await a verdict in a federal case alleging president biden s son lied about his drug use when he bought a handgun in 2018. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. that hour went by quick. bill: it sure did. good morning, dana. i m bill hemmer. good morning at home. hunter biden is no longer in court. he will have to be there for a verdict. prosecutors say hunter biden knew he was addicted to drugs and the evidence shows that. the defense suggesting to the jury the evidence is circumstantial insisting the government has failed to prove its case against hunter biden beyond a reasonable doubt. dana: judge jeanine pirro joins us in a moment. first rich edson is live at the courthouse in wilmington. we re deliberating now? they are, dana. they started at 9:06 this morning when the judge called them back into the courtroom. she talked to them and asked them whether they had any conversations or read anything about the case overnight. they indicated the
history. [shouting] [chanting free, free palestine] [shouting] statue across from the statue in lafayette park. commander in the french army helped america during the revolutionary war. that s what happens in hamas sim sympathizer take over the park. thousands showed up to protest. question i had all week whereby was law enforcement? well, there was this poor guy. [chanting] pig, oink oink. [shouting] who you serve and who do you protect? [bleep] laura: assaulted. and when police tried step in one time, this happened. [chanting] laura: the park police, the d.c. metro police and secret service all knew that this protest was happening weeks ago. so it s unclear why statues weren t protected. given what happened to the same park in the same park on memorial day 2020. we were there. now, we have criminals on video assaulting police officers, committing crimes, and, look, yeah, we understand that there are no plans to prosecute anyone. that the protest is described as larg
live in the moment. ask your doctor about otezla. i m thrilled to be back in beautiful arizona with thousands and thousands in the crowd. hardworking americans. we are the party of common sense. as an example, it is big stuff, bigger than people think. why would anybody want to have men play in women s sports? why? [boos] we want strong voters, powerful military. we don t want wars. we want to have great education for our children and we want to have low interest rates, and i will be slamming the door shut on the biden migrant app, and i will terminate every single open borders policy of the biden administration as soon as i take the oath of office. sandra: former president donald trump back in battleground arizona for a raucous town hall last night. he took 30 minutes of questions after his speech, and laid out what he calls a common sense agenda on things that matter to everyday americans. hello and welcome, everyone. i m sandra smith in new york, and john, here it
governor greg abbott say the situation that now needs disaster relief apparently, is president biden s fault but democrats like house speaker nancy pelosi blame former president trump while joining biden in refusing to label it a crisis. the biden open border policies that are inviting even more illegal immigration and actually have created this humanitarian crisis. this is a humanitarian challenge to all of us. what the administration inherited is a broken system at the border and they re working to correct that in the children s interest. it is entirely you cannot notice the administration changes and there is a surge. the 11-year high for crossings without documentation at the border was in the middle of trump s presidency. is idea it is joe biden s election that prompted more people to show up is belied by the actual facts. harris: more now. kevin mccarthy is leading a delegation of one dozen republicans to the southern border today. casey stiegel is live along th
the surge and are encouraging smugglers to be bolder than ever. we ve seen surges before. surges the end to respond to hope and there was a significant hope for a more humane policy after four years of pent up demand. so i don t know whether i would call that a coincidence but i certainly think that the idea that a more humane policy would be in place may have driven people to make that decision. harris: well, here is how many are coming. more than 100,000 migrants were encountered at the border in february. that s a 97% jump from the same month of last year. nearly 30,000 unaccompanied children were encountered. some 3,000 of them 12 years old or younger. arrests and deportations plunged as president biden tightened the rules how ice agents can operate. there were more than 2300 arrests in february. that s down 66% from the average number over october, november, on december. and only about half the number of deportations if in february compared to the month before. fewer