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getting harder and harder to explain. >> hunter biden is a private citizen and this was done in an independent way. the department of justice is independent, we give them space to be independent and respect the rule of law. >> who knew she did stand-up? the details of the deflufrnth hunter biden plea show how far the legal system will bend to accommodate and protect the bidens. rule of law is an afterthought for these people. after combing through the plea agreement and the transcript of yesterday's court proceedings, the angle understand the concerted effort to keep it all from the public. the most daming provision would have granted broad immunity to hunter biden. it would have covered every

crime he may have committed during the relevant time period, presumably stuff regarding his lucrative business dealings in ukraine, china, romania and god knows where else. this is an explosive development and begs the question, if all these relationships he had with foreign business interests were on the up and up, now why would the first son and why would his legal team think he needed this expansive immunity deal and why wasn't this known until yesterday? i tell you why, appears lawyers from biden doj and hunter biden's lawyers hid it in paragraph 15, pretrial --

agreement. judge noreika discovered this and the role it would have conferred on her, she was not happy. this from judge noreika. what is funny, you put me in the middle of the diversion agreement i should have no role in. you take it out and say, your honor, don't pay any attention to that provision not to prosecute. sol wisenberg points out, this is unprecedented and judge noreika asked biden's justice department cronies five times, is there any precedent for such a one-sided plea agreement with this broad immunity, like the one they gave hunter? do you have any precedent for not prosecuting crime for -- i am not aware of any, your honor.

four other times he replied there was no, adding this was crafted to suit the facts and circumstances. facts and circumstances? wait a second, is that legalese for never before type of plea deal for the son of a sitting president? natu naturally axios reports the team is -- imagine a judge being curious about how this all went down, doing her job maybe? that is not all, that is not allowed according to biden's gatekeepers. >> is it unusual for a judge not to accept a plea deal like this, it seemed surprising. >> i don't think some comments the judge made needed to be provided in the provocative way it was provided. >> this judge is a political

appointee and republican. >> when the judge is trump appointed, it doesn't fall on any type of reality. >> laura: yes, judges are appointed by presidents, nice going. what were they trying to hide? one exchange that might help tell this story, the judge asked, there are references to foreign companies, for example, in the fact section. could there be charge under the act? yes. jonathan turley explains why that matters? >> the judge just raised one charge, chance that hunter was a foreign agent. if he was a foreign agent, for who and what purpose. the president was that purpose. if you are influence pedalling,

it is influence over the president. >> laura: there it is. given what the house is uncovering, any doubt that was driving the subtrifuj here? action of hunter biden's lawyers are almost understandable, they are representing hunter biden and trying to get the best deal for their client. actions taken by the doj are an insult to every law-abiding sides. sol wisenberg is with us. sol, shouldn't someone be accountable here, i would say fired, you might not want to go that far thchl is embarrassment. is there oversight how the agreements are drafted? >> not in this case. you know, you said every

american citizen should be embarrassed. every single prosecutior, assistant district attorney should be embarrassed by this deal. this is an incredibly sleazy deal. there is no reason to hide an important paragraph like paragraph 15 of the pre-trial diversion agreement, which you talked about, which typically an agreement like that, called charge bargaining would be in the plea agreement itself. that is why the judge said you're taking that away from me and you're putting it here in this separate pretrial diversion agreement about guns. there is no way obviously the government was part of this. there is no justification for this. >> laura: this seems it was

written by the defense attorney, you can't blame them for getting as much as they can. it was like they wrote it and it was rubber stamped by the doj. i used to practice white-collar criminal defense. >> the important thing, obviously it was a joint thing. the federal government, the doj, whoever was in charge, whether it is david weiss or lisa monaco, they ratified it. that is shocking. honest brokers do not act this way. they do not hock key provisions like that in a plea agreement in a case like this. we have to step back, laura, and put this in the context of everything we have learned from the whistleblowers about this investigation. keep in mind, according to shapley, as i understand it, as late as september of 2022, there

