, escort us and girlfriends. exotic cars and clothing, every but his taxes. one fascinating payment detail. a $1500 venmo payment to an exotic dancer at a strip club. the defendant described the

payment as for artwork. the exotic dancer had not sold him any artwork. hunter biden's attorneys have dismissed the entire case as pretty much adieu about nothing saying it should have been wrapped up with the previous misdemeanor deal charges that collapsed and that if hunter's last name was not biden, they say, there would be no case adding, quote, now after five years of investigating with no new evidence and two years after hunter paid his taxes in full, the u.s. attorney has piled on nine new charges when he had agreed just months ago to resolve this matter with a pair of misdemeanors. it is important to point out, bill and martha, that nowhere in this 56-page indictment is president biden mentioned and certainly he is not accused of having any involvement here in this indictment. but it will obviously have ramifications on the

presidential campaign trail. president biden happens to be here in l.a. later today. no word on whether he will meet with his now-indicted son. >> bill: that's the news, jonathan hunt, thank you for that. martha with more now. >> martha: the legal saga of hunter biden is unfolding today and getting more news all the time. let's bring in former assistant u.s. attorney andy mccarthy, fox news contributor and posted a national review article what it means for the white house. welcome. always good to have you with us. your headline the hunter biden tax indictment is a disaster for the white house. explain what you mean there. >> well, i think, martha, especially after listening to jonathan's report, what i would stress it is something of a diversion the way this is being put out and spun because the concentration is on how hunter booked or didn't book the money that he was making and whether

he paid his taxes on it. what that obscures is how the money was generated in the first place, which from a national security perspective and national interest perspective is a lot more important than the hunter biden case. and in this instance this is millions and millions of dollars that were generated basically by the bidens and hunter in particular reeling in money from corrupt and anti-american regimes that were purchasing access to joe biden. that runs through the indictment. it runs through the narrative of this 56 pages and nine counts. so while the words president biden don't appear anyplace in the indictment, the schemes that generated the income are the ones that we've been hearing about for months and he runs through those like a thread. >> martha: it is very interesting and you make a great point, as usual, about -- so

after this period, he stopped getting money from these foreign companies and this is right around when the president -- now president starts running for the office. >> right. >> martha: so is it in the indictment or is there a suggestion that he didn't file his taxes during that period 16 to 19 because he didn't want the government to understand where his money was coming from because he was acting as a foreign agent and had not registered as one? >> i don't detect that, martha. the reason i think that's probably -- it's a sensible theory. the reason i think you would get pushback on it is hunter is not the only biden or biden associate who is involved in the scheme. but he is the only one who has these big tax problems at least that we know of for now. there were a lot of people involved in this who were declaring their income and paying their taxes, at least as far as we know. so i don't know that that was

what was behind it. but whatever the reason was, and certainly the failure to pay taxes is -- prosecutors always look at that as a sign that people don't want inquiry into how they generate their income and it is very common for people involved in criminal business to do that. that's just one factor here. >> martha: what do you make of u.s. attorney weiss's behavior here. for quite a while, according to the two whistleblowers they say he said it is not up to me. i can't prosecute this case, it's coming from above. i'm paraphrasing there and that's what the whistleblowers said. now weiss has done this huge 180 and prosecuting him on all these things and hunter's attorney says this is just because he is a biden. so unravel that for us. >> it's a disgrace. he was shamed into doing this.

