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another significant story happening at we speak. live look now federal courthouse wilmington, delaware. hunter biden about to plead guilty to avoid jail time. could a last minute legal dispute derail this thing? republicans are waiting on this moment for five years. that day is today. it has arrived. i'm bill hemmer. next two hours. >> dana: it will be a big one today. i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." we have a lot going on in the show today. hold on tight and we'll take you through it. hunter biden's court appearance is 10:00 a.m. eastern expected the plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges and entering a separate agreement on a gun felony. >> bill: the deal has outraged republicans. they say prosecutors were pressured to go easy on the president's son and urging the judge to disregard the agreement. >> dana: and here is what

happened. republican congressman jason smith tried to intervene in the case. he filed whistleblower testimony on the public docket detailing allegations of political interference. >> bill: the allegation. apparently a member of hunter's legal team called the court to have that information sealed. the judge says that person lied about who they were and who they represented and present tended to be a member of the republican smith's legal team. >> dana: hunter biden's counsel denies that accusation chalking it up to a misunderstanding. will the judge buy that? we'll find out in less than an hour. analysis from andy mccarthy. we start with griff jenkins outside the courthouse in wilmington, delaware. >> good morning. we're keeping an eye out. any moment now we expect hunter biden to arrive at the federal courthouse here. a lot has transpired since last night, including whether or not

this hearing will begin with the judge deciding whether or not to bring sanctions against hunter biden's legal team for a misrepresentation. let's back up and start with the amicus brief filed by the house ways and means committee chairman jason smith. it wanted to insert the testimony of those whistleblowers. here is what congressman smith writes. the defendant appears to have benefited, hunter biden, from political interference. in the interest of full transparency and fairness for all citizens it is critical for the court to have this relevant information when evaluating the plea agreement. but as we have now learned late last night, a member of hunter biden's legal team from the law firm called the clerk's office and apparently may have misrepresented herself in trying to get that amicus brief and this testimony sidelined and

removed from today's hearing under consideration. now, this is what we have from the law firm of hunter biden saying, quote, this in response. the judge wanted an immediate response last night saying the matter under consideration appears to stem from an infortunate miscommunication between a staff member at our firm and employees of the court. we have no idea how the misunderstanding occurred but our understanding is there was no misrepresentation. so we expect for this to start. we thought it would be a fairly matter of fact with, of course, hunter's plea agreement to two misdemeanors of tax evasion and avoiding prosecution on the gun charge. this will probably start with whether or not this misrepresentation happened. meanwhile calls are getting louder for impeachment of president biden and yesterday the chairman of the oversight committee james comer saying that he has noticed a change in tone at the white house about the relationship between the

president and his son's business dealings. take a listen here to congressman comer. >> you look at what the white house is saying, they changed their story in the last 24 hours for fear of what devon archer is going to testify next week saying joe biden was never in business with his son. that's not what they've been saying. they've been saying he had no involvement. >> as we wait for hunter and his legal team to arrive at the federal courthouse we bring you the latest developments as we get it. it changed dramatically in the last 24 hours and some indication that we may actually hear from hunter after the hearing. we'll bring it to you as we get it. bill and dana. >> dana: important reporting, thank you. >> bill: andy mccarthy and mary katharine hamer. eileen o'connor works tax evasion at the d.o.j. for six years. she said you go to prison for what hunter biden did. in reaching the plea deal the

justice department violated every norm in the tax enforcement book. that may or may not be the case. we can debate it throughout the morning and days to come. back to the issue that happened yesterday. should the judge make a ruling today? should she accept the plea or should she punt this decision until you figure out what exactly went on yesterday? >> i certainly think that the judge should at a minimum put off the plea until a lot more information comes in. i actually think what happened last night is probably a garble in terms of communication between the lawyer and the clerk. it would be odd to me if a lawyer -- i believe the woman's name is jessica bangle, would use her own name and try to commit a fraud this way. i think what probably happened is she was looking to get a process to try to get that information removed from the

