would point out that president biden, when he left the obama administration, didn't start using the penn -- what became the penn biden center until mid 2017. the document in the first batch found in that office had to have been someplace else prior to that. but you would do all of this intensively at the beginning and then make a disclosure once with an inventory of everything that you found in the different locations. so the only way this makes sense to me is if they never intended for this story to become public. they got put on their back feet by the cbs report and have been scrambling ever since. none of this makes sense. what particularly doesn't make sense is the fact that the justice department early on green lighted the idea that biden lawyers who do not have security clearances could conduct these searches at the biden residences in delaware.

and what we've now seen is those searches were not only incompetently done because the bureau found additional documents in the wilmington residence after the searches took place but green lighting having people without security clearances look for classified documents that they were not authorized to see, which is virtually what biden is under investigation for. >> dana: if i could make a point then. if you remember, it was president biden's legal team said in january that they had looked at the beach house and there was nothing there. >> dana, not to cut you off but they also said that about the wilmington home, right? they serarched at least twice. then the bureau, we don't know

how much stuff they missed. >> bill: it is possible, gentlemen, that he could have had documents everywhere in multiple locations. the story is still ongoing. you have a spot in washington, d.c., a spot in wilmington, delaware, maybe one along the shoreline in delaware. maybe there is information and documents at the university of delaware. question to both of you. if he has documents from his days in the u.s. senate, i can't think that is what they consider actionable intelligence. if it's it -- if they would tell us they would shed more light whether it's sensitive material or run of the mill stuff that senators get, which they shouldn't have, i will point out, and presidents receive in a common way given their position. >> there is no reason why they

cannot share the level of classification and the subjects of these documents. as you recall, we learned that information fairly quickly in the mar-a-lago raid. and the court in that case chastised the government to some degree saying you can share a lot more information in these claims of national security risks are overblown. what is going to be difficult for the investigators is the fact that they allowed private attorneys to go through these locations for so long. this is now well trodden territory. we really won't know what the condition or location of these documents were originally. you have had lawyers go through these things, moving them, looking for material. there will be questions as to whether documents were in their covers, where they were located, how we were stacked. whether they were visible. the most chilling problem for

investigators is the recent disclosure that president biden may have transferred classified information to his personal notebooks. now, the report that notebooks were seized is really troubling because it really raises this question as to how you conduct the search. it is easy to search for material that have classified markings at the beginning of paragraphs, tops of the pages or on cover folders. it is much more intrusive to look through notebooks to see if the president did indeed transfer classified information into those notebooks. that was clearly done if these reports are correct. but it suggests a much more intrusive and extensive search would be necessary. >> dana: andy, what about the custody of the document, right? if they are in random places throughout a house, he keeps saying and his press secretary says he treats classified

information very seriously. but in practice it doesn't seem to be true. >> well no, obviously if he has it going back to the time he was in the senate, it is suggestive of a pattern of being cavalier. in terms of the custody, dana, if you will worried how to prove this at trial, if it ever came to that, the first thing i would note is that the whole residence is a place where the documents are supposed to be. even if there is a chain of custody problem where it was found in the residence it is still problematic for biden that the documents are there in the first place because they aren't supposed to be there. secondly to this point of insinuating lawyers into ministerial tasks like, for example, they used lawyers to pack up the penn biden office. that's how we found out about

the first batch of document. and lawyers have been involved through -- in this throughout, if i'm a prosecutor looking at this, those lawyers are witnesses. and if a lawyer is doing something like packing up a residence or locating documents, you don't have attorney/client privilege to decline to answer questions about that. moreover, the white house counsel who has been involved in this, mr. silver, who has also gotten himself entangled in the chain of these documents, there is case law that goes back to the clinton scandal in the 90s in the lindsey case which goes to the point that the white house counsel doesn't have an ability to assert executive privilege to avoid testifying about these sorts of things at least in a criminal investigation. so i think they will have plenty of witnesses. >> bill: stand by. mark meredith in a moment from the white house.

