john: i'm just hearing that. i'm

>> john: no.merican and -- do you have dual citizenship? >> john: yes. you asked me that last time. i don't know what you find so difficult. i am allowed to be a citizen of both countries. you don't like it. >> stephen: i don't like it at all. >> john: you want someone to pick a lane and stay in it. >> stephen: one of the colberts who came over, landed in virginia and had to go all the way to st. louis to get out of trouble. i think he was a horse thief. >> john: wait, back up. you can't throw in a detail like that. anyway, i think he was a horse thief. that's the most fascinating thing i've ever heard out of your mouth. i only see "horse thief" generation. i am never letting you near a horse. that doesn't go away. >> stephen: they believe he was a horse thief and that's what i had to flee. when he became an american citizen, he had to say, he foreswears wears any allegiance to the queen of england. >> john: i foreswore that a long time ago. years before i became an american citizen. >> stephen: g

john j. meyers, in tribute to family stephen meyers was not the only upstate who took notice of william j's commitment to fugitive slaves the great cause of human freedom. indeed, toward the end of his life, william to make made sure that he left behind a symbolic and also functional legacy in his last will and testament. william j. left to his son john jay second this dynamo of a pro bono fugitive lawyer in, new york city. he left john j. second in trust $1,000 to support his son's work on behalf of fugitives. remember, this is a retired constitution officer, son of one of the founders. not only is he secretly because you had to do it secretly aiding fugitive he's now publicly in his last will and testament saying i bequeath $1,000 to support the cause of the fugitive slave and that 1000 that won a lot of back then. but to it's not chosen at random that's what you would get fined for and abetting a fugitive slave in new york or any other northern state. so is open defiance of the fugitive sl

but first, a busy day down in washington, john. >> john: to say the least. the supreme court deciding whether president biden could ignore congress or go on one of the biggest spending sprees in u.s. history, wiping out student loan debt for millions of americans. and over on capitol hill, lawmakers are holding hearings on both the china threat and the border crisis. >> sandra: that's where we start a border bust netting enough fentanyl to kill 50 million people. and one mother who knows the drug's devastation all too well. >> we have a weather balloon from china going across our country. nobody died, and everybody is freaking out about it. but 100,000 die every year and nothing is being done, not enough is being done. you talk about children being taken away from their parents. my children were taken away from me. >> john: just some of what we heard during today's house hearing on the border crisis. mother who lost two of her sons to fentanyl poisoning not only grieving but also getting downright angry. >> sandra: and just now we are seeing another reason w

>> stephen: i have a lot of johns and my family. >> john: i will give you that for free. >> john: batistence strictly john. >> john: i'm not even getting into the jons. coming here for a top 6h. >> stephen: later i will tell you who scored above you. let's earn it. >> john: let's see how much i agree. >> stephen: that's called driving to an end. now they've got to stick around to figure out who i like more than you who's name john. >> john: what commercial claims to commercial -- what a glimpse to commercial television that is. i have the opposite. it's not too in, it's like you can't leave until i finish talking about compounding pharmacies. if i ever had one commercial break in the story, everyone would leave. >> stephen: if you exhaled. one breath. >> john: one breath. that's the end. that's the only way to actually get people to listen to the [bleep] we have to say. >> stephen: speaking a broadcast, you're an american. >> john: yes. >> stephen: did you watch the super bowl. >> john: of course. >> stephen: did you enjoy? >> john: i love it as an event. it is a cartoonish event, literal

john. >> john: alicia, the latest on that. thank you. gillian. >> gillian: well, we are keeping an eye on des moines, iowa, republican senator tim scott will take the stage next hour to kick off his faith in america tour. choice of location has folks buzzing he is now in fact laying the ground work for a 2024 run. what he said about that earlier today. >> i am here because i want to hear what folks here in iowa want to hear from elected officials. bottom line, as i hear more from the constituents here in iowa and around the country, it will give me more information on what to do next. >> a bit of an artful dodge. talking with governor kim reynolds there. only one of them, nikki haley, there as an official candidate for president. fox news contributor marc thiessen to talk to all of it. tim scott's whole vibe, his whole ethos, and he's not a single issue candidate but he's very concerned with the tone and tenure of politics, and take the hate out of politics, he says the american people are over it. take a listen earlier. >> too often our

