Dozens more unaccounted for. Were live from the burn zone coming up shortly. First this. Like father, like son. President biden and son hunts both under Special Counsel investigation. Is it too much to overcome, we wonder . Well find out in time. Good monday morning. Im bill hemmer live in new york. Hello. Dana good to see you again. Im dana perino. This is americas newsroom. Its been a very tough weekend for everyone in hawaii. Much more for you on that. We want to get to this information. The appointment of a Special Counsel on hunter biden is the latest as the president deals with his own Special Counsel for mishandling classified documents. The legal challenges are mounting. That is bad news for a president already facing questions about age and electability. Bill meanwhile hunters Special Counsel. The same prosecutor who tried to give the sweet plea deal about a month ago. According to republicans, that just does not simply pass muster. Dana peter doocy is live at the white house for us this morning. Good morning. Good morning. Hunter bidens lawyers are confirming a key component of devon archers testimony and explaining what the then Vice President was doing on the phone talking to the international businessmen. The most people are criticizing the biden family is that when the president calls his son every day and it goes on the speakerphone and says hello to the people in the room, thats not an offense. Thats nothing other than a loving father. Republicans are reversing their calls for a Special Counsel now that they know it will be the same prosecutor who signed off on that plea deal that gave hunter biden immunity for undiscovered crimes, david weiss. Do as bad as he did with weiss. Not only did weiss drag his feet for five years and try to negotiate a Sweetheart Plea Deal with the president s son, he also let the statute of limitations run out. It was one of the biggest complaints from the i. R. S. Whistleblowers. Biden allies are not excusing hunter ears behavior. They dont want it connected to his dad. Havent been able to show any criminal corruption on his part. They have hunter biden. This guy was addicted to drugs and did a lot of really unlawful and wrong things and we have said let the Justice System run its course. They are not saying that about donald trump. President biden is coming back from the beach in two hours. He has not said anything about this. There might not be a chance to talk to him until friday afternoon when he hosts a Tri Lateral Press conference with some visiting dignitaries, dana. Dana we have that to look forward to. Hopefully get more answers before then. Thanks, peter. Yesterdays announcement was an admission by Attorney General garland that they have not been truthful. Department of justice hasnt been truthful with the American People and goes right to what you said. He did not have the authority to make the decisions as he said in the october 7th, 2022, meeting. That gentleman was 1 of 2 whistleblowers. Gary shapley from the i. R. S. Reacting to the appointment of that Special Counsel. His attorney is here joining us. Thank you for your time. Good morning. Good to be with you. Bill where would we be without the testimony of these two whistleblowers . Its pretty clear, bill, first thanks for having me. Its pretty clear that there probably would have never been a plea deal or effort to resolve this case without the whistleblowers coming forward. I would like to point out one little fact that came out in the pleading that was filed by the defense. They have four law firms on this case representing the biden family. They referenced in their pleading yesterday that the prosecutors reached out to them in may of 2023 just this past may to give an invitation to initiate plea discussions. Thats a pretty crucial fact when you look at the timeline of what was happening with the whistleblowers come forward. If you recall, i wrote a letter to various committees of congress on april 19th of this year noting that i represented a whistleblower who wanted to come forward in a Major Investigation to discuss Conflict Of Interest and possible false statements by a president ial appointee. In may 24 is when Gary Shapley First came forward and revealed he was a whistleblower to come forward. The timing is precarious when the defense says the government reached out to have a plea in may, the same month. It makes it sound like they were never going to charge this case but because the whistleblowers were coming forward, they decided to just see if they could get this thing resolved quickly. They moved too quickly and made a bunch of mistakes like theyve made mistakes throughout the investigation. Dana could you react to Congressman Goldman . This is what he said Sunday About Weiss becoming a Special Counsel. I want to get your take. David weiss, The Trump Appointed u. S. Attorney in delaware was right all along. He had ultimate authority and when he requested Special Counsel status because the Plea Agreement thats broken down and he may have to charge hunter biden in outside of his own district, which he requires Additional Authority to do, he got it. Dana how do you react to that . Well, i think were hearing different statements from mr. Weiss. Weiss has come forward and said first he wrote three letters to congress saying the first letter said he had all the authority he needed to charge anywhere, any time he wanted to. Attorney general garland was echoing those comments that weiss had all the authority and even more authority than Special Counsel has. Then he wrote a second lets saying its common practice to consult with u. S. Attorneys in other districts to partner up with them if you want to bring a case. Only in those circumstances if thats denied would he seek Special Counsel status. Well, gary shapley, if you recall, his october 7th, 2022, meeting the red line meeting where weiss told him that and other executives with the Law Enforcement agents