asking the supreme court to immediately step in to decide whether former president trump has immunity from prosecution, relating to his actions seeking to overturn the 2020 election. >> sandra: remains to be seen whether the highest bench will choose to take the case, but the move appears to be an attempt by smith to keep the march trial back on track and block the former president from delaying the trial in the federal appeals court. >> john: let's go to david spunt, breaking details for us. david. >> david: sandra, you are right. jack smith, special counsel, does not want to see any delays in this case. he wants this trial to begin and finish before the election. right now he's asking the nine justices, remember, a body that tries to stay away from politics, he's asking them to essentially enter the nerve center of the 2024 presidential election making an emergency appeal to the high court asking the justices to rule that donald trump is not immune from prosecution. he petitioned the court in the last hour asking for a quick decision. federal judge overseeing the case ruled donald trump is not immune from prosecution, said he does not get out of jail free pass because he was president. trump's attorney says he is immune from prosecution because shortly before on january 6th and shortly after he was president of the united states and is protected by presidential immunity, at least during that time. asked an appeals court to review that issue. what jack smith has just done, sandra and john, gone above the heads of the appeals court and asking the supreme court directly to get involved. read from part of this document, he says yet the respondent has asserted the constitution affords him absolute immunity from prosecution. the constitution text, structure and history lend no support to that novel claim. as of now as you mentioned, the trial is scheduled to begin march 4th, jury selection, one day before super tuesday and smith wants the answer fast so the trial can start and finish before next november. there is no oral argument scheduled in this matter but i suspect we will be hearing something from the court coming up fairly soon because he asked -- he has asked for this to be decided and heard and decided on an expedited basis. john, sandra. >> john: busy primary season in so many different ways. david, thank you. >> we have gone from having the demand for safe spaces and the misuse of your pronoun political violence, to now it's totally ok to have a call for genocide on campuses. >> jewish students are terrified on the campus. barricaded into rooms. >> the universities are cesspools for left wing political activism. >> important to recognize antisemitism is happening and growing on college campuses. >> john: lawmakers from both sides of the aisle calling out the rampant antisemitism on america's college campuses. president biden is staying silent about it, even after u-penn president magill was forced out after a fire storm last week. >> sandra: sandra smith in new york. "america reports," all eyes are on the presidents of harvard and mit after they failed to commit calls for the genocide of jews of the hearing on antisemitism. >> john: behind closed doors to decide the fate of claudine gay. >> sandra: and whether americans are waking up to the crisis on college campuses. let's get first to bryan llenas, is harvard's faculty standing by president gay? >> it appears they are, sandra. nearly half of harvard's faculty, 700 members have signed on to a letter obtained by fox news urging the harvard corporation to not fire its president, claudine gay, for failing to unequivocally say the genocide of jews violates the code of conduct. reads we the under signed faculty urge you to defend the independence of the university and resist odds, including calls for the removal of claudine gay. they are meeting a second day. trucks with video billboards were seen on campus calling for the firing of gay. the only rabbi on the antisemitism task force resigned over gay's testimony and the antisemitism protests allowed on campus under her leadership. >> i would quote that harvard professor herself, danielle allen, said there's a difference between free speech and climate of intimidation and this has created intimidation when students cannot study, they are afraid, they don't want to go to their classroom, that's not any more a question of free speech, not at a university. >> bryan: bill ackman said in a letter on x knowing what we know now, would harvard consider claudine gay for the position, the answer is definitively no, the board's decision on president gay could not be more straightforward. liz magill resigned on yesterday, she will remain a tenured professor and mit board says their president has full and unreserved support. we'll see. >> sandra: a huge story, thank you. john. >> john: let's bring in byron york, chief political respondent and fox news contributor. more than 500 faculty are trying to save claudine gay, it's a very short letter, short, sweet, succinct, we the under signed faculty urge you in the strongest possible terms to defend the independence of the university and resist political pressures at adds of academic freedom, including the removal of claudine gay. it cannot proceed if it's dictated by outside forces. you think she survives or not? >> she may do that. i think we are at a time this has become intensely politicized. this happened at a congressional hearing and the person who questioned the presidents was representative elise stefanik, republican