a movement the likes of this country has never seen before. iowa represents this country more than any place and also represents tradition. other candidates have like seven people standing in a farm and they are talking and it's a very nice, it's a very nice thing to watch. >> john: former president trump basking in his status and taking a shot at rivals at a town hall with sean hannity in iowa last night. another jam packed hour, sandra. >> sandra: indeed, good to be with you. this is "america reports". voters will be caucusing, can you believe this, in just six weeks, and the media, it is fair to say, is starting to freak out over the possibility of a second donald trump term. editors at the atlantic magazine dedicating the next issue, what would the world look like under trump. and some are branding the former president a dictator. >> i sometimes wonder if trump knows the definition of democracy because he might be getting it confused with another d word, meaning dictator. >> one of the things we see happening today is sort of a sleep walking into dictatorship. >> what donald trump is talking about is something out of the playbook of dictatorships of europe. >> it's very much a race between a democrat and a wannabe dictator. >> john: of course the former president's rivals have a chance to make a case tonight at the next debate. alexis mcadams is live in tuscaloosa at the university of alabama with a look ahead to tonight. alexis. >> good afternoon. again this afternoon trump's team is pushing back after those comments about being a dictator, saying the true dictator is already in the white house. but here in alabama it's going to be a race for second place, according to the trump team. that's why he's skipping yet another debate saying he doesn't need to show up, he has such a commanding lead. and tells sean hannity he doesn't even think biden will be on the ticket. >> i personally don't think he will. i think he's in bad shape physically. you remember when he said i would like to take him behind the barn. if he took me behind the barn and i went like this -- i believe he would fall over. >> those are just some of the comments in that town hall. just yesterday president biden saying he's only running for re-election because trump is trying to get back in the white house, and just a short time ago, john, he renewed his claims he's going to beat trump, watch. >> do you think there is any democrat who can beat donald trump other than you? >> 50 of them. >> you do believe -- >> i'm not the only one that could beat him but i will defeat him. >> this comes as nikki haley is working to close the gap on ron desantis and the former ambassador to the u.n. is gaining steam. reed hoffman handing over $250,000 to nikki haley's super pac, writing on linkedin he's voting for biden but hopes it will help haley beat trump, and desantis saying she's not a real consecutive, and biden says trump cannot beat him and that's why democrats are funding his competitor. >> i think somebody gave them a talking point. i just found out that democrats are funding nikki haley's campaign. i hear that democrats are contributing to ron desantis or -- >> see what they say on the debate stage later. iowa caucus is six weeks away, expect to see a lot of action on the ground in the hawkeye state. trump says he will blitz and go to every county he can, knowing he's ahead but does not want to take any chances and ron desantis completed the tour, but he'll be back after alabama. >> john: did the full grassley. thanks a lot, alexis. the sandra. >> sandra: the former president also responding to special counsel jack smith claiming in a new court filing trump sent supporters to the capitol to criminally obstruct the certification of the 2020 election results. david spunt is live at the justice department. will his phrasing be admissible in court? >> we have to see what the judge says. so far she's been sympathetic with special counsel jack smith's team most of the time but ultimately see what she puts in writing. but the special counsel says on paper point blank that donald trump "sent people to the united states capitol to cause destruction," in a filing yesterday, upping the rhetoric, the ante, he sent supports including groups like the proud boys, whom he knew were angry and now calls patriots to the capitol to achieve the obstructing the certification, and lay out the parameters what his case in chief will be when he brings it before a washington, d.c. jury. the former president in the town hall with sean hannity made this curious comment about his multiple indictments, watch here. >> i often say al capone, he was one of the greatest of all time, if you like criminals, he was a mob boss, the likes of which, scar face, they call him and he got indicted once. i got indicted four times. i wonder what my father and mother would say looking down. >> sandra, last week the judge gave the trump team a blow when she ruled the presidential immunity does not protect him from charges. she wrote whatever immunity a sitting president may enjoy, the united states has only one chief executive at a time and that is not a lifelong get out of jail free pass. former presidents enjoy no special conditions on their federal criminal liability. may be subject to federal indictment, prosecution and punishment for criminal acts undertaken while in office. now the president, former president, trump, expecting to go to trial march 4th, one day before supertuesday. balancing the campaign calendar and the court calendar together. back to you. >> sandra: march 4th will come up fast. thank you. >> john: byron york, chief political