his ex-wife will be on the stand today. this after the prosecution called its first witness and they presented that laptop in court. so much more on that coming up shortly. first, however, there is this. >> president biden: today i'm announcing actions to bar migrants who cross our southern border unlawfully from receiving asylum. this action will help us gain control of our border, restore order to the process. this ban will remain in place until the number of people trying to enter illegally is reduced to a level that our system that effectively manage. >> bill: how do you do that now? bearing down on the border president buying signing that order to stem the chaos or try. too little too late? someone asked yesterday at the white house, why now? good morning, everybody . i'm bill hemmer in new york city. we're team blue today. >> dana: good to see you i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." it's pretty interesting that the timing of all of this certainly you could imagine there were probably some polls that showed the white house and biden campaign they must do more. president trump is way up ahead on them on the issue of immigration. biden's crackdown goes into effect when the border is overwhelm. a week where illegal crossings averaged 2500 a day. >> this is america. see the red lights? border patrol? san diego, see the lights? >> bill: bill melugin will never forget that moment. you have 8 million crossed the border illegally since biden took office. the new order who allow 1.8 million, however, 1.8 million into the country every year. >> dana: bill melugin is live in california with more. >> good morning to you. it was business as usual out here last night. president biden's executive order took effect at midnight. we did not see any migrant rush trying to get in before that executive order took effect. this is what we saw at sunset. 20 or 30 minutes before midnight eastern. we saw this little group of mostly chinese and vietnamese illegal immigrants who came across. once midnight hit they were being processed and not like an alarm went off and all the border patrol agents blocked everybody. we show you what we saw earlier in the afternoon. look at this. a bigger group middle eastern men who crossed illegally here. several of them those special interest aliens we're talking about. coming from countries that dhs has concerns about for potential national security or terrorism issues. supposed to get additional vetting. caught up with several guys from jordan, egypt and turkey. take a listen. >> jordan, why did you come to -- why did you come to america? >> for a job. >> you know it's illegal to cross the border like this, yeah? >> yeah. >> you don't care? >> yes. >> where are you guys from? >> egypt. >> what country? >> turkey. all turkey? >> where are you from? >> egypt. i love america. >> egypt. >> we have stunning data from our cbp contacts. since october 1st here in san diego sector there has been 260,000 illegal im granulitis apprehended by border patrol. of that number, 78% of them have been released into the united states. we're told that's primarily because a lot of the people crossing are coming from countries where it is very difficult to deport people. they aren't afraid of deportation. you heard the guy from jordan. you don't care about crossing illegally? he said yes, i don't care. >> dana: good reason for that. they have common sense and looking at this and picking it up for what it is. >> bill: the president is saying that republican obstruction forced his hand. only four months ago he claimed his hands had been tied. >> give me the power. this action will help us gain control of our border, restore order into the process, doing nothing is not an option. we have to act. >> bill: mary is a columnist or outkick. the newest fox news contributor. >> i'm glad to be back. >> dana: you had some babies along the way and comes with a bigger family now. thank you for being here. >> mike johnson said the president engineered the open border. he signed at least 65, maybe 70 more executive orders. to borrow a phrase from years past, what difference at this point will this make? >> you can't erase the damage that has been done, right? you can't erase the huge numbers of people already here. you also can't erase the lack of trust for this administration. they are acknowledging it is a crisis. they've been confused for a long time. voters aren't confused and in the top three issues for many of them despite economic issues. they're feeling pressure and the opposite of what biden offered to them, he said i'll bring order, not chaos. this feels like chaos. let me be clear. i think you have to deal with the cynicism here. it speaks to whether you can trust this administration on this issue. this is not a border crisis for them, this is a re-election crisis for them. this is a last-ditch effort to say we're doing something about it. even as you note, months ago both biden and mayorkas said there is nothing we can do here. we know it's not true there is nothing they can do. it was biden's executive actions removing trump's executive actions that created this situation in the first place. the folly of governing in opposition to trump even when some of those actions were effective, is coming home to roost right now. >> dana: one of the things that i've read that's interesting is biden at this point