hopes that alec baldwin on also goes down in this case. what should he expect? >> i expect he has a tough road here because, you know, her trial was filled with trying to shift blame to him. i don't know if that was a failure or if that important -- you have somebody already sentenced to 18 months and now he was the person giving the orders and the one handling the gun. >> martha: thank you very much. good to talk to you this morning. thanks, mark. >> bill: here is the breaking news day two of trump's trial in new york and these are still photos that are provided to us by the pool photographer who goes in there at the top of jury proceedings every day. there are three, one difference today wearing a blue shirt

instead of a white shirt. a blue tie as opposed to a red tie from yesterday. 500 prospective jurors they have identified in manhattan. 96 potential jurors at the start of yesterday of which 50 said they could not be fair and impartial. 11 others were excused for other reasons. you have 32 potential jurors from the first batch that remain. we'll see whether or not they can find one today. yesterday they were 0 for 96. hum. >> martha: yep. he is in constant conversation according to court reporters with his attorney as they get in underway and watching closely as the jurors answer the questions. they hold at least one chapter of his fate in their hands. we'll see where it goes. >> bill: talked about legal issues. he will continue to stress that. >> martha: legal expenses. >> bill: that's the phrase as we move to the second hour. check it out.

[shouting] >> bill: you had a lot of hateful anti-israeli mobs in new york city and all over the country really. in this case lighting the u.s. flag on fire and shouting death to america. pro-hamas agitators storming cities across the country. in some places grinding traffic to a halt. we'll ask the biden administration about that later this hour. on the hill you have merrick garland facing tough questions as republicans seek answers about the special counsel invest into president biden's mishandling of classified documents. a new hour begins now. dana has the day off today. she is back tomorrow. welcome to our program here. i'm bill hemmer. >> martha: good morning, good to be with you as always. i'm martha maccallum. we have a lot to cover for you this morning. house republicans want the justice department to release

the audio discussion that they had from the special counsel's interviews with president biden. you remember there was a lot of takeaway from those about him being an elderly man with a poor memory. they want to hear the actual conversation. the attorney general could be pressed on several other issues including two federal trials of the president's son and the timing of two federal trials against former president trump. >> bill: full coverage continues now. byron york has examination from "the washington examiner." first the news and alexandria hoff is in washington on this. hello. >> good morning to you both. republicans are expected to press for answers this morning as the attorney general is pressing for funding of that budget hearing. you see there on capitol hill kicking off right now. opening statements beginning in terms of funding. the justice department is requesting $37.8 billion for fiscal year 25, 467 million increase over last year according to the request. republicans are poised to use

this opportunity to follow up on why the doj has refused to turn over the president biden interview tapes with special counsel. declining to do so is reason to hold attorney general merrick garland in contempt. the department responded to the demand last week in a letter stating the committees have already received the extraordinary accommodation of the transcripts which gives you the information you say you need. james comer weighed in the next day. >> they doesn't get to dictate congressional oversight. they are supposed to be checks and balances in our system. what we have is a two-tier system of justice. an attorney general who is entitled. >> comer and others believe the justice department is trying to block their investigation into biden family corruption. while prosecuting the president's 2024 challenger. the timing of the trump trials.

hunter biden facing two trials. friday he lost a bid to dismiss federal gun charges. this hearing this morning just kicking off. we'll see where this line of questioning goes. >> bill: alexandria hoff in washington, thank you. >> martha: joining us for more on this byron york, chief political correspondent for "the washington examiner" and fox news contributor. what do you expect this morning as the department of justice gets pushed on some of these issues that face them? >> well, one sure fire way for members of congress to get a reluctant cabinet member in front of them in a hearing room on capitol hill is to make them testify to get their appropriation. so congress is using that, the house is using that as leverage over merrick garland today. as far as the tape of the biden interview, i don't expect anything to happen. i have actually asked a few of the republicans on the hill whether there was any precedent for special counsel like robert

