i would love to do it. >> charles: seriously. >> harris: and give the $10,000 to a military charity of my choice. i would totally do it. >> charles: you know what, now, a few years ago i could have. i used to have a flip phone, i was the last person to get an smartphone, i was in the elevator and everyone is checking emails, and maybe i should get one of these things. >> emily: i would have -- i have to use email to, would, so no texts and no calls, great. i'm happy as a clam. but the email thing, that would be the caveat. >> don't you have a tablet? >> emily: you can't use the smart technology. >> harris: you can't cheat. >> emily: the best hour of my life, guys. thank you for joining us today and now here is "america reports". >> john: emily, thank you. go directly to uvalde, texas, in the wake of the scathing report

from the department of justice parents of some of the children who were killed in that horrific school shooting are talking to the media. let's go in and listen for a few minutes here. >> do you guys feel that the report went far enough in naming people and holding accountability. as we know, dps has the largest number of law enforcement officials outside of chp, a lot of video and information about their actions that day. it does not seem this report really touches on their actions. it seems to focus mostly on the local officers. are you concerned about that and some reaction to that? >> i don't understand why they are allowed privacy. my child, their children, they are named in this report because they are dead. everybody should have been named. >> do you feel -- if i could follow up somehow maybe dps is

off the hook on this, but when you look at this report -- do any of you -- >> i mean, it's kinds of hard to answer the question because we have only been given an hour and a half to kind of look through the report. so we don't even know if they are mentioned in there or not. we would hope that they are. because they were there, so we hope that they would be accountable for their actions as well. >> following up on that, monica, i know that you said you are still sifting through the report and everything. were you hoping the attorney general would have addressed more of the aftermath, the delays in the d.a. investigation, dps actions and accountability, were you hoping he would address more of that publicly? >> of course we would have. we are grateful we got what we have right now, it's probably the most updated information that any of us have gotten since may 24th, so, and we are appreciative of what he's done right now but yeah, we would

have liked to have more information about it. >> did anything -- did you learn anything new from the report? >> we knew as families, just kind of talking amongst each other. we knew the failures that had happened. we just kind of -- it makes more clarity now because it's written, and now it's set in stone and what we thought is true, so -- >> i did learn something. i didn't realize that the scene was compromised. the scene was compromised, that there was people that shouldn't have been there, that were entering the classroom, that's mentioned in the report. >> was that -- how did you learn that? >> i want to continue reading more when we are done here. >> a couple more and then -- >> two quick ones before -- all

of you guys' mind, any question the d.a. should have all she needs, all that she is required to have for her investigation to be able to pursue criminal charges at this point? >> yeah, what else does she need? yeah, i mean -- this is probably the most extensive piece that we have about all the things that happened that day. what else does she possibly need to prosecute or to remove these people from their positions of power when they can't do their jobs. >> how safe are the children of uvalde right now? >> i think -- i think the point of this is none of us are safe, that's what josh just mentioned, none of us are safe because these weapons are on the streets. >> i talked to so many of you over the past year. a lot of you recently have expressed concern about the

two-year mark meaning that the statute of limitations -- are you hoping that this will potentially fast track the upcoming d.a. investigation, ongoing d.a. investigation? >> the d.a, even the d.a. cannot get in the way of investigation, but it ought to be, to your point, it ought to be said that the d.a., with the help of a.g. here in texas, is fighting the disclosure of a lot of these -- of this important information. so the d.a. is effectively, you know, has a job to do, we understand that, but she's locked up this information, that these families deserve to have access to evaluate their legal rights. so there's no reason why she can't do her job so that we can do ours and so that these families get the information they deserve to make the decisions they have to make. >> timeline update.

