and help me? >> ainsley: thank you for welcoming us to your beautiful home. how did you meet? >> blind date and married eight months later. >> ainsley: how many years? 69. >> 68. no, 69. we just had the 69th one. >> ainsley: what happened on the way to your wed something >> she was 15 minutes late. >> we had a thatted tire. what do you do? change it. this is our family, five children, nine grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren. >> ainsley: you have a special birthday, turning 90 90, how do

you feel? >> no different. just pleased to live life for iowa and to serve christ. >> i know you love ice cream. you will take us to the kremry down the street. >> i hope you will enjoy an ice cream cone with you. >> ainsley: are you going to serve ice cream today? >> cone or cup? >> cone. mint chocolate chip. >> that is butter pecan, sir. >> sounds good to me. >> cheers to iowa. >> steve: that is awesome. he likes vanilla. >> ainsley: how cute were they? we arrived at their adoration home. they started a church that has grown. they do bible study together in

the morning, they have "jesus calling." and one by billy graham. they do that together. on the hill, they do bible study with the staff, they live for christ. critical race theory he's 90 and looks like he could run a country. >> ainsley: he runs two miles three times a week. >> steve: 40 years ago, i was in iowa and covered him and i was at that house andy shoo was sitting in that chair. >> ainsley: she said he married an older woman. we are glad you were born. when they lost the tire on the way to church shgs r, he didn't think she was coming to the altar. >> steve: going on 70 years,

grassley family, thank you for opening your home. >> steve: hour three starts with this fox news alert. hunter biden, son of president joe biden, suing irs claiming the two whistleblowers who went before congress is violated hunter biden's privacy. >> ainsley: a quote from the lawsuit, irs and agents conducteds themselves that rights that apply to other citizens do not apply to hunter biden. >> brian: alleged tax crimes found when reviewing his finances. i wonder about bringing more --

he didn't pay. it is 20 million now. he has a problem with the whistleblowers who had lack of investigative motivation. >> lawrence: tried to embarrass him via public statement and disclosed private information about private citizen tax matters. do whistleblowers have private protection? >> brian: they have lawyers. >> lawrence: they were not listening to them. >> that was the key and remember, we had heard members of congress on the republican side talk about whistleblowers that say such-and-such.

those whistleblowers, i don't think had whistleblower protection at that point. when they get whistleblower protection and can't be fired, part of the 16arrio, they had to get okay, authorization to diz close private information about american taxpayer, in this case hunter biden, to the public. that is the heart of this suit where hunter biden is suing the irs. they told a lot of stories that were private. they want the irs to pay simple >> ainsley: if they sue, the stories are out there and we know what the whistleblowers said. they call hunter biden a victim. mr. biden has been victim of elections, two irs agents,

shaplez and ziegler made statement that violated 6103 by trying to publicly smear mr. biden. >> brian: they did reverse investigation suit against the computer repair guy. bad character and good legal advice. find out where shapley's attorney with his response to this. >> lawrence: this is wild, they have treated him with kid gloves in front of a judge. is there any precedence for a sweetheart deal like this?

no. now saying the government targeted him. >> ainsley: he is accused of not paying taxes and getting,a way with it. >> ainsley: i know it is separate, it is remarkable. he is suing the agency he never paid. >> steve: suing the government that his dad runs. >> brian: his dad will not be happy, this will bring more attention to something he wants to go away and now made worse by abbe lowell putting this together. >> steve: playing hard ball. prisoner swap between the u.s. and iran set to happen any moment in the nation of kutter.

>> brian: free up frozen assets to iran from south korean bank as their president heads to the u.s. for the general assembly. >> lawrence: jacqui heinrich joins us. >> the white house says this is not a ransom payment, but their argument is self-defeating, saying they are getting five iranians in exchange for five americans. they are glossing over the prisoner swap. we will hear from the white house shortly. the prisoner swap will take place today. the iranian government we are told can use the money for humanitarian needs, although the iranian president says he can

use the money however they want. >> how will you guarantee that, mo moneyun ifgible. >> no, ma'am, he is whereon. validate and deliver funds appropriate to that request and go to qualified vendors to deliver food and medical supplies to iran. >> officials say no sanctions are be ing lift. head of the iaea says the u.s. is losing interest with holding iran accountable and congressional republicans say this deal had ramifications

counter to u.s. interest. >> a third of inspectors at the iaea have been stripped out. this morning the saudis says this deal with israel, we're out. it is having damaging effect throughout the southeast and started with transaction of 6 billion. >> final amount between 6 and 7 billion according to report. we're watching flight tracking and this morning a plane arrived where previous prisoner swaps took place. >> brian: admiral john kirby says he is wrong, has qatar

