goal. official rule expected to come out this spring. in the meantime this ev push is becoming a big part of president biden's 2024 rival's campaign . former president trump over the weekend attacking him over it. >> biden's ridiculous electric vehicle mandate and green new scam are the all -- what they are pushing, the green new scam. all those cars will be made in china within three years. i hope they know that. >> the biden campaign is responding to those comments saying that all these steps that president biden is taking is so that the manufacturing for electric vehicles is here in the united states and not in china. >> jacque: thanks, hillary. >> dana: republican presidential candidate nikki haley campaigning today in her home state in south carolina with just under a week to go before primary day. welcome to a new hour of

"america's newsroom," bill hemmer is off today. i'm thrilled to have you with me, jacque. >> jacque: great to be her. jacque heinrich. nikki haley is making a final push days after a new york judge ordered donald trump to pay $355 million in a civil fraud trial. haley has been telling voters she would make a better president than trump. a better chance at beating biden and america needs a president who can serve for the next eight years. charlie hurt saying haley has a difficult choice when it comes to attacking trump and all his legal troubles. >> the game she is playing attacking for the chaos. he is a disrupter. what people love about him is that. maybe you don't love everything about the disrupter. with it comes chaos. so it is -- it's a tough needle she has to thread and she is not threading it. >> dana: alexandria hoff is on the campaign trail in columbia, south carolina, a beautiful day there. >> hi, it is indeed.

good morning to you. the former governor is adamant that south carolina is not her final battle. in fact, at a rally in rock hill last night she told a large crowd about calls to drop out she said she would quote never give up. haley maintains she will prove competitive this saturday during the open primary. major focus on the trail has been foreign policy with criticism lobbed at former president trump for comments he made about vladimir putin and nato. john roberts drove into that. the contender was asked bay crowd member would she pardon trump if she were president and he convicted of a crime? >> i would because i think it is important for the country to move on. we have to leave the negativity and baggage behind. i don't want this country divided any further. >> at a rally in michigan this weekend the dominant frontrunner spoke at length about legal

issues including friday's massive civil fraud judgment against him. >> the case is a complete and total sham. a sham case. there were no victims, no defaults, no damages, no complaints. there was nothing. >> trump supporters are aiming to do something with the 355 million penalty donating so far over 430,000 in a gofundme. in addition specialty sneakers unveiled by trump this weekend are reselling online for thousands. i asked nikki haley about that this weekend. >> you need a president who can serve eight years, disciplined, focused and ready to get to work. not someone focused on selling tennis shoes or sitting in a courtroom. >> the former president is set to arrive here in the state tomorrow. dana and jacque. >> dana: trump says he does plan to appeal the ruling. trey gowdy is the host of sunday night in america and former federal prosecutor and joins us now. this is president trump on the

specific new york civil fraud case. he was in michigan. watch here. >> it's a sham case. the judge just fined me $355 million for doing everything right. 355. and these repulsive abuses of power are not just an attack on me. they are really an attack on you and all americans. it is a disgusting thing. >> dana: all that for a victimless crime, trey. >> yeah. i will tell you this. drug cases are victimless crimes, too and we prosecute them. my biggest problem with what's happening in new york is he has targeted. when james and bragg ran for office they ran on a platform of going after him. dana, you may remember as i do eight years ago ted cruz attacked new york values on a presidential primary debate stage and donald trump defended new york. he defended new york values.

i wonder what his answer would be right now when you have an attorney general and d.a. who run for office not on prosecuting crime but on prosecuting an individual. so if that's where we're headed as a country, that is dangerous territory. was it a technical violation of the law? maybe it was. but if you look hard enough at anyone, you will find something, which is why you don't prosecute people, you prosecute crimes. >> jacque: to that point there is a lot of concern in the business community this could happen to anybody and apparently enough concern that kathy hochul reportedly told business leaders you have nothing to worry about. and that headline alone would indicate that this is a political prosecution. sub text is we believe most people do the right thing and do their business well. just saying that you have nothing to worry about. what do you take from that? >> well to quote barack obama,

