the d.o.j. indicting the president's son on nine new tax charges, three are felonies. a maximum prison sentence of 17 years. you've already made it. it's friday. dana has the day off today. she drew the good straw. i'm bill hemmer live in new york. welcome back. martha. >> martha: two more hours and it is good to be with all of you and bill with you. i'm martha maccallum. this is "america's newsroom" on a friday. there is a lot popping this friday morning. >> bill: the list is pretty interesting. we were talking about it. >> martha: getting ready for your morning coffee and how hunter spends his money. it centers on a four-year period where he failed to pay his taxes and most of you pay your taxes but he went several years according to this indictment, if everything is in it turns out to be factual. so he spent a lot of money. look at line number two, various women $683,000. adult entertainment at the bottom $188,000. that was more expensive than his legal fees. >> bill: if you're the i.r.s. and going through this wow, put that in this column. this in that column. the charges come as republicans accelerate their investigation into his overseas dealings trying to link it to his father. see whether or not it happens. jonathan turley saying this could use -- the latest indictments could be used to his advantage because of the following reason. >> the question is what are they charging and what did they lose? the second issue that is going to become more of a problem next week is whether hunter biden uses the indictment to invoke the fifth amendment to refuse to testify. to say well, now i'm charged with tax charges and i don't want to go into a closed session where you ask me these questions. now i have been indicted just before i was to appear before congress. and now i'll invoke my right to remain silent. that's a possibility. >> martha: certainly is. team fox coverage this morning on "america's newsroom." james freeman has his reaction to this blockbuster news that hit late last night. peter doocy is at the white house. first david spunt who broke the news for us last night. good to see you this morning, david spunt in washington. hi. >> the indictment, 56 pages filed in los angeles where hunter biden has lived since 2018. as you mentioned, nine charges, three felonies, six misdemeanors. the main point from the department of justice is that hunter biden didn't pay his taxes but had plenty of money to do so. according to the indictment between 2016 and october 15th, 2020, the defendant spent this money on drugs,s courts, girlfriends, luxury hotels and cars, clothing and other items of a personal nature. everything but his taxes. the charges include a failure to pay in 2016, same in 2017, also a failure to file in 2017 and a failure to pay in 2018. now felonies come in with tax evasion in 2018 filing a false return in 2018. another false return in 2018 and failure to pay in 2019. you went through the expenses before. now abbe lowell, hunter biden's attorney saying based on the fax and law if hunter's last name was anything other than biden the charges in delaware and now california would not have been brought. now after five years of investigating with no new evidence, in two years after hunter paid his taxes in full, the u.s. attorney has piled on nine new charges when he had just agreed months ago to resolve this matter with a pair of misdemeanors. the plea deal that fell apart in delaware. these charges are in addition to the federal gun charges that he is facing in his home state of delaware brought by the same special counsel. if convicted on all of these tax counts in california and if he gets the maximum sentence, he could see up to 17 years behind bars. legal experts admit even david weiss admitted yesterday it is unlikely federal sentences are less. it is clear that hunter's team plans to take it to file and fight it with intensity. the case is assigned to a donald trump-appointed judge. i reached out to hunter's attorney to see if he will testify before congress next week but haven't heard back. >> bill: analysis. james freeman "wall street journal" here to react. high level questions whether or not anything has to do with his dad going into an election year. is it not clear at the moment? >> what is clear is that this is related but money he didn't pay his taxes on is the indictment makes clear related to the flood of cash from china, from ukraine, from elsewhere. so we've had a lot of evidence lately tying his dad using alias email accounts, communicating to the hunter associate schwerin speaking to him. i think this is getting toward, we hope -- maybe this is a reason hunter cannot say anything. but i think what we're hoping is finally accountability. i think anyone knows looking at the facts that it was wrong of joe biden as vice president to fly around the world conducting official business while hunter was tagging along with his hand out. now we hope we're finally getting to the question of what did they give in return for all that money? >> martha: as you say, it is becoming increasingly clear. something most people have been able to assess looking at this, that the business was the vice president. the business was the potential influence. whether or not there was influence and they are still working on tying these checks to joe biden. we know he got about $40,000. a lot more money involved in all of this to be sure. i'm curious what you think about abbe lowell said. if his name wasn't biden he wouldn't be -- he wouldn't have seen this indictments in delaware and california. seems ironic. david weiss has done a big 360, 180. >> is job as the defense lawyer is to make his case. it flies in the case of i.r.s. whistleblower testimony which was going to