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it means for you and your money. >> john: right now we are waiting to hear from the white house council office spokesperson, ian sams, expected to talk about the probe into president biden's classified document scandal. also waiting for karine jean-pierre to talk to reporters at about 2:30ish, sort of, with everything that's going on today. she might want to bring with her her biggest binder yet, there's a lot to talk about. >> sandra: the first chance for the white house to respond to the fbi search for classified documents at the president's beach house. >> john: we are also expecting questions at the briefing about the high stakes meeting at the white house in just about an hour's time. the president face-to-face with house speaker andy mccarthy. did i say andy again, kevin mccarthy, as the biden white house gets the first dose of a divided washington, d.c. yes, i'll call him david osman as well.

i'm sorry, i'm excited, so much happening. john roberts in washington. >> sandra: the briefing coming up, the federal reserve rate hike, we'll look at market reaction. almost hard to keep track of what we are going to see this hour with the questions at the white house going to be really key after this latest search at the president's beach house. so buckle up, we'll begin with this fox news alert. the spokesman for the whitney houston counsels office expected to talk to reporters any moment now, a live picture at the white house on the left side of your screen after the fbi wrapped its search of president biden's home in rehobeth beach, delaware, screen right, as part of the investigation into his classified documents scandal. >> john: biden's attorney says the agents found no classified materials, but did take some materials and notes as biden's time as vice president. >> sandra: the third location

the doj has searched, they have found more than two dozen documents with classified markings so far. >> john: david spunt has the latest, but first, jacqui heinrich is live on the white house north lawn a short distance away from the stakeout location. and what are we expecting, jacqui? >> if history is any guide, we will not get a lot from the press briefing with karine jean-pierre. all the questions are referred to the doj, biden's personal attorneys and the white house council's office. it's a good thing ian will talk to reporters, a big scrum of folks wanting to talk to him. we want to know how the white house can claim they are being so transparent when news of today's fbi search in rehobeth did not come out until it was leaked to a news agency, only then they commented on it and don't have any answers why the november search at the penn biden center did not appear on timelines given to us by the president's personal attorneys and ian sams from the white

house counsel office. biden's attorney said today's search in rehobeth was not announced in advance because the justice department wanted to protect the integrity of the investigation, it lasted about three and a half hours, and are told no classified documents were found but consistent with the process in wilmington, took some notes that appearance during his time as vice president. and they had previously searched, and found no information at that point and the attorney general at the white house with the president for a meeting of the competition council. reporters did attempt to get some questions in there, but president biden did not answer any of them. we are not slated to see the president again today. he does have a meeting next hour with house speaker kevin mccarthy to talk about the debt ceiling, but it is closed to press, meaning the only images we might get will be released

from the white house, won't be able to hear anything that's said or even witness any body language. we have pushed to have at least a spray of off the top of that event and rebuffed by the white house. looks like it's it today to get a question to the president. >> john: jacqui, thank you. sandra. >> sandra: david spunt live is he justice department with the latest on the fbi search of president biden's beach house. david, we know now no classified documents were found in this particular search, but what did agents take from that home? >> well, you know, we are told by bob bauers, jacqui just reported, that they took some sort of documents, some notes, some handwritten notes which appear to be from his time as vice president. looks like ian sams may be walking up right now, stop me whenever you need to. >> sandra: let's get to the white house here. let's listen.

>> no documents were found, consistent with the president of having total cooperation with the justice department and the ongoing investigation and that will continue. i'm happy to take some questions. mary. >> you are disclosing this search but did not disclose the fbi also searched the president's former private office here in washington. do the american people have a right to know about that? >> yes, i think we have been pretty transparent from the beginning providing information as it occurs throughout this process. we have released probably thousands of words of statements from the president's personal attorney and the white house council's office of the process that has been undertaken here, fully coordinated with the justice department as they conduct an ongoing investigation and we want to be very careful to be respectful of the integrity of that ongoing investigation, and so i think it's important to understand that as these things develop and as information develops throughout an investigation, we are trying to get you guys access to as much information as with we can and with regards to that specific question, i don't

have anything to add to you. i think it's more appropriate that question specifically about something that happened a few months ago be asked to the justice department. >> you guys consistently talk about full cooperation -- [inaudible] special counsel, would that include to sit down for an interview should that be requested? >> thanks for the question, we are not going to get ahead of potential speculation and steps that could happen in the investigation. the president has been fully cooperative and directed his team to be fully cooperative. he believes in giving them the space to conduct a thorough review, why he's moving quickly to give them the access to his home in wilmington and rehobeth to do a full search so they are able to get access to the information to move ahead in their review. we are not going to speculate about potential things that may happen in the future in this investigation but we have been fully cooperative, the president has been fully cooperative, his lawyers are in direct