there are 56 other states. i think there are 49, but most of those other 49 would welcome businesses out of new york. my home state of south carolina certainly would. so if you are going to use your d.a. and attorney general to target people based on political orthodoxy, maybe you ought to find another state with, i don't know, maybe lower taxes and a better crime rate and there are 49 of them. >> dana: i want to ask you about the state to yourself. i know you are in south carolina. in georgia all eyes there last week. fani willis and all that. i was doing the geography and hoping i was right. the atlantic. recusal is the right course for the fulton county district attorney even if the judge rules if her favor. it seems obvious that would be the conclusion to fair-minded

people. what will she do, though? >> probably fight. i don't know -- look, potential conflict is usually enough to get d.a.s either recused or recuse themselves. just a potential conflict. because it is -- what is the use in having a verdict if people don't have confidence in it? so look, she and nathan wade. i'm interested in the conversations they had with the white house. even lay that aside. they are flawed characters prosecuting this case. so even if they were successful, there would be an asterisk by it. go find two prosecutors who aren't dating one another in georgia. it shouldn't be that tough. go find two. sheer the down side to what president trump is trying to do. i would love it for these two folks to prosecute me. from what i saw neither one of them are very good. the danger is they get kicked off the case and you find two that are really good at what they do. sometimes you have to be careful

what you want. >> jacque: there has also been a discussion it would be too vast of a case to pass on to someone else. is it? you are an expert. >> no. you know, the only people who think cases are complicated are the ones actually prosecuting it. what case isn't complicated? you have to convince 12 people in an environment where 12 people don't agree on anything. look, it would take -- it would take a good lawyer, maybe two weeks to get up to speed on something like this. so nothing is too complicated to pass off to another set of prosecutors who know what they are doing. >> dana: with a brain like yours it would probably take an hour, thanks for starting our monday with us. >> i didn't even know where georgia was. i had to do the math in my head. thank you for saying that. >> dana: take care zblsh zblsh

hundreds of protestors are detained throughout russia and navalny's widow continues her husband's work. benjamin hall in london with more. >> yes, around the world people are coming out to mourn of death of navalny to stand up and try to remember the one person who people thought could lead russia to democracy. that dream for many people has now disappeared. inside russia support is being crushed. people laying flowers for navalny are being arrested shutting down any support for the man who fought for democracy, freedom and the end to the war. navalny's body itself is still missing. his mother was pushed out of the morgue in siberia when she tried to see it. his widow says he was poisoned with the same drug he was poisoned with back in 2021 and also reports of the fsb, the subsequent kgb at the prison two

days before he died. despite the danger navalny's wife says she will continue his fight. >> by killing navalny, putin killed half my heart and soul but i still have the other half and it tells me i have no right to give up. >> his death sends a clear message from putin a few months before election in russia. no opponent will stop him. in the u.s. there are calls to make russia a state sponsor of terrorism. >> let's make russia a state sponsor of terrorism under u.s. law and make them pay a price for killing navalny. it would allow that family to go to u.s. court and sue putin's russia for killing of their loved one. >> if i may allow a side note. if you want to talk about innocent people russia killed we have to remember our producer and cameraman killed in ukraine.

just like navalny they were innocent trying to bring out the truth. on this day and over the weekend many people are realizing russia is no closer to democracy and trying to stamp out any sense of freedom. jacque. >> jacque: we miss them every day. thank you so much. later in hour general jack keane will join us with more reaction to the fallout after the russian opposition leader's death. >> joe biden makes you want to listen to him. that's why he should be leaning on his vice president, kamala harris. >> dana: concern growing by the day. anxious -- >> jacque: he is returning to the white house with a public schedule hardly jam-packed. surprise, surprised. is he staying too much in the background as more problems pile

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>> jacque: a sheriff's office in florida releasing body cam footage of a sheriff's deputy rescuing a baby from a car accident. the video might be disturbing to some viewers. >> is your baby okay?

