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the times admitting the concern what schools know but don't share with parents is reaching all political divides. it turns out parents do like to know what's going on with their kids. >> sandra: imagine that. welcome back as "america reports" rolls into a second hour. i'm sandra smith in new york. great to be with you. >> john: good to start another week with you as well. even as countries in europe back down from puberty blockers from minors, the u.s. is pushing full steam ahead. even bill maher is asking why, liberal comedian. >> sandra: imagine that. pete hegseth will react to that. begin with this fox news alert. and alert to the white house at the top of this new hour as we are waiting a white house press briefing. we often catch them in those hours, karine jean-pierre will host another briefing and going to take another shot at answering questions from

reporters over president biden's growing classified document scandal. >> john: or not answering questions, that's after additional batch of records were discovered at the president's delaware home over the weekend. >> sandra: and another search may be in the works we are hearing. the justice departments is reportedly considering requesting a search of president biden's beach house in delaware now, john. >> john: critics of the doj say, actually critics say the doj should not stop there. >> i wouldn't rule out searching anywhere where certain relatives of the biden family, involved in the influence peddling schemes. this is clearly a pattern. >> john: the president is brushing aside any criticism, digging himself into a deeper hole with defiant remarks. >> surprised to learn that there were any government records that were taken there to that office. >> people know i take classified

documents and classified materials seriously. by the way, my corvette is in a locked garage, ok, it's not like they are sitting out in the street. >> i think you will find nothing there, no regrets following what the lawyers have told me they want me to do. >> sandra: the question everybody is wondering, where does all of this go from here? we will speak with california darryl issa. justice correspondent david spunt is live at the doj for us, and i can only ask what are we learning now, david? >> sandra, start off with the fact the fbi searched a sitting president's private home. that's a massive story. we know agents searched for almost 13 hours while the president stayed at the white house on friday and continued with business as usual meeting with the nation's mayors. according to the president's personal attorney, bob bauer, this was a voluntary search, meaning no warrant and the fbi

was invited to come in. biden's attorneys were there, too, watching it all unfold. >> consensual means the person consented to the search. usually that happens under circumstances where the government has grounds to get a criminal search warrant, so you say you don't have to go to court, i'll let you come in and look. >> no warrant here. juxtapose with the search of the former president, donald trump's home in florida, one big difference. that was not a voluntary search. there was a warrant involved and trump's lawyers claim they were completely left in the dark. still on the surface the cases may look the same in many ways, there is one big difference. the former president fought with the national archives and justice department for months leading to the unannounced raid in august. biden's team will say they turned them over as soon as they found them, but no question, sandra and john, the big problem for president biden is the public perception because the

first batch of documents were were turned over before the midterms, a week before the midterms in november. white house only came out after cbs news broke the story more than two months later. it's not like white house officials came out and said a problem and how we are looking to fix it. back to you. >> sandra: david spunt live at the doj for us, thank you. >> john: now to capitol hill, democrats are becoming more vocal about the growing number of classified documents found at the president's home. aishah hasnie has the latest. democrats are increasingly concerned. meantime, the house oversight chairman, james comer has asked for more documents. >> hey there, john, good afternoon to you both. chairman comer is hoping the secret service will be way more forthcoming than the white house has been so far and that's why he sent this letter to the director of the agency today requesting more records after the secret service said last week it would hand over its own

visitor records to president biden's wilmington home. now in this letter comer is requesting specifically all documents and communications related to visitor information at president biden's wilmington, delaware home from january 20, 2017, all the way to the present date. >> we are disappointed the administration is not working with us on anything they are stone walling everything. >> will you hold them in contempt. >> we'll do everything we can to get the answers. >> meanwhile, democrats as you pointed out just complaining about the classification process in general. >> this government has a tendency to overclassify, looking at a document to decide whether to classify, sometimes they just mark it classified. >> of course none of that grace was afforded to former president trump when the fbi raided his mar-a-lago home last summer. mark warner admits he has not