public record and the court clerk misunderstood what she was asking for and whose behave. we'll see what happened. that's a side show compared to the importance of today and through all the business about the house committee objecting, what really -- the objection here really ought to be coming from the i.r.s. more than anyone else. what we heard those agents testify to, among other startling things, was that the f.b.i. never told them about the information they had gotten from this informant, the founder of burisma bribed or says he bribed hunter biden and joe biden $5 million a piece. a lot you can say or name a $5 million bribe. what they call it down at the i.r.s. is income. and what it means is there is $5 million potentially that hasn't been investigated and that isn't

accounted for in this plea arraignment. >> dana: mary kathryn, the andy is talking about is this quote here. it says it cost $5 million to pay one biden and $5 million to another biden. they hired hunter biden to protect us through his dad for all kinds of problems. he replied to the effect don't worry hunter will take care of all those issues through his dad. what do you make of the changes, the slight changes in the language from the white house as this gets a little bit closer to coming to fruition in terms of all this evidence coming out now that the house republicans have the ability to subpoena and get documents? >> i think president biden foolishly gave himself no wiggle room when he was talking about hunter biden and business dealings whether or not he was involved. turns out there is millions of dollars flowing and actual evidence that this was with possibly joe biden's knowledge and it turns out at the public library you can't pick up a form

or schedule for call girls and millions of dollars from an energy company if you file your taxes. i defer to andy whether it's a common or likely thing that happened with the lawyer here misrepresenting herself. he knows more than i do about that. what i would say it seems like there is so many shady coincidences that happen to happen to hunter biden. >> dana: we have some movement on the scene here. a black s.u.v. pulled up and we expect hunter biden any moment. let's watch and see if it's him and his lawyers entering the courtroom today. bear with us for a moment, mary kathryn and andy mccarthy as we wait for this moment as hunter biden is expected to plead guilty to tax charges. there you have him. that's hunter biden entering the court there in wilmington, delaware. expected to plead guilty to two misdemeanors regarding taxes and

come to an agreement on a gun felony. mary kathryn i'll turn it back to you. >> what is happening here they are trying to get important information into this proceeding, right? to paraphrase, new information has come to light via the whistleblowers. i didn't expect i.r.s. agents to be on my thank you letter list this year. it wasn't on my bingo card but they are saying the right thing. look, we care about equal protection under the law and he is quite clearly not being treated like a regular american. i feel if i had done the same things i wouldn't be getting this deal and would not be given the benefit of the doubt on these many, many, many shady coincidences that amount to many, many millions of dollars. >> bill: andy, this is the moment republicans have been waiting for for years. it has arrived and about to find out what the judge says in 50 minutes from now. meanwhile you have what appears to be a whole new chapter on capitol hill because the house

speaker, kevin mccarthy, has been quite forceful in explaining himself about some sort of inquiry about an impeachment. now he is not saying we should gavel this thing together but start the process of gathering information. here is the back and forth from yesterday and we'll get you to tell us what you think will happen next, watch. >> such as what? >> on talking about impeachment inquiry. >> right now you have a president who told you and every other american that he has never talked to as a family about business and never got $1 from china. you know it's not true. having all this information should i ignore it? no. >> bill: that last point is what he was driving at. he had a monologue that went four minutes in length. that last point, if you have all this information, should i as house speaker ignore it?