>> my baby. >> there is a pulse? mom. >> jacque: that 6-month-old baby was not breathing before the rescue. but all are recovering now. that deputy is a hero. >> dana: wow. >> president biden will have to go out and litigate this election. obviously his age will be an issue. >> i think biden, as painful as this is, should find his way to stepping down as a hero. >> he is another aspiring candidate. there is nothing about joe biden that makes you want to listen to him. it sounds crazy we are saying that about the president of the united states of america. he has no main character energy at all. >> dana: growing criticism on the left over president biden's age and electability. bring in congressman debbie

dingle, from michigan. this is the quotes out there and what we're seeing. polling data in fer monmouth. confidence in biden's mental health to carry out another term not too much or not at all. abc poll said 86%. nate silver writes this. biden needs to reassure the american public he is capable of handling public appearances that aren't on easy mode or needs to stand down or he will probably going to lose to trump. how will democrats get through this if president biden doesn't give the american people more confidence that he has the ability to be president for a second term? >> well, good morning, dana. good to see you. first of all i will tell you that i am the one person that never believes -- i was the person in 2015 and 2016 when

everybody said clinton would win and that donald trump could win. i was right. what i think is that joe biden needs to be allowed to be joe biden. i was with him a couple of weeks ago for eight hours and he was the joe biden that i know. when he is talking to people, he is energized and cares about issues and he is joe biden. joe biden, there is nobody better than joe biden. i think the campaign needs to let him get out there and be who he is and i also am sick and tired of everybody talking about his age. when you look at the age of donald trump, which is only a couple of years younger, who has 91 felony counts against him and goes on rants that make no sense. the one he did a week ago saturday night. >> dana: would you knowledge that president trump presents as somebody fully with it, with the energy despite the age.

people age at a different rate. >> look, i've been with him. yes, i can tell you when i spent eight hours with him, you know me, dana, i had very direct, blunt conversation about every issue there was to discuss in michigan. he was engaged fully on it and we had very intense conversations. when he was with people in the uaw hall in the restaurant, the man was the joe biden i've known forever. engaged, talking issues and converting uaw workers that weren't sure. >> dana: let me ask you about michigan in particular. fox news poll showing that president trump if election was held today 47/45. it has been razor thin in michigan the last few elections. and because it's so close, it's very interesting i want to get your take one of your fellow democrats of michigan calling on democrats to boycott voting for biden in the primary this week. watch here. >> it is also important to

create a voting block, something that is a bull horn to say enough is enough. we don't want a country that supports war of destruction. we want to stand up for every single life killed. we feel completely neglected and unseen by our government. if you want us to be louder, then come here and vote uncommitted. >> dana: that blunt conversation questions that you had for president biden, did you ask him how he would handle somebody like this in the democratic party being so aggressively working against him? >> i had a very direct conversation with the president about -- i used to live in dearborn. the president has set his team to talk to them. if you listen to rashida she is not saying don't vote in november for joe biden. i will tell you something nobody

focuses on. michigan has an early primary. we need to be talking about issues and primaries that will be the issues in november. i know the president has heard it and has to deal with this issue. i have a lot of constituents, a lot of people that are neighbors and friends who are hurting, have lost family, scared for their family who have no food, no healthcare, no water. this is an issue that he has got to talk about with people. donald trump doesn't offer any solutions, either. >> dana: my last question axios is reporting people within the biden administration, democrats think his state of the union in two weeks is his public reset moment. do you think he will be able to clear that bar on march 7th? >> i think i agree that it is a very important speech. of course i agree he can clear that bar. this is a man that cares deeply, that is engaged and knows he whats to show the american people he is hearing them and

will fight for them for the next four years. it is an important speech and clear the bar and do exactly what he did a year ago. >> dana: maybe we'll see you there at the state of the union. congressman dingle, thank you so much. have a great day. >> you, too, thanks. >> jacque: nikki haley is making a campaign stop in sumter, south carolina ahead of the gop primary there. five days out. she spokes to john roberts saying she is staying in the race and has been talking about illegal immigration and just now she was speaking about homelessness and how it affects veterans. we'll keep tabs on this and bring you any headlines that come out of it. >> we want transparency. we want the same opportunities as these illegal citizens. >> housing should be first priority who to those who live

