millimeter mortar rounds landed inside the u.s. embassy compound in baghdad. >> gillian: iran-backed forces hit 75 times in the last two months. we will bring you developments as they come in. >> my son has done nothing wrong. i trust him, i have faith in him. my son did nothing wrong. i did nothing wrong. did not do a single thing wrong as everybody has investigated. one single bit of evidence, not one little tiny bit to say anything done was wrong. >> john: well, president biden has defended his son for years, but now new legal trouble has emerged for hunter biden. nine federal charges for alleged tax crimes. good friday afternoon to you, i'm john roberts. nice to spend it with you. >> gillian: you as well, john. gillian turner in for sandra. this is "america reports". three of the nine charges are felonies that carry up to 17 years in prison if convicted. according to the indictment filed in california by special counsel david weiss, hunter failed to pay nearly $1.5 million in federal taxes between 2016 and 2019. >> john: also claims hunter earned millions in that time frame but instead of paying taxes like he was supposed to, he spent money on a lavish lifestyle. fox team coverage kicks us off. miranda devine shares her analysis. >> gillian: david spunt is here with the latest on the case. did the indictment come as a surprise to the defense team? >> david: we don't know what they thought, but david weiss said in an august court filing he would likely bring charges in california. the key point special counsel weiss is making, hunter biden had plenty of money to pay his taxes. they were eventually paid back but that does not matter to the government. it reads in part, the defendant had sufficient funds available to him to pay some or all of his outstanding taxes when they were due but chose not to pay them. $1.6 million in atm withdrawals, more than $683,000 to payments to various women. more than $397,000 for clothing and accessories. more than 300 on tuition, more than 237 on health, beauty and pharmacy products, more than 236 on miscellaneous retail purchases. 214 plus on food, 188,000 on adult entertainment, more than 71,000 on drug and alcohol rehab, 42 on home improvement, sports and recreation. now, abbe lowell, hunter biden's attorney, says if his last name was anything other than biden the charges in delaware and now california would not have been brought. after five years of investigating with no new evidence and two years after hunter paid his taxes in full, the u.s. attorney has nine new charges when he just agreed months ago to resolve this matter with a pair of misdemeanors. the plea deal with the government, john and gillian, fell through in a public way in july after a delaware judge questioned house republicans and they insisted this was a sweetheart deal, with one that lawmakers, including house oversight james comer was reacting to the california indictment. he says unless weiss looks at everyone, it's clear the doj is protecting hunter biden and the big guy. hunter biden plans to take these charges to a los angeles grand jury, or los angeles jury, i should say, hunter has lived in l.a. for the past about six years, and he could face up to 17 years behind bars if convicted on everything. this is in addition to the delaware gun charges that he's fighting. this may put him in a court next year, likely, put him in a court next year when his dad is fighting for re-election. it was close to working out but last minute it did not. >> john: we'll keep watching this one. fascinating. miranda devine, "new york post" columnist and fox news contributor. 56-page indictment, i heard about it this morning, first question through my mind, why did the doj ever think to david's point it could get away with a sweetheart plea deal, immunity deal for hunter biden? >> look, they almost did. the only reason they didn't, because ziegler and shapley, the deliberate protection of joe biden five years and documented every piece of malfeasance as they should have. gary shapley was telling his supervisor at the irs should hang their heads as well. people in the doj, irs, and david weiss should be humiliated today because everything that they said, all the investigations they did, that appears now in that indictment. but unfortunately it's only part of the problem because a, they were never allowed to follow the normal lines of inquiry that would reach joe biden. they were not allowed to, for instance, execute search warrants on joe biden's property, they were not allowed to use his name in subpoenas, joe biden's campaign was tipped off when they tried to interview hunter biden, etc., and as well, david weiss allowed the most serious charges that happened in the earlier years, 2014 and 2015, the statute of limitations has expired on those. and that would have included foreign agent registration violation allegations, and money laundering and so on. so, they still got off scott free. >> john: when you take a look at it, the alleged four years of wild spending that hunter biden went through, put it up on the screen, and you could look at it here. in addition to this, now james comer says he's got bank records that show hunter biden's business, awasco p.c., made directly monthly payments to joe biden. what the president said in response to a question about that. >> and it's just a bunch of lies. >> interact with -- >> they are lies. >> business associates? >> i did not. they are lies. >> john: he says it's lies, it's a bunch of lies. james comer