john. john: interesting to see those voices not only being heard by exercising the options at the ballot box as well. alex hogan for us. thank you. dana: hunter biden s defense team getting ready to pull the trigger deciding whether to put president biden s son on the stand or just rest his case and move on to closing arguments. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. bill hemmer is off today and i m pleased to be with you, john. john: i m pleased to be with you as well. we ve known each other for a long time and great to work together. a big decision for hunter biden. his defense attorney considers the best course of action. at this point it is not certain that indications make it seem likely hunter will not testify. andy mccarthy earlier on all the reasons why hunter should keep his mouth shut. looking at his potential sentencing guidelines, it looks to me like even if he gets convicted here he has a good chance of avoiding a prison sentence.
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war-fighting domain already. and the united states will not shrink from this challenge. it is becoming a contested war fighting domain and we have got to adapt to that reality. it s on par with the air, land, sea and cyberspace domains. still a ways to go here because adding a sixth branch to the united states military, which, by the way, if it happenings would be the first time that would be done in seven plus decades. that would still need congressional approval, shepard. the administration is targeting 2020 for this space force to be unveiled, shepard. shepard: congress has to approve it so this is just talk for now. sings we are just talking, the critics are saying what are you doing? right. and keep in mind, here, the united states air force already has a space commands. some 30,000 people are attached to that unit. that s about 10% of the air force as a whole. so it is a pretty sizeable number. one of the critics is the nasa astronaut mark kelly a
understanding was here is a former newspaper reporter hired to dig up information on her opponent. that s pretty conventional. it happenings a lot during campaigns. right. tucker: but this suggests he was in fact a partisan trying to help the clintons in another arena entirely? yeah. that s exactly right. and, look, i mean, you know, he continues to use the term simpson, that this is sort of opposition research, you know, tucker, you and i have been around the block in washington for a while. that dossier was not opposition research. opposition research is only useful if you can gather information and then give it to the media and the media can replicate it. the trump dossier was all anonymous sources. you know, beared on two to three iterations. it was shared with newspaper reporters but more specifically was shared with the fbi and the whole process shows how terrible the sausage making was in this case. i mean, fusion gps is trying to intervene in a possible clinton foundation
understanding was here is a former newspaper reporter hired to dig up information on her opponent. that s pretty conventional. it happenings a lot during campaigns. right. tucker: but this suggests he was in fact a partisan trying to help the clintons in another arena entirely? yeah. that s exactly right. and, look, i mean, you know, he continues to use the term simpson, that this is sort of opposition research, you know, tucker, you and i have been around the block in washington for a while. that dossier was not opposition research. opposition research is only useful if you can gather information and then give it to the media and the media can replicate it. the trump dossier was all anonymous sources. you know, beared on two to three iterations. it was shared with newspaper reporters but more specifically was shared with the fbi and the whole process shows how terrible the sausage making was in this case. i mean, fusion gps is trying to intervene in a possible clinton foundation