>> tucker carlson. >> yeah, yeah, with d and d, about his new special, sam bankman freed. a few seconds, set your dvr if you can be in position you are not watching us live. "america reports" now. >> i could see mr. murdaugh down at the end of the driveway. as i approached toward him i could see the male victim laying on the ground to my left as well as the female victim on the ground to my right. his immediate reaction was to start telling me about an incident that happened with his son, with a boating accident. >> john: fox news alert, a break in the alec murdaugh trial, a jury deciding whether the disgraced south carolina attorney murdered his wife and son, are shown dramatic bodycam

scenes from the scene of the killing. >> sandra: the first two witnesses took the stand, phil and lori are here to break down the latest developments from the courtroom coming up. but we begin "america reports" with bipartisan outrage boiling over after the senate intelligence committee had denied access to classified documents handled by president biden. former president trump and former vice president mike pence. hello, welcome, everyone. >> john: good to spend friday eve with you. senators are sounding off saying they need to review the documents to assess if there is damage to national security, congress grapples how to keep the sensitive information secured. >> sandra: met with more stonewalling. deferred the lawmakers to the justice department following the two-hour briefing that happened

yesterday. >> john: troy nels will join us in a moment. >> sandra: the white house where our correspondent, peter doocy is standing by. live on the north lawn. hello, peter. >> good afternoon. the fbi director's first comment about this is not specific to any of the cases, but it could be helpful for any presidents or vice presidents or senators who have had access to classified material in the past. >> we have had for quite a number of years any number of mishandling investigations and people need to be conscious of the rules regarding classified information and appropriate handling. the rules are there for a reason. >> we are told those rules are well-known to people who would have business in a classified setting. >> john, how hard is it to walk out of a scif with classified material? >> everybody who goes into a

scif knows what the requirements are to go in and knows what the requirements are to go out. you know, you can't bring personal devices in, and you certainly can't leave with material unless that material is sp appropriately secured. >> they will interview about the biden case as some republicans are vowing to block biden nominees until they get details about biden's documents. >> the administration won't simply provide documents that congress has a right and oversight responsibilities to review and form our independent judgment about the risk they pose to national security. >> and we reached out to the national archives about a washington post report the national archives is considering some sort of a search of all living presidents' documents for

anything that might be classified. the national archives said thanks for reaching out, no comment. sandra. >> sandra: just amazing the lack of information, lack of new information as we go through all this. peter doocy live at the white house for us, thank you. john. >> john: let's bring in texas congressman troy nehls, spearheading an investigation into the recovering of classified documents. so colleagues in the senate are ticked off at the director of national intelligence, because they asked for a damage assessment on both the documents that were taken from mar-a-lago, from donald trump and these documents that were procured from president biden. here is what the senate committee chairman, mark warner, a democrat said. listen here. >> every member of the committee, regardless of democrat or republican, were unanimous in that this position that we are left in limbo until

somehow a special counsel designates that it's ok to get briefed is not going to stand. and all things will be on the table to try to make sure that doesn't happen. >> john: it's interesting this has become a bipartisan issue. >> john, thanks for having me. it sound like to me that senator warner and the others on that committee do not want to see joe biden run for a second term. that's what this is, and i believe there are several in the leadership in the democrat party that realize that joe biden is not fit to be the president for the next six years. and it's just not going to happen. so i think there are people in the party that would like to see the republicans investigate the biden family and kick him out of that race in 2024 because they want an alternate candidate. the democrat party does not want to see joe biden be the nominee. now, i want to send joe biden 25 bucks, i want him to be the nominee. >> john: without any kind of a damage assessment, it's difficult to know what these

documents were all about, and what kind of risk to national security their presence in an unsecure location might be, particularly the connection between these documents and hunter biden's business dealings. miranda devine in "the new york post" said one of the emails on his laptop reads like a classified communication based on one of these documents. so without a clearer idea of what's in these things, can an investigation really go forward in any kind of feasible way? >> i would hope so, because the american people are going to demand it. but i have a lot of respect for the chairman of judiciary, obviously jim jordan, and with representative comer, the chair of ogi. i think we are going to have a great opportunity now to investigate all of these issues as it realities to the biden family, the documents. if you don't recall, look at when they went into mar-a-lago and trump, in a few days they had static displays, pictures of all the documents they took out

