>> france does it, you think we will catch on, or be the working 20 hours a day america? >> i want to work even less than that. i want to work just one day a week, i'm getting to that age. >> nice. i'll get on that campaign. but for now, we love being here five days a week with you guys. thank you for joining us. when you can't watch us live, please dvr. and now here is "america reports." >> why didn't we know more earlier, what do we know that is not public about this threat and it is a threat from these chinese balloons. >> this is a part of a larger surveillance plan by the chinese communist party and something we need to be vigilant. >> john: senators sounding off what they would like to learn regarding that chinese spycraft downed off the coast of south carolina, new information from fbi officials, fbi telling fox news most of the evidence relating to the surveillance aircraft is still underwater. new development comes as a full

congress finally receives a classified briefing on the matter today. the senate being updated at this hour after the house was briefed earlier today. >> sandra: all of this as senior u.s. military and national security officials warn and have confirmed that spy balloon shot down off south carolina's coast on saturday was part of a major surveillance program run by china's military. so, what else are lawmakers learning in these briefings? we'll ask tennessee senator marsha blackburn and california democratic congressman ro khanna coming up. >> john: begin with lawmakers sparring over the politization of the federal government and whether the justice department has been weaponized against republicans. hello, i'm john roberts in washington. let me be the first to say it, sandra, happy friday eve. >> sandra: and we made it to thursday. good to be with you, john. i'm sandra smith in new york. "america reports." republican-led committee says many questions need to be

answered by the fbi and justice department over what they say has been numerous incidents of discrimination against conservatives and american civil liberties, including whether the justice department investigated upset school parents as domestic terrorists. a characterization doj officials have vehemently disputed. >> john: david spunt has the latest from the justice department. any reaction to the hearings, david? >> john, sandra, waiting for an on the record statement from both the doj and fbi, but privately officials with both agencies tell me it's simply not true that either the doj or the fbi weaponizes against american citizens. however, that's not sitting well with republicans, they now run the majority in the house. that's why we are seeing today's hearing and will see more in the future. here is a little bit from the hearing that just kicked off about 30 minutes ago. watch. >> my time in congress i have never seen anything like this.

dozens and dozens of whistleblowers, fbi agents coming to us talking about what's going on, political nature at the justice department. >> i'm deeply concerned about the use of the select subcommittee as a place to settle scores, showcase conspiracy theories and advance extreme agenda that risk undermining american's faith in our democracy. >> one of the primary concerns for republicans is school board memo by attorney general merrick garland in october 2021, parents fed up with covid restrictions and mandates like critical race theory expressed themselves at meetings a response the national school board association sent president biden a letter september 29, 2021, arguing some parents' actions should be considered a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes. the group later apologized for the language. five days later, a.g. garland put out a memo on october 4,

2021, he does not use the word terrorism or parent, he has defended the memo since writing it. a subpoena was sent to garland and director ray asking them to produce documents by march 1. doj responded last night to chairman jordan and his committee and doj telling us that we are learning -- they would sit down with the committee on a staff level to have some negotiations first, hold off on the subpoenas, we'll sit down with you, we'll talk to you, about you that coming from doj. going to be a difficult day for employees at doj and the fbi watching this hearing, no question, john, sandra. >> john: all right, we'll monitor it, david, and hear you later today. thank you. >> this sector needs a more effective policeman on the beat. someone over at the department of transportation to get the job done. >> notably absent from the

meeting is secretary buttigieg. just screwed up flights, no reimbursements, and then proceeded to say we want to be in charge of how the airlines behave. >> john: senators sounding off on the state of airline travel blaming transportation secretary pete buttigieg for allowing an airline such as southwest to strand thousands of passengers during the disastrous holiday travel season. more than 20,000 flights were canceled, despite the industry receiving at least $85 billion in taxpayer funds to shore up its operations during the pandemic. let's bring in tennessee republican senator marsha blackburn, she serves on the senate transportation committee. the southwest meltdown over the holiday travel season was particularly bad, but almost every american airline has been suffering problems, despite getting a ton of money from u.s. taxpayers during the pandemic to stay afloat. why is the airline industry in

such bad -- such bad state at this point in time? >> you know, john, this is one of the things that we talked about in the hearing today, and i just came out of that hearing. and quite honestly, i think we should have had several of the airlines there. i know people that can't get refunds from allegiant, can't get back their air miles from american, southwest left them stranded, air canada could not get people home. there's just such a list of issues. but here is what we do know. when it comes to southwest, they have not invested in the technology that would allow their systems to talk to one another. yes, this was a bad storm. yes, everybody was affected. and they all should plan for the worst. they need to kind of war college this, and they did not do that. also we have heard a little bit,

