Good morning, its tuesday, august, too, by the way. Im bill hemmer. Dana bills favorite month. Im dana perino and this is americas newsroom. That was quite a thing yesterday. Well cover all the angles. One of the key phrases was the illusion of access. Thats what devon archer told lawmakers hunter biden was selling. Bill archer says hunter repeatedly put his dad on the speakerphone while off with clients all over the world. He witnessed that more than 20 times over the course of a decade. Dana he says it was a big part of how hunter called clients on the biden brand. Does it qualify as a smoking gun . Bill Democrats Pointed Out Archer said biden never talked business with his sons clients. Republicans say the evidence is piling up. Every day this Bribery Scandal becomes more credible. Lets look at what devon archer testified today. He said that not only was joe biden on the phone over 20 times with people including the burisma executives talking about whatever, even though the president denied that he never spoke to any of these people. Of course, we know, yeah, the brand was totally joe biden. The guy with the power and connections in d. C. Dana team fox coverage. Jonathan turley and Andy Mccarthy have analysis. First to chad pergram live on capitol hill. Republicans say this was about selling influence and the brand. The gop believes it has a smoking gun between the president and his sons business dealings. The evidence continues to mount and today we saw joe biden has lied to the american people. He knew exactly who his son was getting those millions of dollars of wires from. Democratic source says the brand hunter biden was selling was washington, d. C. , not his father. But republicans believe the president lied when he said he stayed out of family affairs. Thats why some republicans want to launch an Impeachment Inquiry. This is not about revenge politics. What we hear from what devon archer stated, selling a brand, were seeing hunter biden calling his father to sell that brand. Democrats heard something very different in the transcribed interview with devon archer. The Lone Democrat was dan goldman in new york in the room. A key congressional aide during the first impeachment of president trump. He defends the president. It had nothing to do with business and that is the sum and substance of what the testimony was. So then the question becomes how much longer are we going to go on this Fishing Expedition . There is no evidence connecting President Biden to anything related to hunter biden. Everyone is now waiting on the transcript of the interview. A best Case Scenario has it coming out later this week. Dana. Dana chad pergram, thank you. Bill good work yesterday. Jonathan turley and Andy Mccarthy. Good morning to both of you. Play a clip here. Different snippets over the past four years or so. These are the times, some of them. That joe biden said i didnt talk business with my son. President biden i did not know he was on the board of that company. Ive never discussed my business or their business, my sons or daughters. Never discussed a single thing with my son having to do with ukraine. Never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings. Ive never discussed with my son, brother or anything else having to do with their businesses. Bill you can believe that and think it was about the weather, maybe it was. Based on what we think we learned yesterday, whats the best argument . Where should the audience focus on as of now . Well, the circle is tightening. As we know without any question in my view that hunter biden was selling influence and access. Joe biden was the subject of that influence peddling. I also think its clear the president has been lying for years. Lied during the campaign. Lied as president. Those lies were repeated by white house officials at his behest. All of that is quite serious. But i think in the coming days and weeks well see Additional Information coming out of congress on payments from foreign sources. The question is, what did they think they were buying and what did they buy through this influence . These calls were designed to show that hunter biden could deliver. That he had the Vice President on speed dial and that was conveyed almost two dozen times. Dana it was interesting Mark Halperin comments the media now has to show they can no longer pretend this hadnt happened and now they know and were starting to write in some of the pieces today, andy, that joe biden lied knowingly and repeatedly about his connection to hunters deals. From my experience, once the media starts on one track basically it is like herding cattle. Turn them this way and everyone will have that point of view. They might not put it on the front page but they all know it and we know it as well. The other thing, andy, i know you worked in the federal government, so did i. There is a thing called the 14 principles of ethical conduct. I went through here. I think they violated at least seven. Was it Hunter Bidens obligation to adhere to the ethical obligations . It was joe biden. To me thats what the devon archer piece showed yesterday. Even a first call. Dad, can you talk to these guys . Im on the phone and joe biden is gracious says high, the weather is nice, fine. The