discussions with the justice department and that's going to continue. >> why did it take so long for the search of the rehobeth beach residence to occur, and who today from the white house, if anyone, was there. >> good question. we have been working directly with the justice department from the very beginning, as soon as the initial set of materials was discovered at the penn biden center and it was reported to the archives and the archives notified the justice department about the finding and we have worked the president's personal attorneys i should say worked closely with the justice department through the process and the white house counsel's office as well. they were not present today's to answer that question and we have been following the justice department lead to coordinate searches with them. if you want to ask granular questions about the decision making, search, timing, anything like that, i would refer you to the justice department. >> couple of questions, very clear. has the fbi conducted any searches of any other locations associated with the president that you or the white house is aware of? >> look, i think we are providing information as this

goes on and answering questions about the search activities as they have been happening. i don't want to speak too much to the doj practices in an ongoing investigation. i can say that we have cooperated fully, the president's personal attorneys have provided information to doj. addressed openly and directly the searches that were conducted first at the president's wilmington residence and then today at the rehobeth residence. you saw in the statement released by the president's personal attorney that no documents with classified markings were found in rehobeth, we are going to try to provide information as the investigation going on and ensures you guys have the ability to share with the american people the information that is important for them to see as the president's cooperateing with this investigation. so i want to be very careful to respect the integrity of the investigation, and as appropriate like we did today, if we have information to share about activities that have been conducted we will do that.

>> to be very clear about this. follow up if i can, i'll ask a separate question. did anyone at the white house at any point tell the national archives in any form that they could not release a press release about the discovery of classified documents? >> what's that in reference to? >> reporting that came from the house oversight committee chairman james comer says in his conversations with the national archives they communicated that they were told, the archives was told they could not have a press release with the classified documents. i don't know anything about that. if that's what it said, probably better to ask the archives if that's what was said and understand more what he meant. josh. >> first question, you did not say -- you can't -- it was yes or no. >> i gave an answer to that question. josh. >> can you say confidently whether you believe there are more classified documents. if none found today, do you think this closes the door on

classified documents? >> look, the justice department is engaged in an ongoing investigation and ongoing investigation i should add the president has been fully cooperative in, offerings unprecedented access to his home in wilmington, every room in his home in rehobeth as well as wilmington and giving them access they need. i'm going to be careful not to characterize what the justice department is doing in their investigation, more appropriate for a question like that to be asked of the justice department, point you to them. >> the white house plan to comply with the house oversight committee's records request. >> can you say more about that. >> house oversight committee has asked for communications regarding this, and also the documents found. do you plan to give those records to the house oversight committee. >> we received a few letters in recent weeks, give them a response letter last week from

the white house counsel. reached out to the committee staff to ensure we are being responsive to the requests. when you are in an ongoing investigation like this, with the justice department that you are fully cooperating with, you want to protect the integrity of that investigation and safeguard information from the investigation to protect, you know, the law enforcement decision making and things like that. but we are in communication with the oversight committee. we are operating in good faith. >> documents, though -- >> follow up on what peter was asking, are there any conversations with the justice department about other areas that former senator biden, former vice president biden was working in after he left those offerses, university of pennsylvania, any place there might be documents. >> the president's personal lawyers have addressed the process of identifying locations where materials from the v.p. years could have been stored. they have been working in open consultation with the department of justice. i'm not going to speak to decision making that the justice

department is going to make about how to conduct their investigation. that certainly would be more appropriate to be asked of them as opposed to us. but we are being fully cooperative. we are offering up access to the president's personal homes, you know, we have been cooperative with the justice department, ensuring they have access and handing any materials that are found over to the justice department like done with the national archives. we are going to continue to be cooperative with the justice department throughout this. >> handwritten notes twice now the fbi has taken -- what you describe as handwritten notes. any explanation where the notes -- i assume they are not taking every handwritten note they come across. what is it in particular -- [inaudible] >> i think you see today in the statement released by the president's personal lawyers and the statement released by the personal attorney after the search of the wilmington house,

they believe some of the materials seen and were taken appear to relate to the time as vice president, make sure at that the justice department has access to the information they need to sift through materials apart of this ongoing investigation, i'm not going to characterize too much of the underlying contents but why certain materials could have been taken. >> you said the search was planned. you said they searched everything on the property and the other question, any reason to believe anybody else in the biden family had access to the same documents. >> i'm not going to speak to the negotiations or discussions or collaborations between the president's personal attorney and doj and establishing the search. we are cooperating fully with the justice department, cooperating fully with the justice department and ensuring that they have access to the house, the rehobeth house today, wilmington house previously to be able to do a thorough search, it's because the president is moving quickly to get them access to the information they need to move forward would the