hur releasing the audio tape of an interview. we have the transcript already. they said this is just unprecedented times. and i think that means the answer is no, there really is a precedent so we probably won't hear any audio tape. >> bill: you look at president biden's trip this week. he is underlining the importance of pennsylvania for a democratic candidate in this campaign. he will be in scranton today, pittsburgh tomorrow, philadelphia on thursday. and if you look at the "wall street journal" battleground polls trump leads in six of seven of those. it is tight across the board with the exception of wisconsin. one point here about pennsylvania. we were talking about this a bit earlier. joe biden won pennsylvania by 81,000 raw votes. yet in pittsburgh he won allegany county by 147,000 raw votes and in philadelphia the margin was 471,000 votes. that's where you go if you are a

democrat trying to win the keystone state. >> it absolutely is. if you look, we've seen a bunch of polls from fox news and otherwise about some of the key states, arizona, georgia, nevada, pennsylvania, wisconsin, michigan. and you mentioned wisconsin as perhaps the brightest spot for joe biden but pennsylvania is really, really tight. if you look in arizona and georgia right now, trump has a significant lead. he might have such a good lead in michigan as well but pennsylvania where joe biden feels, i think, a little sense of possession. he is from pennsylvania. so i think he feels like he really, really, really has to win there. >> dana: byron, you look across the board of the topics that matter in the election, you see that trump has really gained leverage in the economy, in the country better off, unifying

america. katie cureic had this to say about what she thinks is driving the trump voter. watch. >> socio- economic disparities are a lot and class resentment is a lot. anti-intellectualism and elitism is what is driving these anti-establishment, which are trump voters. >> what is your thought on that? >> seems like a group think manhattan or the hamptons view. this is an extraordinary race. almost unprecedented race because the voters are choosing between two candidates who have both been president of the united states. and i just wrote yesterday about a "new york times" poll asked a really interesting question which is looking back, do you think the donald trump presidential years were mostly good for america or mostly bad for america?

and asking the same thing about the joe biden years. and trump had a significant lead over biden with those voters who said that his time in office was good. people have a personal remembrance. it is not that long ago. they think the economy was doing better for them. they think trump was a better leader. so this is a really amazing race in which both candidates have been president and voters are making their own decisions on this. >> martha: such a fascinating observation and you pile on top of that the nostalgia factor and you have this president who at the moment of that is going to run again, which is something none of us have ever experienced. byron, thank you very much. >> bill: thank you, byron. more breaking news i want to get to it. npr has suspended a senior editor who publicly criticized the network's liberal bias.

juan williams, you had your own run in with npr. he came out with a long he seau how he felt internal eye the news making decisions on behalf of npr were misguided and set out to fix that. what do you think of the five day suspension handed down. >> i think suspending this man bill in my opinion rightly pointed out they are an insulated group of liberals who think they are right about everything. they think they are good people and they have a very hard time with people who think differently. are they suspending him for that or suspending him for going outside of npr without approval to public his essay and to do interviews? one with "the new york times" recently without getting any approval npr. he have is not appealing the suspension at the moment but they said it with as a warning that could lead to his firing. >> martha: it will be

interesting whether he can provoke change at npr by being outspoken about what he sees as disparity in their coverage or he is probably going to eventually move outside of npr and this has certainly given him a lot of exposure and prominence that he could leverage potentially. >> i think he could. let me just say, this story was broken by npr. this is very intriguing dynamic. you have someone who actually was edited at npr breaking the story because he was suspended last friday for this leak and npr never spoke to him or others about this. berliner gave folk en flick the release and the letter he had been suspended. there are lots of strange things going on. one of them is that you see

berliner and others who are critics of npr pointing out the new head of npr, kathryn maier, is someone who in the past has been tweeting critically about donald trump and the question is can she come in and be a uniter, a fair voice at npr given that she has been outspoken in her political views? >> bill: you can read a lot of pieces every day about the internal agitation this has caused at npr. does berliner move on or still work there or does npr just keep on sailing in the same waters they have assumed for the past eight years? >> well look, we live in a very polarized media landscape. my sense of berliner he has been there 25 years. he won a peabody. accomplished journalist but right now he angered his colleagues inside who see themselves under assault from people who don't like them and

want to defund them and see them as, you know, in the case of my firing, unable to deal with people who think differently especially in my case a black guy who thinks differently than they think. and so they are very sensitive to criticism even though they are all for being open minded. i think what berliner pointed out they are not that open minded and he may want to move on. i don't know if other people at other organizations will feel good about people who go outside of the organization without authorization to attack the organization itself. i understand if that's why you are being suspended, okay. but in this case the political baggage is just so glaring, i don't know how you get away from the fact that berliner has spoken a truth about npr and its political bias. >> bill: thank you for jumping on the phone. breaking news from npr. we will see where it goes. there is public money that goes

