out of a zoo. if you have a giant pack back or walk in with a crate it gives the zoo a little bit of a clue that something is going on. versus the family with the kids. >> dana: let's hope it stops or if not how to put a stop to it. thank you so much. lawyers for hunter biden are denying they admitted that this laptop is his saying that has not been confirmed as they seek criminal charges against the computer repair shop owner and others for accessing the laptop and spreading the context. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino. >> bill: i'm bill hemmer. we're doing mental gymnastics on it. hunter's lawyers are trying to put the toothpaste in a tube. they ask state and federal prosecutors who are close friends with the biden family to bring criminal charges against

anyone who shared information from it. the repair shop owner calling the latest legal move retaliation after he slapped hunter with a defamation suit. >> i actually have been public in announcing there have been several attempts by several individuals to modify and insert fake data to muddy the waters or to discredit the overall contents of the laptop by asserting fake data into the laptop and why i made a copy of the drive before i gave it to the f.b.i. i didn't trust the f.b.i. >> dana: chad pergram live on capitol hill untangling the threads for us. >> hunter biden is now seemingly conceding that the world's most famous or infamous laptop is his. this comes ahead of a house hearing next week focusing on suppression of the laptop story by social media. >> i'm glad we're finally confirming it is his which the f.b.i. knew all along. by the way, they knew it was his

when they were out briefing members of congress and the media saying it was russian disinformation. you talk about lying under oath, geez. >> the admission of ownership comes in a letter from hunter biden's attorneys to the d.o.j. and delaware attorney general. hunter biden attorney refers to the laptop in letters requesting an investigation into rudy giuliani, steve bannon and mcisaac. he owned the repair shop where hunter took the laptop to be fix. >> i think it is an attorney tactic to try to stop something. the one thing i will say from that he is acknowledging it is his laptop. so he was a little slower than the rest of the papers in twitter and others but now we know it's true. >> democrats think next week's hearing is a waste of time. >> we passed a 1.2 trillion infrastructure act to invest in infrastructure on the congress.

we should do oversight to make sure the money is getting out to states, counties and cities. >> most americans don't care about hunter biden's laptop or the art gallery or any of that stuff. >> but here is another wrinkle. the letters are not an admission that the laptop belongs to his client. dana. >> dana: thank you so much. kim strassel of the "wall street journal" writes on fridays. she said hunter claims his laptop that this is about as ill considered as every other hunter move from trading in his family name. what it does it lands on the biden white house in a sinkhole. welcome to the chief of staff's office mr. -- >> general jack keane said this about the whole incident two hours ago. >> now we know it's a spy

balloon. it is going to depart at some time. we don't want this to happen again so shoot it down on the way home over mountains or when it gets back at sea. >> bill: we're trying to sort through the story right now. there are reports out there that anthony blinken's scheduled trip to beijing to begin on sunday this weekend has been postponed. that's out there right now. the move, however, with this air balloon is drawing more attention to the growing threat from beijing and american reliance on the communist nation. grady trimble from fox business in chicago has the first of many different angles to this story today. hello, grady, good morning. >> good morning to you. the sighting of this spy balloon is drawing attention to how reliant we are as a country on china across industries. for example, china owns a small but growing percentage of farmland in the united states. the city of grand forks, north dakota just put a stop to the construction of a corn mill by a

chinese company after it got a warning from the air force that it would be a national security concern. >> it was time to say no. not in grand forks. it was a long process but i don't think in the end if that's a threat it won't move forward. they legally own the land but not be able to build anything on it. >> beijing's influence over the united states is also growing in the tech space. more than half of states in the u.s. are banning tiktok from state-owned devices because the data could end up in the hands of china via the tiktok parent company bytedance. about 2/3 of lithium that goes into batteries for electric vehicles, phones and other electronics is processed in china. >> if we haven't learned yet we need to decouple ourselves from at least our food supply and energy supply and critical mineral supply and