thorough review and done efficiently. >> i want to follow up on the handwritten notes. is the white house aware of what specific, what they actually are and what they contain? you were saying it may say something about his time as vice president. what sensitivity could be contained? >> i'm not going to speak to the underlying contents of what the justice department may look at. but look i'll say again as they move forward with this investigation, the president, his attorneys, the white house certainly, are going to be fully cooperative with that. we are following their lead to ensure that they have what they need in order to conduct a thorough review. >> have they told you specifically. >> i'm not going to speak to the doj -- >> what is the total number of documents bearing classified documents turned up? >> more appropriate question for the justice department. i don't want to characterize what they are reviewing. all right, thank you, guys. >> were you going to -- >> refer you to the state

department. >> interview with the president and prosecutors? >> sandra: hanging on a beat in case there is another question. i should say taken, not answered, because john, that was the white house counsel's office spokesperson, ian sams, for a press briefing outside the white house that began with i think we have been pretty transparent about all of this so far, we are fully cooperate ting, he was not answering any questions. and one important question unanswered, simple yes or no, he would not confirm whether or not there are other locations, other than the penn biden office and the two homes, whether or not any other locations have been or are being searched. >> john: the job of a spokesperson is to utter a lot of words and say nothing, and ian sams today carried out his job i am -- and he was

impeccable. the idea of voluntary access and offering access, they seem to make it a real virtue. is it a virtue or you give us voluntary access and we will break the door down. >> sandra: if we are fully cooperating, why -- they give the appearance that lets everybody off the hook for mishandling of classified documents. it also was a bit of a victory lap, too, they just completed the search of the beach home. >> john: and didn't find anything. >> sandra: there was a really important question there, too, why it took so long to even go in there and have that home searched in rehobeth. whether or not the white house is going to cooperate and hand over records to the oversight committee, that was another big question that went unanswered. >> john: and president has spent time in that house in recent weeks as well. he was there while they were

searching the wilmington residence and then when they came to search it today they did not find any classified documents. >> sandra: uh-huh, ok. so, that was the update from the white house. we are about to get another update, by the way, back there when karine jean-pierre takes questions. >> john: and gives no answers. >> sandra: and gives no answers, for a white house that's promising transparency on the issue. back to david spunt, john, at the justice department. david, did you learn anything new there? >> i'm at the famous justice department, ian sams mentioned several times about referring people to the justice department and i'm at the justice department. we asked these questions every day to doj officials, we ask these questions every day to special counsel robert hur's team and don't get answers. seems to be a black hole of information when the white house says i encourage you to ask the justice department and we ask the justice department and the justice department by nature does not speak about active

investigations. an important point to bring up, yesterday we reported that the fbi searched the penn biden center, the first location where documents were found in early november. the fbi searched the penn biden center in mid november but this was not made public until it hit news reports yesterday. so the question is, if the fbi searched the penn biden center in mid november a few months ago, why did it take them a few months to even make it to wilmington, let alone rehobeth beach where they did today as john mentioned, the president has been there several times since those documents were found tin early november, obviously he knew about this early on in the days, and one more thing from the justice department, the special counsel appointed on january 12th by merrick garland, the attorney general to oversee this investigation and while he

has been getting briefings and updates since january 12th, he officially took the rein today. he has a staff now, he actually spent some time here at doj this morning, several hours getting up to speed, though, he'll be working at an off site location which is not unusual. special counsel jack smith, and john durham into the russia probe and robert mueller all will off site locations. so any future searches that may come about will be at the direction of special counsel robert hur. >> ok, david spunt, we will go back to you as the news warrants, we'll be listening for an update from the white house shortly. >> john: katie pavlich, fox news contributor, why did it take so long november 2nd and then when

they searched the penn biden center and the time out to rehobeth. i know traffic can be bad on the bay bridge, but i don't think that fully explains it. >> the timeline a little bit goes back to the president and the attorneys trying to argue he self-reported the information. on november 2nd, his personal attorneys found the information in the penn biden center, they did not report it to the justice department, they reported it to the white house. eventually to the national archives and then over to the fbi and the justice department and they searched in mid november, we were not told that information, the information was not disclosed. when it comes to the information they are telling us about today with the initial -- additional search at the rehobeth beach house, only hearing one side of the story, and that is from president biden's perspective. hearing from his personal attorney, the white house spokesperson, not talking about what they found citing an

