he is their multiple family members, and there is going to end up being between four and seven. biden's who received significant amounts of money from communist china. the white house, pushing back saying instead of bizarrely attacking the president's family, perhaps house republicans should focus on working with the president to deliver results for american

families are priorities, like lowering costs in strengthening healthcare on the hill were also healing hearing from congressman raskin of maryland , who says after four years of investigations by the senate and house republicans they haven't found anything for any government official. this investigation is far from over and there is a point to all this. the committee hopes to introduce legislation barring family members of politicians and elected officials from benefiting from some of those connected in office to the family members. that legislation is being worked out. we'll see if the president talks about this when reporters get to see him in the next hour they will welcome the irish prime minister for st. patrick's day. >> bill: a whole bowl of shamrocks coming up later. kellyanne conway. the report from mark. i want to read you the statement from hunter biden's legal team. based on recollection this is the most specific they've

gotten. they write hunter biden a private citizen with every right to pursue business -- as part of that joint venture hunter received his portion of good faith seed funds which he shared with his uncle james biden and hali biden with whom he was involved at the time in sharing expenses. the accounts so dramatically listed by representative comer belong to hunter, his uncle and haley, nobody else end quote. the implication is that you can't get this close to the president and the white house. your response. >> the public doesn't seem convinced of that. if you look at the fox news poll question last month 73% of americans say they think when it comes to hunter biden, china and ukraine, that either he did something illegally or unethically. of course, there is an appetite

to investigate. always a tri part son appetite to learn more. why? the man's father is currently the president of the united states. at a very fraught time in our nation's history and its relationship with china. we're trying to hold them to account for fentanyl and for stealing our technology transfers and for a trade deal the last administration was specific and verifiable and of course hold them to the account for the origins of the virus. so the public wants transparency. i disagree with the factual suppositions in the legal statement. he didn't share it with his uncle frank and girlfriend haley, brother ears widow. the company did. we saw disbursements were made to a third party. i'm a little confused about that. i don't understand why a foreign company won't ingest the money to a former vice president and received tons of money all the time because of their past

office. why not send it to the big guy and let him do with it what he wants? if he wants to put it under his pillow or give it to family members. that's not how the transaction went down and very clear. the house oversight committee's role is to investigate possible corruption. but the department of justice may be investigating possible crimes. now you have more bidens involved and there is no question that the public wants answers at a very fraught time in our relationship with china. >> dana: they need those -- if we get the answers from the justice department they need to come soon. we're well into the 2024 campaign. the democrats are trying to figure out a way to respond to these revelations and i want to put up this call for number three from the "new york post" editorial. congressman comer showing the biden family business's corruption. the latest revelations blow apart congressman jamie raskin's pathetic deflection that the house gop was trying to dig up old receipts and show both how vital the probe is to restore

trust in government. i think that's a really interesting thing. if you're the house democrats or chuck schumer along the senate side looking at this going how do we hold the line when these revelations come forward and it's clear this was not just even hunter biden giving out the money but the chinese firm giving out the money directly to other biden members? >> that's the key here. it was sloppy for the biden family to do that. all i can think is when joe biden announced on october 21, 2015, he would not be seeking the presidency, and they believed that hillary clinton would be a two-term president, so some of the money started being disbursed in november of 2015 if you look at some of the articles. but these payments happened early in the trump administration. there was no hillary first or second term. they felt they could cash in on the vice president's time in washington at that .50 years or so. the question remains what do they get in return?

the lawyer said a curious thing in the statement you just read. he had every right as a private citizen to get seed money to engage in chinese company. i'll give him that. what were his talents and skills other than what he are he veiled to "good morning america" his last name was biden. he admitted that. now that we have other people whose last names are biden joining in on the money. i have to say this, when people -- when americans look at washington, d.c. and they don't like what they see, this is why. when they see that you can be in government for 50 straight years and yet you are worth tens of millions of dollars and family members who have no experience are also benefiting thusly, it is rankling to folks. if i had a one seat majority in the senate like the democrats and not in the house i would be careful looking at 2024 with all the vulnerable democratic senators. it comes at a time when the