gotten a briefing on that document drama as he seeks a threat assessment on this one, and because now biden's personal attorney has confirmed some of the latest documents seized were actually from when he was in the senate, john, some are now asking how and why in first place did he leave or mishandle those potential classified documents while he was serving as senator. >> john: and last time he was a senator was like 14 years ago. so if he grabbed the documents -- >> a very long time, right. >> john: he's had them in his possession a while, it would seem. >> i think republicans are trying to keep up with the latest batch every couple days. >> john: i thought they were running out of places to look, apparently not. see you again soon. sandra. >> sandra: bring in darrell issa, a member of the house judiciary committee, super awesome to have you here today. we continue to learn more. there's this idea that maybe

these documents were overclassified, we are starting to hear. what does that mean? >> if you are a senator or a vice president you don't have the privilege of determining classification or declassifying something. the first thing is, it's the word secret or top secret on the document that tells you how you must handle it, which means it has to be kept in a secured place, which is often a guarded pouch whether they deliver -- rules are in place, no ambiguity when they arp secret, until the physically way. and if you are a senator, you go to an scif and you do not leave the room with them. they never should have left the room they were in. >> sandra: how about the idea of items, not documents, but items. what does that tell you? >> item can be a whole box. we don't know if it is a single

piece of paper or more likely groups of documents found in boxes where some or all the documents inside that box were classified. >> sandra: very interesting. ro khanna, the democrat from california was on with us last hour and it got the attention of jonathan turley because jonathan then tweeted out about that interview when ro khanna said this. >> i hope we can get this out of partisanship. why can't we have a process to make sure classified documents are no the removed from the executive branch no matter who the president is, and that there is a process to make sure that no senator or congressman is removing these. >> sandra: to which jonathan turley replied we do have a process. these documents have popped up everywhere biden has worked with the exception of the occasional trip to fenway park, it's an overlaid map of biden movements, not due to the lack of process, he said. also keep in mind the documents

appear to have been stored for over 14 years. the v.p. documents have been floating around for roughly six years, that is not a problem of lack of process or clear rules. >> exactly, and you know, i've worked with the national archives. they have secured storage, they have a process, all those documents are supposed to go there and you can go in and view them if you are a former member of the administration, if you are a former president or vice president. there was a process which is not to take them with you, it's in fact to go visit them and that was there and it clearly was not used by vice president biden. we can have a debate about the president but even then they should have been declassified clearly before they went to florida. so as a bipartisan thing, yes, there are mistakes on both hands. the difference, though, is we keep seeing one after another, groups of classified documents over decades and that's concerning that this president,

vice president, senator, never respected the process. >> sandra: what did you think about him saying no regrets? >> you know, he also says the border is secure and i have 55 miles of the mexico-u.s. border so i know better. just because he says it does not make it true. >> sandra: what's next? we don't know what an item is, it could be an envelope, it could be a box. about you now the potential for the search to happen of the president's beach house. what do we learn next? >> we have to check everywhere, including his pockets at this point. make sure the documents, some of which are the most sensitive documents in the world that the president may from time to time have are secured. that process has to be implemented with zeal immediately, and for the new chief of staff, that means the white house has to do a better job. when we do the investigation, we have to do it with respect for the fact the doj has the lead on

it. but whether it's speaker mccarthy or anyone else in the leadership, they have to be briefed and they haven't been. >> sandra: real quickly, mike pompeo on the sensitivity of the documents and the implications. >> i've watched lots of young soldiers be administratively prosecuted for letting information get where it wasn't supposed to be and yet some of american's most senior leaders think it's ok, put it by the corvette, all good. we ought to have a single set of rules for everyone, enforce those rules. >> sandra: all makes perfect sense. yet we are about to see another press briefing, 18 minutes, sorry, maybe 23 minutes from now, 2:35 if it starts on time. karine jean-pierre has taken a lot of questions. she has provided. >> answered none of them. >> sandra: amen. the american people feel they need to be looped in here, this is serious stuff and not getting transparency from the white house. how far should the white house

be pushed to provide more answers to the american public watching this play out? >> the white house will not give us answer. where congress las to push in no uncertain terms is a sitting president cannot be prosecuted but congress has a right to know about these documents and they are going to have to make that briefing clear. doj cannot stand behind the ongoing investigation because they are investigating somebody they can't prosecute and they are already part of a cover-up with because they have known and done little or nothing for a long time. think about this. back in november before the election when they had the first batch of documents, what did they do to make sure there weren't more and the answer is nothing. it's been a step-by-step of new discoveries and mike pompeo, i served with, both commissioned officers, he said it very well. we have seen people drummed out of the military for things like taking a picture of a door that