john. >> john: jonathan, thank you. >> sandra: a busy wednesday afternoon, a live look at the white house as we await the beginning of the press secretary briefing. the white house briefing, karine jean-pierre is expected to take some pretty tough questions. it is expected as the fbi searched the president's rehobeth beach home in delaware. we'll be watching that to begin. >> john: president biden killed the keystone pipeline but a new drilling project in alaska may be on the way. it has plenty of bipartisan support. will climate change activists derail the whole thing? alaskan senator dan sullivan is here to tell us why the project is critical. >> we have an administration so tied to this radical environmental left that they're willing to drive your cost literally through the roof. no matter your purpose, at pnc private bank we will work with you every step of the way to help you achieve it. so let us focus on the how. just tell us - what's your why? type 2 diabetes? discover the ozempic® tri-zone. in my ozempic® tri-z

john. >> john: really disturbing stuff. >> sandra: bring in lawrence jones, great to have you here. you have been reporting a lot on crime, but specifically juvenile crimes. this is a trend that is rising at an alarming rate. why is this happening? >> a couple factors. the fact there is no respect for authority anymore, and you get no respect of authority when you don't hold people accountable. so when you have a criminal justice system that is allowing people back on the street, our young people are taking notice as well. drug dealers and the people that commit crimes allow juveniles to do those crimes because they realize the sentencing and the accountability is much different from them, even though we are not even punishing the adult, so there is that aspect. the other thing is you have parents that are friends with their children now, there's no discipline in the household or the parents are not there at all. so all of that is creating a system where kids feel like they can get away with anything. my first job was worki

john. >> john: jonathan, thank you.illian. >> gillian: let's bring in now criminal defense attorney jonna spilbor to break down today's developments. jonna, about half a dozen witnesses so far have testified about his alleged financial misdealings. let's take a look at this, put up a full screen so everybody at home can see what we are talking about here. these six witnesses so far have alleged he stole $8.8 million in settlement money from his clients who were injured, 7 million from his own law firm, and that he dodged just under half a million in state income taxes, plus multiple instances of insurance fraud. this is going to up-end this trial, isn't it? >> today was such a pivotal day for the prosecution. i mean, there is mounting and very compelling evidence that alec murdaugh committed a ton of financial crimes and he's got 99 indictments waiting for him after this trial is over, just on those issues. but the fact that this judge is going to let in that evidence as evidence of "motive," in my opinion is a huge mis

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john: i'm just hearing that. i'm deeply sorry to hear that if it's true and our hearts go out to the family. >> bringing you the late fest the president and other white house officials, the pentagon and the state department as well as congress. we also have international perspectives if the united nations and statements from foreign leaders. all on the c-span networks. the c-span now free mobile app. and c-span.org/ukraine. our web resource page where you can watch the latest videos live or on demand and follow tweets from journalists on the ground. go to c-span.org/ukraine. >> recently, russian president vladimir putin announced he's withdrawing from the new start nuclear arms treaty. u.s. assistant secretary of state in charge of arms control mallory stewart talked about his decision. watc

i mean -- just -- horrifying, john. >> john: it shows the importance of faith. he and his wife were praying that they were going to make it through and they did. >> sandra: amen. john, you have flown all over the world so much, you must have had somewhere something happen. >> john: the worst flight leaving nice for london and took off in a thunder snowstorm and i thought we would crash into the mountains. >> sandra: a sign you shouldn't have left the south of france. >> john: the weather was horrible. i was actually happy to leave. >> sandra: from the air to the full-fledged train catastrophe monitoring that happened on the ground in the last two weeks. and the big question now is, where is the transportation secretary? and why is there not more help for these people? >> john: plus the irs is cooking up a new plan and folks who make their living on tips may be the target. >> looking at 87,000 new irs agents, the promise was that not going to come after anybody that makes less than $400,000. so we are not doing what the chairman had said, well, going after millio