i questioned about the cost of fuel. this accelerated cost of fuel has cost these airlines to move money away from improvements and use it to just get the fuel to put in the planes to get them in the air. >> john: you know, i had a flight from san diego to washington, it was supposed to be a direct flight. because of the fuel problem in san diego, we had to fly to los angeles to gas up the plane before we came across country. i want to ask you about the chinese spycraft and the spy flight across the united states. had you a classified briefing on it. obviously you can't answer every question but what questions did you go into the briefing with and were they answered? >> we did not get sufficient answers in the briefing. i got the feeling they knew this was out is there, they followed it for several days, they wouldn't have said anything if it had not been for a citizen

who is a pilot who takes a picture, puts it up and says what's the deal here? and then they did that, of course, blinken did not want to cancel his trip, he ends up cancelling his trip, but here is what we have learned. this is a global network, china is putting this up, it's part of their surveillance. they are trying to spy and surveil whether it is dealing with our economy, whether it is great power competition, what they want to do is dominate. they know that joe biden is weak, joe biden is not going to do anything to them, indeed he let this thing sashay across the united states from one corner to another and waited until it went into the atlantic ocean to shoot it down. rather than having done that when it came right near alaska or doing it there in montana,

and i think we all want to know what did they get and we also want to know what they are going to learn from the pieces they are picking out of the ocean. >> john: you know, senator, one of the questions that i have is that after this flight transited the united states, suddenly the pentagon is saying and the state department saying oh, it's not the first time, it happened during the trump administration, and also earlier during the biden administration, but my question is, norad did not know about these. they admitted they did not track this. so who did know about it, who saw these balloons, why weren't they reported and where are the records of these flights near the united states? >> well, and if -- if information was gleaned from the intel community or norad or dod, why was this not shared and why was congress not informed that there is an issue with this, with these spy balloons. and if china is building a fleet

of these, why has our intel committee, why has our armed services committee not been given a briefing on this. the lax nature of responsibility, the lax nature toward accountability is boggling, mind boggling. you have to say what do they think they are doing, why are they hiding this, and again, we have a president who is soft on china, and he does not want to challenge the chinese communist party. so he is letting them go ahead, whether it is spying, whether it's great power competition, whether it's a blue water navy, whether it is the atrocities that they are committing against the uyghurs, the mongolian, tibetans, hong kong freedom fighters, bullying to taiwan and other pacific island nations.

this has to stop and this administration needs to get tough on this. congress needs to take back some of this responsibility from the administration because they can't seem to make a decision. they can't even decide when to shoot down a spy balloon. >> john: it's clear between the two of us, senator, there are a lot of questions yet to be answered about all of this. we'll see if we get the answers in the days and weeks ahead. thanks so much for joining us. it is a question, sandra, you know, we see this balloon and say whoa, where did that come from, who owns it, suddenly we have the state department and the pentagon saying oh, by the way, part of a global program china has to surveil countries like the united states and others. who knew about that, why weren't they saying anything about it before? >> sandra: and what else do the officials know that we don't yet know. we'll ask ro khanna, the democrat from california will join us next hour. hopefully we learn more along with the audience about what has

happened in the past. >> john: we'll see. >> sandra: we look forward to that. a possible clue uncovered in the murder of a new jersey councilwoman. a person seen here running around her apartment complex shortly after she was shot and killed. this as we learn another new jersey councilmember was skilled yesterday in a neighboring county. alexis mcadams joins us with more on this bizarre string of incidents here. >> to hear this one situation happened a week ago and yesterday this other person is killed, not related at this time and no arrests in this case of the councilwoman, but did know a person was caught on camera near the crime scene moments after neighbors heard nearly a dozen gunshots. you can see the shadowy figure running, just moments after dwumfour was shot and killed last week. neighbors heard nearly a dozen gunshots. dwumfour was found dead inside

of her own car outside of her townhouse in new jersey. the down, 35 miles outside of new york city, the community honored the young mom and politician with a bright future. first-ever black woman elected in that town. she was from guiana. >> to eunice, sayreville was the most beautiful place she could be. she did not care. black, white, brown, gay, straight. >> hours before the memorial, milford, new jersey councilwoman heller was shot down.