>> i think at this point it's not a good bet to bet on the d.a.'s timelines. >> you talk about -- what's the purpose -- to sue the local law enforcement agencies, what are you hoping? >> it's -- i mean, the -- of course the doj looks at the criminal, doj is looking at criminal allegations, but the other facet to these incidents is how can we -- what went wrong and how can we hold those people accountable in the traditional means we do so, which is by bringing legal action against them so that there's another incentive to clean up their act, right. and so you know, so we have to look at all the angles here, what contributed to this. l and it should be noted that when many of us were growing up, am i the oldest person here, but when many of us were growing up

we didn't have the routine mass shootings with ar-15s, but guess what, they were available. so, something has changed, and so one of the big things that we have seen in sandy hook and parkland and other cases, what's changed is the way these weapons are pushed on youth. and this is tragic and unnecessary example of the repercussions of that. when we were growing -- i was growing up, nobody new what an ar-15 was, and now every kid of a certain age, especially boys know what they are, they are being courted and courted with other actors like social media and etc. so these gun companies are pushing these products on kids for these types of missions. >> are you suggesting that you are going to pursue charges against gun manufacturers? >> i don't bring charges. but fair enough. but the legal issues that are under consideration i can't speak about beyond the big picture, type of things that you

have to look at in an incident like this. a lot of factors that go into something like this. >> for the families now, what are the next steps, as we now have one of these investigations out, there are numerous, the dps is still doing their investigation, d.a. is doing theirs, what is next for all of you as you try to move forward and want to put the day behind you and two, create change? >> i think we are going to continue fighting, we are going to continue fighting that some type of change is made in honor of our kids. we have nothing left but to fight for them. we are their voices now, so we are going to continue. >> can i just get reaction from someone, the attorney general very significant moment when he says that lives -- officers followed protocol procedures, lives could have potentially been saved. how was that? how was that for you to hear him say that? >> how do you want us to react

to that? >> so many people have not wanted to say that here, the law enforcement officials. >> it was really hard. it was -- i mean -- it was pretty hard to hear that, when he sits there and says that, you know, lives could have been saved, i mean -- like i just -- i just could not believe it. you know, for these officers who sit there and just not do anything, you know, and still be out here, you know, on the streets like nothing happened, you know. and my daughter is gone. it's -- it's hard. it's hard. >> i think we are going to leave it there. >> excuse me. >> thanks, everybody. >> i've got something to say.

i'm the grandfather of layla salazar, and this mass shooting here, why is it that our officers got rewarded instead of being punished? and got raises instead of getting demotions? that's what i don't understand. the dps major there that's sitting behind abbott got a $40,000 raise. the texas ranger that had been suspended a year ago fired, he is still getting paid over $100,000. why are we paying these officers and then you want us to trust them? with our families? when they are getting paid to do nothing? we lost 19 children and two parents and another husband that died right after. so really don't see where we should be rewarding our officers

because i wasn't at the courthouse when they had the commission in court, and they asked me if they should have a raise, and i told them straight out no. they don't deserve a raise. if you cannot serve and protect the people, these were children. all they wanted to do was play. there's no reason this should have happened. they should have did -- they ignored the training, they were supposed to be since columbine, and they ignored it. >> john: and that's the grandfather of layla, 11 years old, one of the 19 students shot dead on may 24, 2022, at the robb elementary school there in uvalde. such a tragedy, brings back horrible memories. all of that unfolded on our program live in realtime, and now we have this report from the doj which is very, very critical

of the responding officers for taking far too much time and not going after the shooter as opposed to doing what they were supposed to do, which was in any way possible with whatever weapons they had at their disposal, try to neutralize the threat. >> sandra: john, good to be with you, welcome everyone, "america reports". i'm sandra smith. we have been following the story obviously since the day it happened and t watch the look on those parents' faces, john, reacting to this justice department report that found cascading failures, no urgency during that response in uvalde. the police officials who responded as you heard from merrick garland said they waited too long to confront the gunman, no urgency for the command post and repeatedly communicated inaccurate information to those grieving families. and you watched the look on their face, it's like it happened just moments ago or even yesterday, john.

this is only the beginning as merrick garland said for the families to grieve, they are seeking change as you heard one mother say, we are their voices now since they are gone. merrick garland's own words a moment ago, i told the families gathered here last night i hope it is clear among the hundreds of pages and thousands of details in this report, their loved ones deserved better. >> john: indeed. casey stegall has been following this as it's unfolded over the last couple of hours. joins us with a report. casey. >> john and sandra, you talk about the amount of time that went by, 77 minutes while hundreds and hundreds of officers gathered outside of robb elementary school back here behind me before any decision was actually made to go in and neutralize the suspect. this doj critical incident review team says they examined more than 14,000 pieces of evidence, that they interviewed

