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victim and the suspect later this hour, but begin with a fox news alert. >> a handshake on u.s. soil in nighting the fury of xi jinping, aircraft carrier sent to the coast as the taiwan president meets with kevin mccarthy in california. we are waiting to hear from the white house and the pentagon, beijing warned the u.s. and mccarthy not to do this. >> gillian: the big question is how president biden is responding. remember, xi jinping told his military to be ready to take taiwan by 2027. just last fall, biden seemed to commit sending u.s. men and women into harm's way if it does happen. >> would u.s. forces defend the island? >> yes, if in fact there was an unprecedented attack. >> to be clear, sir, u.s. forces, u.s. men and women would defend taiwan in the event of a

china invasion. >> yes. >> john: the white house walked it back almost immediately saying the policy has not changed on taiwan. will the white house be pressed on this today? we will speak with mark esper. >> gillian: fox team coverage. aishah hasnie is live on the ground in taiwan. >> john: peter doocy is in the briefing room. expecting things to get underway any moment now. >> good to know if the president's comment still stands or that the policy has not changed. china, of course, is the big, big player in all of this, and we have been told for the last couple months that a biden-xi phone call was going to happen at some point, it has not been scheduled. with everything that you just read out, it doesn't feel like that call is getting any closer, but maybe we will hear differently here in a few minutes. something else to listen for in

this white house briefing, anything about the other big news involving the former president. there was nothing at this briefing yesterday of substance from the press secretary or from the president himself, he was asked about this and he just smiled, so he did not comment but he did react to a question about this. and it doesn't seem like they said president biden talking about that or anything today because there are no public events on his schedule. john. >> john: peter doocy as we anticipate the briefing there. thank you. >> gillian: on the ground, taiwanese residents are telling fox news how they feel about today's meeting, china's threats and whether they believe the island is actually prepared for a chinese invasion. team coverage continues now with aishah hasnie live from taipei. what are the taiwanese people telling you about their faith in the u.s., do they believe that americans will come to their aid if it comes down to it?

>> hey, gillian, good to see you. most folks not too confident in the u.s. and whether the u.s. would actually take any action if china were to invade. we have been talking about people here on the ground in taipei as soon as we touched down, they are extremely worried, even folks with ties to mainland china, parents, grandparents who still live there, they do not want war. >> so worried, coast -- taiwan a little country. >> are you worried about china invading taiwan? >> not worried. >> a lot of people concerned, i heard a lot of people trying to apply for immigration to other countries. >> so china already taking action this morning, taiwan's defense ministry announced a

chinese aircraft carrier fleet has passed through the channel southeast of taiwan. launched the first west pacific training. we could see even more action from china, china has been flying near taiwan almost every day, even cutting across the median line, since speaker pelosi visited the island. the taiwan people telling me they are extremely worried and don't believe -- they have no reason to believe watching what's happening in ukraine and the rest of europe, they don't feel like the u.s. would come in and help defend them if something happened. >> gillian: thank you. >> john: mark esper, author of "a sacred oath memoirs as a secretary of defense during extraordinary times," we continue to seem to be in, mr. secretary, i should add. the president said we are going

to commit american men and women, soldiers, planes, ships, whatever to the defense of taiwan, the white house walked it back but said it again at a news conference with japan's prime minister. so, i come from the school, i've covered three presidents and come to the school, if the president says it it's policy. so, what is u.s. policy? >> that's right, john. he said it actually four times the united states would come to taiwan's assistance, i think it's the right policy and like you, my view is if the president says it, it's policy, and i don't know why each and every time the white house staff walk it back. all it does is fuel uncertainty by the chinese and what we need is less strategic am by -- ambiguity, and they know we will assist the taiwanese. >> john: with that in mind, what should biden's response be with

