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some of the transfers to that robinson walker company happened during 2015 and 2016, time when joe biden was very much vice president of the united states. >> john: you just saw the breaking news right here as the head of the house oversight committee, james comer, details the money trail linking the biden family with china. and comer says he has some bad news for the white house. this is just the beginning. welcome back as "america reports" rolls into a second hour. i'm john roberts in washington. sandra, see if we can top the last hour news content. >> sandra: here we go on this friday afternoon. chairman comer joining us after we learned the name of the third biden family member who received a cut of a wire money transferred to a business associate. white house dismissing the findings as a disgusting attack and hunter biden is counter suing the delaware computer shop owner who held on to his laptop and shared its contents with

"the new york post." but chairman comer tells us he has yet to see any evidence this was a legitimate business. >> all we find are payments from the ccp to shell companies then funneled back to the biden family. we don't see any business. and what we have been told is the business was the bidens were basically influence peddling, promising to help china open doors in the united states. >> john: complete coverage just ahead. florida congressman byron donalds sits on the house oversight committee. he joins us in a moment. >> sandra: first david spunt is he justice department live, tell us about the lawsuit that hunter has just filed. >> sandra, this is a countersuit. the computer repair shop owner actually sued hunter biden earlier this month. this is a response to that. it was filed today in federal court in delaware. it is a 42-page counterclaim

from hunter biden's attorney, alleges that mac isaac illegally took biden's information from the laptop and made copies and distributed it to multiple people. but he says hunter never retrieved his computer and has done nothing wrong. but they say he improperly accessed files that he admits were none of his business, even though he was never given permission to access or review the data. they released financial records showing multiple members of the president's family received money through a biden family associate tied to a deal with that chinese energy company. the committee wrote, excuse me, the committee is concerned about the national security implications of a president or vice president's immediate family members receiving millions of dollars from foreign nationals or companies without any oversight. the white house responding to that, instead of bizarrely

attacking the president's family perhaps house republicans should focus on working with the president to deliver results for the american families on important priorities like lowering costs and strengthening healthcare. the department of justice has been investigating hunter biden since at least 2018. the u.s. attorney in delaware is leading up the investigation, but no ink ling in months or years whether charges are coming, not coming, hanging in the air. so right now we still consider to be in limbo waiting to see what ultimately the u.s. attorney will do regarding hunter biden. >> sandra: the first evidence of a money trail changes things and the committee is promising more to come. david spunt, thank you. >> john: congressman byron donalds, a member of the house oversight committee. you heard james comer saying he believes china was seeking influence but don't know exactly what transpired for that chinese

company to deliver millions of dollars into the hands of an intermediary which then funneled some of the money to a biden family. do you have any idea what hunter biden, jim biden and hallie biden were doing? >> well, i'm not quite sure what hallie biden was doing, her vocation is a school counselor, so lost on me why she was getting tens of thousands of dollars. let's be clear. they were getting the money for something. we don't have the information but we are going to find out. the investigation is not slowing down, it's just speeding up. >> john: in terms of selling influence, supporters of hunter biden will point out that's not a crime. so, where is the evidence of illegality here. you can say it looks bad, impropriety, but where is the illegality. >> that remeans to be seen. put that on the side. we still have to go through the

full investigative process. you see a structuring of wires from this account at robert walker llc, and you have a top ranking official in the u.s. government, vice presidential under barack obama, now president of the united states, whose family was taking money from foreign entities. for what, we have no idea. what the oversight committee is saying is that if this is going on, this should be disclosed to the american people. so the american people are fully aware of the business dealings of the family associated with people who are going to either be president or vice president of the united states. >> john: when he was on with us last hour, chairman comer said one of the big problems with the white house, it keeps changing its story. listen here. >> they have continuously changed their story. a few months ago when i announced the investigation after the house flipped, they said there was nothing to the

