love your new book "that's what families are for," your son is co-author. >> we decided to write a book about a little monkey who got bad news from the doctor and the family around him, and a time they are trying to separate kids from parents, and with family you can get for everything. >> as for now, dvr us, "america reports" now. >> this bill is historic. american women and girls deserve better than what democrats are doing to them. >> because of the american people putting us, republicans in charge of the house, this bill was passed because of that. not a single democrat today wants to support women in women's sports. >> extreme maga republicans are riding to sensational lize an issue that doesn't really exist

in the way that they are falsely portraying. >> john: lawmakers at odds after a bill would ban biological males from being in women's sports. they say it will be a major issue heading into the 2024 campaign. >> sandra: democrats disagree, saying the gop is creating the controversy. our political heavyweights sean duffy and harold ford, jr. are here to debate that and which party is getting this right. >> john: the white house, a briefing is scheduled to begin any moment now and for the second straight day, karine jean-pierre likely to face a barrage of questions over an issue she does not want to talk about, hunter biden. hello, john roberts in washington. sandra, made it to friday, the finish line is in sight. >> sandra: it's been quite a week and a lot more to go, peter doocy is in the room, likely a

lot of questions thrown to kjp. i'm sandra smith in new york. this is "america reports." we are getting those brand-new details from the irs agent's bombshell claims regarding the administration handling of the hunter biden investigation. reports are surfacing that attorney general merrick garland is the senior political appointee who the irs agent is accusing of lying under oath about the hunter biden probe. >> john: new testimony from former acting cia director says the now secretary of state antony blinken was behind trying to discredit the bombshell before the 2020 election. blinken, a campaign adviser at the time, orchestrated the letter signed by 51 intelligence letters dismissing the laptop story as "russian disinformation." senior national correspondent

rich edson has more in the washington newsroom. are house republicans demanding to hear from blinken on the letter? >> they sent him a letter and they want more information about this. and says officials from the biden campaign sparked the statement. 51 officials calling it russian disinformation, according to jim jordan. he says secretary of state antony blinken then an adviser to the biden campaign initiated the statement, one biden used to discredit reports about his son's laptop. and a letter to the secretary of state details this exchange, prior to secretary blinken's call you did not have any intent to write this statement, murrel says i did not. that intent in you, yes, absolutely. white house calls jordan's investigation a political stunt and house republicans are

weaponizing their power to relitigate the 2020 election with misleading claims. and republicans are looking into claims from an irs agent who maintains he has information in the criminal investigation into hunter biden. his attorney said the agent can contradict sworn testimony to congress by a senior political appointee. last month merrick garland told a senate hearing he would not interfere with the u.s. attorney in delaware who is leading this investigation. >> my client wrestled with whether or not to come forward, a lot of sleepless nights coming forward with this. at the end of the day he decided he could not live with himself if he stayed quiet and said nothing. >> the white house maintains the administration is staying out of the president's son investigation. back to you, john. >> john: rich edson for us, the latest. thank you. more to come. sandra. >> sandra: we could also learn more at the white house briefing set to begin any moment now, when president biden may enter the race for re-election.

he could make the announcement as soon as tuesday next week. josh is standing by, but jacqui, what do we know about the president's supposed campaign announcement? is it happening next week? >> we'll see if it actually pans out, sandra. but according to multiple reports, the president and the white house are going to be releasing a video next week, the campaign that is, on tuesday and that would coincide with the four-year anniversary of his 2020 campaign launch. but of course this comes after months of president biden playing coy about his re-election plans following a better than expected performance from democrats in the midterms which dampened talk of any serious primary challenge. >> there's an election coming up? i didn't know that. >> i plan on running but not prepared to announce it yet. >> i told you, my plan is to run again. >> republicans are gearing up

