'Republican' 'View' host leads 'four more years' chant for Biden after State of the Union

"The View" hosts gave President Biden rave reviews for his State of the Union address, with self-proclaimed Republican co-host Ana Navarro even leading the audience in a chant of "four more years!"

While Republicans in Congress panned Biden's "angry" performance, Navarro said his demeanor showed he was "in charge" and fit for office. 

"As you all know, I have been saying for months and months and months that Joe Biden is old. Yes, he’s slower of step, yes, but he is far from being incoherent, from having dementia, from not being in charge. Yesterday, he showed he is engaged. He was impassioned. He was pissed off. Scranton Joe showed up and fought. He had his gloves on from moment one," she applauded.

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Navarro said she found Biden's comments on the border one of his "strongest moments" from the address, as well as his rebuke of former President Trump.

"All I can tell you is that by the time this thing ended, I was in my hotel room like all of those Democrats were there going, ‘Four more years! Four more years! Four more years!’" she said while clapping and leading the audience in a chant.

The other co-hosts were equally impressed with the president's performance.

Co-host Sara Haines said she found Biden's message inspiring and unifying. 

"The thing I loved about him was his tone," she praised.

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Co-host Sunny Hostin appreciated that Biden brought up the January 6 Capitol riot and said if she were running for president she would bring it up "every single day."

"I also noticed he said ‘future’ twenty times. This is a forward-looking president. He may be 81, but he's looking toward the future," she praised. 

Co-host Joy Behar criticized congressional Republicans for not standing up or applauding after Biden raised a number of agenda items during the address, such as "securing the border," "raising taxes on billionaires to lower the national debt," "supporting IVF," "raising teachers' salaries," "halving drug prices, "ending cancer" and "rebuilding poisonous lead pipes."

"Are they pro-brain damage for children?" she sarcastically asked.

Liberal-leaning journalists and media personalities also gave President Biden's State of the Union speech high praise, with some claiming that it made his detractors look foolish for voicing concerns over his age. 

Former CNN journalist John Harwood mocked the president's critics for saying they were worried about his vitality.

"[T]hose Dems complaining that Biden lacks vigor and fight getting splash of cold water in the face right now," he wrote, later adding that the "people yapping for so long about Biden not being up to the job look pretty dumb this morning."

Fox News' Jeffrey Clark contributed to this report.

Justice Department does not turn over Hur-Biden interview transcript despite House subpoena

The Justice Department has not turned over transcripts or audio recordings of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s interview with President Biden despite a subpoena requesting that they were to be provided by Thursday, March 7, the House Judiciary Committee says. 

The development comes after Republicans leading an impeachment inquiry into the President’s mishandling of classified documents wrote a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland in February notifying him of the subpoena. 

"We received a small production from DOJ but not the transcripts or audio that we need and requested," House Judiciary Committee spokesman Russel Dye told Fox News on Friday. "Our staff has all necessary clearances to review the contents of the President’s interview, which dealt with materials found in unsecured areas like garages, closets and commercial office space.  We are evaluating next steps."   

A source familiar with the subpoena told Fox News late last month that the deadline to hand over the materials was March 7 at 9 a.m. ET.   

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A spokesperson from the Justice Department then said Thursday that "The Department has been in touch with the Committees and anticipated responding to their subpoenas today." 

In the letter sent to Garland in February, which was signed by House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer and House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, they wrote that their committees, "in coordination with the Ways and Means Committee, are investigating whether sufficient grounds exist to draft articles of impeachment against President Biden for consideration by the full House."   

"The Committees are concerned that President Biden may have retained sensitive documents related to specific countries involving his family's foreign business dealings," they added. 

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Hur, who released his report on the matter to the public in February after months of investigating, did not recommend criminal charges against Biden for mishandling and retaining classified documents and stated that he wouldn't bring charges against Biden even if he were not in the Oval Office. 

Those records included classified documents about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan and other countries, among other records related to national security and foreign policy, which Hur said implicated "sensitive intelligence sources and methods." 

Hur described Biden as a "sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory," a description that has raised significant concerns for Biden's 2024 re-election campaign.  

Hur will testify publicly about his report on March 12 before the House Judiciary Committee. 

Fox News' Brooke Singman and Tyler Olson contributed to this report.

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