pay taxes in the tune of $1 hundred thousand in 2017 and 2018. gary shapely claims the true number is almost 600,000 for 2017 and even more than that for 2018. he says the plea deal essentially lets hunter off the hook. there is still outstanding tax due owing above that 620,000 because of this deal they ll never recoup. the most substantive felony charges were left off the table, which would have been evasion, for 14, false return for 18 and 19. julie: he says his team was prevented from looking into things that could have led them to president biden. the president on the topic deny, deny and deny again. president biden: i have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings. i don t know what he was doing. i did not know he was on the board of that company. i have oaf never discussed my business or their business, my sons or daughters. i ve never discussed with my son or brother or anything else having to do with their businesses. julie: it shows hunte
ainsley: it is the 8:00 a.m. hour of fox and friends on east coast it is 8:00. it is wednesday, january 17th. brian: minutes are the same. ainsley: minutes are always the same, no matter where you are in the world. lawrence: biden pushes for gun charges to be thrown outs, prosecutors say cocaine was found on the pouch where he kept his gun. that is unreal. should be. 49% is not great for him actually. trump swept iowa? he did not, these are small numbers. brian: biggest win in republican history in iowa. don t let me digress. repeat of 2016. steve: speaking of iowa, a long journey home. as lawrence and i made it back from the hawkeye state, i ran into familiar faces aulso cancelled and delayed at the airport. i wish i knew of a warmer state. hmm. how about sunshine state of south dakota. so great, why are you leaving? you are at the airport leaving. final hour of fox and friends starts now. remember, mornings are better with friends. steve: a
doesn t care about the profitability and doesn t care we have to bear an on board government enforcement agent more than the crew will make. will they real in the regulators. these cases deal with fishermen but the ruling could impact a lot more across american industry as we say hello. back in new york, bill hemmer, here we go. had a good time in iowa? dana: i m dana perino. this is america s newsroom. yes, i m glad to be back in my own bed. i could have used three more hours of sleep. i love this supreme court case. it is a big one. it might sound small but it could change everything in d.c. and federal agencies are watching it closely. this one commercial fishermen are fighting the government on a rule forces them to help fund a federal conservation program costing ships $7 hundred per day and experts say that could bankrupt the entire industry. let s get to the chief legal correspondent shannon bream at the supreme court. do you share my enthusiasm? dana, you know
the whatsapp messages date back to 2017. what they show is hunter biden writing to a chinese energy official saying i can make $5 million in salary from any law firm in america. if you think it s about money, it s not. the bidens are the best at doing exactly what the chairman wants from this partnership. dana: republicans say the chairman is a chinese oil tycoon and that guy has since gone missing. meanwhile the i.r.s. agent who blew the whistle on the hunter biden tax investigation is talking. he said investigators gave hunter special treatment. bill: the agent is trying to expose corruption. because every taxpayer deserves to be treated fairly and it was my oath of office to make sure that happens. bill: new york post reporter john levine is here but first david spunt at the justice department. good morning. good morning to you both. several key points in this new interview between bret baier and gary shapley, the i.r.s. supervisor special agent who is the whis
they should be forced to pay to have the government board their ships and monitor them as they do their jobs. in some cases the amount that they have to pay, these monitors on board is more than the fishermen make themselves. megan lapp, who we have spoken to before, is a fishing industry worker, directly impacted by all of this. she s going to join us exclusively in a moment with her attorney. later we ll be joined by newt gingrich on the larger picture of the staggering theme that we saw in the iowa polling numbers around the desire on the part of voters there and we ll see if this is a larger theme in new hampshire, but many of them expressed a desire for complete and total upheaval of the way that the government interacts with them in their lives and the way the government works. first, to fox news chief legal correspondent, shannon bream. back in washington. live outside of the supreme court today for this very interesting and far-reaching case. hi, shannon. explain to u