Be part of the fox family. Bill talk soon, thanks. Dana Hunter Biden pleads Guilt Effaceing up to 17 years in prison on federal tax charges. The White House says a president ial pardon is off the table and not happening. Im dana perino. Im not sure im buying that. Bill welcome to friday, folks. The White House doubling down on previous statements insisting that Hunter Biden is just another private citizen and his father, the president , will allow justice to prevail. Law professor Jonathan Turley pointing out late last Night President biden has until the 20th Of January to change his mind. If the sentence turns out to be a harsh one it will had pressure to his father that maybe ill give myself this liberty of working for the interest of my own family. That is what Bill Clinton did. He waited until the very end and gave his brother a pardon. Dana Griff Jenkins live at the White House for us. Hi, griff. Hi. Professor turley has a point there, dana. Sentencing in this case is set for Dece
so he has clearly met the criteria for impeachment and he is a danger to the health and safety of the american people and he is a danger to the health and safety of our democracy. okay. but let s say that your ultimate goal is impeachment. the numbers are still the numbers. the republicans are not going to impeach him, i think, barring some new evidence. there are people who say, why would you spend $20 million on this rather than some other tactical enterprise like helping candidates in contested races or registering a lot of voters if what necessarily is a precondition to the outcome you want is greater political power for the opposition party. so, let me take that in two parts, if you don t mind, chris. sure. first of all, we re a huge grassroots organization. in 2016, we knocked on 12.5 million doors, registered about a million three people in the united states of america and we were on 370 college campuses. so all the things that those
for the opposition party. so, let me take that in two parts, if you don t mind, chris. sure. first of all, we re a huge grassroots organization. in 2016, we knocked on 12.5 million doors, registered about a million three people in the united states of america and we were on 370 college campuses. so all the things that those people are suggesting, we re doing. we re already on the ground doing those things. the fact of the matter is, if you look at what has happened since october 20, at that point there were two congress people talking about impeachment openly. they held a vote a couple weeks ago. that number went from 2 to 58. if you look yesterday, there were 171 congress people who said that firing mueller would be something that they absolutely couldn t stand. so, in fact, if you look at where the movement is to judge this president as absolutely unfit and absolutely dangerous
bill, it s what s not. the extension of unemployment benefits. 1.3 million americans slated to lose those benefits on december 28th if congress doesn t act. that includes more than 43,000 people in michigan. joining me now, michigan democratic congressman, sander levin. good to see you, congressman. good morning. nice to be with you. do you feel like the democrats fought hard enough to get the extension of unemployment benefits in this budget compromise? we fought. we went to the rules committee and said let us have an amendment on the floor so that people who are going to lose their benefits would not. a million three, as you said. and i was just at a workforce office here in michigan, talked to a couple people who are going to lose their checks. one said to me, what are we going to do? how are we going to live? and i talked to the people who worked there who are working with the unemployed, who are looking for work, and there s a feeling of desperation growing
that s the better side of this country, not to leave a million three who are looking for work. i saw the list of people who are looking for work at this workforce office, and i talked to the workers. they re feeling, as i said, this desperation that s coming across because they don t know what to say to the people who are coming in who are looking for work, who want to work. michigan congressman sander levin. it s good to have you on the program, sir. thank you. thank you. this hour we have been following the cloture vote on the senate floor to move the budget forward. they just wrapped up. let me bring in nbc news deputy political editor. what s the vote? reporter: we saw 67-33. it passed with 12 republicans voting in favor of this, which is interesting because in days leading up to this, we had been counting votes and it looked like they might be right at 60 and it looks like a few of those other republicans who had been on the fence on this decided to