hysterical to me. >> so i can't be a libertarian now? >> he's running for president and good singer, check out his music. "run joe run." >> is this a florida thing? >> it might be a florida thing. here is "america reports." >> john: kayleigh, thank you so much. house will debate a gop bill to give parents more rights inside their children's classrooms. democrats argue it would only pit parents against educators and some parental groups are upset the bill was created for us without us. >> sandra: what will it take for the parents bill of rights act to get bipartisan support and make it all the way to the president's desk? douglas murray and parental rights activist ian pryor, both here to weigh in. >> tiktok has repeatedly chosen

a path for more control, more surveillance, and more manipulation. your preliminary should be banned. >> i disagree with the characterization of surveillance. we don't sell data to any data brokers. >> you don't sell to anyone. >> don't sell to data brokers. >> you have used the word transparency over a half dozen times in your opening testimony. bytedance, the parent company has gone out of their way to hide an air brushed corporate structure ties to the ccp. >> john: a firing hearing on capitol hill as house lawmakers press tiktok ceo whether the app is a national security threat capable of exposing the data of 150 million active u.s. users to the chinese government. john roberts in government. this is "america reports." revved up, ready to go. >> ready to go. we have been watching throughout the morning. a lot of fiery and important exchanges happening on capitol hill today. i'm sandra smith in new york.

we are monitoring all of it, and that hearing comes as congress weighs this potential nationwide ban on the popular app tiktok amid concerns that it is used to harvest american's information and harm our children online. ceo was trying to reassure lawmakers and the public that tiktok is not an agent of the chinese communist party, but critics are not convinced. >> john: the senate intelligence committee chairman senator mark warner has been vocal in his opposition to tiktok and co-sponsoring a bill to address the ongoing threat from technology from all foreign adversaries. he will join us with new reaction in just a moment. >> sandra: begin our conference with aishah hasnie live on the hill for us. quite a day so far, aishah. >> hello to both of you, john and sandra. that is right. you know, this committee and chew are not seeing eye-to-eye on really anything at all.

many members, in fact, do not trust a word that is coming out of his mouth, and that point was made abundantly clear in realtime during this hearing in a really stunning display when representative showed a tiktok video to members, showing a gun with a threatening message about today's hearing. she claims it violates tiktok's policy but it's been up on tiktok for some 41 days. listen. >> you expect us to believe that you are capable of maintaining the data security privacy and security of 150 million americans where you can't even protect the people in this room? >> can i respond? chair? >> no, we are going to move on. >> that video was taken down shortly after chew was told members that his aides acknowledged the video was taking down. now he came to this hearing guys

to sell lawmakers on tiktok's plan to protect u.s. security by giving texas-based company oracle control over the data of tiktok's american users. the company would then report to an independent american board but committee members were not hearing it, they don't like the fact that china's bytedance would continue to open the app. republicans and democrats frustrated with chew's answers. >> a lot of your answers are a bit nebulous, they are not yes or no. is there a corporation that has any authority above tiktok? >> tiktok is a subsidiary of bytedance, founded by a chinese founder. >> is it a chinese company? >> i frequently have this discussion with others on what is a company that is now global. >> that's ok, i prefer you answer the question and stop dancing verbally on it. >> with more than 50 members of this committee we are expecting

this hearing to last at least 'til 3:00 hour, guys. >> sandra: so many remarkable moments already. aishah, thank you very much. john. >> john: let's bring in virginia democratic senator mark warner, chairman of the senate intelligence committee. you have been an outspoken critic of tiktok, you and senator thune of south dakota have sponsored the restrict bill, to give the president more power to restrict foreign social media if it's believed a threat to national security. the members on both sides today took a flame thrower to the tiktok ceo. listen to what kathy mcmorris rogers said to shou chew. >> to the american people watching today, tiktok is a weapon by the chinese communist party to spy on you, manipulate what you see and exploit future generations. a ban is only a short-term way to address tiktok. a data privacy bill is the only way to stop tiktok from ever happening again in the united