pharmaceutical supply chains from china, we haven't learned anything. >> so you saw there republican lawmakers once again calling on the united states to reduce its reliance on china especially after this spying revelation. >> bill: more to come on this certainly. early stages, grady trimble in chicago on that. thank you. six past the hour now. >> dana: favorite part of friday shannon bream of "fox news sunday" will join us. shannon, if you are there i wanted to start out by talking about the issues that we have, maybe i have jumped the gun a little bit but i want to bring her in to talk about the china threat. you have senator tom cotton as a guest this weekend. he called earlier on maybe last night that secretary blinken should postpone his trip to china. it appears that's what's going to happen. this could be a very big "fox news sunday" weekend. what else do you expect before then? >> well listen, we'll talk to him about all these issues.

with china he has been a hard liner. this administration is not being tough enough with them and questions about the balloon. one of the folks out there saying they should take it down and strip it for intel. china said it is a civilian air ship tracking weather off course by a whole continent. we have a lot of questions and so does tom cotton but also talk to him about the classified documents that senators got the briefing but weren't allowed to see. he threatened to shut down judicial nominees over it. i have a feeling china will be front and center in this conversation. >> bill: the list the long, shannon. start with china and move to what we found in the fox news polling from the past 48 hours. we wanted to know from americans how you describe the border. they believe it is a national security crisis by 47%. followed by humanitarian crisis

at 42%. i have to think the national security issue goes directly with the number of those on the terror watch list who have simply walked across the border, shannon. >> yeah. that's something the president's critics. democrats and republicans alike pointing to the border say we have got a number so far in this fiscal year which started in the fall that it is probably going to outpace any year we've had so far of the number of people on the terror watch list showing up at the border illegally. a big issue. fentanyl is a national security crisis as well. also in the polling numbers the president is upside down by 25 points on the issue of immigration. so it is clear the american people feel like that lays at the feet of the white house what is happening there. so record breaking numbers in december. the late friday night drop we got on the number of incidents happening at the border with people showing up illegally and the numbers of gotaways we are

getting as well. they'll say yes, we have caught x number of people on the terror watch list. what do we know about the millions of other people in the last couple years who have come across the border with no contacts with law enforcement? >> last four months 2400 a day on the gotaway category. >> dana: the ones we know of. last weekend you interviewed governor sarah huckabee sanders and now she will give the republican response to the state of the union address tuesday night. speaker mccarthy had this to say about her. call for number three. >> we've got the youngest governor in america, sarah sanders, and the first woman governor in arkansas and the very first father/daughter ever to be governor of a state will give our state of the union response. we're excited about it what she has been able to achieve so far as governor in arkansas. asme -- i'm very excited.

>> she said she didn't have higher office aspirations. she just started in the governor's office. what else should we know? >> you guys know she came out of the gates, hit the ground running. she was not pulling punches to explain how serious she was about getting started. she has issued all of these executive orders that deal with the use of certain what she would say is woke terminology, use of crt in schools and trying to give money back to parents to allow them to let that follow students from school to school. she is really pushed back on a lot of things in a very big way right from the beginning. so i think it's interesting that this leadership over in the house decided this is a model and what we want to look for to a young leader in the party and the youngest governor out there and until dana does something about it the only former white house press secretary governor. >> dana: that lane is completely

open. >> if you decide. you have to have the scoop. >> dana: if that were to ever happen actually i can't even think of it. >> bill: you left me and dana is not going anywhere. >> dana: i'm a hostage. just kidding. shannon, "fox news sunday" anchor. have a great weekend. >> bill: see you at the super bowl next weekend. >> i can't wait, hemmer. >> dana: the chinese spy balloon raising alarms flying across the u.s. floating over sensitive military is saying. >> bill: a philadelphia crime wave leaving that city on edge as the president pays a visit. talk about accomplishments and raise money. what are the folks in philly saying about the city in which they live coming up. >> dana: an update on the alex murdaugh murder trial and why the jury was asked to leave the courtroom for testimony yesterday. >> he turned to look at me when i came up and said what do you