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harlem. alexis mcadams has more on the story. the residents of this community didn't like this idea so much. >> no, they did not like this. they were very unhappy and they had a lot of questions, right? they wanted to know why migrants would move into this luxury building behind me in new york city when they have so many people in this neighborhood who are new yorkers that have nowhere to live. watch. >> people are living sometimes two and three generations in one apartment and now you don't even want to give it to them. you want to bring outsiders in. what does that look like? you have to take care of the residents that are already here. >> that's the pushback there in that meeting. that's the building now at the center of the controversy in new york city. supposed to be a luxury condo complex in harlem. it whats a pool, marble bathrooms and an outdoor track. according to reports the developers who put this up went bankrupt and the building has sat empty for a decades. locals just found out the city was going to use the condos for

temporary housing for migrants after they saw crews bringing in beds and mattresses. they pushed for answers here. new york city mayor eric adams has now reversed course promising it will no longer be a migrant shelter. fed up with the lack of resources from the white house. watch. >> the law does not allow me to deport anyone. that's a federal authority. i'm getting nobody from washington. they promised $130,000,000,000 and didn't give us that and costing us $12 billion of taxpayer dollars. >> the department of social services says this in part. instead of sitting vacant it will serves as transitional family the long term city families with children experiencing homelessness. the migrant crisis shows no sign of slowing down, right? we see migrants coming in on a daily basis. the mayor says we're running out of room and resources and wants

the president to do something about it, dana. >> dana: thank you. >> jacque: outrage and sorrow after the prison debt of russian opposition leader alexei navalny. his wife called out president putin for his debt and concerns about russia deploying nuclear weapons into outer space. jack keane, a senior strategic analyst. don't want to take your title down a notch. general. appreciate your time. first to navalny. russia is trying to psychologically torture this poor woman by not returning the body of her husband. is it also possible that in addition to sending a message to other people who oppose the regime, that they could be erasing evidence of what happened to him? >> oh yeah, certainly. the pattern of behavior with

putin for 24 years now is to literally kill off his opponents. anybody that has any consequential following whatsoever, assassination on the street, assassination by poisoning, and we don't know what the circumstances that brought on his death here but certainly putin is likely behind it by simply imprisoning somebody that shouldn't be put in prison or having a direct hand in causing his death. listen, it also is very revealing about putin. look at this guy. he is brutal, a thug, ruthless and he shares the same attribute that all dictators do. he is paranoid and insecure about his own people. he doesn't want opposition because he is afraid opposition will point out the weaknesses

against his regime. xi in china is paranoid. it is a secret he fears his own people more than adversaries like the united states. that's what is playing out right before our eyes here. >> jacque: you bring me to the next topic. you bring up chinese president xi and there is this reporting that fox news confirms the administration has been pressuring china and that effort is getting underway now to push russia not to deploy this emerging nuclear capability in space that would have far-reaching consequences for everything from gps systems to economy to the operations and communications of our military. michael waltz, congressman, was on with us last hour and said this about what the administration needs to do. >> we need to be communicating to the russians consequences if they violate what is a 50-year-old strategy of not putting nukes in place. we can't take a

concessions-based approach. we have to put in place real consequences and the russians have to understand that we mean it. that we have the political will to implement. that's what i'm looking for going forward >> jacque: do you see president xi teaming up with president biden on that >> let me circle back for a second on the previous question. so our viewers understand, right now putin is spending 9% of gdp on his war footing economy. sanctions haven't had much impact on him. the best way to uphold what navalny stands for is to stop putin in ukraine. punish him. take away his military entrepreneur and capability he has put together for the second time and it would have profound impact on the people's impression of him. dealing with this other question on the russia putting a nuclear weapon in space, i mean, what we

have to take a look at here is certainly that is a serious issue, nobody can take it lightly. congressman turner certainly wanted to make certain the american people understood what was really happening here. so you say to yourself what is putin really up to here? he knows if he sets off a nuclear weapon in low orbit with our satellites, it would burn his and his friends as well. what he is seeking here is leverage. having that capability. he knows this. he knows that -- it has already been established. >> jacque: i'm so sorry we're out of time and i would love to have you finish that thought. we ran out of time. i am so sorry. we'll talk to you about this soon i'm sure. >> dana reads sports. >> dana: believe it or not the