laptop, that it was complete russian disinformation. so, they've denied existence of these payments directly to the biden family, all the way until the day that we actually produce bank records. i don't think the white house ever thought that i would get my hands on those bank records and i've got some bad news for the white house. this is just the beginning. >> john: chairman comer also suggesting the documents he has been telling us about in the last couple days may just be the tip of the iceberg when it comes to bank records. >> oh, no, i agree with the chairman on this one. we have more work to do. and let me be very clear on this. the white house and the biden family think we are out to get them, not true. this is a major ethical issue with the person who is the leader of our country. if he is setting domestic and international policy in part being put pressure on or implications put on him because of the dealings of his family and also his dealings through his family over the last ten

years, that's a major issue for the american people. that type of implied pressure, whether real or perceived, should be known by the american people through disclosure. and i think that's what the oversight committee is doing, we are going to continue to investigate this. this is not gotcha politics. if you make the green new deal of the energy fabric of the country, tell the american people you have to get the minerals from cobalt mines in africa using child slave labor and the batteries are put together in china and the chinese will make massive profits while we get green. is the biden family getting money as a result of this as well, these are things the american people need to know, why the oversights committee will continue to push. >> john: the question i have here, and you could put it under the heading of patriotism, happening at a time when china was building up the military, building military facilitiesed on disputed islands in the south

china sea and pushing the agenda to become the dominant global super power, pushing the united states out of the way. what was the family of the sitting vice president doing, doing business with china? >> that's exactly right. and by the way, china is still in that business today. let's not act like that was just happening when barack obama was president. it's happening again now that joe biden is president. so, what are those relationships, how deep do they go with the chinese government or the ccp or business around the chinese government, and what does that mean for american foreign policy and american domestic policy. that's the root cause of this issue. chinese have more influence on the south china seas where most trade goes through the world. chinese are continuing to expand their military footprint in southeast asia, major implications for the world and the chinese have become a

dominant player in cobalt rare earth minerals and the green deal likes as the energy plan. dominating the globe in that. so what is joe biden's family doing getting wire transfers from chinese company. amazing question the american people need answers to. >> john: we'll see if the committee comes up with that answer. congressman byron donalds of florida, appreciate it. hope you have a good weekend. >> any time. >> john: and that is a big question, i think, when you are the family of the vice president, and who knows, maybe even the vice president himself, you are doing business with your chief adversary just to get rich? does that make sense? >> sandra: biden family values, with a dollar sign, and you know, democrats are making this out to be and the response from the white house this is attack on beau's widow hallie, the american people see it as something that leads them to having many questions over what went on. so that committee is trying to get to the bottom of that,

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>> john: we recently reported on a stunning statistic out of mexico, majority of drugs in pharmacies are laced with drugs, often fentanyl, heroin or meth. pharmacies work hard to attract american tourists, especially now as spring breakers are south of the border. now, they want a new warning telling americans not to travel to mexico. rich edson joins me live, a major problem. >> it is, and researchers from ucla have gone down to mexico to look into it, they found medication laced with fentanyl, heroin, methamphetamine, all without a prescription and across tourist towns in northern mexico. they found 68% sold at least one controlled substance, 30% of oxycodone pills had fentanyl, 11% with heroin, and 82% had methamphetamine.

and david troen wrote antony blinken asking a travel advisory, placed unsuspecting u.s. customers, some are whom are seeking medications, face a risk of overdose or death. experts say americans should just avoid mexican pharmacies all together. >> the regulatory system is not as strong as what we have here, they don't have a track and trace system for the medication, and there is no consequence for mexican pharmacy owners who sell fake medications to americans. no safe outlet in mexico for an american patient. >> the state department did issue a broader spring break travel alert for mexico, warning "counterfeit medication is common and may prove to be ineffective, the wrong strength, or contain dangerous

ingredients." estimated 1.2 million americans travel to mexico every year for medical tourism. >> john: did they say how to tell what a reputable establishment is? >> and that's the question. no. you have experts telling you none of them are so don't try it. >> john: word of warning. >> get good travel insurance if you go and get back to the u.s. >> sandra: several environmental groups filing a federal lawsuit against the biden administration for the decision to approve a massive new drilling project in alaska. called the willow project, and could bring in thousands of jobs and billions in tax revenue to that state. alaska's governor has praised the project but has backed off on other limits to drilling in the state. joining us now is alaska governor mike dunleavy. thank you very much for joining us. why do you think the president ultimately approved this after promising during his campaign to