i almost fell out of my chair here laughing listening to abbe lowell. if this defendant's name wasn't biden, then four years ago he would have been convicted on a bunch of felony counts and the case would have been handled like anybody else involved in serious firearms and tax problems. which is to say he would have been expeditiously prosecuted and sentenced. what has happened here, this prosecutor dragged his feet for five years to the point that the statute of limitations has run on some of the worst conduct from 2014 through 2016 when, by the way, joe biden was vice president. all that stuff can't be prosecuted anymore because of the way weiss handled this case. then he tried to disappear it in july with a plea deal that was so preposterous that a few basic questions by the presiding judge ended up exploding it in the courtroom and it was only after all the inquiry about that and

all the whistleblower testimony that weiss was forced to go back to his office and act like a prosecutor. >> martha: andy, thank you very much. we'll see you later today. >> bill: taking notes on that. james freeman making similar points last hour. where did the money come from and where did it go? keep in mind what's been reported hunter biden did not pay taxes in 2016, 17, 18, 19. how do you do that? he paid taxes in 2020. the money came from a third party. so while the white house is saying if his name wasn't biden he wouldn't be prosecuted, maybe if his name wasn't biden he wouldn't have gotten to money to pay back the tax bill. here is the president now traveling all over the world talking about pay your fair share, folks. >> president biden: wealthy still do very well even though they don't pay their taxes. they do still they with.

we also have to raise revenue and go after tax cheats and make sure everybody is paying their fair share. >> martha: added i.r.s. agents to make sure people pay their taxes. the argument becomes he paid them later. it's all paid now. and that no one would be subjective to the treatment hunter is getting. i don't think that's true. most people if they didn't pay their taxes for several years and then decided to pay it would see great penalty. >> bill: the things dragging down hunter biden. meantime back to the story. you have to watch this one. we mentioned it a moment ago. we're getting word of a new attack on american troops overseas specifically in the green zone in baghdad, iraq. iranian proxies groups in eastern syria and western iraq and gone after the remote bases.

this is not remote. it is the heart of the capital city. more than half a dozen mortar rounds landed inside the u.s. embassy compound. original reports there were rockets. there were no injuries. meanwhile, while that's happening in gaza, israel is ramping up its ground invasion. now this is at the u.n. in new york city as the u.n. secretary general talks about a push for a cease-fire. don't know how that will settle with the idf and benjamin netanyahu. greg palkot has a good idea in southern israel in a town there now. >> as u.s. interests throughout a region we are now into month three of the israel/hamas war. we at this location are just a mile away from gaza and in the past couple hours we've been seeing and hearing a ferocious battle inside the northern part of gaza. we've been hearing a lot of automatic gunfire and seeing a

few hamas rockets coming over from gaza overhead. luckily knocked down by the israeli defenses. israel is now saying that 450 hamas targets have been hit in gaza in the last 24 hours. that is a big jump that includes air strikes and hits from naval ships off the coast. again, there has been the steady pounding that we've been hearing of hamas by israeli artillery here. equally aggressive the massive israeli ground operation in the southern gaza hamas stronghold of khan younis, house to house dangerous fighting. two more israeli soldiers killed bringing the idf casualty toll to 94 since this phase of the war began. of course, civilians in gaza taking a battering. one-time safe areas to which residents fled now being hit. hamas-run health ministry puts the death toll at over 16,000. israel backs that up to some degree. more aid is being promised by

both israel and the united states. bill, in his latest comments secretary of state blinken said the u.s. is setting no deadline for israel. it is expecting imagine or fighting to be over in early january. it is small comfort for the some 130 hostages still inside gaza right now including americans as yes this all fueling iran-backed hits against u.s. targets throughout this region. a growing problem. back to you. >> bill: heading toward the second night of hanukkah there in israel. thank you for that. >> why is the border so broken? because the policy choices of president biden are not working. mr. president, you may not know it, but you could actually fix this without any of us doing anything. >> dana: republican lawmakers holding pleat biden's feet to the fire over the border crisis.

