polar prince. the u.s. coast guard says they are investigating while the submersible im -- why it imploded killing all five aboard and says one of the goals is taking a look at future regulations. the coast guard says they're working to recover the debris of the titan from the bottom of the ocean with the help of canadian authorities. >> dana: they will need that help and the investigation is super important. >> all hands. >> dana: florida governor and republican presidential candidate ron desantis looking at the border in eagle pass, texas. one of the hot spots in the border crisis announcing his plans to secure the border if elected president. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm dana perino. bill hemmer is off today. >> bret: i'm bret baier in washington. he focused on border security and immigration.

taking direct aim at president biden's open border policies. in a new video desantis is promising to secure the border, stop the cartels, build the wall, and stop the invasion. right now governor desantis is getting ready to meet with potential voters in eagle pass, texas as you look live there. we will -- he will deliver remarks and take questions there, we're told. here is some of what he had to say yesterday about president biden's immigration policies. >> the parolee is doing is unconstitutional. we sued him on things like catch and release. he is abusing the law to change the law to allow people to have an open border. we'll deputize state and local officials to also enforce immigration laws. >> dana: bill melugin is live in eagle pass, texas. what did you find out? >> good morning to you. this is governor desantis first trip to the texas border as a presidential candidate. as you can see behind me in a matter of moments he will be

meeting with potential voters here in eagle pass where he is going to lay out his plan for the border. eagle pass, the epicenter of the border crisis the last couple of years and show you what he saw when he got here last night. we were with him late yesterday afternoon as he arrived here in eagle pass, met with texas dps troopers for an operational briefing. shook a lot of hands. thanking him for sending florida law enforcement to eagle pass and the southern border to repel the invasion happening at our southern border. he saw some of the hot spots and we joined him on a boat tour of the rio grande. look at this video. we joined him on the florida fish and wildlife boats. we started seeing multiple groups of migrants crossing illegally in broad daylight right in front of the governor and myself cruising the river. some in the water, in the process of crossing illegally. others had already crossed over and being blocked by the state of texas with shipping containers and barbed wire.

the governor told me he found that approach interesting that the state of texas is trying to block them but the federal government doesn't take that approach. we joined him in the air in a helicopter tour of eagle pass, once again within a matter of moments we began seeing more migrants crossing illegally in the water below us. this is the sort of thing that happens all day every day here in eagle pass and his primary opponent, donald trump, is pledging this time around to carry out the largest wave of mass deportations in u.s. history. so i asked governor ron desantis to respond to that. listen. >> he said that in 2016 as well and didn't do it. they had some but didn't have anything out of the ordinary. so i think we would be much more assertive than he was in his first administration. >> president trump promised in 2016 mass deportations and you feel he didn't deliver. you are saying you will deliver on mass deportations? >> we will. there will be a firm and swift consequence to violating the

law. >> later on this morning governor desantis will hold a press conference and lay out his plan for the border if elected president. a few of the things he told me he would do in an interview on top of the mass deportations he would end catch and release. build a border wall partially funding it through taxing remittances from illegal immigrants and cut off all federal funding from non-government organizations and he says he would push to end birthright citizenship. in january of 2025 there will be a new sheriff in town when it comes to the southern border. we'll send it back to you. >> dana: thank you for that update and bret, campaigning going on all around. listen to this. >> they are concerned about crises at the southern border. [several people talking]

>> dana: a video the desantis campaign put out yesterday. the goal of the videos is not only get on the board but hope that it goes viral so more people will see it. he is still 30 points behind donald trump in most of the polls. >> bret: massive lead. immigration a huge issue. the trump people jason miller with the trump camp tweeting out ron desantis is the fisher price version of president trump. this goes back to that commercial that governor desantis ran with his kid building a wall with blocks and there you see the former president on the border pointing at the wall. there will be a battle here over this issue and we're just starting to see the beginning of it. >> dana: bill melugin will give us updates as desantis meets with voters down there dealing with it firsthand. in the meantime. >> russian intelligence must have known something was brewing. they keep people inside all these units loyal to the kremlin. that they didn't do anything

about it before it reached this fever pitch is really quite strange to me. >> bret: fascinating interview with condoleezza rice last hour on the short lived revolt in russia by the wagner group which ended after just 36 hours. but not before it claimed to have occupied key military sites in two russian cities. this incident is raising serious questions about vladimir putin's leadership. former ambassador to ukraine william taylor on this in moments. first benjamin hall live in london with the latest today. hi, benjamin. >> good to see you. what we saw today is putin back on russian tv trying to show both the russian people as well as the world he was in command of the country. he spoke to qatar leaders, iranian leaders. portraying that image of him as a world leader himself. despite this under the surface things have been weak for putin over the last couple of days. he spoke on saturday on television for the last time

