band was out there jacking it up. ♪ >> bill: the bagpipes are among us. they are all around us, right? >> dana: can't escape it. do you like the bagpipes? >> bill: yes, i do. i like amazing grace on a bag pipe any day. >> dana: harris faulkner is up next. >> harris: we begin with a fox news alert. at any moment we expect to hear from the president of the united states for the first time since the nation started seeing the details about the biden family finances and all of those sketchy business deals with china. it's evidence republicans have been after for two years and it may be just the tip of the iceberg we're learning. subpoenaed financial records show money from a chinese energy company was funneled to family members of joe biden. a lot of money.

and for what? what were they doing to get that kind of cash from china? i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." accounts tied to the president's son, hunter biden's business partner, rob walker, showed payments of more than $1 million from their chinese business ventures, pay-outs went directly to hunter, president biden's brother james and to his daughter-in-law haley. she is the widow of biden's son, beau. and was later romantically involved with hunter. that's not really critically part of the story but just a tawdry detail. house oversight chair james comer who pushed for the information, says democrats described our subpoena as providing nothing more than records for papa john's and starbucks. they failed to mention the records we've received documenting the family's business schemes and there is a

lot more to learn. >> what we want to know is what did china get if return? i don't think china would spend this much money on this many different members of the biden family if they weren't getting a return on their investment. >> harris: here is the "new york post" front page in full snark mode you might say. biden family values. and another layer, the daily caller is reporting close ties between that chinese energy company linked to hunter and the communist party. very few businesses exist in china that the ccp isn't at least in on. in "focus" republican senator james langford. let's go to alexandria hoff first. >> republicans on the house oversight committee say they've recovered bank records from 2017 that show money from a chinese energy company flowing into the accounts of several members of the biden family. thursday memo the committee

revealed that hunter biden's associates distributed payments over 1.3 million to at least three biden family members with recipients including president biden's daughter-in-law, companies associated with hunter biden and the president's brother james as well as an unknown bank account identified as biden. in response hunter biden's legal team said the funds stopped at haley, james and hunter. hunter biden a private citizen to pursue his business endeavors sought to seek a joint venture with a legitimate energy company in china. as part of that he received his portion of good faith seed funds which he shared with his uncle james biden and haley biden who was involved with at the time and sharing expenses. house oversight committee chair james comer. >> i don't think hunter biden can to try to type of service to generate millions of dollars

from the chinese communist party but i believe his father could. when they say joe biden wasn't involved, we don't know that. we just know that joe biden met with a lot of these people that ended up going into business with hunter or ended up paying hunter, rather, and the family. >> the white house weighing in on this. after discussing attacks lamenting deceased son beau was not -- congressman comer decided to go after beau's widow. comer said the investigation will continue. we have breaking news from a short time ago. hunter biden has filed a lawsuit against the owner of the computer repair shop where his laptop was allegedly abandoned in response to a defamation suit that the shop owner had filed against biden. >> harris: a little nugget about that. we hadn't heard anything on the latest on the laptop until now. we'll see how that figures into the whole story. we want to show you something

that's breaking news. white house moments ago and the irish prime minister, today is st. patrick's day, a beautiful day in new york. they're about to kick off in seconds the parade. but he is meeting with the president and we wanted to tap into this because the white house press secretary had promised reporters that he would take questions. it wasn't a matter of, you know, maybe or he hasn't taken them like this in a long time and -- it was he will do it this time. and moments ago he didn't do a walkaway because he is sitting down but he did a turnaway because he didn't take questions and they moved right along, our president and ireland's prime minister. so no comments from the president yet on all that's popping on his family businesses with all of his relatives and china. let's move. back now to our top story. a scathing headline from the "new york post" editorial board. jim comer shows the family

business of biden is corruption. in "focus" now republican senator james langford of oklahoma, member of the finance, homeland security, intelligence and ethics committee. great to have you in "focus." first of all, i want to know what you make of some of what has come out so far about the biden family business. >> sure. james comer and the house oversight committee are doing good work being able to ask the question, follow the money. all this money came from china. all the money that came from ukraine as well. apparently hunter biden is an energy expert because everyone seems to want to hire him to deal with energy and no energy experience at all. foreign energy companies seem to want to hire him. so these millions of dollars that are now not just going to him but to other biden family members trying to figure out still who is big guy is that was referenced in previous filings and such. reasonable questions to ask. democrats saying there is