growing number of democrats vocally and everybody's polling say they don't want joe biden to run again. a fraught time to be defending the biden family on this nonsense with the public against you and saying maybe he shouldn't run for a second term. >> bill: you alluded to it. it was march of 2017 so it was two months after the second term was over on behalf of barack obama and joe biden. kellyanne, thank you for coming on today. we'll see where it goes. a number of years trying to get an answer. >> dana: chinese president xi is expected to meet with russian president putin on monday. the talks come as the war in ukraine rages on with the west worried china's no limit friendship with russia could bring beijing into the war. now russia has reportedly asked china for military aid but china has officially remained neutral as they refuse at the same time to condemn russia's invasion. >> bill: a new wrinkle. slovakia sending ming fighter

jets to ukraine. the first nato members to send aircraft to the war torn nation. mike tobin is live in kiev with more from there. mike. >> it was anticipated pole and's announcement they would donate a dozen ming fighters to the war effort. four of them would pave the way for others to do the same. it is happening. the mig29ths have an advantage. ukraine pilots have already been trained on them. following the announcement from poland slovakia will also donate theirs. >> these mig we give to ukraine to protect civilians from the amount of bombs hitting their homes and shelters where civilians are dying. >> russia remains defiant. moscow says the supply of this equipment can't affect the outcome of the special operation but it will bring additional troubles to ukraine and its

people. of course during the special military operation all of this equipment will be destroyed. speaking of defiant the two russian pilots who knocked the u.s. drone out of the sky over the black sea will receive an award from defense minister there. >> bill: thanks, mike tobin live with the update from kiev. >> dana: yesterday afternoon i had a chance to talk with benjamin hall about his book "saved" and i am telling you, if you read the book, even if you haven't, he reveals something in this podcast that has made me so hopeful and i was inspired by it and i hope you have a chance to listen. it's airing now right in advance of this amazing documentary that fox has put together for our viewers called sacrifice and survival. a story from the front line airing sunday at 9:00 p.m. eastern on fox news channel. extended version will be on fox nation. >> bill: a viewing the other day inside our offices here and our

colleagues who went and saw it forare the first time were stunned and the amount of clean ex they used during that two our period was a lot. i'm told a tag on mike tobin's piece i saw earlier today there is a drone back up over the black sea on behalf of the united states and there were two aircraft in the skies over romania. they're back at it given the drone that was taken down the other day. 12 minutes past the hour. check this out as we roll on. >> your brother told you about this plan, what did you think? >> man, i was like this cannot be real. like this is some hollywood stuff right here. >> bill: those are the brothers who helped jussie smollet. the lengths they went to from chicago deep in the middle of winter coming up. there is this. >> the border is a crisis. it has been a crisis for my

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in the immediate weeks after birth jumped significantly during the pandemic. health experts think it was due to expectant mothers who caught covid. the u.s. went from 17 deaths were 100,000 live births in 2018 to 32. the pandemic worsened what was a pre-existing crisis in the u.s. >> bill: the jussie smollett saga is not over yet. the brothers are talking for the first time telling fox nation in a five-part series available now that smollett choreographed everything. they went along with it. garrett tenney is live in chicago and the fallout of what we've learned. >> good morning. this was the hate crime heard around the world that turned out to be entirely staged.

three speaking out to share their side of the story how smollett paid them to carry out a fake racist and homophobic attack against him in january of 2019. since that night the brothers returned to the scene of the crime to walk through what happened and how smollett choreographed the entire thing. >> we started yelling, the famous slurs he wanted us to yell. he wanted it to look like he fought back. that was very important for him. >> the brothers agreed to stage the attack since smollett could help their acting careers and the kind of thing people in hollywood do for attention. last night they apologized to the country for their part in his crime. >> when we were asked to partake in this, we really didn't foresee the ramifications of what something like this could do to the country. we allowed our ambition to cloud our judgment. >> this special comes out at

smollett fights his conviction of five counts of disorderly conduct for lying. he was sentenced to 150 days in jail. only served six after being released on bail. it is possible he is forced to go back to jail the serve the rest of his sentence if a judge rejects his appeal. that hearing is expected sometime this summer. >> bill: more to that story. >> dana: we'll watch that for sure. dave brown is leaving the force after a rough tenure trying to get a handing of rising crime in chicago. the chicago tribune called it the hard oft position to fill. want to play the superintendent on what his goal was back then. watch. >> we are going -- i don't want to belabor the point on whatever number it is to become the safest city in the country. our goal is policing excellence