five months from today until the election is trying to lock down his own base and he has a problem on the far left, which makes up a significant piece of his coalition. and they don't want to return to trump-era policies. yesterday they were expressing dismay that president biden would even consider doing this because this is what they did after 2017, they decided to make a change on the democratic side to go against anything president trump was for. biden says yesterday look, i will never demonize immigrants. so it's interesting that it is coming at a point he is trying to maybe try to move to the middle to see if that will work. i'm skeptical on that. at the same time he risks losing further distancing himself from that far left coalition. >> i think as usual the strategy is somewhat incoherent from this white house. they do have to deal with several things. they have to deal with the fact that voters in the middle of the road are upset with them. upset with the situation. the left was very happy with what was happening at the border. the left is happy to let people flow over with no sort of cap on it at all. by the way it seems like the 2500 number they're giving, which is far less than the 5,000 that was in that senate bill they be moaned not passing, maybe they could have offered that to republicans as something to do a deal on. they said it's the best you will get. went after the opposition instead of getting something done. the question is do we actually get something out of this? for those middle of the road voters who are concerned about this? again, i don't think you can trust this administration to actually follow through with the things they're promising to do. >> bill: we'll see on that. secretary mayorkas was on with neil yesterday says the time is not too late. watch. >> we expected congress to act. they did not act once. they recently failed to act twice and we took this executive action. it is not too little and it is not too late. we had hoped that congress would act. they have failed to do so and the president exercised executive authority as he has done now. >> bill: some people will believe that. no doubt mr. biden will wave his new order as a shield during his debate with mr. trump this month. the political timing of the order invites voter skepticism. will the media follow this or moving on to something else? >> a question whether the media can ignore the problem and voters can see past it. voters have seen past it when they haven't been covering the crisis closely. mayorkas, does he mean too little too late for electoral problems or for the actual security problems inherent in this issue? i know you guys know the story earlier this may. two jordanian nationals tried to gain entry to quantico. we have risks out there already let into the country and i'm not sure how you get past too little too late with those issues. >> dana: mkh for the win. great to have you back. thanks. right now day three of hunter biden's federal gun trial is underway. prosecution opened its case yesterday by playing hunter reading from his own memoir describing his drug habit. the defense denies he lied on the gun form but it lacks plausibility. what can we expect this morning, rich? >> good morning, dana. day three is underway. more questions of whether hunter biden was a drug user when he bought that gun back in 2018. hunter arrived just about a half hour ago to this courtroom and a bit of a surprise with her husband in france for the 80th anniversary of the d-day landings the first lady also arrived here, jill biden. right now you have lead attorney abby low well cross examining the special f.b.i. agent. prosecutors introduced lengthy segments of hunter's audio book where he says he had a super power, the ability to find crack in any town at any time. >> crack takes you into the dark recesses of your soul as well as the darkest corners of every community. unlike with alcohol, you become dependent not only on a criminal sub culture to access what you need but the lowest rung of that sub culture. >> the prosecutors showed the gun form at the heart of their case asking if the gun buyer, hunter, used illegal drugs marked no. the defense says it asks whether the buyer is a drug user, not whether he has ever done drugs. defense maintains hunter had periods of sobriety during that time and wasn't on drugs at the time he bought the gun. prosecutors used jenson's testimony to bring hunter's laptop into the courtroom. investigators have a summary chart of contents, 18,000 pages long including photos and text messages. next up the prosecution is expected to call kathleen buell, hunter's ex-wife and in a legal fight of unpaid alimony. they will call more of his ex-s including his sister-in-law, hallie and another x of hunter biden as we're under way day three at the courthouse. >> you'll see familiar faces next hour. kerri urbahn and andy mccarthy and turley. >> dana: he said you're not going to convict a biden, are you, delaware? whether it's sympathy for a drug addict or biden the defense clearly hopes the jury will look beyond the evidence and the crime in this case. but the prosecution is not holding back. >> bill: i think it was quite a moment when they revealed the laptop yesterday. some of the reaction from some of the biden family members or relatives of the family were none too pleased about that and made it