hillary vaughan following those developments at capitol hill.here do you think this whole thing is going? i hope we get a transcript out to put to bed some of the back and forth on this and we will know what he said. what do you think? >> we've seen white house try to shift the goalposts. for the past four years president biden said i've never spoken with my son about his business dealings. in the last month that got shifted to i never spoke to anyone he did business with. now we see them unveiling a new strategy because of this text—- testimony, the fact that president biden did speak to hunter's business partner during business meetings but they were just speaking about the weather, the same way bill clinton and loretta lynch were just speaking about chelsea clinton's wedding, nobody believes this. i have never broken out my phone to call dad during a business meeting so he could drop in and when your dad's vice president of the united states everyone understands what you are selling. democrats are trying to differentiate between whether hunte

hillary vaughan on capitol hill. what are democrats saying?reporter: democrats and republicans had two different takes out of this hours long closed-door interview with devon archer. going into the meeting lawmakers new one side of the store the president biden says he never discussed business with his son hunter, here's me asking the president about a golf trip he took with devon archer back in 2018. excuse me. there's a photo of you golfing with your son hunter and his business partner devon archer. do you stand by your statement that you did not discuss your son's overseas business you q >> president biden: i stand by that statement. >> reporter: accorded torture that may not have been true. archer told lawmakers hunter biden was selling the illusion of access to his father and vote then vice president biden would phone in when hunter was at dinner with business associates and was put on speakerphone at least 20 times, the idea, to sell the brand to the people at dinner, democrats saying that is what any dad would do. >> if he says hello to

hillary vaughan joins me. wise black rock backing away from esg?ive friendly investment does not make a lot of suspense after all. black rock and dialing back its investing, assets aligned with what progressives think are environmentally and socially friendly to their political views. black rock backed 70% of shareholder, compare that to 22% they back to the year before, a big drop. this is house republicans on the financial services committee pushed to make esg guidance for investment firms illegal. committee republicans telling fox business of this. progressive activists using proposals to push the far left with climate and social agendas. and distracting from sound financial management. to diminish investor returns. developing climate policies came up on the debate stage. at last night's fox news debate candidates promising to correct bad climate policies. >> the anti-carbon agenda is the wet blanket on our economy. the reality is more people are dying of bad climate change policies than they are of actual climate change. >> if you want to chang

hillary vaughan is with us. this is a big issue for many parents.th a stronger response? >> reporter: great question. president will candidate and former governor nikki haley calls this the women's rights issue our time, whether or not biological males should be able to compete in women's sports. the white house seems to be caught in the middle between trying to protect women's rights but also standing up for transgender athletes. >> the president agree that this is a women's rights issue? >> we talked about this many times, this is the title ix specifically. we talked about this multiple times, a complicated issue and a wide range of views on this. >> does he care that girls are allowed to compete in sports? does he think it is fair for girls to compete against biological males? >> i just answered the question. it is a complicated issue. it is a complicated issue. >> reporter: for many americans it is not complicated. they made up their mind. a gallup poll from june found 70% of americans say transgender athletes should only be allowed to compete o

a hillary vaughan with more on capitol hill. >> reporter: we obtained exclusive details on conversationsouse and facebook employees. in public the white house claims they were helping facebook combat misinformation behind closed doors. officials were trying to have more influence on the platform. white house officials asking access to special tools normally hands off to government agencies so they could target vaccine hesitant uses. white house officials be rated facebook employees for not turning over more data to them saying on the call, quote, some partners give us a lot of information, some tell us to -- this feels like we are chasing our tails. if you don't want to give information say that. i doubt you are telling us everything. we reached out to the white house for comment. meta declined to comment. these documents show the white house and facebook wanted to prevent information going viral that went against the vaccine narrative. on a call with the surgeon general's office, they told biden administration questioning whether you should get a vaccine under a mandate, whether it is g

hillary vaughan joins us at reagan national airport. how often does it happen?ssengers realize, the new york times looked at internal safety reports, not available to the public. in reviewing those they found just last month there were 46 close calls involving commercial aircraft. that is more than one a day. these are times two planes almost crashed into each other and collide with hundreds of people on board. on average these close calls happen multiple times a week. according to the new york times the faa reacting to the reporting saying the us aviation system is the safest in the world but one close call is one too many. the faa and the aviation community are pursuing a goal of 0 serious close calls. the faa pointing the blame at pilots saying 60% more than half, caused by pilot deviations. the faa is trying to shut down and close calls holding safety meetings over the next month at 90 airport around the country. these close calls are happening as the faa has no one officially in charge of the agency, president biden nominated bill washington, former transpo

hillary vaughan following that on capitol hill. >> reporter: driving dollars to investments that progressivestically correct and friendly to their viewpoint might not make a lot of sense after all. black rock significant a dialing back it's esg investing, assets aligned with what some consider more environmentally and socially friendly than others. this year black rock backed 7% of shareholder proposals that focus on esg compared to 22% a year before. black rock explaining the move in a report saying so many proposals were overreaching, lacking economic marital redundant, unlikely to help promote shareholder value. republicans on house financial services committee, blocking investment groups from letting esg handcuffed their investments limiting shareholder returns. >> investment groups trying to make money, getting back to that, they say it doesn't make money in black rock and started to realize those radical proposals don't work. >> reporter: black rock ceo larry think once flirted with esg as the future of investing. it is a dirty bird for him. alternately money talks and it is clear black