>> sandra: a short time from now the white house is set to hold its first on camera briefing since former president trump's victory in iowa, the landslide victory in iowa on monday night. that historic win brings him one step closer to a rematch against president biden. and vice president kamala harris has this thought about all of it. >> i am scared as heck which is why i'm travelling our country. we have done a lot of good work, we need to let people know who brung it to 'em. and so we have to do that. >> sandra: ok. hello and welcome, everyone, sandra smith in new york. john, great to be with you. >> john: good to be with you as well, what is she scared of heck of. i'm john roberts in washington.

this is "america reports". as president biden works to improve his campaign message, his son's legal message only adding to his re-election headaches. prosecutors found traces of cocaine on a pouch hunter biden used to store his gun. >> sandra: he's trying to dismiss the charges filed against him but prosecutors say the new evidence is overwhelming and comes as house republicans ramp up in the impeachment inquiry into president biden. an update on that from republican congressman jason smith, joining us in a moment, he writes "president biden's word can no longer be trusted." >> john: but first, our chief washington correspondent mike emmanuel is here on the hunter biden cocaine finding, he filled out form 4473 and checked no, and oops, cocaine was found on the bag. >> it's clear federal prosecutors are pushing for the case to proceed. hunter biden is seeking to dismiss gun charges against him

but now justice department prosecutors are pushing back, that last year investigators pulled sealed evidence from a delaware police vault and investigators observed a white powdery substance on the defendant's brown leather pouch that held the firearm in october of 2018. investigators say based on their experience and training, they believed that the suspect was -- the substance bas likely cocaine and the evidence would corroborate the messages investigators had obtained which showed hunter biden buying and using drugs in october 2018. so according to the court filing, investigators literally found cocaine on the pouch where hunter biden had kept his gun. the president's son pleaded not guilty in federal court in delaware to charges of lying of drug use on a federal form to buy a gun back in 2018. his lawyers have argued he didn't break the law. attorneys for hunter biden have suggested this is somehow selective and vindictive prosecution like he's being

singled out for political purposes. prosecutors say his motion is meritless and should be denied, adding "the strength of the evidence against him, hunter, is overwhelming." this could have been avoided with a plea deal last year but the agreement fell apart. now hunter could face another trial this year in addition to a trial for tax charges in california while his father's out campaigning for re-election, john. >> john: the more we learn about this, the more you wonder, who put this plea deal together and what were they thinking at the time? >> that's why it fell apart. >> john: did they know there was cocaine on the gun case? and only fell apart because the astute judge said wait a second, this isn't right. great to see you. sandra. >> sandra: thank you. bring in missouri republican congressman jason smith, chairman of the house ways and means committee. where does this go next, what's your goal? >> we are continuing to follow the facts that we have been doing all along. and we are here today and i

think it's important to remind ourselves it's because of the two irs whistleblowers that came forward to the house ways and means committee. if they wouldn't have came forward, that plea agreement that you all were just talking about would have never, would have never been stopped. because that sweetheart plea agreement was released two days before the irs whistleblower information was released and that blew up the entire agreement and never have been charges in california, the exact same charges the two irs whistleblowers had said they recommended years before, but the justice department refused to do it. right now -- >> sandra: go ahead. keep going. >> sandra, we are moving ahead, tomorrow we have kevin morris coming in for depositions, we have a lot of questions to ask of him to remember kevin morris, the individual who paid more than $2 million of hunter's back taxes, plus additional couple million dollars just to sustain his living, and we found out

last week that he was the one who purchased more artwork of hunter biden's than anyone else, $870,000 worth for 11 pieces. >> sandra: kerri kupec urbahn joined us and thinks the doj is not waiting. >> we are tired of being jerked around, mess with you, we are going to be aggressive and that's what that filing spoke to, i thought. >> sandra: you thinking along the same lines, congressman? >> i think the doj just needs to do their job and regardless if it's the president's son or not, treat him like they would treat anyone else and this had not been the case according to the irs whistleblowers. when they highlighted to the ways and means committee, the department of justice were doing things so untypical of any investigation they had been a part of. i'm hopeful the justice department will do what's right