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banker who was responsible for some of the loans that the defendant took out and late yesterday he heard from former friends and colleagues speaking about when they confronted murdaugh about hundreds of thousands of dollars in missing funds. >> went inside. came out with paper towels and told me that he had had a drug problem. that he was addicted to opioids. >> a few hours after that conversation wilson says he got a phone call informing him in alex murdaugh had been shot. investigators accused murdaugh of hiring a man, a former client and distant relative, of hiring this man to kill him so that murdaugh's surviving son would receive a $10 million life insurance payment. the defense argues that murdaugh's financial situation as a motive is an unproven theory so they are trying to

limit the amount of testimony that is actually presented to the jury once it comes back in the courtroom. >> dana: jonathan serrie, thank you. >> bill: paul morrow is with us and founder of ops desk.org. the state's theory on the case is the reason why they believe he committed these murders trying to distract attention from his financial problems. >> if the judge has to let it in. we have a battle of narratives. the defense narrative is the prosecution rushed to judgment and didn't do due diligence to look for other suspects and that no father would ever do such a thing. it's why he had coming out of the box gave a graphic opening statement. the prosecution's narrative. this is crunch time now. this is where the narrative resides, is that the accused had been living a very slipping down life. opioid addict stealing from his

own law firm, in deep financial trouble and the day of the homicides reportedly is when he was confronted about his financial misdeeds and so they want that motive in here. it will come down to the judge from this hearing whether or not he lets all this stuff in. if he does it brings that whole freight train of motive in and that's bad news for the accused. >> dana: what does the judge have to decide? what does he weigh? >> that's the question. very good question. at the end of the day all legal theories aside it comes down to a simple metric which is legal speak is it more prejudicial than probative? the judge will weigh the financial stuff that puts him on the ropes, is that more relevant to the case than it is presented -- prejudicial.

it has to be relevant to the case in chief. >> dana: it seems pretty relevant. >> most legal analysts think at least some will come in. the timeline is very tight. day of is when he is confronted. another nuance, the defense themselves had a friend of paul's on the stand and asked him do you see any reason the accused would have done this, right? it puts motive in play. if the defense will put it in play it is fair game for the prosecution as well. it could be strategy. defense may have already done that it's likely coming in. you deal with it in these cases. it seems to have been on the table. the prosecution wants to get the noses in the barn. let's get the rest of the horse. >> bill: two questions from the prosecutor on the financial incentive to commit murder. >> he is trying to avoid facing

life without parole and the loss of his livelihood. for the jury to understand that is more than the money. it is this entire time period. that is really the issue is avoiding that detection. >> bill: so you got that, all right? you try to balance that as you watched the trial. would you put him on the stand based on what you have heard? >> you know, i wouldn't be surprised. here is why. this is just my gut reaction. there has been a lot of staging here. normally in these cases you see it all the time. the booking photo of a gang banger or something looks street. when he ends up in court on trial he is all cleaned up. perfect tie, nice haircut. this is the reverse. no tie, hair messy. it doesn't happen by accident. the defense came out with their

opening statement, no thinking father could do this. look how it is affecting the accused. he can barely handle it. the narrative the defense is trying to say is here is a falsely accused father on the edge and look how he is suffering. if this whole thing comes in the motive, etc. they may have no choice and the angle they play. lawrence jones on saturday night. always awesome. >> dana: breaking news now the f.b.i. is involved as police search for the gunman who shot and killed a new jersey republican councilwoman. she was shot multiple times in her s.u.v. just right outside her townhouse. there is no arrest made yet. the 30-year-old single mother was elected to the council last year. it doesn't appear to be politically motivated but it appears to be targeted. >> bill: that car was riddled with bullets. let's find out.

big story on china. breaking news suggesting that anthony blinken will suspend his trip to beijing. we're working on that. let's go back to this story now. >> we now have the spy bull balloons in airspace. it is time to take a stand against china. >> bill: beijing and what they are saying about it in a moment. violent crime is rampant in philadelphia. drug abuse is through the roof. today president biden and the vice president kamala harris will be there to talk about the economy and raise money. are they missing the bigger picture? our panel will take that up next.

