and vehicle description. three days later, powell drove through beverly hills where over the objections of the aclu and liberal critics a license plate reader photographed his car. arrested moments later. police found a handgun linking powell to the earlier murder of three homeless men. >> how does a man go out and ruthlessly shoot and kill a homeless individual who is sleeping on a couch in south los angeles? how does the following day he go out and brutally shoot and kill i watched the video yesterday, it was chilling. >> beverly hills uses 50 license plate readers, 2400 cameras and drone to monitor the city, all of which they attribute to powell's arrest. >> bill: what a story. nice to see you, william. thanks. >> dana: a $6 billion deal to

settle thousands of lawsuits connected to the opioid crisis right now getting a hearing before the supreme court. purdue pharma wants to settle claims of the drug maker filled -- the deal would give members of the sackler family who own the drug giant immunity. some families are against that and much more on this case coming up later this hour. progressive democrat jayapal, e of the loudest anti-israel members of the house, demanding balance when asked about hamas terrorists raping israeli women on october 7th suggesting both sides are guilty of war crimes. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm dana perino. >> bill: good morning, partner . bill hemmer. the congresswoman offending just about everyone over the weekend. she now is under fire after calling for balance when criticizing hamas for using rape as a weapon of war. and then shifting the focus to

condemn israel. here is some of what she said. >> i was just asking about the women and you turned it back to israel. i'm asking you about hamas in fact -- >> i already answered your question. i say it is horrific. rape is horrific, sexual assault is horrific. i think it happens in war situations. terrorist organizations like hamas obviously are using these as tools. however, i think we have to be balanced about bringing in the outrages against palestinians. >> dana: it's horrible but you don't see israeli soldiers raping palestinian women. >> we're not -- i don't want this to be the hierarchy of oppression. 15,000 people have been killed. >> bill: make of it what you want. jessica tarlov and charlie hurt have reaction. the growing backlash on these comments. good morning. >> good morning, bill. terrorists using rape as a

weapon of war usually something politicians in washington can condemn unequivocally. it appears some folks are really at odds over hamas's sexual atrocities. look at this x post from nancy pelosi's daughter punching back against representative jayapal saying i should not have to say this in 2023. here we are. rape is rape. don't minimize, excuse, balance, sexual assaults. we've been decades trying to undo it. jayapal acknowledged hamas raped civilian women. listen. >> rape is horrific, sexual assault is horrific. i think it happens in war situations. terrorist organizations, like hamas, obviously are using these as tools. >> jayapal ultimately declined to condemn hamas using rape insisting she had do so in the

past. >> i have condemned all of the actions. absolutely. >> israel's president told fox news that anti-israel protests here in the u.s. actually pave the way for further hamas atrocities. >> they are accomplices to the whole notion that you can butcher young children, that you can chop heads of women, that you can rape women and pregnant women, that you can abduct all the holocaust survivors. >> ernst said congress is briefed on the issue and the verdict is in. >> hamas raped women and killed frail and elderly civilians. that's who hamas is. >> so the evidence ernst is referencing there is forensic exams conducted on corpses after october 7th that proofshgd

proved that hamas had sexually assaulted women and girls on october 7th. >> dana: more on all of this jessica tarlov co-host of the five and charlie hurt, fox news contributor. i went back and looked at what jayapal said during the confirmation of supreme court justice brett kavanaugh when he was accused of sexual assault and never proven. she said he is not credible. his nomination should be withdraw and a thorough investigation of three confirmed sexual assault allegations. what happened to believe all women when it comes to jayapal? >> it is a total redefinition of what we thought the situation was. i can't believe it took well over a month for the u.n. women's organization to say anything and it was a weak condemnation at that. i as a jewish woman did not know our lives were so meaningless to so many people. i knew that anti-semitism was real. i wish i could say i was shocked