and building trust in the community. and we are dedicated to achieving that goal where people in chicago can be proud of its police department. >> dana: that ambition didn't work in terms of in the execution of it. look at the homicides in chicago year by year. you know this, raymond. you live it every day. 2019, 500 homicides. 2022 at 695. the trajectory has not been good and the position not easy to be filled. what will chicago do? >> first off clearly the superintendent missed every goal that he set out to make. he promised us when he first got here he would keep murders under 300. failed miserably at that. he hasn't improved relations with the community and now left the department like a thief in the night without actually instituting any of the things we need to institute to restore public safety in the city of chicago. with he know we're in the midst of a mayoral race that does not

include lori lightfoot but a lot of rhetoric out there that still continues to pit police against community. brandon johnson, a known police defunder is trying to play race card pitting police against community. that's not what will benefit the city of chicago post the election when we all need to come together and focus on our shared concerns of restoring safety in our neighborhoods. we need to focus on what matters, driving down these stats. going after the criminals who are committed to violence in the neighborhoods and rebuilding the trust and respect for law enforcement that is so desperately needed to execute all those goals. >> dana: listen to the new york sometimes. an article they did on black voters in chicago looking for a path forward to deal with the crime stats you just mentioned. the headline black voters looking for this path. the quote is black voters on the south and west side arguably have the most at stake on the issue of crime in the election. many are torn not which candidate but over what vision of policing and public safety

offers reducing crime without victimizing black neighborhood and residents in the process. in this race you have now a runoff between two candidates. you have endorsed one of them. do you think that the candidate you've endorsed could answer the issue "the new york times" brings up? >> without question vallas has the capacity and desire to address the concerns of african-american voters and voters in the city of chicago. we nov we need police and policies that go after criminals and paul knows that and committed to constitutional policing which is what african-americans want. they want correct policing. >> dana: one other thing. would paul vallas be able to do anything about the prosecutors in chicago? >> you know, the prosecutor kim foxx is a separately elected individual. i'm confident he will use the bully pulpit of the mayor's office to hold her and other

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companies will get in trouble. when you are able to lose money and still borrow money virtually no cost and suddenly the cost of money goes up there will be damage there. another thing to keep an eye on. surprised it hasn't hit the fan yet. countries borrowed a lot in the last ten years, even japan. their national debt is twice ours proportionately, japan. who would have thought. they are trying to suppress interest rates there. not just developing countries like egypt and pakistan who are already in the news. but countries are going to have problems. so it will be a rough patch ahead. >> bill: i just don't we know what happened in silicon valley yet. we are still in the early days. the markets closed yesterday and we got the word on $30 billion to save another bank first republic. we don't know what's beneath the surface. yellen said we're okay. this is a dangerous spot to be in when you don't know. >> that's the thing. you don't know the future what will go well or what will emerge

when you suddenly change the rules of the game. i think when they have investigations when fdic, how is that operating these days? the other one is the federal reserve and other banks and finance ministries. what justified a generation of 0 interest rates. totally distorted the credit markets. and when suddenly they get a dose of reality when inflation hits, by golly certain things -- >> bill: you went from 0 to 5 in 12 months. >> certain things will happen. what they should be doing. this administration won't, what we did in the early 80s. revive the economy. tax cuts, deregulation. stuff that works. >> dana: they are doing the opposite. >> a stable dollar. they don't talk about a stable dollar. >> dana: this exchange between secretary yellen and senator cassidy. this is about social security, a subject you know a lot about. watch here. >> why doesn't the president care?

>> he cares very deeply. >> where is his plan? >> he stands ready to work with -- >> that's a lie. we have not heard anything on our request. and we've made multiple requests to meet with the president. have you been told to say he stands ready to met, i will tell you there is absolutely no evidence because we have not gotten our meeting. >> dana: they're doing a lot of work. a bipartisan working group trying to make sure social security can last into the future and she just did not know how to answer that. >> no. they don't want to touch it until after the election and say we're not going to touch your benefits at all. the thing is if they did this right, you could phase in a new system for younger people, a portion of their payroll accounts go into their own personal accounts. retirement accounts. sort of a 401k with restrictions. you couldn't touch it until a certain age. that way those young people would get more than social security can possibly pay them today. you start with younger people.