was a 90-page doj memo authorizing prosecution. the team thought there was going to be a prosecution, that -- the u.s. attorney in dc was involved, the u.s. attorney in california was involved and those declination decisions were ratified by leadership of the doj. merrick garland says nobody ever talked to him. david weiss never talked to him. he had to have talked to lisa monico, while ag garland was tending to his ant farm. he's washed his hands of this investigation. >> laura: sol, if you're in the house, or house gop and want to conduct further hearings into this and can get the witness you want to talk to, who would you think would be most important

witness at this point in light of how this all went down? >> i want to talk to lisa monico, merrick garland, talk to david weiss and to the u.s. attorneys and the thing is, like i said last week, they have already talked about david weiss and garland and what they authorized and didn't authorize without getting into the detail of the alleged crime. they can come and talk and lisa monico can be asked, are you the one david weiss called? what did he ask for? he already stated he did discuss special attorney status, that is critical. special attorney, not a special counsel, special attorney gives you the right to charge any district. which is what garland said, he always had it, i gave it to him. it wasn't written authorization, he says he talked with somebody

at doj, who did you talk to about it? they need to be asked the questions. >> laura: we need answers. leslie wolf, as well, add to the list. sol, excellents analysis. the hunter mess is not even a day old, msnbc and cnn were pining to move on. >> we are on indictment watch. >> we begin with breaking news on the investigation surrounding former president donald trump. >> a secret meeting sets off alarms across the political and legal world. >> indictment on charges related to january sic and attempt to overturn the election could be handed up at any moment today. >> laura: they are so giddy. lawyers did meet with special counsel jack smith in dc today regarding the indictment relatocha scott-bivensed to the january 6 investigation. there is no indictment yet, they did get their distraction issue

reported just moments ago, the doj added new charges related to trump's retention of classified document. here is member of the judiciary committee, josh hawley. seems like two-tiered system of justice, hunter gets agreement that would give him broad immunity and meanwhile, they keep piling on trump from every corner. >> yeah, now, laura, down to charging random people, throwing into the indictment. any coincidence the doj rushes to add the indictments today, after their own self-dealing and two-timing is exposed. they tried to hide the true extent of his plea deal. so brazen what they are doing, it is subversion of the rule of law. taking the rule of law, turning on its head and we cannot allow this to stand, the american people will not be safe.

our system of government will not be safe if this is the new standard. >> laura: senator hawley, simply stated, our department of justice, someone or some group in the department of justice decided to give hunter biden a free pass in this plea deal for all sorts of other potential criminality related to foreign payments that came into hunter and others. but that is a free pass. that doesn't happen in these types of cases. it does in this justice department. how serious is this? >> it is really serious, and the fact they tried to hide it, the way the government structured that plea deal, they tried to hide the fact they were giving hunter biden blanket immunity and it wasn't until the judge in open court questioned them, hold on, what are the facts here?

doj was trying to hide the facts. talk about subverting the rule of law. we know the reason hunter biden got this deal, his father is rich and president of the united states. that is what this is about, it is two standards of justice. hunter biden should be treated like everybody else and joe biden should tell us whether he's a crook. evidence piles up he was involved in foreign bribery schemes, we need to know, is this guy a crack? >> laura: house minority leader hakeem jeffries spoke out about this indictment today. watch. >> the system should just be allowed to work as intended and that means that the prosecutors and whatever judges may preside over the various court cases, as well as defense attorneys, facts apply to law and be guided by the constitution.

>> laura: senator, that is fine, do they feel the same about the charges against hunter or the investigation into hillary clinton or other stuff? >> i agree, that is not what they are doing. they are giving republicans one standard of so-called justice and giving fry pass to hunter biden. bill clinton and hillary clinton. treating parents like terriftses, this justice department sent fbi to parent homes because they wanted to go to a school broerd meteorologisting. the fbi that sent swat teams to the homes of pro-life demonstrators. talk about the rule of law, merrick garland wakes up every single day, it is a travesty, joe biden, is this guy a crook? this is an answer the american people deserve to get the result to. >> laura: politico is reporting the white house is worried about

senator mcconnell possible health problems given what happened yesterday because they would lose an ally in work to try to block donald trump. they said having spent year as chief villain, mcconnell in the biden area is safeguard essentially against a senate turning into a version of the chaotic house gop. senator, do we think republican voters want a seat in the senate closer to biden than trump? >> i certainly don't and i can tell you what the house has and senate didn't, house has majority, republicans are in charge in the house, not the season. season leadership, if you want to know why that is the case, take a look in the mirror. >> laura: thank you. great to see you. if you had doubt joe biden white house was pressuring white house to censor, we will discuss the