more than 260 people, everyone from school administrators to law enforcement to even medical hospital staff. they visited uvalde nine different times and spent some 54 days here over the course of this investigation. it is important to point out this report does not address criminal culpability for the mistakes and failures that have been highlighted that day. that is still up to the county district attorney, but the doj findings are designed to put law enforcement actions under a microscope and create recommendations moving forward like asking police agencies across the country to adopt active shooter training national standards. the nearly 600 page report says leadership on the scene demonstrated no urgency in establishing command, control and structure and that is what led to the mass confusion. u.s. attorney general merrick garland who is here in uvalde going as far to say had law

enforcement acted faster, lives could have been saved. >> but within minutes of arriving inside the school, officials on scene transitioned from creating the scene as active shooter situation to treating the shooter as a barricaded subject. this was the most significant failure. and it meant that the victims remained trapped with the shooter for more than an hour after the first officers arrived on scene. >> can you imagine the horror that those children witnessed. then the police chief at the time focused on evacuating surrounding classrooms, waiting for more tactical gear to arrive, and even tried negotiating with the suspect, all of those the doj says are decisions that run counter to what are the accepted practices when it comes to dealing with an

active shooter situation but the big headline out of this instead of treating it as an active shooter situation, pete arradondo said he treated it as a barricaded subject and that is why they acted differently. i've got to tell you, i spoke to a great grandmother of one of the victims when we got on the ground here in uvalde yesterday, she says 20 months since the shooting happened and each day brings its own new set of challenges, adding that this past christmas was especially difficult, she says, they think they were still in shock the previous christmas and holiday season following the incident, but saying that this past christmas was especially hard dealing with losses of such young lives. john, sandra. >> john: and the final chapter on this yet to be written as you point out. casey stegall, now this. >> my family is broken.

my heart is broken. and he couldn't even be here to face me today. whatever he's doing that is more important than facing me today, i don't know what that could be. >> do you hold mr. mayorkas personally accountable for the death of your daughter? >> yes, i do. >> i do, too and that's why he needs to be impeached. >> sandra: powerful testimony from two grieving mothers as a house panel holds its second impeachment hearing against dhs secretary mayorkas. moving ahead we have efforts to boot mayorkas from his job after the handling of the historic migrant surge at the southern border. jared moskowitz is one of the democrats formally rebuked the administration over the crisis. he joins us in moments to tell

us why. first griff jenkins is on capitol hill for us. what is the next step and how did this hearing end? >> well, good afternoon, sandra. and in this hearing that's been going on for more than three hours, we have been listening by the way to just grief poured out by two grieving mothers. you played one of them, the other, tammy nobles lost her 20-year-old daughter kayla to an ms13 gang member illegally in the country and she had to listen to over two minutes of a voice mail that kayla had made to her boyfriend when the attack happened, listening to her daughter being raped and strangled. she also had very powerful testimony. some of what tammy had to say. listen. >> let's take a moment and think about how kayla felt that day, how scared she must have been that day knowing that she was dying. if she was going to see her mommy again, her baby sister,

her brother, or her cat oreo. kayla fought for her life that day with all that she had and in the end she lost to an individual that was not even supposed to be allowed in the country. >> and tammy just pleading with members of congress saying why wasn't a call made to even find out who this guy was that killed her daughter. meanwhile, secretary mayorkas as you point out not here today, his office apparently saying he had a conflict, but yet the members, the republican members of this committee are convinced he will indeed be impeached. listen. >> we are doing the job of the american public here by having this hearing, by proceeding with an impeachment against somebody who is willfully allowed the laws of the united states to not be followed and has really broken his oath to defend the constitution. >> lastly, sandra, the ranking member of this committee benny

thompson says he does not believe mayorkas should be impeached. >> we think it's unfortunate that the people there have had to be part of what we don't think is the solution to the department of homeland security. secretary mayorkas has been a good secretary, he's come before us voluntarily in the past. >> but republicans here in the hallways all day have been telling me they believe they are indeed going to move forward with impeachment and the next step you ask me would be a mark-up of the committee, which would draw up the articles of impeachment. unclear when that may happen in the coming weeks or months. sandra. >> sandra: griff, thank you. john. >> john: sandra, bring in florida democratic congressman jared moskowitz wh mayorkas and overall border policy in a second, congressman,