bill mcgurn joins our coverage, "wall street journal." at first blurb your reaction to the news that's breaking at this minute. >> well, there is still a lot of questions we don't have answers to. but to go back to the beginning, the whole reason this is a mess is because biden made it one. the president went on tv and denounced former president trump for carelessness and so forth and made a huge issue of it. and if he hadn't done that, we wouldn't have special prosecutors and we wouldn't be covering this story. it would be a minor story. he brought it on himself and then he said he had no regrets. so i think there are a lot of questions. i think jonathan turley makes a good point. at this point we really should look at the documents at the university of delaware. you can't presume that there is

no classified information there. so i think it will continue to go on and it is -- you know, if the president is mad, he should look in the mirror. >> dana: you think about, bill, just the series of miscalculations by the president of the united states, one for having the document, but also from the personal lawyers and even the white house team for these at least allowed to know the documents existed at the penn biden center before the mid-term election. a series of miscalculations that led them to this point that this story continues day after day. there seems to be a new development. why we call it news. this is new. you now are talking about wilmington and i think everyone here is making a good point. why wouldn't you actually look at the university of delaware? that perhaps is next. >> yeah, it is a logical question. look, you raise a good point. the primary person at the center of this is merrick garland who

knew months ago that there was a problem. he knew it when he appointed a special counsel for donald trump's mar-a-lago papers. and yet he allowed all these things, the private lawyers to look over the information. so i think it is a huge problem. again i don't think we would be paying this much attention to it if they hadn't appointed a special counsel and made it impossible not to appoint one for this case. and god knows where it ends because nothing the biden people have done have ended the story. all they do is prolong it. >> bill: agree on that. mark meredith is ready on the north lawn. we go to the white house to get the news from there. if there is any reaction in the short period of time. mark, hello. >> good morning. right now we're hearing from the president's personal lawyer and the white house using that as the official statement at the

moment. the big question is whether or not the president himself will weigh in on the development. he will be on camera twice today. always the possibility when reporters are in the room he will have some questions shouted out at him and facing questions about how far he will cooperate with the special counsel. this investigation ongoing. the president's legal team at the white house, the white house counsel's office has made it clear they want to be cooperative and they believe this is a process that is going to take some time to play out. something that you and dana have been hinting at in the last few minutes of course is the political repercussions because of the drip by drip nature of this. a president by allocations getting ready to relaunch a campaign for the presidency and the state of the union less than a week away. a feeling of whether or not this is just going to continue to hang over everything the president may try to talk about and the rest of his domestic agenda. he has been on the road talking about infrastructure. when we have headlines like this like the f.b.i. searching his home can take away from

political messaging the white house is trying to get out there. what house republicans will do with this information. they have been promising to try to get to the bottom of what's been going on. we heard from james comer, the chair of house government oversight he believes it is possible the president's son, hunter biden, may have been in close proximity to the document. when you have searches like this you wonder what will it trigger in terms of a chain of events what was happening at the homes over the last several years and what material was found. david mentioned off the top this is something the president goes to these homes all the time. it is pretty much every weekend either in wilmington, camp david or his home at the beach. why now as opposed to weeks and months earlier? >> bill: let's press recall on your brain here. go back over the past month. where did he spend the weekend? we know he was at camp david this past weekend. was he in wilmington the week before that? >> dana: yes, i think so. >> bill: when was the last time

he was at the beach house? >> they kind of all blur together. a lot of these trips can be last minute where all of a sudden the president was going to go to camp david and does the last-minute trip to wilmington or go up for the day and go back and forth. the question that these documents date back several years and date back to the senate times. whether or not this will be -- you have to go back to his time as vice president when you trow i to piece some of this together. but in terms of the search happening in his home. look at the chyron on the screen. f.b.i. searching the home of the president of the united states. his legal team they say they welcome the search. the headlines don't erase that. this will be compared back and forth to what happened late last year in mar-a-lago. it will be the drip by drip nature of this investigation. for the president himself, whether or not it changes any tune he might have to say about what was going on with these document. he says he believes he was doing everything right. this was simply an oversight.