the fact a battle group happened to sail past the southern coast of taiwan? >> first and foremost, assert the principle that american officials will meet with whomever we want, wherever they want, and whenever they want, and not blusterred by the chinese. and explore additional options for more training with the taiwanese, exercises around taiwan, to kind of meet the chinese actions. we cannot let them do what the chinese are going to do and not respond. there has to be some type of response. it's what the chinese respect and probably expect as well. this is all diplomacy, how you message resolve and determination when you are trying to convey your policies. >> john: a florida congressman was on fox and friends, he said

the united states needs to stand shoulder to shoulder with taiwan. >> taiwan is a democratic country, they share our ideals and we need to make sure that xi knows that we stand with taiwan. it's no secret that the communist chinese party has eyes on taiwan, wants to reuni fiefy them. >> taiwan has ordered armaments, yet to be delivered. should it be expedited? >> prioritized and expedited, a number of things taiwan need today do, and they have done it, enscription from six months to one year, and they made the u.s. armaments to make it real. and look, with regard to what

the congressman said, i think he's spot on. and president reagan said the same thing, and it's fitting that kevin mccarthy is meeting with president tsai in simi valley. >> john: and the chinese spy balloon, an op-ed said if the president cannot uphold his duties, congress must step in. i will provide several amendments in this year's national defense authorization act to improve our homeland and missile defense protocols and capabilities. it really raises the question that was the white house, a, telling us the truth, and if they weren't, why did they allow this balloon to longer so long over u.s. territory knowing what it was doing? >> you know, john, i think i spoke with you about this when it happened, and i thought it was a mistake to assert that the

chinese got into useful intelligence and my view was we don't know until we get the equipment and do the forensics and find out what they were looking for and why. so, i'm not surprised, and i think we are going to learn more about what the chinese may have learned and begs the bigger question you raise, and senator ricker raised, why didn't we shoot it down when it was first detected, and what the senator has said, norad commander had to wait a few days before he could offer options. i think there is more going on there. i think congress will pull the thread and what happened and why, bureaucratic incompetence on our side or the white house trying to make a policy decision not to do anything that might disrupt antony blinken's meeting with the chinese in beijing. >> john: mark esper, thanks for being with us. appreciate it. what he said was troubling. if you had to -- if you needed a few days to come up with options to shoot down a balloon, how

long do you need if there is missile coming in, or maybe we planned for that and not a balloon. >> gillian: we, the american public and the defense department turns out, that others had traversed u.s. air space a handful of times over the last 4 or 5 years. this is something else that came to light only because it's visible from the earth. >> john: it's a balloon, should be able to take it out. it moves slowly. as the case in the end. >> gillian: some of his pr proposals were innovative. >> john: one raptor and one missile. >> gillian: sending little mice up in a hot air balloon to poke it with needles. and serious now, back to the

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a virginia woman stabbed to death in her d.c. hotel room while visiting the city for a concert, and the suspect, not surprisingly, has a lengthy criminal record. rich edson live in washington. why was the suspect out in the first place? >> christie batista traveled to washington friday, police say she checked into her hotel about 6:00 p.m., and less than an hour later, 43-year-old the man arrived in the hotel parking lot, stopped at batista's door, somehow entered her room. when they arrived, they found sidner with blood and cuts on his hand and a kitchen knife. her family says our family is devastated by the loss of our beloved christie. brought joy to everyone who knew her and shining light in our lives. please respect our privacy as we

mourn her at this time. a judge ordered him held without bond for murder, court documents say this past october a woman claimed he pulled a gun on her and took keys and phone, and they argued against him released saying the defendant has a concerning history of violence and noncompliance while on supervision. soon after they struck an agreement. he pled guilty in exchange for a suspended sentence. congress and president biden recently overrode d.c. newly passed changes to the criminal code calling them too lenient. and the mayor opposed the new code, fought the council on crime pushing more money for police and school safety officer and disband the commission that wrote the never implemented criminal code. >> john: rich, thank you.