but first of all, everybody knows that your 23rd congressional district includes parkland, florida, and the situation there very similar to what we saw in uvalde, a shooter went in, the police officer stayed outside while the shooting commenced. your thoughts on what you have heard here from the department of justice and from these families in the wake of this shooting? >> well, thanks, john, thanks for having me on again. i mean it's heartbreaking. not just from parkland, i graduated marjory stoneman douglas high school and i was with and watched those families bury their kids, bury their loved ones, and i saw the failures, i saw the reunification failures in uvalde and parkland years after. law enforcement not going in. the sro never went into the building, he stayed in the stairwell. i was in the desantis

administration when the sheriff of broward county was removed. i called for the sro pension to be stripped. parents depend on law enforcement to go in and at these kids' time of need and being a former emergency management director, these are failures that should never have been repeated after columbine. we know what the right protocol and procedure is, you go in. the shooters are not sophisticated, mostly young people with mental illness or deeply disturbed. and if law enforcement interacts with them, it can change the scenario on the ground. i'm happy that the report came out, the news is devastating, obviously, and there needs to be repercussions and we need a national standard across the board. >> john: and find some way to address the root causes of the shootings as well. impeachment hearing in the house homeland security committee, we heard some heart-wrenching testimony from a couple of

mothers of children who were killed as a result of the immigration problem, whether it be illegal immigrant and violence or cross border drug trafficking. josephine dunn whose daughter died. >> secretary mayorkas' leadership or lack thereof, fentanyl is invasion. the weapon of mass destruction has caused numbers of deaths, families including my own. my family is broken. my heart is broken. and he couldn't even be here to face me today. whatever he's doing that is more important than facing me today, i don't know what that could be. >> john: a lot of people at the hearing disappointed that mayorkas did not point up.

you are 1 of 14 democrats who signed on to a republican resolution to rebuke president biden for his border policies. talk about that in a second, but on the impeachment of mayorkas, do you believe he should be impeached? >> well, look, yeah, i think he should be there, i think he should meet with these parents. i replaced a congressman, congressman ted deutsche whose nephew was killed by fentanyl and listening to her testimony, to how she lost her child and all those parents that have lost their kids, it's no different than when i hear the parents who bury kids from gun violence. it's something no parent in this country should deal with. it's why i partnered with my colleagues across the aisle at every single opportunity to deal with fentanyl. and so that's why we got to do more at the border. i want to do more at the border. it's why i'm watching my senate republican colleagues coming out and saying they are negotiating the most conservative border policy that they have seen in a generation. it's why i'm willing to vote for that stuff, but we got to get

the house of representatives to take that up. >> john: back to this resolution, it calls for among other things, for president biden to "end his administration's open border policy." do you agree with what critics of the president has been saying, that the border is for all intents and purposes wide open? >> well, john, look, i don't think the border is wide open but i think we have major problems at the border. the reason i voted for that resolution, it's a resolution that does not mean anything, it's not a bill. but i wanted to show my republican colleagues that a, i recognize there's a problem with the border and b, willing to work with them to fix it. you know, we are in an election year and unfortunately some of my colleagues are saying they don't want to do anything on the border because they don't want to help the president. that's what people hate about washington. this is a unique opportunity, i'm listening to john thune, to lindsey graham listening to them say we could get significant policy done, stop a lot of the issues at the border, we could make sure that parents like we

just heard from that join an exclusive club involuntarily of burying their kids doesn't expand. we got to do it, congress has to come together, both chambers. people have to take yes for an answer. the idea that we can pass historic border legislation, i'm willing to do it and hope we get a chance to vote on it. >> john: congressman, always great to have you on. appreciate it. >> sandra: a grim prediction for 2024 as the american cancer society estimates more than 2 million americans will be diagnosed with cancer this year. the record high projection largely fueled by a rising cases for people under 50. let's bring in dr. william l. dahut, chief scientific officer for the american cancer society. welcome to you and thank you so much for being here. this seems to be in the conversation more and more. almost every family has been dealing with this in some way or another and now more and more

young people. cancer was the fourth leading cancer death of men and women, now leading cause in men and second leading cause in women. what is driving this? >> i think it's colorectal cancer particularly, which was the fourth leading cancer death in those areas. and i think you are asking the right questions, you know. we know about correlations, we know about certain things that drive cancer such as obesity and lack of exercise, but don't know really what's causing that. we don't know the biology behind what's happening. so you are asking really important questions. >> sandra: if we don't know what's driving it, how are we supposed to get ahead of this and prevent it? >> well, one thing we know about colorectal cancer in young folks, 30% of those folks have either a strong family history or inherited genetic predisposition. those people need to be screened earlier. we have guidelines that recommend colorectal screening