states. >> john: do you agree, senator, that tiktok is a weapon and that the only way to stop it is with a data privacy bill? >> well, john, i think we need a data privacy bill for protecting all americans' privacy, not just from tiktok but frankly from some of the american platforms. but there is something fundamentally different when you are talking about a chinese-controlled company. chinese law passed in 2017 requires every chinese company, bytedance that owns tiktok, that at any point turn over to the communist party of china data or anything else they want. now, i got problems with facebook or twitter or google, but it is definitely different when you are talking about a chinese company that ultimately has to answer to the communist party. and there's two-fold problem here. 1, 150 million americans data harvest, tiktok is addictive, learns a lot about you, i don't want that residing as a tool for

the communist party. and also the videos can be manipulated in terms of the content. and people say what about all the people who are social influencers, a lot of creative stuff on tiktok. i think the market will provide another alternative. a company that comes out of china, russia, iran, north korea, ought to be a higher level of scrutiny. >> john: senator, i was struck by the bipartisan tone the members took in this hearing today. they were pretty much unified in their condemnation of what tiktok could be doing. but congressman bowman of new york seems to be at odds with members of his own party as well. listen to what he said about tiktok. >> republicans in particular have been sounding the alarm, creating a red scare around china. let's not be racist towards china and express our xenophobia

when it comes to tiktok. >> john: senator, i'm not asking you here to criticize a colleague, but what the heck? >> well, first of all, you know, one of the things i always make clear is my beef is with the communist party of china. my beef is with xi jinping, the communist party leader who treats his own people awful, what he does to the uyghur people and the people of hong kong. it's not about the chinese americans, but to deny the regime and their record is not based on a factual analysis. and what our bill does, it's more than just john thune and i, we actually have 20 senators, ten democrats, ten republicans, it's tough to get 20 senators to agree on anything these days and we have a number more i think will pick up after the hearing and our approach is let's have a rules-based approach and it will require as well the intelligence community to declassify as much

information as possible to make sure we can show, not just trust the government but show the reasons why because it's tiktok today, a few years back it was another, but we need not only the current issue at hand but think about the chinese communist party controlled artificial intelligence or quantum computing or synthetic biology. we need a tool on going forward, not the whack a mole, one-off approach so far. >> john: to the point congressman bowman was making, do you believe there is xenophobia or racist about tiktok? >> absolutely not. it's clear the beef is with the communist party or xi jinping, it's not the people. anyone who denies the government, how they treat their own people, how they are frankly

do not even allow any of the -- many of the american preliminary companies to even operate in china, and one of the key, one of the most damning comments comes from the communist party leadership that said they would rather turn off tiktok in america than give up the source code which is kind of the secret sauce around the algorithm that makes tiktok so addictive. if they are not saying they could use the source code, if tiktok was divested, why wouldn't they allow it to reside in america or another country. >> john: they are wholly opposed to selling the thing, no question about that. we will follow the progress. appreciate it. that was a fiery hearing today, sandra. and again, it was kind of like the old days in congress, both sides were getting along, they were concerned about a common threat. it was incredible to watch. >> sandra: i heard you note that in realtime this morning, john. and remarkable moment when he was pressed about whether or not tiktok is selling any of this

data. to respond with we are not selling the data to any data brokers. are you selling to any one at all? no, we are not selling to data brokers. well, who are they selling the data to. a big moment. >> sandra: and when a congresswoman dyed in the wool liberal from california asked about data going to china, he says no, no data is going to china, i haven't had any contact with them, and she said i find that to be preposterous. it really was an extraordinary hearing today. >> sandra: it was, and we'll have more on this with senator ted cruz, he has been all about this from go. he'll join us live top of the next hour and the fcc commissioner, brendan carr will join us, the american public has a close eye what's happening on the hill but bigger picture, how is it influence america's youth. a huge, huge concern of parents