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>> martha: state department says hamas has walked away to secure the release of the remaining hostages despite big concessions from israel. >> incredibly significant

proposal that went from the united states and egypt and qatar and israel to hamas. there is a deal on the table that would achieve much of what hamas claims wants to achieve but they haven't taken the deal. >> martha: protests to bring the hostages home grow. more than 130 people taken into custody in october on the 7th are still being held in gaza but the numbers are very difficult to determine how many of them might still be alive. >> bill: it is not a question of if but when israel's top military chief saying iran's drone and missile attack over the weekend will be met with an israeli response. when and what it will be we don't know. sabrina singh joins me in a moment. trey yengst is live in southern

israel. >> good morning. the entire world waiting to see how israel will respond to the iranian attack over the weekend. it comes amid a very active day for the israelis. the war cabinet meeting to go through options. rockets coming off the gaza trip. attack drones from southern lebanon. we have a firsthand look at parts from the ballistic missiles that iran fired into israel over the weekend. behind me is the fuel cell to an iranian ballistic missile launched toward israel over weekend at 36 feet long, this is just 70 percent of the missile. more than 110 of these were launched along with other missiles and drones during the iranian attack this weekend. forces are on high alert across the country. understanding that iran could use its proxies to further attack israel. overnight israeli chief of staff releasing a rare statement in

english about the situation. >> we remain at our highest level of readiness. iran will face the consequences for its actions. we will choose our response accordingly. >> there is an understanding on the ground that following that attack by iran, its proxies will continue daily attacks against israel from gaza and southern lebanon. in the meanwhile you also have israeli dip low mats around the world to sanction iranians for their ballistic missile programs. >> bill: this time if israel goes in it might have to go it alone. sabrina singh with me now. i want to get to that live shot notwithstanding what trey just showed us, a little bit about the capability of the iranian military. half of the missiles either failed to launch or failed in flight or crashed well before

they hit israel. why was that? what does that say about iranian capability? >> thanks, bill, for having me. that's exactly right. we are still doing initial assessments of the strikes, our successful strikes with the idf and other partners in the region to assess exactly what happened when iran did fire some of its ballistic and cruise missiles. what i can tell you what was an unprecedented attack was met by an unprecedented united coalition able to knock out nearly 99% of what iran shot toward israel. that says the speaks to the capability of israeli and u.s. military and partners in the region and really speaks to iran's failures. at the end of the day iran was not successful in this attack. they really have been projecting this image to the world that is frankly being questioned as you can see on saturday. >> bill: i would agree with that, too. you can understand the u.s. and

u.k. pitching in for israel but reports about jordan and the uae and saudi arabia, maybe others in the arab world also helped out that have not been publicized. what does it say about how the region has changed? >> it sees the defense of israel as important and why you saw a coalition of like minded countries come together in support of israel's self-defense and proud of our efforts. the incredible military capability on display saturday night. fighters in the air coordinating with other partners. israeli defense force as well and two destroyers also in the eastern mediterranean shooting down the ballistic missiles. you saw an unprecedented could order naivetyed response that sends a message to iran but a message to adversaries around the world. >> bill: i think israel has arab