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information spreads too quickly. >> laura: now we know that facebook dutifully took its orders from the white house. congressman jim jordan and the judiciary committee just released documents showing how facebook routinely caved to the biden administration's pressure to censor americans. and in april 2021 email from a facebook employee to ceo mark zuckerberg and coo sheryl sandberg it says we are facing continued pressure from external stakeholders including the biden white house to remove posts that same month facebook's president for global affairs told his team that biden covid adviser andy was outraged that they didn't remove a particular post. joining me now is house judiciary committee chair jim jordan. congressman, what was that post? >> oh, it was a people. it was one of these class action lawsuits that said, you know, if you have been harmed by covid call 1-800. one of these things. they were even censoring a meme,

humor. here is the kick core. they knew it was wrong one of those facebook executives said this is significant incursion into the boundaries of free expression. that is a fancy way of saying this violates the first amendment for goodness sake. but, because they were -- the white house was outraged because jen psaki stood there at the podium what you played in the white house and demanded this happen because the white house was demanding it. and they wanted to keep their cozy relationship with the biden administration they censored first amendment speech. more documents going to slow it even more so. >> laura: what can be done about this because biden is still in the white house. >> i hope it's not continuing because we had that great federal court decision on july 4th in western district of louisiana. great decision. so i don't think it's going on now. but we got make sure it doesn't

go on in the future, it doesn't happen because we have this amazing thing in greatest country ever called the first amendment. we are going to -- rand paul and i have introduced legislation. senator paul would say if you are in the government and doing what was happening there, you get fired, you don't get your pension benefits. there could be civil liability that you are subject to. you lose any security clearance you may have. we want real penalties for people in the government engaging what professor turley called this censorship by surrogate. this coercion, this pressure from government on private companies to censor speech. or what matt taibbi -- by the way, laura, matt taibbi said what we are beginning to uncover here is more significant than the twitter files. he was one of the primary authors of the twitter files and he has been attacked for. so things he has done to expose this attack on the first amendment. so, yeah, we have that bill and stopping what mr. taibbi and mre censorship industrial complex. now we are figuring out how this complex worked and that's the first step into stopping it. >> laura: well, i think they

probably know pretty much what the biden administration doesn't want out there. so, the cat is kind of out of the bag. you don't even have to get an official order anymore. you just -- there can be a wink and a nod. i wouldn't be surprise there is body language being read here. they want us to do this. congressman, on this issue of hunter biden, i know you have been, obviously been all over this, but we're going to ask you the same question we asked senator hawley. how serious is this that the doj was willing to give the president's son a total free pass on criminality, potential criminality that had nothing to do with the underlying facts of his crime that he pled to? >> no. it's hugely significant. and i went to -- your first guest sol was on i want to go to that october 7th, 2022 bheeght. seven people in that meeting gary shapley telling you. five other individuals. some u.s. attorneys other people

in the investigation. i want to talk to those people. one of those individuals is mr. shapley's boss. he has basically agreed with mre mr. shapley put it in an email and sent it to his boss. those are the key people we want to talk to in addition to the sol talked about in your first segment assistant u.s. attorney leslie wolf, other folks we need to speak to. we are working on making that happen as we speak. >> laura: all right. congressman. thank you. and now it's tonight's profile in courage. meet texas congressman greg zay sore, a new member of the squad and yesterday he did what was now thought to be physically impossible. he ate breakfast and dinner but he skipped lunch. holding his own thirst and hunger strike. he claims he is doing so because texas just passed a law regarding water breaks for construction workers. of course, that was a lie. it merely was a law that keeps local jurisdictions from going beyond state and federal osha

