forbes, like these people get on it? not fair. >> maybe they don't do the homework. >> upright entrepreneurs like chris. >> there you go. >> we hope you all have a great friday. thanks for joining us this week. do not forget to dvr us. here is "america reports." >> sandra: thank you, team. republican lawmakers could get a deeper look in hunter biden finances as they look at allegations of biden family influence peddling, before a child support hearing in arkansas. >> john: we will learn more about hunter's foreign business dealings and could president biden be implicated. mike johnson will join us on that coming right up. >> sandra: begin on this friday with president biden facing questions for the first time since the cheat sheet scandal, and he had a hard time answering

questions from children. it comes as concerns over the president's age and ability to did the job if re-elected. hello, welcome. i'm sandra smith. we have made it to friday. john, hi. >> did you say friday? we call it fri-yay here in washington. the president struggling with fairly simple questions about his grandchildren and even the last country that he visited during a take your child to work event at the white house yesterday. >> where are your grandsons or granddaughters? >> i have one in new york, two in philadelphia, or three -- no, three, i have one granddaughter who is, i don't know -- the last country i traveled, thinking what the last one i was in. um -- i was -- yeah, you are right, ireland. that's where it was. >> i heard you had to get back

to the oval office. >> by the way, the one thing i thought when i got to be president, i get to give orders. but i take more orders than i ever did and you are right. >> sandra: all right. a few interesting moments and exchanges there. the president's response, the latest incident to field questions about his mental fitness at the age of 80. the president is the oldest u.s. president in history and the oldest to make a white house bid. >> john: some republican critics say that leaves the door open to vice president harris having to take up the mantle if biden wins a second term. >> sandra: so, with that big set-up, fox team coverage begins now. joe concha will join us in a moment. >> john: lucas tomlinson is live on the north lawn at 1600 pennsylvania, what about that performance yesterday? >> john, a lot of eyebrows

raised when the president could not answer innocuous questions, he was in ireland over three days a few days ago and asked how many grandchildren he has. >> i have six grandchildren, and i'm crazy about them. i speak to them every single day, not a joke. as a matter of fact, i just got finished going through the calls and only one of them answered the phone. >> the problem, john, the president has seven grandchildren now, potential republican presidential candidate tim scott fears what could come next. >> well, that should be a scary proposition. the only thing worse than a joe biden presidency is a kamala harris presidency. remember, brian, she's the one that told us that the border was secure. it is unsafe, insecure and wide open. >> a new fox news poll shows his approval rating underwater nearly a year, going back to the chaotic withdrawal from afghanistan. some democrats want to see

someone else run in 2024, about one in three according to the next poll. this fox news poll shows 28% of democrats want either robert f. kennedy, jr., or williamson. a popular radio host did not sound excited about him running again after the announcement. >> whacked the dnc won't do no primaries next year, do [bleep] [bleep] put joe biden on the stage with bobby kennedy and whoever steps up to the plate and let's have [bleep] discussion, yo. >> john, no white house press briefing today and 15 u.s. vice presidents have gone on to become president in american history. john. >> john: good to have you on the job. lucas, thank you. sandra. >> sandra: fox news contributor and columnist for "the hill." not remembering what country he

was in, a child reminded him, number of grandchildren he has he struggled to answer, a lot of the questions put to him there. and that is why nikki haley, who is running on the gop side, said this when she joined us on wednesday. >> if you vote for joe biden you really are counting on a president harris because the idea that he would make it until 86 years old is not -- is not something that i think is likely. i continue to say we need mental competency tests starting at 75. there's a reason he campaigned in his basement in the last election. >> sandra: so joe, this was out there for the american public to see. will it affect his re-election bid? >> absolutely. when you look at polls, even among democrat, number one reason why they don't want joe biden to run again for president at 70% of americans, seven intense, they cite his age because of the prospect of an 86-year-old president being in the white house and now we are