saying there was a mutiny underway and his jet was thought to have left moscow perhaps fleeing away from the impending mercenary force. although the cue failed it did damage. wagner group was able to march near moscow and took over a city of a million people and the command and control center from one of the russian military operation in ukraine is being held. and amazingly crowds greeted them along the way as they marched to moscow showing some further distaste for putin's regime. the big question now is what happens next? nobody has seen prigozhin since he left yesterday agreed a deal with the belarus dictator to move there. he has given up anything, his company and has to assume he is on putin ace hit list. where he is going and where all his soldiers are going.

it will impact the war in ukraine as well. the russian soldiers right now along the front lines would have known what happened and how many of them will wonder who and why are they fighting and should they continue in these awful conditions? this is a big opportunity for ukraine to push its counter offensive. a senior government source in the u.k. said the world should prepare perhaps for the russian and putin regime to fall. doesn't look like art is happening now. does putin stay in control long and who comes next? someone better or someone like prigozhin, someone worse? >> dana: william taylor, former ambassador to ukraine. another great guest. ambassador, listen to another thing that secretary rice said what got this in motion in the first place. >> really set this in motion by allowing this back and forth between prigozhin and the defense minister and the chief

of the general staff. by allowing an armed militia within the state that was not controlled by the state, and then sending them off into ukraine and syria and other places taking advantage of their brutality and having them turn on him. >> dana: where do you see it today? are things calm or are we ex -- should we expect to see more? we still don't know where prigozhin is. if he will be in belarus. >> you are right, dana. we don't know where he is. we do know he is probably a marked man. when you cross putin, bad things happen to you. we've seen that. but we've also seen this last couple days has shown how weak putin really is. real cracks in his ability to govern. it is also demonstrates the problems in the russian

military. just as condy rice says this is an opportunity for the ukrainians. this is what we're looking for in the next couple of days and weeks. >> bret: mr. ambassador, former putin advisor markov said this. the entire world has seen russia is on the brink of the moves acute political crisis, the pooch failed now that they have reasons and the pooch will happen again and it could be successful. that's a word for violent overthrough of a government. what about that sentiment and do you think things are turning inside russia? >> i think they are. i think they are. it is not just this last weekend's events. you and others have report evidence a couple weeks ago there were two other units, military, political units that were made up of russians and these russians coordinated

themselves and with the ukrainian forces attacked into russia and went into a town there. it is the other -- and the support that prigozhin got in the city is indicative that putin doesn't have the support of the people like we thought he did. >> dana: what about reports about the concerns about the nuclear power plant. there have been things on twitter. i don't know if they're true. but that putin is making this a very unsafe situation by some of the things he is putting in place there. >> you are absolutely right. that is a real concern. the russian forces contain and are occupying the nuclear power plant, the largest one in europe. it is shut down now. so it is not actually generating power because the russians occupy it. but the concern is that the

russians may have done to the plant what they did to the dam that as we know blew and flooded the dnieper river. if they did the same thing to the nuclear plant it could have grave consequences if they blow it. no indication they have or real but it is a real concern. it would be a nuclear disaster in the heart of ukraine that the russians would again be responsible for. >> bret: ten seconds mr. ambassador. do you think this em boldens the ukrainians? >> it does. i've talked to them. they are juiced and pumped and ready and they are going to push hard on this counter offensive. >> dana: wonderful to have you. thank you for being with us. i'm sure we'll see you again soon. >> i look forward to it, dana. >> bret: a horrifying scene in detroit. a man walks into a gas station

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>> dana: disturbing video out of detroit appearing to show a man using a blow torch. the worker was rushed to the hospital and treated for first degree burns. police arrested the man and charged him with intent to murder and arson.