next call should be to hunter biden saying dont ever do that again. It is against all ethical norms. He didnt do that. Of course he didnt do that because he is the engine that makes the business run. In a normal investigation, an Enterprise Case if you want to prove up any kind of a conspiracy that ran through a regimented outfit or even a loosely put together outfit, you would spend most of your time as a Prosecutor Building up or explaining how the Enterprise Works. What the different aspects of it are, who are the different players. The way you set that up in order to make people understand that the insulated player in it, the person who makes everything go in an Organized Crime Family its the boss of the family. You never get giving an order. When you show how the whole Enterprise Works you can see how a nod or conversation about the weather could actually be a lot more meaningful than it seems to be on the surface. But i would just say, dana, if you didnt have the Herding Effect you just discussed, a lot of the Patent Silliness of what they are describing, or what the comeback explanation is here, would be obvious. For example, if you sell the illusion of access, thats fraud. If you are selling something that doesnt exist, it is fraudulent. These people are only paying the bidens because of joe biden. There is no other reason to pay. And the other thing, its nonsense that they were Buying Washington rather than buying the bidens. Hunter tells tony bobulinski, i think we have this in a recording or an email, i cant remember which, but he says these people want to be in business with the bidens. Bobulinski is explaining hunter doesnt do any work and bobulinski is doing the work to give the thing a Corporate Structure and hunter is off doing stuff but getting a big cut of the profits. He comes back and says i know its not fair, life is not fair. They want to be in business with the business. They didnt want to be in business with washington. Burisma could have gotten any number of washington insiders who actually knew something about the energy business. They didnt need that. They needed a biden because joe biden was the one who was running the obama administrations policy to ukraine. So there are a million little instances it is obvious what they are buying is the influence and access of the bidens. Bill quick answer. The power only comes from one person. Bill do you think theyre building a good case, yes or no . I think theyre doing what they can within the constraints of a congressional investigation because the Justice Department is awol. Dana jonathan, do you think it leads to an Impeachment Inquiry . It most certainly can lead to one. I dont see how congress can walk away. Representative goldman said yesterday that we should just end this. Thats ridiculous. Its an obligation of congress. It is like saying the watergate was a Property Crime and well leave it there. You have to find out whats going on. The public isnt buying it. They arent buying any of these things. Bill thats what House SpeakerKevin Mccarthy said last week. Great to have your big minds with us today. Thank you to both of you. Wall street journal first, like to go . Dana the headline says hunter was selling the biden brand and went on to say it is highly unlikely hunter wanted to talk with his father about the weather. He knew what he was selling and see what else we learn as the house keeps looking. When congressman goldman said that yesterday i was reminded of another new york congressman who lies a lot. It is just not believable. That they are trying to make you believe that on 20 different phone calls all they did was talk about the weather. You talk about the weather for three minutes and move on. Bill big question who picks up on the story between the hour of 6 00 a. M. Eastern time and 4 00 in the afternoon on monday. The story really did not break i would argue until 2 30 in the afternoon. Mentions of trump during that 759, combined mentions of devon archer was 48. One of the networks, 411 ratio trump to devon archer mentioned. Will the New York Times and Washington Post pick it up and the other networks . We dont know. Their choice to make. Dana on the News Section Side of the New York Times, they did say this. Peter baker of the New York Times has noticed it. I think once you notice it, there is no walking away from it. Do they lead with it . Bill well see if that continues. 12 past. American nurse and her child kidnapped in haiti. The country is dealing with a surge in gang violence. The government is a mess there. If its even standing at the moment. How the State Department is now responding. Plus this. Listen. There are polls that say i have great Approval Rating. Dana Vice PresidentKamala Harris viewing her poll numbers through rose colored glasses. Is her feud with ron desantis making this worse . Jump out right now. Bill this entire video is just so gripping. Two people on board that boat. You see what happens there with the fire in the back. How they made it in a moment. Well show it to you. 