ongoing criminal special counsel investigation so only hearing from the biden perspective. the special counsel spokesperson, ian sams today, did leave the door open there may be additional searches. we have been told multiple times by the white house press secretary in recent weeks that the search is complete. where it comes to where it goes from here, we don't know the reason why president biden had this information in multiple locations, tried to maintain it was one mistake, it was inadvertent but a chain of custody question and we still don't know exactly why the documents keep showing up in different locations and as you pointed out, you know, the time that the president was in the beach house recently before the fbi went in yesterday, today, that's plenty of time. >> john: what do you make of the idea we are being pretty transparent. i mean, if you are being transparent you are being transparent or you are not. you are not -- it's like saying

well, she's pretty pregnant. >> it's -- it's certainly a talking point the white house is trying to hold on to as they lost control of the narrative. it's very clear when the documents were found on november 2nd, right before the midterm election, wanted to bury this, wanted to go away, getting biden's personal attorneys involved maybe it would just go away but the idea they have tried to essentially cover up exactly what happened here rather than being up front from the beginning has snowballed into this problem and of course to the special counsel investigation getting launched and the drip, drip, drip has not been good for the white house, it takes up a lot of time in the briefings, very clear that the current white house press secretary cannot handle these questions, why she is repeatedly, you know, interrupted by the white house counsel spokesperson or by john kirby, for example, and so she again will say today she has no answers, i'm sure. >> john: this aspect of it.

ok, president biden according to gillian turner has a scif in that rehobeth beach house, it's possible he could have classified documents in there, he has a place to look at them. i would assume as well, he spends a lot of time as president in wilmington that they have set up a scif there as well. we found that mike pence had some inadvertently boxed up classified documents at his home in indiana. vice presidents, now a president, does not explain how he ended up with classified documents when he was a senator. you can't do that. >> can't take documents out of the scif when you are a u.s. senator and does not explain, even if he had a scif in the wilmington home, why the documents were found in the garage. scif is only good if the documents remain in the scif, whether it's in wilmington or the senate. >> john: the garage was locked. >> maybe he thought the corvette was more valuable than the information, who knows. the information is not supposed

to be taken out of the scif on capitol hill, certainly a staffer working for a u.s. senator with a top secret security clearance you would not be treated in the same fashion as being able to say you've been transparent, maybe there will be more searches and maybe we'll find out if there's more information that they find. >> john: and one other point, totally different point. upcoming meeting between the president and the speaker of the house, do you think they will reach an agreement on a debt limit? >> probably not today, maybe somewhere on some type of negotiation and what the terms are. speaker mccarthy was sent a staff memo from the white house and he responded saying he is not interested in staff memos, he's interested in having direct negotiations with the president which we will see today. >> john: he probably did the same thing with the staff memo that the white house counsel's office did with the oversight committee. >> throw them right in the trash, no operation there. >> john: they light a good fire. >> it's going to be cold this weekend, that's for sure. >> sandra: fox news alert as we wait for the white house briefing, two more breaking stories with big implications

for your wallet. federal reserve raising interest rates for the first time this year, and the dow is reacting to the quarter point hike, basically hovered around where it was down 300 points, but it has added to that just a bit. so the market is digesting this. also as we await president biden's high stakes meeting with house speaker kevin mccarthy to discuss the debt ceiling debate. grover norquist, grover, it is a pleasure to see you. there's a lot of breaking news right now. one of which is the rate hike by the federal reserve, a quarter basis point hike. what does it mean for people? >> well, in the background of everything else that's going on, the tax increases, the shutting down of our energy, we still have inflation that is created by the biden administration spending too much money and now interest rates are being raised as a result. this is not good for the economy, it will slow things

down. people do -- did anticipate it, it shouldn't change the world, but things are weaker today than they need to be because of the inflation and we are going to see more interest rate increases in the future for just this reason. >> sandra: one area i think in the economy where a lot of folks watch, it's tied for most people the largest asset they will ever own in their life, and that is their home. and the value of their home, and we did see some housing data recently that would indicate there is a significant slowdown in the housing market in this country, and there's no doubt it's tied to mortgage rates. this is as the federal reserve hikes rates, ok, that's the bottom line on your screen, blue line, as it hikes rates to tame inflation, you have had those mortgage rates going higher and higher, topping 6% now, grover, and that makes for a pretty pricey housing market for a lot of people. >> if you are hoping somebody wants to buy your house, they are seeing a more expensive

