and do this to say -- >> i've been on vacation with you, and you are fun. emily. >> like an adult only resort, if you want to be a place everyone else is doing the same thing, you find others on the phone distracting, go ahead. >> i'm going on vacation for a little while, i'll miss you guys, and i'll have my phone but put i on music. anyway, "america reports" now. >> john: all right, have a great vacation, i'm right behind you. awaiting a briefing of karine jean-pierre and john kirby in the wake of stunning whistleblower testimony alleging interference at every step of the hunter biden tax probe. good friday afternoon to you. >> we made it, good to see you, i'm aishah hasnie in for sandra

smith. this is "america reports." a house panel voted yesterday to release testimony given by the two irs agents last month and both of these claim the president's son received preferential treatment during the department's investigation. but it's a whatsapp message in the hands of house lawmakers now that's raising some eyebrows and new questions today. >> john: members of the ways and committee say the 2017 text hunter biden appears to invoke his father's name while pressuring a chinese business associate for payment. it seems to contradict president biden's claims he's never been involved in his son's business dealings. >> aishah: jonathan turley will join us in a few minutes. >> john: jacqui heinrich is live on the white house lawn. >> all we know about it comes from house ways and means

republicans who saw this presented to them by the whistleblower. we have not heard from anyone else about the authenticity of the text. the president, though, has long maintained as you said, that he's never spoken with his son about his overseas business dealings and if that whatsapp message ends up to be authentic, it's of course possible hunter could have been lying about his father sitting at his side as he pressured a chinese businessman for a paint. but house republicans who heard from the whistleblower want the president to answer to this. >> the president of the united states needs to respond to these -- these assertions, these allegations, because to me and to you and to your viewers, most of us believe that the president was very well aware of his son's business dealings but he has continued to deny, deny, deny over the course of numerous years. >> lawyers surrounding the president have been much more eager to respond to allegations of mishandling and preferential

treatment by the doj, fbi and irs in hunter's case. tells fox provided made clear it would be handled independently under the leadership of a u.s. attorney appointed by former president trump free from my political interference by the white house. he has upheld that commitment. but the whistleblower claims that weiss wanted to bring charges against hunter in washington, d.c. last march, and california last fall and was denied. the department of justice tells fox as both the attorney general and u.s. attorney david weiss have said, weiss has full authority over the matter including responsibility for deciding where, when and whether to file charges deemed appropriate. he needs no further approval to do so. the whistleblower's attorney says that's just not true. >> doj says this was all on david weiss, but witnesses, including the special agent in charge and assistant special agent in charge for the fbi,

baltimore field office for the irs, including gary, were all there when david weiss told others doj was blocking him from doing this. doj needs to answer that. >> congressional republicans who are probing these claims say they have more people they want to talk to, john. >> john: the edge of this ball of wool just being pulled on, jacqui heinrich for us at the white house. thank you. that irs whistleblower claims u.s. attorney david weiss tried to bring charges against hunter biden but was told no by higher-ups. his testimony challenging attorney general merrick garland's statements to congress in march when he said weiss had full authority to carry out the investigation however he wanted. let's bring in jonathan turley, constitutional law attorney and a fox news contributor. jonathan, let me set the stage here before we get your comment on it. i want to go to call for number 2 here for the control room, here is what gary said in his am t, biden appointed d.c. u.s.

attorney graves would not allow him to charge in his district. u.s. attorney weiss stated he subsequently asked for special counsel toronto from maine doj and denied that authority. call for number 4, what merrick garland said moments ago. >> this constitutes an attack on an institution that is essential to american democracy and essential to the safety of the american people. nothing could be further from the truth. you've all heard me say many times that we make our cases based on the facts and the law. these are not just words, these are what we live by. >> john: garland is saying it's untrue and trying to put a stain on the system of justice in this country. what do you say? >> welcome to the state of missouri. the responses show me. the problem with merrick garland, keeps on saying you

need to trust us, we are the government. we state these words as our motto. the public doesn't trust his department. his department's level of trust is lower than it was under his predecessor, bill barr. and over majority of people believe the fbi, department of justice, are now politically compromised, that they are engaging in interference with the election as opposed to protecting democracy. that can't be sustained and it can't be corrected by just saying well, we have this motto, and we live by it. that's not enough. now, we haven't been able to obviously authenticate this information, but what we do know is that these are people that made statements to congressional investigators under the threat of prosecution if they lie. and that comes with an element of credibility doesn't mean you have to accept it as true. the same thing is about this