he worked as a supervisor. the gunman was a former employee and the gunman later drove off and killed himself. so this morning all eyes remain on the surveillance clip, this afternoon, rather, as police try to catch the killer of dwumfour. they are hoping somebody comes forward and has information to lead to arrest. she has a little girl left behind inside when she was killed. >> sandra: just tragic. hope to learn more soon, john. >> john: a terrible tragedy. a new poll shows the glaring disconnect of how americans are really doing financially. the staggering number of americans who say their financial security is buckling under the pressures of high inflation as they pay more and more for basic necessities. >> sandra: rules for thee but not for me. why staunch climate activist, wait for it, bill gates, says his private jet use, that's not

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>> john: in a move that would appear to make the already overwhelming border crisis even worse, telling fox news the biden administration is ending the use of most surveillance blimps at the important border. it allows agents to see from a height who is crossing into the united states illegally. number of blimps reduced from 12 to just 4 due to cost. our sources also say the loss of the balloons will have an immediate and negative impact on border security. sandra. >> things are costing more now, things are more expensive, and i think it's just digging us into a deeper hole. yeah, we are making more money but the same time, things are costing more. >> cost of living is crazy expensive. my rent is mind blowing. yeah, if i didn't work in a restaurant, i don't think i would be able to afford to eat food. stand --

>> sandra: half of americans, 50% say they are financially worse off than they were just one year ago while just over a third say they are better off today. all this as president biden takes his economic message on the road to voters in battleground states touting success. charles payne, you always tell our viewers exactly the way you see it. a lot of economists say things are not so bad out there. but time and time again, especially over the past year, you have people saying their own personal finances are getting worse. so, what is this disconnect? >> you have to listen to the people. brilliant people on my show, like 1 trillion in excess savings. what the hell is that? and 999 billion of it belongs to rich people who don't need it.

we are doing ok, i saw this number and this number, forget the spreadsheet, look at common sense. a reason there is a massive disconnect what you heard at the state of the union and every poll going in there. this gallup one caught my attention. take the income brackets, upper income, better off, only 39% of upper income are saying they are better off. 43% of upper income are saying thinker worse off. >> sandra: up on the screen, percentage of americans who say they are worse off, sorted by annual household income, ok. so the category who says that they are faring the worst is making the least, under $40,000 a year, 61% say they are worse off. that number gets better as the income level goes up. but isn't that the category the administration says they are out to help the most? >> yeah, but the main point i was making, even the upper

income folks, more of them say they are worse off than better off. >> sandra: living paycheck to paycheck for example. >> here is the problem with the biden administration and folks who think like he thinks. you cannot punish one niche of the economy, people who spend money, put money into the economy. talk about taxing them to death, roadblocks around the business, all you are doing is hurting folks who like to climb the ladder of success themselves. and we see it every time, they go back-to-back to the same policies and now things like delinquencies go up. what was really intriguing, monday we had the consumer credit number and people max out the credit cards last year, $930 billion, a sharp decline. savings are going up, households are hunkering down, they feel something, know something, and no wall street analyst is

talking about that. >> sandra: before we run out of time, perhaps yours and my favorite story of the day, bill gates, major climate activist says well, his private jet use, that's -- that's not a problem. >> i spend billions of dollars on climate innovation, not only am i not part of the problem by paying for the offsets, but also through the billions that my breakthrough energy group is spending that i'm part of the solution. >> sandra: rules for thee, not for me. >> he's a real ass, he really is, let me tell you something. on social media, i thought it was click bait, i thought there was no way he said that. made me think all the bad things af heard about him are true. you can go out and commit a crime, maybe murder someone, but pay to the benevolence

association and pay for jail time, you don't have do it. he is saying no, i can pollute the earth, damage the earth, i can do it because i find an offset. are you serious? and the trips to africa, i beg the africans, don't listen to this guy. he doesn't want you to have the population -- >> sandra: same thing as john kerry, their time is more important than ours. >> they are asking people in the other countries never grow your economy, never. richest countries in the world use the most energy in the world. they are telling them never use energy, never, never, stay where you are, never have hope for you, or your children, stay where they are. poor people in america, they like the status quo, it works for them and we need to rebel against that. >> sandra: oh, boy, john, we got him going over here. charles payne, thank you very much. see you on fbn this afternoon. >> john: wind him up and turn