house because of the interest that they have to pay when they borrow the money to buy your house, maybe they don't buy your house. >> sandra: indeed. i want to also put this up in the screen, and it is inflation overall. inflation year over year, grover, and it is nothing to believe that we are not still in a very serious inflationary environment, overall, up 7.1%. grocery prices, electricity goes up, rents are up, new car prices are still up, according to the bureau of labor statistics. and because the price of all those things are going up, it doesn't matter if you are making over $100,000 a year in this country, that inflation is eating into your earnings. americans living paycheck to paycheck now, 64% of the country. grover. >> yeah. inflation is the rate at which

your dollars are worth less. when it goes down a little bit from 8 to 6 something, it means your dollars are worth less every day, just not as rapidly as they were before. it does not mean anything is getting better. it's getting worse a little more slowly. this is not something to be proud of. you have to go back 40 years to get inflation numbers like that. this is a still -- still a ster ous problem. >> sandra: we expect the briefing a short time from now, and hope to learn more what is going to happen with the face-to-face meeting with president biden and kevin mccarthy. do you think they get anywhere, grover? >> question know exactly what will happen. exactly what happened ten years ago when it happened with obama, and obama started by saying i'm not going to negotiate, did not turn out to be true. he says nobody ever has anything to put on a debt ceiling, which is not true, more than half the

time debt ceilings have things attached to them. 63% of americans, harvard harris poll, want spending restraint attached to the debt ceiling, and then attack the republicans for wanting to shut down social security and obamacare and social security and medicare, just like they did ten years ago. and the republicans are saying we are not going to raise taxes, they'll be asked 112 times by the administration, please raise taxes and at the end of the day some spending restraint in return for higher debt ceiling, exactly what happened ten years ago. and it's not a bad deal given the wreck that the administration put together. >> sandra: a quick check on the dow as we leave it off here, quarter basis point did happen. markets are kind of where they were right before the announcement happened, so not a real big reaction from the american stock market to that. it's going to be the long-term, right, grover, that we have to watch for, long-term effect on

the consumer. thank you so much. >> you've got it. >> john: a lot coming up in the next half of "america reports" and beyond that as we await karine jean-pierre and the white house briefing, and a lot of questions remaining about the search of the rehobeth beach house, no documents with classified markings were found but as gillian turner points out, was any classified information written in notebooks found, and the big meeting between the president and the speaker of the house, and dave rubin on why a popular children's game would allow people to put mastectomy scars on their avatars. a whole lot more coming up. stay with us. inspire is a sleep apnea treatment that works inside my body with the click of this remote. no mask, no hose, just sleep. learn more and view important safety information at inspiresleep.com. all across the country, people are working hard to build a better future.

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expected to take a lot of questions about the search for documents at the president's rehobeth beach house today and what that means and whether or not the search is finally over or if it will continue. >> sandra: in a few moments we'll get back to the white house. the suspect of gunning down a police officer in california was a felon out of jail thanks to a law going easy on "nonviolent and nonserious offenders." but the record, weapons and armed robbery, police force in mourning wants to know what on earth would qualify as serious under the law. christina coleman is live in los angeles. what are we learning about the fallen officer? >> hi, sandra. we learned a lot in the past hour. we now know the identity of the soma police officer, 24-year-old gonzalez carasco, jr. he was shot and killed in cold blood by a convicted felon that

should have been behind bars. the first death in the line of duty in soma, just south of fresno. he had served less than two years on the job, son of farmworkers and an expecting father. >> this was all avoidable, and that's the unfortunate part. he was a phenomenal young man, great smile, always a positive attitude. >> detectives say he was responding to a call about a suspicious man on someone's property and was shot several times after getting out of his patrol car yesterday. the man accused of murdering him has been identified as 23-year-old nathaniel dixon, admitted gang member, released from prison 10 to 12 months early on a sentence for robbery, drug charges. due to the realignment laws, he was allowed out on probation and now the suspect is charged with the murder of this officer.

fresno county d.a. is blasting the state's prison systems rules, she says governor newsom and every lawmaker in the state who supports these policies and tries to pass them off as criminal justice reform has the blood of this officer on their hands. >> not only are the policies a menace to public safety and to victims and people who live and work and visit california, but they are also a disservice to the criminals who are going to prison because it is not correcting or rehabilitating anyone. it is the california prison system is college for criminals. >> we have reached out to governor gavin newsom's office for a response and are waiting to hear back. sandra. >> sandra: christina, thank you. john. >> john: sandra, wokeness is now embedding in one of the most popular video games in the world. the sims 4 calls itself the ultimate life simulation game