by the horrible scene in philadelphia outside a jewish shop owner's store, but this is another level. and to have the access to the reports that the congresswoman does, we're not talking about, you know, standard rape. i can't believe i'm saying that. eight men on one woman and you can hear that woman's christ i'm going to die anyway, please kill me. children with shattered pelvises. people won't conceive of these kinds of crimes. there is a way to talk about innocent palestinians losing their lives. secretary blinken and austin are trying to make nuanced points saying we need to be more careful in how this is done. it is possible. that's not the moment to do it. they are calling for a cease-fire. the cease-fire is hamas's decision. there was one on 10-7 and 1

until two days ago when they stopped giving up hostages. you want a cease-fire, bring them home. >> it's extraordinary and to listen to congresswoman jayapal talk about using rape as a tool acknowledging that it's not just rape, it is using it as a tool. the definition of terrorism. she equates that with defending herself that israel is doing. i don't know anyone who doesn't care about the innocent lives of civilians, including palestinian civilians, but if hamas, which is a terrorist group that uses rape as a tool is going to use their own innocent civilians as human shields in order to protect their weapons and their fighters against israel trying to protect itself, then it is like what are we even talking about here? i just think it is interesting

that you have a politician who is willing to go so far as to go out and acknowledge that they are using rape as a tool and then wants to equivocate on it. >> bill: i think your comments are so strong, jessica and stunning, really. in the meantime you will have this inner war within the democratic party during an election year. here is hussein, an abandoned biden organizer over this war. >> we're announcing that president biden has lost the 2024 election. we are not powerless as american muslims. we are powerful. we don't only have the money but we have the actual votes. and we will use that vote to save this nation from itself. >> bill: he was speaking in dear born, michigan with a substantial arab american population. the percentage of voters identifying as muslim in battleground states is not a

lot. where you see 0 there is less than 1%. biden's margin of victory in the same key battle ground states. the middle number. arizona less than a point, michigan 2 1/2, that's the point, wisconsin just about 1.1, pennsylvania similar as well. does it have an effect? i don't know. it's why we vote and find out next november. >> absolutely. does it have an effect, i would expect it would. even if the airwaves are flooded with anti-biden sentiment, that can affect a biden voter. something that lingers in your mind. i would add that there are more jewish voters out there and more voters who agree with biden's stance on israel and think they have a right to defend itself and that he handled it well. there is an interesting core layer what is going on with this issue and the right about the abortion issue.

people who say six week heartbeat bans, etc. , it's a moral issue, right? life begins at conception. i feel for the democratic party that backing israel is that kind of moral issue. if you lose votes over it, so be it. you go home that night if you are president biden and say i did the right thing. i defended a position that i believe in now. you know where i stand. i'm a pro-choice voter but i think that there are similarities in thinking about it this way and encourage democrats to take that point of view on this and to say we want as many votes as possible. we're a big tent. if your tent thinks what happens on 10/7 was a counter offensive you don't have a place in the party. >> bill: i pray you are right about that. i worry that democrats for a long time have put up with this within their party and ignored it. and it has festered to what it is now. and whether or not -- i do think that muslims checking out in a

general election could have an effect but it could definitely have an effect within democrat primaries and i hope that's where this gets cleaned up. >> they will all have primaries. >> bill: thank you for being thoughtful and here today. at this moment u.s. supreme court is hearing arguments in a high-profile bankruptcy matter surrounding opioid abuse. there is a new york court initially put the sackler family that owns purdue pharma on the hook for $6 billion and pay out victims who lost loved ones to opioid abuse. the u.s. trustee requested the supreme court hear that case and make arguments today and find out in a couple of months what they decide on that. >> dana: interesting we had a guest on earlier explaining that the pay-out of $3500 to the families would be over 18 years. i think we have a call from that from judge nelson. >> $11 billion are not protected