for everybody beginning at age 45. 18% of the country actually follows those guidelines. but if you actually have a family history or you have inherited genetic disorder, you should start earlier, maybe 35, maybe 32. screen better, detect earlier, and we do know that certain things are likely to decrease colorectal cancer, normal bmi, exercise, things like that. things we can do and fund the science to find out other things we can target more directly. >> sandra: because we are still learning so much about what is driving this, it leaves a lot of room for speculation, right. a lot of talk, you know, around the water cooler over what is driving this, and i know people obviously they talk about diet, they talk about alcohol and drugs and sedentary lifestyles and all these sort of things and you see the articles about the plastics and plastics are prevalent in all of our lives. i'm sure this is something that you are exploring with all your research but first put up on the

screen, among the estimated new cases for males, it is largely prostate cancer is the biggest growing threat. among the estimated cases, 29% would be prostate, 11% lung, and bronchus. female, breast cancer, 32%. lung, 12%, colon and rectum, 7%. i mentioned the talk about plastics and the changing environment, what sort of avenues are you exploring deeper what could be behind this? >> you know, it's really -- it's a generational effect. people born in the 1960s and later starting in their 20s actually seem to have an increase incidents of more aggressive colorectal cancer, for example. and as they move through each generation, the risk for cancer goes up anyway, we are seeing more and more cancers and more

advanced cancers at diagnosis and often located in a certain part of the colon, near the rectum. so, there is some sort of population-wide change, population-wide exposure difference between that generation, now aging into their 50s and beyond, and the generations behind them, that was vastly different beforehand. and you are asking again the right questions. we have some data, some of our early scientists, potentially even obesity in the mother can change genes in their unborn child. so there are clearly interactions of things going on external to the body, these are not genetic factors that are driving cancers in ways. >> sandra: perhaps the only good news that i saw in this data is that we are discovering a lot of these cancers younger and younger because there are more screenings and urgency placed on getting your screenings that perhaps the cancer is falling in the younger age groups because they are catching it earlier, and that can be good news, i would think, in many of these

cases. >> yeah, if you find a cancer when it's treatable, that's the secret sauce, and recommended screening for 45 and over, if you are at average for colorectal cancer or a woman with dense breasts, screened in your 30s. so, people who didn't use to think about cancer at all i think it needs to be part of their every day process for their healthcare. >> sandra: dr., thanks for stepping away and speaking with us. >> john: we are never far away from politics, need to reminds you, five days away from the new hampshire primary and more republicans lining up behind former president trump after his big win in iowa. will that put the race even further out of reach for his rivals? we'll put that question to byron york just ahead. >> sandra: sweeping surveillance effort targeting the financial records of trump supporters.

who ordered this? and why? we have an exclusive new report next. >> you can get any bank to cooperate with you if you serve them a subpoena. we have all become pretty complacent. it has a big brother tone to it but it happens every single day.

>> sandra: a new report unveiling how far feds were willing to go on information for people possibly linked to the january 6th riot. fox news digital political correspondent is here. brooke, what sort of words were they searching for to track these people down? >> the house judiciary committee obtained documents that showed that the financial crimes enforcement section of the treasury department had suggested that banks look for terms like maga or trump in zelle payments after january 6th. so, yes, beginning january 15th,

banks were gathered by the treasury department said we recommend you link for certain terms linking people possibly to january 6th and making sure they don't go ahead and make any more violent crimes surrounding the inauguration. >> sandra: there must be a legal process to go to a bank and obtain this information. we are hearing reports one bank handed over information to the fbi voluntarily and with no legal process? >> exactly, that was bank of america and they said the banks, i'm sorry, the treasury department gathered them on january 15th, before the inauguration, it was bank of america and other banks. what the treasury department unit did was send along a slide that actually was created by a small bank called key bank, key bank did not respond to fox news as request for comment on this report, but key bank came up with a number of different terms, including dick's sporting goods, cabelas, bass pro shops