message. there's no authentication, but these are chilling statements that are coming from two respected federal employees who are now whistleblowers. the problem that garland has is that much of this investigation just doesn't fit very well logically. you know, they spent five years to charge violations that you could have established in the first month, and notably it doesn't fair an fara violation. if that's authentic, the question again is what happened to fara, the department of justice charged various people during the trump administration about being unregistered foreign agents, including paul manafort, whose case seems strikingly similar to this one, but nary a mention of it in any of this. >> john: our david spunt moments ago asked merrick garland about

that allegation that was elucidated in the testimony to congress. >> as i said at the outset, mr. weiss was appointed by president trump as the u.s. attorney in delaware and assigned this matter during the previous administration would be permitted to continue his investigation and to make a decision to prosecute any way in which he wanted to and in any district in which he wanted to. mr. weiss has since sent a letter to the house judiciary committee confirming that he had that authority. i don't know how it would be possible for anybody to block him from bringing a prosecution given that he has this authority. >> john: after talking to the attorney general, david spunt reached out to david weiss's office, they said thanks for reaching out, we decline comment. who is telling the truth here? does weiss have the authority, did he try to get prosecutions and rebuffed, how do we know?

>> that's the problem with what we have heard from merrick garland, he tends to repeat the same lines over without giving additional information. it may be true that weiss was not refused the opportunity to present this to a grand jury. i assume that to be the case, until someone shows me evidence to prove to the contrary. but garland has a burden now to shoulder. he has testified in congress that there was no interference. you have two people who have direct knowledge and involvement in these meetings who say there was interference, and it was so pronounced that people objected in the meetings. they said that when they wanted to ask questions about the president they were rebuffed. whether they wanted to do searches, they were either prevented or in their view the searches were compromised. you can't get more serious than that. and what really makes me a little bit miffed is to hear

garland say how dare people talk about their department of justice in this way. well, yeah. people are talking about it because you have whistleblowers who said that it was not our department of justice, that people had taken it over for political purposes. it is the care for that institution that is leading to these questions. and if you want to regain the integrity and the trust in the department you have to do more. so at this point i think the answer is clear. congress has every right to start calling people into congress. on the top of that list, just might be hunter biden but it also should include merrick garland and weiss and a couple other people mentioned. the american people are losing patience. so it's a little late to say trust us. you are going to have to show us. >> john: already, many layered onion as we peel it back layer by layer. jonathan turley have a great weekend.

appreciate it. >> aishah: new questions about the implotion of the titanic submersible that killed all five on board. the u.s. navy likely picked up on sounds of that implotion days ago. mike tobin is live in st. john's, canada. and mike, what are you learning more about that noise? >> well, one thing we know, aishah, we never got the miracle that people frankly all over the world were holding out hope for. you mentioned the noise, we know the days of searching and days of hoping were all in vain. the u.s. navy confirms that acoustic technology picked up sounds consistent with an implotion of a submersible shortly after the titan submerse in lost contact with the surface. and that information was forwarded to the incident commander of the multi-national search and that is a point that really is angering adventurer deep water explorer and titanic director, james cameron. >> you know, all of this has just been people running around, waving their arms with their

hair on fire for four days straight and i just feel terrible for what the families must have been going through during that time and that then goes back to why the authorities chose to not say what they knew. >> families and companies connected to the pilot and passengers on board the titan have issued statements, common themes, of course theme of sorrow, gratitude for the people who conducted the search and comfort knowing the adventurous people died doing something they were thrilled with and they love. now, there are still assets out at the search site, about 400 miles south of where we are now. the remote operated vehicles we know from the coast guard were still in operation, but no decision has been made yet. if the wreckage of that titan submersible will be pulled up to the surface and salvaged. >> aishah: thank you, mike. >> john: i watched the whole statement that james cameron made and he said he knew monday

who had happened, he's gone down to the titanic a number of times and done so much research on this, and people that he knows have acoustic sensors, maybe not military but for research purposes and he confirmed they heard the implotion, so he was sending out messages on monday it was gone. >> aishah: what do you do, you can't just call off the search. >> john: you have to confirm. >> the families want to know this is exactly what happened and that's what we found out yesterday. >> john: can't just say heard a noise, must be gone, shut everything down. i think it was responsible for the authorities to engage in search in rescue until they had confirmation. i'm sure the families felt that way, too. [bleep] >> john: a wild scene in los angeles. a sheriff's deputy opens fire after a driver repeatedly rams into his patrol car. so how did this chaos all begin?

