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but his administration is pushing forward with a plan that would punish home buyers who have good credit scores. >> sandra: force those with good credit scores to pay more for their mortgages in order to subsidize high risk borrowers. former president obama's top housing adviser that he brought on board during the financial crisis, david stevens, he is calling the move unprecedented and says the industry is in shock. he's here for an exclusive interview to explain why, and larry kudlow how it could depress the housing market even further. >> whistleblower allegations a game changer. you know, this is somebody in the irs at a high level who apparently is willing to come forward to tell congress during the investigation of hunter biden there was obstruction. >> it's another example the irs is a mess. the whistleblower ought to be heard. >> obstruction of justice and certainly will be pursued in congress.

>> john: begin with the white house set to take questions as an irs special agent overseeing the hunter biden probe claims the agency has been giving preferential treatment to the president's son. the onion keeps getting peeled back farther and farther, sandra. >> sandra: more questions every day, we'll keep an eye on the briefing. this is "america reports." unnamed supervisor is now asking congress for whistleblower protection. so that he can freely expose those documents he says reveal the biden administration has been mishandling the criminal probe into potential tax crimes committed by hunter biden. the agent through his lawyer says the investigation has been treated differently than any other in his lengthy career at the irs. >> john: now house republicans say they want to meet him and meet with him to learn more about the allegations. complete coverage now new york republican congressman mike lawler is standing by with

thoughts on this. >> sandra: mike emmanuel is live in the washington newsroom with the breaking details. what makes this case even more complicated, mike? >> sandra, this whistleblower is at the irs and there are taxpayer privacy laws so he needs some extra protections to share what he knows. attorney mark lidel says he has information about preferential treatment of an ongoing sensitive investigation of a high profile controversial subject. a source tells fox it is the hunter biden probe. contradicts sworn testimony to congress by a senior political appointee. a source familiar points to this testimony when the attorney general said the united states attorney in delaware has in independence to pursue charges. >> he is not to be denied anything he needs and if it were to happen send through the department's ranks and i have not heard anything from that

office to suggest that they are not able to do everything that the u.s. attorney wants to do. >> the house oversight chairman says it appears the biden administration may have been working overtime to prevent the biden family from facing any consequences. >> i don't see how joe biden could not be compromised. this -- these family members aren't energy experts, they weren't on boards, at least with barisma, hunter sat on a board. >> the white house press sent did not say much when asked today about the whistleblower. >> we have been very clear to not comment on anything related to any type of investigation so that is something that we have been very, very diligent about and referring that to department of justice. >> white house spokesman told fox digital that president biden has upheld his commitment to ensure the investigation is "free from any political interference." sandra. >> sandra: mike live in washington, john.

>> john: bring in new york republican congressman mike lawler, so in a letter to bipartisan members of congress, the attorney for this irs whistleblower said the whistleblower could provide information that would "contradict sworn testimony to congress by a senior political appointee." a lot of reading between the lines here. we don't know exactly what the investigation is, presumed to be hunter biden. high level political appointee is taken to be, we don't know for sure, merrick garland. what do you say about all this? >> obviously it's deeply concerning, you know. james comer and his committee have been investigating allegations against hunter biden and the biden family with respect to money and suspicious activity reports. they have uncovered dozens of them. and so obviously there are a lot of questions that have been swirling and the fact that you have a would be whistleblower

coming forward, a senior official at the irs who is looking to come to congress and give sworn testimony that would contradict, you know, political appointees in the biden administration, is something that should be alarming to everybody and requires action. >> john: again, don't know specifically what the case is but believe the agent is connecteded to the hunter biden investigation. james comer said the biden administration may be obstructing justice. we know hunter biden engaged in deceptive business schemes and gop oversight committee will hold accountable anyone in the administration who may be covering up this criminal activity. the white house is denying all of this, the white house spokesman says we are not trying to obstruct the hunter biden investigation. can we take them at face value? >> the sad reality in america today is that politics has

consumed everything, including the department of justice, and prosecutors offices across the country and i think what needs to happen here is this. the facts and evidence must determine what charges, if any, get brought. and any time you have an agency that is looking at allegations or facts in evidence it should be free of any political interference. the fact that you have a senior irs official stepping forward and saying that a, investigation and again, we don't know exactly what it is, but a investigation is interfered with and facts in evidence that contradict sworn testimony before congress is a five alarm fire when it comes to any potential investigation and the politization of these agencies. and so that's something where i think the american people should want to get to the bottom of this. we as a house republican