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graphic we have from beijing all the way across the aleutian islands through canada, our government has been tracking this for several days. they say it is not a threat to people on the ground. president biden has been briefed. he -- it has been recommended to him by the pentagon that it not be shot down and the other thing that's happened in the wake of all this is secretary blinken of the state department was set to go to beijing. it would have been the first visit since covid. that is now apparently on hold as it probably should be. >> bill: the president and xi met a few months ago and said they would keep up dialogue and this was blinken's trip to do that. even though the state department never officially announced the trip, blinken was scheduled to leave today and have his meetings on sunday and monday in beijing and right now that has been put on hold. we're getting a mea culpa from china. they say the suspected spy

balloon hovering over montana was not intended for surveillance. we'll track that now with greg palkot from london with details. >> this is a remarkable story. we get a bit more clarity in the past couple hours about this. yes, it has big ramifications. the pentagon had said it is a chinese high altitude surveillance balloon traveling above commercial air traffic not presenting a military or physical threat. someone spotted it from the ground in montana wednesday and confirmed yesterday. the u.s. has been tracking it for a few days as it made its way up from china across the mostly alaska aleutian islands and the western coast of canada and to several u.s. military bases including missile sites and that's why the u.s. considered and nixed the idea of

shooting it down. in the past couple hours china owned up to the fact it is theirs saying in a statement it is a civilian air ship used for research mainly meteorologist logical purposes affected by westerlys and it deviated from its planned course. that's an understatement caused by the winds and said mainly meteorological. it means something beyond their control. says it is working with the u.s. to handle the situation. it comes, yes, ahead of what was to be a trip by secretary of state blinken to beijing to speak with officials. he was supposed to leave today and meetings sunday and monday. now fox news can confirm that is postponed indefinitely presumably due to this. a couple questions out there,

guys. number one, how is this balloon allowed to go so far and two, where does the balloon go from here? as the scholar of the cold war this brings up spy plane and canceled u.s./russia summit back in 1960. >> bill: have they done it before? all questions that need answers, greg. nice to see you in london. we'll try to get through it throughout the day. president biden will speak in a moment from the white house and talk about the economy. but certainly reporters will have questions about these. we'll see whether or not he chooses to answer them. 10:33 in new york friday morning. there is this now, watch. >> you are look a moving target coming out of your house. you worry about getting robbed, carjacked, being shot. if stuff needs to stop. >> violence that's happening in this neighborhood has got a lot of kids scared and me scared as a parent. >> dana: violent crime in a

growing concern in philadelphia. the president and vice president will highlight their economic agenda there today a joint appearance days before the state of the union. joining us now is the host of the talk show host on philadelphia talk radio and a reporter from a newspaper in philadelphia. 807,000 registered democrats and 120,000 republicans and no affiliation at 143. >> let me say send the chinese spy balloon to south philly. they'll take good care of it and you won't have to worry about it anymore. number one. a lot of things going on in philadelphia. health officials are warning of a new opioid drug that is 40 times more lethal than fentanyl in a city ravaged by crime as you talked about. open air drug markets.

car carjackings at a record. they still keep electing these democrat progressives. all the mayoral candidates are saying we need to declare a crime crisis in philadelphia. we need to declare a democrat crisis in philadelphia. the policies of these people are not working. this is joe biden who represents this and he will come and talk about jobs, 40,000 people left. >> dana: a perfect transition. rich, stand by. president biden remarks on the january jobs report. >> president biden: 12 million -- 12 million jobs since i took office. that means we have created more jobs in two years than any presidential term at any time in two years. that's a strongest two years of job growth in history by a long shot. as my dad used to say job is about a lot more than a paycheck, it is about your dignity. 12 million more americans get up

every morning knowing they can provide for their families with the dignity and sense of self-worth that had been missing. we also learned the unemployment rate fell to 3.4%. 3.4%. that's the lowest in a 54 years. the last time unemployment rate was that low was may of 1969. think about that. what's more, black and hispanic unemployment are near record lows. this matters. the more working age folks coming into the labor market in the last month than have in a long while. all the talk about no one looking. we keep more people coming into the market. more people are coming into the market looking for jobs and getting jobs. a positive sign for the health in the economy going forward. even as the job market reaches historic highs inflation continues to come down. inflation is now falling for six straight months. gas prices are down more than $1.50 a gallon since their peak.