and treat him like any other american. >> sandra: this is the lawyer for the irs whistleblower gary shapley disputing allegations in the hunter biden lawsuit. >> they have been saying the charges are only brought because the whistleblower with oversight, my non-profit has worked with brought the information to the public. if you read the indictment, it's not from some republican pressure on capitol hill, not from some pressure from the whistleblowers, these are very, very serious charges but backed up by very, very serious evidence. >> sandra: your thoughts on that, congressman. >> it's exactly what the irs whistleblowers said. all nine charges brought in california are exactly the charges that the irs whistleblowers recommended years earlier but of course the prosecutor at that time did not move forward. >> sandra: really interesting. as i mentioned in your piece, it's on fox news.com on the biden impeachment process, you say if the impeachment inquiry

is invalid, why has the president lied about his complicity? if joe biden was involved in his son's business dealings or financial favors for him or his family, the american people deserve to know. however, one thing you say is clear, president biden's word can no longer be trusted. explain. >> well, there are several examples. one prime example is on the debate stage that president biden had with president trump where president trump accused him of his son taking money from the chinese and he said that's absolutely not true. we know that that is false because we have heard the irs whistleblowers say that money had came from the chinese to hunter biden, we also know that bank records prove that, and the bank records don't only show it came from chinese entities, but also the money filtered to president biden himself. he said that he knew nothing about his son's business dealings. we know that that is not true,

he said he was not involved and we can see clearly he was hosting a lot of his son's business partners for access to the white house. >> sandra: got it. appreciate you joining us on all of that. thank you, sir. john. >> john: we are awaiting a briefing from the pentagon after the biden administration redesignated houthi rebels as global terrorists, iranian-backed group hit two vessels in the red sea triggering retaliation from u.s. forces. and lloyd austin and his secret hospital stay. the daily beast obtaining a 911 call revealing the ambulance request for austin was asked to arrive with no lights or sirens. griff jenkins is live at the pentagon with more. let's start with the houthis here first of all. this designation is weaker than the one under the trump administration, yes? >> and that's such a good point, john. if you remember, go back at the end, late in the trump

administration, the houthis were placed on this foreign terrorist organization or fto list. well, now after months of attacks in the red sea on commercial vehicles, included u.s.-owned one, you have them putting them on this specially designated terrorist list, a lesser category, no doubt about it. especially designated global terrorist list, sgdt list in the wake of 9/11, it can be applied quicker, but unlike fto it can be removed quicker. secretary blinken released a statement saying this, this designation seeks to promote accountability for the group's terrorist activities. if the houthis cease attacks in the red sea and gulf of aden, the united states will reevaluate this designation. but here is the thing. a houthi spokesman speaking to international media saying this designation will not cease their

attacks on the ships in the red sea. we'll see where that goes. meanwhile, we are learning more about defense secretary austin's hospitalization and the lengths he tried to keep it a secret. fox news obtaining audio of the january 1, 911 call requesting an ambulance made by an unidentified aide requesting a low key approach be taken. listen here. >> fairfax county 911. where is your emergency. >> yes, ma'am, my name is -- and i work for -- and i'm requesting an ambulance to be taken -- can i ask can the ambulance not show up with lights and sirens? we are trying to remain a little subtle. >> now john, as we wait for the briefing to begin within a half hour, hopefully, we will hear for the first time from general ryder and the folks here at the pentagon since the secretary has

been released from the hospital and it will be an interesting conversation with regards to secretary austin because when you walk around this building and talk to these men and women in uniform, many feel that the secretary is being held to a different standard of accountability than they might face. john. >> john: interesting contrast, buckingham palace has fully informed us about king charles' upcoming surgery and kate middleton's surgery. so, there is that, too. griff, thank you. sandra. >> sandra: a major case at the supreme court happening today, a group of fishermen are fighting government red tape. they say will put them out of business. they are fighting for their way of life. we'll talk to a fishing charter captain who fought something very similar. speaking out about it. he will join us live. >> john: looking forward to that. plus, dr. fauci and francis collins are on capitol hill answering more questions about how they handled covid, and what