weighed in. they are hold the money, i have not hold from qatar, the u.s. and qatar will monitor the transactions and stop it down. the issue of fungibility, the 6 billion going toward humanitarian purposes. >> steve: usually a prisoner swap is okay, we give you five, you give us five. the wild card is the 6 billion. this prisoner swap could happen in the next five minutes, i understand. we don't know the identity of some of the people being

negotiated. why is that? >> this is a fragile deal and anything could happen and they don't want to give us information until it is done. we are told the iranians were arrested for crimes having to do with sanction violations, they are not violent individuals. u.s. prisoners are convicted in the state of law. americans we are getting back, the circumstances are not the same. they are wrongfully detained people. five for five would be the swap and 6 billion looks like a ransom payment. they are arguing it is not, this is iran's money. >> steve: this transaction could happen in next couple minutes,

where is it taking place? >> money being held in korea has been transferred to the qatar bank. sanctions the u.s. allowed them to get around had to do with the exchange of that bank to qatar. that is important point, they are saying we have not lifted sanctions, those are detail says critics dispute, this is money iran would not have otherwise. >> ainsley: americans are coming home, their families are relieved, that is wonderful. but fear is if other governments

see we are exchanging prisoners for money -- >> steve: grab some. >> lawrence: incentivize it. >> encourage hostage taking. >> brian: look at this video, looks like a 1960 train. ainsley >> ainsley: they are not august mexicans. >> brian: they are passing through mexico, no threat of tariffs on mexico, come one, come all. prisoners may be not giving you your best. who knows who the people are. count on them coming into tucson, arizona and texas and coming to new york, philadelphia and chicago. >> ainsley: looks like old trabs that carried coal through south

carolina. you can hear them excited and heading to the southern border. this is griff jenkins's video. >> steve: they are excited, they have won the lottery. >> brian: joe biden is president. >> steve: kamala harris and joe biden feel terrible because they said don't come and these people are flying in the face, not listening to the president or vice president and they will let them in. >> lawrence: if you talk to homeland security, they say we have control temperature is air tight. we're backing men and women in green. everything is simply fine. and if you look at cities and not just texas anymore, they say, we got to get ahold of

this. adams saying new york city will die. we are not taking care of our own people. >> brian: massachusetts. >> lawrence: yeah, massachusetts. do they want donald trump back on his signature issue. i fixed the border and handed it over to biden and now a mess again. donald trump may run on it again. >> ainsley: did you see the video of the children going -- >> lawrence: cutting under the fence. >> ainsley: they had to cut these they were scared the children will be hurt. this little girl is trying tro crawl underneath it. risking them getting cut to get into another country. border patrol cut it so the

children would note be hurt. agents had to release some from the packed shelters because they could not hold them all. >> steve: regarding the kids crawling under the razor wire. there was a thunderstorm at the time and they got out the wire cutter and cut the wire. that would conduct a shock that would kill them if hit by lightning. we have other video, bill melugin sent out showing migrants and yes, it looks like a swat team, they are wearing camouflage and scaling the wall and run into the desert.

they are not surrendering. these people have something in their backpacks, we don know what. next up, anywhere in america. >> brian: here is lieutenant governor dan patrick who was with us the last hour. >> most big cities see people here on the street everywhere. we aphundreded eight million, that is 15 or 16 million in the state. they have health issues, they do not know our history and it harms our foundation of a nation. shut down the border and end what is ending america. >> brian: democrats going to get a hard less only. they sued to get rid of the

shipping containers and to get barriers out of the rio grande. they want this border hope and hope you will ignore t. make these people earn your vote. what they are doing is bad for america. only good for cartels and it is sucking the budget money down the tube because money goes to illegal immigrants and not to the kids. >> ainsley: over the weekend, this child died in the bronx because someone in the house or several, were caught with fentanyl, the children got ahold of it and this little boy ate it and never woke up from his nap.

two others were sent to the hospital. fentanyl coming across the board. >> lawrence: hunter biden is suing the government saying they violated his privacy. sean hannity has followed this story from the beginning, he is next ♪ ♪ you can make it happen ♪ ♪ yeah oh ♪ now, try new dietary supplements from voltaren for healthy joints. . .

