trial. and to a jury of new yorkers who have watched this subway has disintegrated back into 1970s and 80 style violence and dysfunction, it will be hard to get a conviction under the circumstances of this case. even allowing for the fact that excessive force may have been used. >> dana: thank you, we'll continue to follow this story as the investigation is underway. thank you. a brutal new poll for president biden. it shows him trailing both former president trump and florida governor ron desantis as his re-election campaign is now getting underway. not just republicans who don't want to see biden running for a second term. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino. >> bill: how are you doing? >> dana: great. how are you? >> bill: happy monday. i'll bill hemmer, good morning. the president's approval rating slipped to a new low. he is barely breaking even among democrats when it comes to his nomination. among democratic-leaning

independents only 36% want to see biden on the ticket. 58% say they want to see someone else. >> dana: if that's not enough of a warning sign, the same poll shows biden running six percentage points behind trump. five behind desantis. those kind of numbers have republicans pointing to a big problem for democrats. >> no president has ever had these kind of numbers and won in a second term. if i am the democratic i would be in a panic. those are dismal numbers, not just bad, they're dismal. it really shows that even democrats don't believe he has what it takes to go to a second term. >> bill: mark meredith leads a new hour live at the white house with more on this, if there is much reaction. good morning. >> there is reaction. good morning to you. the next presidential election is still 547 days away. but as you were just talking about with dana the latest polling shows the president has an uphill battle ahead of him

including with his own party. the poll took a look at the president's job approval rating. 56% disapproving. the poll showing the president losing support among black voters. he saw a major drop in support compared to a few years ago. he was at 82% in 2021. that support sitting at 52%. the biden campaign reacting to all this overnight saying we'll continue to focus on earning americans' votes, addressing the issues they care most about and defying the beltway wisdom to win a second term. later on wednesday the president will be up in new york to participate in a campaign fundraiser. while donors are sticking with him he is facing questions about his age. 81 on election day. he told msnbc last week that his age should appeal to voters, not be a turn-off. >> president biden: i have acquired a hell of a lot of wisdom and know than the vast

majority of people and more experienced than anybody who has ever run for office. i'm honorable as well as effective. >> in that same interview the president also defending his running mate, vice president kamala harris. he says she is not getting enough credit for the job she has been doing. of course, republicans have been very vocally critical of the vice president saying she has done a poor job in office especially when it comes to border issues. >> bill: trying to build her up. see how it goes. mark, nice to see you. >> dana: the same poll finds major concerns about president biden's health, physical and mental. just 32% overall think he has the mental sharpness needed to serve effectively. down sharply from 51% when he was running three years ago. a former clinton advisor, mark penn. wonderful to have you. the number is stark. 36% approval going into your re-election. your thoughts. >> when he drops here from 42 to 36 in approval in this poll,

that's all democrats who are jumping ship and saying i don't approve of the presidency he is doing. and i think we've seen for a long time the harris polling showed the same thing for a long time. people question his fitness for continued office. most democrats didn't want him to run. this poll has to send shock waves. he just announced for presidency. you are supposed to go up when you announce, not down. >> bill: you do this, too, though, right? you do the polling. your polling hasn't been this low. what did they find that all of a sudden triggered this? >> well, i think the announcement. i think the fact that he said he is running for president when less than 40% of democrats really support his re-election. remember, they rushed up this announcement. it was supposed to be in july. that would have given everyone an opportunity to see how he is doing and not freeze the field. instead he froze the field in the democratic party. everybody has to support him now.

and with numbers like this, they are looking at a potential titanic at this point unless it changes. >> dana: when you think about who might be the republican nominee, president trump obviously is the highest in the polls on that side. biden versus trump, trump over him. ron desantis not a declared candidate looks like he is going to but not yet, 42-37%. is that just people saying we would rather have a republican -- generic republican versus biden or thinking these two are the possible answer to their concerns? >> i think it's a little of both. i think this is a reflection of the low approval ratings for president biden. so he is dipping in his numbers. and the republican numbers are generally up. and i'm shocked to see trump with a 6-point lead. it says the biden re-election thing is a very risky proposition if you don't want trump to get reelected. i gave advice to the "wall

street journal" to desantis. get out of the cultural issues and get in the center. moderate conservative republicans who put romney and mccain in. you are barking up the wrong tree trying to get core trump voters. will he listen? >> bill: i was looking for the good news in this. here is the liberal patriot writing how the white working class could sink the democrats again. explain that. >> well, because that's really where the transition has been from the democratic party years ago to the republican party. let's face it, this election is really about the suburbs. who is going to be the most acceptable candidate to the suburbs? that's really going to determine the outcome. you notice when you look at the "washington post" analysis, they don't mention immigration, they don't mention crime. they barely almost wonder what's wrong with the economy? democrats don't see the full picture here. sure there are some things people think biden did well. he put in the climate change