this was not something that was intentional. but in terms of whether or not he changes his tone after these additional searches we don't know. of course, there will be still questions about who will be interviewed, who would the f.b.i. be talking to, white house staff, previous campaign staff, obama administration. that's a big piece of the puzzle. >> dana: is there a white house briefing today? >> there is this afternoon. my colleague jacque heinrich is in the chair this afternoon. the president is hosting the official transition for his outgoing chief of staff ron klain happening in the 5:00 hour. the chief of staff getting ready to leave as another crisis continues to break. they have a successor named but this story will continue on for the weeks and months to come. this won't change. >> bill: ron klain has an off ramp on a day like today. >> dana: see you. >> bill: bring in jonathan turley and andy mccarthy back to our discussion. thinking about this, if you guys are right, by the way, that the

f.b.i. went back in mid november to that place on capitol hill the penn biden center and andy, i think you said that they wanted to keep it quiet and expected to keep it quiet until cbs broke the story. if the f.b.i. is going back to the penn biden center in mid november people in washington talk. it is a small town. in all likelihood there lies the possibility of potential source if they were going back to this location twice in a couple of weeks. >> i would say a couple of things about that, bill. first, they are very sort of vague about what the timing of that search was. they say mid-november. i think it matches up with the assignment by attorney general garland to john lausch, the u.s. attorney in chicago, to do the assessment of whether there should be a special counsel or not. that happened november 14th

around mid-november. the other thing is the november 20th discovery of the garage papers, that didn't leak even when cbs did their report on january 9th, they didn't have that piece of the puzzle. a lot of it has been successfully done under the radar. >> bill: now we have multiple locations, right? minimum of two, could be three, could be four, could go beyond that. professor, in the statute is there anything that addresses degree of neglect? >> well, the standard is gross mishandling which has been satisfied many times over just by what we know. you don't have to really go thumbing through the code to realize that storing classified material next to your corvette would be viewed as gross mishandling. obviously the prosecutors look at the sensitivity of material. the existence of evidence of

intent or knowledge. keep in mind these have been out there for as many as 14 or more years. and so even if you didn't know that they were packed or shipped to your location any knowledge during that period is going to show intent to retain those documents. and so this is still a very serious question, and i think that the department of justice is going to be in a tough position now because of how it has handled this. the white house is in a free fall. they have adopted a position of not answering questions that is neither legally nor practically sustainable. i think the most dangerous spot in washington today is any point between ron klain and the door. his exit will set a new record in terms of track.

but the problem is that the white house is going to have to get a handle on this. >> dana: but it also jonathan gives them a chance to reset if they want, right? a new chief of staff has the ability to say i will change a couple of things around here and one of the things would be in my opinion you have to bring your communications people up to speed early on. they made a huge miscalculation by keeping them in the dark. maybe the decisions would have remained the same but i have a feeling you wouldn't have a press secretary out there twisting in the wind and a press office who is looking around going we can't get traction on any of the things we want to talk about because this stuff keeps happening. now we talk about the university of delaware. it might not end for quite a while for them but an opportunity with a new chief of staff to reset the narrative. >> i think that's right. what has been lacking so far is any evidence of control. this is all the control of a falling locomotive. they just are watching this

happen like they are pedestrians, and you obviously cannot do. it has also made the situation worse as andy and i have discussed, they have converted most of their legal team into fact witnesses. that level of compromise makes things even more difficult because those people should be at some point walled off from further work on these issues. >> dana: jonathan turley and andy mccarthy we love breaking news and bringing it to you. thank you for joining us with that. we also have a busy day in d.c. house republicans launch the first of multiple investigations into the biden administration and the actions they took when democrats were in full control of the white house and congress. >> bill: the house oversight committee investigating looking into waste, fraud and abuse of covid spending. the judiciary committee led by

republicans targeting the biden border crisis ongoing as you know. congressman rodney scott telling us what he will look for in today's hearing as cartels control the border and more. >> there are real threats coming across that border every day. the mass migration that the current administration wants to say is asylum seekers is providing cover for the cartel to bring in all the other threats. we have no idea who or what is coming into our country and that's on the back of the biden administration. >> bill: aishah, hello to you from the hill. >> good morning. we're watching both of these hearings closely not only because of the topics of conversation but watching to wait and see if these chairmen the oversight chairman and judiciary chairman will come out and talk to reporters about what is going on in rehoboth as well. the judiciary hearing which is about to get underway. doesn't quite look like it's