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for a cease-fire in the israeli/palestinian/hamas war underway in gaza. you just heard greg palkot say that the idf believes the war will last another month. we're talking early part of january before they believe their work will be done. what will be left at that time who is to say. but there are still at least 2 million palestinians living in gaza as of this day. we're watching that right now. as that is happening we've got this report about drones and some sort of projectile fired at the u.s. embassy in baghdad. we're tracking down both those stories as they get under way on "america's newsroom." >> martha: as we reported at the top of the hour we get word of the new attack bill mentioned on american troops -- on the green zone in baghdad. no injuries reported as of right now. but we are in the very early stages of this. so we're learning that more than half a dozen 60 millimeter

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we can't deport because it is not just how many migrants we apprehend but where they are coming from that's overwhelming the system and causing these releases. we're seeing people from countries we can't easily deport because their own countries won't take them back. last year thousands of migrants arrived from nicaragua, brazil, india, china, ice cannot deport or has only deported a fraction. mexico will take some salvador and haitians depending on the month. ice has removal flights to central america. many faraway countries can't or won't issue the travel documents necessary to allow us to deport their people. >> countries like china is extremely difficult to get china to accept their repatriation. other countries don't have a travel system in place. they can't verify the person's identity because they don't have systems like we have here. >> outside of central and south america, many asian countries

and most of africa senegal, ghana, nigeria, cameroon don't have an extradition agreement with us making our deportation more difficult. as for the volume, consider this. in 2021, the u.s. saw 57,000 migrants from the other countries in africa and asia. small ones in south america. next year 130. last year 300,000 and now on pace to exceed that. the bottom line is we get more migrants from more places and that we can't hold them by law and we can't send them home even when a judge issues a final deportation order. most are long gone and simply living here illegally. back to you. >> martha: that about sums it up. thank you very much. >> bill: brandon judd is with me now. good morning to you. there are two numbers i want our audience to look at now. we set a record on tuesday. call for number one. on tuesday we had more than 12,000 in one day encounters at

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happen. if from day one president biden wouldn't have stepped in and gotten rid of every single one of president trump's border security policies, we wouldn't be in this situation we're in. but because we're in the situation, now it requires our government to actually do the work. we need to challenge flores, we need to use our state department to work with these other countries to allow us to deport these individuals to those countries. there are a number of mechanisms we can use to force these countries to accept their people back. we aren't doing it. that's the issue that we face today. it simply comes down to policy and whether this administration actually wants to do what's right by the american people and what we're seeing right now is that they don't want to do that. >> bill: two more points here. looks like if republicans in the senate stick together, they've got the administration in a pickle now trying to figure out a solution on the border. see where it goes. what the administration says they're dealing with a hemisphere-wide crisis. now, i don't know how many folks

are trying to get into canada. do you believe that on its face is true as you look at this half of the world? >> no, absolutely not. the reason why i would say that is because there are a number of countries that these individuals could go to but they aren't going. canada is a place they could go. many central american countries that are stable. costa rica. they are not staying there. they is simply coming to the united states and the reason they're coming is because we offer more benefits than anybody else does, even for people in the country illegally. they understand that and recognize that. that's why they are coming here. bill melugin has done a great job interviewing these individuals. our border patrol agents every day we interview them and ask them why they're telling. they are open and honest and tell us. once they come to the asylum process is they claim fear and released. it's a magnet. if we continue to reward people for violating the laws they'll

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pessimistic about their economic futures, can you blame them? steven ratner wrote the piece on "the new york times." shows up on msnbc a lot. would you expect him to have such a glaring headline? >> listen, bill. he is spot on when he says there is a disconnect between what people are feeling and americans are feeling and the economic reality we're seeing. just this morning you talked to larry, 200,000 new jobs beating all expectations heading into december. we saw 5.2% gdp growth. something donald trump could only dream about. there is a disconnect with the american people are feeling with their own economic standing. 200,000 americans gainfully employed. think about that new job, those

wages that are increasing and give some credit to the president. >> bill: he wrote this before the numbers came out. just to be clear. jessica, here is the quote. even as inflation has receded from its 2002 peek in june sentiment hasn't shifted. many americans don't believe it's enough. he is either right for now and americans are right to be pessimistic, or the delay on the effect is not going to happen until 2024 and everybody will feel better about it. i don't know. what side are you on? >> yeah, bill, that will be too late for the election, right? two things on this. one this is not the first democrat leader to come out and offer concern about the strength of bidenomics, right? we saw this just with biden's own white house leak two weeks ago that they want to walk back from using the term bidenomics