gillian. >> gillian: first lady jill biden's office is walking back for a proposal to invite the second place team to the white house to celebrate, usually reserved for the ncaa championship game. at the time her press secretary said this, "the first lady admires how far women have advanced in sport since title 9," and raising some eyebrows. dave ruben joins us now. let's start with this. what do you think of the first lady's idea for essentially invitation she extended to the losing team to come to the white house? generous or terrible idea? >> well, putting gender aside all together, whether this was male or female sport, you don't invite the losers.

the winners are allowed to win and reap the benefits and get the picture with the president or the meal at the white house or the rest of it. winning does mean something. consistent with everything this administration has put out there, the sort of that everyone kind of gets the blue ribbon and we are all equal and no winners and no losers. it's and athletes want to be the best whatever the sport is, the team to be the best, we want to win the championship and get all the goodness that comes with it. gets to lift that trophy, etc. so, no, this is just silly necessary but consistent with what we get out of this white house. >> gillian: where does gender come into this? the press secretary mentioned title 9 and huge advances for female athletes in sports across the board. break that down for us. >> sure. it's sort of crazy what's going on here.

i mean, we have at this point now we have biological men like lia thomas winning women's swimming events when thomas was a man the year before, placed around 400 and now winning as a "female" swimmer. i should have said, exactly, the whole purpose of title 9. at the end of the day, i am not for discriminating against anybody. live your life as an adult as you see fit. i think most americans acknowledge that. wear what you want to wear, etc., etc. but when the feminist movement new is punishing biological girls by putting biological boys in their sporting events and the simple truth is we know there are biological differences, men tend to be stronger, women tend to

care more about people. men who care about things become engineers, women become nurses. it does not mean one is better than the other, it means we are different. i thought we were supposed to relish in our differences but apparently not and a shame to see this. i am seeing more and more female athletes standing up against this stuff and that is extremely good. they are the ones punished by the "feminists." >> gillian: and riley gaines responded on twitter, wrote if title 9 was so beneficial, why is the biden administration actively rewriting it to no longer prevent discrimination on the basis of sex. the people in the white house are trying to mitigate opportunities for women in sports in the guise of being inclusive. it's a 0 sum game she's saying, right? you can't offer -- unpack that. >> well, riley also gave a great speech about this, and you could

hear her voice was cracking as she talked about tying with lia thomas in a recent race and thomas ended up having to get the trophy because the ncaa wanted lia thomas to be pictured with it. riley is an absolute hero. not only a phenomenal swimmer and should be acknowledged as such, but now getting into something a lot more dangerous than swimming, getting into the political arena, getting into this culture war and standing up not only for herself, but the girls who want to be basketball players, swimmers, tennis players, etc., etc. if we go down the road where title 9 will take us, a very average nba male basketball player, 27 years old, 6'8", 250, but no good for nba and he will say he wants to be in the wnba and will change his name and grow out his hair and the wnba and jill biden and the

feminists will go ok and dunking over women. that's where all this goes. >> gillian: he will get paid a tenth of the salary. >> it would only be if he's not good enough to be in the nba anymore, that's the point. >> gillian: we have to leave it there. thanks for taking time, appreciate it. >> john: gillian, more storms striking in arkansas just as recovery efforts following the deadly tornadoes last week there. >> gillian: and lashing out at the manhattan district attorney. will legal issues derail his bid for the nomination? newly declared gop candidate asa hutchinson how he intends to contrast with the former president.

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>> john: one of the heroic nashville police officers who responded to last week's deadly shooting at a christian school says on a normal day he would not have been responding to that school. >> i really had no business being where i was. i think you can call it fate or god or whatever you want, but i can't count on both my hands the irregularities that put me in that position when a call for service came out for an active deadly aggression at a school. i've been to -- i don't know how many false active deadly aggression calls. something told me it was -- it was time to really get to this one. >> john: officer is a four-year veteran of the force. he and the other responders officers are sharing their harrowing firsthand accounts of