that he tried to bring it in d. C. And tried to bring it in l. A. But he was refuted and denied. And he sought Special Counsel back then authority from d. O. J. And declined for that. So these statements are bouncing all over the place. When Attorney General garland said that weiss had more authority than a Special Counsel, the fact he has been appointed Special Counsel did he get a demotion . Their statements dont make sense with each other. They are across the board. Really appointing weiss as Special Counsel now doesnt give confidence to the American People that this thing will get done the right way under the facts and law. Bill lets try to squeeze in two more. Dana do you think the timing and appointment of david weiss as Special Counsel is suspicious . Well, there is so much history under the water over the dam. The blocking of investigators efforts to try to get to the bottom of any connections following the money, any connections with the father, blocking those steps, and then coming forward now and appointed him as Special Counsel. He is the wrong person. Ive always called for a Special Counsel in this case so that somebody neutral could get to the bottom of the facts and charge the facts under the law. But also bill people would argue that weiss is not neutral because he has been on this from the beginning quickly. Without the house hearings, many of this stuff we dont know. Now that you have a Special Counsel, do the house hearings happen . Does weiss appear before a House Committee at the end of september as he is scheduled or not . Well, i dont work for congress or the department of justice. It seems to me congress has the authority to force people to come and testify under their oversight authorities. I think weiss has to come forward. But he has already invoked that he couldnt talk about ongoing investigations. We arent expecting an open book from him. Bill terrific. Thanks for coming on. We have a lot of questions and still looking for answers. Dana we are. Were not the only ones. Maureen dowd wrote a little about this. Joe biden should have reined in hunter when he began living off his dads position and connections. The president , who lost two kids and nearly lost this one is clearly paralyzed when it comes to hunter. It will be harder for the president to argue that trump is the one with all the legal and ethical albatrosss. If they are the two candidates for each Political Party there is a comparison you could lay out there. Maureen dowd a month ago wrote the piece about the granddaughter of President Biden, the daughter of hunter biden. Things changed after that. Dana they recognized the granddaughter. It was Maureen Dowds system who is a strong supporter of biden. Former President Trump has to watch what he says about the charges against him related to the 2020 election and january 6th. The judge says his rights arent absolute. Mark meredith live in d. C. On this and other legal challenges facing trump on the trail. Good morning to you. Former President Trump continues to condemn both the charges against him and federal judge here in d. C. Overseeing his case. There will be limits what can be discussed publicly. The former president is on the campaign trail. This weekend in iowa. The judge says trump should not expect special treatment just because he is a president ial candidate. On friday she ruled trump is prohibited from sharing Sensitive Information about the january 6th case. Federal prosecutors led by Special Counsel jack smith were pushing for a full protective order. They fear trump may intimidate potential witnesses by exposing some of the evidence against him before trial. A trial date has not been set. Meantime this week all eyes on federal courthouse in atlanta where a potential fourth indictment against trump could come at any time. The Fulton County districked Attorneys Office is looking into efforts to overturn the 2020 election in georgia. The Lieutenant Governor will testify tomorrow and tweeted over the weekend i can confirm i have been requested to testify before the Fulton County grand jury tuesday. I look forward to answering their questions around the 2020 election. Republicans should not let honesty for weakness. In addition to the former president aides may be indicted. If an indictment is handed down like many people are expecting trump could be forced to show up in Court Within Days if not hours. Dana thank you. I could lose my house. It could have happened. It didnt happen. You immediately go im really lucky and what can i do . 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The men did not resurface after jumping from a boat around noon yesterday. 50 miles sought of cape fear. Coast guard helicopters and boats searched the area throughout the night. Their families meeting them on land just a few hours ago. Thanks goodness for that. The tragedy of every single life that has been lost. Those who are still missing, we must continue to focus on finding every one of those people. There are so many others who are struggling to survive and also looking for what happens to tomorrow. Bill thats a former hawaii congresswoman tulsi gabbard. She was there in the middle of the night with will cain. Crews are still fighting the fires that killed 96. Hundreds more unaccounted for. 1,000 acres scorched. 