majority have an obligation to provide oversight and investigation and that is what's going to happen here and so this whistleblower should be afforded every protection to come forward and present the facts and the evidence and then let congress and the american people decide what is there. >> john: i'm sure he or she will, looks like things are heading in that direction. and another issue, you ran your campaign on it, it's new york city, i know is close to you as well. this video taken the other day of a driver trying to flee a traffic stop and crashing into nypd officers. watch this video. >> john: one of the officers was hurt to a minor degree, and that follows on the heels of this other incident where a new york city which is woman just standing on the sidewalk, watch

this, the guy clocks her over the head with a bottle. and you have gerald nadler at the field hearing recently saying oh, crime is not a big problem in new york city, it's the safest big city in america. what do you say? >> they're getting high off the marijuana that's been legalized in new york. i mean, this is a joke. you have police officers sworn to uphold the law and protect the citizens of new york getting attacked in broad daylight with cars, with glass bottles, and my colleagues think it's one big party. you saw what happened in chicago where you had the mobs attacking people and the mayor of chicago, lori lightfoot, who unceremonyously got thrown out on her ass saying it's not a big deal. >> john: and the incoming guy saying don't demonize them. >> he may be worse than she. this is a major crisis from new york to chicago to portland.

crime is a problem. and it is not just a perception. people do not feel safe because they are not safe. crime is up, it is up historically, and for my colleagues in new york to act though this is not problem, the governor of new york cannot pass a budget because she's trying to change the cashless bail laws. why? unmitigated disaster. 40% of those released on nonmonetary bail are rearrested. people are not safe, period. >> john: some areas of the country it's higher than that. it's going to be a big issue for your re-election campaign, talking about already. imagine that. >> if people want to join us, text crime to 85007 and support our efforts. >> john: thanks so much. sandra. >> sandra: we are awaiting the white house as a standoff over the nation's debt limit plays

out between president biden and house republicans. this as controversy is brewing over biden administration plan to make home buyers, wait for it, with good credit scores pay more for their mortgages to subsidize buyers with riskier credit. rich edson is live at the white house. i say it like that, i think most people find it hard to believe. >> yeah, new proposal on that front, a number of economic stories coming out, sandra. first start with the debt ceiling increase and the white house dismissing house speaker kevin mccarthy's proposal to increase the debt limit. karine jean-pierre coming out with a statement this morning saying "speaker mccarthy sided can the extreme maga wing of his conference and released a blueprint to devastate hard working american families. house republicans must avoid default, stop playing economic brinksmanship with livelihoods

and retirements. mccarthy says the president is ignoring the debt crisis by refusing to negotiate. mccarthy is trying to push the debt proposal through the house, caps discretionary spending, repeals irs funding, a series of other provisions, to raise the debt limit into next year. the federal government is estimated to breach the debt ceiling late this summer. treasury department warns of catastrophic economic consequences if the u.s. hits the debt limit. economic front, biden administration setting new rules for mortgages, meaning those with higher credit scores will pay more in mortgage fees, subsidizing those with lower credit scores. >> some are going to pay more to help someone else get a lower rate mortgage and it's a very unique move. >> a white house spokesperson says the point here is to try to help first time home buyers by charging those with good credit

scores more and helping those who are with lower income, middle income, have no fees on their mortgages. the white house gives an example of $250,000 mortgage, they say wealthier person would pay less than $10 more a month for that but a lot of calculations involved with for the rules that start may 1st. back to you. >> sandra: rich, live at the white house. so likely the white house will get questions on that when the briefing is underway, although we know that john kirby will first be speaking at the white house. we are not told about exactly what but monitoring that. john, we started learning about it during this program yesterday the plan was out there, only two outlets had covered it, we went to fannie mae and freddie mac and say it was indeed the case, a plan in place by this administration to, you know, have costs go up for those with the good credit scores to subsidize those with not so good credit scores and david stevens, ok, he was president obama's top

housing guy. he advised obama during the housing crisis. he is speaking out about this saying that his in box was flooded yesterday with industry ceos saying they were shocked by this move, he called it unprecedented, he's going to be joining us exclusively in a few moments from now on this program to react. >> john: you work all your life to achieve a good credit rating and then oh, by the way, you are penalized for such a good job. guess who will have a lot to say about this, larry kudlow. a tornado sweeps through a small town in oklahoma killing at least two and ripping apart homes. where the severe weather is headed next, that's just ahead. >> sandra: wow, look at that. a major victory in the fight for fairness in women's sports. gop passing a bill banning trans athletes from competing with women and girls. but is it dead on arrival in the