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All running on countless invisible networks, making it a prime target for cyberattacks. But the same aipowered security that protects all of google also defends the systems running americas infrastructure. For these services. For the 336 million of us living here. Dana a new poll says americans confidence in the military is at a 25year low. Only 60 of those polled say they have a lot of confidence in the military. Researchers say the numbers dipped in 2021 after the afghanistan withdrawal. Bill wow. Room to make up there. The State Department issued a level one Travel Advisory for haiti. This after a nurse from New Hampshire and her young daughter were kidnapped near the capital city on thursday. Molly line is tracking the story for more today. What do we know . Its been five days since the nurse originally from New Hampshire, along with her young daughter were kidnapped from the campus of this Nonprofit Near Port she joined the staff in 2020. No 2021 march eft the organizations ministry director. Alex first traveled to the country after the earthquake selffunded return trips in the years that followed. Elroy writes she lived in haiti for many years showing love and care before coming on staff with us. But has had a heart for the hurting since she was a child. She seeks people out to show them love and compassion and no one is excluded from receiving her kindness. There is a nonprofit named in honor of his daughter britt who was killed in the earthquake. You are risking your lives. It is a living hell on earth. In the State Departments do not travel advise re issued last week on the dave that she was taken. They warn kidnapping is widespread and victims regularly include u. S. Citizens. They spoke yesterday acknowledging the two u. S. Citizens were missing in that country. The safety and security of american citizens overseas is our highest priority. We are in regular contact with haitian authorities and continue to work with them. We do not have information about where she and her child are right now nor whether or not a ransom has been demanded or asked for. Bill tension on that. Well follow it. Nice to see you. Molly line in boston. To say you have the lowest Approval Rating of any Vice President. How much of a role, if any, you feel race and gender play in that . There are polls that say i have great Approval Ratings. I think the point that has to be made is that there are attempts to create distractions away from the accomplishments of our administration. Dana Vice President harris refusing to accept facts trying to flip the script on her troubling poll numbers. Karl rove. This is from the nbc poll last week. 32 positive rating, 39 is very negative. No doubt there might be some polls that show she is really popular but the this is about the average that she has out there. Karl, what is she thinking . Darned if i know. I have great poll numbers and im in the 30s approval. When you got a problem it is better to acknowledge it. If she said i realize the numbers arent where i want them to be. It means i need to work harder at communicating the message of what weve done in this administration which is blah, blah, blah. Instead it is like let me take the reality that you are understanding in your own personal view of American Politics and tell you you are wrong. It is not a good way to respond. Not at all. Bill we wanted to take a look now, karl, about Voter Turnout. We just found some of these numbers interesting. I dont know if your own Research Backs it up or not. Call for two. Voter turnout in the 2022 midterms compared to four years prior 2018 midterms, black Voter Turnout dropped by 10 , Asian Pacific islander, fell, hispanic fell. That black turnout is very interesting. Go to the next slide number three. In 2020 biden won 91 of the black vote. 63 of black voters now say they support democrats. In 2020 trump won 8 . 28 say they support republicans. Thats a bump. What does it tell us if it matches what you are seeing . Im focused on the turnout numbers. A big dropoff between 2018 and 2022 with black voters. Democrats are talking about it for months for good reason. Think about this. Lets assume that in georgia, black turnout from 2020 to 2024 drops 1 . 1 . What happens in georgia with a 1 drop . It wipes out bidens margin. 1 drop. We talk about a 10 drop midterm to midterm. He loses georgia if there is a 1 drop even while he is carrying the black vote by 92 . Look at pennsylvania. Lets say its a 10 drop as it was between the two midterm elections. He won by 81,000. A 10 drop reduces it to 46,000. Puts the race within striking distance if there are changes in the hispanic or white vote where the republican candidate does better than trump did in 2020. Michigan, a 10 drop in the black turnout. It cuts the margin for biden in michigan from 154,000 to 124,000. Still a big number. Nonetheless getting closer. It could put michigan into play. The democrats are concerned about the lack of enthusiasm in black and young voters. They worry about three groups. Asianamericans and hispanics have moved in the republican direction and also though s sub suburbanites. They might come home to the republican party. Democrats have got five groups theyre worried about, the two biggest are blacks and young voters. Dana you are right. Just a little bit of a shift towards the republicans could change a lot of states and the key ones at that. Karl