partners in a military sense is the biggest news out of this entire weekend. that tells me that the region has changed and hopefully forever. now with regard to the u.s. president apparently he says if israel strikes back they will do it alone. what does that mean? >> as trey was reporting. the war cabinet is meeting today and yesterday. i'm not aware a decision has been made. that is a sovereign decision for israel to make. the president has been very clear that we stand with israel and their self-defense but we really don't want to see a wider war, a wider regional conflict and don't seek war with iran. >> bill: back to the question. will the u.s. help israel if and when it chooses to respond? >> that's a question for israel to answer. they haven't made a decision that i'm aware of. war cabinet is meeting now. our mission is to help defend israel. >> bill: if netanyahu asked the

united states for help would we answer that call? >> i won't get into hype that calls. what we have said publicly and privately we don't seek war with iran and don't want to see it widen to a broder regional conflict. >> bill: from iran they are ready to use weapons they have not used before. what does that mean snow >> very dangerous rhetoric. i can't speak to what they are referring to. what i can tell you is looking at what we were able to do on saturday, we were able to shoot down 99% of what they lobbed towards israel. i think that sends a clear message to iran their capabilities that they assess that they project to the world that they are this great military power is coming into question and so while i can't speak to what they are referring to, i would say that the coalition that israel had behind its back on saturday again something to be incredibly proud of. >> bill: thank you for your time and we'll await the next chapter

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>> bill: news from inside the courtroom. the district attorney's office has filed a written motion so they have made it official to try and hold donald trump in contempt for violating the gag order that was put on him by the judge. well, i guess there were three allegations that the state made yesterday and if the allegations hold up, trump would be find $1

thousand for each violation. >> martha: that's right. >> bill: they made it official now and made a move on the former president already in day two. don't know how jury selection is going today. we're an hour into it. find out if we're more successful today as yesterday. >> martha: he doesn't seem to care too much what he says about this. talked about the judge on the way in as well today. i don't know about the thousand dollar fines or whether or not it will keep him -- change his be behave orr at all. >> i should right now be in pennsylvania, florida and many other states, north carolina, georgia, campaigning. this is all coming from the biden white house. the guy who can't put two sentences together. he can't campaign. it is not working. all you have to do is look at the polls. >> bill: what he described the

payments to michael cohen were legal expenses. >> martha: he is giving a bit of his defense outside the courtroom. an interesting move. he went after judge merchan. that's nothing new. he made his feelings clear what he feels about the judge. we'll see where it goes. house speaker mike johnson facing new pressure after west virginia congressman thomas massey says he will co-sponsor a motion to vacate the chair. the speaker says he will be putting up four separate foreign aid bills this week. israel, ukraine, taiwan and one that deals with tiktok. those bills may never get to the floor. aishah hosni live to get us up to speed on all of this. hi, aishah. >> good morning to you, martha. here we go again. speaker johnson is making remarks during the leadership conference presser. hopefully there will be a question asked to him about this

possible motion to vacate. thomas massey told him directly to his face that he was going to co-sponsor this mtg motion to vacate and demanded that johnson should pre-announce his resignation as boehner did so we can pick a new speaker without a speak. a huge problem for johnson and also for the israel aid. thomas massey sits on the very powerful rules committee and republicans can only lose two -- republicans on that committee to put something on the floor. he is now apparently the third no for the rule. that means that johnson desperately needs democrats to bring his plan to the floor. let's take a look at it on the screen. this is the plan. johnson is dividing up israel. ukraine, taiwan into three separate bills. the fourth bill offers conservative ideas like the

lend/lease deals for military aid for ukraine. provisions to sell russian assets and a tiktok ban. for folks who don't want to cut ukraine the blank check. the speaker is giving members trying to give them political cover from taking touch votes. >> i didn't like the fact that we are seemingly abandoning the border, which is the hill we said we would die on for a long time. >> that was eli crane and that's the consensus from conservatives who are angry right now at johnson for not including border provisions as part of the foreign aid package. again, johnson will have to now turn to democrats to get their support. it is unclear if democrats are wanting to play ball. we'll find out from leader jeffries in moments when he takes the podium. this is a problem, a huge deal for johnson as now another member has gone public with