nothing to see here and move along were obsessed with pursuing the trump family and everything that happened during that time period. sudden will he they don't want to talk about anything with the biden family and what's happening. reasonable questions of oversight and the key issue is not being able to follow president biden's family. ask the basic question all these dollars coming from come knifed china, what effect does it have on the president. >> harris: one chinese business executive that stood out to me and we know that name because here on the east coast up until a year or so ago he had a beautiful sprawling mansion on long island and an expensive manhattan apartment and the company cefc china energy that he is affiliated with has ties to the ccp. i said moments ago there are very few things inside china the communist party doesn't have knowledge of or lean into. >> you are correct.

you don't have a foreign business operation without the chinese communist party being engaged in it. that's basic communism on this. we aren't used to that in america with capitalism. we have regulations that oversi the boundaries. the communist party owns everything. you don't do operations between the communist party and you don't become a millionaire without the approval of the chinese communist party. >> harris: the department of treasury for years hung onto at least 150 or 200 of what's called sars, the suspicious activity reports by hunter biden and potentially other family members. what's the significance now of getting some of that information finally handed over? >> sure, suspicious activity report is when a bank says a lot of cash came in or large deposit came in that we can't track and see what it is. just a large block that came in.

they have to report that in. it is designed to be able to chase down cartels, drug laundering, all those things. set up for that basic structure but also shows up if there is a lot of cash coming into an account and we don't know why and can't track it. those are all kept. >> harris: do most people have north of 150 of them like hunter biden? >> probably you and i don't and most people watching the program don't. whether a lot of other people do, i don't know. >> harris: you mentioned cartels. that would make sense. let's get to this topic. the white house is sticking to its story after the two major bank collapses. let's watch. >> do you believe silicon bank valley bank's failure could have been prevented? >> we saw what the trump administration did. they rolled back some of the tough requirements. the president appointed regulators over the past two years to reverse the changes that we saw in the last

administration. >> harris: more questions about the overall health of our banking system now. 11 large banks chipped in a total of $30 billion to rescue first republic bank as it was on the verge of collapse. senator langford, you pressed the treasury secretary janet yellen yesterday on what it could mean for smaller banks in the finance committee. we'll watch you and come back to you live. >> anyone with a large deposit in a community bank to say we won't make you whole but if you go to one of our preferred banks we will make you whole. >> that's certainly not something that we are encouraging. >> that's happening right now. >> that is happening because depositors are concerned about the bank failures that have happened and whether or not other banks could also failed. >> it is happening because you are fully insured no matter what the amount is if you're in a big

bank. >> harris: that sounds like they are picking favorites. >> they are certainly picking favorites. she really said if you have a relationship with the federal reserve or relationship with janet yellen or one of the preferred banks or you have a good esg score they will cover your full deposits. if you're a community bank in the country they won't cover your full deposits. she was clear about this. if we pick you, if you are one of our friends, then we will make sure you are covered no matter what the size of it is. if you are a rural bank in oklahoma, good luck. you are on your own. they are setting up a two-teared system. the same group of people who say they hate the big banks but they get strokes and campaign donations from the big banks to make sure they will protected and encourage people to move their money to big banks, a break down of the banking system. our communities banks are much

more solid than what everybody is talking about. stay engaged with community banks and have the administration stop referring to big banks that prefer them. >> harris: it sounds like collusion. >> it feels like it. you deal with silicon valley bank more than twice of size of signature bank in new york. a big bank outside of san francisco and the bank in new york. arnie frank that is chairman of the board and a lot of political engagement between the two banks and they get bailed out and other entities don't. >> harris: it is as plain as day. congress is also looking for answers on inflation, deficit spending, the national debt, more tough questions for secretary yellen. who i remember saying inflation is transitory fora year ago. >> you are here testifying about the president's budget. how much are the total deficit