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♪♪ >> john: interesting today, and interesting day in texas. spacex launched the most powerful rocket ever made from boca chica this morning, watch this. it was a huge success at the start as starship lifted off but

the test was not over. here is what happened moments later as it climbed into the atmosphere. >> icing on the cake. >> john: starship experience elon musk terms an rud, disassembly, or to quote john candy "it blowed up real good." tumbling down into the gulf of mexico. elon musk quickly tweeted another test is scheduled in the coming months. they plan to use the starship to eventually send people to the moon and even to mars. they have to get them past the gulf of mexico first, sandra. >> sandra: i don't know what the chances were, it does not look great, but i guess -- it happened. >> john: as he showed with all the other boosters he used, you learn from failure. and you come back and you improve on it.

that was a pretty big fail, though, goodness. >> sandra: it was a big one. i'm sure we'll see another. >> the whole intention of title ix was to create more opportunities for women to compete in sports. and yet it undermines the very fabric when you say a biological man can just play in a woman's sport if they chose to. the left's lunacy is robbing women and girls. >> sandra: biological males participate as transgender athletes, democrats are saying it amounts to bullying. ari fleischer on that, where do you stand on this? great to have you in new york city. >> great to be live on the set. look, something very fundamental, we don't discriminate, distinctions or prejudice in society, so why

have we always at every level of sports separated men and women. why don't we mesh them to one team and say may the best prevail. the reason is because males will prevail. so fairness to females is always dictated you have women's sports and you have men's sports, professional golf, amateur golf, college golf. >> sandra: track and field. >> every sport. so, why all of a sudden will we now get rid of that? why will we say men now can play in women's sports? it doesn't make sense. this separation is great for both and we ought to keep it. >> sandra: i wanted to get more into that, but have you come up with a solution in your mind for those transgenders who say ok, no, they have made the transition in some cases they have made a physical transition to be a different gender, how they should participate, they look a different way, participate in their given gender sport, how do you see

this working out? should there be a separate category? >> there are olympic standards and there are standards, women's tennis association for example uses that. if a male who is now a female, if they are testosterone is below a certain level and other biological factors they can check, then they will allow that person to play. but when you are in high school and especially when you are in college, a male has such domination over a female traditionally it does not work. one exception, sandra, should be considered here. particularly for younger ages, middle school and early high school, i have known women who can outcompete men and my old high school, number one player on the men's tennis team was a woman because she was that good at that age. but when you go the other direction, men on women's sports like the university of pennsylvania with swimming, it's not fair to the women, it's just wrng, it shouldn't be done and i'm glad this legislation is moving. >> sandra: nikki haley seems to

be owning this topic. protecting girls in sports. >> what are you doing when you are allowing biological boys to intrude in their locker rooms and sports. this is the women's issue of our time and we need to be fighting for our girls. we have to protect our daughters this, it's that important. >> sandra: if i were to speak from someone who competed at the division i level, ran track and field in college, i will say this. i fear for girls right now who have to stress about this. there is enough stress on their plate. i think about riley gaines and she was to swim in an environment where she was -- she was not able to win because she was, you know, she was swimming against a biological male. she was swimming six hours a day and could not win. and the blood, sweat and tears we put in as athletes, and to add this stress to girls in sports, collegiate athletes trying to be the best they can only to find out in some cases there is no possible way for them to win, my heart breaks for

them. >> and not only the people who don't win, but people who don't have the opportunity to compete because they get bumped from the slot. on many of these teams, only the top six will get to compete. and so if a male takes the sixth slot away from the woman who otherwise would have been the sixth qualifier, that's not fair to her. she was not going to win, but she got to compete at a level that she was building her life and career up tochlt it's just wrong. these men have advantages. >> sandra: caitlyn jenner has joined us often on the topic, and hr734 passed along party lines, rep greg stube did a phenomenal job, gop stands for women and dems are trying to erase women. >> i don't understand what's motivating the democratics on this. identity politics to the degree you are so unfair to a huge