hearing reports about the vice president and her poll numbers being even lower than joe biden by five points and top white house officials are trying to repaint her image, trying to recreate humpty dumpty, put humpty dumpty back together, but as we know that can't be done. the impression is set here with kamala harris. it's not good. a major authenticity problem, a like ability problem, a major public speaking handicap, and f minus on the jobs she was assigned, and federalize voting failed as well. most democrat voters did not like harris as a candidate, she had to drop out of the presidential race before 2020, and now sitting below joe biden on approval, it's a bad place to be and i don't think any public relations campaign can change the image and impression that

the american people have of her, unfortunately. >> sandra: you referenced as a public speaking problem, others might call it a word salad problem. some examples of that. >> every moment in time and certainly this one to see the moment in time in which we exist. >> during women's history month we celebrate and we honor the women who made history. >> significance of the pa -- passage of time, great significance to the passage of time. >> it is time for us to do what we have been doing and that time is every day. >> we didn't just cherry pick those moments, those moments almost every time she publicly speaks, every interview, every time she speaks to a bigger audience. and by the way, all those moments were when she was talking about major issues that president biden has tapped her

to lead. put them on the screen. she's been deployed to take care of the border crisis, we know that's not only not getting fixed, it's getting worse. she's also been tapped by the president to lead on voting rights, abortion access, and climate change. but you take the border crisis and she cannot and she's welcome to stand up and tell the american people, she cannot point to any one policy enacted that has improved the situation at the southern border. this is not something we see her publicly aggressively out there addressing at the urgent issue that it is. joe. >> sandra, i can't remember the last time she even spoke about the border. she went once for a very short period of time, not even at one of the hot spot towns that is absorbing this crisis and not just people coming over and exhausting our healthcare resources, for example. but all that fentanyl coming over and killing record numbers of young americans and obviously

then 182 people on the fbi terror watch list apprehended. how about the ones we don't know about. this is a national security crisis, she was put in charge of and has failed on that. and the main question, it's relevant, could you see kamala harris as commander in chief? could you see her taking on xi jinping and china, especially if they move against taiwan and how about on trade, and steering this economy correctly. what did gdp growth come in, 1.1%. could you see her answering a question how to turn it around, and as a parent, turn around a.c.t. test scores currently at a 30 year low. dozens of more questions about her capabilities, only have finite time here. >> sandra: growth has improved. it's the fact that real wages and the real reality for the american people on the ground when it comes to the economy is not something they are feeling. that's what we see reflected in those poll numbers.

people are not feeling good, taking on more credit card debt, living paycheck to paycheck, certainly an economic peril. and 37% where the president's approval rating sits today. joe, thank you for joining us on that. >> thank you, sandra. have a good weekend, stay dry. >> sandra: you as well. he's referencing rain is coming to new york, and fingers are crossed for a good weekend, we'll see. you know as well as i do, heard from nikki haley on the program wednesday, a vote for joe biden you are really counting on a president harris because the idea he would be 86 years old, and that is on the minds of a lot of voters. >> john: and some scenarios, he wins, and hands the reins off to harris, the first president,

first african american asian president as well, and whether or not that is something that he's thinking about. >> sandra: the press secretary was asked that question, does the president if elected intend to remain in office for all eight years and she did not answer the question and later put out a statement to clarify. >> john: as we consider the passage of time and the way time passes and the things that happen during the passage of time, we shall see if it works out. >> sandra: well done. >> we have been preparing for this transition for more than a year and a half. let me be clear, our border is not open, and will not be open after may 11. >> john: homeland security secretary offering a new asylum plan as officials expect upwards of 10,000 migrants to cross the southern border daily when title 42 ends less than two weeks from now. nate, what are officials there

saying about the potential for a migrant surge the 11th of may? >> well, john, brownsville city commissioner tells me she has never seen anything like this. resources are stretched thin, laredo sector agents have been happening the rgv sector. the drone as it's happening, every day this week over 2,000 have been processed and that is expected to go up when title 42 ends in under two weeks. that's something dhs secretary mayorkas admits even after laying out the biden administration now border plan. listen to this. >> we do expect that encounters at our southern border will increase. as smugglers are seeking to take advantage of this challenge, and spreading disinformation the border will be open after that. >> john, the border is already open for thousands of migrants crossing every single day,