out there. >> john: this parent does not let his children watch it at all, although my son was using a chinese app for editing. >> sandra: more delays in the hush money hearing of president trump, the panel will not deliberate or vote on charges against the former president. all this as that manhattan district attorney, alvin bragg is firing back at house republicans for their quest to obtain information on his probe. national correspondent bryan is live outside the criminal courthouse. >> good afternoon, manhattan district attorney alvin bragg's office is making it clear he is not going to hand over documents or testify to the republican led house judiciary committee but are willing to sit down with

committee staff to see what, if any information can be shared with the house judiciary committee. in a letter to republican committee chair jim jordan, bragg's general counsel called the request unconstitutional and unlawful incursion into new york sovereignty. bragg's office called jordan's allegation that the investigation is politically motivated unfounded. bragg's office accused jordan of launching his own political witch hunt, the letter only came after donald trump created a false expectation that he would be arrested the next day and his lawyers reportedly urged you to intervene. this comes after jordan sent new letters yesterday demanding documents and congressional testimony from former special prosecutors, both publicly resigned from bragg's office last year after bragg refused to move forward with prosecuting trump over financial crimes. jordan says the two former prosecutors have information

that could prove this current probe into trump is a politically motivated prosecution by bragg. >> the only thing that changes between then and now is president trump announces he's running for president and most importantly i think the two individuals who worked as assistants resigned, start pitching a fit, start protesting, write a book and create pressure on alvin bragg from the left and he decides oh, now i'm going to indict president trump. >> a source tells fox news digital the d.a. is having trouble convincing this grand jury of charges because of "the weakness of this case". the earliest the grand jury meets again, sandra, is on monday. >> sandra: and so we'll go on to a new week with it. thank you very much. >> john: a quick look at the white house where right now president biden is holding a ceremony and address to commemorate the 13th anniversary

of the affordable care act being law here in the country, providing healthcare for millions of americans, still though a point of controversy as well. you can catch this whole event if you like, streaming on foxnews.com. from here the president gets on air force 1, along with the first lady and heads to canada, he'll be meeting with justin trudeau. he and justin trudeau have something new in common, they both have an approval rating of 37%. they can commiserate on that. sandra. >> sandra: interesting. john, thank you. husband of the murdered microsoft executive's ex-wife making his first court appearance after being charged in his killing. could prosecutors also charge the ex-wife as their investigation heats up. we'll ask criminal defense attorney phil holloway, here to break down the latest twists and turns in this case. >> john: republican lawmakers pushing forward with their

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>> sandra: here we go, house lawmakers set to debate a bill this afternoon that aims to give parents more rights inside their children's classrooms, including requiring schools to publicly post their curriculum, and notify parents of any violent activity occurring on school grounds. the gop-backed bill is facing

broad pushback from democrats working in tandem with the nation's largest teachers' unions to sink the legislation. douglas murray, great to have you here, douglas. this is something everybody cares about, right. we all want the best for our children in this country and for our families, and this is basically what's in this parental bill of rights act and what the school districts would have to do as a result. they have to post the curriculum as we just mentioned, publicly, they have to provide a list of books that are at the school, sounds reasonable, you can tell me. give parents access to the budget information, which -- they want everybody accessible to the parents. allow parents to speak at school board meetings. what about this would democrats oppose? >> it seems wildly uncontroversial, doesn't it, and all of this is just about transparency. obviously it's a republican -- i think very intelligent republican response to something that happened in 2020.

