would have saved herself. >> big question. >> that's a cold heart truth. >> different scenario. >> and where is the stone, that's all i have to say. >> that's the biggest question. >> i thought she threw it in the ocean. >> you thought she did. >> when she was 90. >> you watched a different movie. all right. we will see you back here tomorrow. "america reports" now. >> sandra: a virginia school system claiming it was just an innocent oversight but their failure to notify students about the prestigious merit awards was not an isolated incident. at least 12 schools in the fairfax school system withheld the honors. >> john: the virginia attorney general is investigating to see if it was intentional as part of the county's equity.

bill says it's new structural racism. some schools think it's ok to discriminate against one group in favor of another. >> this has been six years in his garage, probably had a lot of people come over there, whether it's workers, whether it's staff, whether it's friends, like who knows. and they say they are being transparent but they are really not. >> why didn't they tell us about the ones in the garage when they knew it at the time. be transparent with the american people and treat everyone the same. that's all we are asking for. >> sandra: all right. lawmakers sounding off. begin "america reports" with a live look at the white house at this hour, a press briefing is scheduled this hour amid growing backlash for president biden as he struggles to explain how the classified documents ended up at his home and private office. hello, and welcome, i'm sandra smith in new york. john, welcome back to you. >> john: sandra, good to be with you. what about the guy who was detailing the vet? the white house has tried to

move past the story but lawmakers are pushing for answers. a growing number of democrats are frustrated with how the administration is handling the s scandal. republicans are pushing for investigations who might have had access to the documents. >> sandra: big question. aishah hasnie where the gop investigations stand, peter doocy is live on the north lawn for us. is president biden saying anything about this today, peter? >> nope, sandra, and it's not because people are not screaming questions to him about it. >> sir, why don't you tell us -- [indiscriminate talking] >> so look at this photo i took in 2019 outside biden's house. it shows the issues with the

lawmakers demanding secret service information. you see here, the secret service wasn't there. they left a few months after biden left the v.p. office and stayed gone for years, james comer says we will continue to press the biden administration for who had access to classified documents and why biden aides were permitted to rummage through the wilmington residence after a special counsel was appointed. and they are pushing back, face questions why they are politicizing this issue and admitting they do not care about underlying classified material. biden confidantes say they don't know. >> i expect as we get to know the facts better in the months ahead, we'll better understand what, if any, risk there was to national security. of course i respect the importance of proper handling of classified documents and i think at this point we are simply going to have to wait to hear what the special counsel

concludes. >> one second. and white house officials are going to talk about this a little bit more with a briefing later on this hour. sandra. >> sandra: that is expected just over 35 minutes from now, we'll be watching and listening for that. thank you. >> john: house republicans anxious to get going on their investigations into president biden's handling of documents, kevin mccarthy working through a break to fill assignments, and congressional correspondent aishah hasnie joins us in the studio. talk about the shoe being on the other foot here, we have laid a lot of the ground work. >> it would appear so. they have sent out record preservation notices, not to delete text messages, emails and representative mike johnson who will sit on judiciary tells fox house republicans are willing to go after president biden's family members and guests to get around the lack of visitor logs.

>> we'll have to seek it through system with family members or those in the residence. it's very, very important information for the american people. >> does that mean formal subpoenas and for who. johnson said they don't know yet, more to come on that. what we do know, john, republicans are ready to use the new judiciary subcommittee on the weaponization of government to get answers. speaker kevin mccarthy is meeting with top house republicans to finalize all the different committee assignments and he's got a lot of questions of his own about a.g. garland and the special counsels. listen. >> so it's not a fair process when you equalize this out. and that is what is wrong with the system. and is it right that garland should even be in charge of this? look, the house, we have a constitutional responsibility to oversee the justice department, and that also means overseeing the special counsel. so we will look into both situations. >> again, before they can do any