for a fight with biden's expected announcement coming, poll numbers record lows, gas prices, and tensions with super powers are escalating, and investigating the president's apparent mishandling of classified documents and investigating hunter biden for tax and gun crimes and irs special agent said to be involved sought whistleblower protections, alleging the biden administration is improperly handling the investigation into the president's son. >> so i kind of thought he was running for re-election for a while now, but of course if he does go forward with running for re-election, and all these facts come to light, you are going to have the kind of reckoning in public that we did not have in 2020 because of biden campaign efforts to suppress information about hunter biden, to spread lies to the media, which happily carried water for joe biden and their efforts to beat donald

trump. >> of course president joe biden is not expected to face any serious primary fight. his only challengers so far, robert f. kennedy, jr. and marrianne williamson. >> john: josh, so, this announcement comes rather suddenly. we had heard that maybe he was not going to announce until august, maybe not until september. this has all the earmarks of something rushed and the idea it's going to be a video announcement, what do you make of that? >> the white house is all over the map, first after the state of the union, then in the summer, now we are getting this video announcement in april. most presidents announce in the spring of the year before the campaign. so, that's not unusual. it sounds like president biden

wanted to check that box off and also time it to the anniversary of when he first announced his 2020 campaign to have some symmetry there. but look, there's a balance the biden white house is trying to strike. they need to raise money for a campaign, get in political mode and don't want to look like they are too political and already running for re-election and opening the president up with frankly low approval ratings up to a lot of criticism as a political candidate. >> john: is he going to move to the basement, too, for symmetry on that front? we have the new hunter biden thing and the irs supervisory special agent. his attorney was on with bret baier last night. part of what his client wants to talk about. >> he knows when to spot when investigative steps are not done the traditional way to get at the truth and he has spotted and observed things done differently in this particular matter i can't identify and he previous

they were influenced by politics. >> john: how problematic could it about he for biden and is he trying to get the announcement out ahead of this. >> i think the announcement is separate from any hunter biden investigation. but look, seems they have some witnesseses and some new evidence and it's worth for the republicans at least to get that out there as political season is heating up. joe biden approval rating, disapproval, 57%, these are not good numbers for a sitting president to be preparing for re-election to run in. and when you hear about some of the controversies and also combine that with the state of the economy, the state of pessimism about the country, it's a real challenge for president biden no matter who he is running against in 2024. >> john: nothing like announcing for re-election when the approval numbers are below 40. in terms of who might win, a jump ball. wall street journal poll, biden

at 48%, former president trump at 45%. compare it with a harvard harris poll and that's a mark penn poll, trump ahead 45 to 40. a bit of a jump ball going on here. >> this is going to be a competitive 2024 campaign, no matter who the republican nominee is. now, the wall street journal poll, john, showed trump losing to biden three points, desantis winning against joe biden by three points and i think the playbook for biden is hoping to get trump into the arena because even if he is competitive, even if the numbers are going to be close they feel they have a narrow advantage against trump, against desantis or other republicans they are more worried. >> biden may get his wish because if you take a look at the latest wall street journal poll and compare it to something that happened back in december, trump now leads desantis, put this up on the screen, 51 to 38%.

1 180° flip from december, and look at this and wonder, is desantis out before he's even in? >> i was going to say, desantis is not even a candidate officially and yet he's had a rough one month of bad headlines, of infighting within some of his supporters, back in florida, one of the biggest challenges he's going to face is getting republicans from his home state where he's very popular to endorse his campaign. >> john: he was here in washington, d.c. and the day he was here a bunch of members from the gop florida delegation came out for trump. >> that's right. he was here to get endorsements from capitol hill and right now all, kind of the 11 republicans who have endorsed from his home state are with donald trump. that is not the sign of a strong fundamental operation as he does prepare to make an announcement for president. >> john: he's not in the race yet and getting in could change everything. we'll see. >> how many months are left in