arriving on the scene and taking down the shooter. they rushed into the covenant school and shot and killed the suspect all in 14 minutes of the rampage beginning. we know the shooter had gotten off 152 rounds and had already shot and killed three children and three adults when the police arrive. as tom wolf might say, some folks just have the right stuff. >> gillian: well said. compare and contrast his response with the officers in uvalde, the responding officers. >> john: when you look at that bodycam footage of them going through the school, they are hearing the shoots ringing out, they don't know what they are coming upon, going up the stairs. >> gillian: they are not hesitating, amazing. >> john: their tactical movement is precision. at one point an officer steps over the body of a victim and i heard that officer talking about it earlier, i don't know how morally i could have done that but we had to get to the

shooter, and you receive the officer that's with him put the hand on the shoulder, keep pushing, keep pushing. no hesitancy. >> gillian: amazing, it boggles the mind they are that brave and selfless. former president trump is back at his home in florida, after becoming the first president in u.s. history indicted on criminal charges. a reality that could threaten his efforts to win back the presidency. jonathan serrie is at mar-a-lago in palm beach, florida. the former president enjoyed a separate legal victory, unpack that for us. >> federal appeals court in california ruled that stormy daniels must pay more than $120,000 in legal fees that former president president trump accumulated defending himself against her failed defamation

lawsuit against him. the adult fill -- film actress sued him. allegations that trump paid hush money to daniels was the center of his arraignment yesterday, 34 counts of falsifying business records. mr. trump had harsthe man prose case, manhattan district attorney alvin bragg. >> the criminal is the district attorney, illegally leaked massive amounts of grand jury information. for which he should be prosecuted or at a minimum he should resign. >> also in the mar-a-lago speech, mr. trump criticized the georgia prosecutor investigating him for alleged efforts to

overturn provided's narrow victory in that state's 2020 presidential election, including a recorded conversation he had with top elections officials. mr. trump once again described that conversation as a perfect phone call. gillian. >> gillian: jonathan serrie, thank you. >> john: the former president's legal problems are quickly becoming a top issue in the 2024 republican primary as the four other declared candidates must now decide whether to comment on the indictments. that includes former arkansas governor asa hutchinson. he tossed his hat into the ring this weekend and calling on former president trump to drop out of the race saying his legal troubles are a distraction for gop voters. joining us to discuss is the former governor of arkansas, asa hutchinson. thanks for being with us, appreciate it. >> thank you, john. it's good to be with you today on this momentous day and very

sad day for america that you have a former president who has been indicted on criminal charges. >> john: i wanted to ask you about that. legal analysts on both sides of the aisle are shocked alvin bragg went ahead with this and what your thoughts are. >> i was united states attorney, former federal prosecutor, i spent a lot of time in court and whenever you look at the indictment that's been presented, it does not make a good case for felony charge. in essence, 34 or scores of misdemeanors there, but not a felony charge that makes sense to me. it's not a case that i would have brought if i had been the federal prosecutor making a decision on this case. he used discretion, this doesn't make sense to me, it doesn't make sense to the vast majority of americans. and you mentioned whether he should step aside or not, the fact is, he is not going to step aside from the race, and there's

no constitutional requirement for him to, so it's going to go on and we've got to somehow during this time, john, erase the slate and say if there's not an investigation in atlanta, if there's not a special prosecutor looking at this, as difficult as all of that is, you still have a decision to make as to who's going to be the nominee for the president of the united states and i don't think america wants a biden-trump contest. >> john: you said you believed president trump should drop out of the race because his legal troubles are a distraction. after seeing the contents of this indictment, do you still feel that way? >> it's a case i would have not have brought. but when you look, the distractions, you've got, obviously, attention on the manhattan case but you've got two other investigations going on, and so we are going to be going through debates, we are

going to be going through discussions getting -- leading up to the caucus in iowa, and all of this turmoil in our country about the former president is going to be ongoing. i think it's important that the voice is heard about our economy, about rising energy costs, and biden's failures in that regard about the foreign policy differences that i actually have with donald trump who wants to have a weak approach to supporting ukraine. i believe we need to have a strong approach to supporting ukraine and standing against russia. these arish an -- are issues in debate but he's not going to do it. you have to go back to the substance of everything which are the differences between the candidates and how we need to focus on the decision the voters have to make. >> john: speaking of the differences between the candidates, let's look at the differences in terms of popularity as reflected in the polls.