of that, they are going to wrap up their assignments of committees by the end of tomorrow first. as for the public hearings you might want to see, republicans tell us they are going to take their time gathering information, investigating first before announcing any hearings. they don't want to be salacious, but i can only imagine how many fireworks we are going to see in some hearings. >> and now we know what they are going to do for the next two years. >> oh, yeah, up to the evenings. >> john: i thought texas congressman dan crenshaw put it well this morning, took what president trump did and president biden did by itself, it probably wouldn't be that big a deal. but when the trump thing happened, the democrats "set the rules" and once you set the rules then the rules have to stay the same. that's why all of this with president biden is such a big deal as well. >> sandra: or no matter how you look at it, it is classified -- they are classified documents and they were found in a private home and we don't know who came

and went in that private garage, john. still huge questions at this hour, why we are watching for the press briefing, see what the white house is saying to peter's point, have not heard from the president yet. molly hemingway will be coming up top of the hour. >> john: she is curious that hunter biden listed the wilmington home as his primary residence he was renting for $50,000 a month and i assume that the documents were in the garage at that time. >> sandra: i wonder if there will be visiting logs to the private homes of sitting presidents for example after all of this is said and done. move on to the economy now, some huge numbers to look at. the u.s. is set to hit the debt ceiling in just two days, and there's a political standoff happening in washington over what to do about it. fox business team coverage now, jackie deangelis and taylor rigs

standing by, but first, hillary, can a split congress reach a deal with this deadline quickly approaching? >> sandra, it's not looking good, not looking like democrats are even interested in a deal. the white house saying they don't think they need to negotiate with republicans over the debt limit, and president trump himself saying republicans are being "fiscally demented" when it comes to the debt, but republicans say definition of insanity to enable out of control, irresponsible spending of money we don't have. >> i think it's a sign of arrogance if you say he would not even discuss it. you had a child and gave him a credit card and they kept raising it and they hit the limit. so you raised it again, clean increase, and again and again, would you keep doing that or change the behavior. six months away. why wouldn't we sit down now and change this behavior.

>> on thursday, the u.s. debt is expected to hit its limit of what is allowed, means no more borrowing more money to pay our bills. treasury secretary janet yellen says they will start moving money around to cover our bills until congress lifts the debt limit. yellen says that will buy them just a few months probably until june. >> i know that kevin mccarthy after his 15th vote for speaker had agreed that he would not raise the debt ceiling unless he extracts spending cuts, but you know, if we don't raise the debt ceiling we go into default. and that's enough to nuke the economy. we cannot have 15 defaults mirroring the 15 speaker votes to do what's right. >> not just spending, it's the interest we are paying off because we are spending money we don't have. latest estimate from the congressional budget office says the u.s. will spend about $400 billion in interest payments alone on this debt.

that's about $3,000 for every american family, sandra. >> sandra: hillary vaughn, important stuff on capitol hill. econ panel is here, jackie and taylor. i am so pumped to have you here together. >> thank you. >> sandra: and the launch of your big show january 23rd on the fox business network, the big money show, cannot wait for that. a sampling of what's to come. you are going to be taking on huge subjects like this, with this deadline quickly approaching, we are wondering what it means for all of us and do they work it out in washington? >> you hope they work it out in washington. republicans have control of the house, kevin mccarthy is in charge now. listen, the last time this happened we did not default but did get our credit rating downgraded by s & p, and that was a huge blow and black eye for america on the global stage. don't want to see that thing happen again even if they resolve it and work it out.