>> bret: more revelations coming in on the hunter biden tax investigation. the attorney for the i.r.s. whistleblower insisting that a trump-appointed federal attorney was denied a request from the justice department to be named special counsel in the case. david spunt is live at the d.o.j. with details this morning. good morning, david. >> good morning to you. one month from today hunter biden will appear in federal court in delaware to enter his plea, attorney general merrick garland and other d.o.j. officials are pushing back on any claim that u.s. attorney david weiss was blocked from prosecuting hunter biden last year. he have is the u.s. attorney that entered into the plea deal with hunter biden. authorities say he has full authority over the probe from the beginning and garland said he never came to him for a special counsel appointment. >> i don't know how it would be possible to block him from bringing a prosecution given that he has this authority. >> we reached out to david weiss

to clear things up. according to the whistleblower he said something opposite in 2022. according to shapley the united states attorney was present for the meeting and surprised us by telling us i'm not the deciding official on whether charges are filed. he wrote and signed a letter addressed to jim jordan. we obtained a copy. i want to make clear that as the attorney general has stated i have been granted ultimate authority over this matter including responsibility for deciding where, when and whether to file charges. hunter biden will feel guilty to two misdemeanor tax offenses. they say he earned more than $1 million in 2017 and 18 and owed 100,000 each year that were never paid by the deadline. weiss says he has no comment. garland says weiss is free to speak whenever he wants.

maybe congress will make that decision for him soon. >> bret: david, thanks. >> dana: critics ripping president biden after hunter went to camp david this weekend. there was a headline the biden family's long history of skirting the law. sweetheart deals. let's bring in "new york post" political reporter john levine. i don't think it was a surprise he went to camp david. he was at the state dinner with prime minister modi. they have hunter around all the time. they don't seem to think distance is a good idea or seem to want it or care there is criticism. >> i think president biden believes this is over now and thinks he thinks he won and settled the argument with the american people. i think he is going to say to the american people in the next two years during the campaign this was looked into by the department of justice, by a

republican pointed state attorney and he pled guilty to t two misdemeanor charges and he took responsibility, he had a drug problem and that is and he believes it will be a winning argument. >> dana: they aren't the only ones and evidence to back it up. a lot of democrats were saying it today. amy klobuchar from minnesota, a senator, explaining why she thinks it is no big deal anymore. >> hunter biden to be at the same event as the attorney general merrick garland was in the same week he accepted a plea deal? >> if that's what the republicans want to run on in the coming election good luck. the president is going to be able to run on the strength of his work in bringing 13 million jobs back to america. >> dana: she said the president's son had an addiction problem. we'll hear a lot of this. >> there is some legitimacy to the critics even in the best

case scenario he is a self-admitted tax criminal. i don't know the propriety of hanging out with him is great at state dinner and camp david. but in the priorities of what americans care about, the economy is going to be much higher than hunter biden. >> dana: is there another shoe to drop with the whistleblowers? >> that's a good question. we have two very distinct tracks going. the whistleblower said. you have to tell the truth in a whistleblower complaint. you take them seriously. the whistleblower says weiss was denied the ability to become a special counsel and prevented from pursuing various prosecutorial angles and charging positions and the attorney general and david weiss pushing back. it is unclear who to believe. david weiss coming to congress and establishing what the facts are is very important. >> dana: why not look at the other years as well?

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>> dana: short lived rebellion have people showing support for ukraine. >> the episode over the weekend renewed the debate over the war in ukraine. they ripped gop frontrunners. >> the two leading republican nominees for president donald trump and ron desantis, policy on ukraine is wrong. i wish they would stop fighting with american companies like disney and be more interested in supporting our allies against attacks against democracy. >> other republican candidates pushed more support for ukraine. the former president boasted his personal relationships with the presidents of russia and ukraine could end this conflict. >> before i even arrive at the oval office i will have the horrible war between russia and ukraine totally settled.

i will have it done in 24 hours. >> we have to give them the weapons they need to fight their battle against the russians and to repel them. and i think what this may do, john, is move us closer to a resolution of this battle because of putin's weakness. >> the u.s. government directed more than $75 billion to help ukraine fight the invasion. congress will have to decide whether to keep the money flowing in the coming months. >> should we do more? absolutely. this is a critical time for ukraine. >> this is not of the united states' making or ukraine. it is an internal insurrection within russia against more the ministry of defense than putin but makes putin looks like he can't control his own army and people. >> the u.s. government is closely watching stability in russia. the country with the most nuclear war heads on the planet. dana. >> dana: playing close attention. thank you. >> majority of us believe we

have to stand by ukraine. you can't let a bully do what putin is doing. we do best when we stand for what's right, truthful and i believe that ronald reagan's principles of strength -- peace through strength. >> making a case for backing ukraine against russia and standing up to bullies like russian president vladimir putin. in a recent survey by the reagan institute 75% say it is important to the u.s. that ukraine wins. 17% say it is not important. let's bring in marc thiessen, former speech writer to president george w. bush and fox news contributor. and washington director of the ronald reagan foundation and institute. gentlemen, thank you for being here this morning. it comes out every year. you guys do this study. what surprised you? the support for ukraine is clearly here. there is also some worry about