by bankruptcy laws. but if this bankruptcy settlement is approved, they are forever shielded, them and their $11 billion are protected forever from any type of civil claims. and that's just an abuse of the bankruptcy process. >> bill: the judge did his homework. >> dana: they lost their son to an opioid addiction after getting into a car accident. the young man hid that from his parents, christie, his mom, found him dead. we played the 911 call. they said they understand the position of the families that want the settlement as well. the supreme court hearing it now and we'll see what happens from there. >> bill: to the border we roll now. watch this. >> i think you start with how do we have a conversation about better security at the border? democrats and republicans wants it. i hope congress funds better

border security. >> one of many democratic governors calling for more security at the southern border. it puts a strain on small towns throughout the country. the latest on republicans' push to include border security in the next government funding package. i was reading this morning that this might all be falling apart before it gets going? >> a lot of problems over the weekend. it's a must for many gop members to pass a spending plan for ukraine and israel. democratic massachusetts governor healey wants more border security, polis is also an ally. >> there is a lot of common ground with governor cox we've been able to start through the national governor's association an immigration task force of governors, six democrats and six republicans agreeing on principles around border security and immigration reform that will serve as an example for congress. >> all republicans want to boost military funding for israel. gop members are mixed when it

comes to ukraine and why border security is a possible sweetener. >> not just the southern border issue, it is impacting communities states across the country. look at new york and the illegal immigration crisis. every community is a border community. our members are unified. >> mitch mcconnell made clear to president biden the international aid package must include money for the border. talks are slow with the border serving as the biggest hold-up. gop oklahoma senator james langford concedes this is challenging. >> they are looking for changes in policies so we can secure the border. that means we have to actually bring proposal forward that will actually make that different, that can actually reform how we handle asylum in his words from top to bottom. >> the goal is to wrap it up by christmas. time is slipping. lawmakers are leery about leaving washington for the holiday with israel and ukraine

on the hook. dana. >> dana: chad pergram. keep tabs on it for us. >> bill: ships under fire in the red sea. a series of attacks target the u.s.s. carney and three other commercial liners. the u.s. pointing a finger directly at iran. congressman mike turner has reaction on that. >> dana: a mother pleading for the return of her daughter kidnapped by hamas. >> bill: the big apple crime crisis and the growing number of bodega owners getting guns for self-defense of them and their business. >> out there looking to rob us, hurt us, kill us, beware, you may be walking into the wrong bodega. now we have the same fire power you have. but we know christmas isn't about something you buy at a store. it's about something so much greater. it is the day we celebrate the incredible truth that god so loved the world that he gave his only son.

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>> dana: the white house warning congress that the u.s. is running out of money to provide aid to ukraine in its war against russia. the biden administration writing a letter to house speaker mike johnson this morning saying in part, quote, i want to be clear, without congressional action, by the end of this year we'll run out of resources to procure more weapons and equipment for ukraine and to provide equipment from u.s. military stocks. there is no magical pot of funding available to meet this moment. we are out of money and nearly out of time. >> bill: u.s. navy shot down three drones fired by iranian back houthi rebels in yemen. mike turner is with me, chairman of the house intel committee. thank you for coming back. we want to show our viewers a little bit what area of the world we're talking about. this is yemen here. a sliver of water here for the

gulf. somewhere in this waterway you have u.s. ships that came under drone fire and commercial vessels. in some cases they are responding to these commercial vessels to bring them a bit of assistance. over the weekend the administration did order some consider it too few but not enough but they ordered an attack and claimed they killed five iranian proxy fighters in northern iraq after another attack was launched on one of the u.s. bases there. speaking of that, the number we believe we're at now. 75 hits now on u.s. military forces primarily eastern syria, the others in iraq. sir, thank you for your time. leon panetta over the weekend, a democrat, well-known. attacks have been soft and should be -- he said they should be more specific so that those who are going after us know that we are willing to kill them if they continue to do it. strong words, hasn't really happened but i did just show the example from the weekend, sir.