bottom line and what happened last time, republicans pushed the democrats and said you got to stop spending, we have to cut the spending. remember, sandra, this administration has spent over $6 trillion. >> sandra: put the number on the screen, it's hard to fathom, taylor, how that is. government spending since president biden took office, now looking at $6.25 trillion. this will fall in the laps of the american people and huge welcome to you. great to have you on the fox team. >> nothing like a good debate to kick us off here, i'm all here for it. i think jackie brings up a good point. a policy aspect, how do you rein in spending, use this sort of, call it an arbitrary number, a ceiling because it's movable, but i don't mean that lightly. but sort of a policy way to bring in spending, rein it in. from an economic standpoint, most economists, the good news,

think the u.s. will not default, it's such a big deal that most congress people even if they do not understand the way that that works, they would not even push us to the brink of default. so -- >> sandra: most people understand we are the gold standard and if that happens, we are no longer. serious implications that would result. >> and when you talk about complacency, it's a good job we are highlighting it to really understand how big of a deal $31 trillion really is. >> sandra: jackie i know you are teenager off what the president said on the state of the economy, especially what he said yesterday. >> i reduced the deficit last year $350 billion. and this year federal deficit is down 1 trillion plus dollars. these guys are the -- fiscally -- fiscally demented,

they don't quite get it. >> sandra: to remind everybody, the heritage foundation is doing, as the president makes comments like that, the cost of inflation and interest rates since the president took office, $7,400. people need to be reminded of that, because we are all paying for this. >> a lot of people watched that and said who exactly is fiscally demented here, because when it comes to bringing the deficit down, all that happened here was we, our deficit ballooned because of the pandemic, so some of those programs ran out and that's why the deficit came down. actually president biden spent so much money deficit would have come down 750 to 850 billion if he left things alone. the 350 he's talking about is because he spent so much money on top of it. and think about the 6 trillion in spending over the course of two years. that's very fiscally irresponsible. >> sandra: and by the way, lawmakers are seizing

politically on these moments, rick scott takes on that number and says with stats like that, the white house should not be bragging about that, it's an insult for the millions of americans struggling to make ends meet. and noting that fact, the wall street journal has a headline on their print edition this morning, the shopper rebellion against higher prices helped slow inflation. they are talking about the fact that more and more companies are hitting the brakes on these price increases, perhaps this is a glimmer of hope for the american consumer? >> you would hope so. we were laughing earlier, i called it the revenge spending. during covid, we were spending and buying things and now we are rebelling against that. prices have gone up so much, a lot of consumers are saying you know what, i'm going to wait and sit this out and maybe a month from now prices will be lower than they are today or just rising less rapidly. we got the big cpi print. tomorrow we will get the producer price index.

all that tells us, what it costs for the producer to make. what that translates into is what you and i will have to pay for it. you see glimmers of hope, and they say the only thing that cures high prices is high prices. >> sandra: a nugget in the article that a lot of the companies raised prices in anticipation of rising input costs, they were not set yet experiencing that. so having this momentary pause in price hikes, one might take a step back and if the costs do go up, you might see further price increases. it's really tough stuff. you are watching all of it and will do so on your new show. and throw brian into the mix, and your show is at 1:00, we'll have to have you back before the show starts, we won't be able to get you after.

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after a snowplow accident left him critically injured, announced it "mayor of kingstown," outside of my brain fog i was excited to watch episode with my family. he was run over by a snowplow while helping a family member. >> sandra: a long road to recovery. meantime, virginia's attorney general is investigating 12 high schools after they delayed notifying students of the qualification of national merit awards until after the deadline to apply for college scholarships. bill on the students left in the dark on that, begin with rich live in washington for us. didn't the school district say this only happened once? >> yeah, that's right, sandra. fairfax county schools initially described it as a one-time human error. officials now say up to more

than a dozen schools that failed to notify of the national merit recognitions. the attorney general says his office is investigating. suggested the notification delays are connected to the school district hiring an equity officer and pushing equal outcomes. >> we believe in equality of opportunity, but when you have a forced equal outcome, we get in dangerous areas in this country and my office of civil rights is doing this investigation to make sure there is no violation of anti-discrimination statute. >> a spokesperson for the school district denies that, and says 0 connection between equity work and the delay in notification. the consultant is working in collaboration with fcps and the community on strategic planning. to suggest a connection would be completely false. students ultimately found out about the awards, though for many too late to include on college applications.