representative, very associated with president trump, and to the degree, the degree to which this becomes a political question that is if which firing the president of harvard or mit you are doing what republicans want, i think heavily democratic campuses would be in favor of keeping those officials. >> john: that perspective is reflected in what a well-known law professor at harvard said both in response to the testimony and then in regard to the potential firing, he wrote in regard to the testimony, that it was hesitant, formulative, and pervasive. but in an email to the "new york times" said having publicly voiced disapproval of and how gay handled stefanik's questions, i wanted to distance myself to the unwise and dangerous calls for her resignation. but you've already got the u-penn president forced to resign. why not gay as well? >> well, the university of pennsylvania president, her -- the video she made apologizing looked like a hostage video, looked like she was very, very stricken by what had happened and clearly president gay seems to be in a different position. she has apologized for the way she handled the question, but clearly she has a lot of support here. and it has become, this whole thing has become entangled not just antisemitism and free speech but the thing that undermined the presidents, they cited the need for free speech protections for people calling for intifada against israel, while the same time restrict free speech protections for somebody who wants to come on campus and, for example, say there are two sexes and only two sexes. you don't get free speech protection if you say that. you might be making people uncomfortable. so, that was the thing that actually just killed them that they were hypocritical about this, and speech that could be called anti-semitic, they protected that but anti-woke, they wanted to suppress it. >> john: claudine gay may have another problem, some say she plaguerized her ph.d. thesis. and i asked a senior member to look at the below allegations against president gay. the faculty member found them to be credible. ackman is no slouch, he's a big player, a big donor to harvard, got a big voice. >> he appears to be very, very dedicated to getting rid of claudine gay. i think there will be questions about the alleged plaguerism stuff, she was citing a person's work and mentioned, he said this, and then she lifted from what he said without putting quotes, although she attributed to him. i don't know if it's an open and shut case. >> john: we'll see. thank you for kicking this off. sandra. l>> sandra: we are waiting possible legal action from hunter biden's defense team after he was indicted on criminal charges in california. accused of dodging more than a million dollars in federal taxes. jonathan hunt is on this live in los angeles. when is he going to show up at court, jonathan, what are we hearing about this right now? >> sort answer, sandra, don't know when he's going to show up at the federal court in los angeles for that appearance, initial appearance to face the nine tax-related charges, including three felonies. following that indictment in which he was accused of paying for strippers, drugs, luxury hotels, and cars, with money that should have been going to the irs. now, special counsel david weiss painted a vivid picture of hunter biden's lifestyle, including from 2016 to 2019 withdrawing $1.6 million in cash from various banks. spending $683,000 on "payments" various women, and 188,000 on adult entertainment. hunter biden is also facing federal charges over a gun purchase in 2018, charges his legal team is trying to get dismissed in delaware today and he's being pressured by republicans in congress to show up this week for a deposition related to a potential house impeachment action against his father, president biden. so it's a busy week for hunter biden's legal team if they do indeed also head here for a court appearance. and of course, the attorneys argue with regard to the tax case, that hunter biden ultimately did pay all his taxes, that he's just like many of us, millions of americans who habitually pay late. >> a lot of americans have to file their taxes and when they are late or mistake or something to be done, the irs and the government does is they ask questions, they ask for back-up, they bring civil actions. what they don't do is take a two-count misdemeanor in june and turn it into a nine-count, 56-page indictment in december. >> abbe lowell also argues if his client's last name was not biden, the charges would not have been brought. >> sandra: john. >> john: awaiting the state department press briefing as israel's offensive on the gaza strip rages on. life coverage as soon as it kicks off. >> sandra: we will indeed. dozens of iranian proxy attacks on bases in the middle east. and firing drones on ships in the red sea. don't go anywhere. >> you don't have to be following foreign policy and national security closely to come to the conclusion that we aren't doing nearly enough here. it is absolutely insufficient. and things to do. that's why you choose glucerna to help manage blood sugar response. uniquely designed with carbsteady. glucerna. bring on the day! feeling ughh from a backed up gut? 