if he is willing to talk, then it's not a time to be dramatic. it is a time to walk him through documents and that's the kind of tedious but important part of any investigation. the advantage of this forum compared to a public congressional hearing is you get people who are actually competent at doing examination who have one hour rounds of questions instead of five minute rounds and can actually show him the important documents that jonathan just referred to and walk him through them and ask him questions about them. >> bill: carrie, what professor turley just said, he posed the question did the president lie about knowledge over financial transactions? and will hunter contradict him? is this about lying? is this about overseas financial transfers? is this about influence

peddling? what does the law say about this? >> this is largely more than anything else a political process. all of the above matters because what they are doing. they are investigating to see whether or not they should impeach joe biden. when someone has a pattern of lying. joe biden has lied about the origins of hunter's laptop in the debate of 2020. he lied about that. he lied about china and hunter biden. he has lied about his interaction with him, business dealings. why do you keep lying if there is no there there. >> sandra: i imagine the republicans in that room will listen for any changing wording or messaging. it comes down to that, right? there was the messaging from the biden white house on whether or not the president had any dealings with his son or had any knowledge of his business dealings. it seems like that evolved over time as well. jonathan. >> it has. one of the moments that if i was a fly on the wall i would be listening for is when they get

to the dinner in which burisma executives, ukrainian officials raised objections, according to a biden associate, archer, that they had concerns about this prosecutor, victor shokin in ukraine, hunter then stepped aside with a couple of these individuals to, quote, call washington. i think they are going to press him on who did you call and why did you call? that occurred before the vice president then, joe biden, went to ukraine and said i'm withholding a billion dollars unless you fire shokin and later bragged about that in rather infamous interview now. they'll press hard on the sequence of those events. who was called, whether he ever spoke to anyone at the white house or in the administration. those are those key moments where you might see hunter biden falling back on this narrative. you have two conflicting

narratives, right? hunter biden said it wasn't influence peddling. i was really a sought-after globe-trotting business executive and then when he is pressed on embarrassing things. he said i was a blanked out junkie. i was totally addicted and can't remember anything. those two narratives will collide today. as we just heard, these are very experienced investigators and not going to be like the news interviews or go oh, okay. they'll press very, very hard. >> bill: andy, you were explaining that when you talked about walking him through documents. maybe one they talk about today is what people like tony bobulinski claimed during his testimony. okay? how many times would you say that hunter biden put his father on the speakerphone? archer says in my ten and whole partnership 20 times. bobulinski says joe biden was more than participant in the beneficiary of when his family's

business he was an enibleer. hunter biden said i can call any father from anywhere around the world and he picks up the phone. sitting here with my dad and he is next to me. maybe he was next to him. there is no way of proving that or maybe this was just hunter biden talking on that specific incident. when you talk about going through the documents, andy, you've done this, where do you start? what's most important? >> to me, bill, most important is the financial document. anything that pertains to payments of money. i think the reason for that, if you wanted to have one theme that if you were trying to present this to the public or trying to present it to a jury, what you would try to underscore for them is that in any normal, big financial transaction, what you always have is a lot of money going one way and an obvious asset going the other

way. and usually when the asset is a legitimate asset, there is no reason to break up the payments that you received into smaller parts and then diffuse way disburse them through a bunch of different llc's. it's not the way legitimate business is normally conducted. if i was walking him through these transactions continuing to ask him what was the value you were providing for this money? what were they getting for it? i think everybody who looks at these transactions, the common sense deduction that you have to draw is that the only asset that's obvious here is access to joe biden and his political influence. it is not like they are providing a service or some kind of a thing of value that justifies $24 million coming in and being disbursed this way. so i think if he tried to say that these were legitimate transactions, i would press on

him about why it was necessary to pay in this peculiar way and otherwise knowledge the thing they were selling was what they called the biden brand but what the rest of us in common sense think of as political influence. >> sandra: i imagine that will come up in that room. >> it boils down to one very simple question to hunter biden today. what exactly were you getting paid for? and to touch on something professor turley just said, this vacillating between i was a globetrotting businessman and addict when it suits his purposes people are getting tired of that narrative. we can all have sympathy and compassion with people who struggle with addiction. many of us know people and have family members but it doesn't excuse illegal behavior and doing some of the things he is alleged to have done. you are responsible whether under the influence or not. >> bill: thank you. well done. we'll come back to you gentlemen