high schools say they have since notified the colleges where these scholars applied and belatedly told them about the students' awards. they are awards given to high schoolers with the top psat scores in the country. more than a million and a half students apply nationwide, only 50,000 are recognized. the principals say they are sorry there was an error and are investigating. >> john: bill magurn, a member of the wall street journal editorial board, and started with thomas jefferson high school, number one public high school in the nation, said oh, unique case of human error. now up to 13 schools. some people might say one school is a mistake, 13 is a

conspiracy. >> yeah, let's remember two facts. most of the affected students, especially from thomas jefferson, are asian-american. and thomas jefferson is in the midst of a controversy how it changed its admissions to admit fewer asian-americans to make room for hispanics and black students. so they are the context for this that kind of belies the innocent explanations of the officials. maybe the attorney general will find out that it's all just bureaucratic mistake, but their actions so far in everything else create a lot of distrust. >> john: the attorney general who was on america's newsroom this morning did not suggest a hard and fast connection but did suggest that this happened about the same time as thomas jefferson was heavily invested in equity. listen here.

>> you know they hired an equity consultant, paid $450,000 for nine months of work. one of their directives was equal outcomes no matter what. >> john: equal outcomes no matter what. equal outcomes to some people is you, you know, rising tide lifts all boats. to others, take the people at the top tier and keep them from succeeding in order to look like everybody is performin he can - equity. >> kids who test in the top 1% are semifinalists for scholarship, top 3% are commended students. either one of those things you want on your college application, it's an

achievement. and maybe on another scholarship application for a corporate scholarship or something. so, some of these kids were unable to put it there. i think that's why we have an investigation. we don't know and it's just suspicious, going from one school to all of a sudden a dozen is like the biden documents, first there is one document and then they discover more and more. so we hope the attorney general gets to the bottom of it. >> john: you wrote about this in the wall street journal calling it the new structural racism. in part, what makes asian-american achievement so resented by our equity warriors, exposes as false the narrative of a racist america where minorities can't succeed. this progressive distaken for asian-americans amplified by moms and dads who believe they should have a say in their kids education. i mean, we had a korean neighbor of ours over for dinner on saturday night, she attended thomas jefferson, she is heavily

invested in her kids' education as well and quite successful. >> yeah, and look, a lot of the kids, what are we talking about. the federal judge in a case over the admissions talks about how they discriminate against asian-americans. that means some kids did not get in even though they qualified just because they are the wrong race. i mean, that's outrageous in america today. and it's happening not just in virginia, it's happening in a lot of places. look, it shows that affirmative action, which is intended to be benevolent and just a helping hand and meant to prevent no discrimination has morphed into this war where they have to deny asian achievement or figure out ways to get around it. and ways to kick these kids out. it's really ugly and i hope the supreme court looks at what's

happening, not just in virginia, but all over the country where similar stories are unfolding. >> john: it's a great read, your column in the wall street journal, thanks for coming on and lay it out, appreciate it. >> thank you very much, john. >> sandra: historic drought in the west leads one city to stop selling water to a neighboring suburb. they are completely out of water now and residents are scrambling to find h2o for their families and paying much higher prices on the private market. one of those residents is joining us live to explain why this could be a disaster in the making. >> john: plus, if you haven't noticed, egg prices skyrocketing. turning a food staple into a luxury item. and not just hurting americans to buy them at the supermarket. a restaurant owner will talk about the trying to keep prices low for his customers. >> scaled back how many eggs we

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>> john: fox news alert, standing by for the white house briefing where press secretary karine jean-pierre will take questions amid the classified documents scandal. we will monitor that and take you there when the questioning begins. sandra. >> sandra: thank you, john. a town in the arizona desert gets frozen out from the water supply as the community's long time water supplier, the neighboring city of scottsdale has turned off the tap for hundreds of homes. and scottsdale officials are saying drought has forced them to do this and they need to conserve water for their own buildings. but it's not adding up to the rio verde residents, who say they are violating the law. cody's water has been cut off and leading the protests against the city.