underway yet. was primarily going to dig into the fentanyl creels is today. we could hear a lot about the arrest of that iranian illegal immigrant as well that's on the f.b.i. terror watch list. today's witnesses stepfather of a teen who died from a fentanyl overdose. two judges also testifying and an arizona sheriff. the first of two hearings actually on the border in just one week house republicans t the border james comer willa hearing himself with some border agents. he is going to have come in and testify. according to comer, homeland security secretary mayokas allowed that after the panel threatened to use its subpoena power. it looks like it is getting underway. by the way, mayokas has been facing intense calls from republicans to step down. as of this morning it looks like

the conference is still on that track to impeach him. >> i think speaker mccarthy and our entire republican team has to decide if we are going down that road. he has done a terrible job. it has been done intentionally. >> the video you just saw was the oversight committee hearing. that's on wasteful covid spending, covid money that congress approved. we're waiting for the chairmen to take a break and come out and also talk to us about the big news of the day what is happening in rehoboth. >> bill: we'll be in touch with you. when you're in the majority you can dictate the terms of the subject matter. >> dana: there is also a hearing happening now on the oversight side of things. congressman james comer is the chairman of the committee. you can see him on screen.

having the first hearing about covid funds which we all paid into and there was a lot of fraud. and where did that money go and can we get any of it back and what do we do to figure a way to not have it happen in the future? >> bill: we'll watch that. in the meantime significant breaking news in the world of sports and it happened two hours ago. roll it. >> i'm retiring -- for good. i know the process was a pretty big deal last time so when i woke up this morning i figured i just cut the cord and let you know first. i thank you so much for every one of you for supporting me and to allow me to live my absolute dream. i wouldn't change a thing. >> bill: emotional at the end. this time it's for real is what the legend tear quarterback brady is calling it quits.

the 45nfl superstar announced his retirement for a second time in 12 months. this time brady is gone for good. jim gray is with us now. good morning. you have had a podcast with tom brady for how many years? i've lost track for an nfl quarterback who is age 45. your initial reaction. did it surprise you and did you have a wink and nod that it would be it earlier in the week? >> we've done the show for more than a dozen years and it has been a great honor because we've been able to see the ride of the goat and he has brought us up close and personal on the show let's go and all the interviews we've done in the pre-game and halftime. it was just time and this was a very difficult season both professionally and personally. obviously for tom but he leaves the leader in yards, touchdowns, win. five-time super bowl mvp. won seven times. played in the game ten times

the. a great day to be celebrated. played to his goal of 45. he has records in all those areas. >> dana: jim, do you know -- >> it's just time. it is hard to do it at age 45. this year he led the league in completions once again. but it just gets tougher and tougher. the guys are young, fast and quick and hit pretty hard. >> dana: do you know if any other offers from other teams to come play for them one more year? >> the free agency period doesn't start until after the league season ends after the super bowl. i'm not sure what that date is. sometime in march. there are a lot of times that would have liked to have had tom brady. rumors regarding many and a number of them would have contacted him and wanted his services. >> bill: if he knew -- he was all about winning the super bowl, right? we knew that.

he said it every year. if he knew he could play on a team that was competitive for the big trophy, would he go on? >> i don't think he is not playing because he is physically not capable. he escaped this year again. everybody gets injured and everybody the injury rate in the national football league is 100%. we saw him throw in the playoff game against dallas and made the playoffs again and threw 67 or 68 passes, the most ever in a playoff game. so it is not that he can't play. it just takes a lot physically and mentally. mentally this is very difficult to do every year and when you have done it for 23 years plus the four years of college, plus whatever it took to get to college, this has been the long majority of his life and it gets harder and harder and harder and the guys chasing you are half his age.

nearly his son's age. his son jack is 16 he is playing with players whose fathers he played with. so there comes a time and this seems like the best one. >> bill: let me be more direct in my question. i didn't mean he wasn't healthy. i thought he has got it still when i saw him play. you need a team in order to reach the highest level of that sport. if he had a team who could get him back to the super bowl, would he play another year? >> apparently not because i'm sure there would be suitors who could reach the super bowl. perhaps in tampa. there has been rumors about san francisco. there are a number of other teams who probably feel they are a quarterback away, he would be a 46-year-old quarterback. i believe he could play and i believe he could play at the very high level. he is not a mobile quarterback. you look at the guys going to