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>> john: starting today, some of the republican hopefuls for the white house will address the faith and freedom coalition conference here in washington. a year after the dobbs ruling overturning roe v. wade and the candidates are expected to lay out how they plan to win over evangelical voters. mark meredith is live from the conference in washington. no shortage of people speaking today. what are voters saying about who

they plan to support, mark. >> john, you are right. one of the must stop visits, evangelical voters may make all the difference in next year's republican presidential primary. so many candidates in the last hour or so wanted to talk about their criticism of the biden administration but i also thought it was notable about how many candidates also said they feel abortion should play a bigger issue in next year's primary. >> so i want to say from my heart every republican candidate for president should support a ban on abortion before 15 weeks as a minimum nationwide standard. >> i would fight to make sure taxpayer funds are not used to support abortion. and if congress acts, and if congress acts, i will sign a federal law to restrict abortion as well. >> former president trump, he is going to be speaking at this conference tomorrow night.

we are going to listen to see if he clarifies his stand on the potential ban on abortion, and the supreme court justices he appointed while in office. senator josh hawley told me he's not ready to endorse, he believes the race may be over. >> i think donald trump is going to be the nominee, i've said that forever. i think it's going to be trump versus biden and i know where i'm going to be in the match-up. >> trump got a boost in the ballroom when the lieutenant governor of north carolina offered his endorsement to trump before senator tim scott was going to speak. and heard from florida governor ron desantis, a warm reception from the crowd. the only one with a little pushback, chris christie was booed quite a few times. john. >> john: there's no surprise there, considering what he's saying about former president

trump. all right, mark meredith with the latest on that. don't forget, will hurd, former congressman from texas, coming up next hour. he's thrown his hat in the ring. >> aishah: democrats are raising the alarm over a third party spoiler candidate. new emerson college poll shows president biden leading former president trump 44% to 43%. head to head match-up. then when there's a third party candidate involved, all of that changes. fox news contributor and former deputy white house chief of staff, karl rove. karl, good to see you. i want to bring up these two polls that we can see how they compare, so of course when they are head to head, biden and trump are pretty much at a dead heat here. but add the third party candidate in this case west, it changes dramatically. biden loses the points and actually dips down a point below trump. so, democrats are going to scoff at this and we hear this all the

time, they say that none of these challengers are actually real challengers, but history tells us otherwise where we could really see an incumbent president not do well if there's a primary challenger, right. >> yeah, look, history is replete with instances where we have third party candidates who damage a major party candidate by getting a small sliver of the vote in a very close election and cornell west, on one party label and going for the green party line as well, you know, while he takes only 6% of the vote, nonetheless polls pretty significantly from joe biden as opposed to donald trump and as a result, biden drops below trump. so, this is part of the problem the democrats face. a left wing of their party is less than enthusiastic about donald -- excuse me, about joe biden and part of that is issues and part is age. the left wing of the democratic

party is disproportionately young and look at 82-year-old prospective candidate and say can't we do better than that. >> yeah, so i want to get your reaction to this. there's a no label party and could put up the third party here. they have not announced one yet, but politico is reporting they are privately floating the idea of senator joe manchin from west virginia as the nominee and he was asked about this yesterday. listen to this and your reaction on the other side. >> been a lot of talk recently about the possibility of you running for president. what do you make of that? is that a lot of drama? >> no, bottom line is, everyone is trying to find a sensible reasonable middle and the democrat and republican party have gone to extremes. if we can have a movement that brings people back, showing there is a tremendous support for the centrist middle where you make common sense decisions where the country could be more comfortable. >> karl, he did not seem very

