coming back to haunt president biden. they have cropped up at his office and home and now his own attorney general is launching a special counsel investigation. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm dana perino. >> bill: i'm bill hemmer. we should start our fake company and sell it to the big wiggs in new york. >> dana: as long as it's not crossfire. >> bill: the story here now in washington initially broke earlier in the week when the president was in mexico. reporters asked him about it there and where the week began. >> president biden: i was briefed about this discovery and surprised to learn there were any government records that were taken there to that office. but i don't know what's in the documents. >> dana: house speaker kevin mccarthy is not buying it accusing the white house of a cover-up. >> he knowingly knew this happened going into election, going into interviews. this is what makes america not trust their government. >> bill: that's for sure. some of the documents were found

inside the president's garage with his corvette. hence the "new york post" headline anybody vette this guy? we have a look at past cases involving classified information. let's begin the hour david spunt reports at the department of justice where he was yesterday when the news broke. david, hello. >> two special counsels investigating two presidents in a span of two months. welcome to the department of justice. it has been busy. robert hur is the latest special counsel on the job as of yesterday to specifically investigate these classified documents taken from the president's home in wilmington, delaware and his office at the penn biden center. jack smith, the appointed is neck deep and the president

trump documents. attorney general garland who has lived in a pressure cooker the past six months was most recently with the president in mexico. they sat together and spoke multiple times on the trip. a source says the attorney general never spoke to the president about this investigation, not in mexico or not ever. >> i strongly believe that the normal processes of this department can handle all investigations with integrity. but under the regulations, the extraordinary circumstances here require the appointment of a special counsel for this matter. >> another interesting fact when garland announced jack smith to oversee the trump document investigation november 18th he knew the current president biden, his boss, had trouble looming over the classified documents. don't forget john durham. the third special counsel working since 2019 trying to put pieces together on the trump/russia narrative.

durham got an f.b.i. employee to plead guilty to falsifying a document in 2020 and lost twice in court and spent almost $7 million and his investigation has touched five calendar years. the end of the story right now, oh is it the end of the story? three special counsels as part of the justice department. back to you. >> bill: doesn't get more swampy than that. david spunt, thank you, d.o.j. thanks. >> i think if you call a lawyer to remove something from your office he must have known ahead of time. i have think he has a lot to answer to the american public. the good thing about that is the american public has a congress that can get the answers. >> dana: kevin mccarthy saying it was no coincidence lawyers were involved to get the documents from his office in d.c. the press briefing yesterday with karine jean-pierre in a bit of a pickel.

>> i'm not going to get into hypotheticals. i won't get ahead of what the department is going to decide. >> saying it was found in a garage -- >> i'm just saying i won't go beyond what the president said. i completely -- mary, i completely understand. i just want to be very careful. >> dana: in a way, she was saved by the special counsel bell. >> yeah, you don't want to look like there is any intermingling between the white house and d.o.j. when an investigation is going on. the smart thing to sociality an investigation -- there is only so much i can answer. go ask the d.o.j. i felt like during that briefing yesterday we will have to start packing snickers. they will get long and brutal. in part because the president himself was very hard on the former president when the mar-a-lago thing played out saying how could you be so

irresponsible. that sound bite will play up again and again and any time the president has any interaction with the press. there is a white hot spot now on the d.o.j. about these are cases involving classified documents that were in unsecured settings. will you handle them is same way? big similarities and differences but a lot of pressure on the attorney general and d.o.j. to show it will be unbiased. >> bill: robert hur, who is he? grad of harvard and stanford law school u.s. attorney in maryland given a new job here. merrick garland, the attorney general, back on the 18th of november appointed a special counsel looking at donald trump in mar-a-lago. on november 18th he knew the synth president -- sitting

president had a problem. he had a problem going forward with one special counsel in mar-a-lago knowing that he may issue another one for the sitting president. did he have a conflict of interest at that time? if so, did he manage it correctly? >> that's where the special counsel comes in. it is intended for these exact sticky situations where the attorney general can't be personally involved in these really difficult decisions. you have this independent person. you give them rope to run. you are investigating this thing. i'm not involved and the white house is not involved with it. it is tough. by november 2nd these documents had been discovered and conversations with the national archives and d.o.j. about what to do. a prosecutor november 4th. he knew there was a situation involving the synth president. since then we have information there are two more.