the quarterback hurts and mahomes. they run around. what we saw mahomes do on one leg with a bad ankle the other day is magical. tom can't do that. he couldn't do that when he was at his prime. he is a pocket quarterback. the game has changed a bit. to have a stationary target back there he can be very effective and has been very effective. he won a super bowl at age 43 a few years ago in 2020. so yes, he could have done it but he just made the decision that this was it. >> dana: that was the covid super bowl. >> i achieved all his goals. the greatest winner ever. >> dana: pass on our regards to him. we wish him the best. jim gray, thank you for being on with us today. >> thanks. >> bill: jimmie g, thank you. >> dana: two big hearings on the hill today. one panel investigating pandemic relief fraud and the other looking at the crisis on the southern border. >> bill: also massive ice storm

crippling the south. hundreds of flights have been canceled. we're live in the lone star state on a frozen day today.

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fraud. there are projections of hundreds of millions of dollars, perhaps into the billions that were distributed to people and companies perhaps that should not have had them. that's what they are trying to figure out. james comer will be a busy man for two years. he led off this way a short time ago. >> as chairman i intend to focus this committee's attention and resources on its core mission to insure our government is working for the american people in an efficient manner. agency guard taxpayer funds from fraudsters and political leadership be held accountable for bad consequences of their policies. last congress democrats strayed far from this mission. the biden administration faced little to know scrutiny under unchecked one-party democrat rule in washington. this committee conducted almost no oversight of federal government agencies, programs or

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first hearing on waste, fraud and abuse in pandemic spending programs and hold many more hearings on this important issue. we owe it to the american people to get to the bottom of the greatest theft of american taxpayer dollars in history. we must identify where this money went, how much ended up in the hands of fraudsters or ineligible participants and what should be done to insure it never happens again. we'll evaluate the grants and loans doled out for nearly every agency in the federal government to insure those funds were appropriately used to respond to the pandemic and not wasted on unrelated matters or ineligible people and look at elementary and school emergency relief funds to address learning loss and open schools. these funds were often used to push divisive ideologies to our students. we'll work to insure the watchdogs in the offices of

inspectors general and law enforcement and prosecutors can recover illegally obtained covid-19 taxpayer funds. this committee has for too long stood on the sidelines while taxpayer dollars were waisted by bureaucrats whose only priority is getting money out the door. today we'll hear from inspector general michael horowitz. the comptroller general, and assistant director david smith with the office of investigations at the secret service. thank you all for being here to testify about your efforts to conduct oversight of pandemic funding. >> bill: that hearing is underway now as taxpayer dollars trying to figure out who is accountable and see if we get to the bottom of it and claw the money back. into it's into the billions of dollars where do you go to get it? >> dana: does anyone get in trouble? we'll see. the story at the beginning of the store an iranian caught at

the southern border. joining us now is republican senator tom cotton. this is just 1 of 38 terrorist watch list suspects caught at the border. now this one, this guy in particular was not caught by the border patrol. he got away from them but was picked up by the texas department of public safety. so we now have at least 38 of these guys in our custody here. >> this is a remarkable story. you have an iranian national on the terrorist watch list apprehended of our border 1 of 40 we've apprehended. this wasn't by the feds or the department of homeland security. it was by texas law enforcement officers. thank goodness the state of texas is taking responsibility for its border with mexico even if joe biden won't take responsibility for policing our border. and what really worries me,

dana, is not this one person we caught or the almost 40 that we've caught. it is how many have we missed? how many have been able to infiltrate our country without being caught? i worry about the potential for terror attacks including master orr attacks on the scale of another 9/11 if we don't secure our border. it won't have to be a 9/11 commission to figure out how it happened. it will be obvious. the open southern border has posed a threat to the safety of our people. >> bill: we have a number on the number of got aways the last four months. 304,000. okay? that's going back to the first of october. per day that's almost 2500. what are they doing? who are they? we don't know. >> we don't know, bill. i think it's reasonable to infer that we have allowed many more people on the terrorist watch list to get in than even a

normal ratio based on the known gotaways and the ones we've apprehended would suggest because you would assume -- i think it's fair to say that hardened terrorists who have trained overseas to conduct terror attacks will be more skillful and artful in evading law enforcement than a poor migrant trying to enter our country to get a job and pay off expenses for their family back home. i think it is a grave threat to our national security and one more urgent reason to secure our border now. >> dana: it seems incredibly unfair to the men and women who work in law enforcement, at the border or in intelligence to put this burden on them because they are responsible to try to make sure they catch everything and if we have another attack it will be obvious what happened but they'll be blamed and the administration doesn't change the border situation and now we also had a report on monday about the northern border, sir, and how many people are trying to come across there.