he is giving us the suggestion he will at least look into this stuff. what would you expect from it, andy? >> well, i think he is quite right. look, let's go back to ukraine for a second, ukraine impeachment in 2019. what we were complaining about in the run-up to that was that you had a bunch of house committees who were looking at this but the democrats wouldn't be transparent and tell us what they were actually doing was an impeachment inquiry and that is where this is all driving at. what mccarthy is saying we have more information than what they used to file articles of impeachment in connection with ukraine where they couldn't come up with a crime. he is not writing an article of impeachment tomorrow. he is talking about opening an inquiry. they have overwhelming information to support that. and it would be transparent to

say this is what the ultimate objective could be here that we could move for the impeachment and removal of the president. for now we're commencing an investigation and under circumstances where they investigate, anyway, they ought to be honest about it. i think that's fine. >> dana: a lot of people are wondering is turn about fair play. nancy pelosi was asked this and thinks the impeachment of trump was absolutely necessary. a picture from a moment ago of hunter biden entering the courthouse in wilmington, delaware. listen to nancy pelosi yesterday. >> the president was impeached because we had no choice. he had undermined our national security, jeopardized our well-being of our country. i was very careful about bringing any impeachment forward. but when the president made that phone call in terms of ukraine, there was no choice. we had no choice.

he must be impeached. >> dana: mary kathryn, your thoughts about andy mccarthy given the evidence i have, do i have no choice? >> by the standards she lays out, if you are inquiring into this and find out much of this evidence is real, then she would have no choice once again but magically we'll find she does not feel the same way this time around. i will say we chased russian ghosts for 4 or 5 years based on almost nothing except for hillary clinton funded document. so it seems to me we have met a bar here for at least inquiry on this. a lot of solid information including the treasury department itself flagging payments from china suspicious. an arm of the government was this is part of our rules, you can't do this. this is suspicious. we look into it -- the republicans look into it instead of the press. >> bill: thank you both.

we'll be in touch with you guys throughout the morning. we have a lot going on. on a day that thought republicans would never see. we can debate if it's a misdemeanor or felony. it will happen in 49 minutes. also in 49 minutes this is going to happen on capitol hill. wait for it and watch. >> what we do know is the objects that we were seeing, which started for us in 2014, are still being seen today. according to the resolution office this particular object we were seeing and now being seen globally and performing some interesting flight characteristics. >> dana: former navy pilot ryan graves on this show yesterday. one of the witnesses on a house hearing on ufos. he says the government knows a lot more than it's willing to share with americans. chad pergram has a preview for us. >> good morning. the second big hearing congress

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experts in their field. >> he is mad today he learned yesterday he will not chair the hearing but he is not even a subcommittee chairman. he accused oversight committee chairman james comer of trying to stifle him. comer said he gave him extra opportunity to say. >> i'm not sidelining him. this is the subcommittee hearing. it will be a good hearing and everything will be fine. i think it will be a good hearing tomorrow and he will be the star of the hearing. it will all work out. >> among the witnesses today a former intelligence officer who says the government may have possession of an alien spacecraft. dana. >> dana: >> bill: breaking news out of new york city a few blocks away from us. a crane on top of a high rise

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>> bill: during the commercial break we were listening to the fire chief there. there with the mayor adams. what happened at 7:25 local time, which is right about two hours ago, dana, 45 stories high this crane was in the air. the top part of the crane with the boom that weighed 16 tons crashed to the ground. there are four injuries. all of them are minor. that might be a major miracle. most of the fire is out, they say. they have about 200 firefighters on scene. it appears to be at the moment contained and under control and that would be a good scene and a good sight for folks here in new york today. >> dana: at the same time, we're awaiting any information and any additional sightings of hunter biden. he is in wilmington delaware at the courthouse expected to plead

guilty to two misdemeanors and make an agreement about the felony gun charge. we expect to hear from hunter biden. we're told it's a possibility after this plea -- he will plea. the question this morning is does the judge accept the plea, does she punt this to another day? we'll pay attention to all of that for you. in the meantime, top republicans are reportedly seeking to be more selective in their picks for the senate so they can flip it in 2024. they say they want to avoid a repeat of last year's mid-terms. josh holmes is former chief of staff to mcconnell. the fundraising for republicans is pretty good. is that an indication of things to come? >> it is headed in the right direction. recent history lesson goes a long way to explain where this potential cycle is going. you will recall in 2010 and 2012 republicans came up short losing very winnable senate races.