over that 10-year period according to the president's budget? you don't know that off the top of your head? >> harris: hum, what do you make of this? >> what they've done is a $4.7 trillion increase in taxes and then say it is not enough. we won't be able to cover all the additional spending. to give you a side-by-side four years ago before covid our total budget was $4.4 trillion. they are recommending next year 6.8 trillion, an additional 4.7 in new taxes. it is a giant tax and spend. dramatic increase in government. this is a focus from this administration that only if you gave us more power and more tax dollars we could solve it. as bill cassidy mentioned yesterday the 4.7 trillion doesn't do anything to stable lies social security. the administration skipped that part and said we won't do any of these 4.7 trillion for social security which has insolvency in

nine years. they ignored that part. >> harris: they look at republicans and make you the shiny objects and nobody knows what is happening with social security and medicare. thank you. >> good to see you again. >> harris: disturbing new data from the u.s. border controls. terror watch list suspects at borders. those numbers are exploding set to far outpace last year's record numbers. both sides of the political aisle in washington demanding that the president do something. that's because it is spreading even to blue cities now. they are uncomfortable. we're still waiting for president biden to respond for russia's downing of a u.s. drone. >> they smell weakness in the white house and they will take full change of it. >> they'll push until they meet steel and push as long as they

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>> harris: u.s. customs and border protection celebrating its 20th anniversary. while we honor them, it is likely not feeling for them like a party. with biden's border crisis spinning out of control. new cbp data showing the number of suspected terrorists encountered at our southern border is on pace to crush the record last year. 69 people already stopped at the border just since october 1st,

the beginning of the current fiscal year. there were 98 in the entire fiscal year of 2022. which was a dramatic increase from the 15 in the previous year of 2021. we're going in the wrong direction and doing it fast. house speaker kevin mccarthy says action is way overdue. >> when you wore eft about isis-k they know how to get into our country and exactly what they need to do. three years ago is when i broke that people -- broke the news people on the terrorist watch list were coming across and the democrats called me a liar. they ignored the problem and it is too big to ignore anymore. >> harris: new op-eds going after biden. biden isn't even trying to secure the southern border. marc thiessen, fox news contributor, "washington post" columnist. the last time we got together we talked about worst case

scenarios keeping people up at night and fast forward and we're already there. more than 50% higher than the number at this point for terrorists encounters at our border compared to last year. >> yeah, it is a disaster and it will get worse because they are about to get rid of title 42 at the border. supreme court canceled arguments in the case challenging biden's lifting of title 42 because the case is mute because he is lifting the emergency order on may 11. the pandemic emergency. without that all the pandemic emergency policies go away. we lift title 42 on the border. in the last three years we stopped millions. the border will swing wide open. this is a problem. here is the thing. biden is now reportedly considering restoring family detention policy that existed under trump and obama before him. this underscores the fact it is

a crisis of choice. he could have done that a year ago or two years ago. he has all the same tools, laws on the books that obama and trump did when they were in power and they secured the border. why can't he? it is a crisis of choice. >> harris: what drives that choice? >> i think it's the left wing base that has captured the democratic party. barack obama -- it is not just donald trump's border policies he reversed. it is barack obama's, obama was decried as the deporter in chief deporting 3 million people. deportations dropped to record lows under biden. doubled the number of prosecutions for illegal entry, obama did from 40,000 to 100,000 a year. biden stopped doing that. family detentions started under barack obama. he reversed that. he is reversing the obama poll seals at the border. it goes to show he could

reinstate all those policies tomorrow to use a phrase with a pen and phone. he just has to do it. it is a crisis of will and he is choosing not to do it. >> harris: what we reported yesterday on this very hour, marc, the goal of deportations under this administration fell to 29,000 a year. we're not even going to come close to what obama was doing or trump was doing, not going to come close to what anybody was doing. we are setting records for people here illegally. there is no thirst to kick them out. the original crime when you are here illegally. all right. texas congressman dan crenshaw wants biden to take military action in mexico against the cartels. mexican president obrador doesn't like that idea. here is his chain saw response to it. >> the president is out of control. if you weren't sure if he was

bought off by the cartels before you can be sure now. his slogan just so people know when he ran for president was hugs, not bullets. tell me you are part of the drug cartel without telling me you are not part of the drug cartel. >> harris: crenshaw slices right through it. it is ridiculous. >> we should pass. they have the bill to have an authorization of military force to go after the cartels. we should declare them foreign terrorist organizations. they have killed more people than al qaeda. again, he could do it with the stroke of his pen, biden could. he is not doing it. we should try to do this with the mexicans, not despite the mexicans. the only way the mexicans will do it if we are convinced we're willing to do it alone. obrador talks about sovereignty.