we aren't covering our bases. i don't know whether people have forgotten what happened before. why would someone from iran on the terror watch list sneak across the border and who might he have been trying to meet up with? >> an excellent point. the real threat is who we don't know and who we didn't catch. you would assume these people as hardened terrorists will be skilled at evading law enforcement. i don't think law enforcement will be blamed. i think the blame for the open border lies now and consequences in the future squarely on the doorstep of joe biden and the white house. this didn't just happen. it is not an accident. it is not a bad hand that joe biden was dealt. it is the deliberate choices he has made all along to stop the enforcement of our border and allow up to 6 million illegal aliens to enter our country in two years in his tenure. if there is a terrorist attack in this country from someone who crossed the southern border joe

biden will be squarely responsible for that attack. >> bill: we have spent billions over 20 years at airport secure. billion else of dollars. next time you go to dca in washington you can see it. huge scanning machines that force you to put everything in there and make sure there is nothing on you but you can walk across the border. it is ridiculous. 19 hijackers, four planes on 9/11. thank you for your time today. we'll speak again soon. >> dana: let's say on capitol hill for a moment. there is another hearing happening today. it is about the border and the judiciary committee on the house side and the chairman of that committee is from ohio, the chairman republican jim jordan. let's listen to him. >> 5 million is the number of illegal aliens just in the time since president biden took office. 1.7 million, the number of illegal migrants that joe biden released into american

communities, 2,378,944, the number of illegal migrants encountered by cbp on the southwest border in 2022. the highest number ever recorded in a single year in our nation's history. 251,487 the number of illegal migrants encountered on the southwest border in the month of december of last year. the highest monthly number ever recorded. 8,100, the average number of illegal migrants encountered per day on the southwest border in the month of december 2022. 717,660 the number of illegal migrant encounters on the southwest border in just the first three months of this fiscal year. 1.1 million. the number of known gotaways who have successfully crossed the southwest border since president

biden took office. 856, the number of migrants who died attempting to cross the southwest border during the past fiscal year. again, the highest number on record. 98, the number of aliens on the terrorist watch listen countered on our southwest border during fiscal year 2022. yet another record set by the biden administration. remember when mr. mayokas testified and asked him of the number on the terrorist watch list and asking him at the time it was only 40 something. we asked him about that number and he said what's the status of those individuals? his response was astonishing to both republicans and democrats saying he didn't know if they were detained. he didn't know. this year 38, the number of aliens on that terrorist screening database already this

year. 193 the number of fentanyl-related deaths in the united states every single day. we'll hear from mr. dunn and the heartache this causes families and communities, this fentanyl problem. these numbers make clear the biden administration does not have operational control of the border. month after month after month we have set records for migrants coming into the country. and frankly i think it's intentional. i don't know how anyone can reach any other conclusion. it seems deliberate and pre-meditated and seems intentional. as if that's not bad enough we now learn the crisis is no longer just confined to the southwest border. last week the chief border patrol agent in vermont tweeted this quote. in less than four months apprehensions have surpassed the combined two prior years. just in the past four months

more than the two years combined beforehand. make no mistake the biden administration is carrying out its plan. we heard secretary mayokas sat in front of this committee and said we're executing our plan on the border. we all heard president biden say we're trying to make it easier for people to get here. they are succeeding in that. imagine the frustration that border communities feel they hear the damage done to their land and to their businesses, the crimes committed by illegal alien trespassers and overwhelmed local resources part of their own federal government's plan. today we'll hear about some of the effects of biden's open border policies on everyday americans and the communities in which they live. we'll hear about dangerous encounters with illegal migrants on private property and the devastating effect of fentanyl and mexican smuggling cartels exploiting the open border to terrorize u.s. communities. none of this had to happen.

that's the worst part. under president trump the border was secure. under president biden there is no border and americans are paying the price. i recognize the ranking member. >> dana: that was jim jordan, the chairman of the house judiciary committee. many witnesses that are under oath and witnesses today that will talk about all things border. >> bill: things kicking off on that. they'll continue into next week. you will hear a lot about this from republicans who are now controlling the table there in the house. meantime we have the search of joe biden's home in rehoboth, delaware. >> dana: do you think kevin mccarthy and the president will talk about the documents today in their meeting? i would suppose not. you can imagine. we'll be right back.