they changed the business model. i was fortunate to play a small role in 2014 where they won the majority and held it in 16 and 18 and were within a two georgia run office doing it again in 20. 2022 rick scott changed the business model back to a 2010 model where you threw it open and any candidate who can win was your candidate that we ended up going right back and ended up losing winnable races. there will be a different approach this year. i like where this is headed so far from republican perspective. >> bill: i will show you the three that republicans feel the most confident in. montana going up against john tester, ohio going against brown and going up against manchin in west virginia. steve danes is a republican from montana. reported he has been clear in his message to donald trump.

they want to put the best candidates forward. can you say whether or not that conversation has happened and how it was received? >> well, i'm not privy to the private conversations between senator danes and former president trump. what i can say is that steve danes is an incredibly astute political operator and understands what it takes to win and gone about the tough business of recruiting very well qualified to take on democratic en couple panties. justice and sheehy with a great shot of knocking off john tester. ohio senate race will have a big primary. all candidates look like they could beat brown. he is doing his job and republicans should be buoyed by that. >> dana: a new poll out that talks about who the republican voters believe will be the strongest republican candidate against incumbent joe biden. and definitely trump was at 45%.

probably trump at 24%. that's a pretty commanding sighting there. plus this, josh. the monmouth poll shows ron desantis, his favorability has had a 15-point drop since february. is that something that he could turn around? he claims it's a two-person race between himself and donald trump. >> look, i think obviously it was the desantis theory of the case coming in. they wanted to make it a two-person race. that hasn't happened. i think that electability question where you see trump having very high numbers is a total change and complete switch from where he was at in february. a lot of that is the result of desantis not being able to lock down that sort of one opposition to donald trump. but look, every campaign that gets itself in this situation and have a hard reset can go 1 of two directions. jeb bush 2016 or john mccain in

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we'll see what the judge has to say about what happened yesterday and whether a decision can be made today with regard to the plea deal that hunter biden has reached on the tax issue and on the gun issue. we're watching this and we were told that hunter biden will make a statement about three minutes in length following the court appearance. when that happens we'll find out together. sometime in the 10:00 a.m. eastern hour. stand by. a lot more to come on this. >> dana: breaking news this morning. a large construction crane on a high rise building catches fire in mid town manhattan. the arm of the crane broke off and hit a nearby building and fell onto the street. cb cotton is live from the scene in new york city. hi, cb. >> dana, good morning. this has most people shaking in more ways than one. civilians and firefighters have minor injuries and know the crane operator was able to safely escape. good news there. at this hour emergency crews are continuing their work on this

five alarm fire which means it is all hands on deck. right now we know those crews are working to assess the damage and debris left behind. again after a crane working on the construction of a 40-story building caught fire here in manhattan this morning. the fire causing the arm of the crane to collapse. we've been monitoring social media, videos this morning. one video shows the arm of the crane break off and hit a nearby building. officials say the crane operator tried to extinguish the fire but had to get out as the fire continued to burn. one of our fox news colleagues who doesn't live far from him. his apartment building was evacuated and watched as people ran away from the scene frantically. we spoke to one man who lives in the building that was hit by the crane's arm. he said he feared the absolute worst. >> it was so big that it was really moved our building.

my apartment. you could really feel it. you felt it. >> the good news about this situation is that no one was seriously injured. we do know a crane collapsed in 2016 and killed a man. officials out here today on scene are just so grateful this is not a different story. we'll stay throughout the day and work to learn more. back to you. >> dana: thank you for that report, cb cotton. >> bill: so now hillary clinton is blaming republicans for the weather. she tweeted hot enough for you? blame a maga republican or better yet vote them out of office. she was apparently responding to a tweet about headlines about record temperatures around the world. points the finger at republicans for voting no on president biden's clean energy bill. all you deplorables, all right? >> dana: it's so childish,