of mar-a-lago they had all of it, and displayed it, i think it's shameful. we'll get to the bottom of it. american people will demand answers. >> john: seemed like somebody was trying to make a point after the raid. depletion of stockpiles, you served in the military, a tank commander in kentucky, a report suggests because of the number, amount of weapons we have been giving to ukraine, if we went into a conflict over taiwan, we would have a difficult time finding weapons. united states would likely run out of some munitions in less than one week in a taiwan strait conflict. are we risking our ability to fight a conflict? >> i believe, and the same with

the strategic oil reserves. depleting the military munitions, it's going to take years for the industry to catch up. it's up to $97 billion now that we have sent to ukraine, all this military munitions, and now we are going to send tanks, and a crisis in the country, and globally, taiwan, north korea teasing south korea. so we have problems in this country and i think they are exploiting the weakness in the white house. >> 31 abrams m1, minus the reactive armor will soon be headed to ukraine. you are scratching your head over this one. >> i am. the american people have to understand, it's a very powerful piece of equipment but requires enormous amount of logistical support. you have to have a logistical package, it has a jet engine. when you have to remove the engine, you need a big cane, it's an m88, it's a wrecker for a tank and you need smart people working on that, the maintenance personnel, the individuals know -- >> john: you are saying the

tanks are just the price of entry here. >> four people on the tank crew, you'll need 6 or 7 to support the maintenance on that tank, the fuel and everything else. >> john: and train them all up. congressman, good to have you in today and meet you as well. >> i would say this as it realities to ukraine, is that the american people -- it's billions of dollars now, john, if we really want to end this war, you want to end this war, joe biden, you need to call donald trump. donald trump will call vladimir putin and end this war. we must stop this war and donald trump can do it. he never went into ukraine under donald trump and his four years. >> john: i predict that's a phone call that will not hahn. >> donald trump will fix it when he's inaugurated as the 47th. >> john: we'll be watching you the next two years. >> sandra: officers involved in the arrest of 29-year-old tyree nichols are in custody. memphis police said they were found to be directly responsible

for the physical abuse of nichols who later died. charles watson is live outside the courthouse in downtown memphis. charles. >> yeah, good afternoon, sandra. been a busy morning here in memphis as you mentioned. all five of those officers who were involved in that former memphis police officers involved in the violent confrontation that led to his death are in police custody. we just learned they have been booked inside of the shelby county jail. all five of those officers now facing second-degree murder charges as well as official misconduct and aggravated kidnapping, as well as some other charges. we had been hearing all morning long that district attorney steve mulroy would be holding a press conference and possibly announcing charges and they have been charged. we are expecting a press conference from the d.a. this

afternoon at 2:00 eastern time to get some more details about what exactly happened. but we do know that a grand jury convened this morning here at the shelby county courthouse and earlier this week the district attorney did say that the release of the bodycam video that everyone has been interested in interesting at would possibly coincide with charges being announced. so we do have charges announced now, so we are waiting for the bodycam video. we could possibly see it as early as today or maybe tomorrow, but those details are not confirmed just yet. waiting on the district attorney for more details on that. but did get a sense today that officials here in memphis, as well as the police department, were preparing for something. overnight. police chief released a video calling the acts of those former memphis police officers heinous and tried to urge the public to be patient and to practice

peaceful protests as the video was expected, in her words, to be released in the coming days. not clear exactly when the video will be released but we do know it is expected some time from now. we also are expecting at 3:00 local time for one of the attorneys who are representing one of the former memphis police officers who are now charged and booked in jail to hold a press conference this afternoon just up the street. so a lot of developments in this case this morning. again, waiting on press conferences from the d.a. and a lawyer for one of the former officers, sandra. >> sandra: charles watson, keep us posted live from memphis on that story as we await the video as well. thank you, john. >> john: day two of the alec murdaugh trial is in recess as prosecutors called their first two witnesses. sergeant david green saying murdaugh was nervous and anxious, and he made a puzzling comment why he believed the two