the 2024 campaign? it is april of the off year, plenty of time for desantis to turning things around. >> john: and the florida strategy, and how well that goes. an if he has to wait to forward -- he needs to go to iowa, south carolina, new hampshire. >> john: have a great weekend. >> sandra: see if he announces next week, tuesday possibly, a lot sooner than reports had initially suggested but via video? >> john: that's a little strange. i'm not sure why they would not do a big campaign rollout. >> sandra: i guess that will leave us wondering. see if it happens. >> john: we will find out at some point next week. >> sandra: it has been nearly three months since the toxic train disaster in east palestine, ohio and president biden has still not found the time to visit. are residents there being forgotten by the federal government as they still deal with the fallout of that. we'll ask ohio governor mike dewine. he will be joining us on how

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>> john: new mexico prosecutors are dropping charges of involuntary manslaughter against alec baldwin, the actor was

rehearsing a scene in 2021 for the film "rust" when the gun he was holding went off killing cinemat cinematographer halyna hutchins. they say baldwin could be recharged in the future. filming of "rust" is back underway after relocating production to montana. interesting that they held out, sandra, that he could be recharged depending what the investigation finds and the thing we still don't know, how the bullet got in the gun in the first place. >> sandra: i can't imagine going on to continue filming that movie after this woman was shot and killed on the set. i think there's a lot more questions than answers at this point, i think we'll see where it goes, very odd social media post by his wife as well after all this broke yesterday. i don't know, john. we'll see. >> john: the continuing saga of the baldwins. >> sandra: indeed. >> introduced the green new deal

we were told again and again this is not realistic. this vision is becoming a reality, watch us win. we have started to win. >> we are in the middle of a new american revolution and that new american revolution is a green new deal. >> sandra: far left democrats bringing back the green new deal, enormous clean energy overhaul that would cost american taxpayers tens of trillions of dollars. their proposal unveiled just days after president biden blasted house speaker mccarthy and the gop "whacko" to raise the debt ceiling. good to have you on this friday. where are they going with this and is president biden bowing to the far left democrats? >> totally. totally. it is the far left that really drives the democratic party, and ro khanna said exactly that.

>> sandra: a democrat. >> progressive wing of the party is driving, this is tens of trillions of dollars. you can argue the merits of green investment, some things are worthwhile, some are a tremendous waste of money. but first of all, america is incredibly blessed with fossil fuels, many, many ways to continue to produce fossil fuels and do it in a clean way, the administration does not want to do that, use all the energy and the capabilities we have, relatively inexpensively. instead he wants to spend huge amounts of money on wasteful things. money we just don't have, sandra. we are looking at, just talk about the debt ceiling, it has to be raised again, there's no plan to rein in government spending, to rein in the deficit. >> sandra: back to the question that republicans ask democrats and mccarthy posing to the president who will not meet with him, you can't find anywhere to cut and the middle of the discussion you reintroduce

$92 trillion green new deal plan again? >> look, republicans have come up with perfectly sensible proposals to rein back spending, needs to be done. the need to require people to work, some people to work in order to receive welfare benefits. this is a good example of how left wing the democratic party has become and how far they pushed the country in that direction. 20 years ago when bill clinton introduced the welfare reform program, this was the idea. a mainstream idea. if they are able-bodied, don't have family commitments, they don't have any other limitations on their ability to work, they should be expected to work or volunteer in order to receive the significant amounts of money they get from the state. that -- that was a mainstream idea, republicans are trying to reintroduce it. and the democratic president describes it as whacko. >> sandra: no debate, no

meeting, no negotiation. i want to finish off, gerry, a piece that got a lot of attention. published in the wall street journal. you write your headline, if western civilization dies, put it down as a suicide. you write we in the west are in the grip of an ideology that disowns our genius, denounces our success, disdains merit, elevates victimhood societal self-loathing and enforces it in a web of exclusionnary and authoritarian rules large and small. you can make that case for the discussions in the country. >> sounds better out of your mouth than mine, but that is the problem. what's happened to the country, woke revolution, whatever you want to call it, cultural revolution we have been going through in the last 10 or 15 years, is placing -- doing all of those things and making this country essentially unrecognizable as the great