2,000 buildings reduced to ash. This is hawaiis deadliest disaster since it became a state in 1959. Hard to imagine much that could be worse than this. Will cain is there. He spent every summer of his life in maui. But no summer ever like this, will. What have you seen before the sun comes up . I think what local time about 3 20 in the morning there now, will. Good morning to you, bill. What ive seen this morning. Ive been here 5 or 6 hours. Took off after fox friends yesterday and landed about 5 or 6 hours ago. I have oaf seen inspiration. Im on the north side of the island. Checkpoints keep us from going to the west side in lahaina. This side of the island is the recovery, support, survivors of la hein yeah. Behind me is kings church. I know one of the pastors. He baptized my sons. He spoke to some of the people who are there lahaina who went to their church. All their homes and church gone. Bill, i have to tell you, im not just saying this. Im not forcing it. Im not looking for happy talk. Their eyes, face, resolve is inspiration. They are filled with faith. They are filled with family and filled with culture and a love of each other and hawaii. I will tell you something. It is inspiration. As is, by the way, everyone watching this program. As you know, bill, many viewers have known my friends and family who have been here a long time. We put together to help families. A Gofundme Help the people of maui. Im blown away by the viewers of fox. There is so much in this country thats an inspiration. So much of america. Dana one thing i was wondering as people wake up and realize as the woman who interviewed with Ainsley Earlier today. Her home, car and work is gone and the future seems uncertain. Have you heard about the resources that they have in order to start picking up the pieces . How do you start taking that first next step what to do and where to live . I dont know. Lets look backwards if we might before we look forward. Its difficult because were literally still looking for bodies. At the same time, we do need to also look for some measure of accountability. I am sympathetic. This is an island of 150,000 people. Lahaina itself 12,000 people. If you looked at a map you could find no place on earth more isolated from a major body of land than the hawaiian islands. That being said, United States military is a few miles away on oahu. This is full of leaders and people that somehow did not find themselves worthy of leadership in a moment of disaster. Sirens didnt go off. Little warning other than seeing smoke and flames. So the reason i bring up the past is to address your question about the future. In order to rebuild lives and a town it will require an extremely competent level of leadership. I dont know where youll find that. I do know this. Again, i do know this. The people of lahaina and maui will be able to turn to their fellow hawaiians and americans. They are running boats and helicopters. I talk about civilians. Where im sitting here to the west side they are running small airplanes to cities. It is civilians helping civilians and americans Helping Americans and thats how they will rebuild as a community, as hawaiians and americans. Bill the president was asked about this over the weekend. He was on the beach in delaware. Roll this clip here a second, guys. Can you talk about the hawaii response . His answer was no comment. He could have said were praying for them. With them. Give them anything they need. Could have said just about anything but it went unanswered. Two things out there. One is the question about the electricity company. I dont know if we get an answer today or in a month. The question about the Warning System throughout the island. Have you been able to figure out anything whether or not the folks were given enough proper warning or not . I know the answer to that. They were not given proper warning. The sirens did not go off. Why is that, bill . Was it because cell towers. Power went out that morning. Power went out early that morning. Fire hit lahaina at 4 45 p. M. By 5 30 p. M. You will see videos of people in the water. So it tore through town in 45 minutes. There were 80 mileperhour winds pushing the fire. Was there not time . Was the Communication System knocked down . No power or cell service for the sirens to go off . A lot of questions for leadership. I will try to get to leadership and ask those questions and as you pointed out about the electric company. I will say this. This is not a time in my mind for partisan politics. We can talk about leadership. There is no excuse and no forgiveness for what you just played. This is not a difficult situation to offer a comment. As you said, prayers, thoughts, a few words for what is a terrible american disaster in maui. It wouldnt have been difficult for President Biden. Bill it was a layup. Dana will cain, i have been inspired by all youve done. You have dug in. The gofundme page is up and running. Put it on the screen for everybody to see and your posts are inspirational. They have to be comforted they have you on their side. Thank you for being with us. Im just one small part. The nation is rallying. Thank you, both. Bill well talk to you later. Will cain there in hawaii. Five people confirmed dead after a house exploded outside pittsburgh. Now the investigation to how this happened. Wow. Plus the first big stop on the road to the white house is the annual Iowa State Fair in august. Several republicans all trying to stand out in what has become a crowded field. We start with sustainably grown cotton from the rich red soul of north alabama, here on our family farm. Then we partner with family owned mills from maine to mississippi to manufacture our cotton into quality American Made fabrics that become our heirloom inspired bedding, towels, blankets and apparel. Experience our 100 American Made luxury linens for yourself. 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Every august every four years. We wanted to figure out if the polling tells us one thing in august, how did the caucus turn out six months later . We go to the Way Back Machine in 2007. 16 years ago. During that year mitt romney at this point at this point was at 26 . Mike huckabee was way down here at 8 . How did it turn out when everybody went to caucus in january . These were the results. Iowas caucus. Huckabee shot up 8 . Romney finished second. Respectable at 25 . Lets go several years later. Eight years later, Something Like that thereabouts. 