bring an end to fossil fuels? >> i would like to think that the reality of brownouts, blackouts, high costs of fuel for cars and trucks played a role into this. as well as i think some rational conversations from the federal delegation. you can't -- we can't make the leap that the extreme environmentallists want to make overnight and i think a bit of reasoning and logic played into this. >> sandra: very interesting if that is the case. he is getting heat from members of his own party. here are some of them slamming the president over the willow project, listen. >> we have to save the planet, we only have one, young people who put biden into office, this is their number one issue. if they stay home in 2024, we lose the election in 2024. >> what is the long-term impact to our planet.

what additional consequences are there to the additions to not only what damage we are doing to the planet, but what example it's sending to other countries in the world. [inaudible] >> look, the bottom line is this hr1 as i said, is a bill just for the oil companies. >> sandra: well, if it's a bill just for the oil companies, is this president for big oil? governor? >> well, i don't think so. we have 48 actions against this from the federal government in this administration's two years in office. and so i doubt that very much. i think there was pressure to be brought that was brought to bear on the president from both sides. the bottom line is this. i wish people would understand this. 180,000 barrels the willow project would produce at the peak was going to be produced in

the united states under strict environmental regulations or produced overseas. so that's the question people have to ask. do you want your oil developed in a place like the united states with our regulations or do you want, we want that as someone else to develop it, saudi arabia or tehran. it does not make sense to send it overseas. from an environmentallist point of view they should be happy. that sounds crazy but doing it here in america, in alaska, you do it better than anywhere else. might as well do it here and do it right. >> sandra: you have aoc and other democrats, can their decision ignores the reputable science to slow the devastating impacts of climate change. and i bring that in play, what we just heard from jamal bowman at the top, the democrat from new york, saying this is the number one issue for young people in america, he says if they stay home in 2024 we lose the election in 2024.

>> well, the bottom line is this once again. there is going to be oil produced, there is going to be oil used, all of those folks that were just talking against willow and oil production in the united states, they all drive cars, fly planes, many of them private planes, so those people in themselves they are demanding more oil, which is the irony of this conversation. they want more oil in order to underwrite the life they want to live. you are going to get the oil from somewhere. let's do it here in america. it makes sense, including from an environmentsal perspective. >> and the president himself has said on the record many times now that we are going to be reliant on fossil fuels for at least the next ten years, that transition is not happening overnight and we have to get the oil somewhere to your point. governor, great to have you on the program. hope to have you back. >> thank you. >> john: russian president

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as long as you can make an impact, why stop? >> sandra: updating one of our top stories, vladimir putin is now a fugitive, evading arrest for war crimes, after arrest warrant was issued for the russian president. poland is planning to send mig fighter jets to ukraine. mike tobin is live in kyiv. what is the arrest warrants all about? >> there are two arrest warrants that went out, one for vladimir putin, one for the commissioner

for children's rights from russia, and this comes after a u.n.-mandated inquiry came up with a long list of war crimes, everything from torture, rape, attacking civilian targets. these arrest warrants from the icc are focussing specifically on the forced deportation of some 16,000 children from the south and east of ukraine. during the early stages of the wars, humanitarian corridors opened and failed. children were evacuated east into russia. ukraine only 350 have been returned. as far as the charges go, ukrainians say this is just the beginning. >> he should be arrested and brought to court outside of russia, and world leaders will think three times before shaking his hand or sitting down at the negotiating table with him. >> now there are many statements of defiance from russia. former russian president said no

need to explain where the paper should be used and punctuated it with the toilet paper emoji. maria balova said there are sanctions against her, i wonder what will happen next. and poland announced try of a d fighter jets to ukraine, four of them in a matter of days. and slovakia will giving an aging fleet to ukraine. and they say it will bring additional troubles to ukraine and the people, all of the equipment will be destroyed. combine with the defense minister giving award to the two pilots who forced the u.s. drone out of the sky and nothing but defiance from moscow. i should note that ukrainian president zelenskyy issued a statement saying there will come a day when the perpetrators of war crimes will be brought to