and things of that nature to look at merchant codes to say did anybody buy anything at these stores that fell under the categories of small arms or sporting goods. and if so, you can send that information to us. now, i've been told this was never a mandate from the government but of course if the government is calling the private sector in and recommending strongly that they share data with the government, i mean, that is concerning, and that's exactly what house judiciary chairman jim jordan is raising questions about here. >> sandra: clearly this is a breach of privacy for so many. do you eventually see some wanting to know if their records were searched? >> absolutely, and we don't know if there was ever a time frame. i'm told the documents the house judiciary committee actually obtained showed the terms, showed the treasury department went to these banks. we don't know if they ever went back to the banks and said ok, we are done, you don't need to look for these terms anymore. so, federal investigators still

collecting this type of data from private transactions? also, just to note, another thing that the treasury department recommended that the banks take a look at was whether somebody purchased a bible or religious text to see if that was possibly an indicator of extremism. something house republicans are investigating. >> sandra: and probably sign away on the fine print every time we sign up for the zell or whatever that they can do that. thank you for your reporting, brooke. good to see you. >> i am proud to endorse donald trump for president of the united states. >> he's going to be the nominee of the republican party, he gives us the best chance to win. >> president trump protected our borders. he cut red tape like no president has ever done before. >> there is not a better choice left in this race than this man right here. >> john: former opponents now lining up to support him, former president trump securing major endorsements from 2016 rivals

and 2020 dropouts. byron york, chief political correspondent at the washington examiner and fox news contributor. let me put it up on the screen to see in one place, senator ted cruz, senator marco rubio, both endorsing trump, very intriguing, considering the rankor in the 2016 campaign, as well as vikram and north dakota governor doug burgum. clearly the early money is running on donald trump to wrap it up and wrap it up quickly. >> i did see that. for people who were old enough to remember way back in 2016, after donald trump finally put ted cruz away, it was in indiana, cruz let loose with all of this anger and bile, and he was absolutely livid against donald trump and now here he is endorsing him for re-election. so politics does change things. now, i don't know if you agree

with me on this, but it seems to me that the intensity of interest in this race is kind of flat and maybe going down. before iowa we would talk about what's going on, and somebody would say but remember, nobody has actually voted yet. now they have, only 110,000 people in iowa but they voted and trump won really big, and now there seem to be a lot of people waiting to see if nikki haley can do well in new hampshire, not sure what well actually means, and certainly if she can't, they are going to declare this race over if not already. >> it looks like in an a new poll taken after the iowa caucuses the former president has extended his lead, now with 52%, nikki haley 38%, ron desantis at 6%. trump has benefitted some from

vivek ramaswamy dropping out, and trump is ahead by 13 points. looks like he's pretty solid. maybe not by the margins in iowa. >> more damage to the conventional wisdom. if you remember before iowa, you did have a number of republicans and others who wanted to stop trump saying really all the other candidates should drop out, the republican nontrump field should pick one candidate and run against trump one-on-one and that way they can be the real majority and defeat trump. well, it did not work in iowa, it didn't happen in iowa. it's kinds of close to happening in new hampshire, you have trump running and you have haley running and ron desantis is really not in the picture very much. he's down around 5 or 6%, as you mentioned chris christie is out, anti-trump favorite, and vivek ramaswamy, pro trump is out, so looks like it's almost the one-on-one race but trump still

has a substantial lead. >> john: we talk about the vital signs president trump has had going into this race, here is what politico wire said about it. trump has one of the highest levels of institutional support we have ever seen for a nonincumbent presidential candidate. simply put, candidates with the quantity and quality of trump's endorsements have never lost their party's nomination. and you got to wonder, when you look past new hampshire if it's going to be all over after next tuesday, because south carolina, which is nikki haley's home state, trump is 30 points ahead, a recent emerson poll in nevada has him up 58 points. >> yeah. well, obviously if nikki haley, we should say governor nikki haley, former governor of south carolina goes to south carolina and cannot win her home state, that would be very difficult. trump is extremely strong in south carolina. now, you know, that politico quote you just mentioned, the

key word was a nonincumbent candidate and what we have here is trump acting kind of like a quasi incumbent candidate. no, he's not the president, not incumbent president but he is more than just a candidate, he was president. and when i talk to voters in iowa so many said we don't have to guess what he's going to do, we saw what he did for four years, they liked it, and they want to see him do it again because they think joe biden has messed up the country. so, trump has an advantage that is having been president that no other candidate has. >> john: yep. and that obviously counts for an awful lot. byron york, always good to talk to you. thank you. >> thank you. >> sandra: the judge overseeing the georgia election interference case, accusations of misconduct by attorney fani willis.