some of us go to our ultimate reward, we hope, they will turn a system that is destroying capital today to creating capital. creating savings rather than destroying savings. >> bill: the president is proposing $5 trillion in tax hikes as opposed. >> that's a time-proven thing going back to hoover. raising taxes when things are tough is a sure fire way of more economic trouble. >> dana: 2005 flashbacks on the social security reform effort. when this problem is solved it will look a lot like that. >> it has to be. >> dana: thank you, great to have you. >> bill: thank you for coming on. to a microsoft murder mystery brad gann. jacksonville beach police elected the husband of bridegan's ex wife. more or this story today.

>> he was arrested outside of orlando and is somebody who sure seems suspicious. the second husband of brad gann's first wife and once rented out a property to the admitted trigger man. spotted the exwife's second husband with his dog. he wrote three checks to the chart and called him dozens of times around the time of the murder. now behind bars. mario is indicted by a grand jury married to the exwife with a bitter feud with her first husband. here is bridegan's second wife who is now a widow. >> we are also still angry that they were walking free while we were grappling with the reality that jared wouldn't be here for any future memories, vacations or the ender moments with our kids. >> the former microsoft was

executed after leaving his ex wife's house. he had to come to a stop for a tire lying in the middle of the road. he got out, moved the tire and he was shot to death while his young 2-year-old daughter from his second wife sat in the back seat in the car seat hearing it all. 61-year-old tenon pleaded guilty to second degree murder and is cooperating. police have said since his arrest they are looking for accomplices believing that tenon did not act alone. we have two people arrested and charged with this conspiracy to murder. the investigation is ongoing, which means more arrests could come and they won't say what they think the motive was. >> bill: thanks for waiting. phil keating this miami. thank you. what's up? >> dana reads sports. >> dana: the first major upset in march madness princeton in a shocker beat number two seed

arizona 59-55. >> he tries to keep it alive. free shot, no good. they will win this thing. >> dana: there you have that and arizona was president biden's pick to win it all. better luck next year, sir. not to be outdone they took down virginia. >> a wild win. they won with a three-point shot as the clock ran out. 68-67 the final score. those were exciting games. >> bill: the princeton games. a couple guys in the office were cheering for virginia. they lost and they were destroyed. there goes your bracket and you can hear them all the way down the hall as we say better luck next year. we introduced you to a teacher the other day. here he is.

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lives. >> dana: parents will do whatever they can to make sure it stops. thank you. >> bill: any next guest says college professors censor themselves to keep their jobs. 34% of faculty members feel retaliation for expressing their opinions. 20% of students say they feel the same. matthew is resigning at the university of arizona -- alabama, excuse me. he joins me now. good morning to you. you are one of the few who has put yourself out there. what happened at alabama that said i'm giving up my career? >> thanks for having me. i wouldn't say it was anything in particular. it was this slow rise of what i call liberalism that's been growing in academia for some time. there is this very hesitancy to

have opinions and opinions that may go against the mainstream and ideologies that the universities have set. particularly as assistant professors who don't have tenure yet put our tail between our legs and try not to rock the boat. i already knew my employment was ending over a year ago. so i felt that this was a good time to speak out. i saw by the reaction that the university had and other faculty members had that i was right. this is a subject particularly things like dei that you are not allowed to discuss even raising questions about possible negative consequences. that's sufficient to be painted a racist or someone that is, you know, wants to see less minority students in the university system. that's absolutely not true. >> bill: let me drill in just a little bit here. you are resigning after the current semester and then you are done. you saw it coming a year ago you said. were you given any specific

pushback on something you said or tried to voice or tried to teach? >> i definitely got pushback on multiple dei initiatives. one, for example, was the dropping of standardized test for graduate student entrance. the requirement exam. this was dropped in the name of equity. so i pushed back to try to make folks understand in the administration that this was removing information for me to make a good decision about which student would be successful in our program and which one wouldn't. it was very difficult for me to understand what their qualifications were unless i could see some sort of standardized test particularly when you have students applying from india, china, africa, from rural communities and urban centers. this was one of the initiatives i pushed back very hard on. i don't know if it's necessarily something that would have led me

to lose my job. but it was enough, this rise of liberalism was enough the profession wasn't what i imagined and what my father worked in for over three decades. >> bill: the classroom has changed and everybody is walking on egg shells. how do the students feel? can you speak for them or is that too broad? >> well, i can speak for some of the students that are in my department. the department of geological sciences. they came to me and we had a group of students that were called unlearning racism and geo science. it was a group led by eight students. seven that were caucasian and one a minority students. i talked to some of the other minority students and asked them why they weren't joining this group. they told me straight to my face this isn't something they need. they don't want somebody telling them what is going to be better for them or protecting them from something. they are capable of doing this themselves.