ridiculous, not true. someone said someone else must be tweeting for her. while you pull your heels somewhere nice and fancy. >> bill: saw it yesterday and share it with you today. >> dana: this got me mad. this might raise your eyebrows. the idaho student murder suspect's attorneys suggest he has an alibi and proof to back it up. court documents offered no additional details where kohberger was when four university of idaho students were murdered in their off-campus home last november. let's bring in nancy grace, host of crime stories on fox nation. this is a map of this call for number two, you are familiar with this map. this is his very round-about route home that night and other evidence against kohberger. it shows dna on the knife

sheath. matched dna at his pennsylvania phone. trace his phone near the scene, etc. what do you think of the suggestion of an alibi? >> i have a lot to tell you about that. you mention that circuitous route he took the night of the murders all the way around the his home at washington state university. i took the route. we've been out there in the cold working all day. got dark. i said let's do the route. nobody wanted to do it because it took almost an hour on these dark two lanes. no lights at all. he chose to do that instead of drive nine minutes to his home in a more direct route and the cell phone pinged all the way along the route. but to your question the alibi. you know what? this stinks to high heaven. they are saying we have an alibi but we're not going to tell you what it is. don't you know on day one if you were charged with a crime you would say oh, no, i was at a studio that day.

with my children that night. i wasn't there. he has been sitting behind bars gnashing his teeth and twisting his tail to come up with an alibi. they aren't divulging it. the defense has to hand over if they use an alibi, what is it? they are refusing to do so. why? because there is not an alibi. not only that, they are now saying wait for it, dare i sum up the specter of o.j. simpson that the dna was planted. how is that? they got the dna off the knife sheath before kohberger has ever identified as a defendant. how are they going to do that? don't know. >> dana: that's something we're paying attention to. also on the gilgo beach murders investigators have completed their search of rex heuermann's

home. what do you know about that? >> well, i know that authorities have said the search is over, but it is not. his home there in massapequa, that search is done. they practically tore the backyard down to the studs of the deck. used ground penetrating sonar. i was using that a few weeks ago on a cold case. it looks like an ultrasound and it shows you if something has been buried. they tore apart a vault encased in cement in the basement. now more work. phase two sets in. all of this has to be analyzed at the crime lab to see if anything they found matches up to the victims or other victims. >> dana: a lot of people are paying attention to that. tell us quickly, left for dead a new special you have on fox nation. >> yes.

it is about a beautiful young girl there in school in louisiana, in new or leans. she was overserved and left with a group of guys she didn't know well. nearly all of them molested her and laughed at her pushing her out of the car and then she was hit in on coming traffic and killed. i will not rest until all of them are charged with felony murder. >> dana: you can see that on fox nation. nancy grace, thank you for your expertise as always. >> thank you for inviting me. >> bill: thank you, nancy. right now hunter biden is in federal court. he will be before the judge in 19 minutes ready to plead guilty in a deal to avoid jail time. will a last-minute request on behalf of the defense attorneys force the judge to postpone? we're watching, waiting and find out together coming up. presidential candidate robert f. kennedy, jr. slamming his party

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>> bill: so hunter biden is inside that courtroom in wilmington, delaware expected to plead guilty on the misdemeanor tax and gun charges. took them five years to get to this point. byron york, good morning to you. let's take the hunter biden issue first. what do you think republicans would get from this today if you get a plea deal, is that the end of it? or is there more to pursue? >> well, house republicans want

the judge to reject the plea deal. what they are trying to do here is we've talked many, many times about the whistleblower information that house republicans have gathered from two i.r.s. whistleblowers who basically said the justice department interfered with their investigation of hunter biden. they felt that hunter biden was guilty of felony tax evasion but the justice department put its thumb on the scale and would not charge that. what they are trying to do now, these republicans, are send their information to the judge and say you need to consider this. don't just accept the plea bargain. its the result of favortism inside the justice department. what we see in the last 12, 18 hours is a lot of fighting back and forth between the two sides about whether that information should even be in the case. >> bill: it's the judge's call ultimately and see what she thinks about all this. at that courthouse yesterday seemed to be a lot of back and