when there is news. for now you are on stand by. thank you, carrie, great to see you as well. president biden easily winning in michigan the democratic primary race. the uncommitted vote accounted for 13%. now the incumbent facing some head winds in his bid for a second term. people are parsing the language on the committed vote and peter doocy has the report live from the north lawn where you made news last hour. let's begin in michigan. >> we checked in with the biden team at the reelect. they think 13% uncommitted is in line with 11% uncommitted which would have been the number last time against an incumbent president. they don't seem too worried. but there in michigan 100,000 people going uncommitted is ten times more than organizers said they were hoping for. >> for those uncommitted send a message to president biden.

michigan democrats are not committed to president and his re-election and a warning sign. a threat to biden and his administration to keep funding israel's war over our own democracy. >> he has problems with young people in michigan over his handling of the situation in gaza. he is heading to the border tomorrow. he thinks that's a crisis he can manage. there is nothing he can do about his age and even obama white house alum are saying officials here must address it better. last hour we saw him walking out to the helicopter for an unannounced trip to the doctor. >> where are you going? >> going to walter reed to get my physical. >> it was not on the public schedule. a helicopter landed on the lawn and people got suspicious. that is not something that happens unofficially. we expect him back later on this

morning or very early afternoon. not a long physical because he does have remarks about violence -- gun violence at 1:30. >> bill: busy town today. talk to you later today. thanks. >> many of the elements -- >> liar. >> liar. >> we are here to listen. >> liar. >> there will be time for questions. >> you are guilty and have blood on your hands. >> sandra: the noisy protest there in athens, georgia as the mayor was holding a news conference on immigration and community safety following the murder of nursing student laken riley. we have been on the story from the beginning and madison is live in athens this morning. quite a moment as the mayor tried to lay out plans to tighten security in the area. >> that's right, sandra.

he was talking about new safety measures but overshadowed by protestors repeatedly interrupting. >> who voted to make athens clark county a sanctuary city, sir? who? what is their name? >> they were holding signs justice. you are lawless, mr. mayor, we have had enough and my producer asked the mayor directly what do you have to say to these protestors? here is what he had to say. >> i would say trauma affects all of us. i understand in the wake of a great tragedy like this we are all deeply hurt and everybody expresses their hurt differently. >> we talked to some of these

protestors after things wrapped up and i asked them what do you want to see? what change do you want to happen? the main thing they want there is a resolution that was passed in 2019 supporting the immigrant community here in athens and they tell me they want it retracted and want the mayor to resign. >> sandra: last week i caught up with a mom of a university student who had her daughter come home because she was fearful of what was happening there. what are you hearing from the community and students trying to get back to their normal? >> sandra, i have to tell you since we've been here from the beginning we've talked to many students, we've talked to people just walking out in the community in athens. people from here. they all say it is a really odd feeling and they are just overwhelmed by shock. you mentioned that mother who was upset. we talked to a father who came to town to athens right after this murder happened because he just didn't want his daughter to be alone. that feeling hasn't gone away as

the days go on for people here in athens. >> sandra: madison, thank you. >> bill: 11 past now. let's move to this. u.s. state department holding talks with mexico and guatemala. this ahead of president biden's trip to the border tomorrow. that will happen in brownsville, texas. border town once ground 0 but now is seeing a drastic drop in crossings. griff jenkins is there. let's go to griff now. how much of a sense does he get of the problem in brownsville? he was in el paso a year ago, didn't see much, griff. hello. >> well, that's right. good morning, bill. a bit of a head scratcher. in brownsville the border patrol station here saw just yesterday in the last 24 hours only 12, a dozen illegal crossings. compare that out west to california and arizona where they see upwards of 2,000 a day. it is not very busy here. but if you go back nine months, may of 2023 last year rick let

me show you the images. fox was in the air and on the ground. you can see hundreds of migrants, waves of them crossing the rio grande because there was no razor wire. texas had not reinforced this area where we're standing. it was known as camp monument. mayorkas and then chief of the border patrol ortiz visited. we saw video texas dps was rescuing migrants throwing a rope in the river to them. the difference between then and now. take a listen. >> because of our efforts that have been a proven example of what the state of texas can do by securing its own border and having the resources and placing physical barriers along the river. because of those efforts we see a dramatic increase in border crossings in arizona and san diego. >> meanwhile the repercussions of the past 2 1/2 years of the border crisis being felt in