supportive of joe biden. is he right? >> well, look, again we go back to a little bit of change in the structure of an election can bring about a big difference in the outcome, and remember, the democrats have already got a problem. cornell west, he's the candidate of a couple of sort of left wing third party lines and states. the no labels effort is an attempt to create a party label that is a party line in every one of the 50 states for a centrist candidate. i don't know if it's going to be joe biden or not, but i can bet you pretty well the no labels group has the resources and the plan to get themselves, if not all 50 states, close to 50 states and the district of columbia for the 2024 election and could be a problem for the democrats depending who they name. it could also be a problem for the republicans because a

centrist candidate might be able to get some people who were disgruntled republicans. so this shows how complicated and, you know, sort of up for grabs the 2024 election could be. >> aishah: let me piggy back on that. if donald trump is not the gop nominee, does any of the third party talk, is it all irrelevant and could he actually turn into a spoiler candidate if he does not win the nomination where his supporters don't show up? >> yeah, look, no labels says they are looking for an alternative to a trump-biden election. so either trump or biden not to run, a lot of the rationale for no labels goes away. they still want a centrist candidate. again, at that point it's too late for president trump to get on the ballot if he decides to become a third party candidate. if he -- if he gets beaten in the race as opposed to withdraws

voluntarily, it's difficult because we have in some states what are called sore loser law, you can't run for an office if you have lost the nomination of the party for the office and a lot of states is really, really difficult to get on the ballot. there are there are 3 or 4 states by this fall it will be too late to get on the ballot as an independent candidate unless you begin that activity now. so no, i don't think any republican who fails to get the nomination is going to be able to be on the ballot as an independent candidate. >> aishah: karl rove, live for us, thanks for joining us and have a great weekend. >> you bet, you too. >> john: white house press briefing with john kirby and karine jean-pierre set to begin probably the next half hour, a little more than that. we could get some questions on the biden family business dealings from irs whistleblowers. will we get answers, another question. >> aishah: new york city store owners are fighting back against

rampant shoplifting. will officials take away a strong tool in their battle? one grocery store owner is trying so hard to protect his business. >> having to deal with shoplifting is the hardest thing. the challenge is your job versus your safety.

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>> john: unusual start to the atlantic hurricane season. tropical storm bret seen here pounding barbados and st. lucia, tropical storm cindy formed late last night. first time in recorded history two tropical cyclones have formed east of the lesser atilles in the month of june.

and texas, record breaking heat wave. triple digits for days, more than 14 all time highs over the last two weeks. the extreme heat could last into early next month. and here in d.c., two and a half weeks with no rain, doing nothing but rain. we need the water, though. [screeching tires [bleep] gunfire] >> aishah: out of los angeles, a driver seen doing donuts in the middle of an intersection and repeatedly ramming into a sheriff deputy's patrol car during an attempted traffic stop. the deputy then opens here. jonathan hunt has the latest. how did this even start? >> well, it all unfolded, aishah, around 4:30 in the morning. the officer approaching what would have seemed like a routine

situation that very quickly took a different turn. the driver of the suv had been driving at high speeds and performing donuts in the street so the officer pulled into the intersection to warn other drivers of the danger and to pull over the suspect. that's when that suspect drive directly at the deputy's vehicle, ramming into it with such force, the impact moved the police car several feet across the street and pushed it on to the sidewalk. the officer opened fire at that point but the suspect backed up and rammed the car once again as the deputy fired more shots. the entire incident caught on the cell phone video shot by a bystander. deputy was injured as you can imagine by the impact but will be ok. >> it's -- you can see extremely dangerous out there. as far as trying to prevent these individuals when they are in a vehicle and they are travelling at such a high rate of speed -- >> the driver of the trail blazer was wounded by the

deputy's gunfire. he underwent surgery yesterday and we are told will survive. clearly, aishah, a terrifying few moments for everyone in the area at the time, and especially for the sheriff's deputy, who no doubt has seen so much on the streets here of l.a., likely never expected this incident to turn into a potentially deadly attack. thankfully it was not deadly in the end. aishah. >> aishah: incredible, and that guy's life is over. you cannot do that and get away with it. jonathan hunt, thank you. >> john: more business owners are leaning on new technology to stop thieves from ransacking their stores. now, new york city councilmembers are looking to ban facial recognition software over privacy concerns. our next guest has 16 stores in the big apple and spent over a million dollars to protect the