the students were isolating. they go into their tribes and self-isolate. the same thing with faculty members. everybody worries about retribution and possibly being taken out of context with something they say. so it is easier to just avoid each other. you don't collaborate. in a university environment the collaboration is where new ideas come from. lots of different backgrounds. >> bill: do you have a job after this semester? >> no, we're moving to colorado. if anybody is hiring, let me know. >> bill: you are one of the few from the university of alabama. thank you for sharing your story. >> thanks, bill. >> dana: reporter fired over a comment made about florida governor ron desantis. what the axios reporter said to get the axe. plus a new buyer for tiktok? how the business deal could affect the federal investigation into the chinese-backed app.

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>> dana: controversies over at axios. a news site firing a reporter who called -- montgomery was weighing in on a round table discussion about diversity and inclusion earths. he is no longer with the company. fox news media analyst howie kurtz. what happened here? the reporter was expressing his opinion that he didn't like the press release of desantis? >> the context is the latest shot in a national media assault against ron desantis being portrayed as worse than donald trump who was described when he first ran as being dangerous. secondly you have nbc contributor calling desantis a little mussolini, "vanity fair" writing saying he is running a ban an an republic. when montgomery wrote back to the education department of desantis and said the release involving dei was propaganda,

they struck back and put it on social media and asked is it journalism and axios quickly fired the reporter. >> dana: would it have been an option for the reporter to say i stepped over the line. heard you, i'll keep that in mind for the future? they let him go. >> i think perhaps because of the public embarrassment of this being on twitter and elsewhere. i suppose it would have been an option but, you know, here is the deal. the press release said that desantis had hosted and exposing diversity, equity and scam. if journalists want to debate his policies they should quit and become activists, some people think they already are. maybe the penalty was a little harsh because ben montgomery who says this is a political tactic

to gain right wing votes and disrupt the lives of hard working journalists. if you are writing to a state agency and the governor in your staved who you cover you give them ammunition. it wasn't a hacked email or overheard at a bar. people can debate whether the punishment -- >> dana: talk about the media who decided ron desantis is public enemy number one. >> it is quite amazing because the rationale here is he is like trump and pursue all the trump policies. but he will do it more effectively because he doesn't have the baggage and more disciplined and a lawyer and all of that. but if you are on the right and you are seeing the way the media treated donald trump as president and when he first ran say before january 6th and now the next viable republican at the moment presuming he runs is ron desantis and he is getting beat up and gotten into fights with 60 minutes and nbc and

doesn't do many press interviews and doesn't like the press and trumpian in that regard, i think a lot of people would say what is this? it is no longer just about trump, now it's about desantis. >> dana: we'll pay attention to that. there will be a lot more of that as it comes along. >> bill: in the meantime you have a media black out from the white house coming to a head. reporter asking why president biden will not be holding a formal news conference today when meeting with ireland's prime minister. his press secretary saying they could do that later. >> your colleagues will have an opportunity to ask questions during the pool spray of the oval that happens every time a head of state visits. so that is an opportunity to be able to pose a question to the president or the head of state that is visiting the white house on that day. but again, this is coordinated.

he has answered -- >> bill: it went on from there. >> dana: he doesn't answer a lot of questions. when he answers questions it's in front of the helicopter so you can't hear anything. in this regard on st. patrick's day it is typical you would answer 2 and 2. shamrock day might be different. >> bill: you could bring cameras into the oval office. >> dana: he is not going to answer questions about hunter biden today, i imagine. sir, prove me wrong. we would love to have your thoughts. all too familiar scene. smugglers on the run from police on the border sometimes with deadly results. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino. >> bill: good morning to you. what do i call you my lass and me laddie? i'm bill hemmer, good morning at home. chaos continues at the border.

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