was hoping if hunter biden came up for a deposition next week he's scheduled to do it or supposed to be coming to do it, but now with this investigation underway and the charges filed, could abbe lowell say oh, i'm sorry, he can't do a deposition before congress because that would get in the middle of an ongoing federal investigation. what do you think? >> no doubt that's what they will say and the timing of course is very curious. these charges could have been brought any time since the plea deal collapsed. all the investigation, the material was already there, it had been created when they had planned to prosecute hunter biden on these felonies and then that sweetheart plea deal got in the way and it was just because, you know, shapley and ziegler blew the whistle and one judge in delaware decided they would go by the book and also had the fact that one of the prosecutors who they pointed the finger at blocking inquiries into joe biden, leslie wolf, she was off the case after they blew the whistle and suddenly comes on the case, leo weiss, a known pit bull prosecutor, he's unsparing in allegations again hunter biden. >> john: this adds a whole new wrinkle to the story and we will follow it and see where it goes. great to see you on this friday. hope you have a good weekend. thank you. >> thanks, john. >> they don't deserve the dignity of resigning, they need to be fired. >> fire oh resign, either way, so long as they go. >> if you can't lead, if you can't stand up and say what is right and wrong, very much in the extreme cases and these were extreme cases, then you've got a problem. >> gillian: lawmakers on capitol hill now opening investigations into harvard, mitt, and u-penn, after the presidents gave testimony on antisemitism. calls to resign, they are facing intense backlash after failing to denounce their own students' calls for jewish genocide. hi, bryan. >> jewish students have a plane going over harvard university, harvard hates jews next to a palestinian flag and video billboards calling for the firing of liz magill. she faces intense pressure to resign, following congressional testimony in which u-penn, harvard and mit failed, and they are calling on her to step down immediately. leadership of the university does not share the value of our board nor does it appear to understand the urgency to address the safety of our students on campus. penn mega donor ross stevens says he is appalled by the university's stance on antisemitism. he's calling on magill to resign and withdrawing his $100 million university donation. harvard university president, claudia gay, says she is sorry after telling congress that calling for the genocide of jews is harassment, depending on the context. now the only rabbi at harvard's newly formed antisemitism task force has now resigned, calling gay's testimony "painfully inadequate." the congressional committee on education and the workforce is opening a formal investigation into the learning environments at harvard, penn and mit. the chair woman virginia fox calling the presidents' testimony "absolutely unacceptable." adding committee members have deep concerns with their loin and failure to take steps to provide jewish students the safe learning environment they are due under law. the chair of the mit board of trustees says their president has their full and unreserved support. gillian. >> gillian: bryan, thank you. john, we are expecting resignations could come as soon as today, possibly even this hour. turns out that all the outspoken donors are really making the difference here. we are learning about people who are pulling $100 million in funding a bob. >> john: ross u-penn alum and head of a big financial company said if this is the way you are going to conduct business at u-penn, you are not getting my money. money talks in a business like that, and $100 million is no small amount of change. and then a board, the board at wharton business school, part of u-penn, saying liz magill has to go. will they resign, fired, not suffer any consequences, i don't know. >> gillian: or standing over the resistance of the american public. >> john: it was such a simple question to answer but the fact they could not answer it and the ensuing days tried to walk it back with statements on twitter and other forums, but -- wow. >> gillian: and nothing that happens -- very little that happens at a public hearing like that is 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>> resources are always important. request for resources gives more capability on the ground but it's not a resource problem. it's policy. when i left government in 2019, the average daily encounters were 3300, we were overwhelmed, more beds in custody on ice, 3,000 coming every day. right now the number was 12,000 this week. so, this is overwhelming every system. they are not prepared for this, resources won't matter, but this administration has been the boon of all the cartels in mexico. they could not have a better president than joe biden in the white house if you are a cartel smuggler. this wave of humanity is putting thousands and thousands of dollars per person per day, millions of dollars for these cartels every single day. and this is about policy. if they went back to the remain in mexico program, we could start to have a secure border. again, when i left, 3300, now we are at 12,000 per day. with fewer people, fewer boots on the ground and place like lukeville, that's an enormous challenge, it's the middle of nowhere, literally. and