elizabeth: let's bring back in washington examiner columnist byron york. leging they obstructed probes into hunter biden? what do you expect? >> well, i expect we'll get a lot more exposure to some ideas that you and i have talked about and others have talked about, especially in introducing this whistleblower number two. the previously, up till now anonymous whistleblower. you had gary shapley who was one, he was the irs supervisor of the investigation of hunter biden. well, this new whistleblower was the lead agent. he was the one with the most hands-on, you know, granular knowledge of the investigation. and we really are, really -- it'll be really, really interesting the hear from him. elizabeth: do you think they'll name names of who was obstructing? >> oh, well, you know, we've already seen a lot. if you've listened to senator grassley in the nat -- in the senate, he has been really pointing out people in the u.s. attorney, weiss', staff that he believes obstructed this investigation. so, yeah, i think we're going to see, we're going to hear names. mat

elizabeth: look who's back with us from the washington examiner, byron york. e you listen to the sound of fbi director wray trying to explain why the fbi strayed from its law and order mission, you know, just catching the bad guys to doing surveillance on catholic are churches and social media general sorship. >> let me just read from page 4, provide new opportunities to mitigate extremist threat through outreach to traditional catholic parishes and the development of sources with the placement and access to report on places of worship. that's pretty fancy language for they're trying to put informants in the parish, in the church. why would they even think about doing this? you know what the motivation was in. >> well, again, i think that's what our internal review will find, and i'd rather wait for the -- >> i don't need an internal review, i can read the document. >> the court has found that in -- and elvis chan testified under oath for you, he said 50%, he had a 50 president success rate in having alleged election disinformation taken down or censored. that

byron york and andy mccarthy are standing by. rich edson is live from the white house as we get ready for this hearing to get underway. hi, rich. >> good morning. republicans are focused here on the federal government's coordination with tech companies. democrats are focused on that key witness robert f. kennedy junior. this hearing is just about underway on capitol hill. this is the select subcommittee on the weaponization of the federal government. xhiflty republicans say they'll examine the government's role in censoring americans and what is big tech's collusion with out of control government agencies to silence speech. previewing his appearance kennedy says it's working with partners in tech. this is a systematic program to control what americans can say and think. as such it is -- in a democracy the people tell the government what to think not the other way around. instagram booted kennedy but reinstated his account when he announced his run for president. democrats have ripped republicans for inviting kennedy. congressman

important for the candidate to beat biden the chief political correspondent fox news contributor byron yorkelcome. maria: good morning, maria. maria: interesting to see trump continuing the commanding lead 30 points above ron desantis even in face of a potential third entitlement coming his way how do you explain it? >> i know. he appears getting stronger and stronger you know i think one of the most important things we've seen the past couple days are two fox business polls from iowa and south carolina for this reason we know trump had a huge lead nationally his lead as we speak, in the realclearpolitics average national polls is 34 points over ron desantis, but, of course, the race is not in national race it starts with series of state caucuses primaries iowa new hampshire south carolina we found in iowa trump has 30-point lead, and south carolina again according to the fox business poll, he has 34-point lead what is important in south carolina is the second place person is not ron desantis it is nikki haley the former governor there. so we've seen in the past several days trump planter g

. >> dana: byron york is still with us as well. hugh hewitt wrote a piece, he appears on bret's shows. the hunter biden judge should blow the whistle and it is within her power this smells, it doesn't feel right. i am not going to accept this plea deal. we haven't touched on the gun charge yet, either. something that democrats usually are hot to talk about. in this case, he falsified records when he applied for this gun permit. didn't disclose he was on drugs at the time. throws the gun away in a trash can in an unsafe way, and he is not -- basically going to get to enter an agreement so he doesn't have to pay any consequences for that? >> yeah. we haven't talked too much about that gun deal. obviously a drug addict who has lied on his application to buy a gun, playing around with the loaded gun is precisely the sort of thing that some of our gun laws are designed to prevent. now as far as what the judge can and cannot do, we have lawyers here on the panel and i will leave it to them. i think she can do basically what she wants to.

byron york, chief political correspondent for the washington examiner, also a fox news contributor. hanks for being with us. i guess the numbers beg the question, does anyone else stand a chance in this horse race in south carolina? >> well, all the numbers look very, very good for president trump. i mean, you know, a lot of times we'll talk about national polls that show trump 30, 32, 34 points ahead and someone will say wait a minute, that's not how the nominating process works, it begins with the early states, iowa, new hampshire and south carolina. and what the new fox business poll shows in two of those states, trump with a 30-point lead in iowa, and 34-point lead in south carolina. and by the way, he has a substantial lead in new hampshire as well. what we do see in the new fox business polls is a little motion asround second place, yo see nikki haley in second place in south carolina, she's the former governor and tim scott, another person from south carolina in third place in iowa. so a little movement around there, around governor desantis and the second place race. >> jacqu