a total of three classified document for this administration. the attorney general would be left with no other path but appointing a special counsel but that's what the special counsel is meant for, situations like this one. >> dana: when you prepare for "fox news sunday" because you have the news of the week and a look ahead, right? how will you approach this over the weekend? >> we're definitely going to dig into the document situation. the lawyer side of me wants to know more. we'll talk about the investigations. we're gearing up for as you all know all of these investigations in the house. it gives another opening for house oversight that announced all kinds of things they want to look into and said now they'll look into the documents as well and raise questions about the penn biden center and the chinese money rolling in allegedly. we'll talk to two house members from either side of the aisle. what can they work together on and about the investigations

that will divide the house? talk to the youngest governor in the country sarah huckabee sanders had some bold moves and hit the ground running. >> dana: i think first former press secretary and first female governor there. >> dana, you're next. >> dana: no thanks, i'm good here. good to see you. >> see you guys. >> bill: president biden adding his name to other high profile americans to handle national security secrets. will he face charges for violating the law? we have a look at that now. what's the forecast? >> presidents biden and trump are far from the only high-profile americans to mishandle national security secrets. they prosecute people all the time. it is the very top tier of officials who usually escape facing u.s. law, which is very

clear how classified information must be handled. not allowed is making shortcuts for convenience like the former secretary of state. >> when i got to work as secretary, i opted for convenience to use my personal email account, which was allowed by the state department because, i thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal emails instead of two. >> that was not allowed. also not allowed is sharing the nation's secrets with americans who don't have security clearances even if you are the top dog in intelligence. c.i.a. director petraeus learned the hard way. >> mistakes i made. as i did in the past i apologize to those closest to me and to many others, including those with whom i was privileged to serve in government and in the

military over the years. >> right now former president trump is arguing his powers of declassification when he was president were nearly mythical. >> president biden: there doesn't have to be a process as i understand it. different people say different things. if you're the president of the united states you can declassify by saying it's declassified even by thinking about it. >> at issue for the former and current presidents now is how far that presidential prerogative extends under u.s. law. and also in the court of public opinion. can the commander-in-chief be excused more violating national security policy. this is the decision before the d.o.j. and before american voters. >> bill: when we get an answer we wait on that. gillian turner in d.c. what's next. >> dana: major courtroom developments in the case of bryan kohberger. why he is waiving his right to a speedy trial. >> bill: a new batch of twitter

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taibbi. feinstein, blumenthal and schiff did not respond with requests for comment. >> bill: more questions on that coming up, right? the lawyer for the idaho murder suspect saying they plan to challenge the evidence against him in court. kohberger waiving his right to a speedy trial that sets the stage for what will be a five-day preliminary hearing in late june. >> are you waiving your right to a speedy preliminary hearing and agreeing that hearing can be held outside the 14-day period? >> yes. >> miss taylor, do you concur? >> i do. >> bill: let's bring nicole parker a former f.b.i. special agent. what is the strategy behind punting for five months on behalf of the defense? why would the state agree to it? >> every situation is different but it does give time for the prosecution to build the case. it is a complex investigation

and they serve a lot of subpoenas and doing work on the back end. it's a solid case right now in my opinion but you want to gather as much evidence as possible. >> dana: is it unusual for a defense attorney to say yes? >> i don't know what's going on in this instance. usually the prosecution is the one that wants to take as much time as possible. for someone to waive trial that's their right. >> bill: do you give the defense an advantage? >> you would think so. they have a solid case. it gives them more time to mount evidence against bryan kohberger. >> dana: we've been following the story of the missing mom in massachusetts, ana walshe. there is so much evidence that you can look at and say it makes a lot of sense pointing to the husband. he is being held because he was found to be impeding the investigation. the police statement says there was a case in 2014 that the case was closed because we were