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economy? how do you think the economy is or will be? so now 71% believe it is poor. in one year 61% believe it will be poor. so a bit better. but i don't know if that number is enough to move the meter, kevin. >> we'll work on it in the next year. i think there is this idea for so long, for months across the different networks talking about recession and soft landing. and i think we had this collective psyche in america economy was in poor shape. it is going gangbusters. you talked about that with larry earlier in the program. all great economic indicators. we are leading the industrial world in terms of growth. again, i think to jessica's point with the moms she talks to and things like that, we have to bring that point home to the american people. >> bill: will they sell it, jessica? >> not able to sell it fast enough.

less than a year to the election. people see just how bad prices are. their own wages are less than they made. the trump tax cuts are expiring. things aren't looking good when it comes to bidenomics heading into november. >> bill: martha and i were talking yesterday how much we paid for christmas trees this year. >> that's in new york. things are expensive. >> it is everywhere, kevin. >> martha: the price of everything is up 20%. >> bill: thank you. >> martha: back to the breaking news, getting word of a new attack on an american base, this embassy in this case overseas. we're learning that more than half a dozen 60 millimeter mortar rounds landed inside the u.s. embassy compound in baghdad. reports they were rockets originally. no injuries thankfully. let's bring in lieutenant general keith kellogg.

good to have you with us as always. what do you make of this attack we're just learning about this morning. >> thanks, martha. there is a difference on this. when you start attacking embassy and embassy grounds it is a lot different than an air base. there is a policy or an idea the thing called extra tear tore tore. you are attacking sovereign u.s. territory. that's what the embassy is. the amount of attacks occurred, 78 attacks over 30 of them actually happening in iraq, this is a real assault on american sovereignty in the middle east. the concern i have here everybody is dumbing this down like okay, all these attacks keep coming and nobody gets concerned about it anymore. this is very, very serious. it reminds me of 2020 when pair military forces that were supported by iran attacked the american embassy and took out

soleimani. somebody has to draw a line one of these days in the short term. this is much different to me than say an attack an al assad. they are attacking u.s. embassy grounds which is sovereign territory. >> martha: will iran keep pushing us and testing us all over the middle east to see how far they can go? >> absolutely. somebody has to draw a line. do something dramatic. the longer it goes, the harder it. and they need to turn it around. i don't think they can do it in the short term until they do something dramatic. probably go inside of iran, make sure the supreme leader knows how serious we are and knock it off. the houthis are not getting those missiles or drones from a local toys r us. those are from iran and getting guidance from iran. hamas and hezbollah, iran is a

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and then some art and music. that consensus on math, english, history science has broken down and we now do not know what's going on in our schools. it is a catch-all. anything might be taught. need to focus on those basics or we will fall further behind. that means falling further behind china and maybe even falling further behind iran in some ways, which would be a disaster. but that's one of the problems. >> martha: there has been so little discussion about this from the white house and the first lady is an educator. it is as if they pay almost no attention. here is a quote from education secretary cardona. president biden believes in investing in public education is investing in the nation's future. these results show we can't be satisfied with the status quo in education, no kidding. no kidding. >> no kidding. and in one word they believe

resources, just money, more money. that's not it. we need more focus. there is another factor. the schools started to get bad. the high schools start evidence to get bad the same time colleges and universities stopped expecting people to know things in order to get in. you had to no trigonometry and begin calculus. the testimony of the college presidents as shakespeare bah say don't trouble the poor with begging. do these people know which end is up? apparently not. that might have been a real revealing moment, a moment of revelation about our institutions of higher education which we spend 80 or 90,000 a year for each year. >> martha: you went to harvard as did elise stefanik. she had a strong moment. she said what constituents bullying and harassment at harvard.