and marketed to children. the game's latest update allows players to give their avatars scars that come from breast removal surgery, double mastectomy. parents are outraged, claiming the game is promoting transgender surgery. joining us is dave rubin, host of the rubin report. my older kids played this when they were 9 to 12 years old and now young kids can put double mastectomy, let's put it this way, they call it top surgery, it's a word for double mastectomy. what do you make of this? >> i mean, nothing should surprise anybody at this point. i think you got to give the devil his due and the woke mind virus has infected not only our government institutions but entertainment institutions as well, whether it's hollywood or

video games. i remember playing sim city in college in the late 1990s, and you would have to design the city and there was an educational purpose to it. this has little to do with education and everything to do with indoctrination, completely consistent with everything that we have seen out of the woke, and look, i'm for free speech, i'm for free expression. if this is what the video game maker wants to put in their game, so be it. hopefully parents will look at this stuff, and not just this, but tiktok videos the kids are watching, what the kids might be reading at school, although we have gotten a lot of that out of schools here in florida, but other states and start taking some personal responsibility what the kids are doing, the system itself, the cultural system is just going to keep pushing this stuff. just no doubt about it. >> john: the idea you can put double mastectomy scars on an

avatar is promoting to some people transitioning. yesterday we had prisha mosley, and she transitioned back after a double mastectomy. >> it has been harrowing, honestly. my body is very difficult. my endocrine system is messed up. i have sexual dysfunction. i suffered hair loss on my head and hair growth on my body, and years later i'm still experiencing numbness and pain in my chest after my top surgery. >> john: you could put mastectomy scars on an avatar, but if you go through the real thing and decide it's a mistake, it's irreversible. >> think of all the things we have limits on when it comes to children. we still have pg-13 movies so 11-year-old cannot go to a movie

without a parent or guardian. children cannot buy cigarettes or alcohol. most people think that these are somewhat sensible policies to have. and yet you have quite literally teachers talking to 6-year-olds privately about gender transition, talking to guidance counselors or therapists, and then "doctors" prescribing medication to prohibit puberty or lop off body parts, and they call it gender affirming surgery, but it's the most unaffirming thing possible. gender, if you were affirming someone's gender, might say to a young child, ok, you are struggling with this issue but we want to affirm you are in the body you are in and we can deal with the psychological stuff afterwards. it is not affirming to literally remove body parts and drug someone so the natural processes of the human body cannot take place.

that's the furthest thing from affirming that you could possibly imagine. >> john: used to be called gender reassignment surgery, not reaffirming. >> orwellian language. orwellian language. >> sandra: funeral services for tyre nichols happening right now in memphis. the 29-year-old died last month after he was beat by police officers during a traffic stop. five of those officers are now facing murder charges. steve is live in memphis, tennessee where the services are currently taking place. hi, steve. >> the funeral got off to a late start due to an ice storm, it's now underway, along those here, the vice president, she's sitting next to tyre nichols' mother. reverend al sharpton is about to give the eulogy as well. he said last night he has not been given a clear explanation as to why tyre nichols was stopped by police in the first place. >> what did they stop him for,

even the police chief said he was not driving reckless, according to the tape so. what was the stop for? everybody in memphis ought to be scared they can drag you out of the car and you didn't do anything. >> tyre nichols' family members say they want the funeral to be a celebration of his life and speaking about the kind of man the 29-year-old was. >> my brother was the most peaceful person you ever met in your life, most. he's never lifted a finger to nobody, never raised his voice to nobody. if my brother was here today and he would have to say to go, he would tell us to do this peacefully. >> nichols died on january 10, 3 days after a violent beating by several police officers. five of those officers now are former officers and they face charges of second-degree murder. the fallout continues. two more officers suspended, three members of the fire

department fired and we could see more firings and perhaps more criminal charges as this investigation continues. sandra, back to you. >> sandra: ok. and those services are now underway there with al sharpton is now speaking, steve, thank you very much. >> the biden administration does not have operational control of the border. >> this extreme republican majority fails to offer genuine solutions and resorts to political theater. >> if we do not have a border, we do not have a nation. >> many republicans seem intent on demonizing families. >> the nightmare the democrats have unleashed on the country. >> john: lawmakers sounding off ob the border crisis, consequences all over the country. in new york, a group of migrants refusing to leave the swanky manhattan hotel they have been living in free in recent weeks.