it. >> no doubt, bret. thank you for having me on. i think what surprised me is not that there are people who are worried about the support of ukraine using american taxpayer dollars to help kiev but when you give them information and tell them that 82% of the territory in ukraine is with ukraine and held onto the territory. the amount of money we've given amounts to 3% of the u.s. defense budget and that we depleted the russian military you see a huge swing 15 points or more saying it's worth it and support ukraine including republican voters. >> bret: what is in here, marc, americans believe the u.s. should withdraw international affairs and washington with -- meaning the priorities should be at home more attention on problems at home. you wrote a column about america first. why it fits in to support

ukraine under that philosophy. >> first of all, they support u.s. engagement and moral engagement in the world. americans generally and conservatives are not isolationist. they are reluctant internationalists. they want to lead in the world but have to have someone make to case why it is in america's national interest. what's encouraging about the survey the support for ukraine is strong despite the fact nobody is making that case to them. that's the job of the commander-in-chief. when is the last time you saw joe biden give a major address not saying we'll support ukraine but here is why this is in america's national interest. the consequences of success and failure and why this benefits us to help them. he doesn't do it. yet the american people strongly support ukraine. imagine if someone was making the case. >> bret: peace through strength and that's in here as well. 85% say a strong military is key for the u.s. >> no doubt. republican party continues to be

the party of reagan on this issue in terms of how they look at international engagement. the american people are there. when they think about international engagement in the world they understand a strong u.s. military is a key to peace and prosperity and a key to our economy. they look at the world, understand what's at stakes and why they understand they have to be on the side of ukraine and in the u.s. national interest. >> bret: people are concerned about world war iii and we get too far into this thing and it is never ending. >> escalation is an issue. biden administration have been self-deterred. i think what we've been seeing from putin and also in hong kong with respect to xi when there is a vacuum it is not being filled by friends or people who are freedom loving. it is by adversaries and they will exploit that opportunity and put us at risk. the strength required to deter those adversaries and advance freedom is the main theme from the survey.

>> bret: we are lucky to have condoleezza rice and brilliant about assessing the situation in russia. how do you see it? a rattlesnake backed up against the wall with putin? are we in a more dangerous situation? >> i don't think so. there was a coup against gorbachev, a lot of instability in russia. putin is in trouble and russians see the war is a disaster. they're not blind. it comes at a time when ukraine is launching a counter offensive and they have an opportunity to take back their territory. the big problem that they have in ukraine right now is the biden administration still is not giving them the weapons they need to prevail, to win a counter offensive you need tanks, air power and you need long range artillery. things the united states is denying ukraine. if he had f-16s now imagine the territory they would be taking. >> bret: thank you both for your time.

>> dana: florida governor and presidential candidate ron desantis is meeting with voters in eagle pass, texas. let's listen. >> you guys see it the most with just the sheer number of people. even in communities far away from here, you have thousands of illegal aliens that will show up. what does that do for medical care? what does it do for education? what does it do for criminal justice? all these things it imposes serious burdens on community when you don't have control who is coming in and out of your country. nobody knows who is coming in. when i was here, we've sent people to texas on two occasions. we did in 2021 with the initial biden surge because of his failed policies and i went down there and, you know, people act like it is people coming that these are mexicans coming in. i didn't see a single mexican coming in. people were there from halfway around the world coming through on this southern border because they know all you have to do is show up on the border and you

will get a ticket to come into the interior of the united states. there were people i was reading from libya, now have identified 10,000 chinese nationals coming across the southern border. our own government acknowledges that you've had a significant number of people on its own terrorist watch list that have come across the border. we know there have been a lot of criminal aliens that have come across the border. this is a huge problem. we will do something about it. in terms of some of the cost of this, though, we've done a lot in florida. one of the things we did, i have a tool in florida where i can ask the state supreme court to im panel a statewide grand jury. a grand jury that has wide investigative power. it can do criminal indictments and things like that but short

of that it can subpoena, get documents and issue reports. we did one about illegal immigration and particularly about people being brought into the state of florida. because a lot of this stuff is coordinated with non-governmental organizations and other types of people that are basically working in concert to evade immigration laws. and they were able to get a lot of evidence. they produced some reports, they'll do more. one of the things that i think was most shocking about this how the children are being treated. so what you will say is if you are just like an adult male and you try to come across, your chance of staying is less than if you have a kid in tow. so what they do is they found -- identified a bunch of examples of this, but one example there was a lady from honduras who had four kids and she wanted to come to the united states and there were these other men who wanted to come to the united states.