known. we'll get analysis on that shortly coming up. let's get to this right now. >> i start screaming, she pepper sprayed me in the face and the eyes. another person starts stomping over me and my husband ran towards me to save me. >> bill: a seemingly random attack leaving a chicago couple bloodied and battered. they are just going out for the night for a bite to eat. two teenagers charged with misdemeanor. >> dana: a damming report claiming president biden shows signs of decline behind closed doors. how the white house is responding. >> bill: a live look kennedy space center. nasa is trying to launch the boeing star liner with a crew of two on board. if they can do it and they've been delayed for a long time now, what it might mean for the future of space flight. we shall watch and wait together throughout the morning here on america's newsroom. ♪ everywhere but the seat. the seat is leather. alan, we get it. you love your bike. we do, too. that's why we're america's number-one motorcycle insurer. but do you have to wedge it into everything? 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more in chicago with more. hi, garrett. >> part of what makes this attack so disturbing the couple says it happened out of nowhere for seemingly no reason. this couple was on their way home from date night in the streeterville neighborhood. a few blocks from navy peer. a teenage boy punched the husband in the back of the head. they tried walking away but the teen punched him again and again. at this point a large crowd of over a dozen teens started to converge on them. the husband tells his wife to run. but before she can escape, she gets attacked as well. >> another lady came to me and dragged me through my air, with my hair on the ground. i start screaming. she started pepper spraying me right in the face and eyes. another person starts stomping all over me. to be honest, when i was on the ground looking at my husband and feeling all the beating and getting sprayed, i thought i wasn't going to be able to make it home to my son. >> at the time, the wife was two weeks pregnant and later found out she lost the baby. in the pictures you can see the wife holding a chunk of her hair ripped up and bruises all over her husband's head from the teens stomping on him. when cops showed up the crowd ran off and two teens were arrested. a 17-year-old girl and 14-year-old boy charged with misdemeanor and released from police custody. the alderman says these kinds of crowds of teens have been a problem in that area recently and they're bored and looking for something to do and know they can get away with this kind of thing without facing any real consequences. this couple says they now plan to push for changes in the law so that the parents of these teens and others like them can start to be held accountable for things like this and their other piece of advice for the public after this, be careful who you vote for. dana. >> garrett, thank you. >> bill: message in there. executive director of violence interrupters. tia, welcome back to the program. the crime stats in chicago going back to pre-covid. murder up 23%, robbery 38, theft 41 and they're stealing a ton of cars in your city. 227 with motor vehicle left. it's not getting better. >> right now chicago is the only city throughout the united states that has over 450 homicides every year, 450 to almost 700 homicides every year for the last 20 years. not getting any better. the numbers don't mean a thing when it comes down to people being attacked downtown and people losing their lives. we had a 5-year-old girl shot and killed one week ago here in chicago. there is no outrage behind the killing of the 5-year-old. you have young people roaming the streets of downtown chicago looking to hurt people and by any means necessary looking to hurt people because they don't feel there will be a consequence. we have to change the mindset and behaviors and then we need strong law enforcement type of strategies that can be deployed in chicago instead of -- right now a lot of young people feel they will never be held accountable. we have to step up our game coming to dealing with what's going on in chicago on a regular basis. violence spreads like an infectious disease and i push the public health approach myself. i understand law enforcement just the same. >> bill: there is an alder woman by the name of lenny -- and she says she doesn't want to give crime alerts because she thinks it creates a perception that is bad. here is her quote. research shows us that over reporting of crime negatively impacts her most marginalized and underserved neighbors. she represents the 48th ward. and i thought it was the south side and the west side or downtown. i thought it was going to midway airport. that's the north side of chicago. and her ward is well north of wrigley field and that's the part of town that hasn't been affected by the things we've talked about. >> that's not necessarily true what she is saying. i wish her the best but the reality is chicago is a rough place right now. over 200 homicides so far this year, over 1,000 people have been shot and carjackings are chicago and armed robberies. some people don't want the information to get out the information but the couple that were attacked were talking about watch your surroundings. people need to know that. you could have somebody robbing people, a ra