their frustration. we have been hearing it off camera privately in conversations from many members saying they are frustrated with johnson's leadership skills. former president trump last friday at mar-a-lago said that he supports the speaker for now. but now we have two people that are demanding that he step down. martha. >> martha: tough situation for him. he has the thinnest imaginable margin to work with here and he has leaned towards some democrats to see if things were pass and get things across the finish line. tough situation for mike johnson. see where it goes. >> bill: anti-israel protests crippling bridges and highways across the country. the scene in san francisco at the golden gate bridge that went on for hours. some protestors burning american flags chanting anti-semitic slogans. kennedy and paul mauro here to

talk about this. good morning to both of you. some of the passengers in chicago had to walk to o'hare to make their flight. video of a guy got out of his car in san francisco and going at it with these protestors and they were giving it right back to him. nightly news coverage last night nbc two minutes -- only 22 minutes of content, right? two minutes 20 seconds on nbc, 2:ten on cbs. this is a group a-15, we had not heard of them until yesterday. you study this kind of stuff. >> there is a common denominator to the protests. somebody is directing all of this. generally you go up the chain far enough and one entity. the point of vulnerability. understand the police, the optic is terrible. cops are standing around. the orders -- police are told clear it. they'll clear it in two minutes. they are being told to leave it

alone. where the federal government should be looking is at the point of vulnerability who is coordinating and funding all this. will they do it? likely not. that's to their own detriment. we're in an election year. it won't be a good optic going into the election. we'll have it all summer, the protest season. what the federal government should be doing is put boundaries around it because it will get worse. >> martha: this was pretty well coordinated. global economic strike april 15th. the chief of patrol in new york they were told they would have 16 different protests going on in new york yesterday. given a heads-up the night before >> wait until the summer of protest. this is an election year. we know how emotional the environment is already. wait until some of these issues start to converge. you already have a climate crazies. this has been their go-to for quite some time. shutting down roadways. it wasn't until they got on

native american land that they were actually kind of pummeled by an official truck there. but cops can't do anything. their hands are tied but what happens when people can't freely associate and when you are in an ambulance and you are having a heart attack or baby and you can't get across that bridge? what if someone loses their life at some of the fallout from these protests? there has to be accountability and i think by and large these protestors are all just children. they are doing this for fun. this is protest tourism doing it for sport. they really don't care what the issue is. >> some were older with gray hair. they have been protesting a long time. >> maybe the aarp. is >> bill: we started our show two hours ago. one guest said he needs a sister soldier moment. it goes to your point. we've got a dapper dawn in the white house. "the new york times" style

editor gave a glowing review for the president and how he dresses, called him dapper and gatsby. paul, you are a dapper man yourself. your review. >> it doesn't matter what suit you are wearing, if it's covered in ice cream you won't be that dapper. i really think this was an attempt by the times to try to assuage the fact the opposite among some of the groups he is counting on is that he is too old and doddering. no matter how dapper the suit is, you see the walk and you say to yourself this is not presidential. >> bill: show number five. paul, would you wear these? >> those glasses? i would wear the glasses, not the -- >> i got a brand-new pair of hokas. i am a fan of the brand for long distance running. it's a nice, stable shoe. if you are an elderly person

tripping upstairs you need these so you don't wobble. you can't put skinny jeans and crocks on the economy, which would be great if we could young that up a little bit or put it in a time machine and take it back to 2019. a lot of people would love to see that. doesn't matter how you dress it up, you can't put lipstick on this pig. still this bacon is very safe. >> it's not hard to look dapper when you call a lid everyday at 11:00 a.m. >> martha: long time reputation as one of the best dressed in the senate. the president looks great. all right, thank you very much, you guys. great to see you both. >> there is a lot of criminal activity that originates within social media and our tech companies have the ability to filter and censor some for minors. they aren't investing as