john? >> john: thanks.up. >> gillian: too is a nice day to stay inside. >> john: thanks for joining us. i'm john roberts. see you monday. >> gillian: thanks for having me. great to be with you. a bonus for me on this friday. >> john: you and the balloon. >> gillian: "the story" with martha starts next. >> martha: good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum. and right now breaking on "the story," this. >> the fact is, we know that it's a surveillance balloon. the balloon continues to move eastward and is over the center of the continental united states. >> martha: well, that is an image of the chinese spy balloon said to be larger than two to three school

hi, john. >> john: had a chance to spend some time with larry earlier, good to reconnect.baier and bill mcgurn here with a reality check on the current state of the union. the top story is something we likely will not hear a lot about tonight, china's spy flight. it's a fox news alert. >> sandra: so here's the

john roberts in washington. good tuesday to you. >> gillian: and to you as well, i'm gillian turner in for sandra smith. one official noticeably absent on the ground is transportation secretary pete buttigieg. not announced when he plans to visit the disaster site insisting he will go "when the time is right." epa officials claim all is totally fine, assuring the residents the air, soil and water supply are safe. >> john: as more time passes, locals are split what to do next. either keep up the pressure on officials and the railroad or do their best to move on. what's the status of the health clinic officials promised to open behind you. >> standing in front of the free health clinic they have set up. appointments today are full, john. that press conference you mentioned is underway with president biden's epa chief, the governors of both ohio and pennsylvania, of course are on the border with pennsylvania right here, earlier president biden's epa chief went to a local residence, he sampled the tap water. here is

john: good evening, i am john yang.ntony blinken is in turkey for a firsthand look from the devastation on the earthquakes that hit the region two weeks ago. he pledged $100 million in disaster aid to help the country rebuild. >> words of consolation. it's hard to put into words. you see buildings collapse. the search-and-rescue is coming to nn. there will be a massive rebuilding effort. >> it can't stop until mountains of degree are cleared away. tens of thousands of buildings were destroyed. that work is slow as grieving families want a sense of closure. it'important. >> nearly two weeks later, the death toll is climbing in workers are finding fewer sig of life. an untold number of people are unaccounted for. in syria, it's been slow to arrive and hold up at the border. >> before we were four families in one house. now, 12 families. we keep them warm. the home did not collapse. it was just damaged, thank god. >> the world health organization estimates 26 million people urgently need help with shelter, medicine and psy

john roberts in washington, good to kick the week off with you. >> gillian: you, too, john. i'm gillian turner in for sandra smith. the president said ordered the military to take out the balloon after it had been drifting for days. they say the military should have listened. >> he projected weakness at this moment. >> i think the administration lacks urgency. >> became a situation of argument and everybody wondering what is the administration doing. >> this is a wake-up call for the country. >> gillian: john kirby pushed back, said it gave the u.s. time to study the balloon, as well as chinese's motives. >> john: seems clear china's motive is to replace the united states as the leading superpower. a list of how china has provoked and escalated tensions in the last few year. the chinese foreign ministry says the decision to shoot down a "civilian balloon" is a clear overreaction. military experts warn china is building up its military and the u.s. may not be ready for a confrontation. >> gillian: daniel davis is standing by. >> john: lucas tomlinson live in the white house b

>> that's right, john.o far the pentagon has refused to release any imagery of this object first spotted last night. general ryder traveling in northeast direction. ryder described how norad tracked this. f 35 stealth fighter jets tracked this object. >> i don't want to get into specific tactics or techniques that we may or may not use when observing these types of things again norad sent up aircraft to see what it was. >> the pentagon does not yet know the origin of this object that was shot down. rider was asked if anyone had contacted china today he said no, john. recalled the defense secretary called his chinese counterpart after saturday's spy craft was destroyed. nobody picked up the phone in that instance. john? >> lucas tom lion son. analysis retired general keith kellogg. former then will vice president mike pence. biden gave them the authorization to shoot it down. a lot different than they treated the first one that came by. >> significantly different. this is what is amazing to me when they talk