agenda. backing a racial equity agenda. he is doing what he -- what the left wants. but even what a lot of democrats want in terms of expanding programs. on the other hand performance on the economy, crime, immigration, 40% or below. that's a problem especially when you -- >> dana: mayokas comes out all the time and says the border is secure and he says that over and over again. people aren't buying it. they have their own eyes. >> as you know, in "star wars" these are not the droids you are looking for. it is not credible. >> bill: if his voters aren't watching fox news, they don't see it. you can flip the dial and it is really hard to find. >> dana: it seems like it is working somewhere. his immigration numbers are really bad. >> crime, immigration, hunter biden story is beginning to bubble up. there is a lot of roadblocks here. look, everyone sees his age and everyone sees the question of

can he really go a second term here? by announcing early think he made a major mistake. he should have waited a bit. get his numbers up. be less political. >> dana: his fundraising numbers in the first 24 hours were not very good after announcement. otherwise, happy monday, everyone. >> bill: nice to see you. come back. i'll shake your hand. thank you, mark. california reparations panel voting yes to payments of up to $1.2 million to each black resident, the first of its kind plan now heads to the state legislature. william la jeunesse live in l.a. with more on this now. hello. >> you know, the saturday meeting cull min gnats two years of work focusing on how much money california owes african-americans here and who qualifies for the cash and subsidies. the report now goes to governor newsom and lawmakers. first the money. that 1.2 million per black resident is based on how many

years you lived in california. you are entitled to, for instance, $13,000 a year for health discrimination. about $2300 annually because of overpolicing and mass incarceration, and more than $3 thousand a year for housing discrimination. and more compensation you deserve for any business affected by racism or lost property. >> our black vote is for sale. it is land. no reparation, no vote. >> the panel also wants eligible blacks to receive subsidized mortgage payments, free college tuition, guaranteed annual incomes. automatic increases in the minimum wage, interest-free loans, end to cash bail and end of three strikes law and removal of any con federal monument or

memorial. >> it's a human right long overdue for millions of americans. >> what's next? upset by the media's publicizing the $8 hundred billion price tack they said black -- they also want an apology, bill. california banned slavery in 1865 but they believe segregation continues. to qualify for those payments you don't need to show harm, only you descended from an from time to time prior to 1900. not a victim of slavery. >> bill: where do you get the money? it comes back to that and more. william. thank you, nice to see you in l.a. >> dana: surge of migrants set to pour over the southern border after title 42 ends thursday. can the u.s. military stem the tide? we're live at the pentagon ahead. >> bill: actor scott baio is pulling up stakes in california. the former star says he is

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>> dana: a new "washington post" kff poll finds a majority of americans support restrictions than affect transgender children. champion swimmer riley gaines is urging female athletes to boycott competing against transgender girls. how will it go? chief washington correspondent mike emanuel live with the details. i thought the poll results were interesting to read yesterday, mike. >> fascinating numbers. that "washington post" poll finds most americans support

anti-trans policies favored by the gop. 57% of adults said a person's gender is determined from birth while 43% say it can differ. one sport where this has been a red hot issue is swimming where trans swimmer lia thomas at the university of pennsylvania has been dominant while a biological female swimmer told fox nation there has been a political shift here. >> think of the left. the democrats. they were once a party that embraced this idea-up held this idea and did everything in their power to fight for women and their rights and their sex-based protections. now we're seeing this totally flipped. we're now seeing republicans fight for women and our sex-protected right. >> there are signs it could be a red hot issue heading into the 2024 campaign. nikki haley touched on this issue in virginia beach this weekend. >> we've reached a point in american history where common

sense has gone out the window. think about it. we live in a time when men are playing in women's sports. we're told it is progress. believe me, it's not. >> at the white house, president biden and his team are on the side of the transgender community. >> we continue to stand with transgender and lgptq leaders in the face of extreme attacks and we'll continue to do that. >> some republicans are arguing this is a winning issue going into 2024. democrats insist are on the wrong side of the issue. >> dana: we'll watch that story. >> you all know my cousin. >> hold your breath. how are you doing, blue eyes? >> what are you selling today,