which was during the lockdown, many american parents discovered for the first time some of the things their children were being taught. home learning surprised a lot of american parents with some of the details, some of the technical stuff coming out on history, on gender ideology, on race, a whole pile of things. parents became rightly i think animated in this country after 2020. there were certain places where it was a real hot point, loudoun county, and virginia the governor's race, and not just important for the parents' point of view but politically speaking. it's a popular issue. the democrats will try to find a way to push this back. you don't want to look like you are against transparency, you don't want to look like you are against parents' rights. >> sandra: hold on, douglas, i'm going to play out a bunch of

sound from democratic lawmakers out in fierce opposition of this bill. listen. >> the purpose here is not to help students or parents or teachers. it's to sow distrust and make classrooms ground 0 for the maga culture wars. >> seeking to pit parents against school boards. >> when they talk about a parents bill of rights, they are talking about a specific demographic of parent to have a bill of rights to, let's say for example, removal of certain books. >> sandra: and not just the democratic lawmakers that are out there publicly slamming this bill, douglas. it's also the national parents union. the national parents union slamming the bill saying republicans are making a mockery out of the parents rights. loud minority carries on about trying to get books banned, the majority of us are fighting to make sure american families have access to high quality schools that give them the chance for economic mobility to teach the

truth about america's history. so, they say for republicans it's just about banning those books. >> that tells you something, doesn't it. just right there, the truth about america's history. we all know what's going on in that statement. it's -- there has been in recent years, i've written about this at length, been in recent years deliberate effort from the teaching unions upwards or downwards, to try to make sure that the story of america is rewritten in america's schools. you hear this constantly from democrats. say things like the republicans are trying to stop the history of slavery being taught or all sorts of unpleasant things, no. nobody is actually campaigning. what people are campaigning for is a rounded view of american history. you might say 100 years ago only one side of the american story possibly. in 2020 onwards, only one side of the american history and that's the negative side. when people say no, it's just about getting taught in the right context, actually very

often it's just in the democrat's view and in democrat lobbying organizations and teaching unions, left wing teaching union view. their idea of how american history should be taught and that's the point, the thing of involving parents and the education of their children. most american parents want a rounded view of american history to be taught and nobody on the right is not saying that's not white washing american history but not just about teaching negative stories either. and that's what a lot of the left and the democrats want, and i'm pleased there's a pushback against this. it's high time there was. the democrats want to pretend it's a culture war. it's a culture war they started. >> sandra: and by pushback, but not letting parents know what's happening in the classroom. do you think it makes it to the president's desk? >> i think it will find intense opposition and the president and others will find a way to pretend it is something it isn't. >> sandra: very interesting. great to have you on set in new york. >> great to be back. >> john: the ceo of tiktok

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app is being used to gather americans' information for the benefit of the chinese government and lawmakers along with the white house consider a nationwide ban on tiktok, it's something our next guest supports. joining me now is brendan carr, commissioner with the federal communications commission. we were talking off camera and you were like me, struck by the wholly bipartisan nature of the hearing. >> the hearing is nothing short of a disaster from tiktok, a sliding scale in the sense they were in the hole going into this, a trust deficit, but they seem to have managed to dig the hole even deeper. ceo might have been better to plead the fifth and not show up. they brought bipartisan unity to the house congress, we have not seen in a long time. interesting to watch. >> if he did anything, that's what he did. when you are in the hole, stop digging. kathy mcmorris rogers tore a strip up one side to the other. >> to the american people watching today, hear this. tiktok is a weapon by the

chinese communist party to spy on you, manipulate what you see, and exploit future generations. a ban is only a short-term way to address tiktok. a data privacy bill is the only way to stop tiktok from ever happening again in the united states. >> john: tough works. tiktok is a weapon by the chinese communist party to spy on you, manipulate what you see and exploit future generations. >> kudos for her for bringing the hearing. also said in the open that your platform should be banned. very, very tough words. i think that builds on this cascading support, bipartisan, towards banning tiktok. just last week a report the biden white house has told tiktok either divest your chinese corporate ownership or face a possible ban, and i think that's the right direction here. >> john: we talked about congressman jamaal bowman saying it's racist and xenophobia,

watch what a liberal from california did to chew. listen to this. >> congressman, i have seen no evidence that the chinese government has access to that data. they have never asked us, we have not provided. >> you know what, i find that actually preposterous. >> john: you got to say, they just were not buying what he was selling. >> if you look at the tiktok ceo testimony, to come in and rebuild trust and doing the oppos opposite that of that. it's very concerning and racist, it's absolutely not. they have admitted they surveilled on the locations of specific americans. before the recent midterm elections allowed ccp state media to target u.s. politicians for divisive conduct.