safety requirements that are already in effect but don't let that distract you from his remarkable sacrifice. here he is moments before embarking on this perilous journey the hunger must have been gripping him, taking his last sip of water. refreshing hey everybody it's greg. thirst strike believing in our democracy believing we can make things better that's why i'm closing in on six hours and headed into hour seven of no food, no water, and not coming off of these capitol steps son and may be even rain later. >> ended the strike and immediately blanketed in care including what looks like a cold compress and monitor for oxygen. if this man is not on a bill or at least a coin by the end of the year we have failed.

we salute you congressman cesar for pushing your body to limits. here now is ned. just when you thought your body reached limits. we had democrats really showing us how wrong we were. this just -- >> taking it truly to the limit up human capabilities. i mean a 9 hour thirst fast on a truly hellish mid 80-degree day congrats on a stupid stunt. how emasculated do you feel now. if you have want real respect maybe go out and dig ditches for 24 hours without water and i might actually pay attention to that laura, this is just more of the nanny state from progressives who think the peasants are too dumb to drink water while working so they want to federally mandate water breaks. but i thought one of the funniest parts about the congressman's stunt is that he was essentially cloaking himself

in the civil rights era as though him sitting on the capitol steps without sipping water on a relatively mild day made him on the level of martin luther king. so the man is clearly detached from reality on a whole host of fronts. >> well, speaking of the heat, the u.n. secretary general dropped a very calming message today. >> climate change is here. it is terrifying and it is just the beginning era of global warming has ended the era of global boiling has arrived. >> laura: that was boiling by the way. global boiling. that's where we are. >> it is a motion. manipulate people into the state of fear to have them give more control over the ruling elite who would take this hoax and enforce it through a whole host of memes. it's a hoax and continue to push

in hopes that we will surrender to them and we will not. >> laura: ned, thank you. great to see you. the democrats in the media have a new distraction game. another one that they think is going to help them ahead of 2024. tulsi gabbard is here next

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the president and economic policies have made america's policies the strongest in the world. >> this economy is holding up really well. it's actually heating up. >> the biden administration has been more successfully economically interventionists than the new deal, since the new deal. >> laura: but most americans aren't really feeling and seeing what the media are trying to paint as some historic economic achievement by the biden administration at this point. even here in minneapolis. >> by doneomi bidenomics they ss working. >> as long as you are blind. half are like biden they can't think straight at all.

>> laura: i will have more from the streets of minneapolis later on. but the truth is the economy should be a slam dunk for republicans in 2024 but that means they better start messaging it. investigations are terrific. they are all well and good. we need them, especially in the case of biden's corruption. but we also need republican presidential candidates and anyone running for office to explain what a real economic recovery can look like. joining me now is tulsi gabbard, former democrat, presidential candidate, and a fox news contributor. tulsi, there has been a noticeable shift in the media's focus to really not run away from the economy but to try to spin this economy as something much different than it actually is in the real lice of americans. >> yeah, laura, it sounds like from some of the conversations you have been having with people there in minneapolis, they get

what all of these spin doctors don't. they actually see what is happening, which is quote, unquote, bidenomics are failing the american people. but what people in washington are not focusing on enough what is bidenomics. fascism. a national socialism where we have government bureaucrats and politicians partnering and colluding with these massive cult corporationed and ultra rich to make these business deals, picking winners and losers that serve their own self-interest and the interest of the power elite at the cost of the well-being of the american people not only today but in the increasing debt that they are incurring that will effect us for generations to come. and foremost, the perfect example of this, laura, you and i have talked about this before is the military industrial complex. they have essentially a blank check, unaccounted amount of spending of taxpayer dollars and if you or i or anyone else ask

if what you are spending serving the national interest of the american people maybe we should perhaps know where every dollar is being spent. if we say that, we are at risk of being called unpatriotic. i have been called that before for asking these very questions. and so people aren't even allowed to challenge or question where this spending is going and how it's benefiting the american people. what to speak of our economy and everyday americans being able to, frankly, survive and live comfortably. whether a to speak of prosper in the united states of america. >> laura: now, biden wants us all, i think, tulsi, to kind of clap like seals since year over year inflation isn't as high as it was last year. since he has taken office, consumer prices have gone up nearly 16%. we obviously know what's happened with energy costs this is something hitting the middle class, lower middle class really really hard.