said radioactive. we take security serious in the military and the commander in chief doesn't. >> sandra: the world needs to see that. >> the word needs to see we are going to take it seriously and if we don't, the question is do we respect the leaks that come out from other people, do we prosecute people who do much less than this? this has to be taken seriously and so far it hasn't been. >> sandra: appreciate you joining us here in new york. thanks, congressman. big stuff, serious stuff, see where it goes next. >> john: in terms of places left to look, there's the beach house as you mentioned, but then i remember the 1967 corvette does have a glove box, so -- >> sandra: not kidding, and you heard the congressman say we need to check his pockets. that is what this process has revealed it could be anywhere. >> john: but here -- some of the stuff from when he was vice president, you can say ok, he

was vice president, he got to look at classified documents all the time in his office or scif in the white house situation room or whatever. the fact he has classified documents from his time as a senator, a, he shouldn't have had the documents in his possession, and b, he had them for 14 or more years? wow. >> sandra: it's a big deal and we are going to be monitoring the briefing when it begins and when she starts taking questions we'll see if any further information is provided, we have not seen that happen yet. >> john: i meant to say, i'll bet a beer it does not start before 3:00. >> sandra: i'll take you up on that, the other side of that bet, john. >> john: bets are laid down. a live look at the federal court in brooklyn bridge, a former mexican official tasked with taking on drug cartels in that country are on trial. instead of fighting the sinaloa cartel, he was the cartel's most valuable asset. latest from court and a d.e.a.

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>> sandra: as mexican cartels flood american towns with deadly fentanyl, a blockbuster trial begins today in brooklyn that could expose major cracks in our war on drugs. the man on trial was in charge of mexico's version of the fbi fighting the cartels from within except maybe he wasn't. he's accused of helping cartels move drugs into the united states while being paid to stop them from doing exactly that.

his trial comes just a week after a cartel brutally murdered six people in california, including this young teenage mother and her 6-month-old baby. former d.e.a. special agent in charge derek malts will be joining us. he led the unit that helped capture the drug kingpin el chapo. bryan llenas, what did we learn there today? >> good afternoon. prosecutors told jurors today that garcia luna portrayed himself, he was the top law enforcement official controlling the federal police force until 2012. prosecutors say he used federal police forces to act as armed mercenaries for the sinaloa

cartel, killing rivals, and they say the 54-year-old was given briefcases stuffed with millions in cash bribes from the criminal organization. garcia luna is accused of giving the sinaloa cartel sensitive law enforcement intelligence and facing criminals in power. he is facing a max sentence of life in prison. >> the charges are very, very serious. essentially that he was not just working with the sinaloa cartel receiving money from them and passing information to them, but the claim is that he was actually a member of the cartel itself. >> truly unbelievable. there is real intrigue whether any embarrassing or damning revelations will implicate other officials. he had meetings with top u.s.

officials, including hillary clinton. garcia luna, the defense lawyers say no real evidence of this but they say ultimately the prosecution is relying on testimony from top druglords who want to get reduced sentences. sandra. >> sandra: thank you very much. john. >> john: sandra, bring in derek malts, former special agent in charge of d.e.a. special operations division, we spent some quality time together in the past after the murder of jaime zapata, they are still looking for justice for, since they were acquitted of the murder. i want to ask you about the highest ranking mexican state official to go on trial, he was playing both ends for so long. >> i read somewhere and love the line, he is a triple agent. he's not a double agent, he was working with d.e.a., working with home land security, working with the mexicans, working for chapo and the sinaloa cartel, one of the biggest threats to the country.

they are destroying our communities, they are killing kids at record levels and he was trusted by the folks in mexico and the folks here in america and he failed in that regard. made really bad, the allegations have to be proven, but charged. >> john: if he goes down, what effect could that have on the way business is done in mexico and the relationship with the mexican government? >> number one, i hope the trial will wake up america as the systemic corruption that law enforcement faces every day of the week. so our u.s. law enforcement puts their life on the line, they arrest the guys, get theest, indict. prosecutors push the packets to mexico and to the black hole. you cannot apprehend them or extradite them, they are all on the payroll.

