at least seven people are dead in texas and another dozen in arkansas as a powerful storm cripples the south. residents are still without power. speak of voters say the country is more divided than ever. dysfunctional families were 80% say describing america today. when it comes to the economy, 66% disapprove about how president biden has been handling the crisis. it is groundhog day. a shadow on my stage, no matter how you measure! six more weeks of winter weather! steve: well, i don t know about a long, long time, but six more weeks of winter, according to phil of punxsutawney. he saw his shadow. six more weeks of winter, as the lore goes. it was broadcast live around the world. he could have seen the shadows because of the tv lights, just saying. it was 15 degrees there. it s going to be chilly all day long so it feels like a cold cold hard in the deep of winter. ainsley: it looked like a fun place to be. if you have an opportunity to go, you should g
coming right up. first hunter biden finally admitting the laptop filled with his emails incriminating documents and embarrassing photos does indeed belong to him. welcome to a new hour of in us news, i m dana perino. bill: how was the first hour? dana: good. bill: a plus? good morning. i m bill hemmer and good morning. after years of widespread claims dismissing the laptop as the work of hackers or russian disinformation hunter s lawyers conceding it indeed belongs to him and calling him hunter the victim. that change of tune coming as newly empowered republicans launch investigations into hunter s business dealings including his role with bhr, a chinese equity firm banked by some of china s largest state banks. he joined the board in an unpaid position in 2017. he pursued deals involving china s largest private energy firm. later that year a hunter biden associate says that joe biden was consulted on deals with china. one year after that, the department of justice laun
mid november after the president s attorneys discovered top secret material in his private office. sandra: we have fox team coverage for you to kick off this hour. miranda divine is standing by, the other huge story, hunter biden admitting notorious laptop she has been reporting on for two years now was indeed his. john: first to mark meredith, live on the north lawn at 1600 pennsylvania. what are we expecting to hear from the president today? john, we are expecting to see the president on camera a little later on this afternoon, it s unclear if he s going to be taking any questions. reporters no doubt will be shouting questions to him as well as the white house staff, trying to piece together exactly who knew what and when when it came to these documents. officials admit should not have been in the president s possession. big headline yesterday, the fbi was searching the president s beach home in rehobeth beach, delaware, his lawyers said no classified materials were f
john: brand-new at 2:00, america s crime crisis kids edition. cities across the nation seeing huge spikes in violent crime committed by children and teens. sandra: instead of cracking down, democrat-led cities and states are making it even easier for teens to do the crime and serve no time. the same progresstive prosecutors for things like no cash bail in new york are branching out, bringing similar soft on crime policies to teens. critics ask why would this time be any different. john: welcome back as america reports rolls into a second hour on this friday eve. hi, sandra. john: john, great to be with you. so-called juvenile justice reforms have a lot of people scratching their heads. a 12-year-old brought a gun to school without fearing any criminal charges as a result. lawrence jones is one of the people asking how that is justice for anyone. he ll join us ahead. fox news alert. can you say how many people the white house counsel s office added to prepare for t
from me. dana: so much for russian disinformation. hunter biden ace lawyers admitting that the contents of the infamous laptop are, in fact, real. and they are now calling on state and federal agencies to investigate the unauthorized access claiming the first son is the victim of, quote, failed dirty political trick. hunter s attorney insists that this does not confirm that the laptop is the president s son, just the data that s been spread widely. so the disclosure is a big black eye for the 51 former intel officials who dismissed the story as russian disinformation right before the 2020 election. as i and several of my former colleagues have pointed out publicly that it does bear the hall marks of russian disinformation. to me, this is this is classic textbook soviet russian trade craft at work. and so all of a sudden, 2.5 weeks before the e leaks, this laptop appears somehow. dana: somehow. so then presidential candidate joe biden used what those intel chiefs wer