victims were dead. jonathan has more from our southeast bureau. so, what was murdaugh's explanation here, jonathan? >> yeah, the first sergeant to be called to testify, he was the first law enforcement officer to arrive at the scene says that alec murdaugh told him he believed it was related to a boating accident. take a look at the courtroom video, the defendant became visibly emotional as prosecutors played out a recording from sergeant green's bodycam. take a listen. >> my son was in a boat wreck months back, he's been getting threats, most are benign stuff we did not take serious. you know, he -- he's been getting -- i know that's what it is. >> the murdaugh family faced litigation over the death of a 19-year-old passenger who died in the crash of a boat that paul murdaugh, the son, had allegedly been operating while

intoxicated. prosecutors are trying to suggest alec murdaugh killed his son and wife to distract from more than a decade of financial and legal problems that were finally catching up with him. >> this is a serial pen slinger, not a serial gun slinger, but 12 years he stole from his family, from his friends, from trusted clients, from his law partners. >> murdaugh's attorneys are trying to cast doubt on the prosecution's investigation saying that law enforcement arrived at the scene that night of the murders with a preconceived notion that their client was already guilty. back to you, john. >> john: we'll keep watching the trial. ahead, sandra, you know, i'm interested to catch dick hartputlia, an intriguing defense attorney who likes this kind of lead witnesses down a

road the witness does not want to go down. we have not seen him do that to any large degree at this point but i imagine at some point in the trial that will probably come. >> sandra: this has taken so many twists and turns. phil holloway and lori murray will take us through it. they are in recess, expected to last to 2:15 eastern time. in about an hour an idea how this is shaping up. state and defense finished with their second witness. see what happens sat 2:15. we'll be monitoring, john. the microsoft murder suspect making his first appearance in court. do police believe he had some help in what they are calling a targeted ambush of the father of four? breaking details for you. >> john: neither side appearing to blink in the debt ceiling showdown. could a new report on the dire fate of social security and medicare give republicans leverage to push through spending cuts. money man charles payne is here to break it down just ahead.

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>> john: a new government report not painting a rosy picture for the future of social security and medicare warning that both programs could go bankrupt within the next 15 years. this as some republicans on capitol hill are pushing to address social security in the debt ceiling negotiations. democratss say is a nonstarter. charles payne standing by, but first hillary vaughn is live on capitol hill. what can washington do to avert a crisis? >> well, john, they could raise

the retirement age for social security, also raise taxes to bring more money into the program, but one thing that won't work, doing nothing. if the program is left untouched, social security and medicare, according to experts, will run out of cash anyway, leaving the 66 million people who count on a monthly social security check with nothing. the cbo estimates the cost of social security already exceeds the money it's bringing in, warning this, the balance in the trust funds will decline to 0 in 2033, and the social security administration will no longer be able to pay full benefits when they are due. republicans are warning that they need to do something and are trying to use the debt limit as an intervention to washington's spending problem, and finally cut out government waste of taxpayer cash. >> anybody with any sense knows we are going to have to reform those programs because we are going to -- we are going to honor the payments and the

benefits for retirees and those what they were promised but you can't do that if washington puts their head in the sand and ignores the inevitable problem that will come with the two programs. >> democrats on capitol hill and president biden say they don't want to negotiate any spending cuts to raise the debt ceiling and some democrats are deflecting responsibility for adding trillions in new government spending to the national debt on their watch. >> congresswoman, quickly on the debt limit. democrats have been in charge the past two years, do you think democrats have spent too much money? >> i think the largest contributor to the debt ceiling or deficit is the trump tax cut. >> but john, every dollar counts. the last spending bill they passed a few weeks ago, it included $15 billion for pet projects, things like art museums, and hiking trails, and when you look at an essential program like social security on the brink of bankruptcy, it puts spending on things like that

under a different light, john. >> john: all right, they always seem to find enough money to throw at just about anything they want. hillary vaughn, thank you. sandra. >> sandra: let's bring in charles payne now, ok. get us started here. medicare, social security, if they are doomed, does this give republicans more leverage in this debate? >> oh, absolutely. the president of the united states has to make sure the folks get their money. all kinds of gimmicks you can pull, social security, they have assets, they have bonds, they can sell the bonds, go a little longer, medicare, medicaid, ask for delayed payments. >> sandra: at the very least, a wake-up call. >> massive wake-up call, 79th wake-up call. 79th time since 1960 they will raise the debt ceiling, and every single time we say ok, it's sobering, figure out all of