places like georgia where jose ibarra the illegal immigrant accused now in murdering the nursing student laken riley. it is not just there and getting hard to keep up with the number of criminal migrants. we can show you this screen of a migrant from el salvador is accused of killing a two-year-old in maryland. ice having trouble getting ahold of him because of sanctuary city provisions and in louisiana you have a migrant from honduras here illegally crossed and now accused of kidnapping and raping a 14-year-old teen. now back out here i will leave you with this. the miles of razor wire in brownsville. we don't know president biden will come here. if he does, he will see the efforts of what the state of texas has done and border patrol also patrolling this area. obviously not a very busy sector. i can tell you border patrol says in the last 72 hours they have apprehended 11 additional

criminal migrants accused of everything from murder, rape and trafficking of weapons. >> bill: a quick query, griff. it seems the federal government backed off trying to challenge texas in court because there is so much razor wire and containers are there as well that you see lined up on the border. is there an explanation for that? >> well listen, when i talk with border patrol officials, senior ones all throughout the state we saw in eagle pass and now they say the overview. the important takeaway the relationship between state and federal law enforcement cooperation is critical to getting this crisis under control. what happened in the case of camp shelby was a unique situation but in brownsville texas dps and border patrol patrolling almost together along this area. so the state and federal law

enforcement partnership is still intact. it is just as we showed you that video nine months ago where the state of texas and governor abbott felt the border patrol wasn't able to get it under control put things like this here behind me and it has certainly had an impact. >> bill: good work down there. we'll wait for the big visit tomorrow on thursday. thank you, griff. sandra. we have red faces at google trying to do damage control over its gemini controversy. a massive fail on behalf of big tech. also hunter biden now behind closed doors as we speak. formal deposition now underway. what the republican lawmakers want to know as the impeachment inquiry moves forward. don't move. we'll be here next. moment just to give you thanks. we thank you for this time to come together as a family, as friends, and as a country. help us, lord, especially this lent, to grow closer to you.

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>> bill: welcome back. next big one on tuesday. super tuesday, six days away. got a lot of delegates on the line. take you through that in a moment here. first i want to show you a little bit about what's important from last night in michigan. donald trump big win for him. got 68% of the vote compared to nikki haley's 26 1/2. joe biden big win for him as well. oh, sorry about that. here is his number at 81%. very impressive. however, there is a focus today on this number right here. on the michigan ballot you have uncommitted. allowed to vote for uncommitted. 13.3%. more than 100,000 people clicked that box for the uncommitted. what does that mean? what does it mean for november? a bit difficult to parse now. arab americans have made their voices clear about the no cease-fire happening in gaza. do something a little -- let me see. a little ugly here. i will just go fast forward through these results from last night and then the democratic

results, 13.2. this is super tuesday. i will come back to that in a moment. is uncommitted significant and how do we look back on history? back in 2020, bernie, joe biden, only 1.2, 2016 only 1.6. you had a lot during barack obama's re-election campaign of 2012 at 10%. what does this mean come november? it's a bit hard to know right now whether or not those in michigan will come back to joe biden, whether they will support donald trump, or whether they will go for a third party or maybe in fact they could just stay home. there will be a lot of this right now as we try to analyze these results. talked about super tuesday. want to set this up quickly here. here we go, right? super tuesday big ones out there. california could be winner take

all. california, 169 delegates. texas will vote on tuesday. 161. look at north carolina. tennessee, virginia down here at 48. a lot on the line come six days from now. mark meredith on what's next now for the haley team. he is live in d.c. >> nikki haley will take her campaign to utah today rallying supporters and despite last night's loss in michigan haley is making it clear she wants to stay in the race for at least several more days. >> first of all, let's look at all the early states. in every one of the early states, yes, did trump win? i'll give him that. >> president trump's campaign is not thinking about nikki haley staying in the race. trump himself is still talking