misled about data flow back to china. it's not about anything other than the clear evidence that's been building here. taiwan, 97%, they have banned tiktok from public devices, india has banned it, it's a global issue at this point. >> sandra: the ceo came in this armed with the backing of 150 tiktok subscribers. listen to the video prior to the hearing. >> some politicians have started talking about banning tiktok. it could take tiktok away from all 150 million of you. let me know in the comments what you want your representatives to know what you love about tiktok. >> john: all 150 million of you might lose this. that's a powerful argument for people who love this app. >> look, i think there is an argument starting to emerge, it's a popular application, you cannot take the action to ban it but the reality, it's incumbent on us as government officials to explain the serious threat here.

and employee described nsa to go, to build a digital dossier on people. so the threat here is very real and in terms of the users, a tremendous amount of other platforms to go to. i say tiktok is uniquely replaceable. it's not a social graph website, it's an algorithm. so go somewhere else and build a new base, but we have to take action based on national security. looking at it for two years now. can't kick the can down the road much further. i'm hopeful it will build to concrete action in the near term. >> john: we'll see, we'll monitor the progress of everything going on in congress. great to have you in. >> sandra: another twist in the hunter biden investigation, a new report is claiming hunter allegedly had a secret mole at the fbi named one eye, who tipped off his chinese business partners that they were under investigation. mark meredith is live at the white house. are lawmakers going to look into this? >> sure sounds like they will.

house republicans say they are ready to dig deeper into how hunter biden, the president's son and other members of the biden family have made their money over the last several years. you talked about this latest report from "the new york post" which suggests that lawmakers will be looking into whether or not a current or former fbi informant may have tipped off biden associates they were being investigated. this came from an opinion piece by miranda devine, she says that lawmakers were interested by a comment from a former israeli military official arrested last month. he claims hunter would know what investigators would look into, a lawyer for the same person tells the post hunter had an informant in the fbi, extremely well placed. lawyers will continue to seek answers. >> it does sound like a b-roll movie with antagonist, a russian arms dealer you can't make it up and don't want to watch the

movie. we hope we can, and give credit to jamie comer, this is our commitment to america. we'll have accountability and it starts with stories like this. >> another headline, a group led by former trump senior associate steven miller has obtained white house emails dating back to 2015, a clear relationship from obama associates to business associates of hunter biden, to suppress a reporter's question about hunter's involvement with ukrainian energy firm, especially after the "new york times" brought up the story. this is several years ago. one email to biden communications aide, one writes you saw the "new york times" article, any follow-up on it? the v.p. had just finished an interview with the bloomberg reporter travelling with us and she asked about it. assures me she's doing everything she cannot to use it. beddingfield was here during

president biden's administration, she just left the post as the communication director. but it will spark new interest from lawmakers on the hill and yesterday my colleague and friend peter doocy asked the white house about the latest revelations regarding banking records tied to the biden family. the white house simply declined to comment. >> sandra: mark meredith, keep us posted live at the white house. thank you. >> john: gwyneth paltrow facing a $300,000 lawsuit connected to a skiing accident seven years ago. the actress and entrepreneur is putting up a fight. when will paltrow and her family members take the stand in her defense? >> sandra: and john, why pregnant women in one american city will now be paid $1,000 a month with no strings attached. ♪♪