millions and going on for years. the biggest obstacle to keeping americans safe. they are making the cases, doing the work, they have the leadership, they can't get these guys. >> john: there's so much corruption in mexico and the drug cartels are basically controlling the country, on the verge many belief a failed nar co state. how do we get through all of the corruption here to try to make some differences? >> john, i've been actually calling for this over four years, i testified with sarah carter in ohio court to declare the cartels as terrorists. you can call them whatever they want. they started as drug cartels, they are no longer drug cartels. now narco terrorists at the maximum level. you could call them anything you want, we have to treat them like they are enemies of america because that's what they are. enemies of our kids, they are killing 9,000 kids a month, 9,000 americans. you know, every day, fentanyl is maybe not 9,000, don't know what

the right numbers are because of cdc. >> john: more than 100,000 dead last year. >> john, the families against fentanyl analyzed the cdc data, fastest growing population, demographic, kids under 14 are dying. 250% increase in the last couple years. >> john: look at what happened in goshen, california. six people killed in the middle of nowhere california, a small farming community, including this 16-year-old month and 10-month-old son, shot point blank rage in the head, what kind of monster to shoot a 10-month-old in the head, and the map, these figures are from 2015, literally in every state except for the northern plains states, idaho, montana and wyoming, i think missouri as well. this is 2015, 5 years ago. it has to have changed since then. >> absolutely. it's in every city of america. whether it's gangs, overdose

deaths, fentanyl poisoning, massive methamphetamine inundating our cities, right, they just recently seized 3,000 pounds of liquid meth coming in in south texas. border patrol is doing a great job. but here is the thing. you could point the picture where every city in america is impacted by the drug cartels and i say that only because that's what people refer to them as. they are mexican terror cartels. >> john: you say designate them foreign terrorist organizations, the administration will not do. >> enemies of america like michael waltz and crenshaw are pushing for, and the navy seal who lost his eye in afghanistan, they understand how to destroy the enemies of america and these guys are the biggest threat to our country. historic history of america killing this many americans, especially our kids. so, everyone should be outraged, it's not a red or blue, it's

red, white and blue, all americans should care. >> john: derek, it's great to catch up with you. it's been a while. we'll talk more in the future. >> sandra: the mayor there in your city, john, washington, d.c., wants work from home to finally come to an end three years after the pandemic. how she's leaning on the president to toss out the rules for the sake of her city. >> john: clearly she doesn't commute. and from rewriting history to teaching gender identity, a democrat is sounding the alarm on the state of the nation's schools. >> we have completely lost control of our schools. i just don't understand why this is the hill the democratic party wants to die on. >> john: you thought derek was fired up, wait until you hear from pete hegseth. he's coming up next. car insurance to progressive. you could save hundreds. i don't know, dad. ♪ maybe try switching your car insurance to progressive.

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the white house to either get most federal workers back to the office most of the time or to realign their vast property holdings for use by the local government, by nonprofits, by businesses, and by any user willing to revitalize it. >> john: the democratic mayor of washington, d.c. calling out the white house amazing federal employees need to come back to d.c. office buildings years after covid sent people home and they just stayed there. she is joined by republican congressman james comer who filed legislation to require workers to return arguing prolonged remote set-up has created substantial delays for basic services. mark meredith is live in the capitol with more, a lot of real estate to make good use of, although some say the morning commute is bad enough without the federal workers back. >> john, i'm sure we would appreciate not having to fight more office coming into the office. the mayor is not the only one

urging more d.c. federal workers to come back on a regular basis. whether we are talking about the large office buildings along the national mall or some closer to downtown, they are not as full or busy as they were pre-pandemic. a recent report found 47% of federal workers participate in some form of teleworking, congressman james comber has introduced legislation to require federal workers to go back to traditional settings. the white house says many federal workers are back on a regular basis, and point to groups like the tsa but they say forcing everyone to go back at once could backfire. >> to tie federal managers hands to prohibit them from operating the work arrangements widely available in the private sector, remote work, hybrid