this question of he got special treatment. if his name was biden it wouldn't have gone down this way. the point why didn't he take the plea deal, two misdemeanor counts. plus last month october the indictments on the gun charges plus these. why didn't he take that deal? he is looking at a harsher penalty. it is because he wanted the investigation walled off into just taxes and guns. they don't want to get into these questions. the latest emails raise why was hunter not registered as a foreign agent? we've got new windows into the burisma work. no one is surprised. not because he was a natural gas expert, they weren't asking him about his expertise in corporate governance. it was influencing washington and make charges go away in ukraine. >> bill: james comer wants to have this interview. he wants to have this hearing. i don't think it is going to happen. i don't know if you disagree with that or not. that's on the table right now. do you think any of this is resolved before november of next year? >> possibly depending on how aggressive mr. weiss now wants to be. i guess given the history, maybe you aren't optimistic about that. but i think -- you know, this question of if his name wasn't biden. normal people when there is a lawfully issued subpoena, don't get to decide the manner in which they comply or don't with it. so that's a tough question. i hold out hope that, you know, the justice system will give us the accountability. >> martha: you can argue weiss almost gave him a pass because his name was biden and now weiss is taken a different posture on all of this. interesting to see where it goes, james, thank you. >> bill: thank you. >> martha: president biden denies he talked with his relatives foreign business associates. but evidence to the contrary is mounting. house oversight committee chairman james comer says the walls are closing in according to him. peter doocy joins us live in washington. hi, peter. >> how republicans are trying to trace money that originated overseas and was paid to hunter biden into accounts controlled by joe biden. >> we have now deposed witnesses who have testified under oath that he talked to them on the phone. the evidence is overwhelming. the american people see through this. it is time for the bidens to tell the truth. they cannot lie to the american people anymore. the walls are closing in on the president of the united states. >> white house disagree and says the baseless stunt is based in extreme house republicans' shameless desire to use their power to smear president biden. in the latest indictment, the only biden accused of wrongdoing is hunter. >> the charges are against hunter biden. i don't think there is any proof, any proof at this point that there is a connection between the allegations involving hunter biden and his father. >> the house oversight committee has been at it for years and so far failed to provide any concrete evidence that joe biden personally profited from his son's overseas business dealings. they'll try again with the impeachment inquiry. >> martha: thank you very much. >> bill: let's roll this fox news alert on the economy. 40 minutes ago the number is out. added 199,000 jobs, better than expected. the unemployment rate ticked down a notch as well. there was good news in this report. so we'll get to larry kudlow later this hour and break it down for you and what it means for your money coming up on this friday morning. stay tuned for larry. can't wait to talk to him. u.s. is a sovereign nation very much in doubt. if you've followed the numbers at the border by the day we just keep on shattering records from all over the world they keep coming. we're watching this closely and get you down there in a moment. >> martha: we have already vaccines for flu and covid. but what about for drug overdose? 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you may pay as little as $10 per prescription. >> bill: got breaking news now. the sun is about to come up there with the skies in lukeville, arizona. we've been watching the story throughout the week. it's 7:15 in the morning looking to be some sort of processing center. like a scene out of the old mash film and they continue to come across the border at that spot. bill melugin has been down there throughout the week. we'll check in with him in a matter of minutes. remember the fight on capitol hill. republicans stuck together in the u.s. senate saying if you want money for ukraine you have to give us money for the border. it is stuck right now and how you resolve that remains to be seen. whether or not you will give the money toward the border we'll wait and see from washington. meanwhile, all the calls to resign after presidents of three top universities struggle to answer a simple question, does calling for the genocide of jews breach their school's code of conduct? that was the question what repeatedly to all three presidents sitting at the table and bryan llenas has the follow up today that continues to be a story. >> the morning of presidents of harvard, mitt and the university of pennsylvania are facing enormous pressure to resign as a result of their inability to unequivocally say that calling for the genocide of jews violates school policies. now the board of penn's wharton school of business is calling on university president liz mcgill to step down immediately, quote, as confirmed in your congressional testimony yesterday, the leadership of the university does not share the values of our board. penn mega donor hedge fund ceo ross stevens is calling on mcgill to resign withdrawing his $1 hundred million donation to the university following her congressional testimonies. lawyers writing mr. stevens and stone ridge are appalled by the university's