>> john t.ny: who makes a point, a mission, out of knowing and teaching as much as he can about the real culinary traditions of the south. and doing what he can to keep them alive and unmolested. >> server: all right. >> man: thank you. >> anthony: oh, man. >> john t. edge: thanks, sir. >> server: and that's yours, tony. >> anthony: look at that. awesome. it's just like a dream sandwich. what you go for here are smokes. smoked sausage sandwiches. and these magnificent beauties, pig ear sandwiches called ears. both pretty much served with the same garnishes of slaw, mustard, homemade hot sauce, on a soft bun. now as i understand it, originally this is one of those nobody wants these things, they're dirt cheap. >> geno: that's exactly right. in fact, by "dirt cheap," ears were actually free. >> anthony: right. >> geno: when my great grandfather started getting the pig ears, the local butcher was giving them to him because he was just throwing them away. >> anthony: it's everything, you know, we lo

john. >> john: all right, sandra.ecause it's never too early to start talking about the presidential race, the first national survey on the 2024 race for president and former president trump who launched his re-election campaign in november tops the list of preference with 43%, followed by ron desantis 28, nikki haley and pence at 7%, and greg abbott and liz cheney tied at 2%. joining us to game this out, get the over and under and all that other stuff. juan williams, and david avilla. good to talk to you. let's put the results back on the screen again, it is interesting to look at. nikki haley is saying it's time for a new generation of leader, but most people say president trump is their choice. however, david, as we have seen in the past, those numbers are going to be -- those numbers will likely jump around a lot. >> no question about it. and there's no question also that president trump was going to be viable for the nomination. if you are ron desantis looking at those numbers right now, you are saying i'm 50/50

jan. >> john: jan? brady bunch, right here on tv for you. >> gillian: sorry. >> john: censorship that targets conservative may have slid under the radar and in part funded by the state department. jonathan turley tells us it may be coming to an end. he joins us coming up next. >> gillian: popular a.i. chat bot is accused of being bias, especially when asked about politics. can chatgpt really be impartial if the programmers behind it are not. bot, chatgpt, and now software they say can only be as impartial as the people programming it. kelly, how concerned should people be about chatgpt trying to push a specific political narrative? >> gillian, when it comes to specific topics that may be a valid concern. we decided to poke under the hood ourselves, and what we found is a mounting scramble to address those bias concerns. chatgpt is adding disclaimers to appear more balanced. we asked the a.i. questions about critical race theory a few weeks apart. answers remained similar. on february 13th, response to w

mark meredith, john. >> john: andy mccarthy, former assistant u.s. attorney and fox news contributor. biden opened up a bit of a can of worms in the pbs interview the other day when asked about the documents by judy woodruff, he said this. >> the best of my knowledge the kinds of things they picked up were things from 1974, stray papers, there may be something else, i don't know. >> john: 1974, he was a freshman senator and races the question what in the world was a freshman senator doing taking home classified documents? >> not only that, john, i think you know, up until now, people were willing to give the benefit of the doubt to the idea that, you know, some time when biden transitioned from being in the senate to being vice president this all could have happened. if this was 1974, that raises the possibility that this sort of thing, this carelessness with national security information we want on for decades. and the other thing i frankly don't understand is when the white house has been pressed on this, and biden himself has been pressed by peter

i'm sandra smith. >> john: i john roberts. >> martha: thank you very much, john and sandra. good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum live in our nation's capitol ahead of our special coverage tonight of president biden's second state of the union address. mitch mcconnell here today with me in a national television exclusive ahead of the big address tonight. first, new images of navy sailors pulling the remnants of the china spy flight out of the atlantic ocean. the fbi probing this debris. lawmakers are probin

john. >> john: multi-tasking.ll waiting for defense secretary lloyd austin to make remarks on the airborne objects the military has been so busy shooting down in the last week, as we wait for that, a transgender center in a missouri children's hospital now under investigation by the state's attorney general. the shocking claims by one whistleblower that has parents outraged. that's coming up next. month? ig car pay car loans can be expensive, and the payments high. consolidate that car loan into a newday home loan and save hundreds every month. i got tai last december. i've spent almost every minute with her since. when i first brought her home, she was eating little brown pieces in a bag and it was just what kind of came recommended. i just always thought, “dog food is dog food” i didn't really piece together that dogs eat food. as soon as we brought the farmer's dog in, her skin was better, she was more active, high-quality poops. if i can invest in her health and be proactive, i think it's worth it. see the ben

