underway in his federal gun case. it is the first time ever the son of a sitting president will stand trial. we ve had a lot of first time evers, america. hunter is accused of lying about his illegal drug use on a gun buy form in 2018. first want to get to this because on the hill today he was the public face of the government s response to all the covid pandemic matter. now a house panel set to question dr. anthony fauci one hour from now amid allegations of misconduct. app apparently there is a lot there. hope you had a grand weekend. i m bill hemmer. dana: i m glad to be back with you. i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. we move from one trial to another trial. we have somebody else kind of on trial today anthony fauci. nearly two years since he testified publicly. this hearing could get contentious fast. republicans have a lot of questions. democrats are speaking ahead of the hearing. some of them are preemotion actively defending dr. fauci. today s appear
maybe give you a quick final word about that piece. dana, i just think if you look at every society that we ve ever had and in particular in american history, you think about the even all those old movies about the frontier. one thing everybody knew is you needed to have a legal system. you needed to have a justice system in order to have a free and prosperous society that everybody thought was fair. when you turn it into a partisan weapon we lose that. if we lose the undergirding of the rule of law you can t have a free and prosperous society. i think we don t realize the damage done here. bill: you have been great for us. on to the next one. [crowd chanting] bill: pro-palestinian protestors crashing a pride parade in philly. the showdown that brought