food inflation is falling as well. inflation is coming down, take home pay for workers is going up. real wages are up, wages for lower income middle income workers have gone up even more. couple that with a 2.9% economic growth last quarter and here is where we stand. strongest job growth in history. lowest unemployment rate in 54 years. manufacturing rebounding at a faster rate than in the last 40 years. inflation coming down. real wages going up but moderately going up, not going through the roof. economy growing at a solid clip. put simply i would argue the biden economic plan is working. for the past two years we've heard a core use of critics write off my economic plan saying it is not possible to grow the economy from the bottom up and middle out. they said we can't bring back american manufacturing. they said we can't make things

in america anymore. that somehow adding jobs was a bad thing. well, or the only way to slow down inflation was to destroy jobs. well, today's data makes crystal clear what i've always known in my gut, these critics and cynics are wrong. while we may face setbacks along the way and there will be some, there is more work to do, it's clear. our plan is working because of the grit and resolve of the american worker. we will keep lowering the costs for families, lower costs in healthcare, prescription drugs, clean energy, we passed that legislation and rolling it out this whole year. we'll keep seeing shovels hitting the ground around the country to rebuild the infrastructure and supply chains, manufacturing more here at home and in communities across the country that were too easily written off for dead we will not only see jobs coming back but a sense of self-worth and pride coming back.

nothing worse than when a city has a major manufacturer leave and shut down and all of a sudden your kid getting out of high school says mom, we have to move. nothing here for me anymore. nothing here. well, i'm intent on changing that in the heartland as well. that's how we build an america we all can take pride in working families have a good jobs and little more breathing room. as the economy grows from the bottom up and middle out i'm in it for the long haul. trickle down economics works for one group of america but not everybody. this is what it's all about. i'm heading off to philadelphia and if you want to ask me a question about the economy, i won't answer any questions about anything else because you will never cover this. >> mr. president why do you think secretary blinken -- >> president biden: i'm taking the blame for inflation, no.

>> why not? >> president biden: it was already here. remember what the economy was like when i got here? jobs hemorrhaging, we weren't manufacturing a damn thing here and that's why. >> mr. president -- [reporters shouting] >> dana: the president there not letting any reporters ask questions outside from the economy. he was asked does he take any blame for inflation, no, if you looked at the economy when he got there it was already -- >> bill: they got something to brag about and they will talk it in philadelphia. he chose not to answer the question about the balloon. we'll see whether or not we can get something from it. >> dana: let's go back to the guest we had before. let's talk a little bit about

what the president just said and how it relates to philly. in philly call for number three, poverty is pretty rampant, right? 22.8% living in poverty there and median income call for number two is $52 thousand. you are closer to people on the ground there. how are they feeling about the economy? let's start with you, jennifer. >> no one is feeling good b what is happening in philadelphia. many of the jobs have left and not coming back because of big federal spending. those unemployment numbers aren't about what the president is saying what he is not saying. more than 700,000 people have dropped out of the economy and dropped out of the workforce and are not coming back into it. this is because president biden refuses to give -- people like our current governor refuse to insure that able-bodied people under the age of 35 work or at least have some requirement to work to get federal benefits.