john?> john: may be months away from announcing a 2024 campaign decision but other republican white house hopefuls are taking aim at ron desantis hoping to knock him off of it's he perch. it comes as a new poll shows that he and former president trump are the only 2024 possibilities generating significant buzz. rich edson is watching the race. desantis has a sizable lied over the former president in a couple polls. >> he does, john. especially if you look at that head-to-head matchup as you mentioned. 33% support if you have the full peeled with president trump and governor ron desantis. you cut that head to head, dean -- desantis is up 53-40. that brings criticism. former president trump, the only fish candidate in the race has been attacking desantis more. he posted a photo on truth social that supposedly shows desantis posing with female students when he taught high school for a year just out of college suggesting without evidence that desantis was inappropriate. it's unclear who the fem

i'm sandra smith. >> john: i'm john roberts.story" with martha starts right now. >> martha: busy afternoon. thanks very much, guys. good afternoon, everyone. i'm martha maccallum. two breaking stories at 3:00 eastern time this hour. remember this. the freight train full of toxic chemicals derailing and bursting in to flames in ohio. people in that area did evacuate and then they decided to do a controlled release in to a trench of these chemicals and then to light that on fire to prevent what they feared would be a larger explosio

john. >> john: it ain't done until it's done. the new fox polling numbers could indicate a tough road for president biden if he decides to run for re-election, more than half of voters do not want to see his name on the 2024 ticket. byron york from the washington examiner, and fox news contributor, should democrats keep biden, 37% say yes. 53% say they would like to see someone else as the 2024 presidential nominee. this is democrats saying this. marian williamson, full disclosure, a family friend -- >> the interesting thing to look at right now, you do have poll after poll after poll that indicates democratic dissatisfaction with joe biden. almost all of it is based on the belief of many, many democrats, that he's too old to be president, that if he served a second term he would serve to age 86 and that's too old. that doesn't mean they are going to vote for a republican. and the other thing to look at is look at what's going on in the republican world right now, donald trump has already announced, nikki haley has announced, ron

john. >> john: all right, sandra.ear and frustration after a train derailment in ohio and the transportation secretary slow response. we will speak to a person who lives just three miles from that accident about the situation on the ground. plus, bret baier on new inflation numbers, dr. nicole, and molly hemingway on a cdc move to vaccinate babies as young as six months old to covid, and bill haggerty reacts to the flying objects on u.s. air space. all that and a whole lot more as "america reports" rolls on. no. he's making real-time money moves with merrill. so no matter what the market's doing, he's ready. and that's... how you collect coins. your money never stops working for you with merrill, a bank of america company. >> john: all new at 2:00, republican senator josh hawley wants the feds to set a legal age to use social media. he says if you are not 16, you can't log on and it's passed time to start fighting back ait

great to be with you. >> john: john roberts in washington, good to be with you, sandra. the president getting attention for trying to downplay the classified document scandal calling the records nothing more than "stray papers" and saying they are from decades ago, kind of problematic. and putting the blame on staffers for not being careful as they packed up his office and shipped it to his house. mark, a lot going on there today. >> a lot going on, a busy friday. good afternoon to both of you. the president is facing fresh questions how the u.s. may respond to china after the spycraft was shot down off the carolina coast. and how the white house long-term national security will play out, and a bipartisan uproar on the hill about the entire incident. the president likely going to face questions with reporters in the room later on, also a white house briefing due to get started any minute. reporters are likely to ask about what the president had to say when he spoke to telemundo on thursday. >> it's not a breach. look, it's totally, it's a violation of international law,