cody, this is hard for many of us to fathom, living in an american community where the closest city or town that controls the water supply says all right, times are tough, we don't have enough water right now, and we'll get their explanation in a second. we are going to cut off your community's water supply, and leave all these homes and residents without water. what is that like, first of all? >> well, first of all, thank you john, sandra, for having me here and hearing the rio verde foothills plight we are in. segment might not be long enough to go over the history what got us here, i'll get to the point. what gets us out of this situation is scottsdale allowing water that we have at our disposal to go through their pipes, to, for them to process it and serve it to where they have historically served it to us in the past, a stand pipe about 20 minutes outside of our

community. they have ceased operations at that stand pipe, will not allow anyone from rio verde to get the water. we met the requirement, the mayor and the city manager of scottsdale refuse to allow it to move forward. >> sandra: and they are obviously providing their reasoning for doing this, they have to keep operations up and running in the main city there or else they lose power, resources, hospitals, they are providing their reasons for doing this, ok. and they are also warning that this could get a whole lot worse and the arizona water source resource director is warning of possible further cuts to the water supply in surrounding neighborhoods. >> these cuts are not even going to stabilize the level of the lake, it's going to continue to fall unless we do more, perhaps in arizona as much as twice as what we are doing next year.

>> sandra: so you have to prepare for that, and the fact that lake meade is drying up, a huge part of the problem. as a resident there you knew it was kind of coming, right? look at the residents that live there, 2,327 of them in rio verde, the average household median income is affluent area, $125,000, the average sale of a new home there, $797,000. as of december 2022. why are so many people choosing to live in an area where this is a known problem? >> if you would pay a visit to the area, it is the most special, beautiful place in all of arizona. i'm very passionate on this issue. there's a lot at play here. it's just -- it's really serious. scottsdale could open the taps, give us the water that we have at our disposal. we offered double the going rate for the water and the supply of

the water and the offer made was so generous and gracious that it opened the possibility and the ability of other water haulers, not just the water hauler that brought it to the table but any and all to access the water for rio verde. >> sandra: just to be clear, it's an unincorporated area, you rely on water from the colorado river, it supplies about 35% of arizona's water, we can put the drought map up. the drought situation, it is dire, it is serious, but it is not even the worst in arizona. cody, it's a story we are certainly going to continue to follow, it's affecting a lot of people and families there. quick final thought, obviously you are speaking out so passionately on it. >> i actually have a plan, if our federal officials would listen to me. i have a plan for the entire western united states. i will lay that plan out at a later time. i need our senators, senator sinema and senator kelly to speak with me and speak with the

people of rio verde foothills and look at our situation. it cannot be allowed to go on any longer. we are 17 days without water to over 1,000 homes in the united states of america. >> sandra: it's capturing national attention for sure. we are telling the story, we'll continue to report on it. thank you very much for joining us, cody. our best to you. >> thank you. >> john: green energy solution that could be at odds with mother nature, are wind farms doing more harm than good when it comes to local wildlife. very troubling signs along the beaches of new york and new jersey. critics say it's time to hit the pause button on the project. >> sandra: and new video highlighting the dangers of human smuggling at the border. more democrats are sounding the alarm. will the white house take action. tom homan has action on that. >> and people are vandalizing