a mandatory title ix training last year warned undergraduate students, fat phobia and using the wrong pro nouns qualified as abuse and perpetuated violence on campus. yet the anti-semitism doesn't seem to fall into any of those categories, sir. >> right. cis heterosexual should normal sexual relationships should be between men and women. you could get thrown out of harvard to say that. to not call the massacre of israel and talk about intifada, the river to the sea, all of that depends on context. these people are peddling from an empty wagon and i hope some parents will withhold that check. people often ask me what can we do about this? don't write the check. >> martha: don't write the check

and don't apply. apply to schools with the kind of education that have the values and the education you want to get. the numbers are starting to fall off. >> it was a shameful performance by them. thank you. >> bill: watching the u.n. right now. we expect a vote from the u.n. security council to call for a cease-fire on behalf of the idf as it goes out about its war prosecuting hamas terrorists in gaza. and in all likelihood the security council will approve that. whether it goes anywhere is another question. israel will fight back hard on that. back on that story when we continue right after this. another excuse, i mean, reason for my family

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moon. they work the nasa. mike massimino out with a new book called "moon shot." good morning. they are out of pittsburgh, working with nasa. is it a big deal? >> yes, if they can pull it off. the first time a private company has landed on the moon. until this time it's only countries, most recently india landed a spacecraft on the moon. i think it is a pretty big deal. part of nasa's commercial lunar program. a nasa-sponsored mission but it includes not only nasa payloads but science payloads from universities and also from private companies. so if they can pull this off it would be big and a precursor to sending people. >> bill: lift-off is christmas eve. >> that's when the window opens. i think it will take them awhile to check out the spacecraft before they land. it is basically a two or three

day trip to get to the moon. they may wait a little bit to make sure everything is working before they attempt to land it. it will get there in a couple of days but may wait until the landing. >> martha: a precursor to the next big jump. >> nasa has announced a crew a few months ago that they will be -- they'll do an orbit of the moon and collect data on the spacecraft and trajectory they have and then after that the next big event would be the landing. that's much more difficult. you have to get people down to the surface and off the surface. so what this is, 14 missions that nasa has sponsored with commercial companies. this is the first one and taking data. no not@months fear, look at the soil. take readings on radiation paving the way for future human missions to the moon. >> bill: tell us about the book, a nasa astronaut's guy to

achieving the impossible. >> it's about things i learned. when i arrived at nasa i was a civilian, professor, academic and thrown into the world with a lot of interesting high-performing people. military culture, test pilots. the best of both. civilian and military world and i learned so much about perseverance, leadership, teamwork. it transformed me. we needed these rules appeared guidelines to operate in space. the ten years that i left nasa is when i speak to groups or talk to people the things that are most useful for them are these lessons. they apply when you fix a hubble space telescope or working in a tv studio, at home, with your family. actionable takeaways i learned to help me be successful as an astronaut that i want to share with people. >> bill: good luck with it. speaking of teamwork, right, perseverance. before we go here.

we had a little christmas party yesterday for "america's newsroom" team. we're all about teamwork. >> martha: look at that. >> bill: miss perino in the red jacket in front and part of the team that helps put things together every day. they persevere as well. you could learn some lessons from them. big shout-out for them. thanks for making a great year for us at "america's newsroom." you are coming back at 3:00. >> martha: fantastic team. i'll be back at 3:00 and i'll be sitting down with these two people who everybody knows, ron desantis and his wife, casey desantis, talking about where he is in the race at this point and what he hopes to do to have a huge trajectory over the next less than five weeks until the iowa caucuses. stay tuned for that. >> bill: thanks for being here. nice to see you, mike. good luck with the book. >> happy holidays, thank you. >> bill: here is julie in for harris today. bye-bye. >> julie: we'll begin with a fox news