justice in the halls of the international criminal courts. sandra, back to you. >> sandra: mike tobin, and a happy st. patrick's day to you down on the ground in kyiv. mike, thank you. john. >> john: china announcing president xi jinping will visit moscow to meet with president putin. now taking on more meaning for the west now that putin is a fugitive war criminal. fred fleitz, vice chair of the center for american security, and former chief of staff at the national security council. warrant in the international court for vladimir putin on war crimes, does it add up to a hill of beans? >> well, john, take a bit of a contrary view on this. i don't like the international criminal court, i worked with john bolton in 2002 when bolton unsigned the statute, it's an unaccountable court that could

try and indict members of the u.s. military, former u.s. officials, i would like to see putin indicted for war crimes but have an accountable ad hoc court formed for this basis, not the court that i don't think is in america's interests. >> john: add up to a hill of beans? >> china has never been a signatory, so xi, it's not going to have an effect on his business. >> john: maybe putin cannot travel to a country that's not a signatory to it. >> universal jurisdiction, there are european courts that could have secretly indicted putin already, so whenever he travels some type of an agreement when he goes to a certain capital he can't be arrested. >> john: meeting between xi and putin, what do you think will come of it? >> china was holding off trying to keep putin at arm's length to this point but looks like china is getting closer to russia. reports they may be selling assault rifles and body armor

through a middle east intermediary, russia may be selling china enriched uranium. we have misplayed. the foreign minister of china used to be the ambassador to the united states from china. while he was here, senior biden officials refused to meet with him. he's in xi's inner circle. i can't figure out why he couldn't get a meeting with the secretary of state or security adviser, a snub for no reason and it made the chinese relationship with the u.s. worse than it has to be. >> john: looks like china wants to make it worse anyway, xi jinping told china's allies he ultimately wants to create a new better world order with china as the natural leader. what would a chinese-led new world order look like? >> well, it's a rejection of the rules-based order after world

war ii based on the universal declaration of human rights. it would be a world order that favors chinese, there would not be freedom of the press, human rights oppressed, china would be dominating societies, dominating trade. it's something -- when we see the crown prince of saudi arabia playing ball with china, inviting him into the area, i think he's playing with fire. >> john: one more thing with china. you say we need to change our approach to china, an op-ed in the washington times pegged it to the release of covid. you said chinese officials knowingly permitted the deadly covid-19 virus to spread around the world, locking down the country. this was a crime against humanity by a criminal adversary. bill clinton called china's strategic partner, george bush pulled it a strategic competitor. biden continues the language. how should we deal with china in

the future. >> biden and the administration are obsessed we live in a new era of competition new that the cold war is definitively over. john, you and i are old enough to know the cold war ended 30 years ago. they see a different relationship with china, another system pursuing legitimate aims and nothing wrong with that. there is something wrong with that. this is an autocracy, a criminal regime. we can argue about the origins of the covid virus but no question china knew how deadly it was in 2020, and locked down the country but allowed the citizens to travel around the world three months, resisted travel bans, and lied about how viral it was, it constitutes a war crime. think of the millions who would not have died if china declared how deadly the virus was and locked down air travel in january of 2020.

>> john: charge with a war crime, where do you try them, not the icc. >> that's right. >> sandra: fox news alert to the protests on the ground in paris right now, we are seeing live images just in of police in paris clashing with protestors after the french government there decided to force through the pension reforms without a vote in parliament. the crowds have been converging there for a while. obviously this is quite a heated moment as we look live at these pictures. they are raising the retirement age from 62 to 64. so these plans have sparked months of heated political debate and strikes on the ground there. so these are live pictures coming in from paris, john, at this hour. >> john: that is not far from the louvre, big bonfire burning there. i'll tell you, when they protest in france over these social issues, they really do it. how about the farm protests, dropping manure all over paris,