they are saying has some lawmakers calling to throw them in jail. plus this. >> cost to us as a news organization of knowingly broadcasting untrue things. that is a fundamental truth of our business and who we are. and so his remarks tonight will not air here live. >> sandra: all right, the media is facing some backlash for cutting away or choosing to not air former president trump's victory speech in iowa all together. a move some critics are comparing to stuff we would see on a dictator state tv. what does ari fleischer have to say about that? he'll join us live next. because i know there are so many of you who have served your country honorably, whether it's two years, four years, or thirty-two years, like myself. one of the benefits that we as a country give you as a veteran is your eligibility for a va loan. not 80 percent but 100 percent the value of your home and that's what you can get

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>> john: critics are firing back at the left wing media after

neither cnn or msnbc carried former president trump's iowa victory speech in full on monday night. msnbc made a pointed argument not to take it at all, and raising concerns media is has a bias against democracy. ari fleischer, back to monday night and examples of the networks cutting out of the president's speech. >> the projected winner of the iowa caucuses has just started giving his victory speech. we will keep an eye on that as it happens. we will let you know if there's any news made in that speech, if there's anything note worth, substantive and important. his remarks tonight will not air here live. >> here he is right now under my voice, you hear him repeating his anti-immigrant rhetoric. >> john: we'll let you know if there is something noteworthy in the speech, like i won the iowa

caucuses, that might be noteworthy. but it's like the left wing media is playing the thought police. you can see this but you can't see that, and we are going to decide. what do you make of this? >> first, john, the juicy irony of rachel maddox saying they only put things on the air are truthful, for years they said donald trump colluded with russia, and the steele dossier, but none was true. they would have bars across the screen, nothing they reported could be reportable. so -- here is the bigger story, john, and why the media has lost the trust of the american people. pew organization took a poll in 2019. does the media understand people like me? only one group of americans said the media understands people like me, and that was democrats with college degrees. if you are a democrat with just a high school degree, you

thought the media does not understand people like me. independents, college degree, republicans, college, high school, the media does not understand people like me. it's no longer liberal, conservative bias, john, it's cultural. mainstream media, cnbc, cnn have walked away from all americans other than college educated democrats, which is why they are comfortable not showing donald trump because they have just become college educated democrat reporters causing to the college educated democratic viewers. the rest of the counsel think at the don't understand. >> john: here is one with a ph.d. from oxford explaining why they are not carrying the president's speech. >> reason we and other news organizations have generally stopped giving an unfiltered live platform to remarks by former president trump, it is not out of spite, it is not a decision that we relish, it is a decision that we regularly revisit and honestly, earn

evidently, it's not an easy decision. >> john: so look at what they said about the bogus trump and collusion story, what metric are they deciding what they are going to air and not going to air. >> i don't believe rachel, it is a decision they relish. they are activists, they are anti-trump and their mission is to inform their liberal viewers every day what's wrong with donald trump, whether it's true or not true. that's what drives them. if they did not do that, they would lose viewers. this is what happens in the age of polarization. their viewers want to get bad anti-trump news from them, they don't want to see donald trump, they know if they did see donald trump people would turn off the tv sets. this is part of their business plan, and why they have so few viewers. >> john: the worst thing that happened to cnn ratings was when joe biden won the election in 2020. i mean, the nosedive continues.

nbc aired this report or wrote this report on donald trump and the military. here is what it said in part, donald trump is sparking fears among those who understand the inner workings of the pentagon that he would convert the non-partisan u.s. military into the muscular arm of his political agenda as he makes comments about dictatorship. i'm wondering, do reporters not know that when he said to hannity, i'll be a dictator on day one, that he was making a joke? >> well, even worse, john, who is it the military has turned into their political ideology for? it's dei, it's democrats, the whole diversity, equity and inclusion movement, paying for soldiers and troops to get abortion out of state. they never did that until joe biden. so who is it who injected politics into the military and when republicans try to level the playing field and go back to neutral, republicans are accused by the mainstream media of