unable to proceed due to the victim's cooperation. police report said that ana walshe reports and made a statement that he was going to kill her and her friend and that friend lives in massachusetts. hard to understand it with all the coding there. what do you make? >> it sound like this individual has a history of abusive behavior. looks like she had law enforcement contact and chose not to press charges. i've seen that many times in my investigative years where we know there is probably something going on. if they choose not to press charges law enforcement usually backs off. he has a pattern of behavior of threatening people and being abusive and dangerous. typically people don't change behaviors. if they have a pattern you will look at their track record to see what they are doing in the future. if that's his track record that is a solid indication he would continue behaving that way. in court something call rule 404b evidence not related to the crime we are looking at right

now in 2022 but it could be something that could be brought into court to show he has a history. >> dana: i'm worried about the three children. apparently the system usually means three young kids that are five and under could be split up into foster care? >> it is the case. p brian didn't think about the consequences of his behavior that will happen to his children. they say if there is nowhere to put the children they have to go into foster care and that a lot of times they are separated. >> bill: tough stuff here. you write why i left the f.b.i. three months ago i walked away from the f.b.i. and the career i once loved. here is why i had to leave after 13 years. what changed? >> i just want to start by telling you i love the f.b.i. the f.b.i. is a phenomenal organization and the number one

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the strength of this tornado evident. it took out an entire brick building. many would think it's safer in a tornado. unfortunately now six counties in the state of alabama under a state of emergency. we know six people lost their lives to our neighboring county. the information of the storm continues to grow as daylight continues here. we're learning more and the devastation goes on block after block after block. there are homes, businesses, and likely historical monuments. talking about a city known for history here in selma, alabama, that is now also going to remember this storm as part of its history. the greatest news i can give you right now is everyone who was inside this building, they made it out alive and so far we have not heard of any other deaths in the city of selma. we know that's not the case for others in states like georgia, kentucky and even mississippi that are also doing their own

damage assessments. today will be telling as we start to really evaluate the destruction that looks a lot like this to give us more information on just how strong this storm was. but again, it is about the people whose lives will be forever changed by a storm that has completely shredded so much of the historic city of selma, bill. >> bill: thanks, good to have you on the ground there and see how it goes from here. nicole, early days in selma. download the storm and latest there by following the fox weather app. download it now. it is free and online and there for you and a great device to have. >> dana: excellent app. >> bill: especially will the storms are coming. 32 past now. >> you have said repeatedly the president said he takes classified document very seriously. does he think the garage is an appropriate place to store classified material? >> he was sur profsed the records were there. >> why wasn't it immediately

addressed? can you clear this up? >> i don't have anything more to say. >> dana: reporters demanding answers from president biden's press secretary about the classified documents. she insists they are being transparent despite waiting weeks to tell the public about the discovery. a question i would ask is when did you know about these documents? did they not tell her? that is possible. which i would be furious if that was the case. did you know november 2nd. did they not tell you november 18th when they appointed a special counsel to look into trump? did you find out this week? when we did? those are questions you can't say the lawyers told me i can't answer that. if that's the case they may know the answer. >> those are fantastic questions and maybe you and i and bill and several other people can form our own crisis communications

team because ultimately before we even get into the legality. i take the lawyer hat off here. my question is and i'm sure you are fascinated by this, too, dana and bill as well. why in the world did they allow this story to break without every aspect of the classified documents to release at once? look, remember, in the timeline here is so significant and i look at my notes. november 2nd we had, according to attorney general merrick garland yesterday, the initial discovery. they did not find these further documents allegedly inside the garage beside the corvette until december 20th. according to their timeline they found another document on january 11th. that a business time frame between november 2nd and december 20th when they made a second discovery. they new the second discovery