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>> john, good afternoon. i want to start with breaking news, fox news has learned israel's chief of staff and the head of the shinbet security agency visited gaza strip, they were in gaza's second largest city of khan younis, alongside israeli forces getting a firsthand look at the operations inside gaza. it comes as the idf pushes deeper into the stripped. focused on the jabalia neighborhood in the northern part of gaza, the defense minister said they are close to completely dismantling the top hamas brigade there. close quarters combat. infantry brigade, 931 batallion. they say hamas fighters had prepared for an ambush but were thwarted. 140 israeli soldiers have been killed, and israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has this warning for hamas. >> in recent days dozens of hamas terrorists have been surrendering to our forces. they are laying down their weapons and handing themselves over to our heroic fighters. it will take more time. the war is in full swing but this is the beginning of the end of hamas. i say to hamas terrorists, it is over. don't die for sinwar. surrender now. >> he's talking about yahya sinwar the head of hamas inside gaza, and the southern front, a lot of activity on the border with lebanon, the chief of staff who today was in gaza, was visiting with troops in the north getting a look at the situation there. israeli media reports israel has issued a warning to hezbollah telling them to find a diplomatic solution to remove their forces from israel's northern border or face further military action. a lot of activity across both fronts. the international focus remains on gaza where there are still 137 people being held hostage. john. >> john: sinwar in hiding ever since october 7th, trey, thank you. >> sandra: american forces shot down two more drones fired by iran-backed houthi rebel, 87 attacks since the middle of october as the rebel group vows to attack any ships heading to or from israel in the red sea. what should the u.s. do about the growing threat? fox news contributor, mike pompeo, served as secretary of state under the trump administration. thank you for being here. what should be done right now to limit the number of attacks that happened after today? >> it's actually pretty straightforward. the first thing the administration needs to do, acknowledge, whether it's the houthi, lebanon, iran-funded and they want to discount it's being run by the ayatollah in tehran. even though there was a ceasefire in gaza, children, sisters of americans under threat, whether the soldiers in iraq or in syria, the iranians, not the proxies, but iranians were attacking them. you can't stop them by stopping drones from hitting the ships or thwarting artillery in syria. you have to have real costs on the iranian regime. we did it by crushing soleimani, maximizing the pressure we put on iran. our friends in the region are counting on us, not just the israelis, but the gulf arab states are counting on it, too. if the houthis and hezbollah are not eliminated, they will continue to build the ring of fire, iranian campaign. >> sandra: jack keane was on our air earlier, he suggested this should be our approach based on what's happening today. listen. >> we have to go on offense. and we have to escalate. we have to take the risk to escalate to gain some dominance, not just over the houthis, but over iran who is using all of their proxies in the region to do what? to weaken israel. >> sandra: do you agree with that, we need to escalate? >> that's what i was trying to say. you can't just shoot drones out of the air that are attacking you, rescue ships at sea that have been taken. you have to impose costs, go on offense. you have to demonstrate to them the cost of their continued agitation, threats they have on americans, not only in theater, but americans threatened in europe, and here in the homeland, if you allow the ayatollah to sit in tehran, or the leader of iran, think nothing will cost them they will continue at this and put american lives at risk, israeli lives at risk and lives of people throughout the middle east at greater risk as well. >> sandra: interesting. well, general keane in that same interview went on to suggest perhaps why the biden administration is not acting or reacting more forcefully. listen. >> this administration has got to finds the spine. they think if they do escalate and take this aggressive military action that it could lead to war with iran. but the 43 years of history in dealing with iran suggest that's not the case. >> sandra: if that is indeed the reason why this administration is not responding more forcefully, is that a legitimate concern? >> well, my experience for four years with respect to iran in particular, and more generally, weakness begets war. the more they see you on the back foot, the more fearful, greater risk of escalation and iranians have demonstrated in just over two months. killing 1200 israelis in a barbaric attack and then attack americans throughout the region. iranians escalate, we continue to defend and we need to make clear to the iranians we will impose costs. if you don't get back on offense, this will escalate. the administration has it exactly backwards. >> sandra: what the map looks like, 87 attacks and counting on u.s. bases in the region. this is what that looks like as of today, since october 17th. former secretary of state, mike pompeo, always appreciate your time, sir. thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you, sandra. bless you, have a good day. >> john: president biden closing out the day with another batch of poor approval ratings. can the campaign turn things around and who are the democrats calling in to help with their efforts? 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