right now you can be healthy, able-bodied and can be able to work and we're still paying you to sit at home. it is a huge problem. a president biden problem and still plenty of people not in the workforce that he is not talking about. >> dana: we were showing video of a piece we did the other day that alexis mcadams did for us in the kensington area. all of philadelphia doesn't look like this but there are real problems there. the democrats have such a strangle hold when it comes to politics there. the president and vice president harris will be there today a joint appearance as democrats get together for their national winter meeting but they won't see things like this when they go there. should they? >> it would be great if they did. they could tour kensington and see the fentanyl crisis that is destroying this city. the problem, of course, is we have had since january 1st, a friend of mine from the p.t. text me. 100 violent in incidents since

january 1st. the problem is we'll have a white washed show today in front of city hall, i imagine somewhere. biden will talk about jobs. wages are not keeping up with inflation. that's a fact. 40,000 people left pennsylvania last year, dana. the fourth largest exodus of a state of any state in the country because the wages are not keeping up. people can't afford to live here. the cost of living is outpacing everything as well. philadelphia is getting too expensive and because of the crime and people want to send their kids to private schools. it is a crisis. we're losing more people than we are taking in. a great american city dying because of crime and of the population exodus. there are no solutions on the horizon. the mayoral candidates running now, some of them are talking about crime. some are talking about bringing back business. a lot of them are talking about banning the mumers parade because it is offensive to people. those are priorities right now. >> dana: we got interrupted by the president but the perfect guests to have on as the president heads to philadelphia today.

thank you and let's stay in touch. >> thank you. >> i work from home. she will be home with me. >> bill: it is cold outside and school is canceled across the northern u.s. millions bracing for that blast of arctic air. some places could see minus 50 degree windchills by tomorrow morning. we'll tell you how long it will stick around. a series of whale deaths along the east coast stumping scientists so far. some think the off shore wind projects multiplying by the month might be to blame. we'll talk to a mayor who is running this coming up.

disturbing trend as whales are showing up dead up and down the east coast. some say the push for off shore wind farms has disrupted their habitat. several mayors in new jersey are calling for an immediate halt to the wind farm development to study the impact. the mayor of point pleasant beach in new jersey is here. thank you for your time today. i want to show our views a map of the area where the off shore wind farms were approved and where the whale populations are

most popular. by my count we've had eight between new jersey and long island here in new york. what's going on, mayor? >> great to be back on with you. in a normal year off the jersey shore coast and tri state area we have 1, 2, maybe three whale deaths. since they started doing the sonar testing that started in december, we've had eight whale deaths off our coast and that seems a lot more than a coincidence to us. now, the federal administration, federal scientists are saying that the blunt trauma and they are related to boat strikes is how they are trying to position this. but whales as we all know echo sonar location to navigate and real concerns is this messing with that ability and that's what is actually causing the boat strikes. it is too much to be a coincidence. >> bill: you are a mayor, not a biologist, or a zooologist but

the sound that is generated from the wind turbines is one of the theories out there, anyway, that would redirect and disorient the whales. you talk to the experts. what do they tell you about that possibility? >> i'm just a small-town mayor but as a small-town mayor one of the things i hate the most is hypocrisy, right? this administration, the federal administration, governor, if there were this many other whale deaths occurring for another reason they would dig into it. the reason they aren't is they're trying to shove these projects through as quickly as possible. why is that? it is money. this isn't a mom and pop operation, this is a multi-national corporation, shell energy, and others and they stand to make billions of dollars from this. i think that's the core component here when you look at the state of new jersey already invested $5 hundred million taxpayer dollars readying for

the project and committed buying kilowatt hours at three times the cost we're already paying for energy in new jersey. it just wreaks of hypocrisy. >> bill: you are one of a dozen mayors saying let's put a pause. >> you can't get 12 mayors to agree on anything. >> bill: what has the governor said to your plea? >> so far it's all fallen on deaf ears. 12 mayors from various different backgrounds up and down the jersey shore coast speaks volumes how important it is. not just that. we care a lot about marine life. we're very environmentally friendly up and down the coast. it just doesn't make any sense. >> bill: i think your comment that you gave to our producer nails it. no one more pro-environment than beach towns and residents and you are one of them. we'll follow it and see what comes of this mystery.

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