properties over the last year. set the stage for us, abi. how bad has shoplifting and retail theft become in your particular neck of the woods? >> sure, thank you for having me. you know, we have all heard of the wild, wild west, this is now the wild, wild east. it is completely out of control. throughout the city drug stores have shut down, and now supermarkets are closing as well. during the covid crisis we were there helping the city, many of our stores are open 24 hours a day and now the past year and a half or so, the district attorney in new york has told the police that his policy is not to arrest thieves who steal up to $1,000, so this is not a conservative policy or a liberal policy, this is just an insane policy. so, anyone can come into any

supermarket or clothing store or other retail store, steal up to $1,000 at a time and not get arrested. >> so here -- let me get to what you do in a second. let me continue to set the page to how bad it is. new york city retail test, 45% increase in 2022 over the past year, over the past five years, gone up 77%. now to you. you had an incident at your morton william store across the street from columbia university, five people came in and basically ransacked the store, filling duffle bags full of meat, toothpaste, detergent and more. one of them even pulled a knife on a store employee who tried to intervene. holy cow. >> yeah. it's actually -- these statistics are actually much, much higher than what's reported. because they no longer report on all these instances that are below $1,000 at a time.

so the numbers are triple or quadruple the amount. columbia university, it happens at every one of our stores and happens every day. last night at the columbia store the same thief who came in last week came in again at 3:30 in the morning with a baseball bat. >> john: oh, my gosh. >> and stole our entire health and beauty aid section and the employees could not fight with him, they immediately called the police, they called local columbia security and it's literally nothing is being done. this particular individual, the third time already. this is going on across all of our stores. >> so we pointed out a moment ago that you have spent more than $1 million hiring off duty police officers to protect the stores in the last year. you have been looking into installing cameras with facial recognition software to identify customers and flag people coming

in the store the first time. new york city city council is saying no, no, no, you can't do that, the error rate is too high, infringement on people's civil rights. what do you say? >> you just can't make that up. here the city refuses to arrest thieves so here, the retailers want to use technology, the same way we used in the olden days, polaroid picture, catch a thief, take a polaroid picture and if they come in again, you stop him or her. we would not store any information about anyone except for thieves. if we catch a thief, we have his or her picture, put it in the computer. if he or she tries to go to any one of our stores, the manager would get a text message, go up to the thief, and ask the thief to kindly leave the store, that's all it is. it's not collecting any private information. but new york city wants to make that illegal. and once again, you can't make this up. on one hand, they do not want to

arrest the thieves. and the other hand, don't want to give retailers the ability to fight back and now it's even worse. now we have tens of thousands of new immigrants coming into the city and you know, the city is welcoming them, which is very nice. however, these tens of thousands of immigrants are not allowed to work legally in new york. the city is telling them two options. option number one, get an illegal job in the underground market for cash, or you could go steal. it's your choice, do one of those things but you cannot work legally. it's absolutely out of control and again, it's not conservative or liberal, this is literally insane. >> john: law and order does not know political boundaries, that's one thing, that's for certain. avi, good to talk to you. we'll stay in touch and see where all of this goes. >> thank for having me. >> aishah: a new study is asking

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8-year-old florida boy reacts with just pure joy after he learns that his family, which has been homeless for months now, finally found a place to call their own. the heart warming moment is captured on camera in this now viral video. watch this. >> this is our house. >> what? >> this is our new house. we signed a lease today. we move in on april 10th. this is our house. oh. are you happy? oh. it's our house. >> aishah: oh, my god, it gets me every single time. joining us now is evan and his mom mallory. good to see you. first of all, congratulations. what a big moment. what a core memory here and so much emotion there. a lot went on before you got to this moment, you guys were

homeless for a couple of months, mallory, tell me about that, and how tough it was and obviously that's what led to this big moment. >> yes. so, my husband about a year ago this month underwent an emergency heart surgery that unfortunately put him out of work for a really long time, about six months. and i work in education as a para professional special education classroom and unfortunately my wages do not cover all of our bills so to prevent eviction we had to leave our very pricey apartment back in january. we were offered a room by a friend's sister which was very generous and kind of her. so the kids were sleeping in the garage and my husband and i were in the spare room. so it was tough at first. unfortunately she had some health issues herself, that only