a new shelter set up in brooklyn, but the migrants who checked it out say the accommodations are not up to the high standards they have now come to expect. >> it's very ugly, the beds are horrible, a piece of fabric, like a military bed. >> bryan has the latest. does the city have a plan to get the migrants or the encampment outside to move? >> looks like new york city is continuing to negotiate with the three dozen or so single adult male migrants who remain outside of the watson hotel now for three days straight, it is 30° outside, mind you. the city has offered to send them to two different shelters, including that cruise terminal in brooklyn. in fact, the mayor's office bussed a few of those migrants to that cruise ship terminal so they could see the accommodations themselves. yet the migrants still say the free shelter is inadequate,

complaining about sleeping on cots with no privacy, having to go outside in the cold to go to the bathrooms and even complaining about the commute from brooklyn to manhattan. here is a translator on behalf of the migrants. >> we are humans, we are not animals and we deserve to be in a place where we have a bed and a place to stay. >> the city is offering these men a free place to stay, three meals a hot shower and free public transportation. the only difference is they no longer will be at the swanky watson hotel because they need those rooms for migrant families with kids. president biden visited new york city yesterday to give an infrastructure speech and attend a fundraiser but did not visit the migrant shelter 30 blocks away. >> why wouldn't he come to the herk as it's called, set up by mayor adams to accommodate the failure that starts with his border and ends in brooklyn and see the work done on the front

lines by some decent people in new york city. >> a new quinnipiac poll of voters say 63% of voters say new york city does not have the ability to provide sanctuary for the migrants. 83%, john, say it's the federal government responsibility to come in and help new york city pay for all this. price tag could be about $2 billion. john. >> john: the migrant crisis felt there in new york and here in washington, d.c., and across to capitol hill where jim jordan has a few things to say here in the hearing on biden's border crisis. listen in. >> met with president biden's transition team and went over all the current plans on the border to include what was working. i was told by his transition team, sheriff, we appreciate all you are doing, optimistic things were doing well on the border. they took over, that all changed. >> that's important, what you just said and i'm over time and then the gentleman from colorado. what you just said is important. you basically told the biden

administration do this and we will have a secure border, the most secure in your 38 years of experience ins law enforcement. they said thanks but no thanks. >> they were very complimentary. shocked on day one. >> even worse. >> thank you sheriff for everything you are doing. day one, i saw that, i was disappointed and shocked. >> now the gentleman from colorado. >> thank you, thank you, mr. chairman. congratulations to the chairman on his ascension to the chairmanship of the committee, i missed the organizing meeting this morning. i will be here for the future meetings. i also want to say thank you to the acting ranking member, my colleague from texas, miss escobar for her leadership during a very difficult time for the country and her community in el paso, and grateful to her caucus and the community and i look forward to visiting again.

and thank you judge for your testimony and service, sheriff thank you for your service and the service of your many deputies. >> john: we are going to jump back out of the hearing, it will continue on capitol hill as the judiciary committee, sandra, for the very first time holds its first hearing on the biden border crisis. produced some fireworks today and likely will into the future. >> sandra: important exchange with jim jordan pressing on why the biden administration was told how it could be fixed, how we can better the situation at the border and said, to quote him, thanks but no thanks. we'll continue to monitor that in washington right now, john. >> john: and one of the witnesses at the house judiciary hearing giving emotional testimony on the harrowing tragedies that families are suffering across the country from deadly fentanyl that is being allowed to cross the border. listen to this. >> on august 21st, noah died as a result of fentanyl poisoning.

more specifically, illicit fentanyl poisoning. he was 15 years old. he was a sophomore at johnson high school in hayes county. he was murdered by a drug dealer selling counterfeit percocet pills. there was no percocet in the pill, no other drugs in the pill besides illicit fentanyl. noah was the third victim in less than two months in hayes county, from illicit fentanyl. >> john: as we know, more than 100,000 americans died last year from synthetic opioids, including fentanyl. brandon dunn says no parents should have to bury a child like he was forced to, he has launched the forever 15 project,

it's a scourge just gripped this country and clearly more needs to be done. >> sandra: it's heartbreaking. ok, so i believe that we do and have the wife, ok. the wife will be joining us tomorrow, the mother of that child. ok, karine jean-pierre at the white house has just begun taking questions. head to the white house. >> when it comes to the issues and he's been a champion status quo in many ways, we need him to be a champion of a new vision for america. >> so look, the president is very much looking forward to meeting with congressional, the members of the congressional black caucus, and to have a conversation, a real conversation about how to move forward on police reform and other shared policies as i mentioned moments ago. look, these are members the president has had a long standing relationship with, as you all know, and it's -- it is