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>> dana: a lot of news to cover on wednesday. christina coleman looks at the life of betsy coleman, the first black african-american woman pilot. >> betsy coleman was the first black american woman pilot. 1919 she worked as a manicurist in chicago when they are brother who served in world war i told her women were flying aircraft in france. she decided she wanted to learn to fly, the stigma of her race and gender made her travel to france. she applied for flight school in france. received her international pilots license in 1921. she wowed audiences with the likes of figure eight stunt flying techniques at air shows and mastered advanced aviation maneuvers. in 1923 she brought her own, an

army training plane. she refused to participate in shows with segregation. she died in 1926. her goal was to encourage women and black americans to reach their dream. america together celebrating aviator betsy coleman. >> bill: good stuff. thank you, busy day in d.c. and delaware. want to bring in mark meredith from the north lawn to fill us in a little bit on where we've been over the past hour. so we got f.b.i. agents at the rehoboth beach, delaware home and the search could go on for eight hours like at the home in wilmington a few weeks ago. >> you are right. not as large a property but this is still going to make plenty of news. the president's personal

attorney was the one that first alerted the media they were cooperating with the justice department with the f.b.i. as they conducted a search today of the home in rehoboth, beach, delaware. we have a team that compiles data and since he has taken office he has been to that property at least 12 times. i mentioned when we spoke earlier in the hour. the president is well-known to visit his homes in delaware, rehoboth and wilmington. i earned marriott points going there. he goes there just about every weekend. a lot of focus why the f.b.i. is choosing now to search considering they had a look at the property from the president's attorneys back on january 11th. we look to see if the special counsel and f.b.i. has any new information related to what happens at the search today. important to point out it was the president's personal attorney that first alerted the media. the media was there set up outside the gate of the development as we've been waiting for the possibility of

the search for several days. bill and dana. >> bill: now with turley and mccarthy respectively known as jonathan and andy, they repeatedly came back to the university of delaware suggesting there might be some paperwork classified material there. do you have any indication that is on the list? >> we don't because this is something where the attorney general as well as special counsel pretty much don't answer media questions. members of congress say they can't get anything in terms of what's been happening behind the scenes with the classified document or what the material was. the bipartisan delegation dpr the intelligence committee saying they don't know what kind of material we're talking about here because they're trying to come together in the sense of what possibility of national security breaches, all of this could entail not only with the president's documents but documents dating back to vice president mike pence as well as former president trump. there has been a lot of questions about what kind of material has been out there and

everybody is still asking the question what else may be out there? we don't know, bill, whether or not there will be additional searches there. you asked earlier in the hour whether or not we'll hear anymore from the white house. a briefing this afternoon but they will kick it to the president's lawyers today and say that's the statement we got. >> dana: the circling call somebody else and no comment. there is a meeting between speaker mccarthy and the president to start talking about the debt limit. >> i believe the first sit down since leader mccarthy has taken over the speakership. there will be a lot of focus whether or not there will be any sort of new cooperation, new cooperative agreement between the two men. the speaker said it's the first of many conversations on the debt limit. the white house said they believe we have to do this and the only position they're going to take. the president asked what he would talk about and he said they would talk about the budget. the white house is set to release its formal budget in the

next several week, march 9th. >> dana: i might be wrong. >> they obviously will have time to debate back an forth. the first meeting with them. no cameras allowed in the room but the speaker may come out to cameras afterwards. >> dana: thank you, mark and good to be with you, bill. all right. rock-n-roll. "the faulkner focus" is up next. >> harris: breaking news continues this hour. they promised to hold the biden administration accountable and they are delivering. the house republican majority launching its first investigative hearings just about 30 minutes ago. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." on the hot seat those closest to making the biggest decisions on covid money and the unmitigated disaster at our southern border. in detail the house oversight committee is tackling waste, fraud, abuse in federal covid relief spending. now the debtit