new fox news poll show trump is out in front, 54%. ron desantis, 24%. you are down there at 1%. you were a hash mark prior to that but had not announced you were getting in the race. why should people, governor, vote for you? >> well, it's very early and why they should vote for me, when you look at the issues that face our country from the fentanyl crisis to border security, that's my wheelhouse. that's where i worked as head of the dea focusing on the challenges of the drug crisis, the opioid crisis in america and whenever you look at the border security i presented plans and ideas as to how to address that and close that down. whenever you look at our foreign policy, i understand the importance of a strong america and strength in america rather than weakness is what keeps russia and china in check. so those are issues that i

campaign on, that i think are important, and whenever you look at the choices coming up, good people in this, but we have to have our opportunity to make the case to the american people. >> jennifer rubin wrote in "washington post," a glowing op-ed. she suggested you and your candidacy could pick up where liz cheney was. republican with whom they can fight as a political opponent, not an enemy of democracy. a truth teller not maga cultist and reason and open compromise. makes him like cheney in some gop circles. liz cheney incurred the wrath of many republicans, she lost. what does that say about your candidacy? >> well, first of all, there's big differences there. liz cheney participated in the

impeachment, i said there should not have been that impeachment effort against former president trump. so big differences there. but obviously i do believe it is important to speak the truth. i think it is -- you have to be authentic whenever you look at what -- the kind of leadership we need for our future, and a group says president trump is deserving of another opportunity to lead this country. i see that the loss to biden in 2020, we lost the senate in 2022, largely because of his invoking himself and looking back to the last election, and so let's don't lose again, and that's what's important to me is that we once again reclaim the lost freedoms we have had under president biden and we focus on a strong america, more

progressive important energy policy that produces, a pro growth policy and stop spending excessively federally so we can control spending. and reduce inflation and interest rates that are going up every day. so these are things that are -- >> john: i was just going to say, governor, you and i have known each other a long time, going back to the early days of the bush administration. we'll be following your candidacy with great interest. thanks so much for being with us. appreciate it. >> gillian: house republicans are accusing state education departments of misusing billions of dollars in covid relief money. they say they used the money to promote woke social agendas. >> john: and artificial intelligence development, what the white house is doing and how long it could take before any guidelines are put in place. live reaction coming right up.

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>> john: house republicans calling out state education departments accusing them of misusing billions of dollars in covid relief funds. lawmakers say the states used the money to advance progressive social agenda rather than help recoup pandemic learning losses.

mike emmanuel is live in washington with details on this. mike, the big question is, how has this money been spent? >> john, some prominent lawmakers say this covid relief money has been used for so-called woke initiatives, such as implicit bias training, lgbtq+ cultural dependency, what the house oversight chair calls a waste of money. >> using taxpayers dollars to try to indoctrinate a left wing agenda on our public school students when they need to be focused on teaching the students the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic. >> the california department of education insists it is factually untrue the funds were spent as the lawmakers suggested, instead they meet the most pressing needs facing their students, ensuring they can read at grade level, supporting their mental health and supporting more teachers.

chairman says they spend before congress asked for the money back. >> we are going to try to get some money back, hold people accountable, we want to shine a light how some of the teachers' unions and public school systems have use taxpayer dollars inappropriately. >> now lawmakers are demanding answers from education secretary cardona. they note american students continue to suffer from learning losses due to lengthy school shutdowns, john. >> john: mike emmanuel with the latest there. thank you. gillian. >> gillian: experts are sounding the alarm on artificial intelligence. president biden saying himself earlier today the today could become dangerous. but the very folks working on the technology say it already is, and we need to pump the brakes to set some guardrails. fox business pressed the white house yesterday on this point specifically. here is a part of that exchange.