forth behind the scenes that may prove to be quite critical. last night if you were watching on prime time with sean hannity we saw rfk junior making his case against the democratic party of today. listen to this clip. >> i've seen not only the social and economic deprivation that now exists in this country that's like what i saw in latin america when i was a kid. the decision either coming out of the white house are bad decisions. >> bill: you have the tweet that came out, too, about him being censored and shut down. they canceled my event with a rabbi scheduled for tomorrow night. shows the dnc's fierce determination and awesome power to censor criticism of an embattled president. we saw a little bit republicans would argue in the hearing last week. can democrats shut him down? >> no, they can't shut him down

right now. there are a couple of things he was arresting in those quotes. one sean had played a video of joe biden stumbling and losing his place and appearing confused and asked whether joe biden is physically and mentally up to the job. kennedy would not answer that question. he said well, biden has never been very good with words which everybody laughed at. his saying the decisions coming out of the white house are bad decisions was his way of saying that's what -- joe biden should leave anyway. as far as the democratic party is concerned, you know, we have heard a number of traditional democrats say they believe the party has left them. it has gone too far left. you have to remember rfk junior, 69 years old, son of perhaps the most famous democratic party family in america, and his father was a very famous 1960s

democrat. it's a very different democratic party than it is today. clearly rfk junior is not happy with it. >> bill: members of his family are going after him, too. he said what i tried to do during this campaign is avoid personal attacks on people, which explains the reason why he kind of avoided that question directly. byron, nice to see you. stand by. see what we get in ten minutes in wilmington. thank you. >> dana reads sports. >> dana: bill, you won't believe it. seven time olympic gold medalist ledecky holds a new record. the most individual titles at the world championships. she took home gold in the women's 1500 meter freestyle with a time of 15 minutes 26 seconds and game the first person to win five world titles in two events. >> bill: she probably got a call

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>> bill: america's drug crisis spilling into the great blue sea. the coast guard has seized thousands of pounds of cocaine from the atlantic ocean and caribbean sea. sharks are eating them. what a story. what's up? >> whoever said marine biology was dull. researchers say there is a strong probability that sharks are coming in contact with cocaine dumped overboard by drug smugglers during the first two days of this week, the u.s. border patrol miami sector recovered 90 pounds of cocaine that boaters spotted just floating in packages off the florida keys. i spoke with marine biologist tom the blowfish hurd about preliminary research whether the ocean predators are bingeing on drugs. scientists simulate cocaine by wrapping fish powder the same way illegal drugs are packaged

and watched how the sharks responded. >> they can't physically touch it because they don't have hands. they touched it with their mouth. taken a bite out of it. they would have got a hit of cocaine. it sounds crazy but the probability of it occurring is quite high. >> hurd does not believe sharks on cocaine posed an increased threat to humans but would like to see more studies not just on illegal drug but everyday pharmaceuticals that go through our systems and into the sewage system and wind up in the world's oceans. bill. >> bill: you win the award for the most obscure story of the day. >> my gift to you. >> bill: nice to see you. >> dana: fox news alert any moment in wilmington, delaware we'll learn hunter biden's fate. it is a busy wednesday on capitol hill. two big hearings we're watching this hour. house judiciary committee about to press homeland security

secretary mayokas on the biden administration policies at the border. chairman jim jordan warning him to, quote, be prepared. and another house hearing on ufos. is the federal government withholding information that could impact our national security? we'll hear from a whistleblower ahead. back to our top story. hunter biden's court hearing happening any moment now where he will plead guilty to two tax misdemeanor charges. welcome to this new hour of in us news. i'm dana perino. are you ready? >> bill: i am. nice to see you. i'm bill hemmer, good morning. hunter biden will stand before a federal judge at this minute admitting he failed to pay income tax on more than 1.5 million. he was also facing a separate gun charge but reached a deal with the d.o.j. to get no jail time on that. now the judge is threatening to sanction hunter biden's legal team for the allegatio