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he can to stop illegal aliens from getting to new york city, no. if you are in new york city, get arrested for a crime, released back to the streets, not turned over to ice, you get monitor help to fight your immigration case, a driver's license, and a job, so you know, he's his own worst enemy, but i'm glad he went to the border. even some democrat politicians are speaking up about it. it's a crisis, history crisis. december numbers have not been released yet, the highest number of aliens to cross the border in a single month in the history of this nation. over a quarter million in december. >> john: and that's december as well. but january numbers you said are coming down. >> i said for weeks, the secretary is creating a process that i think is illegal, he's just going to legalize illegal immigrants, going to go south and make a program to bring them into a port of entry, 30,000 a

month, and they did not solve the border crisis, did not secure the border. they are just making a class of illegal aliens quasi legal to come to the united states for a two-year period and get a job, never going to work and will lose in court. >> john: the new parole court that president biden announced, venezuelans, cubans, nicaraguans, and haitians, 30,000 a month will be allowed if they apply for the visa in their home country. a lot of people are on their way or waiting at the edge of the border or crossing over as we speak who may look at that and say oh, if i cross the border illegally i can't get myself up to cbp because they are going to send me back because i'm not in this parole program. could that lead to more got-aways, more people avoiding capture? >> absolutely, absolutely, record number of got-aways from the specific countries. they are not going to stop, they are going to come and they come

because the border is not secure. they are going to come, 80% of agents are off the line processing the big groups. they know it's wide open, keep coming. the policy is not only illegal and will lose in court but will not change the dynamics. >> john: where we started, democrats are turning on democrats over the immigration issue. mayor adams from new york city, i know you say you are not a fan of, telling governor hochul i may have to bus some migrants to upstate new york and he's not happy with the governor because she did not even mention immigration in her state of the state speech last week. >> governor hochul, she's talking about -- i have some friends in new york state legislature, she's talking about creating opportunities for employment on illegal aliens on dairy farms and so forth. there's a legal process to get legal workers on farms, she's forgetting about that. as the governor of new york

state, put farmers at a risk of prosecution, it's illegal to hire them to work for you, and she's pushing it, she's no better than the mayor when it comes to illegal immigration. >> sandra: she's coming after your gas stove, too, tom. >> come get it. >> john: good to talk to you. sandra. >> sandra: tell us how you really feel there, tom. the new transgender owner of miss universe sparking an uproar after giving a speech for the power of feminism for women around the world. dave rubin has some thoughts on that. >> john: ukrainian troops arriving in oklahoma to be trained on the patriot missile system. could it change the war. we are live at fort sill. helping them achieve financial freedom. we're proud to serve people everywhere,

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sacramento. >> why did you do that to me? >> you feel old, don't you? >> john: there is some new trash talk. lebron was the 18-year-old prodigy with the cleveland cavaliers, and is king james feeling his age? four-time mvp, season high 48 points last night. so he's doing all right. i know how lebron feels. i do. guy benson went to school, middle school with my older son. >> sandra: that's amazing. >> john: yeah, can you imagine? i had my son when i was 14 years old, so not that much difference in age. >> sandra: i love that -- nice reminder, isn't it? all right, john. we are going to head to oklahoma, about 100 ukrainian troops are arriving in oklahoma to begin military training, teaching them how to use and maintain the patriot missile defense system. nate foy is live at fort sill for us.

how long is this training going to take, nate? >> well, sandra, typically takes about a year, but the pentagon said they are going to expedite that because of how urgent the situation is in ukraine right now, so it's going to take just several months to teach these ukrainians how to operate and maintain a patriot missile defense system. you see part of it right here. this is 1 of 8 launchers that comes in a battery for the patriot missile defense system, it comes with four missile interceptors right there, you see it is mounted on a truck so it's mobile and this is just part of the system. there is also a radar, a control center, and it takes about 90 people to operate a patriot system. the entire cost, sandra, is a billion dollars. take a look in action here, so ukraine is getting at least one from the united states, as well as another patriot system from germany. so, president zelenskyy has said as soon as the ukrainian soldiers learn how to operate they will ask for more.