greatest three point shooter of all time gets pushed to the brink in an historic contest against the nba's biggest rising star. curry beat in the first three-point contest ever to include wnba players. i hope to see more. >> he said he had to be perfect on that one. ten seconds. he got it. he got it. look at that. >> dana: he won but it was close. i could never do that. that's a lot of pressure. >> jacque: a ton of pressure and they pulled it off with all the eyes watching. >> dana: and having a great time. there you go with that little sports update for this morning. manhattan's liberal d.a. downgraded many felonies last year. the message that sends to

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>> dana: welcome back. fox news alert. we told you the president would leave delaware headed back to the white house and might take questions when he got there. he did it again. you can barely hear him but listen here.

>> [inaudible question] . >> would you go as far to say the navalny's blood is on republican's hands right now? >> president biden: they are making a big mistake not responding. the way they're walking away from nato and the threat of russia and the way they are walking away from meeting our obligations is just shocking. i've never seen anything like this. [inaudible question] >> president biden: i hope so. >> [inaudible question] >> president biden: we already have sanctions but considering additional sanctions, yes. >> [inaudible] questions >> dana: i can't stand it when the white house says this. they want the president to make news. you can't hear him and what he

is saying is important. i actually don't think it's incumbent upon me to explain to you what the president said. he was talking about how disappointed in the republican party walking away from nato, not taking the russia threat seriously and it's shocking they are walking away and said on ukraine aid he is hopeful but not sure congress can do it. ask are they considering more sanctions on russia after navalny's murder he said we have a lot. we're thinking of others. how is that summary? >> pretty good. >> dana: everybody could hear me. imagine. >> jacque: i want to know how the white house team gets the video and isolates the audio to hear who he was talking about meeting with. that answer he gave as he was walking up. was he talking about meeting with mike johnson. >> dana: am i wrong that this is a ridiculous strategy? >> jacque: very hard to hear. >> dana: attacks on nypd

officers are surging to record rates. 1300 cops were injured in the line of duty during the last three months of 2023. that brings last year's total to more than 5300 injured officers, up 13% from 2022. fox news contributor paul mauro is here with us. are these numbers based on your experience shocking to you in terms of injuries? that could be career-ending. >> it can be. remember something. we're short 3,000 cops as it is. so you are taking all these people off the street at a time we need them more than ever. obvious things in play. lack of propers cougs and atmosphere against the police that perm -- when it is when a foot four police officers going up against 6'7 and gets

compliance. how does that work? the perp feels the authority. the entire system embodied in that person. you control the situation. the perps feel that and how you gain compliance. not necessarily a physical thing where you have to use pepper spray. it happens. the authority that you represent and embody is what gains you compliance. that fourth wall has been broken. it has been normalized to attack police and not respect that authority and you see the results not only in the injuries to the cops but in the conditions of the city. >> jacque: what you hear from so many officers they are afraid to use deadly force if it's necessary because of everything that happens to them after ward. obviously the defund the police movement, everything in the wake of that has had a terrible effect on retention. a lot of people retiring, difficult to recruit. is it in your mind getting any better? >> no. jacque, you are right on the salient point. aside from the fact they're very

receipt sent to deploy deadly force or serious physical force, there is a law on the books here courtesy of the new york city counsel, probably the most anti-police body in the country and that's saying something. if you depress the diagram of the perpetrator attempting to make an arrest you are guilty of a misdemeanor. alvin bragg won't drop that. they see not only injuries to themselves but their entire lives going down the drain everything they worked for. >> dana: the manhattan district attorney's office. the number of felony charges downgraded, right? in 2021, 658, 2022, 738. 2023, 938. it sends a signal to the criminals it's okay.

