to reopen a key stretch of the southern border. we are watching both those live events happening right now. hello, welcome everyone, sandra smith in new york. gillian, great to have you here today. gillian: thank you, gillian turner out of washington in for john roberts. this is america reports . that feud between president biden, texas governor greg abbott is ratcheting up by the hour now. sandra: some legal experts warn it could trigger a constitutional crisis. the president demanding the federal government have access to the 50 acre shelby park, likely remove the boxes and the razor wire along the rio grande. gillian: the latest on the ground inside eagle pass. sandra: right to peter doocy, live at the white house as we await this briefing. key to hear what we hear directly from the white house on all of this. for now, how far is this administration willing to take their battle with texas? peter: it s a big tug-of-war, and they have to come up with something new
phoenix, arizona as we top a new hour, riley gaines, along with other female athletes, coaches, and parents, are set to rally to demand the ncaa ban biological males from women s collegiate sports teams. we ll be watching and keeping a close eye on developments from there. john: plus hear from riley herself when she joins us live and what she wants to hear from college athletic officials. stay tuned for all that. sandra: begin this hour waiting for a white house briefing as hunter biden is expected to be in a los angeles federal courtroom a short time from now where he will answer to nine federal tax charges just one day after his public stunt on capitol hill. and here we go. hello, welcome everyone, sandra smith in new york. great to be with you. john: good to be with you on this friday eve as we call it around here. this is america reports . hunter biden will likely plead not guilty to the tax crstacked against him, donald trump is just coming out of the courtroom to
America reports. We are in the fourth week and there is still no evidence whatsoever connecting trump with any criminal wrongdoing. A crime that is not charged. Its a crime that prosecutors wont tell the defendant what it is. I dont know what they were going to do. This trial is rigged. It is dishonest, its a disgrace to new york, its a disgrace too the country. Sandra that was earlier and now a live look outside this newark Supreme Court where a jury has been hearing directly from the prosecutions star witness Michael Cohen. X attorney for former President Donald Trump. Hello and welcome everyone. I am sandra smith in new york as we kick off a new week. John center, glad to have you backward im john roberts in washington and this is america reports. Ct. In lunch break now. So far Michael Cohen has testified that his duties at the Trump Organization included killing negative stories about his boss. He started detailing the steps to shut down the Stormy Daniels story before the lunch br
is running in to a buzz saw. this moment forcing the first of what could be more presidents resignations to come. remember this. at penn, does calling for the genocide of jews violate penn s rules or code of conduct? yes or no. if the speech turns in to conduct, it can be harassment, yes. i m asking calling for the genocide of jews, does that constitute bullying or harassment? if it is directed, it s harassment. so the answer is yes? it s a context dependent decision. that s your answer? calling for the genocide of jews is context? it s not bullying or harassment? this is the easy answer. that was the university of penn s president and harvard and mit and perhaps others next? when cnn lays in to this story with this monologue yesterday, we may finally be seeing a tipping point in america. listen closely to his words. american universities have been neglecting a core focus on excellence in order to pursue a variety of agendas. many of them clustered around di
sandra: fox news alert and back to the live pictures out of lukeville, arizona, as we top a brand-new hour here. you are seeing the tucson sector, at the center of the most recent migrant surge, seen hundreds of mostly male adult migrants as you see on the screen there, queued up against the border fence. agents are now we are told, john, 200-1 in the field and this as the daily record for encounters was broken last week. remember, john, we were on the air when it happened, over 12,000 migrants hit the border in a single day and all this is coming after record setting 2.4 million encounters in the fiscal year 23 and all time monthly high of over 260,000 in september. i mean, those are numbers, you are looking at it on your screen, this is happening right now, john. john: populations, you know, some of america s largest cities, new york and los angeles aside, you know, you take houston, dallas, philadelphia, boston, places like that, population of one of those big cities c