a collaboration that we see this conversation becoming, a collaboration again on dealing with an issue that is truly affecting the black community and also the brown community as well, and you know, to your -- to the statement that you just laid out from a congressional black caucus member, i would say this, you know, and i said this at the top, when the senate republicans blocked and would not move forward with the george floyd policing act, the president acted. he acted by moving forward with taking executive action and that shows we believe and the president believes how important this issue is, and by bringing the congressional black caucus tomorrow to the white house, it also shows the president's commitment to working with congress on trying to figure out how do we move forward. again, it does not take away from the fact the way that we are going to deal with this issue is to have federal legislation, that's how we are going to move forward. again, the president took

executive action, he was very proud he was able to do this when the senate republicans in particular blocked what democrats were trying to do, and he took action. and i think that shows his commitment. >> and ian addressed this a little while ago but how the white house says they are being transparent when the fbi search at the penn biden center that happened months ago was not proactively disclosed to the public. >> look, i'm going to be very prudent from here, i'm going to be very consistent from here, i'm just not going to comment anything that is related to what is currently happening. this is a legal process, as you just mentioned, my colleague was outside these doors answering many of your questions, he has done that the past couple weeks, four weeks now, and he'll continue to do that. anything that is specific to this particular process i would refer you to the department of justice department and also my

colleagues at the white house counsel's office. >> following up on that, i understand you are not going to discuss the details or anything, but just is there a reason two of the searches were disclosed and not the search of the penn biden center, you mentioned it's a legal process. is there a legal reason why you are disclosing only two and not what we know is a third search. >> again, i'm going to refer you to the white house counsel's office. >> meeting today with speaker mccarthy, given the president has made it pretty clear he's not going to negotiate on the debt ceiling, what does he hope to get out of this meeting? >> look, we have said before, the president is looking forward to working closely and figuring out how he can deliver with republicans who are willing to work in a good faith bipartisan way. he said that right after the midterm elections and he's, he will continue to make that effort. and you know, the president has been very clear about this. he wants to -- they are going to talk about a range of issues, you have heard me say, heard us really report out from how we

see this meeting moving forward, and look, he wants to hear from the speaker what's his plan, what is his plan on the budget, what is his plan to really deal with -- to deal with -- to deal with what is at the top of the minds of the american people. how are we going to lower costs for them, how are we going to deal with the national deficit, something the president has taken very seriously by in record fashion, lowering the deficit by $1.7 billion. he wants to talk about that. he's always willing to have those conversations in good faith, and also what is their budget, what is their plan. we have heard them over and over again talking about cutting med scare, cutting social security. what we have heard from republicans leading up to the midterms and then after the midterms. so, ok. what -- what is -- what else are they going to be doing, what does that look like for them. >> the president did have some choice words for the speaker last night ahead of the meeting,

he said he's made off the wall commitments to the far right. is there any strategy in saying that ahead of this meeting, trying to throw him off a little bit or the flip side, is that really helpful to talk like that? >> i will say this. we understand what the speaker is going through. he has a caucus that, you know, that has put forth some pretty extreme ideas, some extreme options in front of the american people, cutting medicare, cutting social security, that is what he's dealing with. and so what we are saying is that, ok, well what your caucus is saying, what your conference is saying, what's your plan. and i think that's what he is acknowledging, really, what the speaker is currently dealing with. but look, you know, as we -- as we talk about -- as we talk about the meeting that's about to come up very shortly, and what they are going to discuss, again, a range of issues, the president had meetings as you know with the democratic

leadership last week, he's looking forward to having this conversation. you saw a memo yesterday asking the speaker and really congress, republicans in congress, are they going to live up to their constitutional obligation. are they going to lift the debt ceiling as many of them did, including speaker mccarthy, three times under the last president. so, that's the number one. obligation, are they going to live up to that. and number two, what's the plan >> what is the current number of documents bearing classified markings that have been found in the president's residences and offices. >> i'd refer you to the white house counsel's office. >> he's declined to comment. on debt, would the president veto a bipartisan bill that included both spending cuts and a debt limit hike similar to the 2011 -- >> i'm certainly not going to -- well, i'm glad you mentioned

2011. there's been a lot of reporting on that. i want to be clear. in 2011, the obama-biden administration negotiated in good faith, but congressional republicans recklessness caused a historic blow to our economy. that's what we saw in 2011. that's why when you look at how the administration, the obama-biden administration moved forward in 2013 and 2014 and 2015, they moved forward in a way to avoid unnecessary danger. they didn't do that in those three consecutive years because of the bad faith that they saw in 2011. so look, let's not forget, that's why congressional democrats and republicans in congress voted three times in the trump administration to lift the debt ceiling. let's not forget, this has happened 78 times since 1960. 49 times under republican presidents and 29 times under democratic presidents. this has bee