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do we know if she plans to take the stand? >> that's the big question. she could take the stand today or tomorrow. today, the plaintiff's daughters are actually testifying, and the jury has also heard from multiple neurological doctors on the concussion terry sanderson suffered from the ski accident in 2016. today taped testimony by a neuro psychologist was played in court. she explained the deterioration of sanderson's outgoing life and relationship to a woman he was once engaged to. >> terry came to my clinic, well, about 2017, so a little under six years ago, and he worked so hard, he really, you know, gave his best effort and he did notice, we noticed some definite improvements. but talking to him now, knowing where he is now, it is still showing clearly that he's still

struggling. >> sanderson is suing paltrow for $300,000. he says she crashed into him at a deer valley resort, got up and took off. things got heated by paltrow's attorney casting doubt on the diagnosis of pcs, post concussive syndrome. >> i don't need another doctor to diagnose pcs for me to be able to diagnose -- >> you said you didn't diagnose with pcs, you are saying you don't diagnose him but then saying you did, and i can't understand what i'm missing. >> i don't understand what you are missing either. >> the academy award winning actress is counter suing sanderson for $1 plus attorney's fees. she claims sanderson actually crashed into her and john, paltrow's husband and two kids are also expected to take the stand at some point. john. >> alicia with the latest on

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>> sandra: the husband of murdered microsoft executive jared bridegan's first wife making his first court appearance today in miami. mario fernandez saldana is accused of hiring a hit man to kill bridegan. the question for many is whether the ex-wife will also be charged. phil holloway joins us now. phil, this is a story that has taken many twists and turns. set up the relation, what was ongoing at the time of his murder and sort of the fight in court that the soon to be husband and ex-wife were going through at the time this

happened. >> yeah, there was lots of courtroom battles between these two with respect to the kids and all the standard things we sometimes see when people separate. this is a textbook example of how a conspiracy prosecution can unfold. and let's take a look at a conspiracy. conspiracy is simply an agreement by two or more people to commit a crime. so what they do is they look to see who committed the crime, in this case the murder, they made their arrest, and then they work outward because in a conspiracy, sandra, the acts of one are said to be the acts of all. so what they do, they work backwards, they look at what is the relationship here and they found the common denominator, that being the ex-wife and the troubles that the victim had with her after their divorce. so this led them to the current husband who of course was the landlord of the now convicted killer because he confessed. when they charged him with not only murder, but conspiracy, sandra, that was our signal that

this was a bigger crime than just one person. and so now the question is, how many people are involved in this conspiracy. i would be very surprised, frankly, if they were not looking to the ex-wife because remember, all they have to do is prove the agreement. they don't have to prove that she did much, but that she was part of this agreement. and if they can lean on the husband who is now in custody, the way they leaned on the shooter, they are going to try to get him to tell them whether or not there were any other people, whether it was her or anybody else, but they said the investigation is ongoing and i believe that's the direction that they are looking. >> sandra: and there's a lot of really vague details so far, even though a lot has been investigated in this case. bridegan and his ex-wife as you mentioned, they had this bitter and ongoing court battle that was happening at the time of his death, and it's been 13 months ago now since he stopped his car to move a tire that was blocking

the road at the time. this is an open investigation and additional details have yet to be learn ed, including the motive. they have not released that yet, right, phil? >> i have not heard an official statement on the motive but implied in all of this, the problems the deceased victim had with his ex-wife because as we know when people get married, then sometimes the issues that they are dealing with bleed over into the personal relationship and this case with her new husband, her current husband who is now in custody. so that is the direction that they are looking. you know, there's really no other common denominator here, nothing else that links the current husband to the deceased victim and the shooter other than the ex-wife. so if you read between the lines, you have to believe that the relationship with the diseased victim and his ex-wife

has to be a big part of the motive in this case. >> sandra: just brutal, march 16 mario was charged, tennt faces 15 years to life, and has agreed to cooperate with investigators. we will follow the case. thank you for joining us, phil. >> any time, thanks for having me. >> john: we saw it a couple days ago and back to paris now where protestors have taken to the streets again against the proposed pension reform that emmanuel macron wants to push through, and transport employees, teachers, other workers, trains have been shut down, macron wants to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 to try to keep the system solvent. workers are saying we are not going to agree with that, and in fact, we are going to take to the streets and do everything we can to stop you from doing that. no fires like we saw last week, but lots of people on the streets. coming up new at 2:00, looks

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