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>> martha: meta rolling out a new tool that they say will help keep underage users safe from sextortion. it will blur pictures with nudity received on its platform. my next guest is a father whose 16-year-old son took his life after falling victim to a random sextortion scheme on instagram. he had just gotten his license, spent time with his family. went to his room and the nightmare began for this family. brian, good to have you with us. >> thank you for having us. we appreciate the opportunity to

tell others about this scam and these people that are out there taking advantage of our kids. thank you for the opportunity. >> martha: i want the read the post. this feature protects people from seeing unwanted nudity in dms but to protect them from scammers who may send nude images to trick people into sending their own images in return and then, of course, it turns into this i will share your pictures all over the place if you don't give me money right now situation. that has led to so many outcomes. what do you think about what they are doing? >> i think it is smoke and mirrors. you look at the timing of this situation with meta , they have known about the harms that social media can cause since 2019. we know that due to lawsuits. what is the the combination of why now and i think the answer to that is we're actively pursuing legislative efforts to

restrict some of those activities in the digital service providers don't want that. they don't want that restriction so they are making a show. the reality is, this technology most likely would not have done anything to change the outcome of walker's situation. just to reiterate what happened with walker, his -- it wasn't an idea of sending these pictures back and forth like people think about. walker was being recorded by a secondary device from the other side. the simplicity of taking that information and simply sending it across another platform reading about what meta is doing, they aren't implementing these strategies on facebook, only on instagram. we can look at meta 's behavior in the past and can't trust them to self-regulate. >> martha: who do you think is behind the money-making side of these schemes and what is your

message to parents who have teenagers like you did? >> the money making is almost an organic between predators around the world. for the most part this isn't just, you know, kids that are -- there are obviously kids that don't have good intentions and want to hurt other kids. walker's suspect is out of nigeria. my advice to parents, number one, would be take some responsibility with your kids and the thing that i've promoted the most is phones need to be in a safe spot at night. not in bedrooms. many parents have taken that advice and are doing that. that's really our only avenue right now is spread awareness and let kids and parents know and done that trying to spread that awareness and stand up. we have got to let these digital service providers know that we aren't going to continue to let them run their businesses on the

backs of our kids. >> martha: there needs to be a revolution in this country of safety for kids. we are well aware of the dangers that exist now and we need to really take back control in these situations. i'm so sorry for your loss, your wonderful young son and you have a lot of courage to get out and keep up this fight. thank you very much. good to see you, sir. >> appreciate it so much. >> bill: strong man and a good message. the border crisis, high profile crimes involving, how china is complicit in the growing threat to public safety. even a little blurry vision can distort things. and something serious may be behind those itchy eyes. up to 50% of people with graves' could develop a different condition

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griff jenkins live in washington with the details and background on the story. what did you find? >> good morning. just moments ago the house oversight committee began drilling into the border crisis impact on public safety hearing from sheriffs from virginia and texas and here was some of the subcommittee chair's opening remarks. >> the president has unnecessarily created an national security and humanitarian crisis by refusing to uphold the rule of law. today we are examining now the border crisis affects safety in our towns, cities and communities not surprisingly, the open southwest border has att attracted many illegal immigrants with criminal histories. >> we hear more about these crimes from the riley murder in georgia and beating of the cops in new york city. a pew poll from february found 57% -- stats show violent crime flat lining in cities with

increased migrant populations. one undeniable link between the border and public safety is that surge of fentanyl killing americans. separate hearing on the hill about that and the select committee from china. martha. >> martha: important. thank you very much, griff jenkins in d.c. >> bill: mike johnson the house speaker is threatened by massey out of kentucky to challenge his leadership. >> i'm not resigning. it is no my view an absurd notion that someone referring to a vacate motion when we're here trying to do our job. it is not helpful to the cause or the country or does not help the house republicans advance their agenda which is in the best interest of the american people. >> marjorie taylor greene did something two weeks ago. the margin is razor thin. you lose one or two. that's from speaker johnson a moment ago.

before we go. are you ready? the grok with an unconventional first pitch. i think it's fenway. have you seen it? >> martha: i have. >> bill: i haven't. >> what it looked like. not throwing the first pitch, right hand for one of the great tight ends of all time he spikes it. >> bill: he wimped out throwing a pitch from the mound is hard to be honest with you. >> martha: he couldn't do it? >> bill: it's nine inches higher than home plate. >> dana: i'm pretty sure gronk could get the ball across the plate. >> bill: i know you like the jets, too. >> martha: i have two homes, new jersey and massachusetts. "the faulkner focus" next. >> harribe