lasted about 45 days. all in the same time we are still really trying to find a place to live and there is just such limited amount of homes in our price range so that was really, really tough. and then eventually we had to go into a hotel and we were in the hotel about three weeks and i applied for this home on a wednesday morning and we were -- this was after about eight homes of being rejected, our applications. feeling very helpless and we applied for the home and within about 15 minutes of our application it was accepted. so -- we were very -- >> it's a beautiful home. evin, i have to ask you, tell me what you were feeling when mom told you this is yours. >> well, i really felt happy and i didn't know what to do in that

moment. my nervous system went scream or cry, and i went cry. >> aishah: both. >> both, yeah, all those things. >> aishah: well, we loved watching -- and i'm sure mallory, you were probably taken away by his reaction, too. tell me what you were thinking and feeling when he just broke down. >> it was hard, you know. it kind of showed me how much he was holding in the whole -- they were really put on a brave face for a long time while we were struggling and they went through quite a lot in this past year, so the release of it all was really quite cathartic, it was the most organic thing, and almost 10 million views around all socials, why everyone loves it because it's real.

>> aishah: it is, and because of your story. so many people i think can relate to you, people are struggling out there with inflation and rising housing prices. and you both, you and darryl did not give up and did not give up because of your kids, because of evin and jace. we are proud of you as a nation and congratulations to you both, and i hope you get to enjoy your new room. >> oh, he loves it. he's in there all day. >> aishah: thank you for joining us, guys. so happy for you. >> thank you, have a good one. thank you. >> john: i don't know who is more emotional, aishah or evin? white house briefing under way with john kirby. let's listen in. >> almost every day, whether it's talking to him about security assistance or the idea of the just peace and those conversations are ongoing and we'll continue to conduct them, not only with the ukrainians but allies and partners alike.

>> john, china is complaining the president's description of xi as a dictator is a provocation. could you walk us through the president's thinking? >> the president walked you through that yesterday, steve. we are not bashful about speaking plainly, about some of the concerns and issues that we have with the prc and the challenges that they propose and the president is very forthright in the way he addresses those challenges and the complicated nature of this relationship. but it is an important relationship and you heard the president talk about that yesterday as well. it's one of the most consequential bilateral relationships in the world today and likely going forward. and it was important to see secretary blinken make that trip to beijing, we are in the discussions about the visits by cabinet officials, see where that goes. but more critically, we want to make sure we can keep the lines of communication open and as the president said, he has every

expectation we'll be able to do that. >> you see india as a counter weight to china? >> this state visit was not about china. and look, india has challenges with china as well. right on their doorstep, but also more broadly in the region. and clearly the challenges presented by the prc were on the agenda, no question about that. india is a sovereign independent state and they live in a tough neighborhood. they are becoming an increasing exporter of security which we welcome and you can see a lot of that, our desire to improve the defense cooperation on hand yesterday in some of the deliver rables, whether it's co-production of jet engines, purchase of mq9 drones, a lot we can do on the security front together and we are focused on. >> john, to follow up, you are

saying the u.s. does not view india as having any role in its overall competition against china? >> i didn't say that. i said that we are not viewing india as a counter weight to china and we were not approaching the state visit as some sort of messaging opportunity to china. it was sending the message to the american and indian people how important the bilateral relationship is around the world. india has challenges with china on their own and they address those challenges, largely on their own. now, i will add that they are a member of the indo-pacific quad and have been a terrific contributor through that multi-lateral form. it's not a formal alliance, it's not a military organization and they have legitimate concerns in the indo-pacific that they are addressing through their own vehicles as appropriate. >> and just to follow up on steve's question, the president was so confident in saying that

his dictator remark had no impact and no real consequence on the work the u.s. and china continue to do to try to find, you know, a place of compromise and competition. china's reacting differently. so, why is the president saying so confidently that his remark had no real consequence? >> because he believes it. and we are still in communication with the prc about moving this relationship forward. that's what we are focused on. and every indication that we are getting is that that's what the prc wants to focus on as well. >> you understand -- [inaudible] get out of hand and the israeli settlers against palestinians including american palestinians and houses are burned down to the ground. your own ambassador said that we cannot stand by and watch. what does it mean. what practically, how does that

