thank you for being here. martha maccallum great interview. thank you very much. martha: fox news alert. we start things off. the biden impeachment push is pushing forward at the inquiry level. the house passed this resolution yesterday to formalize and inquiry into the questions that have been around for a long time looking to prove whether the president benefited financially from his family s foreign business dealings with china, with ukraine. welcome everybody. good morning to the faulkner focus. i m martha maccallum in today for harris. so this vote last night passed on a straight party line. the chairs of the judiciary and oversight committees stressed party unity. watch. the house has now spoken. i think pretty loudly and clearly with every single republican voting to move into the impeachment inquiry of the constitutional duty to do oversight the message sent today is loud and clear. martha: it means a litany of biden family members, business associates, d.o.
now as hunter biden was supposed to be sitting right now behind closed doors for a deposition on the hill. but this morning again he said he will speak only to lawmakers if he can do so publicly. welcome to the faulkner focus , everybody. good morning, i m martha maccallum in for harris. republicans said they wanted to talk to hunter biden closed doors. they would hold him in contempt if he didn t show up. he did show up on his own terms. he stood before the cameras on the senate side of the building, lots of attention this morning, and then he got back in a car and left capitol hill. watch this. in the depths of my addiction i was extremely irresponsible with my finances. but to suggest that is grounds for an impeachment inquiry is beyond the absurd. it is shameless. there is no evidence to support the allegations that my father was financially involved in my business because it did not happen. martha: there is a lot there and we ll dig it into today. the house will vot
mainstream media has mounted a campaign against donald trump warning that he s just too dangerous to be allowed to win a second term. this isn t just reporting or commenting on the sometimes over the top things trump says talking about getting even with opponents or saying he ll go after what he calls the enemy of the people. i ve criticized plenty the of things trump has said over the years and as a leading presidential candidate, he should be aggressively scrutinized. yet after nine years of a hostile relationship with the media, suddenly there s not even a pretension of fairness. the atlantic has just publish pd an entire issue on how the former president is teenager to democracy. new york is that a danger to democracy. the washington post filled several inside pages with an anti-trump opinion piece, and all that reverberates across television. i think what people have normalized the possibility of trump coming back to office, we get used to anything. this time he is
welcome to a special edition of jesse watters primetime . i am will cain. drugs, strippers and exotic cars. can you guess what those three things have in common? those three things are what hunter biden spent his money on while skipping out on taxes. hunter biden is now facing up to 17 years in prison for being a serial tax cheat. after special counsel david weiss last night hit hunter wood nine tax charges including three felony attempts. these are on top of the three criminal gun charges he is facing in delaware where he is looking down the barrel of up to 25 years. this was hunter just moments ago. mr. biden, will your father pardon you? do you have any comment? will you go to jail, mr. biden. that might be the only thing that saves under. the president s sun skipped out on paying taxes not three times, but four. from 2016 to 2019, hunter racked up $1.4 million in debt to the irs. it s not like hunter didn t have the money. ukraine and china were filling his pocke
going to eke out and get to the war with some aid coming to ukraine, it s hurry up and wait. and that s because of the battle they re having on capitol hill whether it should be tied to border security funding. it s been the battle royale for republicans who insist on it and democrats who say that it shouldn t be part of this. griff jenkins has the latest from eagle pass, texas who are tying this border issue with so many others, griff. griff: neil, good morning. and you know, i am in eagle pass, texas yet again and i have spent more time in eagle pass than any other location on assignment this year because of a border crisis that continues to surge to record breaking levels. let me take you to the drone right here where we are in eagle pass and you can see every day, here we are, you see the buses lining up in the middle there. the migrants. it s actually a group of four or 500, they break them up into groups of about 100 and process them, most of them. i was just over there