it is a responsibility. you have a responsibility to govern your territory and prevent your territory from being used for an invasion of our country by illegal drugs or by illegal migrants. the illegal drugs are killing people at a great rate over here. if he is not willing to police his own ungoverned tear toes the u.s. has the right to take out the cartels like we took out isis. we could take out the cartels in a few months flat if we had the will and capabilities to do it. >> harris: it is also complicity. obrador is looking at this no doubt gosh, look at the way america treats the people who help america when they pulled out of afghanistan, all those people, all the citizens that had helped us for 20 years. we got many of those people killed by the way we exited. when you look at that ob door is saying with the cartels he can make money. what are the options when you are a bad guy? you cozy up to the enemy that you think won't sell you out the

fastest. russia, handed out awards today to the fighter pilots who took down the u.s. drone earlier this week. don't think that was on purpose? here you go, you get a trophy. moscow still denies it was intentional. the white house says this video released yesterday brings up questions about whether or not they meant to take it down. lawmakers on capitol hill turned up the heat on the president to respond. congressman mike waltz with his take yesterday. >> the broader agenda. we pulled our shipped out and manned aircraft. now unmanned aircraft in international waters and the russians want to force them out, too. the response can't be do nothing. now we are giving up whole swaths and areas under this one. and our adversaries will continue to be on the march as long as we let them. >> harris: just as soon as he said that, this trip was planned. chinese president xi says he

will fly to russia next week to meet with president putin, a powerful show of support for putin as his brutal war against ukraine rages on. it will be xi's first visit to moscow since that war started more than a year ago some 388 days, i believe. you know what? moscow is getting what it wants. >> yeah. they gave these pilots an award but said it was an accidental crash. how often does the military award pilots a medal for accidentally crashing into something? it is absurd. of course it was intentional. why did russia do it? they wanted to take out the drones because they are effective in giving ukraine intelligence on russia positions but two, they want to deter us from providing more aid to ukraine. they want americans to look at this and say oh my god, we're at risk of an accidental conflict with russians. they could go to war with us and

start world war iii and want to provoke support in the u.s. to stop our help to ukraine. the russians won't go to war with us. they can't beat ukraine. they don't want a war with us. the response to this is not to kick out some diplomats or scold them but to provide ukraine with more weapons and provide ukraine with long-range missiles they need the take out russian troops 200 miles away from their position and the means to defeat russia. if we did that, this war could be over next year. if we provide the weapons biden is not providing them. everybody is worried about getting sucked into a long war. we could give them the weapons. >> harris: it could have been that way a year ago pen and a phone. quickly poland is about to do what you said, they will give them planes. we'll talk about that next time. poland will lead, not the united states. thank you. >> poland is leading the world. there you go. >> harris: whatever it takes.

thank you. three veterans severely wounded in combat showing how incredibly resilient the american spirit truly is. all three missing at least one limb just climbed to the top of mount kilimanjaro. the tallest mountain in africa. they did it all for u.s. veterans and those american heroes tell us in "focus" how they pay it forward every day. so glad they're with me. stay close.

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awareness for the vital organizations which supported them during their recover reese. especially homes for our troops. a charity that build and donates specially adapted custom homes for post 9/11 veterans. all three of our heros are beneficiaries. they are in "focus" now. i love the pictures. retired marine captain cameron west. marine sergeant adam in the middle. and retired army sergeant steven curry to my right. god bless you and welcome home. >> thank you very much. >> harris: cameron, i have to start with you. what made you even think about doing this? you come home, you've already been through quite a bit of recovery and you want this challenge. >> well, i think a lot of veterans come back and need to find a mission to accomplish and strive and work for and train for. we've all chosen our own