>> sure, we should be taking catastrophic action against the iranian backed groups attacking our groups in syria and iraq and houthis in yemen attacking commercial ships and shooting at our military ships and also our ships that are intervening in houthi/iranian backed groups shooting toward israel. they are engaged in the region. everyone is worrying that the administration is not being decisive attacking those who intend to do our troops harm. because of that, because we've been successful in thwarting or avoiding the effects of their attacks, the administration has been soft and they need to be firmer. >> bill: from the reagan forum over the weekend in california. lloyd austin addressing that. >> we will not tolerate attacks on american personnel and so these attacks must stop.

until they do, we will do what we need to do to protect our troops, and to impose costs on those who attack them. >> bill: you take him for his word and see whether or not over time we live up to it. you are shaking your head. do you believe it or not? >> these are just words. attacks continues and no significant response occurs. he is saying he is going to. at the same time the threat is now. we can't wait until something catastrophic occurs. >> bill: agreed on that. john kirby meanwhile was asked a lot of things with shannon bream on "fox news sunday." one of the stories that came out over the weekend is the "new york times" said that the planned hamas attack was leaked more than a year ago. and a lot of folks in israel thought it was too much of a fantasy in order for them to pull that off. john kirby on this and possible access to that letter. >> the intelligence community has indicated that they did not have access to this document. intelligence is a mosaic.

sometimes you can fashion things together and get a pretty good picture, other times there are pieces of the puzzle that are missing. >> bill: that is true. i don't think you would disagree with that especially on your committee. the thing that bothers you, however, is the response on behalf of the israelis because by a lot of accounts, it took hours for their military to help. >> you are absolutely right. this was not just an intelligence failure, which certainly it's plausible that perhaps some of the information had gotten to the israelis and discounted it. but regardless of how the intelligence failure occurred, as you just indicated the operational failure was more extensive. once this began to unfold. the fact there wasn't the response needed really cost an unbelievable amount of lives. obviously the united states now is helping intelligence with israel and making a difference, we believe, and seeing gaps that israel has in its ability to understand its own community,

neighborhood and adversaries. but the operational issues really were the tragedy of october 7th. >> bill: you won't give up much publicly but how could we help them? >> well, amazingly we always saw israel as a golden standard of intelligence gathering but even though we shared intelligence and we were intelligence peers it's not like we sat side-by-side. currently today we're coming in and providing them a greater fidelity and understanding on the threat of hamas and their organization and it is surprising the extent to which there are gaps in israel's intelligence gathering and its intelligence apparatus. >> bill: they learned a difficult lesson here and it goes on. mike turner, thank you, sir, nice to see you again. thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> dana: right now the supreme court hearing a major case on the opioid epidemic. should the makers of oxycontin be granted immunity from future

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>> dana: "wall street journal" reporter evan gershkovitch marking 250 days in russian detention held on false accusations of spying. his family continues to advocate for his release. countless milestones including his 32nd birthday, weddings, holidays and priceless moments have passed. his resilience and strength never cease to amaze us. i hope we see some movement on that soon. >> bill: respect what the journal is doing.

they have not forgotten him, his story or his family. it's there for you to see every day. >> dana: there are people whose full-time job is to have him back. >> bill: hopefully we get him back soon. right now the u.s. supreme court has a hearing to challenge the purdue pharma bankruptcy deal. a lot of money here now. the sticking point is whether or not the sackler family will be immune from future litigation. gerri willis, fox business has the story now. >> that's right. the supreme court today weighs whether members of the sackler family should be shielded from future civil litigation as part of a settlement deal involving purdue pharma maker of oxycontin. as we see here the total amount is $6 billion. members of the sackler family who own the company have offered that amount to settle thousands of lawsuits alleging the pills fueled an opioid epidemic. the case is dividing families of

opioid victims. some say the sacklers should continue to pay. allen isaacs, whose son died of an opioid dose opposes the settlement. her attorney wrote this. a court should not bar victims from enforcing their rights while allowing perpetrators to profit from wrongdoing. christie's son died of an opioid overdose and what she had to say earlier on your show. >> my feeling is that richard sackler and his family have pretty much murdered my son and they have no right to get immunity from being sued. >> purdue started marketing oxycontin in 1996 as a safe, non-addictive pain reliever. the company's products as well as similar ones from other manufacturers sparked and epidemic. 645,000 people died in the country according to the cdc.