>> what's the time frame then for guidelines on artificial intelligence? quick -- >> i don't have a time frame to share with you. as i mentioned there, is a comprehensive process, mentioned last week, to figure out how we are going to have a cohesive federal government approach to this and this is incredibly important. >> gillian: bring in ben domenech, ben, let's start with the point put forward by artificial intelligence programmers who say the ship has sailed, the time to pause and have a nationwide discussion about the future of a.i. was like 5 to 10 years ago because at this point it's already been developed, it's out there, it's publicly available, no one is now going to put guardrails on it. the letter from the big tech, you know, executives was just some cover. what do you say to that? >> a couple different things going on here, gillian.

first off, i'll say to you the ship has definitely sailed. when i had the capability to go online and in a few minutes create as many different versions of a donald trump mug shot as i want to, all of which are realistic, by the way. >> gillian: and somebody did. >> and yeah, using things and many other people have done it as well. it cannot be easily controlled. and mid journey ceo gave a quote the other day saying that use of the images of xi jinping had been prevented on the platform. i thought this was kind of a dare, so i went on there myself and in about 90 seconds figured out how to break it, you have to use winnie the pooh first and then put xi jinping in the picture. >> gillian: hot tip. >> the point basically being, this thing is so far gone. there's no real way to rein it in. at the same time, i understand the impetus from both members

from the government and the tech executives you mentioned who would like to be able to hold back a little bit on how fast this is moving. it certainly is outpacing the control of all the different entities, corporate entities that we rely on to keep things in certain guardrails. i believe it's far too gone for that and we have to start leaning on the major individuals who are creating these products in order to try to find new ways to prevent them from engaging in areas that are really harmful, i think, could be very dangerous for us. >> gillian: i fear you are right. the big question, or one of the big questions in play is who do you want to hold the keys to humanity's future, because whoever is controlling a.i. now in its infancy is really going to control the future of humanity. do you want that to be the u.s. government, or the chinese government, obviously the answer is the u.s. government or the u.s., and then in the u.s., do

you want it to be the government or the private sector, a bunch of, you know, big wig tech executives. >> one of the big things interesting there, gillian, a contrast between the way chinese citizens respond to a.i. versus american citizens. american citizens are more concerned or paranoid about a.i. doing something things and very much justified by the different concerns that could be raised by the new products that could put a lot of different things at risk. >> gillian: yeah. ben, i could honestly, frankly, talk about this all afternoon but we have to leave it here, the show is going to end soon. thanks so much, we'll have you back on this. >> john: breaking news here, gillian. former vice president mike pence says he will not appeal the recent ruling that he will have to testify to the grand jury in the january 6th investigation.

he had objected to testifying saying that it was unconstitutional separation of powers issue, but after the court ruled against him, the former vice president says he will not appeal, which likely means he'll be going before this grand jury. more details just ahead.

>> john: quick trip to the white house. peter doocy asking jean-pierre a question about president trump getting all of the headlines in the last few days. listen here. >> does it bug president biden when former presidents suck up all the oxygen? >> what is important for the president is to continue to focus on the american people. >> so it's good to lay low for a couple news cycles? >> here's the thing, peter. this is what we'll speak to. we'll speak to the fact this is a president that has been able to get historic pieces of

legislation done. when you think about the infrastructure legislation, something that, you know, we heard many times during the last administration. infrastructure, infrastructure. that's what this president was able to do. >> but donald trump still claims the news cycle. >> i'm john roberts. see you tomorrow. >> i'm gillian turner. "the story" with martha maccallum starts now. >> martha: thanks. good afternoon, everybody. i'm martha maccallum. breaking right now on "the story," brand new legal reaction pouring in around the indictment of former president trump. criticism for manhattan's d.a. alvin bragg coming from unlikely places, this popular piece that is widely read today at the "washington post" calls the indictment a dangerous leap from the highest of wires. debatable at best, unnervingly flimsy at worst. here's andrew mccabe. you remember him.