arrangements, would essentially guarantee that our recruitment and retention problems would only get more severe. >> it's also clear for d.c. mayor it's about economics, they want to bring more people into the city to keep the economy afloat. but the government union john said not just federal workers are missing from the places downtown. john. >> john: mark, thank you. sandra. >> sandra: hbo host bill maher is putting the white house on notice for the problems in the nation's schools. >> anything to do with schools or education is something really the democrats have to answer for because they control it. what's going on in the schools is outrageous. and somebody needs to answer for it. >> sandra: let's bring in "fox & friends" weekend co-host pete hegseth and miseducation of america. i'm sure you have nothing to say about this whatsoever. >> bill maher seems to be swallowing the slowest red pill

of all time, thankfully he's willing to say it out loud. when there are schools transitioning young people from one biological sex to another and then they believe they shouldn't be notifying parents, or there are schools that are teaching white kids that are oppressors and black kids that they are victims and parents are never notified and told this is not critical race theory, it's just diversity, equity and inclusion, we should be saying how in the heck did we get here. i wrote a book on it, the left believes the most effective way to societal change to change the lens which the youngest think and what they value and believe is virtue, so they focused on education and they started in the ivy league and college, but their target has always been to get to elementary school and here we are. so you have to understand the depth of the problem if you want to take it on. >> sandra: and some of what we have heard from this administration on handling these

trans kids issues in our nation's schools. it's over a period of time, watch. >> our younger transgender americans, i'll always have your back as your president so you can be yourself and reach your god given potential. to parents of transgender children, affirming your child's identify one of the most powerful things to do to keep them safe and healthy. challenge the hundreds of callous and cynical laws in the states targeting transgender children, terrifying families and criminalizing doctors who give children the care they need. >> sandra: why is this white house going all in on this issue, pete? >> they are bought and paid for by the hard left. by the way, i know we are going to promote it, this is something we unpack in great detail in season two of the miseducation of information, how sex ed turned into trans and gender issues. by the way, the whole idea of

gender is made up. it's not scientific. before that, it was one biological sex and another biological sex and once you start using the term gender, then you have it on a sliding scale and then it's a spectrum and then it's what i perceive my gender is. and then you push that idea into the most -- the youngest and most formative minds and they say i kind of like boys or kind of like girls and maybe that means i'm something else or a different sex and the counselor rushes in and says let's talk about it and don't tell your parents. it is a sick and twisted distortion and really what it's meant to do, sandra, is separate kids from not just from god, obviously from god, but also from their parents and say you know, you are assigned a sex at birth, your parents named you, now you take control, give yourself your own name, decide what your new gender is, and it targets the nuclear family. >> sandra: and then leave it to the "new york times" to finally call this out, the points that we, at which we have arrived, pete, with the headline when students change gender identity

and parents don't know, educators are facing wrenching new tensions whether they should tell parents when students socially transition at school. a mother is quoted in the piece, it's just been such a hard thing to navigate. on the one hand dealing with my extreme liberal values of individuality, freedom, expression, sexuality, wanting to support all this stuff, said a tearful mother. at the same time afraid of medicalization, afraid of long-term health, that my child might change their mind. >> i mean, these are very liberal parents in a very liberal city who at least it appears are willing to, a, apply common sense, they also care about their kids and their kids more than any administrator or teacher would. and they want what's best for them and they believe that schools were going to teach them to read and write and maybe a foreign language and maybe get them into a great school, not

tinker with their sexuality and secrets they don't tell their parents and they transition and then you have social media and the social pressure of that to be a part of the group think, and now the parents say i've lost complete control. i thought i was the parent. i thought my job was to pass virtues on to my kids. so, the school views the parents as the problem, and you'll see that in season two of the "miseducation of america," traditional views and religious beliefs need to be strip away from the kids and we get a chance to hyper sexualize them or -- you see it on fox nation, a five-part series. at the beginning it says warning, viewer discretion is advised. this is material that's inappropriate for most adults but is shown to kids in school every day. >> sandra: oh, wow. >> the reality of where we are at. >> sandra: we'll be watching

that "miseducation of america," could we get back to education of america, we need some of that. pete, thank you so much we'll be watching. and pete has a few kids of his own, a lot of kids. >> john: personal experience with this. as do the rest of us. >> sandra: and we are as well. >> john: parents are getting angry about what's going on in some of these school boards, really are. when you see now 17 high schools in fairfax county, prince william county and loudoun county didn't notify kids that they had received national merit scholarships. >> sandra: what is going on. >> john: so it screwed up the college applications. >> sandra: change the course of their life. kids had to go to other schools because they didn't know they received merit awards and therefore merit scholarships. >> john: for sure. seems it's a constant drum beat of travel horror stories in recent months as airlines deal with pilot shortages, storms and other outages.