the case is being heard by the supreme court today and a ruling expected by june impacting the sackler family, purdue pharma and victims. but the pay-outs as you were describing earlier in your show will be paid over 18 years. so a long time to wait for justice and -- >> dana: do you see the supreme court turning this back? it might happen. we'll see. >> it is a complicatated case a beyond the emotional impact, this could impact companies all over the country. >> bill: thank you, gerri willis, stay on it. >> dana: hundreds of bodega owners in new york city are arming themselves with crime rates following in the footsteps of jose alba who stabbed and attempted robber in his store last year in self-defense. cb cotton is outside of a bodega in manhattan and she has more. >> good morning. new york's bodega owners with

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the d.a. dropped the charges. the founder of the small business association telling fox the new secret society is about keeping store owners and customers safe. >> we are not safe and we don't have the protection that we need. we understand the police department are short now. they cannot be assisting when we are having so much problems. we have to protect our store ourselves because we don't have other option. >> the owner of the bodega behind me thankfully isn't dealing with violent crime. he hasn't applied for a gun permit but says there are plenty of shoplifters. >> dana: you stay safe out there as well. ♪ >> bill: here we go, dana. the story you've been waiting for all morning. consist is saying fair wel to

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>> we want to get the pause put back if place so more hostages can come up out. hamas is the reason the pause ended. they refused to put on the list additional women and children that we know we're holding and refuse to let go. we're working by thehe hour to e

if we can't get it back on track. >> dana: talks have stalled. our next guest will never stop fighting until her daughter is set free as we learn more about the horrific conditions that hostages are being subjected to by hamas. she is pleading for the release of her daughter. have you saved any updates from the idf on your daughter? >> not from the idf. i got a message from one of the releases, the people that came back to israel saying they saw her and it made me very happy, of course. and that her shotgun wound is not treated and is neglected and although i was very happy to hear they saw her alive, i am worried because she is not treated. >> dana: as her mother, i imagine that you would do

anything to take the pain away from what she has been going through. you would trade places with her in a second. did they describe the nature of the wounds, how serious is her injury? >> i know because i spoke with her. she called me immediately when she was shot. i know she was bleeding badly. i know she thought she was going to die. but no, they didn't see or they didn't give me any more information, you know. i didn't ask, even. >> dana: do you know where she was shot? >> yes. she was shot on the hand and i can only assume it was on the area of the hand because she said she cannot move the hand but i don't have any more information about that. >> dana: it must have been quite

excruciating and a lot of mixed emotions to have the hostages released, that's a joy. but then to realize that your daughter wasn't a part of them. what do you hear from the israeli government, if anything, about the attempts now to -- now that the cease-fire has ended, to get more hostages released? >> we have a meeting tomorrow with our war covenant to understand what exactly is going to be in the next few days. you see the pictures of the people that returned from gaza and from friday morning it was not just excruciating. it was frustrating waiting for the call, the hour of the call, and, you know, the hours went and not just that we didn't get a call, we understood the fighting started again. it was, yeah, it was -- it was

very difficult. so tomorrow we'll get answers to our questions and we are going to keep doing not just our best, doing everything we can to make sure the hostages will come back home very soon. all the other hostages. >> dana: "the new york times" last week wrote about what the conditions were like for hostages and they said many of the hostages who have returned to israel in the past week have come home mal nourished, with lies, injured and deeply traumatized. that must worry you as well. when you got wd that one of the hostages who was released saw your daughter and she is alive, did they say is she underground, in a tunnel? >> no, they didn't say anything about it. they just gave the information, which is not allowed to be given outside of the discussions. but yes, they had a few research

articles about the situation, the women inside captivity and this is worrying me even more. so i think we all understand that this is a humanitarian issue not just for the women but also for the men that are inside and we understand, i think as a world, the whole world understands we need to make an action, all of us, to make sure innocent people taken from their houses will come back home. >> dana: when she comes back, please promise that you will come back on this show so we can celebrate together. >> yes, we will. >> dana: i take care of your own self as well. [chanting] >> bill: that's a mob of protestors targeting an israeli restaurant owner in philadelphia. this went on for some time. plus the college football