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children may have been exposed for some time before this. >> steve: 8:26. fox news alert, hunter biden is suing the irs accusing the two whistleblowers of illegally disclosing his private tax information and embarrassing him. >> lawrence: sean hannity is joining us live. >> sean: lj, warm welcome, lj and friends in the morning. i was watching at 6:00 a.m. eastern. >> brian: who left their alarm on? >> sean: i sleep so well. >> ainsley: that was brian.

sean, the name of the show, lj and friends. brian's radio show was brian kilmeade and friends. >> steve: what do you make of this, hunter biden, looks like they are fighting back angry that house republicans are investigating and his lawyers say those whistleblowers broke the rules and disclosed private tax information and hunter biden lawyer want their pound of flesh. >> sean: what hunter biden has going for him, maybe five great lawyers in d.c., hunter biden has one much them, abbe lowell.

he is a serious constitutional lawyer, i would take it seriously. if i were the irs agents, i would file a counter suit, i would love discovery on hunter biden. that opens up the laptop. when i watch people in the mob and media saying there is no evidence, there is plethora of information. >> brian: republican ken buck says that. >> sean: who cares about ken buck, him and three people. reality is simple, start with the basics. why did joe biden lie on whether he spoke to his son, brother or any of the foreign business deals, now thanks to devon

archer, joe biden photo graphic evidence and he got on the phone and met with ol garbings. hunter biden was addicted to drugs, had no experience with oil. what was hunter biden doing for the money and why have the need to have shell corporations and some 20 plus and nine biden family members. what did the grandchildren do for that money? like to know what experience they have. when you start digging down deep, these are not questions they will be able to answer. y woo are talking about top g

geopolitical foes here. hunter biden doing business with china after taking a trip with daddy and goes to a sia and stops in china. it doesn't add up. if you're an addict, usually nonfunctioning. why did the grandchildren get paid? if i were irs agents, counter sue and get the information. >> ainsley: average senator or vice president doesn't have a multi million dollar house on the beach. we went to chuck grassley's home in iowa and his home is very

modest. >> sean: joe biden was not living the lifestyle. chuck grassley looked like a simple, humble home, duplex and works the farm in his spare time. impressive. age does not matter, look how sharp he is at 90. put it together and ask sfrm questions, none of it adds up. joe biden went out yesterday and tried to make a joke of the investigation. why do you have a war room? they are compliant and complicit

anyway. >> brian: joe biden does not take questions and doesn't have press conferences, here is how he responds. >> brian: doesn't seem worried. >> sean: good luck, they are having a lot of luck. interesting thing, another development was kevin mccarthy was clear that hunter biden will be subpoenaed. if i had to guess knowing lowell as a top attorney, he will not let hunter biden say a word. he gave the worst video possible on "good morning america." do you have experience in energy, oil, gas, coal?

no. any experience in u.k.? why do you think you got paid? i don't know. maybe because your dad was vice president. if you look for way quid, a quo and a pro. it was official in october of 2015, official obama administration tlsz to -- they felt enough progress had opinion made in ukraine and -- joe biden as the lead for airstrike, he goes on december 9, 2015, same year. four or five days earlier on december 5, he gets on the phone with hunter biden and burisma

and burisma is in need of d.c. help. we have e-mails to that effect. they have that phone call, hunter and burs, they call pops and pops goes to ukraine and leverages a billion dollars to get the prosecutor fired. european union had decided also that ukraine had made enough that warranted more support. they fire the guy. joe biden leveraged that money and his son hunter continues to get paid millions of dollars, that is quid quo pro to me. >> steve: he speaks latin, thank you for getting up with us.

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iran. president biden is at the general assembly, president of iran will be there when biden speaks tomorrow, despite lawmakers pushing to block him. good morning to both of you. so mr. secretary, what do you make of this prisoner swap? prisoner swap with cash? >> ransom payment about a billion per prisoner. we are happy when anybody in place get home to their families, no one can have a feeling but joy. for every bad actor that says take an american, you will get a billion dollars. they say we couldn't get them

out. we got folks home without paying a nickel. >> steve: and money was frozen during the trump administration. ambassador, give 6 billion to iran, they want to wipe israel off the map. >> they are not building hospitals or schools, it is heartbreaking. they use the money for maligned purposes. >> steve: the way this was negotiated, in fine print, we will give you the money only to be used for humanitarian purposes. >> steve: everything involving our people can be construed humanitarian. >> i'm shocked any raggal human

being would find comfort in that provision. >> steve: you are here, this is body day for you, you have new movie coming out called "route 60" and it opens today. m mike, tell us about this money. >> it was friedman's idea to tell stories about the bible and that is what we did. i told from christian perspective and david told the old testament stories. this is not on the path, he bron. lovely story about this place so special of each tradition. >> steve: how long were you in the car with him? >> quite a while.