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look, and watching this obviously for breaking news, but a closer look at where the white house stands on a lot of the main issues of the day, comes as a new report on leaked pentagon documents reveals china is preparing the supersonic spy drone, capable of travelling three times the speed of sound, it could target u.s. warships in a fight over taiwan. tensions rise between the u.s. and china. former cia station chief dan hoffman is standing by, but first jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. >> days before u.s. pacific commanders had to defend their $9.1 billion request before congress, 40% increase and largest request ever to bring stability to asia and deter china from taking taiwan by force, more leaked u.s. intelligence documents shared on

the gaming site discord show the chinese have developed a high altitude supersonic spy drone unit, cutting edge surveillance technology could target u.s. bases and aircraft carriers. it could fly at three times the speed of sound would be launched from a twin engine badger bomber, based in an old hillside hangar built by mao in 1970. it would be responsible for a taiwan invasion. the top u.s. commander in the pacific says he has not spoken to his chinese counterparts since he took command two years ago. >> i have not had contact with my counterparts, i've had a standing request to have a conversation now since i've been in this position. >> the chinese wz8 drones were rolled out in 2018 at a military

parade during the 70th anniversary celebration of china's communist party. the head of u.s. forces in the pacific was asked repeatedly by lawmakers if providing support to ukraine was hurting his effort to deter china in taiwan. here is his answer to the armed services ranking republican. >> i have not been impacted at this point as it applies to my deterrence mission. so i believe we can do both. i believe we have to do both to maintain the peace. >> has our support to ukraine depleted any munitions that are needed for taiwan? >> not at this time, senator. >> details of the hypersonic drones were gleaned from a top secret agency and first reported by "the washinton post" but have since been confirmed by fox news. sandra. >> sandra: jennifer griffin,

thank you. >> john: turn to former cia station chief dan hoffman, the united states is working on its own supersonic drones, the xo sonic, and arrow and the sr72. nothing deployed yet, so in the meantime, how big a threat does this new chinese aircraft pose? i mean, if we can't even take down a balloon that's travelling at 20 miles an hour, how are we supposed to combat one of these? >> yeah, so this spy drone, we have to remember it's just one component of china's military strategy. they are militarizing the south china sea, conducting menacing military exercises against taiwan, which china wrongly considers a break away province. daily intrusions into taiwan's air space. missile tests, and then disguising their civilian ships, military ships i should say as civilian ships. so what they want is to create a fog of war so we won't be able to respond as fast as we should

to a chinese attack and at the same time, they want to deny us the capability to assist taiwan, and that's the concern here. china has the fastest growing nuclear force and they are a major threat to the region. >> john: speaking of taiwan, a recent report found taiwan is ill-prepared to stop china from gaining air superiority over the island should it choose to invade. taiwanese have ordered 56 new f15s, on order, have not been delivered yet. is it incumbent to get those aircraft to taiwan as soon as possible? >> yeah, and i do think that the congress is going to be looking very hard at the u.s. defense industrial base and asking more detailed questions about whether we are up to the task about giving ukraine and taiwan need. some of what taiwan needs is what ukraine needs. anti-javelin tank weapons, fighter aircraft you mentioned, coastal defense.

a lot to be done on taiwan and ultimately who our intelligence community needs too do, confirm for the president that it would be costly to invade taiwan and xi jinping, according to burns wants to be militarily capable of invading taiwan by 2027. >> john: i want to ask you about the leak of classified information allegedly at the hands of jack teixeira. a classified briefing yesterday that senators had and seemed to be universal discontent on the briefing. listen to senators warner and rubio describe it. >> we need frankly a system that limits classification of really important documents and a process to declassify when appropriate. >> 21-year-old air man first class, able to disclose information that has created domestic political problems for key allies, undermine our relationship with those allies

and potentially cost us access to future key intelligence i think is stunning. >> john: two big questions, how did this teixeira get ahold of this information, why did he have the tssia clearance and how many people in government had the clearances and does that net need to be drawn in a little bit? >> well, i think he needs the clearance to do his job and look, 21-year-old air man is old enough to die for our country, old enough to have a security clearance. he needs access, but to intelligence, but not beyond his need to notch he had no need to know any of this information in any of these documents that have been exposed on -- that he deliberately exposed on the internet. was he given the access or search it out himself and use his i.t. capability to search for documents he shouldn't have been able to access and then print off and display on the internet. i think there is still a few questions to be answered here

but it's good to see some bipartisan consensus on the need to do something about it. >> yeah, warner and rubio are very often on the same page when it comes to sensitive intelligence information. we'll see where it goes from here. a lot of questions to be answered. great to talk to you, thank you so much. >> you, too. >> i have come here today to announce my candidacy for the democratic nomination for president of the united states. >> sandra: all right. it's on, robert f. kennedy, jr. throwing his hat in the ring to challenge president biden in 2024. many democrats say they do not want biden to run for re-election. could it lead to a difficult primary? >> john: and having a good credit score is supposed to help americans pay a lower interest rate on their mortgage. why is the biden administration now deciding to punish these responsible homeowners? former top obama housing adviser david stevens is here to sound off on the rule.