you've seen the images. when you see the number of people on the ground, they have not been enrolled yet, it's more like 15, 20,000 people that are waiting in line there, and it's a real burden on the men and women. this lawlessness from the white house, flouting of immigration law is unsustainable. >> john: it becomes a resource problem because of the policy. you mentioned 3800 when you left. 3300. so 2019, jay johnson, the former dhs secretary was talking about the numbers and how much of a problem they present. let's rewind the clock and play that for you. >> it was under 1,000 apprehensions the day before, that was a relatively good number. and above 1,000, it was a relatively bad number and i would be in a bad mood the whole day. i know 1,000 overwhelms the system, i cannot imagine what 4,000 a day looks like. we are truly in a crisis. >> john: now longing for the days when it was 4,000. in the senate, republicans want the money, democrats are saying you can have the money maybe if you declare amnesty for everybody who is here illegally now. would that serve as anything but an enormous pull factor? if all the people around the world who want to come to the united states and willing to go through the hopes, the folks that bill melugin has been talking to have gone through, they say they gave all these people amnesty, what do you think will happen? >> it's an incentive. that's the wrong idea. the american people don't trust that administration as it relates to this policy. it's almost three years, we have never seen the border as bad as it is because of the choices they make. assuming to give people amnesty, they need to control the border, get trust back into the hearts and minds of the american people and start doing it by controlling the border. once you bring the level down, think of other policies and procedures. right now we have to stem the flow at the border, you can't do comprehensive things now. what you have to do is stop the bleeding. that's what an operator need, what the operations need, that's what the american people people are demanding. >> gillian: what about them saying we are not going to fund ukraine or israel unless you give us more money for the u.s. border first. >> again, the money and the resources are important. they are asking for important policy changes. and the president said the word policy a couple of times in his speech from the white house, and so that's what we need. we need the policy to go to a place where we end the incentive for all the third world to come into the united states. that's what needs to happen. >> john: you say we have to stop people from coming in. nobody in this administration or none of the democrats in congress except for maybe 1 or 2 who are in texas are willing to do that. >> yeah, no, you need political will on both sides of the aisle. again, you can't do complex things right now. what you need to do is stop the bleeding. policy in place that says if you want to use the asylum system you can wait in mexico for your hearings. things like that work, detention works. they are not doing any of it, they refuse to do it, flouting immigration law from day one in office. >> gillian: ron, we have to leave it there. thanks for taking time with us today, appreciate it. >> john: have a great weekend. >> gillian: we also have bill melugin, he's in lukeville, arizona this hour, fast becoming the new epicenter for the border crisis. tell us what you are seeing there. >> good afternoon to you. hearing us talk about breaches in the border wall. here in lukeville, this is one of them. cut completely through by a human smuggler or by a cartel member. they have cut through the steel, cut through the concrete, this is a gap in the wall they use to bring people into the country illegally by the hundreds. contractors are ready to fix this thing but show you what happens as a result of the breaches. video before sunset yesterday on the other side of lukeville, a mass incursion after another part of the wall was breached. people on the right side of the screen spilling in illegally by the hundreds, after they get on to the dirt road, the mass of people who cross, large numbers of adult men from africa, family units from ecuador and mexico as well. and they come searching for border patrol to give themselves up, hoping for release and show you what happened once they got away from the border wall. the same grew got on to a local highway in lukeville, the main highway in and out, and also down to rocky point in mexico, walking in the middle of the road looking for border patrol. they had no idea where they were going, they were aimlessly walking north further into the united states. border patrol responded and got them corralled into a processing area. not just here in arizona. san diego sector, border patrol releasing this wild thermal image video showing another breach in the border wall near san ysidro. you'll see people scaling the wall one by one, about 75 illegal immigrants over the wall with the help of a human smuggler. and see them crowd, and they go running in deeper into the united states in an effort to evade and try to be got-aways. and then show you one last piece of video from here in lukeville this morning, border patrol before they started processing and transporting the group of adult men, they handed out trash bags, and they made all those illegal immigrants pick up the trash they have been leaving behind. this is a national park, organ pipe cactus national monument, it's been compl