about haley posting this morning haley got trounced last night losing michigan by over 42 points. looking forward to super tuesday where she is doing even worse if that's possible. i'm leading states by over 60 points. people don't like her and know she can't beat biden or any democrat. in less than a week primary voters in 15 states get their states to weigh in. super tuesday, texas, california, north carolina. we're also watching next week rnc voting members in houston to decide who should run the party going forward. the current chairwoman on the left, ronna mcdaniel announced this week she is stepping down from her job. she led the rnc since 2017. trump has said who he would like to see run the party, there are efforts by some to limit trump's power within the rnc over concerns the committee may end up paying mounting legal bills. these are issues front and center meeting in texas. a lot of concern from some in

the rnc who will lead the party going forward. >> sandra: as you just mentioned, bill, the uncommitted vote in michigan could be a warning sign for president biden's re-election campaign. marc thiessen. should this be a warning sign for the president? >> it is. not just the uncommitted vote but the overall vote. he lost 19% of michigan democrats. to put that number in perspective, 144,000 votes. that's within less than 10,000 votes of his entire margin of victory in 2020. that's just democrats not counting independent swing voters who might also not vote for him. he is very close to his margin of victory, losing it in 2020. we don't know what the voters do. might stay home. come back home to biden or vote for trump but he is weak. and michigan is the weakest state for him. >> sandra: interesting that

immigration is solidly at the top of most american voters' lists as the most pressing issues facing the country today. we got this announcement the president will be making some sort of speech from the white house at 1:30 p.m. eastern time today on public safety and our communities and making them more safe. this is becoming a bigger and bigger issue for this president, marc >> it has leapfrogged inflation and economy as the number one issue for the country thanks to governors like greg abbott who made sure these migrants weren't only in texas but were spread out all over the country including democratic states. the thing i don't understand and democrats can't seem to come up with a good answer for. in 2016 donald trump won the presidency on the issue of illegal immigration. why after taking back the white house did they turn around and unleash the worst border crisis in american history?

it's almost like they are trying to pave the way for donald trump to come back into the white house. biden has broken the record every single year for the most encounters at the southern border. broke it in 2021, 2022, 2023 and now in 2024 he is finally taking executive action to do something about it? a little late . i don't think it will work. >> sandra: want to ask you about the ongoing controversy at google with the ceo calling the biased a.i. chatbot responses unacceptable. you have got these questions that are going to the chatbots coming up with, i don't know, a black george washington? he has i'll paraphrase written an email to employees calling the chatbot responses unacceptable. see what happens there while there is an op-ed in the "washington post" gemini is programmed to not offend 5% of the population at the cost of

offending 55%. it raises frightening questions how the same folks have been shaping our information environment. where does this go, marc? >> she hit the nail on head. right now it's laughable that google a.i. is giving us a woman pope and can't tell whether hitler is musk has negatively affecting society. the problem is this is early launch. the a.i. will get better but the bias will still be there because the people who are programming it are silicon valley tech pros, the most woke population in the entire country. the bias will remain. it will be better but it will more subtle and won't be as obvious and laughable. the problem with it is our kids are going to in the future won't be learning history from history books but a.i. and asking if you have an a.i. tutor in your home

and it will give answers. if it is biased it will affect a generation of kids with the woke virus. the left's campaig take over the school. if they take over a.i. it will be more subtle and less obvious as it improves. >> sandra: google's reputational headache this morning is a big one. >> bill: behind closed doors for 30 minutes now we received a statement from hunter biden. we'll read it to you in a moment here. keeping an eye on the closed door deposition before impeachment investigators. it is underway. we have updates after this. to duckduckgo on all your devie duckduckgo comes with a built-n engine like google, but it's pi and doesn't spy on your searchs and duckduckgo lets you browse like chrome, but it blocks cooi and creepy ads that follow youa from google and other companie.