shrimp? >> for you i got no smear lipstick. we can test it out later. >> bill: that's classic. happier days might be ahead for scott bio. he said i'm finally exit stage right from california. he says the crime and homelessness are major factors in his decision, not to mention the taxes. comedian tom shillue has more on that. >> everyone had to have a catch phrase on happy days. >> dana: i loved that show. >> bill: he says goodbye. >> not surprised. kurt cameron was here and i asked him where he live. he lives in l.a. i just assume everyone is leaving. of course, he posts this online and everybody is being snarky. they need people like this. they need scott baio to stick

around. you can't blame him he is leaving. i sat in bryant park in 2014. sitting there in the those wonderful chairs and the city had come back from when i first moved here when the city was a total mess. i thought to myself it is never going back. now that we've seen what a city can do, it is never going back, and it is. >> dana: if you look across the country, the homeless population in u.s. state by state and homelessness is a problem across the country. california has 171,000. that was from 2022. that's the estimate. it is a lot. overwhelming and they -- even if they've tried they haven't been able to get a handle on it. >> yes. i think the people who -- the people who are progressive in their politics out of the chaos, they seek control of these cities. so it is hard, when can you take them back? i wonder when -- how bad does it

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mission. >> the additional 1500 active duty troops being dispatched for 90 days by the pentagon will join 2500 national guard troops already on the border. they are meant to act in strictly administrative roles and not to aid to law enforcement. a move used by excessive presidents going back to george w. bush. the active duty troops are pulled from camp lejeune, north carolina, a combat battalion from camp lejeune and the 93 military police battalion in texas. it will free up border patrol agents. mayokas mayokas gave this warning to migrants friday. >> the border is not open. it has not been open. and it will not be open subsequent to may 11th. >> clearly dhs felt there was a

need for the department of defense to assist so that they can continue to do their important work. secretary austin approved that request and that's what we're focused on. >> the active duty troops will not be permitted to support migrant processing or escort duties or participate in civilian law enforcement activities. they won't be responsible for property seized from migrants or have direct contact with migrants. >> president biden is sending 1500 quote soldiers to do paperwork. that's not going to secure the border. we need not 1500 soldiers, we 15,000 or to secure the border. >> most of the troops will be stationed in el paso, texas. the reason the white house has to call on active duty troops is because the decision was not taken in enough time to call up the national guard, sources tell fox. >> bill: we've seen the

reporting from el paso the last couple of weeks. that town is a mess packed with migrants already. >> dana: house republicans are teeing up a vote on a sweeping immigration bill to restart con shun on the border wall. place new restrictions on asylum seekers. let's bring in steve scalise. over the weekend and any time on air secretary mayokas says we need to pass immigration reform. never pressed to give details. is this the legislation he might get behind? >> it will be -- anybody who is serious about securing the border will support this. secretary mayokas paid lip service telling everybody the border is not open. everybody knows the border is open including people around the world, not just south and central america. we are seeing 140 countries

coming into our border. it will get worse. the bill we brought forward are things that president biden could do today. end catch and release. give our border patrol agents more tools to secure the border, not to process people coming in illegally. reinstate the remain in mexico protocol, mpp as it was known and the northern triangle agreements. those are all things president biden got rid of when he became the president and halted construction of the wall. the money is there. he could start building the wall again and do all those things on his own. he won't because president biden wants an open border. this bill to secure the border act that we'll vote on thursday shows the country how we can get secure at the border. i hope the secretary finally wakes up and says let's do it. i'm not holding my breath. we're going to act not sit on the sidelines while the crisis is already out of control and will get much worse. >> dana: so everyone has the numbers in 2021, 1.7 million people cam across. in 2022, almost 2.4 million.

year-to-date is 1.2 million. we know and the biden administration admits it will change on thursday when title 42 is lifted. could you listen to arizona senator kyrsten sinema from a border state in arizona and would like to try to do more. here is what she said. >> the biden administration had two years to prepare for this and did not do so. our state is going to bear the brunt. it will be a humane tehran crisis because we aren't prepared. >> dana: she is coming from an angle that some on the left would agree with. let's think about the migrants. we should. is she somebody that can try to get something done? she and senator tillis are saying maybe we could find a way to let biden use a type of 42. i don't see it happening by thursday, do you? >> so far they've shown in interest in doing it from the administration. this bill shows you how you can

get full secured border. if they wanted to go that route. look at the first two years of joe biden's presidency when secretary mayokas said congress should act. they had the house, senate and white house and never tried to act. in fact, it was administrative action that opened up the border. president biden with the stroke of a pen could solve this problem right now. he doesn't want to. you know what else they aren't talking about? they aren't talking about the nearly 300 young people every single day who are dying because of fentanyl and other drug overdoses in america that are directly due to biden's open border. that's almost 100,000 young people last year. why doesn't president biden care about the 300 young people that die today and tomorrow and brought in drugs like fentanyl in because the cartels are running the southern border. >> dana: house republicans have a bill to move forward. decide if the president will take you up on it. you meet with him tomorrow about the debt ceiling.