country it has been, the beacon of hope, the great success for two centuries. america has problems, always has problems, done bad things but no one can deny no country has ever stood for and achieved what america has stood for in terms of human liberty, prosperity, improving people's lives, improving people's freedom. all of that is now literally in jeopardy because of this cultural revolution we have been going through, disdains merit, which does not want a merit-based society, it wants to award people success on the basis of who color they are. >> sandra: and credit that is not worthy. >> the more prudent you are, the more successful you are in managing your finances, the more you are going to be punished. you could not have, sandra, you could not have a better little picture of what's going wrong with this country and it is time for the rest of us to stand up and say, you know, we have to

stop this revolution before the country itself, there are competitors out there, countries like china not following these crazy ideas, we have to stand up and say it's time we pushed back and stopped this revolution and start getting back to the values that have made america a great country. >> sandra: it's a powerful piece, and you made the case right there. it's in the wall street journal, great to have you here today. >> thanks, sandra. >> john: at least 1,000 migrants shutting down yet another border bridge as they try to cross into the united states. why officials worry chaotic scenes like this are about to become even more commonplace. >> sandra: american children falling farther and farther behind in their reading standards, and parents are blaming a new teaching method. we covered it on this program yesterday. ohio governor mike dewine has been on a statewide crusade to fix this problem, he's getting a lot of attention for it. remember, bill bennett brought it up yesterday. he's here to tell us how it's working next.

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>> sandra: dramatic video after a gas tanker truck blew up on a bridge in connecticut, just into our newsroom. this explosion happened when the tanker rolled over on the gold star bridge, we are hold, along i-95, connecting the towns of new london and groton. multiple injuries have been reported and the fire did spread to buildings below the bridge as you can imagine, the mayor now says the fires have been contained. we are monitoring that situation for you, we will bring you the latest from that scene as soon as we have more. >> we have moved away from explicit and systematic teaching to more of a balanced literacy

kind of the thought of learning to read from loving to read and we need to refocus back on teaching kids how to read. >> john: ohio mom and teacher jenny, on the show yesterday, saying new methods are not passing the test. child literacy rates plummet niegs wide. they say it's time to get back to old school instruction. one of those is ohio governor mike dewine, a mission to fix the crisis in his state. you are pushing something that's known in your state and elsewhere across the country as the science of reading which focuses in on phonics as a way to teach kids to read. how in the old days you and i both learned how to read, it's been displaced in most schools by something called balanced literacy, i'm wondering, how do we get away from the tried and true methods of teaching in the first place. >> i'm not quite sure how we got

away from it but people trying to do good. we know how the brain works and how people learn how to read and that's what this science of reading really is all about. you know, to read is to have the key to life. it's the key to get in the door so that you can enjoy life and live up to your god given potential. too many kids don't have the door. so my wife fran and i have been travelling around the state. we have now been in 11 different elementary schools all over the state of ohio and we have been going to schools where they are very focused on the science of reading and we have been in the classrooms and it's not, maybe what you and i got, it's based on phonics, but frankly, it's more exciting, it moves a lot faster than certainly than when i was in kindergarten or 1st grade, but it's had amazing,

absolutely amazing results and so that's the good news. the good news is today there's no excuse for us not to use this method and it's -- it is phonics. it's -- it's making sure that certain number of minutes are spent on this every single day in class. there is other things connected with it. but basically it is what's called the science of reading. and so all the schools that we went into are using it and here is what teachers almost in every single school told me. they said look, we will work as hard as we can work. we are doing everything to improve our reading numbers and the kids who would pass the third grade test and we were not making any progress, or very, very little progress and we were frustrated and started looking around and decided let's go to the science of reading and they could see the results very, very