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>> bill: hunter biden behind closed doors sitting nor the formal deposition under oath. republican lawmakers questioning him about the foreign business

dealings in their impeachment inquiry. kim strassel. welcome to our program today. hunter biden's opening statement goes about eight paragraphs in length. i'm here to provide the committees with -- i do not involve my father in my business, not a lawyer, investments or not as a board member and not as an artist. never. andy mccarthy says walking through the documents, especially the financial document. what would you expect from this today. >> well, my main takeaway, great to be here. i do not expect them to get a lot. whether either because hunter biden decides to take the fifth on various occasions or because he simply develops a lot of amnesia which seems to be the history and what we have seen from a number of his other

business partners especially on crucial big questions like, for instance, who exactly is the big guy? everyone has suddenly decided this can't remember the circumstances of these concrete pieces of evidence the committee has. >> bill: would you -- we were talking with our legal advisor last game. what's the endgame for republicans? do the depositions, ask the questions, get the answers and develop another line of questions which could come during a public hearing. if that public hearing does come in the summer of an election year you could have massive fireworks. is that what republicans want? >> yeah, i think look, there are two questions that republicans have to answer for themselves right now. one, what is the narrative they want to tell to the public? if they are going to try to suggest that joe biden cashed in on this, that might be harder to do. we'll see what the documents

show. but they do have already a very solid claim that this was joe biden engaged in influence peddling enabling the rest of his family to cash in on his long time in workings in washington. this was the biden family business. they have already established that. i think that's a very disturbing concept for a lot of americans and they have to decide if they want to go further with that. the second is do they want a hearing like what you just described or do they want to go down the impeachment road and where they might not have the votes for that in the end? is the goal here to explain what's going on to the public or is it to do something more within congress? i think that they've already got one pretty well established. we'll see if they stretch further. >> bill: at the very beginning you said you did not expect much from this. when do we know? >> well, it usually takes a couple of days for these transcripts to come out.

before then we're going to get warring descriptions of what happened in there from the republicans in the room and from the democrats who were in the room. often the transcript will said both sides have agreed they want to release the transcript. maybe by the end of the week we may be looking at that. >> bill: you had all these meetings, right, and hunter is doing business, bobulinski is doing business, archer is doing business and joe biden's involvement, i know what they can prove. at a minimum it was a high buy, right? at a minimum it was a handshake. at a minimum it was make a drive-by for that dinner in washington, d.c. or is it more than that? is it a 14-hour plane ride from washington to shanghai, china? and how do we get to the nut of proving the conversation that took place on that plane? >> that might be the thing frustratingly as it is that might never come.

those are private conversations. and it's very unlikely that hunter biden is going to divulge that or acknowledge that in front of the committee. what i think is really important so far, bill, you have had a number of witnesses that have come in to testify in front of congress under threat of going to jail if they lie and have given incredibly honest accounts that clearly show joe biden's involvement in all of this. those that would like to suggest otherwise, whether it's rob walker, hunter's former business partner or hunter, etc. , have got nothing or james biden have only got foggy memories and vague claims that wasn't happening the way it was supposed to. very concrete facts on one side and generalized disputes on the other. that to me is the side the republican investigation has proven what they need to prove about the biden family business. >> bill: you wrote a piece in the "wall street journal" called hunter comes home to roost. in short, we'll find out whether

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>> bill: from california the soft on crime l.a. county d.a. george gascon is running for re-election. wants to keep his job. 11 challengers campaigning on tougher crime policies. imagine that.

jonathan hunt has the story live in l.a. jonathan, good morning to you. >> good morning, bill. 15% rarely wins any election. it looks like it might be enough for the l.a. progressive district attorney george gascon to come out on top in next week's primary election and advance to november's runoff despite the recent poll showing only 24% of voters approve of the job he is doing amid ongoing concerns about violent crime in los angeles which, while falling, still remains above pre-pandemic levels with many of gascon's critics blaming what they consider his soft on crime policies. former federal prosecutor here meeting with a parent who lost a child to fentanyl says if he wins, he will immediately tackle the fentanyl crisis and gun crime. issues on which he says gascon has dropped the ball. >> he came in on day one with a

series of abrupt and inflexible policies. they weren't well thought out and you have seen the effects of that. in particular one real criticism i have he doesn't vigorously prosecute gun crimes. >> there is a current deputy district attorney and frequent critic of his boss. >> on day one of my administration we'll revoke every policy george gascon has implemented and go back to following the law, enforcing the law. >> the problem for those who oppose gascon is there are so many of them. 11 candidates taking him on splitting the anti-gascon vote. gascon will make it through tuesday's primary as one of the top two but far short of the 50% he needs to win outright. gascon's critics hope and believe the resulting race in november will be gascon sentenced to retirement. we asked him to sit down for us