do that in the middle of july it's rank quickly. >> sandra: quite a scene playing out. clashes happening with protestors on the ground. we will monitor the live pictures out of paris as you listen there to the reaction on the ground, john. quite an image. >> john: 64 for a retirement age sounds attractive, doesn't it? >> sandra: some of the protestors, they have been gathering there throughout the day, remember, it's 7:30 in the evening there. fire was lit in the middle of the protestors, police with shields and batons have stepped in. we don't have a clear image of that. but we are told via the wire right now that they fired tear gas as they have moved to clear that square. that so far does not look like it has happened, so far about 120 people have been arrested, we are now learning, this is according to the paris police talking to the associated foreign press, john. >> john: all right.

well, we'll see how long this goes on. it's getting late there. >> sandra: we'll continue to monitor. justice department is ramping up into investigation into data surveillance by tiktok's chinese owner bite dance. the communist party linked company admits to obtaining american's data inappropriately. grady trimble is live on capitol hill. what is this company saying about all of this at this point? >> not much right now, sandra, but will hear from tiktok's ceo directly next week. lawmakers will have a chance to grill him and no shortage of topics to ask him about. first on the investigations you mentioned, the wall street journal reports the fbi and the department of justice are looking into why tiktok's chinese parent company spied on u.s. journalists and other

americans using the app. they report the federal investigation began after bytedance acknowledged employees misused authority to access the data of journalists in an effort to identify leaks of confidential company information. tiktok tells us the employees involved are no longer with the company. separately, we are learning tiktok is collecting data on you even if you have deleted the app or never had it in the first place. they have trackers on websites we visit. and meta and google use similar trackers for advertising purposes but the added concern with tiktok, it could share information it collects with the chinese government. and those are not the only reasons a growing number of lawmakers want to ban the app. >> and of course it's a news source for a lot of americans. chinese communists have a major news source in america. ban it entirely. i introduced a bill to ban it

from app store, the webs, that's the way to protect ourselves from chinese communist manipulation. >> the president has taken a tougher stance on tiktok lately, telling the app to divest from the chinese parent company or face a ban. publicly tiktok has been telling us it does not need to sell in order to keep americans' data out of the hands of the chinese government but there are reports that behind the scenes tiktok is talking to possible buyers just like it did back when president trump wanted to ban the app here. sandra. >> sandra: live on the hill, grady, thank you. >> john: ncaa teams and fans are hoping for some luck. plenty of march madness games on tap for this weekend, and many of us cannot wait for those jump balls. >> sandra: bars are filling up -- i should say in new york, they are full. people are pouring out of the bars here. that's for st. patrick's day. and then those who want to catch

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>> sandra: fox business charles payne going hard after biden over his bailout of the silicon valley bank. >> president biden should have come out sunday night and said 99% of americans you are covered. keep your money in your community bank and we have you covered. >> why didn't he? >> he political donors got out there, on twitter, and said you must bail us out. this is silicon valley, venture capitalist. you know how much money we put in your campaign, you know what you owe us? figure out a way to paint it as a way to bail out the small guy but save us now. >> sandra: taylor and brian, host of the big money show on fox business. charles obviously had a moment there, looking the way this has been handled, i know you guys have been digging into it. >> i think he's channelling what a lot of people feel. look at what happened at silicon valley bank, a lot of money, big

bank accounts involved and saying why is all that money going there at my community bank now, somebody that has less than $250,000, i have to pay higher fees. there is a justice issue at the heart of this, and people look at the banking system and say it already felt unjust and bailing out a big bank in california and new york, and what about middle america. >> and i hear you on the silicon valley and the billionaires, but i think the question is if you have to say is there a bank run, it's too late. there is already a bank run. so to step in and insured and uninsured depositors, you could argue in hindsight maybe it's the right thing to do, or in the moment it's the right thing to do. a bank run hurts everyone if you get to back a 2008 type scenario. >> charles made this point, a lot of voices when this happened that said a bank run is coming, and charles' point and i agree with him on this.