all of them had been deport evidence at least once, some multiple times. she rented out her kids to these adult males and then they all went across the border and because there was a kid it was fake, that gave them a leg up to stand. this is what our government is incentivizing, that type of conduct. can you imagine possibly renting out your own kid to somebody who probably doesn't have great intentions coming into this country? so it's created, i think, a real human catastrophe because of what the government is doing. in florida, we've taken action. we've done things like banned sanctuary cities, have employment verification, if you bring people into the state illegally you have stiff penalties. people have a huge impact. we'll do it legally and not mess with this and it's positive. one of the things we did, we're not a southern border state but

we are a maritime border state. it doesn't get as much fanfare. we have people try to run illegally with boats into the florida keys. haiti, bahamas, cuba, you name it. it is the coast guard's responsibility to take care of this. they do a good job but they don't have enough resources to stop all the boats. we were in a situation where coast guard started dumping people in the florida keys and you had some boats coming through and i'm like wait a minute. we aren't going to do this. i declared a state of emergency. we surged all of our marine assets to fill the gaps where the coast guard wasn't able to do and so what happens is you have a boat, maybe there will be 15 haitians on it coming illegally. you stop the boat. bring the haitians to the coast guard and the coast guard deports them back to haiti. guess what happened once people saw that that was likely to be the result of them trying to enter illegally?

the number of boats plummeted that were trying to come in the first place. why would you want to get into a rag tag vessel, go hundreds of miles potentially in very hostile waters sometimes, knowing that the only thing that will happen is you'll go right back where you started from. people aren't going to do that. the same principle applies at the southern border. if they come and know what will be happening is get a sheet of paper saying come up for a court date in three years and go enjoy the united states, well they will do that. if they come and they are not -- if they are denied entry or immediately repatriated, guess what? people won't want to mess with this. they won't say some coyote thousands of dollars to be able to do it because they know the united states enforces it's law. we have to reestablishment the rule of law in this country. [applause] we have to make sure that people understand that there is a

sanction to violating the law. we also should just be very clear look, this whole thing about asylum, there are legitimate reasons why someone would need asylum and there have been throughout american history. but what you are seeing now is an abuse of asylum. just think about it. if you have are fleeing a country, what you are supposed to do is the first time you get to safety you claim asylum wherever that is. instead we have people coming from south america traveling through all these other countries, showing up at our southern border entering illegally and claiming asylum here. that's not the way it works. i know chip is working on dealing with this legislatively. we'll do it through executive action where we won't entertain those claims at the southern border. we'll make it very clear to people and very clear that while we support the idea of bona fide asylum, 90 plus percent of these cases are not legitimate and it is being used to be able to shoe

horn them into this country against the law. so we'll definitely do that. to the extent you have some that are adjudicated people can wait in mexico for that ajudd indication. you don't come to the interior of the country and get a free pass. it is less appetizing to make a trip like that knowing you don't apply in the first place and you don't get a decision. it will dry up in the numbers of people who want to come. we have people in florida helping. i was in eagle pass yesterday, we did a boat tour, we did the helicopter but we have a lot of our guys, some of our fish and wildlife folks, highway patrol and so we've put a lot of people, we have national guard from the state of florida and we believe it is important. but what i think needs to happen is if the federal government won't do its job, the states should be permitted to send people back. that is what you need to do.

[applause] and right now -- there have been supreme court decisions. they say states can intrude on the federal government's prerogative to have integration. what the feds say goes. i don't know whether it's right or not but if the feds have the responsibility to do immigration, and they decide to just not do it, then are we just helpless and we don't have the laws enforced at all? i think the states have a role to play. i can tell you as president we're going to fully deputize allstate and local governments to be able to enforce immigration law. you will be able to have that authority. [applause] and we're not going to allow sanctuary jurisdictions to get

away with it. you think about some of these places, cities, states where they say we refuse to cooperate with any type of immigration enforcement. what will happen is you'll have somebody who is in the country illegally and serve a prison sentence. when they are done with their prison sentence a state or low kalt that is sanctuary will not notify ice they are getting out of prison. if they do ice can take them and send them back. instead, they release them back into the community. how is that something that is acceptable? it is not. we are going to turn the screws on sanctuary jurisdictions. they get a lot of money. all these states get a lot of money from the feds and grants and all that. we'll make sure to turn the screws so it pays to follow the law and doesn't pay to violate the law. [applause] >> dana: you have been listening to ron desantis in eagle pass, texas, the trip he took to the

