and promote content how they want. bill, the clock is ticking. this is the last week scheduled for the new york legislative session in the state. we ll see if lawmakers get it done. bill: we ll watch it. nice to see you, lydia hu. dana: fox news alert. in moments attorney general merrick garland will testify before the house judiciary committee. the nation s top law enforcement officers hitting back at republicans refuting their allegations the justice department is being weaponized against former president donald trump. we ll give you the updates as they come in. the buck finally stops at his desk after ignoring a crisis boiling for nearly four years. president biden is set to sign an executive order banning migrants who cross the southern border illegally from claiming asylum. the question is it a belated bow to reality or an election year stunt. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom. i m dana perino. bill: i m bill hemmer. the move takes a page out of the pre
morning, everyone. you re live in judiciary committee will begin girl and is expected to push back against gop attacks on the justice department. and gop claims i am that the doj is weaponized against donald trump. also, opening statements are underway in the trial of the president s son, hunter biden, on three felony gun charges, but there are already some developments in sayyed that courtroom will bring you and president biden is about to announce an executive order on illegal immigration, cracking down on the flow of migrants or false the southern border. the move is controversial. it s drawing fire from republicans, no surprise, but even from border patrol agents will find out why. but first let s go to paul reaches outside the courthouse in delaware where hunter biden s trial is starting. paul, you ve got some breaking news about the jury, what just happened that s right. even before opening statements got underway this morning, we already lost a juror now, this ju
you re concerned about. now, you re, you were a judge once nominated the highest court in our country. when you were a judge, i m just curious. did you ever make political donations to partisan candidates? no. no. and you didn t because that would create the potential appear appearance of impropriety. i didn t because there s a federal rule. oh, are in federal judges for making contributions. right. but but under that same theory of attacks on the judicial process, like shouldn t someone be owed like a jury of their peers and a judge that s non-biased rather than getting a judge from your political opponents donor file. i m well aware that you re not asking a hypothetical. you re asking me to comment and a verdict jury verdict in a another jurisdiction which has to be respected. i won t comment on it. that case is still ongoing. the defense attorney i hadn t asked you about the verdict yet. we re getting there. i was i was talking to about the judge and so let me ask you th
appearance of impropriety. i didn t because there is a federal rule barring federal judges from making contributions. under that same theory of attacks on the judicial process. shouldn t someone be owed, like a jury of their peers and judge non-biased rather than getting a judge from your political opponent s donor file. you are asking me to comment on a jury verdict in another jurisdiction which has to be respected. i won t comment on it. that case is still ongoing. the defendant haven t asked you about the verdict. i was talking about the judge. so let me ask you this question about your time as a judge. was there ever a time when you were a judge when you had a family member who was personally profiting off of the notary tee of a case that was before your court? i will say again very clear you are asking me to comment on a case in another jurisdiction. did you ever have a family
out and out stealing. for months we tried to get them to answer our questions and you d think they would want to, wouldn t you? you d think they d want to show exactly where the money has gone but they have slammed doors in our reporters face and refused to answer questions. of that nearly $56 million, how much do you think has gone to directly help disabled veterans? 90%? 50%? we haven t found any of it that has gone to help disabled veterans directly. they do send stuff to some veterans groups, truckloads of stuff, stuff that they get for free. stuff that veterans groups we ve talked to say they didn t want, they didn t ask for and they don t even need. here s what one veterans center director told us. they sent us 2,600 bags of cough drops. and 2,200 little bottles of sanitizer. and the great thing they sent us was 11,520 bags of coconut m & ms. thousands of bags, more than 11,000 bags. we ve reported on this group a couple of times the last few weeks and our drew gri