the elites are kind of gliding above it, as they usually do. >> and that's exactly what we are seeing as president biden and his administration and the elites are celebrating quote unquote bidenomics. the american people know better because those successes that are being touted are actually the opposite is being felt. again, this is where we have to hold the biden administration, the democrat elite accountable. we just to message things better is always their answer rather than looking at what the problem is because doing that would require them to look in the mirror. >> laura: tulsi, great to see you. thanks so much. now it's time for political pallet cleanser. ♪. well, my dog zoey was on set recently ready to make her ingraham angle debut when the unthinkable happened. >> are you waiting for your star turn? >> she is.

zoey. she is joining the sag strike. >> laura: yeah. she didn't want to cross the picket line. she undo youive she was part of the writer's strike going on. well, coming up, three years after the george floyd riots i return to minneapolis to document what i saw. there have been many changes in the city. my report ahead. plus a hearing on the fallacy that is gender affirming care. democrats reveal their true colors. that video, next. ♪ shipstation saves us so much time it makes it really easy and seamless pick an order print everything you need slap the label on ito the box and it's ready to go our cost for shipping, were cut in half just like that go to shipstation/tv and get 2 months free

♪ >> laura: today the house judiciary committee held a hearing on the unnatural explosion and so-called gender affirming care cases. well, to no one's surprise the radicals didn't take seriously what is truly a trend of civilizational importance. >> this is hearing is a descable exercise and contemptible use of the subcommittee's time and power. >> what did he say descable? under the guise of healthcare. >> caused permanent changes to

my body. my voice will forever be deeper. my jaw line sharper. my fertility unknown. i look in the mirror sometimes and i feel like a monster. i will never be able to breastfeed. i struggle to look at myself in the mirror at times. i have massive scars across my chest and skin graphs that they took of my nipples are weeping fluid today. everything that i went through did nothing to address my underlying mental health issues that i had. >> laura: but democrats do not care about the truly vulnerable in our society. >> it's a cynical and frankly dangerous political attack on transgender children and their families driven not by science or facts but by polling and political strategists determined to mobilize conservative voters through fear. >> laura: do you know what fear is congresswoman scanlon?

being forced as a young man to get naked in front of a biological male against your will. >> my teammates and i were forced to undress in the presence of leah a 6'4" tall biological male fully intact with male genitalia. 18 times per week. some girls opted to change in bathroom stalls and others used a family bathroom to avoid this. >> laura: that's infewer united states. next time the left claims to care about the rights of women and children remember their decision to look away from the horrors and frankly encourage the horrors that are being perpetrated by a greedy and frankly sick and political medical class. joining me today is one of today's witnesses, jennifer, director of the senator for family studies at the family research council. doctor, i was rivetted by your testimony and the testimony of others. you have been a clinician providing trauma therapy to kids for over 25 years. what is this tran indoctrination

doing to them? >> well, laura, this whole issue -- remember, we are talking about a psychological diagnosis. and what's happened is it's become a human rights issue for a lot of progressive political folks. and the problem is with that is it hides all of the bad research that goes along with this issue. so, instead of having an open discussion in this hearing about the nature of the research that's used to promote invasive, i mean highly invasive surgical procedures and hormonal and pursuant blockers, instead, it's just, you know, we are dismissed because, well, this is a human rights issue. instead of a psychological diagnosis. >> laura: well, in the diagnostic manual, gender dysphoria, is it still listed as