2015, scott walker, the governor of wisconsin, at this point had a lead at 19 and donald trump trailed him by two points at 17 . Way down the list at this point was ted cruz sitting here at 4 . How did it turn out . Ted cruz at 27 , donald trump 24. Walker wasnt on the board at the end when the Iowa Caucuses concluded. Where are we today . 2023 in august, donald trump a commanding lead at 44 , trailing him by 24 points is ron desantis. Does he make a move in the caucus come january 15th . Or does the move come perhaps from one of the others right now that are listed in Single Digits . Look at history and see how it turns out. We wont know until we get there. Dana its so interesting. Marc thiessen is a Fox News Contributor and joins us. Put up on the board for everybody call for number one, iowa state headlines are trump dominant. Desantis in the clashing with desantis. In a way, desantis wanted to make it look like a twoman race. The headlines look like that, mark, out of iowa. If you look at all those people on the board that bill just had, none of them won the nomination, none of them became president. So the people who ended up winning the Iowa Caucuses. That part of history as well. If they were held today trump would win. If they were held today, they arent scheduled until january. There are five months here. We havent had the first debate going forward. Donald trump has 44 of the vote in the iowa right now. That means that 56 of republicans want Somebody Else. In New Hampshire he has 42 . That means 58 of republicans want Somebody Else. This thing is fluid. A lot can happen. The reality is right now he is winning because no one has been able to consolidate the nontrump vote. But there is a lot of time between now and then and their debates. Our debate next week and other debates. So this thing can change a lot. Bill let me go through a few things here. There is a plane that flew overhead that ron desantis was flippingburgs. Before trumps plane circled overhead. This is what the plane said. Be likable, ron. Clearly a shot from trumps team. They were creative. Alexis mcadams asked him about that. Do you think you are a likable candidate . I think thats a narrative. When you have trump doing that, he has so many people that would never vote for him. I have seen that in florida. They want a leader. They want somebody that will be in it for them and our candidacy is about the American People, reversing the decline of the country. Its not about me, its about them. Bill here is what i think. All that will be forgotten in about what, nine days . If desantis makes his mark in that debate, he will have some momentum there in iowa. Huge. It all depends on how he performs and how other candidates perform. Somebody else could have a great debate night and surge out of the debate and start getting support. It will be the first time republican primary voters are taking a serious look at these guys and having a chance to judge them on how they perform. Keep this in mind. The republican electorate is in three buckets, right . A quarter of the electorate would wont Support Trump no matter what. A quarter of the electorate who are hard maga who are only considering trump. Polls show 50 of voters in the Republican Party are considering trump, considering other candidates. 75 of the electorate is up for grabs. Can Somebody Else persuade them theyre the right candidate to push trump out . Dana it is going to be a wild few months until we get to the Iowa Caucuses and it was fun to have Alexis Mcadams there. She did a great job meeting all the folks on the ground. Thank you, marc. Thank you. Dana as weve mentioned a little more than one week from now Fox News Channel hosts the first Republican Debate at 9 00 p. M. Eastern. Next Wednesday August 23rd from milwaukee and well be there. Bill cant wait. Articles of impeachment have been filed against President Biden by republican congressman out of florida. Happening as House Members release more evidence, they say, links biden to his sons overseas business ventures. Chad pergram following that bouncing ball as we begin a new week on the hill and plenty to cover there. Chad, good morning. Good morning. The four Impeachment Articles by florida representative greg steubey argue the president is complicit in alleged crimes by his son. One article said collusion with d. O. J. To keep hunter biden. What theyve got is hunter biden. We all seem clear that this guy was addicted to drugs and did a lot of really unlawful and wrong things and we have said let the Justice System run its course. Theyre not saying that about donald trump. Some republicans argue the president was on the take selling the family name and boosting his sons business opportunities. It needs to be demonstrated is bribery. Under the text of the Constitution A president can be impeached for treason. The essence of bribery is a quid pro quo. Some republicans are reluctant to head down the impeachment road. The math. Unclear if the house would have the votes to launch and Impeachment Inquiry and doubtful there would ever be the required 2 3 of the senate to convict. Were a long way from the conspiracy that should and possibly needs to be investigated and we should do the investigation. Ultimately the last thing i would want today is a vote on impeachment in the house that would die in the senate. This applies more pressure on House SpeakerKevin Mccarthy and begin an Impeachment Inquiry. Once the house starts it overshadows everything republicans are trying to do. Bill chad pergram on the hill. Dana reads sports. Dana bill, have you heard this phrase . They say imitation is the greatest form of flattery. Kansas city chiefs pulling off an impersonation. He dodged past rushers and got a touchdown. His backup gets to shine. I thought these were tapes from last year. Its already starting . Preseason football started this past weekend. A great season, right dana how did the broncos do . Bill i dont know yet. The first game really doesnt matter. Or the second game. It matters the weekend of september 10th. Dana well be paying attention. 