>> hi, john.tors want to show that alec murdaugh's alleged financial crimes were beginning to catch up with him, especially on the days of the murders. the judge is reviewing each piece of evidence and deciding what evidence and what witnesses can be presented to the jury and he's doing is that outside the presence of the jury. without the jury in the room we heard the cfo of alec murdaugh's former law firm testify that on june 7, 2021, earlier on the day of the murders, she confronted alec about some missing funds. >> he turned and looked at me when i came up and said what do you need now, and gave me a very dirty look, not a look that i've ever received from alec from, frustrated with me look. >> she says that murdaugh assured her he could account for the money but their conversation was quickly interrupted by a phone call informing murdaugh that his hospitalized father was terminally ill and then that night, murdaugh called 911 to report the deaths of his wife maggie and son paul on the family'

sandra and john. >> sandra: ok, garrett tenney, keep us posted, john. >> john: the epa sounds familiar for people in the aftermath after 9/11, they said the air was safe to ground near ground 0. more than two decades later, thousands have died from diseases related to the toxins at ground 0. john is a 9/11 health advocate, founder of the feel good foundation, do you see any parallels with what's going on in ohio and the assurances from epa. >> yeah, hi, thank you for having me back, good to see you, sir. a lot of correlations and my heart bleeds for the people of east palestine. this place is loaded with vinyl chloride. vinyl chloride is not republican or democrat, and vinyl chloride will kill and i pray the people of east palestine, if you can leave, leave, and that's hard to tell somebody who has been there their whole life. but it's going to get worse. if the wildlife is dying, human beings will get sick. i don't trust anything that starts with e and ends with a and p in the middle. i think they are liar, and to offer somebody $500 to leave or give them $1,500 because they were disp

i think john tyler probably would have understood exactly the sediment john f. kennedy mentioned at that time. i appreciate your attention today. if you have not bought my book , this is the title of the book, this is the cover of the book. and before i go i just wanted to make sure i give you an indication of coming attractions. my wife and i have a book a biography of under contract with the university press of kansas and her manuscript is due is in october a few months away. so i will be happy to take any questions that you might have. and i appreciate your attention. >> thanks chris. again folks apologies for the brief delay due to technical difficulties. questions, one thing that comes to mind we have seen other figures in politics historically and in contemporary times like tyler is one of the things that makes this fascinating as historians is the detective work goes into understanding. i'm wondering what you might have uncovered in your research made it clear that he left in his hand in his own well, he does refer to his father, particularly early in his

we will keep you informed. >> will you debrief congress this week john: john:?here were debriefings as early as late last week. it will be debriefings this week. perhaps even later today. >> response has been harsh to the first bloom. >> with beijing about this, share a little john: bit about that. john:the first one was chinese. they claimed it was a look -- weather balloon. we know it is not. these three we do not have attributions or putin -- who owns them. i will not take anybody's word at face value to look at them. are we in touch with the chinese? we have an embassy in beijing. we maintain and diplomatic conversations, and we had that spy balloon incident we had a private discussion with chinese leaders. >> you said you are in touch with the chinese. is there an an effort to arrange? john: i am not aware about any of that. >> to date plan to speak with netanyahu to move his government is making to weaken israel. >> the conversations are keeping up but we are concerned by the moves with respect to settlements. >> the president says there was a russian floc

hi. >> john: happy wednesday to you, john roberts in washington. people in east palestine, ohio hoping to get some answers during a town hall meeting, after a train went off the tracks 12 days ago carrying hazardous chemicals. a toxic fire spent plumes of toxic smoke for days. >> sandra: some residents are worried about water and air quality. people getting sick, fish are dying, and evacuation ordered after the derailment has now been lifted but some question whether that happened too soon. >> john: jenna lives near the site of the derailment, she will talk about her experience in a moment. but first garrett is in east palestine, ohio, also a lot of concern about the plume of pollution from the derailment that's now moving down the ohio river. what more do we know about that? >> yeah, john, we know these chemicals have killed more than 3500 fish so far and that a cloud of these toxins are now in the ohio river, which provides drinking water to millions of americans across several states. so, this is something officials are keeping an eye on. at las

john: good evening, i'm john yang.'s invasion of ukraine enters its second year, russian president vladimir putin says his country cannot ignore the nuclear capabilities of both the united states and nato countries. in an interview, he repeated his claim that nato and others want to see russia suffer a strategic defeat. those comments came as russian state news released drone footage showing devastation in the city of bakhmut, where frontline fighting has been fierce. the ukrainian military says battles nearby are ooing and russia has been unsuccessful in its offensives. meanwhile, in a weekend marked with war commemorations, ukrainians gathered in odesa to remember volunteer soldiers who have lost their lives over the past year. tetyana: he decided on his own tooin the territorial defense battalion. he worked for eight years as a sailor, but he then told me his nerves couldn't take it any longer. i then said, "son, we're at war. who told you to join the battalion?" he told me, "who else will defend you, mother, if not