quickly. the most dramatic example -- yeah, go ahead. >> john: i was going to say yesterday we were talking about the state of mississippi, adopted it in 2013, 49th in the state in terms of reading and now 29th in the states. take a look at the statistics we highlighted yesterday, state of illinois, seems as though kids who are illiterate keep getting passed from grade to grade, third grade, 27 proficient, eighth grade, 30%. 88% of the children graduate but only 30% read at grade level. that is a recipe for disaster when the children become adults. >> it is. the most dramatic story fran and i heard, from this young man, he was in high school and he said i couldn't read. he said i went into high school and i could not read. and people told me you are never

going to be able to read, get used to it and live your life, you are never going to be able to read and they had intervention specialist in the school who followed the science of reading, started working with him, you know, he can read today, his future is just dramatically changed and dramatically improved and that's what this is about. this is about the kids, and it's about freeing them and giving them the opportunity to live the american dream. >> john: there are some critics who say the science of reading is all well and good to teach phonics but it does not encompass everything and you need some of the ideas from balanced literacy to try to make it a more comprehensive program. so, we'll see how that goes in the future. while we have you, time is running short, east palestine because we are almost three months out from the disastrous train derailment, waiting for an announcement from the white house that president biden is going to visit, i know you've been talking with the c.e.o. of

norfolk southern for a community fund, and dioxin testing was done recently. lingering problems sometimes high schools don't want to come to east palestine to compete because they are worried there is still fallout from this. how is that town doing? >> you know, they are doing a lot better. they still have obviously concerns. i don't think that people will feel they are back to normal, and that's what they want, they want to be back to normal, where they were prior to this massive train wreck. but i don't think they get there, frankly, until the movement of the dirt from the railroad tracks and the area surrounding the railroad tracks is completely done and all that dirt is out of town. they finished one track, they are on the second track. things are moving. i did talk to allen shaw this week and we talked about the

fund and i think he's very open to having that fund and i think you will see a fund established. the majority of the people i talk to in east palestine, they may not have any, you know, medical problems, some people do, some people are going to doctors, but the majority of people, their concern is where am i in five years, my kids in five years, ten years, i want to make sure if something comes up, if i get cancer or something happens to me because of this train wreck, i want to make sure i'm taken care of. setting up the fund is essential. >> and remember after 9/11 and the years after that. governor mike dewine. appreciate your time. have a good weekend. >> sandra: good to check in on how things are going there, john. border officers forced to close a bridge connecting mexico and south texas after at least 1,000 migrants tried to cross into the united states there, and

officials are bracing for more people to camp out at the border. once title 42 ends three weeks from now. nate foy is there at that bridge in brownsville, texas. nate, how are they preparing for the end of title 42 right now? >> i'm not sure that i got that question, sandra, but i can tell you that officials are preparing for the end of title 42 in under three weeks, and they are holding drills to prepare for bridge surges like we saw. there was a training in eagle pass that you'll see here momentarily. the reason why the bridge rushes keep happening, a group of migrants from venezuela were just processed, they tell me that migrants in mexico are frustrated with the biden administration cbp1 app and false rumors the bridge will be open for them. that was not the case, the bridge was shut down for the 1,000 migrants. take a look at this video, this in the early morning hours of yesterday. we have texas dps, local police,

cbp all responding. migrants in the video are heard saying they are trying to apply for asylum on the cbp1 app, and cartels are coming into their camps and kidnapping women and children. that leads to the desperations that causes this. you see border patrol officers prepping for bridge rushes, we also had one in el paso last month. also, sandra, as you know, chases is a continuous problem here in southern border cities. take a look at this next video from texas dps, from kinney county. arrested the driver and passenger for smuggling migrants and having a stolen gun. no one was hurt in this, but a woman had this after her mother and 7-year-old niece were killed in a similar chase. >> amelia's jaw was broken and