this out, we just -- just does not happen. >> sandra: larry kudlow was on this program yesterday and he did not mince words. >> he did not. >> biden and the democrats are absolutely incapable, incapable of telling the truth about this story. they will do anything not to cut spending. after $1.7 trillion omnibus bill full of waste, fraud and abuse. we can't find a penny on the dollar to cut? >> sandra: can't we find a penny on the dollar? he was insistent that democrats are just refusing to do this. it's not that they can't. >> the irony, it's getting worse. almost every other year, it's one of the things we cannot get rid of, like now the obamacare subsidies, another bill to prove itself and take care of itself. now we are subsidizing it, and so the margins of what you can work with gets slimmer and

slimmer and slimmer. it's really crazy. we always -- we talked a lot in the past about the cliff and those things -- remember back in 2008, 2009, because we didn't hit it or didn't go off, and people said oh, it's -- you cannot keep printing money. 34.1 trillion we owe right now. i don't know what the number is, sandra. we do know it's out there. >> sandra: we hit it, but not default. >> when we go off the cliff, no more gimmicks. >> sandra: let me get you to respond to this question chuck schumer posed on the senate floor today. >> we have never failed to pay our debts on time and the debt ceiling has consistently been a bipartisan endeavor. the radical maga crowd running the show in the house seems unable to grasp this truth. house republicans, where is your plan? >> sandra: is it the fault of republicans for not laying this

out clearly? >> oh, absolutely not. chuck schumer says that about every topic. like every topic. what's the republican plan, they said it the last two years when they controlled the white house and the senate and the house of representatives. >> sandra: jen granholm, she stood at the press briefing earlier this week. she blamed republicans for any economic peril we have today while also patting themselves on the back for everything good in the economy. >> funny part, gasoline has gone back up. that's an international thing, the politics is just so frustrating, sandra, it really is. because this is real -- this is our economy, this -- when it comes to these programs, people paid into them, they want them, and they expect to get them and you know, promises are made, promises have to be kept. this will be on the white house if they blow it. >> sandra: this chart, i'm sure you have charted like this, social security disability insurance by 2048, you see in

that red line there just the path this is on, the path of doom that so many are talking about and writing about right now. you say it's a wake-up call. five seconds. >> right now, we live 18.5 years longer after we retire. the good news, by 2026, 23.5 years longer, maybe some wiggle room. >> sandra: i don't want to know what everybody is looking like. >> especially on tv with the hd cameras, it's bad enough. >> sandra: see you at 2:00. >> john: the nation's emergency oil supply running low after president biden repeatedly drained the strategic petroleum reserve. senator john barrasso will tell us about his plan to rein in the tap in the oil reserve. >> sandra: and a break in the double murder trial of attorney alec murdaugh. two witnesses have taken the stand.

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sdashz the -- >> sandra: a judge ordered 61-year-old henry tenon to be held without bond on a murder charge in the killing of jared bridegan last february. phil keating is live in miami on this for us. phil, this suspect was already in jail? >> yes, sandra, since august, when he was caught by an officer for driving with a suspended license, as well as illegal shotgun in the trunk of his car. now charged with the brutal murder of the microsoft executive, jared bridegan.

this is the man, 61-year-old convicted felon. they do not believe he acted alone, meaning more arrests could be coming. he faced a judge this morning for less than two minutes, never saying a word. charged with seven felonies, conspiracy to commit weapon, child abuse, potentially first-degree capital murder could get the death penalty. bond was denied. jared bridegan was gunned down in february last year in what police say was an ambush on a dark road in jacksonville beach as bridegan was driving him with his 2-year-old toddler in the back seat, he had to come to a stop because there was a tire in the road. and also on happened yesterday, the mother of the two toddlers wiping tears, his second wife, bridegan had just dropped off twins at his ex-wife's house. that ex-wife and her second husband are considered suspects