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Dana House Foreign Affairs chairman Michael Mccaul blasting the Biden Administrations concessions with a plan to free hostages in iran. They say it gives away the store to tehran. Retired four star general jack keane our strategic analyst. Great to have you. Set this up with one quote from the wall street Journal Editorial Board saying rewarding iran with money for hostages amounts to financing it malign activities and encouraging it to take more american prisoners. That seems pretty clear to me. I think the left would argue with that. How do you see it . I think it is pretty clear, dana, to be frank about it. What makes this so unusual is that these hostages are still under the control of the iranians but were discussing the specifics of the deals. Iranians leaked it to the new york times. They didnt publish it but the administration said we dont want the specifics of the deal out there in public. We may lose the deal. But then iranians went to other sources and they are transmitting this as hostages being released and ransom being paid. That is in their Public Interest to transmit it that way. I spoke to an Administration Official on this who called me and what he is trying to tell me is that this deal will have guardrails in terms of where that money goes and iranians will not be able to have control over that money. I think we have to take that with a dose of healthy skepticism given this regime and its ability to manipulate its own population and all the sources in it. For me the takeaway is certainly we want these hostages to come home. What is happening to their families is awful. The trepidation they have right now when they see this debate going on and yet their hostages are still in iranian control. When i look at it, i say regardless of the guardrails or not in terms of the money, is this to irans benefit . Is it incentive for them to do this again . The overwhelming conclusion it is. When you select this method of providing 6 billion regardless of where the money goes, is that a good deal for the iranians . I think the obvious answer is and will be an incentive for them to continue to take american citizens hostage. An Extortion Business theyve been at since the 1980s and had a handsome payoff for them. Dana the Biden Administrations wanted to go to the nuclear deal. There is not support for this in congress. Is this deal with the iranians a way for the Biden Administration to skirt congress again to try to get the iranians to the table to get what they want on that end . This is the second part of this thing that is being discussed out there. Also being leaked to the media that really there is a secret handshake taking place on the iranian deal between the administration dealing with the control of nuclear weapons. Iranianss are somewhere in excess of 60 enrichment. A few weeks from being weapons grade. The administration being leaked again, i cant confirm it, is saying that they will make a deal that controlling that enrichment and a secret deal. Well, that flies in the face of congressional oversight. The fact that the American Public have every right to know about the content of that deal. So hopefully that is just a leaked news story that isnt accurate. What we really need to be doing, we can see, dana, iranians are increasing their aggression in the region and why were sending marines back into the region. They are disrupting the flow of middle east oil of the persian gulf and they are funding the militias in iraq going after the United States and certainly the iraqis themselves. Their aggression is on the rise. The last thing we need to do is be making any deal with them that gives them more money to be able to increase that aggression. Thats what they do. They get the money, aggression goes up. Dana thank you for the clarity this morning. Hope you have a good week. You too, guys. Bill nine minutes before the hour. Mark zuckerberg seemingly shutting the door on the cage match with elon musk. He posted this. I think we all grew elon isnt serious and time to move on. I offered a real date with a legit competition for charity. Elon wont confirm a date and says he needs surgery and do a Practice Round in my backyard instead. If he gets serious about a real date he knows how to reach me otherwise time to move on. I will compete with people who take the sport seriously. What did elon do . He fired backs on x saying zuck is a chicken. Dana there is word limit on x and not on facebook. Bill you and i, we should share the credit. Two weeks ago on this program we both said it will never happen. Dana it will never happen. All right. Bill back to hawaii in a moment. Scorched earth all over maui. Wide fires spreading destruction in a matter of minutes. Watching it closely and have updates throughout the show coming up. Stay with us. Rates lately . 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The lapd acknowledged in a statement over the weekend these kind of robberies leaves communities feeling unsafe and said its officers will do all they can to find those responsible for saturdays nordstrom mayhem. As yet no arrests made as you pointed out at the top. Bill well talk to you later this week. I dont know how many stories. Dana the mayor said its unacceptable. It seems it is acceptable. A different store last week. If its unacceptable, do something about it. All right. Cartels controlling the southern border with brutal threats and ferocious violence. New video showing a group of criminals armed with machetes demanding payment and robbing migrants of values before allowing them to cross into the United States. Welcome to a new hour of americas newsroom. Bill feel better . Dana you are getting my riled up. Bill im bill hemmer. Good morning. The cartels and criminal gangs like ms131 of the many dangers along the border. 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