there was a gaping hole on the side of her little 7-year-old head and my mom's femur was broken and sticking out of her leg. mr. biden, you have lost your way. transformation of this country is just not welcomed. >> and today house democrats are visiting bordering facilities here and also mcallen. >> sandra: nate, thank you very much. john. >> john: jumping to the white house, karine jean-pierre just opening up to questions. >> open event, the president and those lawmakers or what can you tell us about what that will look like? >> so first, look, we'll have more to share but i do want to say the president very much looks forward to meeting with the three legislators, he spoke with, had a very important critical, we thought, conversation with them about how

to move forward with gun reform, about them doing their democratic duty and peacefully protesting for assault weapons ban and what we saw and what we saw happen to the three of them as you heard the president say, as you have heard me say, was undemocratic when they were expelled and essentially ousted out of their seats, and it was also an attack on our democracy, and so what you'll see is the president sitting down with these three legislators, having a conversation on how to move forward, on how to move forward with common sense gun reform, how to move forward protecting our communities, our kids, our churches, and he will hear them out and looks forward to having that conversation and we'll have more on what that will look like and if there will be any availability for all of you to kind of experience or see that meeting, i just don't have anything at this time. >> and on sudan, i wanted to

follow up on something that john kirby said here yesterday and also this morning in his panel, americans should have no expectation of the u.s. government coordinated evacuation at this time and that's going to remain the case. u.s. government has warned americans about the security situation in sudan. can you explain why this is the government's position? should americans abroad expect some help from their government getting out of a trouble spot? >> totally hear your question and just to be clear, americans in sudan have been warned since this past -- since last year and it's been a level 4, the state department as you know, they tend to give the warnings to americans abroad on what's happening on the situation. and so it is not our standard procedure to evacuate american citizens living abroad. afghanistan was a unique situation for many reasons, including already hosting a significant military presence

and ending a 20-year conflict. the afghanistan evacuation was not the norm, as you all know and many of you have reported that. so for example, in libya, yemen and syria, we do not provide large scale evacuations for american citizens, and lprs, even as those government collapse. instead we urged americans to use commercial options to leave a country while those options were still readily available. we also offered financial assistance to those who needed help departing the country in accordance with our standard consular, but it is not our standard procedure and the state department does its best to provide information to citizens who are abroad and giving them the warning when necessary and this is something that when it comes to sudan, this is a warning, a level 4 warning we provided to them many months ago. basically telling americans who were there to leave if they

could and also not to travel, americans not to travel to sudan. so, we have been very clear on that. it's not our standard procedure. >> you mentioned speaker mccarthy's proposals and i know you discussed this yesterday, i want to make sure i'm clear on your position. the president is not going to sit down with the speaker until he agrees to a clean plan to raise the debt limit? >> so, we have been very clear that the speaker, without delay, should put forth a clean bill on the floor to avoid default. we have been very clear about that and is that stance continues. we are -- we are always happy to have a conversation about the budget. we have been very clear about that, about the spending that they propose. we already have a sense of what they value with their 22% spending cuts, as i mentioned, veterans, when it comes to veterans, education, meals on wheels, and a host of extensive

other programs that will really hurt americans. americans really rely on these programs to make their ends meet. and so we are going to continue to analyze that and will have more to share, but clearly as i laid out at the top, we are clearly doing a deep dive on these different programs. but we need to see them put this -- raise the debt ceiling, avoid a default, and not put our economy or take our -- the american economy hostage and we have been very clear about that. >> i'm trying to get a sense what you need to see to have this conversation between the speaker and the president. you are happy to talk about the budget, speaker has put out what appears to be the closest thing he's going to get to putting out a budget. so, what are you waiting for? >> what we are waiting for is for them to avoid default. waiting for house republicans to put that on the floor so we can avoid default. >> no conversation until they put -- >> we have been very clear about that. we do not want to negotiate on

