this means for special counsel jack smith s multiple investigations, and trump s third presidential bid. frightening future, the second year of a post-roe america looks worse than the first. we re going inside the all out episodes to keep the southeast swath of the country from turning into an abortion desert. all of this and more is coming up. and a good saturday morning to you i m katie phang. we begin with a major show of support from the white house on what could become a critical turning point in the war in ukraine. the biden administration defending their controversial decision to supply cluster munitions to ukraine to help that country gain grounds against vladimir putin is now 500-day war on ukraine. cluster munitions, also known as cluster bombs, are banned in 120 countries due to the high risk of killing civilians. despite blowback from his own party and human rights groups president biden says he spoken to allies about the decision. it comes as he prepares
themselves saying this race is over. [ screaming ] i have news for all of them, new hampshire is first in the nation. it is not the last in the nation. [ cheering ] his race is far from over. there are dozens of states left to go. nikki haley vowing to stay in the race, despite a double digit loss to donald trump in new hampshire, after winning the iowa caucuses last week, trump beat haley by just over 11 points in the granite state. president biden, meanwhile, is hitting the campaign trail after cruising to victory in new hampshire without even being on the ballot. play for you portions of his passionate speech focused on the contrasts between himself and the republican frontrunner. it comes as new general election polling out of pennsylvania shows the incumbent president leading trump in the key battleground state. there s the trend going on in pennsylvania, not just with joe biden over the last two polls, willie, we ve also seen it with fetterman, his numbers going
dana: a growing national security risk along the southern border getting worse by the day as an alarming number of foreign nationals enter the country, make a run for it and then get away. we have no idea who they are, where they are going, what they are doing, or even why they re here. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. that was a lot of questions. bill: yes, we ll try to answer as many as we can. good morning to you. the morning after here we re in new hampshire. big primary night last night. we get to all that analysis. i m bill hemmer. sources telling fox news since october more than 96,000 managed to cross the border illegally and get away. those are the ones we know about spotted without being stopped. there is no telling how many more slipped in under the radar and all of this fueling a top issue in the race for the white house as we speak. if i was the commander-in-chief i would say the policies we ve done so far have been wrong and
second whistleblower related to irs criminal investigation into hunter biden. that whistleblower wants to remain anonymous. he is referred to as mr. x. mr. x says it was clear that u.s. attorney david weiss was not making it is decision. merrick garland denied preventing weiss from charging hunter biden. both whistleblowers who spent years investigating hunter told congress they made several attempts to bring charges against hunter biden and were blocked. so explosive, not just fox news asking tough questions. was the president involved, yes or no? steven, i answered the question. it is not up to you how i answer the question. was the president there or not? i refer you to my colleagues at the white house counsel. have you spoken to the president, have you asked him if he was there with his son? this is not a conversation i had with the president. emily: legacy media has been unable to ignore the scandal. abc, cbs and nbc covered the story. there is evidence t
politicsnation. tonight lead, not there yet. right now, the economic free world is holding its breath. as washington appears to have a way out of this impasse over our debt ceiling. president biden and republican house speaker, kevin mccarthy, announcing last night that a tentative deal has been reached, that would allow both sides to claim a victory. with short term domestic spending curtailed in line with house republican demands, and economic crisis averted to the delight of democrats in the rest of the sensible world. but that looming june 5th deadline to raise the ceiling hasn t gone away. and the hurdles to passage remain inside of congress itself. house democrats are expected to jump on a call with the white house within the hour. we ll update you as soon as that cole wraps, as for speaker mccarthy, will he be able to satisfy the hard right flank of his caucus, ahead of wednesday s house vote? or after weeks of holding america hostage, will they intentionally drive t