translate this? >> well, look, we have certainly seen reports now of u.s. citizens at risk and potential victims here, actually having become victims of some of the violence and we are actively engaging with the government of israel about that. several u.s. government officials visited the west bank and met with the victims of this violence in a place called termisia, i hope i'm pronouncing that right, we will stand ready to do that. look, i'll say it again for i don't know how many time, we condemn all acts of violence. we certainly extend condolences to the families of those affected, we issue a speedy recovery for those injured. the violence is not helping reduce the tensions at all and when you have a situation like this, leadership is really required. leadership on both sides to stop the violence and demonstrable in

doing so the tensions can be turned down. that's what we want to see. >> the israeli national security minister spoke today at an outpost and urged israeli settlers to expand their activities to be included in all of the west bank mountains. despite the violence you just talked about and other international calls to hold settlement buildings, we are still hearing this from high officials from the israeli cabinet. why do we still hear this and does the white house condemn actions and calls like that? >> we have been clear and consistent that we do not support additional settlement activity. our policy with respect to settlements has not changed and will not change. and we have -- will not change and we have been very consistent in communicating that directly to government officials in

israel. i cannot speak to their comments or why they are saying what they are saying, that's a better question for them. i can just tell you our policy on settlements has not changed and there is not going to be a change to it. >> thank you so much, hi, john. two questions about the trip to copenhagen tomorrow. brazil, saying both sides we will have concede in order to have a peace plan to work. what does the national security adviser want to accomplish when he's meeting representatives of brazil, south africa, turkey, does the white house think progress will be made? >> i don't have any trips or travel to speak to mr. sullivan, we have engagements of all different kinds trying to seek a just peace and to discuss the peace principles around that. we will continue to do that. >> more question very quickly.

united states and russia had requested from brazil the extradition of a russian spy who is in jail there. is he seen as a potential candidate for a prisoner swap deal to free the wall street journal reporter, evan gershkovich, is this considered. >> i don't have any context. but broadly speaking what happened, evan's appeal was denied, not surprising, but just another example of the agregious nature of the so-called justice system in russia. nothing is going to change about our efforts to try to get evan and paul whalen home to their families where they belong. >> taiwan and india, what does the u.s. expect the indian involvement be if china invaded taiwan? as i said earlier, clearly our mutual challenges with the prc and the indo-pacific was a

matter of discussion. indians have been very vocal about their concerns, too, with respect to the prc is doing. but i don't have anything more specific to read out in terms of the conversations specifically regarding taiwan. all i can tell you on taiwan, our policy has not changed. >> adventure tourism vessel headed to the titanic, if the navy had audio suggesting it had imploded, was that communicated with the partners that had that audio, or -- >> the navy did pass on to the incident commander the acoustic data that they had received but they were also quick to make clear that they couldn't be definitive what that data meant. and they couldn't be clear that that data was connected to the titan, so the submersible.

but they did pass that information up to the incident commander, as you would expect they would, and i'm sure that that was factored into the search plan in some way but i would refer you to the coast guard to speak to specifics. >> are you concerned that resources were wasted in searching the area the size of connecticut? >> no. i think the coast guard has spoken definitively about this and quite well every day here, or at least every day until we got the tragic news, that there was an awful lot of effort put into trying to locate the titan. look, when you are in a search-and-rescue operation, particularly at sea, particularly in deep sea, i mean -- time is not your friend, and i think you can see from the way in which this was put together and pretty quick fashion with a lot of resources from as karine mentioned from multiple countries, a tremendous effort put forward to find the titan as quickly as possible, knowing that time was not going to be anybody's friend.

>> john, when the president said yesterday he expects to meet with president xi in the future near term, can you define what that means? should we expect that by the end of the year? >> near term, i don't have anything more specific than that. the president will absolutely -- >> john: all right, and with that, we will jump out of the briefing and back to our regularly scheduled programming, john kirby at the white house taking questions, nothing on the pressing issue of the day and that is newly revealed testimony from those whistleblowers about the hunter biden investigation. however, the next 60 minutes, lots more on that coming up. watch here. >> these are big allegations, these relate not only to interference from the department of justice, the bigger question in some ways is why were these allegations that relate to, you know, such significant -- significant crimes not fully investigated. and we may never know. >> john: a representative for an irs whistleblower speaking out