engaging in cultural wars. who inserted the cultural war into the military in the first place? and why did the military let joe biden and the democrats do that. they never should have. i don't want to hear the military may do things donald trump's way, they should stop doing things joe biden's way when it comes to the culture war issues. they went first, republicans are just trying to get back to a level playing field. >> john: ari, appreciate spending time with you, back to 2001, never gets old. thank you. >> thank you, john. >> john: see you soon. >> sandra: excellent analysis from ari as usual. as the mainstream media does what it can to undermine the former president, interesting moment of reflection earlier today, far away from the country roads of iowa and new hampshire. j.p. morgan chase ceo jamie dimon, in davos, switzerland, offered this warning to president biden and democrats.

>> i wish the democrats would think a little more carefully when they talk about maga, when people say maga, they are looking for people voting for trump and scapegoating them that you are like him and -- but i don't think they are voting for trump because of his family values. he was kind of right about nato, kind of right about immigration, he grew the economy quite well, he was not wrong about -- so the critical issues. that's why they are voting for him. and i think people should be more respectful of our fellow citizens. >> sandra: he also said he thinks the state of the economy and president biden's bashing of the maga movement will hurt his re-election campaign. how can you expect to ensure your victory when you just ignore or insult such a large portion of the american voter population? >> john: and you know, i covered president trump four years, flew

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over regulation that puts fishermen on the hook to pay for federal monitors on their boats. and the decision has the potential to affect far more than the fishing industry. we'll speak to captain allen walburn who fought a similar battle about fishing in the gulf of mexico and won. we'll speak with shannon bream, live outside in the cold in front of the supreme court. what's happening inside where it's nice and warm? >> john, you hit this spot on. a case that is about the fishermen who would have to pay federal monitors to be on their boats to make sure they are complying with federal regulations as you note, it's much broader. thousands of federal regulations touch your live, from the shampoo you can use, the cars you drive, and what you can do with your own personal property. so the justices today were working through this concept, how much deference you give to a federal agency when it comes to

decisions about your life. these are bureaucrats unelected, you have no way to recall them if you disagree. the biden administration today argued it would send shock waves through the system to change the as we know it, which gives the agencies a lot of power, causing justice gorsuch to question whether courts have to roll over. does a judge who hears a dispute about interpretation of a federal regulation just abdicate the finding to the administrative state and not get to do his or her job as a judge? but justice kagan used this example of a medication, product that came out and that said it would lower cholesterol, is it a drug, supplement, who gets to regulate it. her question, wouldn't you rather have an agency like hhs, about safety and health, make decisions rather than a court that does not have medical experts on it. we'll see what the justices decide to do. their first secret closed door vote on the case on friday but it could be months before we

know what they decide. a decision is expected by the end of the term in june. >> john: we will wait to see what they decide. shannon, thank you. l>> sandra: let's bring in allen walburn, a fishing charter captain in naples, florida. thank you for joining us today. >> thank you for having me. >> sandra: we care about the industry and it makes it hard to even turn a profit. why are you 100% against these trackers that are being asked to put on -- that you are being asked to put on these boats? >> first off, the tracking devices that they are -- they are putting on the boats, we were already giving the government that information via paper form every day. the tracking device, electronic tracking device, pings our boats regularly, and that information is uploaded in the noaa computer banks, making it public information where my secret fishing spots are. that's one thing. it's an illegal search of my

private equipment, they make me buy the equipment, it's kind of an illegal search of my equipment, so that they can get that information from me and then share it with anybody they want to share it with. so, if i have a secret fishing spot, you know, anybody in the world can figure it out if they go to noaa website and download my tracking information. the most egregious thing i think is the government making me buy this device out of my pocket and pay a $75 a month tracking fee in perpetuity. so i've got in my case, i had four boats, we had this in place a couple years ago and i had to buy the devices, i had four boats at the time, so i was paying $300 a month in addition to $12,000 for the devices that i had to buy. so it was just -- just onnerous and unnecessary and one last point, if this device happens to malfunction, my boat is not allowed to leave the dock, period, under any circumstances until the device is reestablished. and you know, equipment breaks