correspondent for the washington examiner and fox news contributor. and some say it the second trump term would be the second coming of joseph stalin. hannity asked him about it last night. let's listen to this. >> you are promising america tonight you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody. >> except for day one. >> except for -- he's going crazy. i want to close the border and i want to drill, drill, drill. >> that's not -- that's not retribution. >> oh, no, i'm going to be, you know, he keeps -- love this guy. he says you are not going to be a dictator, are you? no, no, no, other than day one, we are closing the border, and we are drilling, drilling, drilling. after that i'm not a dictator. >> john: so clearly appeared to be a joke, but i don't know if they just ignored it or they are saying it's no joke, he could be a dictator if he gets a second term. what are you saying? >> they are very, very agitated about it. this kind of reminds me what happened december in 2015, donald trump was moving toward the republican nomination and it wasn't until december with the caucuses coming up in january that a lot of people thought oh, wow, he could win, he might win. but still democrats at that time absolutely assumed that even if he did win the republican nomination, of course, hillary clinton would defeat him in the presidential election. so there was not that level of worry. now we have seen a lot of polls, we have seen for ever polls with trump leading the republican race, but then we saw a spate of polls a few weeks ago leading president biden in head to head match-ups and a freak out when the "new york times" published a poll trump would beat biden in five out of six swing states, the kind of if you win those states you win the presidency. a lot of consternation and worry. what we are hearing today is from that. >> john: trump says first day, he's going to close the border and drill drill drill. see what biden did on his first day in office, this is some of what he did. killed the keystone xl people, halt construction of a border wall, rejoined the paris climate accord, restored undocumented immigrants in the census, masks on federal property, rejoined the who, the list continues on from there. that's a lot of executive actions that he took. >> i listened to the president say that on hannity last night, and my first thought was that's executive authority. that's what the modern day presidency does. people who are kind of purists and think a lot of these things should be congressional responsibilities, they get upset about it but the fact is, the president does have a lot of authority and if he wanted to do a lot of things at the border he could, and as far as drilling, a fair amount there, too. i think what the president was talking about on hannity last night was simply exercising his executive authority on day one. >> john: 12,000 people came across the border illegally yesterday. that's a brand-new record. a lot of them were from china, a lot were from africa, it's not just the northern triangle anymore. so, that's why trump is saying look, we have to do something about the border. >> there is absolutely every reason in the world he can refer to it as a crisis, and use emergency powers to deal with it. a lot of democrats dismissed it, they poo-pooed it, didn't care about it as long as 1,000 people were coming or 2000 were coming every single day and some sectors, now we get these incredible numbers, we know that, i don't know, 7, 8, 9 million people have come in illegally into the united states, most of them have been allowed to stay, as will the people who are entering today and tomorrow and the next day. i think trump would have a lot of support for using executive authority pretty extensively on the border. >> john: 12,000 a day. katie pavlich, a math major, unlike me did the calculation said 360,000 in a month if the pace continues. >> and it could continue another 15 months. >> john: byron, thank you so much. great to have you kick us off this hour. so, dictator, that's the latest phrase associated with trump. i remember after 2016, after he won the book against trump was he was going to start world war iii and i remember sitting outside the presidential palace in hanoi, for a news conference with the president of vietnam, my phone rings, a weird number, it's trump. john, they say that i want to start a war. i don't want to start a war, i'm trying to stop a war and you know what, if that was the truth, not that he wants to start a war. >> sandra: and going back to what's happening t he border and his focus on it, this is where his party is. they are concerned about the economy, concerned about the border and love that katie is -- you don't have to be a math major to know that is a huge number, and that's a number we just learned of in the past hour, john. 12,000 yesterday alone, one day, and those numbers just keep getting bigger. >> john: that's the biggest number ever, and typically in december the numbers start to decline. but the numbers are actually going up, and it seems the southern border, we'll talk more about this with congressman tony gonzalez later this hour is a funnel for everybody in the world who wants to come to the united states. started off as the northern triangle countries and the border czar was going to attack the root causes, now en mass from africa and china, and as bill melugin found out when he talked to them yesterday, they are just looking for more money. they are not looking to escape political oppression, it's the land of opportunity. we want to be here, we wanted to be a part of it. >> sandra: indeed. for all we know