well, a chance that it could get even worse. we may be running out of planes. fox business correspondent jeff flock live at newark airport with details. how bad is the plane shortage, jeff? >> what next, john, geez, shortage of pilots, shortage of workers, now planes. started with the pandemic when the airlines moth balled a lot of planes and now we are about 12,000 planes down, according to the investment bank jeffries, that's the estimation of the number of planes now in process supposed to be delivered across the world and are not being delivered. what about all these planes that got moth balled, the ones that went out into the deserts of the world, both arizona as well as australia and the middle east. well, apparently the good ones have been brought back, take a look at this from bob mann, the aviation analyst who said most of what is economically useful has already been recalled from

the desert and put back into operation. what does that mean for us? well, older planes and more perhaps delays and cancellations, that's certainly not going to help the satisfaction level of pilots or of fliers, i should say. pilots either, probably. 49,000 complaints sent to the faa in the first three months of last year, john. that was a 27% increase and i suspect this year is not going to be any prettier. >> john: wow, the problems just keep mounting. thankfully the pilots have not demanded to work from home yet, jeff, good to talk to you. sandra. >> sandra: ok. so, jeff, by the way, hello to you, always love getting jeff flock on the air. live at the white house, by the way, john, you owe me a beer, because the white house briefing has indeed begun and jen granholm, our energy secretary is now speaking. we'll dip into the briefing as soon as karine jean-pierre

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>> john: a look at the briefing room now, the energy secretary, jennifer granholm is speaking to the assembled white house press corps, we will dip in as soon as karine jean-pierre starts taking questions. the white house under intense scrutiny for the lack of transparency after the fbi found more classified documents in the president's home. jonathan turley, george washington university law professor and fox news contributor. 13-hour search by the fbi with the president's attorneys presents of his home in wilmington, delaware, turned up a number of documents classified from his time as senator when he, a, shouldn't have had classified documents that he was taking home and b, shouldn't have hung on to them for what appears to be a period of time, 14 years or more. your thoughts? >> well, john, this is part of

the crumbling defense the president has put out there. in the last few days, they have tried to say a secretary was worried she might have put documents in boxes when he left as vice president. now we find out documents from when he was senator. keep in mind most of those documents are usually housed in secure locations, so you have to intentionally remove them and transport them, which is a separate violation and these documents then had to linger in your residence or other places for what could be more than 14 years. now, that's not even talking about the vice presidential documents out there in the open, unsecure locations, for six years. so it's really difficult to say all of this is inadvertent, inadvertent for ten years over and over again. >> john: so we have heard the president say time and time again that he takes classified documents seriously. in fact, let's take this opportunity to tell you exactly

what it was he said. listen here. >> people know i take classified documents and classified information seriously. >> john: you know, jonathan, you could drop seriously and just people know i'm taking classified information. i'm being cavalier about it but apparently so is he. >> yeah, really no escaping what we are seeing now. we are seeing these documents -- if you can overlay a map, it shows documents virtually at every spot the president has traveled to or worked in, at least, and lived at. now, that's an obvious pattern that doesn't show that you take these things seriously. and the refusal for the white house to answer questions is becoming really maddening for many people. i think the white house believes people have the attention span of golden retriever puppies.