missions over the last decade or so, 15 years some of us. this actually originated with adam asking steve and i if we wanted to join him to climb for fellow veterans and nonprofits that have given so much to us and our families so it was a no-brainer. when he asked the immediate thought i had was i'll do it because i want to say the names of 25 heroes at the top of that rooftop of africa. that was my motivation along with setting the example for kids and the next generation of what they can accomplish. >> harris: that's so beautiful. say their names so beautiful. we were watching exclusive video you brought us. no matter what time of the year you would climb this, adam, i would imagine the training for this had to be punishing. at the very top is snow. here is a desert terrain, difficult to do with injured limbs and so on and so forth. >> a weird environment. you start out in a tropical rain

forest above 90 degrees. at the summit it is well below 0 many times of the year. each elevation you get to a new environment and new challenges. it is a dynamic environment but excited to see it all. >> harris: i'm a child of a lieutenant colonel fighter pilot. my dad used to talk about transitions from the life that you have in the military that is so, as you beautifully put it. mission driven and coming home and being a civilian. how does doing something like this help you tap into the river of transition, it takes a lifetime sometimes. i would imagine having that focus helps. >> the focus helps. i have had a lot of success post military career because i get to continue to hang out with military veterans and groups supporting those guys. very proud to climb the mountain with these two and made it a

worthwhile experience just the company. >> harris: steven, how long did it take you to do it? >> six days to the top and two days to get to the bottom. >> harris: were you climbing for six days? what kind of breaks did you take? >> i wish i could say we were climbing all day every day. but you need to get actly cometed to you -- we do down time at the camps acclimate. >> did anybody think it was not a good idea and wanted you to stay home? >> my wife and my kids had some doubts but they kept them to themselves. for one, we were going halfway across the world to africa. for me i haven't been on that side of the world since i was deployed. so i think it brought some stuff up for my wife. but they supported me. as soon as i told her adam asked

me if i wanted to do it and they were behind me all the way. >> harris: i feel like i need an adam in my life. they both mentioned your name. what propels you to want to take people with you up mount kilimanjaro? >> at some point you need to pay it forward and give back. now i get to take these guys up on mount kilimanjaro trips and other trips. >> harris: are you doing it again? >> we'll do it again for several more years hopefully and we'll be mountain climbing, hunting, fishing, horse back riding. we try to do it all. >> harris: does everybody have to go to the top? can some of us chicken to do that get a good view if we climb halfway with your group? >> yes. well, with our group, yeah, we'll -- i would say that any time that you spend on that mountain or any other mountain

that you have taken that goal to try to accomplish is a success right there. stepping out your door and putting on your boots and trying to take on a challenge, that's a win right there. so i suggest anybody that has an idea to do something like that domestic or international take it upon yourself and do your best and at the end of the day you will be very proud of yourself and everybody else will as well. >> dana: thank you all, you have done so much for this country already. so grateful and now you are continuing to inspire us in new ways. i will take you up on that. i will go just as far as i can go and the view will still be good. god bless you, thank you, welcome to brag a little bit about your groups now. if you would like to donate to homes for our troops there is a website. i will put it all over my social today as well. $0.90 of every dollar.

90% of all donations go directly to building those specially-outfitted homes. a truly great charity. gentlemen, thank you. good to see you. president biden ignoring questions from reporters just a short time ago. we didn't get to see him walk away because he with as in a chair. after the white house press secretary promised he would give answers about the frustrations among the press. and all that's boiling over with the family business, with the border, everything. he was going to take questions. he didn't do it. not even one.

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>> harris: breaking news at this hour. fox news alert. the international criminal court, icc, has just issued an arrest warrant against russian president vladimir putin for war crimes in ukraine. there is also an arrest warrant for the woman who serves as the commissioner for children's rights in the russian federation. mike tobin is live in kiev with more. mike, we knew this was coming because there have been people on the ground and you have been reporting who have been collecting evidence of war crimes and now this comes forth.