she's still the border czar, we have not been told otherwise. now this. >> on wednesday, december 6th, oakland teachers are holding a palestine teach-in. >> know our outrage is noble and just. our power is building. >> sandra: ok, so, some teachers in oakland, california, they are now planning an off-book pro-palestinian teach-in. you will not believe some of the stuff that they want to teach and tell elementary students. i mean, you are talking 1, 2, 3rd grade, john. >> john: many biden administration officials have been demanding the president call for a ceasefire. now white house interns are jumping on board 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not sanctioned and is blasting the suggested lesson plans as harmful and divisive. materials being posted and shared on social media defend the so-called from gaza to oakland teach-in as a way to promote critical thinking about the war. >> this teach-in about palestine is education, labor power, solidarity and resistance matched into one action. >> a small contingent of activists in the oakland teachers' union is encouraging the event, along with a controversial curriculum. it includes a palestinian-teamed alphabet book with the letter i representing intifada, arabic for rising up for what is rise, though typically used to describe armed uprisings against israel. down played the holocaust, calls israel an apartheid state, and had to evacuate when israel bombing gaza, no mention of hamas or the october 7th massacre. supporters argue it offers a counter narrative to lessons who focus slowly on israel but pro israel groups say this approach could traumatize jewish students. >> i'm worried about the jewish kids that are not going to have the safety in the classroom, the oversight to make sure the teachers are avoiding this topic or presenting it with nuance and multiple viewpoints. >> now, the superintendent has warned teachers to keep their personal beliefs out of the classroom and the head of the school board says teachers who ignore that order could be disciplined, maybe even fired. john. >> john: this after the crazy city council meeting in oakland the other day. claudia in sausalito. i remember the hot summer nights in sausalito, it looks freezing there now. thanks for joining us, appreciate it. >> sandra: john, a group of white house interns are joining the growing list of those in the biden administration demanding the president call for a permanent ceasefire between israel and hamas. the group sent a letter accusing him of ignoring the pleas of the american people, calling for an end t his support of israel's military campaign. let's bring in fox news contributor steve hilton now. steve, top line thoughts on that. >> all of this is so extreme and ridiculous. let's start with the biden staffers. i mean, this is just totally connected, by the way, to the story in oakland, story in san francisco, here in the bay area where i am. they, too, passed a resolution. in san francisco city council, you would think there are better things to focus on, the crime, the homelessness, businesses leaving by the droves, but no, what do they do? they pass a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in gaza. that's what they are focused on, what the staffers are focussed on. when it comes to the staffers, i've been a staffer inside a government back in the u.k. as you know and a simple rule. as a staffer, you are there to implement the political decisions of your bosses. and if you don't like them, you don't protest, you don't demand they change, either run for office yourself and you can be the decision maker, if you don't like what the bosses are doing, you resign. you don't try and subvert your boss's decisions like the staffers are doing. >> sandra: interns demanding the ceasefire in gaza, we are horrified by the brutal october 7th hamas attack on civilians, we are horrified by the brutal and genocidal response by the israeli government. we maintain anything other than a complete halt of israel's mass slaughter of innocent civilians in the gaza strip will simply not suffice. steve, while i have you here, ask you about the college antisemitism, the fallout from the hearing that happened yesterday. it was very revealing. first up, students describing what they have experienced on their campuses. >> multiple times a week on my way to class i walk by mobs of people chanting from the river to the sea, destruction of the state of israel. >> you are a dirty little jew, you deserve to die, words not by hamas, but from my classmates and professors. >> sandra: it's brutal to hear about what the students have been going through on their campuses, steve. >> this obscene antisemitism that we are seeing is just -- it's still going on, and in the early days after october 7th we could not quite believe it this was happening, echos of 1930s germany here in america today, and yet it's going on and on, amplified. and the story about the oakland teachers pushing it as well, it's the same piece, which is the jewish people are not the victims here, they are not the victims of october 7th, in fact, in the oakland city council meeting john referred to, someone said it was fake news israel was even attacked at all on october 7th. it is completely obscene and unless we take a stand and it's good to see people taking a strong stand, for example, chuck schumer, really aggressively taking a stand, but everyone has to be united in calling this out and the fact that the university leadership is so pathetic on all of this is an absolute disgrace. >> sandra: those college presidents, they are getting a lot of pushback on what they said in that