this. we want to make sure they do what they did the last three times and avoid default. they need to put that bill, put a clean bill on the floor so that we do not -- they do not continue to hold the american economy hostage and that's what they are doing. will have dangerous consequences for not just our economy, for the american people. so, that's what we want them to do. >> no talking until then. >> look, they need to do that, and then we can go ahead and have a conversation about the budget. >> one quick, the week ahead, does the president have plans to mark the fourth anniversary of the announcement of his 2020 campaign? >> [laughter] >> that is very good. >> that's a good one. >> i had to try. i don't have anything else beyond the week ahead i just laid out but i really appreciate the effort, that was very good. yes. >> address questions about 2024? >> well, you know -- don't have

anything to say about 2024 either way. it's not going to come from here, from this podium as i have stated. and so i'm just going to leave it there. >> has the president now ordered the evacuation of american diplomatic personnel from sudan? >> i know the admiral took some questions on this earlier, when it comes to the diplomats and the embassy, we have, as you all know and have heard me say, we have no higher priority than the safety of our u.s. government personnel and their families overseas and we have made very clear to both sides that any attacks, threats or dangers posed to our diplomats are totally unacceptable. as you heard from the department of defense, u.s.-africa command is monitoring the situation and prudent planning for various contingencies. as part of this planning, the u.s. is deploying additional capabilities to the region for purposes relating to and facilitating departure of u.s. embassy personnel from sudan if

circumstances require it. so any other questions we would refer you to the state department but i just laid out what the department of defense and u.s.-africa command is monitoring and putting into place just in case. >> a question about the actual -- in the past, presidents preparing to run for re-election have tried to separate their job as president from the job as candidate, for example, commit to only holding political meetings in the residential, only phoning donors from the residence and a special airline on air force one with president obama. are there similar steps? >> i don't have anything to share related to 2024. >> camp david this weekend, what is the president planning to do up there? >> i do not have a list of staff that's attending -- usually when he leaves, we have a pool note who is travelling, that is a

common practice but i don't have anything specific to lay out when he's at camp david, you know, that's kind of private time with his family, just don't have anything. >> family time, he's not expecting -- >> family, with the first lady, with whomever else is with him. i just don't have any specifics to share. >> thanks, karine. can you give us some details what the white house is doing to try to win over this group of moderate senate democrats, senator tester, sinema, manchin, still on the fence about labor secretary nominee? >> we have complete confidence in julie su's nomination and for her to be confirmed. that is something that we are confident about. i think i've said this many times before, at least a couple times at this podium this past week, that when she was deputy secretary going forward deputy secretary for her confirmation she got all democratic senators to vote for her and to make for

her confirmation and so we expect that. the office of leg affairs and other folks are in constant communication on the nominees on their confirmation process and procedure. again, we are very confident and we are going to continue to have those conversations with those democratic senators. i don't have anything to share on that. >> is the president himself getting involved in the effort to seal -- >> i don't have any calls to preview, but this is indeed a priority for this president and will continue to be a priority. julie su's confirmation. we have confidence that we will get her through and will continue to have the conversation with the democratic senators and others, not just democratic senators but also republican senators as well. >> you've had a few high profile nominees withdraw their nominations lately, that was the faa administrator, it was the fcc commissioner, those nominations held out there for months and months and then had to basically the white house had to go back to square one.

is the white house doing enough to run these nominations by moderate senate democrats ahead of time to make sure they are on board? >> we are having regular conversations with democratic senators and republicans as well to shore up support for our nominees. that is something that is important. we understand how this process works. if anything, this is a president that understands how the process works in the senate when it comes to confirmation, comes to putting forth your nominees, what you need to do to get support. shore up that support for that particular nominee. so, that is not unusual. you are speaking -- you are speaking about an administration, or looking at an administration that is very well versed and experienced in that process. so we'll continue to have those conversations. we have also had a lot of nominees that have made it through, and so look, we are going to be -- we are going to be optimistic about this, we are going to continue to have -- continue to do that outreach to senators on the hill.