no reason you couldn't bring this up as well. thank you for being with us today. >> thank you. >> bill: 25 minutes before the hour. kate middleton crowned queen of kindness in today's hemmer celebrity news. check it out here. adorable video capturing the princess of wales consoling a young girl on the side of the road. she and william were making a surprise appearance. she got the hug and everything was good all over again. >> dana: that's sweet. i bet that's how people felt when they saw you at the derby. did they start crying in your presence? >> bill: i carried a box of kleenex around to console them. that woman has high e.q. i liked her from the beginning. we'll share a little derby coming up. >> dana: tragedy in chicago. a police officer is shot and killed as she returned home over the weekend. the questions investigators have

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>> bill: so 18 minutes before the hour now. a bit of a panicked exodus in southern ukraine after russia ordered weekend evacuations from the areas near a nuclear plant. the u.n. says fighting around that facility is getting increasingly unpredictable and might lead to a severe nuclear threat. the plant is europe's largest

nuclear power facility. it has been under russian control since the early days of the war in ukraine. watch that. >> dana: over the weekend a 24-year-old chicago police officer was shot and killed as she returned home from the city's south side. authorities say ms. preston may have been killed in an attempted robbery. no arrests have been made. garrett tenney live in chicago with the latest. good morning. >> good morning. this was just before 2:00 in the morning on saturday when officer preston was on her way home after working her shift on the city's south side when she was killed in her own front yard. at this point, police say it is not clear if the 24-year-old was targeted or if she was the victim of a robbery. her gun and badge were missing when officers found her laying in her front yard. it is also not clear why it took police more than 30 minutes to get there after the city shot spotter surveillance system

detected gunshots. they rushed her to the hospital where she passed away. police told us this morning no arrests have been made and over the weekend an emotional mayor lori lightfoot said this shooting should be a wake-up call for anyone who supported defunding the police. >> there are some who say that our police officers are not worthy of our respect. some who say that we should not be supporting and funding our police department. any person who holds that view, reflect on moments like this. >> mayor elect brandon johnson, who has supported defunding the police, said in a statement i'm outraged and devastated by this horrific violence against a public servant and do everything to support the family and cpd during the traumatic time. she was a three-year veteran on the force. she came from a family of cops

and set to graduate with her master's degree in criminology this weekend. her father told the chicago sun times she joined the force because she wanted to show young people that policing can have an impact on their community. dana. >> dana: a really big loss there in chicago. garrett tenney, thank you. >> bill: the justice department considering possible tax and gun charges against hunter biden but the republican chair of the house oversight committee is urging prosecutors to hold off on any indictment. james comer says that he will reveal some big new evidence on wednesday of this week. >> this is about the entire biden family, including the president of the united states. so we believe there are a lot of things that the i.r.s. and d.o.j. don't know about. they don't believe they've done a lot of digging in this. >> bill: miranda devine follows the story closely. welcome back and thank you for being on our program today.

he is saying what they have is a drop in the bucket. we've been waiting and waiting 3, 4, 5 years. i don't know what comer has. but will the d.o.j. trump him? if it does, does comer not -- is he unable to release his information? >> yeah, hi, bill. look, i think what james comer is telling us is that whatever the d.o.j. is doing in their five-year investigation in delaware into hunter biden's business deals, it is just a drop in the bucket. they are preparing for a slap on the wrist. i don't think that there is going to be anything imminent this week, as i think foreshadowed by the "washington post." it seems that this is going to drag on and there is certainly a lot of very strong fighting coming from hunter's side. he has teams of lawyers. the most expensive lawyers in

the country. and that's what u.s. attorney in delaware is up against. james comer, though, has been following the money. he seems to think that he has done a more thorough job than the d.o.j. has able to do in five years. let's see what he has on wednesday. but i don't think he will be -- >> bill: late on friday night msnbc had an interview it aired with the commander-in-chief. he was asked about this and the answer has gotten a lot of reaction. watch. >> sir, there is something personal that's affecting you. your son, while there are no ties to you, could be charged by your department of justice. how will that impact your presidency >> president biden: first of all my son has done nothing wrong. he have has enhanced my presidency by making me feel proud of him. >> bill: legal experts say just commenting oh than that is a