in the mysterious killing. they divorced in 2016 but continued a bitter battle over finances and custody of their twins in family court repeatedly until his death. now, property records obtained by fox show that the apartment or house that tenon was renting for a number of years was actually owned for about five years from the second husband of the ex-wife, fernandez. when asked yesterday by fox digital what she thought of that connection, the second wife, now widow, kirsten, said i'm not surprised, to be honest. sandra. >> sandra: phil keating live in miami, thank you. >> john: bring in phil holloway, criminal defense attorney and former assistant district attorney in the state of georgia. we will get back to the bridegan murder, but first of all, while it is a break we wanted to talk

about the alex murdaugh trial. the defense led by dick harpootlian is trying to poke holes in sergeant green's testimony. how is he doing so far? >> look, this trial has something for both sides. look, the defense has really i think done a pretty good job so far with the witnesses that they have been able to question. they are starting to poke holes, one by one, in the prosecution's theory. and we are starting to see some themes. one of the themes is look, this was just a botched crime scene. for example, they are pointing out the tire tracks may not have been preserved by the responding officer. pointing out that somebody else could have done it and also saying, john, that the police were rushed to judgment, that they have tunnel vision, zeroed in on this defendant and only this defendant and built a case and that assumption. so we are starting to see themes. these themes have a way of

growing into arguments of reasonable doubt. all you have to have is one juror who has a hang-up about one of the pieces of evidence and has a reasonable doubt and that's at a minimum a hung jury. so the defense is not going to be able to prove that he's innocent necessarily, but they are going to have lots of things that they are going to argue about that they say will amount to reasonable doubt. >> john: the jury has been seeing, we have not seeing it at home, very, very graphic bodycam video from when sergeant danielle green entered the scene there in south carolina. the defendant's son paul face down on the ground with his head literally blown apart like a watermelon. and the questions being raised, what kind of a father could do that, and the defense of course is saying a father would never do that to his child. >> yeah, and i think that's the only, the real argument the defense can make out of that. it's obviously a horrific scene. but set aside emotions from seeing that graphic image and think about the person who

inflicted those wounds would have probably had to have lots of dna, blood, tissue, brain matter on their person and in this particular case there is not that evidence on the defendant. so the defense can say as brutal and horrible as this is, this shows our client, could not have been the killer. that's going to be a very powerful image. the jury will have to figure out what to make of that, but i think it's at least plausible that he's not the killer if he did not have lots of evidence sort of on his person, john. >> john: i also thought it was interesting as an observer to see him breaking down in tears there at the defense table but apparently no tears when sergeant daniel green was interviewing the night of the murder. i want to jump to the microsoft murder, jared bridegan murder. henry tenon is charged with his murder, but the state prosecutor says she does not think he acted

alone. >> we know henry tenon did not act alone. >> john: a lot of people think it has the markings of a murder for hire, and now attention is turning to bridegan's ex-wife and she's always been suspected for a long time, shannon gardner fernandez. we have found tenon, at the time of the murder, was living in a property, an apartment that was owned by gardner fernandez' second husband, mario fernandez. i mean, that's -- is that just a coincidence? i mean, seems like an unusual connection. >> yeah, you know, the last time you talked with you about another case, we were talking about circumstantial evidence and this is one that can't be a coincidence, at least not in my view. look, the key thing in addition to what the prosecutor says, he says look, we know he was not acting alone. conspiracy is an agreement between two or more people to do something that's illegal, so they are saying he had an

agreement, and i guarantee they are trying to figure out a way, if he has not done it, to get him to spill the beans on whoever was on the other side of this conspiracy. if we were having to place bets on this, the smart money being on the first wife and her husband who wound up being this defendant's landlord, that can't be a coincidence. >> john: we do know they were wrestling over custody for a number of years. phil holloway, good to watch up with you. >> sandra: an illinois sheriff under attack after refusing to enforce a new gun control law put in place by democratic governor j.b. pritzker. he says it is unconstitutional, and simply not safe. that sheriff is james mendrick. he will join us to explain. >> john: our own benjamin hall making an emotional return to television today, ten months after a russian attack in ukraine nearly killed him.