>> just a u.n. mandated inquiry by the independent international commission on inquiry on ukraine. some 16,000 children had been deported really against their will from the donbas region, and that is what the i.c.c. is really focusing on in this case. the prosecutor general of ukraine said we just got a reaction from him. he said putin should be arrested and brought to a court outside russia and world leaders should think before sitting down at the negotiating table with him. a stunning development. one ukraine would stand behind. russia, of course, is defiant as they have been throughout this process. what we have from russia so far is that they are not a member of this organization as they said and russia has no responsibility to the i.c.c. so ukraine is supported behind this decision.

a stunning decision to issue an arrest warrant for vladimir putin. it will be difficult to do and right now it means putin is stuck in russia. he can't leave. harris. >> harris: that's an interesting detail. it may take time but for the meantime he is not going anywhere. mike tobin, thank you very much. frustration over the top among the white house press saying president biden whats a long pattern refusing to answer their questions. this is their job every day. they show up to ask him questions. here he is ignoring them again during his meeting with the irish prime minister. >> president biden: thank you all. [shouted questions]

>> harris: when he doesn't do the walk away you get the lifted eyebrows and chat with the irish prime minister. he won't take a question, no, they are investigating his family mombers for sketchy business dealings with china. just yesterday white house press secretary karine jean-pierre promised this time, today would be different. watch. >> this is coordinated. he has answered questions. [shouted questions] >> it's not -- here -- here -- i hear you. i hear you. i hear you guys. >> harris: he didn't take questions. look, the day is young. maybe it will happen yet. power panel, mark water phorboler special assistance to president trump and former press secretary to mike pence.

tamika former obama campaign advisor and surrogate and surrogate for warren's presidential campaign. welcome to the program for the first time. mark, good to see you. let's start with where the president is tamika, in terms of answering questions about the tough times, the tough investigations going on. do you just get out there or do you stay silent? what's good strategy here? >> you know, thank you for having me. i think the present is focusing on what he is elected to do. at some point there will have to be as he gets more into the campaign and certainly with the new developments today on russia and other things he will have to take some questions. you know, he has taken questions and karine jean-pierre has pointed it out. the frustration is he is not answering as many questions as the reporters like at the time they want him to do it. >> harris: a quick follow-up

because acknowledging at least that's their job and it's also his job to be able to talk through them to the american people, if you will, through good questions. but what is it, do you think, that keeps him in those times outside of the fact that he wants to stay focused? he hasn't announced he is running yet. we have inflation and so many things. wouldn't it be part of what he would want to talk to us about? >> i think at some point he is going to have to make sure that american people through reporters, through press conferences, are hearing the things he is doing every day. focusing on inflation, making sure the banks are stable and making sure jobs are being created. he is doing the work but being able to communicate that work is very important and he will have to take some questions as we get closer to the election. right now i think what he is focused on doing the job he was elected to do. >> harris: mark, from your experience what are we wanting.

? >> turning the biden basement strategy into an art form. not talking about anything and to your point, harris, the questions that need to be answered that are being asked by reporters. he is just avoiding all of it. >> harris: look, when admiral kirby, who represents national security advisor for the white house said about a week and a half ago we're going to wait for china to tell us whether they will continue to seek apeaceful resolution between russia and ukraine, or china will put weapons on the ground to help russia fight its war that it is losing against ukraine. when the white house through kirby said that i knew that in one point we were in trouble. that meant we weren't going to get an honest answer what they do know china what do and what did china do? they are getting ready, president xi to go to russia. they'll cozy up. >> this is another case of the administration leading from behind, not showing leadership on the world stage. and it is a complete abdication

of the united states's authority as the leader of the free world that we are just allowing this to happen with china in the lead. >> harris: let's get to this. house oversight committee getting access to bank records which directly connect several biden family members to hunter biden's sketchy overseas business deals. the big three networks spent 0 time, 0 minutes on that story after yesterday's revelation that the president's daughter-in-law received cash from china. not one reporter that the press secretary called on asked about it. here is how a shouted question went. >> i will see you. thank you. >> question about biden's -- >> harris: tamika. your response to that. >> i'm sorry, i couldn't really hear. were you asking me that

question? >> harris: yes. >> okay. you know, right now there is a lot of press that is happening around in the print media of stories that bank of america gave information and the treasury department gave information. the investigations are playing out right now. >> harris: i have to step in. please forgive me. we had a glitch there and it ate up our time with her audio. good to see you both. i'll bring you back. "outnumbered" is next. an arres

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