including this one, take a look, he squeezes through a hole in a border fence in el paso. this group that he was part of crossed illegally, 35,000 migrants are camped out waiting for the end of title 42. they lifted the man up, he squeezes through a small hole and runs across the highway. take a look at the next video from texas dps, the driver pulls up to the rio grand, in hidalgo county, he swims back to mexico with one of the illegal migrants, the other stays behind and caught by troopers. apprehended 51,000 migrants in the past week, the numbers expected to go up and also confiscated 54 pounds of fentanyl in the past seven days. back to you. >> we are expecting as many as 15 to 18,000 people a day when title 42 comes off.

we'll be watching that closely. nate foy with an eye on the border. >> sandra: concerns looming banking crisis, meetings to rusk first republic bank and trying to reach a deal with another financial company in an attempt to survive. earlier today, the federal reserve released assessments why silicon valley bank and signature bank failed. svb collapse due to the fed weak oversight, and the root cause of signature bank failure due to poor management. more on that developing situation coming up. >> john: fox news friday rolls on, hunter biden heading to court. expecting to face a judge in a child support case three days from now. how it could lead to new revelations in his overseas business dealings. >> sandra: the irs chief

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>> john: we may soon get a closer look at hunter biden's finances. the president's son has been ordered to appear before a judge on monday in an ongoing child support case involving an arkansas woman and their 4-year-old daughter together. any information could reveal more details on some of hunter's business deals. let's bring in louisiana republican congressman mike johnson, a member of the house judiciary committee. do you expect that this hearing on monday and subsequent court

hearings, the judge said i'm sick and tired of talking to your attorneys, i want to see you in court, could yield any more information the house investigation could use. >> we have been seeking this information for quite some time with the oversight in the house, weaponization, and oversight, and the information is slow to be gathered and come to us. so, wouldn't it be interesting if a paternity suit in arkansas revealed some critical information we have been seeking. >> the investigation five years now into hunter biden, there's nothing that suggests or -- there's nothing, i don't want to suggests, nothing that is a smoking gun in terms of criminality, so it leads people to wonder is there anything out there that could prove that. >> well, we believe, based upon what we gathered so far, there certainly in our view is some criminality on the laptop. we believe there is information about tax fraud, for example, payment of escorts related to

human sex trafficking, and hunting did not register, and a slow walk. we have been seeking this information for a while, the fbi had it since december 2019 but seems to be some favoritism here and that's what it's going to show. >> john: representatives for hunter biden are disputing whether or not the laptop is his. listen to this exchange in court, between judge meyer and brent langedon. said there is never about information about the hunter biden abandoned laptop, and the judge says is it your client's laptop or not, langedon, it's not as far as i know. meyer, is it your position that you are representing to the court it is not his laptop? langedon backs down and says your honor, i'm not in position

to answer that question. potential related to hunter biden's taxes here. do you have any doubt this is his laptop? >> of course not. i think everybody who looks at the objective facts knows this is true. we feel the judge's frustration, that's our sense as well in the house. bank records don't lie, and we know that the biden family bank records, subpoenaed through the banks, have shown that they were receiving payments, money wires, transfers from chinese-related businesses to the tunes of millions of dollars as we know. what we don't know yet is exactly what the bidens did in exchange for that, and hopefully will get the answers. >> john: and as sandra has pointed out, one of the wire transfers, only the name biden. no first name and how does a bank make a wire transfer without a first name? >> it looks rotten and i think it is. >> john: i want to ask you about the irs commissioner, he has been asked by jim jordan to