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>> harris: our u.s. military men and women in the middle east under attack by iran backed killers. the worst houthi terrorists in yemen. the president's age, economy and foreign policy show him drowning. democrats say there is no plan b, biden it is. all right then. outrage at the leader of far left democrats calling for a balanced response to hamas's brutal rapes of israeli women. idf spokesman pete learner, will cain and others on "the faulkner

focus" top of the hour. >> bill: college playoffs are set new year's day. a big day to be in front of the t.v. michigan faces alabama in the rose bowl. beautiful in california. washington dukes it out against texas in the sugar bowl. some fans are fuming because the committee did not accept the undefeated florida state seminoles. clay travis outkick founder with us. how are you doing? some of the teams have defeats and that's why. corrigan is the committee chairman and this is what he told espn how it went down with florida state and the injured quarterback on their team. >> florida state is a different team than they were through the first 11 weeks. coach, players, fans, you know, incredible season but as you look at who they are as a team right now without jordan travis,

without the offensive dynamic he brings they are a different team and the committee voted alabama four and florida state five. >> bill: did they get it right or not? >> i think they got it right but i understand why florida state fans are furious and why many people out there who are not big college football fans are kind of throwing up their hands and saying what the heck happened here? the big takeaway is jordan travis, star quarterback for florida state, broke his leg in the second half or late in the season in game ten. florida state then played with their backup in game 11 against florida and then with their third string quarterback -- sorry, in the acc championship. they had the final two games of the season without their star quarterback and they were substantially worse at that against both florida and louisville. meanwhile alabama on the final weekend of the season in the

s.e.c. championship game beat number 12-time defending champ georgia who had not lost a football game in about three years. alabama gets elevated. earlier in the season if that's not complicated enough, texas had beaten alabama. in a head-to-head scenario there texas goes in three, alabama goes in four. i think the committee got it right but certainly leaving out a 13-0 power conference team like florida state has provoked a massive amount of response. >> bill: very well done, clay. now for the ultimate arbiter. here is dana's view of how this went down. >> dana: i don't know if anybody wants that. when you told me on the break that donald trump put out a statement that said if florida is upset they should blame governor desantis which is pretty funny politics. i wonder about this. so this is all changing next year. so at that point if there are 12

teams, who gets to decide that? same people? >> same thing. same thing. good question. they have a committee that is designed to analyze college football and say okay, we think these people are the best, right? compared -- for those of you who aren't college football fans, compared to every other sport where you have one set of standings and you take the team that wins the division and the best records automatically go. college football is like college basketball where everybody sits in a room and the committee determines who the best teams are. now, big story here is this is the last year of a four-team playoff. the precedent they set here is thrown out the window. next year they'll begin a 12-team playoff. it will be 11 big school teams and one smaller school team and it will change everything. i think it will be good for

college football >> bill: the 13th team will be ticked off. alabama has one loss. >> they started 3-0. ended up 4-8. >> dana: okay. >> bill: we're right here. >> dana: there we are. that's our camera shot. >> bill: the best segment of the day, i believe. before we go we have another thing in the news. the world has been serious. >> dana: the oxford university press announced its 2023 word of the year. sometimes i hate it. the word is riz. we haven't seen it yet. a guess on what it means. >> bill: i saw it over the weekend. >> dana: do you have it? defined as style, charm or attractiveness. you actually have it in spades, all right. everyone have a great day, harris is next. >> bill: here is harris. >> harris: fox news