>> another metric embedded that is telling the. in addition to the fact that these are all being downgraded. which means they are getting right out. you arrested for a felony, downgraded to misdemeanor. they go right out the door. it's a summons and out you go. most of which they don't even answer. the arrests in manhattan are up 1/three. what does it tell you? they have a cops working. these guys are out there trying to do the job. everything they do is instantly in front of their eyes. whatever work you do. you come to work, on the air. before the shift is over they erase everything you did when you go home. at what point do you stop showing up? >> jacque: how many of those people being arrested have been arrested before. lenient bail laws and downgrading charges and you have a real issue. >> dana: california. >> it doesn't happen that they are hard on repeaters.

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>> there were 14 candidates in the race. we've defeated a dozen of the fellows. i have one more fellow to catch up to. the majority of americans disapprove of joe biden and donald trump. we don't anoint kings in this country. we let the people vote. >> jacque: nikki haley has one more hurdle to clear to secure the party nomination. the former south carolina governor is making a final push in her home state with five states to go in the primary there. john roberts is co-anchor of america reports and moderated a town hall with nikki yesterday. do you think fence sitters made their decision yesterday? >> good morning. good to see you. you talk about there being one more hurdle for nikki haley to climb. that's akin to climbing mt. everest in the middle of winter because the difference and distance between her numbers and president trump's numbers even

in south carolina, her home state is vast. he is 30 points ahead. in the real clear politics average when you get into california and texas, he is upwards of 60% ahead. she has a giant hill to climb. as far as were minds changed yesterday? much of what she said we have heard on the campaign trail. particularly when she says she has beaten all these other candidates. she has hung in longer than anybody else. a lot of people like ron desantis and tim scott saw the writing on the wall. i think she gave good answers yesterday to the audience questions. it was a very spirited back and forth that she was having with the crowd. crowds in south carolina, voters are always great and i think everybody enjoyed themselves yesterday. >> dana: what was the mood in the room? do they realize that the polls are what they are and this is an unlikely scenario that nikki haley would best trump on saturday? >> i think everybody had a read of what her chances are but still out there supporting her.

they believe -- i don't think they think she can win but i think they want to make a statement that they believe there is maybe somebody else that should be in the race that donald trump shouldn't just cruise through the nomination. a lot of pressure in coming down on her from his campaign and his supporters for her to drop out of the race and clear the path so trump doesn't have to spend time campaigning in any of these big states coming up. particularly super tuesday where you have 16 states all voting for more than a third of all the delegates. that takes a lot of time. she made the point trump will spend much of his time in a courtroom. he said he will campaign at night if he has to do that. she is presenting herself as an alternative. i don't know how much buy-in there is for that. >> jacque: she has made the case there is no incentive for her to drop out. last man standing against trump so to speak. did you get any time with her behind the scenes at all to answer the question we all have covering her, which is are her

donors getting anxious that she is burning money for a futile cause? >> i didn't talk to her about that yesterday at the town hall or in the meeting that we had prior to the town hall. i had asked her on that on america reports earlier. one of the big things and one of the things i can't fully understand, if she goes into this coming saturday and loses and loses badly she will have the cloud as a popular governor who couldn't win her state. if she wants to try it four years from now it will hang over her head. her donors want to see her carry through until the early contests in march. the 16 states and see how she performs. talked to karl rove about the endgame. the idea she will give it her best shot come hell or high water she will do whatever she does and have a good life regardless. >> dana: she does have a point to make about the fact there

were all those candidates in the race and now there is only the one remaining. tomorrow night, john, there will be a town hall on laura ingraham's show with former president trump. you had the one yesterday and you will see president trump tomorrow evening as we get closer to saturday and special programming sunday night. i will suit up see what i can pull together for saturday night. >> also america reports will be there friday and saturday as well and catch up with governor haley one more time and hopefully the former president as well. >> dana: great to have you on the show today. >> saturday, sunday. >> dana: i know. if peter were watching he would be so irritated because the other day i was like no, i have to work on saturday. now i'm confused, peter, you aren't the only one. great to have you here. thank you so much, jacque. sandra smith will take you through the next hour of "the faulkner focus." here she is.