: hey, phil, john roberts. interesting tale alec murdaugh is trying to weave to the jury, saying i'm a lying, theiving drug addict but trust me when i say i didn't kill my wife and son. can he sell that? >> so far i think he's doing an ok job with that. we don't know what the jury will say. but he did the right thing. said i own all this other stuff and honestly, john, i think the prosecutor is overplaying the hand in terms of these other crimes. basically the witness has said look, yeah, i did all those things, i'm a terrible person and i'm sorry. but the pros -- prosecutor went over and over in minute detail when it does not provide the motive for the murder as the prosecutors have alleged. sure, show he's a crook, absolutely. going to spend the rest of his life in prison, probably for all the other things but he doesn't want to go to prison, john, being known for being convicted for killing his wife and his son, and i think that's what he's playing for here. the prosecutor, i think, should focus more on the

john. >> john: sandra, wokeness is now embedding in one of the most popular video games in the world.he sims 4 calls itself the ultimate life simulation game and marketed to children. the game's latest update allows players to give their avatars scars that come from breast removal surgery, double mastectomy. parents are outraged, claiming the game is promoting transgender surgery. joining us is dave rubin, host of the rubin report. my older kids played this when they were 9 to 12 years old and now young kids can put double mastectomy, let's put it this way, they call it top surgery, it's a word for double mastectomy. what do you make of this? >> i mean, nothing should surprise anybody at this point. i think you got to give the devil his due and the woke mind virus has infected not only our government institutions but entertainment institutions as well, whether it's hollywood or video games. i remember playing sim city in college in the late 1990s, and you would have to design the city and there was an educational purpose to it. this has little to do with education and everything to do

i'm sandra smith. >> john: and i'm john roberts. we will see you tomorrow. starts right now. >> martha: thank you very much, you guys. good afternoon, everybody. i am martha maccallum live in our nation's capital. the speaker of the house kevin mccarthy joins us live this hour with his reaction to o the state of the union address last night, which he witnessed in very close proximity. why he says the president is goading republicans with that state of the immune address. plus, also, we will talk about what he just learned about the china spy flight in a classified hearing from a classified testimony that took place earl

yes, john.t. >> john: you are just taking it all in, i guess. >> yes, waiting for a sound bite. look, i think what you are hearing from the fbi is just their plausible deniable, past masters at that, and did not go directly to the social media companies and say you must censor hunter biden's laptop, of course not. they just prebunked it by explaining as yoel roth, one of the executives said in a sworn declaration that you know, we are expecting that there will be some sort of russian disinformation hack and leak dump in probably october and likely about hunter biden. so of course they were sort of presuaded before the story to view it with suspicious eyes as russian disinformation and did what they had been groomed and brainwashed into doing and of course the fbi was pushing an open door because these executives at twitter, as you could see, were tweeting their own, yoel roth tweeting anti-trump diatribes calling everyone at the white house a nazi. >> john: in the hearing on the weaponization, s

john. >> john: jonathan, thank you.>> gillian: let's bring in phil holloway, criminal defense attorney also a former assistant defense attorney, excuse me, assistant district attorney out of georgia. what do you make of the snapchat video we saw yesterday, murdaugh was shown in one set of clothes hours before the murders, talking about the video where he's standing outside, he's surrounded by trees. and then when he's interrogated he's wearing a different set of clothes. >> yeah, good afternoon, gillian. great to be with you. listen, that snapchat video and frankly i think the other cell phone video taken by the son who is the victim are going to be big pieces of this. obviously the prosecutor is setting the stage to show that alec murdaugh was acting with this knowledge of guilt, ok. that he -- he knew that he had done something wrong and so he was taking these steps to hide his criminal behavior. he didn't have a whole lot of physical evidence such as blood or dna on his person such that he would have probably had had