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>> sandra: turning back to one of our top stories, a plan under president biden would give home buyers with riskier credit scores better mortgage rates and lower fees than those with good credit history. david stevens, you were tapped to hold the role in 2009, under president obama, we were going through a mortgage and banking crisis. you went on to head up the mortgage bankers association, woefully qualified to weigh in on this. what is your reaction to the president's plan? >> well, look, to be fair, it's not necessarily the president's plan but it is the director of

the federal housing finance agency, director thompson was put into that job, appointed by president biden and confirmed by the senate. but you know, this is an unprecedented move. the gse, freddie mac and fannie mae, quasi private company, in conservatorship because they fell into financial troubles in 2008, but they have always risk based priced their loans. in other words, people with better credit scores and bigger down payments get lower rates than people with really low credit scores and very low down payments. and that risk based pricing is part of the discipline of fannie mae and freddie mac since their beginning. well, for the first time ever, the director in an effort to i think bring more first time home buyers, particularly minority home buyers into the gsc's,

lending programs, made a shift where he lowered the fees being charged to borrowers with low down payments and low credit scores and the way she compensated or they compensated for that loss of income, the capital cost they are going to incur, is they are actually raising fees on better credit worthy borrowers putting down larger down payments. never been done before but attempt to compete with the fha program, a governmentally run federal agency that really provides a mission to bring more opportunity for home ownership, but this is -- this is really convoluting the entire discipline and credit risk pricing structure that fannie mae and freddie mac have followed since their inception. >> sandra: i appreciate you giving us the possible rationale behind what is as you just said an unpresident -- unprecedented

move in this country. you have always been incentivized to have better credit and pay on time because you would have lower costs and fees to get into a home. you are incentivizing bad credit scores to get lower costs. only so long it could last. you won't be able to pay the risky home buyers if people are incentivized to have lower credit. >> yeah, i've literally just got an email from an executive with a mortgage lending company, so guess we have to teach borrowers to worsen their credit to get a better price. bit of extreme but yes. i totally recognize the effort to bring more people into home ownership who have not had that opportunity. but using fannie mae and freddie mac for the political purposes may not be the best thing to do, and frankly, i think it's

violates the entire discipline the two companies have operated under and will cost some borrowers with 15, 20% down payments, credit scores in the 700 and above more for their mortgage to help pay for those getting the discount and that's the part that needs to be looked at closely. >> sandra: estimated by a lot of economists, i'm sure you saw it in the washington examiner, for an american family or home buyer to like a $400,000 home in this country, this could extend your mortgage payments by another $100 a month for the home buyer that has worked so hard to get the better credit so they can get the costs down and they will be paying more for the riskier borrowers. final question for you, you are so tied in with the industry and sources, what reaction have you heard to this? >> yeah, the industry was outraged and there was more to the change that was done, there was a second part that i'm not

going to get you wrapped up into, and industry was able to convince the director of the group to lay the implementation of that part of the policy, but thrown their hands up in the air to the changes of the loan of price adjustment grids. it's very concerning. interest rates have risen, we are all seeing the home sales data and how much home sales are declining because of the rising interest rates, and now we are adding this second whammy to good credit worthy home buyers who are now going to have to pay for other people's mortgages, and that's something i think is a bad reaction. >> sandra: and we just put up on the screen, new existing home sales data today, they did fall in march, 2.4% fell from the month prior, month over month change as the mortgage rates, we also have those we can put on the screen, the 30 year and the 15 year, you can see just that climb and that is what those home buyers, that is stifling

their ability to get into homes affordably and that is dragging down those home sales you just mentioned. really appreciate you joining us. five seconds, a final thought there? >> well look, this could be changed and we could do better programs to help more minorities get into home ownership this. is not the way to do it. >> got it. appreciate you joining us, we'll follow up soon. >> john: and then this. a new twist involving hunter biden and an irs whistleblower allowing -- alleging, rather, political interference. shannon bream joins us and how it might affect the house investigation. >> sandra: severe weather damage across the nation, multi-day threat of large hail, wind damage, tornadoes. where is it headed next? >> i see my shed in the middle of the road. i mean, there's all kinds of

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