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about this, why would you refuse to enforce this law? >> you know, i didn't really get involved in this in the beginning, but then almost 90 other sheriffs started to do letters and protest of it and then the citizen complaints started coming in, i mean hundreds of phone calls from citizens. just so worried we were going to come to their doors and ask for their guns. the way the law was written, you know, it didn't say who -- it said nothing about who was going to enforce this and whenever that happens, it's usually an unfunded mandate, and here is the list, go enforce. usually how the laws go if you don't say who is going to enforce it, and that's how it was written. after i signed on, i became like the only person, i've been living in what i would consider the definition of a hostile work environment the last couple weeks. they have not keyed on any other sheriff, don't talk about prosecutors that don't prosecute in cook county, you know, it's all focused on me for some

reason. >> sandra: that is a fair point. one of the democratic reps taking you on is sean caston, slamming you for not enforcing the law or saying you will not, his actions are going to make mass shootings more likely, sheriff, this is directed at you. he's going to put the police officers who are there to protect them in the line of fire. i'm sorry, i'm thinking this is a tweet, he says this. let's listen, this is wheaton. >> his actions will make future mass shootings more likely and put the police officers to protect them in the line of fire. the sheriff's position is dangerous and also unconstitutional. >> sandra: i say wheaton with familiarity, i was born and raised in that town, these are very blue areas of the country, the state as well, democratic governor, j.b. pritzker. i'm surprised to hear from you you got flooded with phone calls of residents there fearing their guns were going to be taken away.

>> yeah, also a personal call from congressman caston and i asked him for clarification and he told me if i would go to a house filled with molotov cocktails i should have no problem going to the house, and since then they have backed down and said we are not going to have to go to residents. but you have to understand. all illegal gun activity will result in arrest and prosecution in dupage, that's what we do, and always have done. and restraining orders, we have issued 72 of those orders, 62%. so when a gun is in the hands of somebody who may be dangerous we are already on it. i don't know if they don't know what the existing laws are, just because they are lawmakers don't think they know the law, they don't all the time, and when you contest them, they lose it. i was told also that i have no first amendment right as he is seeking everybody's second

amendment rights to be taken away. he told me as sheriff i don't have a right to discuss it. it's a weird world you cannot have an opinion and cannot protect your own citizens. >> sandra: rep caston is welcome to join us on the program and we do appreciate you stepping away from your busy job, incredibly important job and talking about this with us today. we appreciate it, thank you. >> thank you, appreciate it. >> john: department of homeland security releasing illegal immigrants with criminal records in the united states. why is that happening? biden crisis part 1, and brandon judd has a couple of things to say about that. he's just ahead. research shows people remember ads with a catchy song. so to help you remember that liberty mutual customizes your home insurance, here's a little number you'll never forget. did you know that liberty mutual custo— ♪liberty mutual♪

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>> john: knew numbers from the department of homeland security showing 1,156 illegal immigrants with criminal records were released from detention facilities in the month of december into the united states. matt is live at the epicenter of the crisis in eagle pass, texas with the latest. what more can you tell us about the numbers?

>> our crew was here at the southern border when title 42 was going to come to an end, in anticipation of title 42 potentially ending, ice released more than 1,000 migrants with criminal convictions or facing criminal charges to make room in the detention centers. they were released under title 42, only for the supreme court to order that title 42 would remain in place. the dangerous migrants were set free. in addition to the latest alarming statistics, u.s. customs and border protection says since the beginning of fiscal 2023, 278,000 known got aways from made it into the u.s., evading authorities. texas dps and border patrol will tell you they are a threat to the u.s.. and hundreds if not thousands of

asylum seekers and migrants, many looking for work and we often wonder what happens to them. one migrant from texas to philadelphia, and now to a shelter in brooklyn. >> it's very difficult being away from family, and missing the people that you love. i feel i could do more for my family here than back in my country. if i only work for one day, it's $100. and that feeds my family for two whole weeks. >> now, that migrant has a court date in august. u.s. officials tell us until the court date he's essentially allowed to be in the united states. he anticipates that he might be deported. we'll keep you updated on his status, john. >> john: we'll keep following it. matt, thank you. sandra. >> sandra: double murder trial of murdaugh set to resume at any

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