>> too long. >> steve: where did the idea come from? >> when i was ambassador, diplomatic sensitive point is the west bank. n nondescript term, and this area, people talk in demographic terms and security terms and in terms of terrorism and bury the lead. this is the most majestic, sanctified place on earth. the stories you learn about, abraham, jesus, solomon walked route 60 and you have the entire story of the bible and no one is talking about that. >> steve: safe to say for the purpose who thinks they know the

story, there is new stuff they don't know. >> i thought i knew the story and there is new stuff i learned. >> i used to teach sunday school, i cheated them and should have told them this story. >> steve: have them watch the movie, it comes out today "route 60," thank you and congratulations, movie producers now. >> stars. thanks, steve. >> steve: 14 before top of the hour and janice dean joins us. >> janice: this is hurricane nigel, indicator things are active in the atlantic. this will ufsh can out to sea. we have this area of low pressure off the coast of florida that could develop into

something this week. it is going to bring same effects, heavy rain along the coast and coastal flooding possible and watching it move up toward north east palestine this weekend. something we'll monitor. we have showering and thunderstorms in the rockies and plain states for parking lots of texas, new mexico and oklahoma and then the rain potential over seven days central u.s. and along the east coast and snow in the northern rockies. i'm going back to steve, right? >> steve: you are. thank you. dozen minutes before top of the hour. we have sad news to share, we are mourning the loss of member of fox news family.

joe rostead died over the weekend and joined us in 1997, contributing to many special programs and events in his 26-year career. he joined fox business in 2007. he is survived by his wife chr christina. he was just 50 years old. oi saw him every morning coming in the building. god rest his soul. top news story, hunter biden suing the irs claiming whistleblowers violated his rights. one attorney joins us next. check in with bill and dana. >> regards to our friend joe. >> beautiful tribute. >> bill: prisoner swap in iran happening in realtime and

transfer of $6 billion. and u.s. air force needs your help finding a lost flighter jet. >> dana: new dress code for u.s. senators, do you think this is a good idea? brand new hour begins in just a few minutes. >> see you then.

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>> hunter biden suing the irs accusing whistleblowers of illegally revealing tax information. >> ainsley: lawsuit states irs agents targeted and sought to embarrass mr. biden. >> lawrence: attorney levitt represents gary shapley. do you guys take this as witness intimidation? >> yeah. his mike pence is not up, hope it will get up.

>> ainsley: turn up the volume. >> okay. >> steve: we hear you now. >> very frivolous lawsuit. what you see here is that hunter biden attorneys are accusing whistleblowers of releasing this information and they have legal authorize agz, that is who released this information. prior to that, whistleblowers did not share. this is public information and people can speak in whatever context. >> steve: this is a shot at house republicans doing the investigating. they are saying your client and the other fellow were behind closed doors and they spilled the beans.

were they authorized to reveal tax information to congress? >> yes, whistleblower or taxpayer protection statute has a provision for whistleblower disclosure. any wrongdoing in investigation of tax return can be disclosed to congress. they had every right to talk to congress about the matters. >> ainsley: we asked sean hannity about this and he said i would counter sue and then you can get discovery. are you going to do that? >> we have not determined, we will not be intimidated by a frivolous suit like this. >> brian: my sense, white house can't be happy about this.

they did not have anything to do with an investigation that is pur pursuing, should it expect, now they just put jet fuel on this. >> that is absolutely right. i hear abbe lowell speaking, no one asked him, did hunter biden pay taxes on burisma enemy because despite all the talk how this has been paid off, he can't deny that simple fact and that money and how it came about was focus of investigators and those considering impeachment at this time. >> your clinton said on fox they tried to go through the normal process with the leadership within the irs, this was final step to become a whistleblower, can you talk about what pushback they receive from their

superiors? >> it is important to understand the law. president biden nominated me to the protection board. you don't have to go to congress to be whistleblower or make protective disclosure much s shapley made interviews with con congress. they were aware of this. there was not pushback. irs supervisors supported him or those that didn't like him backed away. that set him on this path of coming forward, retaliation and knowledge that as white

disclosed biden appointed attorneys were blocking charges. >> steve: hunter biden is accused of not paying taxes on a bunch of money. the irs angry at the investigators because of invasion of privacy. they didn't expect gun charge because of agreement which delaware never should have been in position of anyway. they are flailing and striking out anywhere they can. >> ainsley: if we did not have republicans or chuck grassley with the 1023, if we didn't have the whistleblowers, we wouldn't know this information. we encourage whistleblowers to come forward, how do they pay for their attorneys? they lost their jobs, they are not making money and have to pay

for attorney fees and now being sued. >> steve: oversight represents people like this. this is why we exist, >> lawrence. good first day. >> wonderful. >> bill: thank you, guys, good morning. whether you like it or not the deal is nearly done. u.s. and iran prisoner swap is happening as we speak. president biden reregarding tehran with $6 billion in unfrozen assets. hope the weekend was glorious. a big week now. i'm bill hemmer, welcome to the program. >> dana: that's the way we go. i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." this qatari aircraft is flying five american prisoners to qatar. this is