a mental disorder? yes? >> well, it is in the dsm-5 tr, so i mean, people can twist it which ever way they want, it's in the manual, so it's the manual for mental disorders. >> laura: so, when you see this now growing push beyond what was documented today at the hearing, to actually cut parents out of the equation and subvert parental rights in these decisions, that's a growing trend now as well, doctor. >> yeah, it's a growing trend and it's very alarming. because, usually, when you treat a child, you try to include the family because you're going to have a better outcome for that child. and what we're seeing now is it's almost like an extension of the foster care system so that the child becomes a ward of the state and the state imposes their world view or their

ideology on to that child and to that family. this is very destructive long term. i mean, we don't -- we're getting a taste of it but if we continue down this path, this is going to be very tragic for our society. >> laura: you are going to have a lot more young women testifying on capitol hill telling those horror stories. >> jennifer, thank you. now, three years after the george floyd rioters burned some of minneapolis to the ground, i returned again to see where things stand. i was shocked at much of what i saw and what i found. that report in moments

>> i'm her >> laura: i'm here in minneapolis, three years after the george floyd riots. i come back every year to see how the city has progressed since 2020. have things gotten better?

have people rebuilt? are race relations any better? i will try to answer this over the coming nights. i want to bring you something we didn't have planned. driving to an interview today, my crew and i saw a group of girls picking up trash. i got out of the car to find out what was going on. i was blown away by some of what they told me. >> we're going around neighborhood parks picking up trash, making it safe for kids to play at the playground. >> laura: why are you doing it? >> because we feel like it is important for the kids to play and be safe at playgrounds while they are around. >> laura: what are you picking up that is unsafe for them? >> just plastic, glass, cleaning up the inside of the park. >> laura: do you feel safe in the neighborhoods around here walking at night? >> walking at night, no, not

being a young lady with the gun violence. >> laura: leaders are saying things are getting safer three years after george floyd, what are you finding? >> crime is going up, gun violence and -- it is getting more dangerous. >> i hear gunshots a lot of nights. >> i heard gunshots and next morning they posted this kid like rip, you can hear it happening and someone just died not too long ago, couple of days ago, so many people dying, so many kids my age. >> laura: what does that make you feel like to hear these stories? this is your community and where you live. >> it is heartbreaking, many kids die a day, it is not okay people are just shooting around. it is a community and they shouldn't be shooting just for fun or because like gangs, it

shouldn't be happening. >> laura: how do you inspire other young people to avoid life of violence and crime that is attractive because they make money doing it? >> join programs and stay out of trouble so you won't be on the street, stealing cars and killing just for fun. >> i advise everybody to go do something. >> what is difference between what is happening now with violence in the city and what was maybe the case three years ago. >> three years ago, it was adults dying, they were in ganging. now the kids are doing, the kids were lost, they don't have father figures, those are the ones promoting gun violence. >> laura: is it a cycle? >> yes, it is a cycle and ages get younger and younger. >> some of my homies, they low brothers and they go downhill

and like y'all trying to get into the gang business, you are kids and you fit stereotypes at this point. >> laura: how young are they in gangs 1234 >> 15, 14, seventh graders, sixth graders, it vary. they teach it to little kids, we see on tiktok like little kids holding a gun. flaunting a weapon in the camera. there was a video going around, two kids were in the bathroom and accidentally shot her cousin and then she shot herself. >> some try to follow the trend and get themselves in -- >> laura: self-esteem. >> basically, they think it isun if, it is dangerous. they get put in a scary position, they wish they would have never done it before, it is too late, you already got yourself into something.

>> laura: these were wonderful young ladies. volunteering time to make their neighborhood better. it was inspiring, i'll continue to bring more of my angle investigation to minneapolis three years later. that's it for us tonight. jesse watters and the gang take it from here, so enjoy. enjoy >> todd: a fox news alert, former president donald trump speaking exclusively with fox news after being hit with three new charges in jack smith's classified record probe. the biden justice department accusing trump of attempting to delete surveillance footage at mar-a-lago. you are watching "fox and friends first"s, i'm todd piro. >> carley: i'm carley shimkus. the front-runner faces 140 years in prison if convicted on all counts. overnight, he asked what happened t