for more on that let's bring in a byron york the governor's chief political correspondent and a fox newslet's take a look at the latest fox news polling call up number one former president trump obviously is blowing everybody out of the water as it stands right now he is at 56%. got governor to santos trailing behind him at 22% and everybody else little pieces of what is left over with the pipe. byron, my question to you what does somebody have to do to break through and start chipping away at trumps lead here? do they have to hope something external happens? >> the answer is nobody has the answer to that question. no one has figured it out yet. we have a situation now where everybody is, all the non- trump candidates are all treading water hoping something happens. now we have the race the race is that the field seems to be set we have had a lot of campaigning. we could look back over and look at the pattern if you look over your the summer of last year donald trump had a 30-point lead over ron desantis. but then in november at desantis braun a great reelection. twenty points in florida

byron york is standing by with analysis. spunt at the justice department. >> in his letter to senator lindsey graham yesterday the third letter to congress he said once again he was in charge of the probe. he never requested special counsel status and he was able to charge hunter biden anywhere in the united states he wanted to if he deemed necessary. he clearly indicated he did not think it was necessary. he wrote in part i was assured that i would be granted this authority if it proved necessary. this statement is in direct conflict with the multiple statements i.r.s. whistleblower gary shapley has said publicly. he said he was in a meeting with weiss and personally saw him complain about not having control over the investigation. watch. >> i even had him repeat that because i knew how important that fact was and i wanted to make sure i understood it. >> weiss included a curious line in his better about an fd1023 form. a form used to record allegations made by bureau sources. republicans and democrats saw a partially unred

byron york, the chiefrespon political correspondent for the washington examiner examiner, and he joinsde for us byron, i didn't think the dathy would comewo, but i thinktw the president only really hass t two options. either he hands hunterer overpae to the american public and tont the department of justice or he simply resigns and everybody forgetforgets s it. but he jus at can't continue as everything is okay. right? thinke sei think he sees a thi, which is to stay president andtu not worry about the justice department. look, the president hae des adoe a kind of how dare you defense . he doesn't want anyone to ask him about hihe doesns son. he doesn't want to say a worden any time he's even entertained to questio worn, usually given a one word answer, which is usually no. and the story that the white house is putting out is that this is because the president is so deeply concerned about his son who in the past has had a terrible drug addictiowhn. ofa and look, i'm not questioning that. the president loves hi addictioo but there's another issue here, which is talk to republicans on capi

lawrence: byron york, a father's love or coconspirator? thanks, byron. >> thank you, lawrence.nce: affirmative action in colleged a migs may be over but what does yesterday's supreme court ruling mean for the woke takeover of our other institutions? affirmative action graduated from college campuses and took a seat in corporate board rooms as long time ago. diversity equity and inclusion programs dominate fortune 500 companies and government agencies and overturning affirmative action roll back the progressive takeover of the public and private sector? aaron is an editor at washington free beacon and he's joining us right now. >> the decision willed a quest to the overturned diversity programs and i think that it will as a legal matter make it easier -- even easier to do so. but we should be clear eyed about just how pervasive affirmative action is in corporations. there's too many examples to list, but just to name a few, ibm, microsoft, and google all capped the number of white and asian ably cants to prestigious research and pfizer barred white and asian for a nine yearlong

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. ♪ stuart: byron york with me this want to, can biden patch up this division within his own party?> don't think he can. it has been growing before president biden became the president, the past two decades, we have seen a number of democrats especially progressive democrats like members of the squad become increasingly pro palestinian and anti-israeli. what representative giapole said was consistent with what a lot of progressive democrats think and it wasn't any different from what democrats call the united states. i don't think this is a division that president can have an event or meeting at the white house and just fix. stuart: talk about a third-party running in 2024, senator joe manchin making noises about maybe getting into a third-party run, and do you think we will get a third-party in 2024? >> we often have some sort of third-party, will something actually have an impact on the race this time around and what they are making noise about, at this event they had they said they would not field a candidate until after supertuesday, wouldn't even decide whether to field the can

with that, let's bring in our panel, byron york, chief political correspondent of "the washington examiner the ben domenech podcast on fox news radio. ben, it was interesting to hear the vice president say that and the president making a pitch. he said some things that had to be fact-checked a couple times on the economy. what do you make about this split effort by the administration? >> look, we have seen kamala harris deployed in a number of different scenarios over the past several months where it feels like the administration is trying to give her an opportunity to prove the doubters wrong, to prove donors, community, the democratic supporting, you know, activist community and the like who have dubious feelings about kamala harris, that she is someone who can they can really have confidence. in obviously this reflects on the president himself, if he is going to run for re-election with her as his running mate there needs to be confidence. if there are any dowx about him being able to finish out that second term. yet, time and again, she seems to go to these places, be deployed and step