occurred when the story of the first documents being found came out. i'm filled with questions. who was searching? why did they allow this story to come out without all of the details surrounding it? and how much of a mess is this? we are looking right now at the advertisement that they did in 2020 of joe biden with his corvette and in that background you can see on the wall potentially some of these documents, these boxes stacked up inside of joe biden's garage. you guys know, everybody out there who has a garage knows if you have a home, the place that you take your refuse that you don't believe deserves to be inside, there you can see as he backs up you can see those documents, is the garage. so this is, i think, a huge mess for joe biden. not just legally, but politically. i think, guys, it takes completely off the table any possibility of donald trump being charged for mishandling

confidential documents completely. >> bill: let me read some headlines. there is a question involved here about the future politically. it appears joe biden was getting ready to run for another term. usa today, biden's classified documents debacle could become a liability. bloomberg, the headache worsens. it creates unexpected political peril. how might the election be impacted by biden's classified document deal as seen from the lens perhaps of mar-a-lago? which was served its own papers in november, clay. >> look, i have think this is super significant. why i go back to the timeline. the initial discovery was made november 2nd. they say they turned it to the national archives the next day. it is before the mid-term

elections occurred. as tight as this mid-term election was, can you imagine what the impact would have been if a couple of days before the mid-terms we had suddenly found out wait a minute, joe biden has his own classified document scandal because the thing that democrats relied on the most, i would say, abortion, second was the threats to democracy and the mar-a-lago raid and january 6th. it would have taken a lot of the potency away if the story came out before mid-term elections. department of justice new, biden white house knew. you know who didn't know? the american public. the american public deserved to know about this discovery. a lot of people aren't asking about this but why was joe biden and his employees and his

advisors, why were they given at minimum between november 2nd and all the way to january 11th to conduct their own search? donald trump wasn't given the ability. the f.b.i. got called in. why in the world do joe biden and his employees and advisors get a clans to do this? >> dana: in trump they had a month's long back and forth. >> they were still working with the national archives and with the department of justice still going through the document. they provided access to those documents and yet we didn't know anything about this. joe biden gets this opportunity to continue to go through all these documents. have they found them all yet? >> dana: i doubt it. that's my opinion. just an opinion. i would imagine where there is one there is probably more. >> bill: thank you so much. we'll catch you on radio. thank you. >> dana: have a good weekend. >> appreciate you all.

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which could be anywhere from 0 to 500 employees as much us a 1500 and big business. we saw the complexity by just getting simple. that is simply this. the american people know this but congress needs to know this. less policy equals greater product yvette profitened get out of the way. business people solve problems every day. if they don't they go out of business. they figure it out. congress on the other hand don't figure anything out. raise the debt limit. kick it to the next session of congress and keep putting out more and more policies that restrict entrepreneurship, restrict capitalism. she is saying hey, it's time for government to get out of the way and let us make more money. here is the irony on all of that. when we spin off more revenue and more money the politicians get more of those tax dollars. so they need to just take a clue

and back up a little bit and get out of the business of business. >> bill: you can't run a business the way washington is running its business. here is more of her point. you talked about a lot of things she said. another point about immigration. >> when a border crisis allows millions to cross illegally into this country but we can't get visas processed for engineers and nurses, businesses are desperate to hire and communities need, government isn't working. when you've got the most significant new investment in infrastructure in a generation and business is ready to build but projects can't get approved, government isn't working. >> bill: you can't run your business that way, ken. >> no, you can't. look at what she said. business owners and leaders in business, bill, when there is a lid they do everything they can to remove the lid. they find a way. it is called innovation. that is where it comes from, a

problem that is solved with a lack of resources. she is saying we have the resources, talent we can bring in. the government is so focused letting illegal immigrants come in and the position we're taking. let them come in. what you need to do let's let the people who are authorized to come in, who need to come in and want to come in and who can make a difference in our country, let's fast forward that process. infrastructure. we have the ability to do it but we don't have the permission to do it. this is nonsense. at some point she has to keep taking this case to the american people. this is not a right or a left, liberal or conservative issue. this is really about allowing the american people to live the american dream, to pursue what thomas jefferson wrote in the declaration of independence, the pursuit of happiness. to build my business and pay people how i want to pay them.