provide information why an irs special agent visited the home of journalist matt taibbi the same time taibbi was testifying before the committee. that came up yesterday. this exchange. >> is that document request going to be granted, whether it has been done or not? >> let me lift up and say it is my absolute commitment to comply with all document requests from this committee, from congressman jordan's committee, like i welcome the oversight. >> john: so says it's my intention to comply, he would not say whether or not information, any documents have been turned over. to your knowledge, have they? >> they have not. and if he welcomes oversight he would comply with the request. we asked for the documents turned over by april 10th. he missed the deadline. when matt taibbi testified in early march, the irs agents visited his home at the same time he was there. looks to be an intimidation

tactic. >> john: any legitimate reason why the agent visited his home? >> since then they have apologized, oh, thought there was an identity theft concern, but never mind, don't worry about that, it's over now. because we found out and exposed it. you'll all of it looks like the agentis are weaponized, it's de deeply troubling to all of us. >> john: good luck tomorrow with the event you are attending and safe travels to louisiana. >> sandra: after climbing through the roof of a prison, a manhunt is underway for two fugitives in mississippi, after another was captured and a fourth was killed by police. do authorities have any leads on the two still on the run. >> john: and bulletproof cars. how far would you go to protect your family among rising crime nationwide.

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who came to his aid at the side of the road. jerry raynes was arrested in texas, he was called in on the tip line and now extradited back to mississippi. >> notification to mississippi, they are going to go ahead and have some local judicial proceedings in regards of his extradition, and he'll make his way back to mississippi probably in the next week or so. >> this is actually the second time raynes, another car thief, escaped from the same detention center. two years ago he cut a whole through a fence. this time through a hole in the roof. john. >> john: apparently the prison is notorious for escapes. steve, thank you. >> try to break the glass --

sir, yeah. [bleep] well, maybe that was a little too hard. >> sandra: we all remember that moment when elon musk could not quite pull off the bulletproof armored vehicle when his tester managed to throw the rock through the window. but our next guest has mastered this, he's bullet proofing cars as crime surges across the country. americans spending tens of thousands to protect themselves. mark burton joins us. i chuckle, i remember watching that in realtime and i thought oops, that did not go so well. but mark, thank you for joining us. you have said that in recent weeks and months you are seeing surging demand from everyday americans saying bulletproof my car? i don't feel safe? >> yeah, there's just been -- it seems, a sense of insecurity, a

sense of uncertainty as it were, and so we are seeing a much -- much greater demand or request for armored vehicles, as well as purchasing of those vehicles. >> i say you've been able to did it because you sent us a test video of an armored vehicle sort of slow-mo, we can play out for the viewers of you testing the bulletproof nature of a vehicle after you do it. how does this work once a shot is fired through this bulletproof material? >> well, it's a combination. it's a glass, acrylic, poly carbonate laminate. the glass on the outside is a hardened glass and slows the round down and between the layers they separate, controlled

delamination. no rounds will get to the passenger. >> how much does it cost someone, hey, i drive to the city every day, my kid in the back seat, fearful for our lives, one day they could be they are surrounded and take a shot at the car, and mark, i'm not sure i can afford it, how much does it cost. >> an various degrees as far as levels of protection. level b4, handgun protection, all the glass and the doors, so it's not a complete tank as it were, but it will -- it will stop handguns, and that package starts at about $38,500. >> sandra: $38,500. so obviously on our screen we are showing a really expensive vehicle, i don't know, i know it's like a six digit figure to pay for a car like that. this is not something everyday americans can necessarily afford, some don't even spend

that much money on their car, mark. >> and that's right. and some clients are just getting the windshield, or one door as it were. so, they can, you know, ala carte type of armoring and that's new to our industry, ok. so they say i'm really concerned about a carjacking but i don't have a lot of money, and so for 5 to $7,000 we can armor one door with the glass and still make it look original. it's lightweight, and so it drives like a normal vehicle and acts like a normal vehicle but yet you have the extra security. >> sandra: i can imagine there was a time you get phone calls like this, gee, who is this person, why do they feel they are a target, but these are everyday people who fear the rising crime in this country? >> absolutely. absolutely. they're worried about being at the wrong place at the wrong time. they don't necessarily have a specific threat against them,