let's bring in byron york, fox news contributor. it is a crime to lie to congress.be sworn in. this is an interview where he will be asked by republicans hour and democrats for an hour. then one more time each. what do you expect today? >> it could be really, really big and this is the reason why. i think we've established beyond any doubt that hunter biden engaged in a lot of questionable business deals with shady foreign partners that made him millions of dollars trading on his father's name. i think that's just in the public record. you saw some of that in the plea agreement that hunter biden was prepared to actually plead guilty to. so we've seen that. what we have not been able to see is any real connection between those business dealings and joe biden. that's where hunter -- devon archer comes in. if the reports are correct, he is prepared to testify that on a number of occasions, maybe dozens of occasions when hunter biden was with some of those foreign businessmen overseas, hunter biden would call up his father, put him on speakerphone and introduce him. her

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byron york is standing by watching this with us. byron, i don't -- we watch a lot of hearings and i don't remember one where you had this much of actual interaction. so much of it is usually scripted. but that is not happening here. rfk junior wants to defend himself and he is intending to do that in this hearing today. what are your thoughts this morning? >> i think what you said points out this hearing has become about rfk junior. it was supposed to be about the question of censorship. it was supposed to be about some of the issues that are in this incredibly important court case, missouri versus biden that could ultimately forbid the government from working with tech companies to censor viewpoints. it is an incredibly important issue. this has become about rfk junior. did he require vaccinations for people who came to a christmas party at his house? did he encourage african-americans not to seek medical treatment? absolutely not, he says. so it has become about rfk junior and whatever the actual intention of the hearing was seems

. >> john: let's bring in byron york, fox news contributor. we will hear from these whistle-blowers on wednesday. there may be a transcribed interview that the committee gets with david weiss. it will be interesting to hear from all of them because byron, there are so many contradictions in this case. >> there are. and it's a good thing that everybody is getting to hear from them. especially from whistle-blower x. orb whistle-blower number two who has remained an ominous up to now. we read the transept of his interviews with the committee but we haven't heard him talk. one thing that will be fascinating about these two whistle-blowers as they testify is what democrats do. will they be in full defense mode for hunter biden or will they tried to destroy the witnesses and their credibility or will they try to lay low and wait until it is over? there are two ways an opposition party can do with this thing. it'll be interesting to see what they do. as far as david weiss is concerned, it's a flat contradiction between what the whistle-blowers says h

byron york, good morning to you. let's take the hunter biden issue first.blicans 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 a

leslie marshall democratic strategist and byron york chief political correspondent of "the washingtonlk it's early. nobody is really stepping out and doing something different. >> certainly not. when you look at this race right now and given the fact that the only numbers that we have from the second fundraising quarter, you know, are positive for ron desantis it doesn't look like anybody else is rushing to tell us the numbers they had which would be an indication of the alteration of the scenario and also over the weekend i was struck by just seeing that scene at the ufc 290 fight in las vegas where donald trump comes out with dana white american bad ass. he is hailed by all these different ufc fans and celebrities and the like. how do you overcome that as even an accomplished governor of florida. who has hit all the marks when it comes to culture war issues, conservative priorities, et cetera. those are all things that, you know, ron desantis can claim but does it matter when you are up against a man who is now the world's biggest celebrity? >> leslie what about that? democrats, i m

byron york and leslie marshall democratic strategist. always the tough person to ask the questions and you certainly gave it to the governor. i think that's important because, you know, you threw every sort of critique of his campaign at him. he did have solid answers. but i think what he will have to continue to work on is the message that he talked about which is one in his argument the reason why he is running he doesn't think trump can win. i thought it was powerful when he made the argument and said he is running to be president not just for the title but that he felt like now was time. the issue that he is going to continue to have and i have seen this campaign after campaign after campaign, he put out very detailed policy proposals to you. he put out a 10-point economic plan today, which as a policy wonk, i read it, i loved it. i was going through the policy stuff. but that still has to translate to voters and they still have to feel that emotion coming from him. and you're going to have to -- here's the tall order. you're going t

byron: good evening. thank you for joining us. a week ago, rex heuermann was living an unassuming life. architect in new york city. and father in a long island suburb. today charged with three murders, and investigators in four different states are looking to connect did him to unsolved crimes there. here's abc's senior investigative reporter aaron katersky. >> reporter: a week after the arrest of rex heuermann, the alleged gilgo beach serial killer, authorities across the country are chasing down multiple new leads and giving old cases a fresh look. police looking at whether heuermann may be connected to murders in other states. rock hill, south carolina authorities said they were investigating whether heuermann was involved in the 2014 experience of 18-year-old aleah bell. >> these are individuals who are real psychopaths and they do live compartmentalized lives. they have seemingly normal lives during the day and many of them are family men w are actually respted in their communities. >> reporter: properties heuermann owns becoming a prime focus for investigators, including in chester county, south carolina, wh

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