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rescue workers in the region to help the millions affected. >> john: former twitter executives telling a house committee they made a mistake in how they handled "the new york post" story on hunter biden's abandoned laptop, they suspended "the new york post" on twitter. fox news digital verified and reviewed emails that showed hunter biden offered service space to a new hire for a chinese-backed investment firm in washington, d.c. miranda divine, author of "the laptop from hell." sandra, rewind the clock to yesterday, the fbi reacting on capitol hill, saying the fbi rejects the characterization of inappropriate relationship with twitter or any other social media company. the fbi does not instruct or direct any social media company to censor an account or remove information from their platform. but mark zuckerberg has said the

background to our suspending the story, the fbi said you better watch for this because it might be coming down the pike. not specifically about hunter biden but tuning their antenna. miranda, can you hear me? >> oh, sorry. yes, john. you are right. >> john: you are just taking it all in, i guess. >> yes, waiting for a sound bite. look, i think what you are hearing from the fbi is just their plausible deniable, past masters at that, and did not go directly to the social media companies and say you must censor hunter biden's laptop, of course not. they just prebunked it by explaining as yoel roth, one of the executives said in a sworn declaration that you know, we are expecting that there will be some sort of russian

disinformation hack and leak dump in probably october and likely about hunter biden. so of course they were sort of presuaded before the story to view it with suspicious eyes as russian disinformation and did what they had been groomed and brainwashed into doing and of course the fbi was pushing an open door because these executives at twitter, as you could see, were tweeting their own, yoel roth tweeting anti-trump diatribes calling everyone at the white house a nazi. >> john: in the hearing on the weaponization, says the fbi took possession of the laptop fully nine months before your story came out, and that the computer

repair guy, mac isaac, and gave it to the fbi, the fbi was trying to stay quiet. listen to what johnson said. >> as the fbi left his shop with the laptop, mr. mac isaac recalled one agent saying "it is our experience that nothing ever happens to people that don't talk about these things." that statement was the opening salvo in a coordinated effort over the next ten months to sabotage any public revelation of hunter biden's laptop or any wrongdoing connected to the bidens. >> john: sounds like that that the fix was in. >> look, that was a pretty sinister statement as retold by john paul mac isaac. when he first told me that, i thought well, look, he's a bit paranoid, often whistleblowers get nervous and i'm sure that's not true.

but over the ensuing couple of years we have seen whistleblower after whistleblower come forward from the fbi and talk about how the laptop, which john paul mac isaac handed to the fbi in 2019, buried, put aside so no one could investigate it. and how other witnesses, any other material derogatory to joe biden, that was also buried, including the testimony for five hours that tony bobilinski gave before the 2020 election and the contents of three devices he handed over, which showed that in his business dealings with the biden family, that joe biden was involved and that they were getting millions of dollars from china. you would think that that material would be something that the american people should have been able to see before the election so they could do the proper due diligence on one of the candidates for president but

"the new york post" was the only outlet trying to get that information out to the public before the election, and of course we were immediately censored by twitter and facebook. >> john: even though the information was true. i want to read this, don't have time to discuss it, but hunter biden email suggests even deeper connection with china. he was sending an email hiring an employee to act as a liaison with a bank of china private investment fund, attached is a rough budget for the bhra employee housed in washington. responsibility of the individual coordinate on a full-time basis with the beijing staff on behalf of partners in the u.s., and officed in rosemount seneca, a separate entrance, though, all during the time that joe biden was vice president. a lot more to dig on here. miranda, thank you to talk to you. >> thanks so much, john. >> sandra: just three days away,

can you believe it, from super bowl lvii, and a fly along in an f-16 fighter jet with arizona's air national guard on what is done to protect the air space around state farm stadium. matt is live in glendale, arizona, it's a high security event and clearing the sky above is taken very seriously. what do we see? >> sandra, the no fly zone is taken so seriously there are fighter jets in place to intercept any aircraft that violates that no fly zone and we got to go up inside of one of those jets during their super bowl drills. take a look. >> we are with the 100 62nd wing of arizona's air national guard in tucson. training on emergency scenarios, properly getting in and out of the cockpit, and the gear.

>> what i'm going to do here, create a vacuum, and see if there are any leaks. >> we suit up and then meet the pilots. and then it's takeoff in an f-16 jet, up in the air, pulling 4 to 7 gs. on a norad drill. lieutenant colonel leroy barnett and another pilot intercept a cessna that in theory violates the air space. he explains why the air over the super bowl is shut down. >> importance of how many people are there, and outside of that, national assets. >> u.s. national homeland security mayorkas visited phoenix this week. dhs says 800 federal personnel are in place, prepared for simple threats to chemical weapons. the plan includes aviation and cybersecurity, cargo screenings, and video surveillance. >> we have no specific credible threat against the super bowl.