but again, that uncertainty, that need to feel secure or a peace of mind is important to them. it's almost like an insurance policy. they hope they never have to use it but just in case. and you are absolutely correct about families. they are concerned about, you know, their children and their spouses being in a compromising situation. >> sandra: i know you've got three locations all across the country, but you answer calls and demand from all the cities and coast to coast. two in utah, and one in atlanta, but you are servicing people in chicago and beyond? >> yes. >> sandra: ok. >> yes, and we transport the vehicles to these facilities. in some cases the materials can be installed there locally, depending on the extent of the armoring we do to their vehicles, but we can easily transport their vehicles to utah or atlanta. >> sandra: i have to go, but -- i'm sorry, out of time. real quick, how much is bids up

would you say year over year? >> in the past three years it's up over 800%. >> sandra: wow, that is significant. wow, thank you very much for joining us, mark. fascinating story. thank you. >> you are welcome. take care. >> sandra: 800%, wow. >> john: some nice cars they were showing there, g class, bentley suv, very nice. >> sandra: expensive to do, you have a car like that, you paid $35,000, it's a fraction of the cost of your new car but the case if you are not in the, you know, upper echelon and somebody who drives into the city every day in the honda accord, you can ala carte. i did not realize that, just the driver's side door bulletproofed or whatever it was. >> there are marc siegel pulled up next to someone who waived a gun at him, and took off 100 miles an hour, and what kind of car do you have, honda civic or something, put it into overdrive

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>> sandra: controversial runner, the 54-year-old can transgender personal trainer admitting to breaking the rules by racing as a woman in the london marathon. frank said she had not read the rules to prove her testosterone levels were below a level. she was cancelling appointments because she's distressed and is worried she'll be banned from future marathons. frank finished ahead of 14,000 women in the race on sunday and a short time before that marathon, john, had run as a male and identified as a man in a recently run marathon. >> john: she ran as a male, tokyo marathon, i believe. we should point out she did not win the marathon, she came in somewhere number 6,000, but did as you point out, beat a lot of other women and pushed them down a position. >> sandra: tricky stuff. >> counter intelligent budget is

increased by 4.5 million, but at the same time the bureau requested 14.1 million for 0 emission vehicles. >> we have hundreds of millions of dollars in counter intelligence initiatives. i would not read too much into the difference. >> john: fbi director christopher wray justifying spending millions more on electric vehicles than the increase that he wants to counter chinese's growing threat here in the united states. his testimony comes as china's hacking program continues to grow, far outpacing that of the united states. let's bring in florida congressman michael waltz, congressman, good to see you. let me put that back up on the screen so you know what the request was. here is the budget priorities, asking for additional $4.5 million for counter intelligence operations and additional $14.1 million for electric vehicles. what does that say about

priorities? >> well, john, it's just one more example of how this administration's priorities, when it comes to national security, are out of whack with its obsession on carbon emission. it's not just the fbi, although that's a huge problem when you have christopher wray also saying that the chinese are -- they are opening a new counter intelligence investigation against china every 12 hours when we are hearing from companies left, right and center that have either been hacked, or dealing with a hack right now, or just don't know they have been hacked yet. and yet the fbi is -- doesn't -- is telling them they don't have the resources to help yet at the same time they have 80 agents on a twitter task force revealed

after elon musk bought twitter. it shows where the priorities are, not just the bureau, john, we just had the sent of the army testify on her goal to make the army carbon free by 2030 including tactical vehicles, basically electric tanks, electric fighting vehicles and nontactical vehicles. we don't control the supply chain or the battery technology. i want the most lethal fighting vehicles, the most capable fbi in term of counter intelligence, not the least carbon emitting. >> john: wray acknowledged on the cybersecurity front the united states is far outgunned by china. listen to what he said in testimony. >> on the cyber side, the chinese government even if all of our cyber personnel did nothing but china, and a lot else besides china, the hackers would outnumber us 50-1.