sticky wicket. >> this is something that joe biden and remember ron klain have been doing from the start and considering that joe biden is the boss of the attorney general, merrick garland who is the boss of the attorney in delaware has a chilling effect. who would want to be the attorney general at the moment with that kind of pressure coming down on him. what joe biden is doing is setting the stage for, you know, his pardon of his son, if it comes to that. in the lame duck period. he has always played the sympathy card. he has had a lot of tragedy in his life. that has been politically expedient for him. and i think he is doing the same here. he is setting himself up as someone whose only crime is that he loves his son too much. >> bill: "politico" echoes that a little bit. it wrote bracing for impact.

biden world preps for hunter biden fallout and says biden aides are more worried about the personal toll it will take on the president as a father. you dropped three stories last night at the "new york post." put them in one sentence. what do we need to know, miranda? >> well, again it's allegations that have been around for at least since 2018 about joe biden being involved and benefiting from his family's influence peddling scheme. we know from last week there was a whistleblower who came forward that james comer and chuck grassley in the senate seemed to be very excited about who said there was an allegation to the f.b.i. that was contained in a form with the f.b.i. from a confidential source alleging

that joe biden had received bribes from a foreign national, from the foreign country in order to change policy. don't know if those allegations are real, but that's what james comer says this whistleblower is alleging. now we find from another former u.s. attorney, this time from arkansas, that back in around that period he also brought to the d.o.j. -- in fact, to the u.s. attorney in new york, similar allegations that joe biden was involved this time in ukraine with some sort of bribery scheme. so again, jeffrey berman did nothing about this, as far as bud cummins knows and he got spied on himself. >> bill: james comer says he will talk on wednesday. we'll see what comes up and where it goes. thanks for coming on.

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>> harris: new polling shows if the presidential election would happen today, president biden is now losing to both donald trump and ron desantis. biden's polling shows a glaring weakness somewhere. plus the homeland security secretary declared the border is closed. can he see anything? our cameras tell a very different story.

all the people on the ground you can talk to, even before title 42 ends later this week. the president and his son, hunter biden, always the president says he has done nothing wrong. why saying anything could be interfering with the justice department's work? polling expertly carter, tom homan, phil holloway, "the faulkner focus" top of the hour. >> dana: thank you, harris. major concerns that off shore wind farms along the east coast may be killing whales. 34 have washed ashore since december and growing calls for a moratorium on off shore construction of the green energy projects. molly line is live in cape cod and will catch us up. >> hi. those numbers include a mink whale that washed ashore here late last week as the multiple of off shore wind projects are being approved and in some places the construction is underway.

34 dead whales reported along the east coast. nine in new jersey alone. that disturbing number has state republican lawmakers calling for a temporary halt to off shore wind projects while further research is conducted to find out if there is any correlation. >> we only have one chance to get this right or get that catastrophically wrong. where is the harm if we pause for 30 days or 60 days in this project to see if we are going to see a continuation of the unprecedented number of whale deaths? >> state democratic lawmakers including governor murphy's office pushing back that they have haven't investigated them. there was no evidence of specific links between recent whale mortalities and ongoing surveys for off shore wind development. the murphy administration will continue to responsibly pursue its off shore wind development

goals amid a climate crisis. some other theories from the im market climate change and changes in shipping activity and investigations are still underway. >> dana: we'll keep an eye on this. people want to know what's happening. >> bill: thanks, molly. on the track, denny hamlin takes the checkered flag from larson to win the kansas cup. pit row. the rivalry blew over. aggressive driving is the accusation and the punches fly. it was after the race. like a hockey match. i was in louisville, kentucky, churchill downs, kentucky derby, never been to the actual race before. the key is when you go to the derby for two days you have two different outfits. you have two different hats. saturday it was kentucky blue. friday for the phillies it was

white. my host, amazing guy, jeff ruby took great care of us. his daughter in the middle. great folks. jockeys before the actual race itself. we were inside, okay? there is castellano wearing the jeff ruby knickers wins the race riding mage and there were the boys hanging out. i want to thank jeff and churchill downs and the great people of louisville, kentucky for a great weekend. >> dana: harris faulkner is up next. >> harris: how far can the president of the united states fall? and will he take his entire democrat party down with him? president biden's approval rating is sinking like a stone and it is raising all kinds of red flags for democrats across the board. i'm hair use faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." the president is no stranger to terrible polling. at least not as of late. this is a new row en