border. bill melugin was with him yesterday and they saw some amazing things that happen there every single day and this is a chance for him to talk about an issue that is very high on the priority list for republican primary voters. >> bret: it's a massive issue especially for republicans but across the board. independents rate what is happening at the border a big issue. the fentanyl crossing huge issue. talking about all of that. he is -- when he talks, he has a lot of specific policy to back him up and he talks about what happens in florida. the question is whether the republican primary electorate is going to say it's time to go with somebody else and not former president trump. the polls just seem to indicate that the former president has a big hold on it at least right now. >> dana: there hasn't been a lot of movement on that front. in campaigns every once in a while somebody has a break-out moment and so we'll keep an eye on all of that. i want to talk to you about this. this is important. getting a slice in new york city

might never be the same. my sister was probably very upset. the democratic-run city is targeting coal and wood fired pizza places. pizza joints blasting the mandate. carley shimkus and abby hornacek. when will they ever stop is the question. they say you can pull this up. they say basically this will help deal with emissions. all new yorkers deserve to breathe healthy air and wood and coal fire stores -- this common sense ruled requires a professional view -- i feel like every time you think it's over, there will be another one. now this is the biggest contributor to that air quality. >> i'm glad you read the statement. i learned the city released the statement.

all new yorkers deserve to breathe healthy air. okay, i'm listening and have a baby in the city and want him to breathe clean air. then they talk about pizza. maybe they will address the subway smoke that billows out into the street and you have to hope for the best and the people that use the streets as their own personal bathroom but they talked about pizza. it felt like a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. >> dana: some of the people are saying this is a big one-time expense but requires maintenance every two weeks. you have to clean it. >> some owners are getting filter systems that cost 20 grand. if you take away the oven it is taking away a fastball. i did a sports reference for you, dana. city officials said it would affect less than 100 pizzerias but the most famous ones.

if you aren't from new york city you probably heard of these places, their pizza is famous because they use ovens from the 1800s. >> i have think that these stories are always gifts to republicans. like you said it keeps happening whether it's the straws, or the gas stoves, or the light bulbs. tangible things that people don't want to be taken away from them. you end up saying republicans and democrats both end up saying get out of my life. which is such an american feeling to have when it comes to government overreach and something i appreciate. >> the most dangerous pollutant is -- the biggest urban source of that is traffic. so instead of taking away the pizza, figure out the traffic. >> dana: where is the best slight? >> john's on bleaker. >> famous amelia.

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helicopters. we didn't march to overthrow russia's leadership. we turned around to avoid spilling blood of russian sol soldiers. we regret we had to hit russian aviation. an 11 minute voice individual know from prigozhin who is fearful for his next steps in his life. >> bret: the advice to him is don't stand near open windows in belarus. it is interesting. follow that. the "wall street journal" editorial board publishing a note over the weekend defending its decision to print what critics are calling a pre-bout all by samuel alito. it answered a report about a luxury fishing trip but it came out before the article was published. mike emanuel is live with details. >> good morning and good to see you. the "wall street journal" editorial board is defending its decision to public alito's

defense writing the political assault on the supreme court continues. the latest justice in the grinder is alito. as usual it is non-scandal built on partisan spin intended to harm the justice and current court majority. it the defense came out before the article was published. that he took a luxury vacation with a man with cases before the court. clarence thomas, they are out with a new book the people's judge, rejecting what he describes as pot shots at the supreme court. he said you can judge their works in what they do against what they have done in the past. if it's consistent it is hard to say anything influenced them. over the weekend, the justices received strong support from a prominent republican running for president. >> as president, i will nominate and appoint justices to the

supreme court in the mold of justices clarence thomas and justice samuel alito. [cheers and applause] we will also stand and defend them against attacks. >> bret: house speaker temps. >> it is shameful how justice thomas and justice alito have been so cavalier about their violations of what would be expected of a justice of the supreme court. nominated, confirmed for life with no accountability for their ethics behavior. >> some suggest this is selective outrage. political left has been silent on perks received by liberal justices, bret. >> bret: thank you. >> dana: we have this thing called before we go. want to show you this. too close for comfort encounter with an alligator caught on video. a man fishing along the edge of

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