>> john: chinese government hackers would outnumber the u.s. 50-1. sounds like a playing field that could never be leveled. >> we are dealing with a tsunami of chinese hacking because they have completely mobilized their private sector in concert with their state actors where they just have battalions and battalions of these cyber warriors. what do we do about it? one of the things we need to look to do about it, if you are a company that's been hacked, it's illegal to hack back, to go back and get your data or to take action. you have to go mother may i to government institutions and i for one am working with my colleagues on both intelligence and arm services to relook that. we need to basically energize and in some cases where appropriate allow our private sector to counter attack because

the u.s. government can't do it all alone. we just can't handle the tsunami, and we are not even talking about what the russians, the iranians and others are doing. >> john: wray also talked about the violation of our sovereignty with the illegal chinese police station housed in chinatown, i'll put up on the screen number of suspected illegal chinese police stations not only here in the united states but around the world. and i'm wondering what -- what is the biden administration -- we know what the fbi is doing to counter this once they find it, but what's the biden administration doing to prevent this from happening in the first place? >> well, and john, i want to be clear. these aren't necessarily uniform chinese police officers in these hidden stations. >> john: no, they are secret. >> they are in many cases private actors, state agents, intelligence officers that are acting and in some cases, you know, chinese americans, acting

at the behest of the chinese communist party and this is why you've heard me say we need this broader wake-up call. it's an all of society approach in every institution in american society they are actively looking to influence, to infiltrate, and to further their aims, and the first thing the biden administration can do is talk about this for what it is. this is a cold war that the chinese communist party is in against us. we would not have allowed this from the soviet, would not allows confucius type institutes from the soviets and we need to think about it across all of our institutions. >> john: it's a huge problem, no doubt about that. michael waltz, give armie a hug for us. and we have a very interesting conversation in the next hour, dan hoffman, former cia station chief was asked by the former

acting director of the cia to sign on to the letter that 51 former intelligence officers signed on to declaring the hunter biden laptop had all the hallmarks of russian information operation. dan said no, that he wouldn't sign on to it and he'll be here to talk to us about that coming up in the next hour. >> sandra: meanwhile, failing u.s. banks, a cooling housing market and presidential campaigns. it is a scene straight out of 2008, and with another major bank in need of rescuing, is history repeating itself? >> john: after the violent and chaotic teen takeover in chicago, pastors are stepping in to help. bishop horace smith on what he is doing to try to reach the city's troubled youth. stay with us.

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>> sandra: following the collapse of silicon con -- silicon valley bank, are we seeing signs of another financial crisis? will the federal government have to step in here? >> in some way it might again, right. the fact the stock price for first republic is tanking again today is a sign. it's a sign that investors in the market are making a bet and they seem to be betting on the idea this particular bank, first

republic, might end up being seized by the government, receivership, and if it happens a repeat of what we saw in the collapse of the two other regional banks last month. in fact, just today there's a new report in from the federal reserve on the failure of silicon valley bank saying its own supervisors did not act in time in that case as problems were growing. a separate report out from the fdic says signature bank failed because of poor management. after both of those banks collapsed the government did get involved, it protected deposits, even as officials were reluctant to use the term bailout. by no means an exact comparison, but market veterans are seeing some parallels to the old days. bear stearns, lehman brothers, especially when we talk bailout.

>> everything is a bailout when all heck breaks out. you know what it was sh the central bank coming in and telling them you are taken care of. where does the central bank get their money? oh, they either print it which is more debt, or the debt on the taxpayer. so bailouts are here to stay. >> end more so, he says as we get closer to the presidential election, you remember that back then. one of the key differences between now and then. the 2008 crisis hit right before the vote. 2024 race is just getting started. if the government does come in and seize first republic, if it fails, is that the end of the banking turmoil or like 2008 does it spread ultimately, sandra, have a greater impact on all of us. one positive, it's not spreading today to the rest of the market. the rest of the market is up even with first republic down again. >> sandra: brings back some of those memories for sure.

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