if you don't say anything. >> john: hey, wait a minute, i have a golden retriever puppy, i take issue with that. >> in the theory is if we don't say anything, there will be another shiny object that people are going to be focused on. that's not going to happen because there's a special counsel in the field. but these -- the arguments that can answer is clearly false. the department of justice has said as some of us assumed that they did not tell the white house they can't answer these questions, that there's nothing keeping them from answering these questions, and when the reporters have asked for the white house counsel to come to the press room they have refused. they just had the energy secretary today to answer questions. but they refuse to do that on camera with white house counsel. and keep in mind, they refer the media to the white house counsel's office, that's the office that the white house had drafted the original misleading letter to the media, and they

keep on sending them back to that office. >> john: you know, something else that the president has said reminds me of the old bruce springsteen song, no regrets, baby, no surrender. listen to how he put it. >> president biden said he had no regrets in how he handled this. do you have any advice? >> i think he should have a lot of regrets, i would think that. >> john: sorry, that was joe manchin reacting to the no regrets, saying yes he should have a lot of regrets about the way he cavalierly handled classified information. the idea as senator he took classified documents he was not supposed to take, he kept them for more than 14 years, nobody knew they were gone and now he says no regrets? >> yeah, at some point someone

would think there is a tad of regret. storing them next to the corvette or holding on to them for over a decade, there seems to be ample room for regret but instead they have this increasingly implausible theory that all of this is inadvertent. i mean, they sound like people who say tornadoes, you know, following motor homes and classified documents follow the vice president. at some point you have to take responsibility, but there's still major questions that have not been answered. why were the documents divided? why were they sent to different locations? why was one document in the library. that suggests that they were removed for a purpose. it doesn't suggestion inadvertent. >> john: we'll see how this goes. jonathan, always good to have you on board to walk us through all this. >> sandra: john, a live look at the white house where we are

monitoring the energy secretary jen granholm, she's been up there for a few minutes and john, she has been blaming republicans for our inflation crisis that has been created under the last two years of this presidency. she says house republicans, and quoting her directly, economic agenda is higher gas prices, higher middle class taxes, higher inflation, higher drug costs. she says the president has been singularly focused on lowering energy costs saying there is nothing standing in the way of domestic gas and oil and gas production in the country, it's the republicans' agenda she said is backwards. john, also a moment she seemed to have a tough time finding her words when she talked about our immense strategic petroleum reserve and the use to bring down gas prices, she defended that by saying we are now going to buy back that oil at prices low than we sold it. which is an interesting moment

and i'm sure we'll build a segment on this tomorrow, i'm forecasting that. do you remember when president trump was stymied by democrats for wanting to fill the strategic petroleum reserves at rock bottom prices, when oil was $24 a barrel? she's now talking about filling it at $80 a barrel. and applauding themselves for it. >> john: i read a story about that last week seemed to suggest they would pay more for the oil than they sold a lot of it from the strategic petroleum reserve, maybe not all of it but at least some of it. >> sandra: she is -- it is a moment here to watch her blaming republicans while the white house is run by president biden and democrats had up until just a month ago had been in control of obviously the senate and the house for the inflation crisis we have today. >> john: not sure how she makes the price that republicans want higher gas prices. >> sandra: or higher taxes on the middle class. inflation is the ultimate tax on the middle class and what we have been suffering through and

the federal reserve is tasked to bring down, john. so we are watching the energy secretary. i'm looking at the fact she's talking about filling our strategic petroleum reserve at $80 a barrel oil prices, which is the market for them today. and by the way, as we mentioned earlier, oil and gasoline and prices of all energies are coming right back up now and they have been over the past couple of weeks. >> john: and how many millions of barrels of oil did they release from the strategic petroleum reserve over the course of the last year, and you know, there might have been marginal effect on gasoline prices but overall forecast for lower gas consumption that was really driving prices down and now as we head toward the spring and the summer, it's undoubtedly going to go back up again. >> sandra: the narrative she is pushing the white house is pro fossil fuel, pro oil production, talking about it being at record highs when this was a president that clearly said on the record

many times as a candidate and a president that the goal was to bring an end to the fossil fuel industry. >> john: what the energy secretary is policing, there are plenty of receipts that suggest the opposite of what she is saying. >> sandra: indeed. this is something we will continue to watch here and anticipate karine jean-pierre to step up in a moment, and fox news channel will be watching that as well. thanks for joining us. i'm sandra smith. >> john: i should have bet you the beer on when she appears. i'm john roberts. see you again tomorrow. "the story" starts right now. >> martha: good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum. right now on "the story," the big oops that just keeps getting worse for team biden this afternoon. this has all the patterns of an influence pedalling scheme. that says the house of the chair oversight committee after a 13-hour fbi search of the president's wilmington home. they had free reign in the house an