down all the time and this is unique to my boats, it's not like i could put replacement and keep going, i have to have a technician come in and install the device, upload the sat right tracking data, unique to my individual boat so it's pretty onnerous situation for a fisherman. >> sandra: allen, so many people hear what you are saying and this is not the first time we have heard about government overreach with the fishing industry. obama years and the red tape then and so many fishermen said it was almost impossible to stay in business. with all the added regulation, do you think sometimes is it worth it? >> i don't know anything else. so we have to make it work, but that's why we went to court. we felt like that the government was against us and the law was on our side, and we prevailed handily, and i think my unique case will cause the current case to be ruled in favor of the

fishermen up north. it was pretty clear-cut decision by the fifth circuit court of appeals on our case that we won, and the case pending right now, i predict that the court will come down on the side of the fishermen. >> sandra: a great point you make, we have been talking about the costs involved and having someone come on the boat and monitor the fishing activity and then they have your data, your secret fishing spots, giving away everything you have worked for all these years essentially to the government. >> yep. and if you came down this afternoon and said allen, let's go on the boat and take a cruise and show me around and video tape everything on the vote i would have to call noaa and tell them the purpose of me leaving the dock and what time, estimated time of arrival is back. i just think it's a huge privacy intrusion also. >> sandra: that's a great point. bill bright explaining how the regulation could put profits in half. >> to me this is like an added

tax, a much added expense. if you figure you have 10% profit over time, so if you went out on $100,000 trip, you have $100,000 worth of product, and you stayed out a week at $700, that's $5,000. so that means that's literally out of that trip, it's half of the profit. >> sandra: i think some days fishermen, you know, they are happy to turn any profit, and there are some days where nothing comes in at all, you know. and here you would have a mandated every day fee, go ahead quick final thought from you. >> that's what i was going to point out is the fact that fisherman observer gets paid every day. you ride out 100 miles and decide it's too rough to fish and turn around and come back and you are out there for a day going and a day coming, but you never fished, you still got to pay that observer the $700 a day. so, it's just not sustainable. we couldn't pay that kind of money and the commercial fishermen won't be able to either. >> sandra: our hearts are with you, we want our small

businesses and our fishermen to thrive. we are watching what's happening, we are covering it and appreciate you joining us. but you are making me a little jealous, i want to get out there and fish myself, and florida sounds pretty good. >> come down, get the fly rod out of your hands and get a real fishing pole on your hands. >> i love it. you made my day. thank you for joining us. >> john: we get in the boat and go over to the white house where john kirby is briefing in the brady briefing room, talking about the redesignation of the houthis as a terrorist group but not the full foreign terrorist organization designation, let's listen in here. >> we have already designated them issued a number of licenses, a license is like a waiver, a carve out when you have a sanctions regime allows for certain goods to continue to flow despite the sanctioned regime, so yes, that's the big reason here. >> president could reconsider

the designation should the houthis stop these attacks or essentially using it as a bargaining chip in negotiations or public negotiations -- >> that would suggest negotiations, it's not a bargaining chip, it's a way of holding the houthis accountable, additional ways to hold them accountable. if you look at the levers of power, dime, diplomacy, information, we are using all the powers to try to convince the houthis to stop these attacks and if they don't, and they clearly haven't, to hold them accountable. >> the meeting to take place in a few minutes, we understand it's a focus mostly on the situation in ukraine, is there a version you can provide publicly, what are lawmakers going to hear from the national security staff that you have not already telegraphed what's happening on the ground.