we think julie su is the right person for this job, as you know, she worked alongside the former labor secretary and they were part of creating record jobs, right, that we see in the first two years of this administration. more than 2.5 million jobs. and so we are going to do the work to get her through. >> thanks, karine. new york city mayor -- >> john: all right, so there's karine jean-pierre answering some questions at the white house briefing, refusing to answer anything about the 2024 announcement, which we believe, sandra, may be coming in a video form next tuesday. president biden announcing his re-election, and also talking at some length about sudan and what to do about u.s. diplomats caught there as the country evolves into civil war. you would have thought they would have had a plan to

evacuate the staff more than a week ago, but they don't, so now in some peril, i would say. >> sandra: and previewed the president's remarks in the rose garden this afternoon, and responded to mccarthy, saying he has redoubled his threat to hold the american economy hostage unless he can slash programs. we'll see if he gets a question, peter doocy is in the room, a question on the biden campaign and antony blinken orchestrating the intel letter we know about because of the ex-cia official, not a single question. >> john: she snubbed peter yesterday, too. see if she does it today. >> sandra: that's a huge thing, the political panel will respond to. sean duffy is here, harold ford, jr., both are former congressmen. there's nothing on the discrediting of the hunter biden laptop story we are learning through this ex-cia official, not a single question on it? >> the biggest story in the

country and you would think the press would be interested, let's help debunk this or the truth about it. not a question at all. speaks volumes about the press and how uninterested they are. >> sandra: if it's not the case you would think they would want to say it wasn't. >> two parts of this, secretary blinken in the campaign at the time and not in government and obviously some whistleblower in the irs has come forward saying hunter may have gotten preferential treatment. these are questions that deserve answers. i don't know if she has the answers but a question could have been asked and she could have directed where the answer would be given. >> it seems that republicans see transitioning to a different topic, seems the republicans see a huge issue developing for them that could be a winning issue the 2024 election, issue of transgender rights in the country. a lot of females in sports, riley gaines is one of them, standing up for women in women's

sports. as this administration does not seem to be coming to their defense. some of these athletes who have worked their entire lives only to be beat by a man, sean. is this a winning issue for republicans or a made up controversy that democrats are saying it is? >> it's not. look at the republican party and their performance with women in suburban america. lost women voters in droves, and some say it's donald trump's fault because he's so rash and hard, women don't like him. this issue brings women voters, brings moms back home, they understand how hard -- you might not have a college athlete-bound child but they understand how hard their child works in these sports, and parents put a lot of time in sports with their kids. >> blood, sweat, tears. >> and you put the time in and nudged out because a boy is going to compete in girls sports, this really ticks moms off, it's a winning issue for republicans, especially if democrats don't change course.

not one democrat voted for the bill. >> sandra: hakeem jeffries says republicans are making up an issue that doesn't exist. >> extreme maga republicans are trying to sensationalize an issue that doesn't really exist in the way that they are falsely portraying. >> sandra: harold, do you agree with that, made up controversy? >> i don't think it's made up, it's a real issue. he may be saying how much will it impact or play in the election cycle, sean raises valid points how it may play, among moms, particularly amongst even dads, i have a daughter also. so i don't know if it will rise to the level of abortion and guns but this is an issue the country has to grapple with and if democrats, if this issue frame as democrats on one side and republicans on another. >> sandra: where do you stand on

the issue? ten seconds left. >> i likely would have voted in favor of the bill. this issue confuses me a bit. i don't understand how you allow the competition that we allow at the levels we are allowing it. >> sandra: i wish we have had more time, we were trying to take a bit of the white house, we will keep monitor that. >> john: new at 2:00, police in chicago bracing for more mayhem as businesses demand action to prevent more violence and vandalism. how can that happen with the incoming mayor is still making excuses for the chaos? "outnumbered" co-host emily is here and she is fired up over this. and more ahead as "america reports" rolls on.

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