stance on anti-semitism on campus. harvard president gay is apologizing for testifying that calling for the genocide of jews violated school policy depending on the context. gay now telling the harvard crimeson newspaper i'm sorry, words matter. the only rabbi on the task force for harvard has resigned. the painfully inadequate testimony reinforce the idea i can't make the difference i had hoped. now republican congresswoman elise stefanik who grilled the university presidents is pointing out the hypocrisy writing an op-ed called harvard shrugs anti-semitism. the lack of moral clarity is shocking. the only acceptable consequence is that the boards replace the presidents with leaders to restore moral clarity. they are opening a formal investigation into the universities and other universities potentially as well. >> bill: bryan, thanks. we have this from the "wall street journal." looking at this for two days now. ron hasner is a professor of political science at berkeley. he did a survey. let's set this up properly. a survey among students about what they thought when they chant river to the sea, etc. here is part of what it reads. when college students who sympathize with palestinians chant from the river to the sea do they know what they are talking about? only 47% of the students embraced the slogan were able to name the river and the sea. some alternative jordan and eastern mediterranean. some were the nile, euphrates, dead sea, atlanta. these students had never seen a map of the middle east and new little about the region's geography, history or demography and what he writes on his survey he did in california. what do you make of that? >> martha: i'm glad he did this. this is something we wanted to know ever since we've seen all these college protestors chanting this. i asked the question and people on the street. most of the protestors were shy about answering this question. so i'm glad that he asked it. it is also very interesting that he writes that once he explained to them what the river to the sea actually meant that it meant erasing an entire jewish state of israel, they said yeah, actually, i'm not for that and their signs slowly come down. >> bill: of the 80 students who saw the map 75% changed their view. >> martha: he is saying they've never seen a map of the middle east? that's not on them. that's on us. that's on our education system. the fact that these kids at mostly prestigious schools have never seen a middle east map before? >> bill: the history is complex, it takes time to learn it. and if you aren't going to take the time you are not -- >> martha: don't protest about it. >> bill: you won't have the right answer. >> martha: talks to release american and other hostages being held in hamas captivity have hit another roadblock dashing biden administration hopes that they could be freed by the end of the year. there are several americans, eight among this group, among the complications the chaotic nature of the fighting in gaza and allegations of horrific sexual violence committed by the iranian-backed terror group hamas. >> bill: 23 past now. a month now for the past seven days plus houthi rebels attacking several commercial ships and a u.s. destroyer in the red sea using drones and ballistic missiles. what have we done in return? so far the biden administration holding back if retaliating against the iranian-backed group. michael waltz sits on several committees with us now. former green beret commander. good morning to you. a couple ways to look at this. the thought that the houthis could do a peace deal with the government in yemen backed by saudi arabia. in the meantime you have iran backing the houthi rebels. do you believe this administration is concerned with upsetting iran that may spoil some sort of deal down the road that's still hopeful for it? >> yeah, bill, i would point out that the biden administration delisted the houthi rebels as a terrorist organization its first month in office part and parcel to what concessions could we make to iran on this fantasy that we could reenter a jcpoa deal? the other thing i would point out, the rockets that hamas is firing out of gaza are relatively dumb, unsophisticated and easy to manufacture and light off. these anti-ship cruise missiles requires intelligence to know what ship is coming through the strait into the red sea, targeting and they are not easy to fire and use effectively. so this is absolutely iranian resourced, trained, provided, and directed. 100%. the navy calls this environment the archer and the arrow. right now our ships are authorized to shoot down the arrow. the missile. they are not authorized -- this is bad policy coming out of the pentagon and the white house, to go after the archer, the houthis and radars shooting these things, much less to go back to iran and actually impose costs on iran itself. at the end of the day as long as iran is flush with cash and unfettered and we're not imposing costs on iran itself it will all continue. i don't know what it's going to take. us losing a ship or some type of catastrophic attack before the white house changes policy. >> bill: here is admiral kirby. >> attacks represent a direct threat to international commerce and freedom and navigation. except are diesed the lives of merchant sailors from countries around the world. while they are launched by the houthis we have every reason to believe they are being enabled by iran. national security advisor said the houthis are pulling the trigger and iran is providing the guns. >> bill: i gave a couple theories, what is your as to why there is no response? >> well, at the end of the day, i think there is still this fantasy and hope that they could enter into a deal in iran's nuclear program. n