>> and sandra, the energy is building here outside the stadium. we have talked to fans from all over the country, they say that arizona so far is delivering, we have crystal clear blue skies, temperatures in the 60s, and what looks like to be a competitive game on sunday, we'll be here and keep you updated. >> sandra: the gentleman screen right and over your left shoulder he proudly, he turned around and showed us his mahomes jersey there. >> yeah, we talked to him, he used to live in kansas city, now he lives here in phoenix, so he said it's a perfect scenario for him, his team is now here in arizona for the super bowl. he said he's expected to pay up to $5,000 for a ticket. >> sandra: all right. we have a few days left. matt, save that voice. good stuff. fox is home to this year's super bowl, and you can watch pre-game

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>> john: day 12 of testimony in the alec murdaugh double murder trial. his former best friend getting emotional on the witness stand and telling jurors that murdaugh stole thousands of dollars from him. jonathan is live in our southeast bureau in atlanta. what else did they have to say today? >> attorney chris wilson said he lost $192,000 he had loaned his trusted friend. he says he confronted the defendant with the missing funds on september 4, 2021, and murdaugh explained he had a problem with opioids. >> he said he had a drug addiction, and that he admitted he had been stealing money, you know. >> from who. >> from the law firm and from clients. >> later that same day, murdaugh survived a gun attack. investigators accused him of hiring a man to kill him so his surviving son would collect life insurance. prosecutors are trying to convince the jury that murdaugh killed his wife and their

22-year-old son back in june of 2021 to distract from the financial crime allegations. but during cross examination wilson said the defendant always seemed affectionate with his family. defense trying to find out he was a family man who would never murder his wife and son. back to you. >> john: thank you, jonathan. >> sandra: house lawmakers getting their first classified briefing on the chinese spycraft as defense officials warn the spy operations are much more prevalent than previously known. california congressman ro khanna was in that briefing. he'll be joining us on whether he's concerned over what he learned from defense officials. >> john: plus, a 9-year-old boy in pennsylvania accomplishing something that most children will need another nine years to do. child prodigy david belogan is here to explain how he became one of the youngest people ever to graduate high school.

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dates, birthday parties, not our next guest. david just graduated high school and is taking classes now at a community college and planning for his future. david is a resident of bucks county, pennsylvania and received his diploma from reach cyber charter school in harrisburg, p.a., after taking classes remotely. the 9-year-old loves science and computer programs, and hopes to study space in college so he can one day become an astro physicist. joining us now is david and his parents. thank you so much. a beautiful family, a smart accomplished family and david, congratulations to you, a high school graduate at 9 years old. what does that feel like? >> thanks. so my mom has to emphasize to me because to me i just thought ok, i graduated, that's great.

but to everybody else in the universe i graduated at the age of 9, that's an incredible accomplishment. so me and my mom had a back and forth that all i did is graduate. you graduated at the age of 9. >> sandra: as you know is not like every other kid, david. ronya, how do you explain this uber success at such a young age for your son? >> i don't think he gets it. i think it just comes natural to him. what he put his mind to do and that's what he wants to do, and that's it. >> sandra: it is a beautiful story and one of great success and i know david wants to go on and do great things. henry, dad, what is this like for you, how do you think david got to this point? was he always a smart boy? >> well, it's been an incredible journey and we are just grateful to god. david has always been curious and always wanting to know new

things. he never stopped asking questions. and he never stopped making sure he gets the right answer. he followed me everywhere i went. the same thing with mom. and when he sees something new he will ask questions. you cannot just paraphrase, you have to break it down and make sure that you are really on the point, and then once you explain it, it doesn't matter how long, he doesn't want you to explain it again because his mind grasped everything. this kind of photographic memory is one of his blessings. >> sandra: it is a true blessing, david. i know you recognize that fact, you are already talking about what you are going to do with this blessing that you have, big brains, what are you going to do with your future? i suppose that's the question everybody is asking.

what do you want to do with your ability to learn so quickly and so well? >> well, i'm going -- we are looking into ivy league colleges right now, and i'm looking into careers in astro physics, engineering, software development, rocket engineering, chemistry, nuclear chemistry, website development, and robotic engineering. in the meanwhile i am the dynamic software developer and the social media called prime hangout. i also started my own business called website insight, url website insight. >> sandra: as one does when you are 9 years old, right? david, you are a true blessing. you are so impressive.

thanks for coming on and sharing your story with us and we would love to know, we would love to see how things turn out and where you go and what you do next. you have a very promising future. >> thank you very much. >> sandra: thank you, a beautiful family. thanks so much. john. >> thank you. >> john: that really is quite incredible new at 2:00, the talk of reparations coast to coast, the city of boston has a ten-person task force and not the only liberal city that has its on its agenda. vivek says it's another example of victimization. and byron york on president biden's questionable claims of republicans and social security. all that and more as "america reports" rolls on.

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