no, if you have less than $250,000 you are secure, stop acting like the little guy is going to lose the money. so when you have the voices, the billionaire voices saying it could get ugly, that creates the impetus for the bailout and scares people who should not be scared, they are not above the 250. >> they did not bail out debt holders and shareholders like j.p. morgan, the anniversary of that, forced to buy bear stearns. we did not do that in this case. bailed out depositors, small business owners parking their money there. they were told put your money there to pay payroll. so i really do see both sides. we debate this issue every day. >> sandra: and how about a bailout for those living in sky high inflation. put it on the screen, stout beer is up, corned beef prices, it

does not apply to you, you are not eating meat, that's up 12%. potato prices are up. come on, just about everything when it comes to food prices are up. and now on the st. patrick's day we are paying for it. >> and these holidays are a moment you realize how much prices have gone up, and makes it harder to celebrate and take a step back and enjoy yourself. food prices have not slowed down. that's the problem. they hear inflation is slowing down, but they go to the grocery store and they see price increase based on price increase. >> sandra: when do prices ever come down? when they go up, they don't come down. >> they are shrinking, too, you get the little packages of food. >> coming into today, st. patrick's day, consumers were already starting to pull back on these type of experience. you've seen the consumer shift to the staples, the food, groceries, we pulled back on the going out and the fun stuff. maybe people are splurging today

and i let them do that, but i think in general the trend has been consumers see this and pull back somewhere. >> sandra: one question, is shrinky, dinky -- >> it's a midwestern technical phrase. i can explain it on the break. >> sandra: you don't eat meat? i learn something new about taylor every way. >> pass it my way. >> i support meat eaters if they choose to. free speech, free rights. >> sandra: amazing. appreciate the show, by the way, good stuff. and happy st. patrick's day to you. john, this is -- it is quite a st. patrick's day here in new york city. it is already busy out the doors here in midtown manhattan, pubs are filled, parade is happening. >> john: i was mortified this morning, i ran out the door first thing, very early dentist appointment and halfway there and thought oh, it's st.

patrick's day, i didn't bring anything green. so, my apologies to all of my irish friends for not wearing green today. >> sandra: i was wondering where the green is on the set even. >> john: where is your green? >> sandra: amazing. thanks to our panel. and back to paris, the new images are coming in. associated press is offering the video on the streets of paris where police are clashing with protestors on the ground there, the french government has decided to force through pension reforms without a vote in e retirement age from 62 to 64. we are told as evening has fallen there that police have arrived with shields, obviously you can see this happening in front of you, batons, they fired tear gas, there's been 120 people arrested at least at this point. quite a confrontation and quite a moment on the streets of paris right now, john. >> john: yeah, and as we mentioned before, you know, when the french take to the streets to protest what they see are

injustices in the social -- their social network program, their social do it up big. farmers are driving their tractors down the middle of the street and dumping manure in front of the arc de triumph, and now a big fire lit here in the heart of paris. and this looks like it's going to go on for some time. >> sandra: almost 8:00 in the evening there. the panel was just commenting on this. taylor. >> my concern, this is a global issue. facing an aging crisis. and the protests over paris, they are raising it a couple years, brings it back to the u.s. with social security that you do need some sort of responsible reform. i don't know what that looks like, but this is what happens when you have a global population that is aging and what you are paying into these

funds or these safety nets or these parachutes as john was saying, it's not enough if it doesn't -- if it's not sustainable, and there has to be reforms. i could argue globally. >> and here you have two things. one, you have the reform itself, right. and from 62 to 64. france has one of the lowest retirement ages of any developed country, so on one land, what are you complaining about, 62 to 64, but the way it was done, akin to an executive order. no vote in the national assembly, macron just said this is what i'm going to do, and i've got a lot of sympathy with that as somebody who does not have a lot of patience for executive orders and not going through congress, i can understand why a big thing like this should be voted on, but it's got to be. the french economy and aging economy, they can't sustain this without some kind of reform. macron seems to have gone about it in a way that those who care about the democratic process are