>> i don't want to get ahead of the discussion and i suspect that in that discussion there could be some classified content they will discuss. but, in the main, this will be an opportunity for the president and for the national security team to make sure that members of congress fully understand the desperate urgent need for weapons and capabilities for ukraine to continue to flow. as you know, the last security assistance package was december 27th, there has not been one since, there won't be one until we can get some funding and it's not as if the war stopped just because our aid stopped. the ukrainians continue to get attacked. moving into defensive positions in the east and come under artillery attacks and cruise missile and drone attacks from the russians and they are ex pending what they have, and i won't get into their inventory list, but there are some weapon systems for which they are in more need than others right now, and they have to expend them

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>> sandra: dr. anthony fauci under fire after his two closed door hearings on capitol hill. lawmakers say he claimed more than 100 times that he did not recall key information about the early stages of the pandemic. but it may be hard for house republicans to hold him accountable for his alleged dishonesty. fox business correspondent hillary vaughan is live on capitol hill. does fauci really not recall the early days of the covid? i feel we all remember them vividly. >> yeah, we want to forget them but do remember them. a lot of lawmakers think this is a way for dr. fauci to shield himself from future litigation. lawmakers have issue with what he did remember and say behind closed doors. they say what he said in private

contradicts what he testified to congress publicly about, so because of that, some republican lawmakers think he should be behind bars for allegedly lying to congress. >> i've sent two referals to the department of justice. several folks from the trump administration were accused of lying to congress and carted off to jail and yanking them out of the house early in the morning. we have two tiers of justice here. >> it's up to the doj whether dr. fauci should be charged with a crime. if senator paul is right and fauci did lie under oath and either charged with lying to congress or perjury, and found guilty of that, he could face up to five years of jail time. sandra. >> sandra: hillary vaughan on the hill on all of that. thank you, john. >> john: sandra, some families of hamas hostages are growing more desperate by the day as

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>> john: u.s. officials are hopeful that israel and hamas will reach a deal to release more hostages soon. it's been more than 100 days since the october 7th attacks. 130 people are believed to be held captive somewhere in the strip. one of them, a duel american israeli citizen. joining us now is itay's father. thanks for being here. we appreciate it. thanks for the dog tag here. it says on it "bring them home now." and "our heart is held captive." >> emphasis on "now". >> john: it's been 102 days. itay was at his cab bits. he was there because he wanted to be on leave for his brother's bar mitzvah. that's when he was taken. do you have any idea what happened to him, where he is,

what his status is? >> so he was protecting farmers, agricultural villages we call kibbutz. we know that the base was under attack. we know that they were active and trying to protect the farmers. but contact was lost after 1 1/2 hours or so with them. initially they were defined as missing in action. nobody was able to identify him physically. no one identified him in one of the hospitals as well as not on the deceased list. so basically we were unaware where he was for about 48 hours. and then when the idf needs to give you an official status, it comes with a knock on the door.

i was trying to explain to the viewer what's that is like. at 6:00 a.m., you get a knock on the door. on the other side, two high-ranking army officials. that's when you stop breathing and you want them to go away, disappear. somehow you need to collect yourself and understand that you have no other alternative because you need to figure it out. i opened the door for them. one of the officers went like this meaning you can go back to breathing. the good news is that our son is being held hostage by a terrorist organization like isis. the bad news could have been -- >> john: your son is being held hostage with an organization like isis never good news. better than, than the

alternative. >> yes. >> john: any word where your brother is? >> there's no words to describe how tough this is on all of our family. you know, we don't know what's going on with him. we don't know if he's alive or not. we don't know other stuff. >> ruby, like so many other families, they have not been able to wait. you've been very proactive here. you were in qatar meeting with the prime minister. what was the word from the qataris? >> i go anywhere, anyplace, speak to the devil if that would bring my son back. we met the prime minister who i think wanted to get a different perspective, not just from the official negotiators, but from the families. we heard from the prime minister that they're trying to be helpful, but they also claim that the same sentence, that, you know, we don't have

influence on hamas. which is a bit difficult to accept with the fact that the head quarter of hamas is based in their back yard. >> john: that's where they live. >> and they're not happy about criticism. so i see it as a negative negative meaning if they're talking about it, the criticism that they're getting might be moving them somehow. >> john: the white house is hopeful that something may move with another cease fire. we will be praying over the dog tag that you gave me. >> if i could add one last word. prayer for us has been 103 days. we would very much ask anyone listening, please pray for us, that we will get that miracle and being able to see our son back again. >> john: thank you. our prayers are with you. we'll be back after this.

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