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governor greg abbott wants lawmakers to specifically address keeping violent offenders behind bars. in a letter to the state house speaker abbott says in part quoting here, it is clear that the ankle monitors, a condition of their parole, were not effective in deterring or otherwise preventing these individuals from going on to commit violent crimes resulting in three innocent lives being lost. the governor is talking about two cases in the dallas area last year where three citizens were murdered by convicted criminals out on parole. one was a 30-year-old, convicted felon allowed to leave jail for the birth of his child. he got in a fight with his girlfriend and killed a nurse. criminals are under electronic

mon org along the state and want tough penalties for those who remove monitors. advocates argue focus should be on prevention. >> if we have treatments and programs and things to address the things that drive people into committing crimes, like we would have never got far. we wouldn't need an ankle monitor. >> this session runs through may 29. keep you posted on whether it passes. >> bill: thank you, casey stiegel. >> we have a close relationship with our japanese allies. that close relationship will be on full display this week. we're prepared to discuss this case. it's a tragic case for all involved. we are working to find a compassionate resolution. >> dana: biden administration hoping to secure the release of navy lieutenant. he is serving a three-year

prison sentence in japan for his involvement in a deadly car accident. however, the fact that he lost control of the vehicle after suffering a medical episode apparently is not being taken into consideration by the japanese. joining me now is his wife, britney. thank you for joining us today. so about 40 minutes from now, president biden will meet with the leader of japan. and do you expect the president of the united states to press the leader to talk about releasing your husband? >> absolutely. when senator lee went to japan back in september, he shared the expectation that rich's transfer to the united states would take days, maybe weeks. certainly not months and not years. and we are well past that. >> dana: let's look at the timeline. in may of 2021 is when he fell

unconscious behind the wheel. in june of that year was charged with negligent driving. fast forward he gets his sentence and begins it in july of 2022. have you heard from him how he is doing? what is his condition now? >> we get 2, 30-minute visits with him every month. i would say as of our most recent two visits at the end of december and beginning of january, i think he is doing better than he was. >> dana: how are your children doing? >> it's hard. it's hard. they are all different ages, 4, 7, 9. they have different understandings of what is happening. the holidays specifically were incredibly hard. but rich and i both, to the best of our abilities, are just doing

what we can to make sure they know that they are loved and provide them with feelings of security and comfort and the knowledge that no matter when he comes home, he will come home and we will be together again as a family. >> dana: japan is one of america's greatest allies and one of the reasons there is this visit today at the white house. it is not like president biden is trying to negotiate getting your husband out of russia, for example. but do you have any indication of why the united states continues to -- we have a great relationship with japan. do you have any indication or have you heard from the biden administration what they might be able to do? tell us what mike lee was able to do for you and your family at the end of last year. >> first of all, our plan and benefits were set to be cut off

december 28th. that would have left me and my children with no income, housing or medical care. he was able to get an amendment put into the omnibus that would force d.o.d. to continue our pay and benefits. that was passed by unanimous consent in the senate. so we are incredibly grateful for that. because of that we can stay in japan and continue to have the minimal content with rich that we can. as far as the relationship with japan goes, we hear a lot about what great allies we are and what great friends we are. this is not how allies treat each other. i for one have been disgusted by this and i don't think we should be sending service members overseas to both defend our country and defend japan if

their basic rights are not going to be upheld. >> dana: you are a courageous woman and appreciate you come on the show. the meeting with the president biden and the japanese leader happening in 45 minutes. >> thank you so much. >> bill: she is in the right place. whether or not she can get answers. >> dana: julie banderas is in for harris faulkner. here she is. >> julie: fox news alert and good morning. president biden meeting with japan's prime minister this hour waiting to see if he will say anything about the gigantic elephant in the room. a special counsel now investigating how exactly classified files ended up in not 1 or 2 but three different private places tied to the now president. this is "the faulkner focus." i'm julie banderas in for harris. the document debacle has a