i want to show you exactly what they are trying to avoid in ukraine and that is the destruction of the infrastructure there. russian missiles continue hitting homes, critical infrastructure, they are trying to stop that with the patriot missile defense system but i can tell you, sandra, it only covers one battery, covers a third of kyiv. so only going to be part of the larger air defense strategy in ukraine. i want to show you the moment the ukrainian soldiers arrived here at fort sill, this was sunday night. and interestingly, sandra, not everybody wants them here. state senator nathan dom filed a resolution to reject bringing the ukrainian troops to oklahoma. he says he wants to end the war in ukraine and that ukrainian troops being here on u.s. soil could be seen as an escalation by russia. back out here live, sandra, not everybody in oklahoma here agrees and the republican party,

state gop leaders put out a statement saying oklahoma has been working with foreign mill tears for decades and ending that right now would be akin to jeopardizing our national security. back to you. >> sandra: ok, nate foy from fort sill, oklahoma on that. appreciate that. thank you very much. and john, a live look at the white house where we are getting an update, it appears from the warrior's coach speaking a moment ago. >> john: and steph curry was there as well, talking about getting britteny griner home. i was at the game yesterday, i played hooky on mlk day, we were there with the warm-up, my son got a fist bump with steph curry, he scored 41 points but did not come alive until the fourth quarter, he missed a lot of his legendary threes in the first three-quarters. he would have probably had 60 plus points if he had made some of those that looked like they were probably going to go in, got 41 points instead.

still a great game. a very close game. tied to the end of the third quarter and then golden state pulled ahead in the last four minutes of the game. >> sandra: and they are obviously on the scheduled visit to the white house right now. sounds like the game was awesome and a huge opportunity for your kids there, john. steve called steph curry the modern michael jordan. do you agree with that? >> john: he's got still that michael jordan didn't have. jordan used to love to fly through the air. curry drove through traffic to hit some layups that were unbelievable. his shooting, you know, from outside, is really amazing. and he did this thing during his warm-up, incredible, started at center court to sink threes, and finally when he had that dialed in, he would hit one, then he would walk forward a pace or two, hit another one, and walked that all the way down to the paint, an interesting exercise to watch. >> sandra: a head's up, what we

are listening for here, obviously any update from the white house on where president biden is going to land on this debt ceiling debate that is happening right now. steve scalise, the majority leader weighed in on this on capitol hill saying the debt ceiling is a condition of washington spending problem, so if you don't fix the spending problem at the same time you are addressing the debt ceiling you are going to be in the same boat but with a higher number. we are listening for that, obviously, and any update from the white house on the classified documents found at the president's private home, this as hunter biden said he made nearly $50,000 a month to live at the classified house where the documents were discovered, don't know who came and went or who went through the garage when the documents were there, and jonathan turley saying the lawyers are part of the criminal investigation, so a

lot of reasons why after she gets through the housekeeping here, john, we'll want to dip in and listen. she has been getting pressed at least more than usual by some members of the media and of course by our own reporters in the room. >> john: she keeps deflecting to the idea the special counsel has been appointed so we can't say much about this. one of the big questions out there is after the first trunch of classified documents were discovered by an attorney hired by joe biden to find documents, once they discovered there were classified documents, why did attorneys off behalf of biden go look for more classified documents when they did not have a security clearance, and one search, i believe it was december 20th, they stopped looking because they did not want to touch anything in there. why were private attorneys allowed to go in there and do that as opposed to the authorities who have the clearances to be able to deal with these. >> sandra: and why were they in

there in the first place? >> john: yeah, that's the big unanswered questions, the documents sat there for five years, why did they become an issue. >> sandra: and that's a huge part of the question still, and the fact that the white house is not providing any transparency or clarity on that is leaving a lot of room for speculation on the part of the media. i mean, i'm sure you saw joe rogan floating the theory that biden's document scandal is a ploy by democrats to replace him, ruin things for his 2024 potential bid. a lot of that out there. and mixed messages from the media, see how the reporters are in the room in a moment there. one of the anchors on cnn saying the classified documents defense by the white house is concerning if you are explaining you are losing. on the other hand, msnbc is praising biden's handling of the documents. it depends where you watch, look, read, john, why the white house needs to step in and offer facts for the american people where this investigation is, what the