saying you cut that out. >> sandra: the average age of those on the ground is nowhere near the retirement age, by the way. thanks to our panel. john. >> john: fox news alert, we are learning that the manhattan d.a.'s office has asked for a meeting with law enforcement ahead of a potential trump indictment, a source in the courts. the meeting, requested yesterday and has not been set yet, to discuss logistics for some time next week which would mean that they are anticipating an indictment next week. same source is familiar with the planning said they will go over security preparations in and around the courthouse in lower manhattan. secret service will take the lead in what they will allow or will not allow. the source caution mentioned for instance the decision to handcuff the president, the former president or not. they will set the tone and will escort him into the courtroom. there will be coordination between all of us, the source

said, but we will defer to the secret service. the battle will be between secret service and d.a. alvin bragg. they will decide how and when he'll get into the building and they are not going to leave him. the source believes the former president will still have to be fingerprinted and processed like every other defendant. so, this is a huge development if alvin bragg has decided to go ahead with the felony indictment of the former president. this was a charge that the federal officials refused to prosecute on, or even really pursue. this was a misdemeanor in new york that alvin bragg has decided to elevate to a felony, while at the same time downgrading other felonies to misdemeanors. so, we'll be watching this to see how it all unfolds and get more information as it comes in. sandra. >> sandra: and john, furthermore, former president donald trump speaking out about what he calls america's greatest threat and a campaign video, he said america's greatest threat

is not russia by our own citizens. the former president also called for peace between ukraine and russia but did not say how he would accomplish that if elected. john. >> john: all right. it is st. patrick's day, which means irish pubs across the country have lines out the door, and that means lots of cash in the kitty from all of those pints, corned beef and cabbage. fox business's madison alworth is still waiting to get in the door -- no, she got in the door of the east end pub. all this celebrating music to the ears of pub owners, madison. >> my gosh, yes. not only in, i'm behind the bar. they have been rowdy here all day at the east end bar and grill enjoying, we have a bagpipe over there, this place is full of people celebrating, and it is very good news for the bar owner here because so much money is spent on this holiday. we are talking $7 billion is going to be spent celebrating this very exciting day and ken

east, the owner, pouring us a guinness. just take a look, they are drinking real good here in new york city. no surprise when it comes to that. so, it's great for a business like this, john, but i have to add a little somber news for employers. because we are having so much fun, estimated impact in terms of revenue lost, $17 billion. we don't need to think about that. we are drinking and having a good time. work will wait for monday. back to you guys. >> john: still a little time to kill. if you want to pour another pint of guinness there. it's friday, st. patrick's day happens to fall on a day when a lot of people leave work early. i'm so jealous. are the employers really losing out on much? >> you know what, i think there is something to be said for morale, right. if someone has an enjoyable friday, come back fresh-faced on monday, a whole weekend to recover. they'll be okay, the workforce.

>> john: people want to take monday off and come back on tuesday. madison, looks like you are having too much fun. hoist a pint for me, please. say hi to everybody there. >> i've got you, john. >> john: sandra, are you going to hit the pub after the show? >> sandra: we always do cook a corned beef in the sevid. >> john: my wife puts it in the slow cooker. i did it on the green egg, cook it 8 to 10 hours and it came out well. the fact you can do any way you want, corned beef. >> sandra: look at this, dublin live. brian who lived there said they don't even do it like we do here, but that looks faentsz. >> john: i'm curious about, and a tradition for a while, it seems every st. patrick's day,

the irish prime minister is not in ireland, he's here in the united states to meet with the president and the vice president. so, he is not there enjoying the celebration. he'll hoist a pint or two. >> sandra: the guinness looked delicious, john. >> john: nothing like a fresh guinness. >> sandra: thanks for joining us. sandra smith. >> john: >> martha: thanks very much. i'm martha maccallum in new york at fox news headquarters. new revelations in the hunter biden saga as the president's son sues for invading his privacy by copying and sharing what was on a laptop while still trying to thread the needle to not admit that the laptop is his. biden's newish more aggressive legal team led by abby lowel