to this piece and told he didn't have time. >> bill: keep trying. i know you will. thank you. >> sandra: apple pulling the plug on its electric vehicle project after delaying its release and sinking hundreds of millions of dollars into it over the last few years. charles payne. i'm dropping stuff left and right. musk is warning telling his company to sell for lower sales growth of e.v.s. they are having a hard time selling these things. >> the public doesn't want them. that's the bottom line. almost anyone who wanted one over the last few years bought a tesla. once you go past the people they wanted it, they got them. the administration was saying we'll force this. remember, the biden administration 56% reduction in new vehicle emissions by 2032.

that would mean 60% of new cars would have to be e.v.s by 2030. the problem there is no audience for it. no one wants it despite all the cash incentives out there and some places california got state rebates and federal rebates. that was for wealthy taxpayers to take advantage of it. >> bill: it's not just apple. ford cuts the f-150 lightning on january 19th. hertz is selling 20,000 e.v.s. biden administration said to slow early stage to ship electric cars. daily wire. u.s. auto deals press biden to scrap unrealistic mandates. mercedes benz will set the transition. the company plans to be in a position to cater to different customer needs, electric tried combustion engine until the

2030s. >> sandra: that was an old statement. they changed their tune. >> customers and markets should be allowed to set the conditions not the federal government with an ulterior motive that has nothing to do with transportation and nothing to do with people being able to afford these things. >> sandra: i don't get it. >> forward-looking was losing $35,000 on each one. another company $46,000. another company, 37,000 loss on everything they sold. the stocks are down 90%. it was nuts. >> sandra: ford was trying to sell a $1 hundred thousand pickup truck. who is paying that much for a pickup truck? [laughter] >> sandra: that was funny. >> bill: give him a chance to

answer. >> we did this before. people were shocked in 1903 forms of vehicles. water, steam, electric, and combustion engine. and steam and electric had 35% market share each. american public chose internal combustion engine. in 1939 the last electric vehicle company went out of business. we thought we put it to bed. this is not about economics and vehicles and something to do with destroying industry, for-profit industries that hire a lot of people. >> bill: thank you, charles. >> sandra: it's nice. >> now you have to show pictures. >> bill: we'll get to it. chicago students now falling for further behind 75% below grade level in reading. 80% in path. why are school officials

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>> bill: we just want to bring you up to date from sante fe, new mexico. that involuntary manslaughter trial involving the movie shooting armorer including alec baldwin as well. he is not testifying well. could be several months before he does. we're keeping an eye on this as the trial continues. screen left, that's the questioning of one of the witnesses. >> sandra: alec baldwin claim the armorer handed over the colt 45 replica cold and that is when he took that gun, discharged it and a bullet struck hutchins in the chest and killed her. alarming data shows most students are failing tests if reading and math despite the school system getting billions of dollars in federal aid. garrett tenney is live in the windy city.

i have been following this very closely. those scores of those children there should be an absolute emergency, garrett. what do we know? >> it really is. the good news is at least in reading chicago public schools has gotten back to where they were before. the bad news is still an overwhelming majority of students can't read or do math where they are supposed to. statewide just a quarter of students tested proficient in math. in chicago eight out of ten students were not where they should be. in english 3/four of chicago students can't read at grade level. ten points worse than the state average. when you look across the state, though, it is even more alarming for education researchers. despite a majority of cps students not being proficient in reading or math, 83% still graduated. one example is the math and science academy. not a single student could read

or do math at grade level and 88% of students still graduated. statewide proficiency scores improved slightly last year. the number of schools where no schools tested proficient went out 67 schools for math. 32 for english. >> sandra: wow, garrett tenney live in chicago. >> bill: before we go just want to -- we did this yesterday and want to do it today. coming up on the moment where we'll say whoa, that was action right there. >> sandra: that's beautiful. >> live camera big bear valley, california. with us for the last two hours we've been rocking and rolling on the stories, we check our computer to watch the live camera of shadow. >> sandra: hemmer turns his computer so i can catch a glimpse. >> bill: tomorrow might be the day. leap day. appreciate you coming here today. we'll see you later at 1:00 with john. harris takes over right now. >> harris: news at this hour