john roberts in washington. good wednesday to you. >> gillian: happy wednesday to you, gillian turner in for sandra smith. this is "america reports." now republican lawmakers say those concerns are partially due to fears that the president's ability to deal with china has been compromised by his family's business dealings. they say hunter biden has admitted to receiving a lavish gift from a business leader with very close ties to the chinese communist party. >> john: hunter has until tonight to hand over documents, or else face a potential subpoena. >> gillian: former national security adviser to president trump, robert o'brien standing by. >> john: steve on nato's response to the russia and china partnership, and mike starts us off with the latest from the d.c. newsroom. are house republicans serious about issuing a subpoena to hunter biden? >> they are, john. interested in digging into biden family business dealings, hunter a key figure. and some members of congress say they are close to a serious next step. >

john: good evening, i am john yang. navy divers are at work about six miles off the coast of south carolina, trying to recover debris from the suspected chinese surveillance balloon that was shot down. military and defense officials say it landed about 47 feet of water, shallower than they had expected, and is spread out over about seven miles. overnight, chinese authorities -- who had said it was a weather balloon gone astray -- called the shoot-down a "clear overreaction and a serious violation of international practice." former pakistani president pervez musharraf died today. he had ruled that nation for nine years and was a key ally in the u.s. war in afghanistan. a former special forces commando, pakistani general pervez musharraf seized power in 1999 in a bloodless coup. two years later, he named himself president. following the 9-11 terrorist attacks in the united states, musharraf allied with president george w. bush in the war on terror in afghanistan. >> pakistan will never allow the export of terrorism anywhe

good morning, john. >> john: i'm john roberts. complex environmental disaster and many questions still unanswered. folks have been allowed to return to their homes. serious safety fears remain despite assurances the air is safe to breathe and concerns are spreading about the potential impact on the water supply as a plume of pollution spilled into the ohio river flows toward the mississippi. >> i think the residents have every reason to be concerned. we'll continue to dig. that's the importance of these testings, testing the water, testing the air. i know hundreds of tests have been conducted but still residents are reporting things that have to be answered. >> dana: we're covering this story from all angles. emily lives nearby and felt the effects firsthand. michael reagan the epa administrator will be there. we'll be to garrett tenney in east palestine. >> it is interesting last night we spoke to a bunch of folks outside the grocery store here and a common thread in those conversations is that a lot of folks simply don't trust w

>> my client, john., that is absurd. >> two years later, when it all happened. he antony were separated. even though they still have them the same house. and he's still worried about her. that might be drinking and driving. so, he installed an app on his phone that autumn to track her phone, and followed her only because he was worried, he said. then he saw her car parked near gavin's, and thought the best to talk to them. but he didn't sneak up on them, he said. >> so i don't have the car. >> was cheney sitting on the lap of the sky? >> to sitting on his lap. so i walked over the passenger side door and often the window. >> but they do? >> tandy open the door. >> what did she say? >> what are you doing here? >> you start to argue attendee, he said. >> i walked around the door and alina to tell him the midas on business. it is elinda's when he leaned up and punch me. he punch me and pulled me and i put his hand on my throat, he was joking about the throat. >> it was gavin new to that first punch, he said

re -- >> john: we will jump out of the white house briefing, most handled by john kirby, headline i thought there, sandra, no plans to reimburse the bottle cap balloon club for the 12 bucks for the balloon we might have shot down. >> sandra: and his comment we might never see these flying objects recovered. he noted obviously one is on sea ice in northern alaska, yukon territory another one in thick wilderness, the other over lake huron. canada has announced they are going to stop their search for it, the u.s. has not yet called that off but it's in very deep waters there, so i don't know what everybody takes away from that. a possibility -- so the question whether or not we will ever see the images the military has of these is a good one. ari fleischer is with us now, your thoughts on listening to john kirby at the white house there on all of this? >> well, first and foremost, i enjoy listening to john kirby. he is articulate and has answers to a lot of questions, i don't agree with all the answers but a good spokesperson. what jump out at me what i did not hear. asked about other nations