what are we learning here, steve? >> we are learning the judge has set a date for a hearing that will be february 15th, so think about what's happening here. the fulton county district attorney, the woman prosecuting trump and more than a dozen others is now coming under investigation herself, herself and one of the prosecutors will be looked at for possibly an improper relationship and possibly the misuse of public funds. fani willis has neither confirmed nor denied a romantic relationship with that prosecutor. she called him a great friend. she said the criticism of her and the other prosecutor are both racially motivated. but it has spun things up here, and governor kemp as well, it gives a lot of ammunition for those who say it's a political prosecution against trump. >> sandra: steve, thank you.

john. >> john: epa hazmat team removing dangerous chemicals from a california warehouse that chinese nationals had turned into an illegal biolab that was filled with deadly pathogens. a freezer labelled ebola and hundreds of genetically engineered laboratory mice. william has got more, he's in readily, california. the guy who set up the lab was here illegally from china, a fugitive, you might ask what could go wrong. where is he now, william? >> yeah, right. he is in jail on the relatively minor charge of selling fake covid test kits, compared to what happened here. epa just finished cleaning out the building, all told inspectors took out 100 tons of medical and toxic waste and biological agents, including as you mentioned, malaria, dengy fever, specimens labelled ebola,

all stuff that can kill you, coming out of an unlicensed, unregulated underground lab set up by an international fugitive, convicted of stealing millions of u.s. intellectual property to in his words defeat the american aggressor. he opened the lab with $2 million to accounts linked to the chinese communist party. they say his story did not add up. >> i didn't think that the communist government in china would be that concerned about americans well-being and health to be interested in selling covid tests and pregnancy tests. >> harper discovered the lab by chance, seeing a garden hose sticking out of the wall inside she found a staff of chinese nationals, hundreds of genetically modified mice, freezers filled with blood, tissue and the vials of

contagious diseases, and ebola. you would think alarm bells with go off in washington, d.c. when the city manager called the cdc, they hung up on her several times mid sentence. >> i refuse to accept the idea nothing else was happening in the facility, that nothing they can do. this is a national problem. this is a bio security issue for the entire country. we can't say because the building is clean the issue has been solved. >> fbi did not find criminal intent and the cdc said they found no violations because they do not keep a registry or track these shipments to private labs. john. >> john: you would think, william, that the feds would be all over that, apparently not. >> they were stunned. and you'll remember that the largest case of bioterrorism in the united states was when that

cult up in oregon sickened 700 people with salmonella. that's why they say they were concerned about what they found here. back to you. >> john: difficult to wrap your head around all that. a great report, william, thank you. >> sandra: denver's major hospital turning away patients as the migrant crisis plunges them deeply into the red. >> john: fishermen fighting federal regulations they say make it hard to earn a living. one who brought the fight to the supreme court joins us live and why he's just trying to keep his business running.

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>> fisherman observer gets paid every day. say you ride out 100 miles and get out there and decide its too rough to fish and you turn around and come back, a day out, a day back and no fish, you still have to pay the observer $700 a day. it's not sustainable. i predict the court will come down on the side of the fishermen. >> sandra: the case he just referenced, the fisherman at the center joins us in a second, but the fishermen are fighting back against the costly government mandate that would force them to pay for a federal monitor on their fishing boat.

that case has gone all the way to the supreme court and our guest at the center of that case joins us now. his first live interview since the oral arguments were heard yesterday. thank you very much for joining us. first off, where do you think this is going? your fight, it feels like fishermen are still fighting for their lives and constantly fighting this red tape. >> thanks to paul clement and cause of action, january 17th was really historic day for the commercial fishermen on the eastern seaboard of the united states, and you know, we are not sure where it's going to end, but we hope the supreme court justices will rule in our favor some time this summer. >> sandra: yeah, that fishermen we featured on the program yesterday, allen, he's in naples, florida, gulf coast, he had 3 or 4 boats, about $3,000, and $75,000 a month -- $75 a

month to pay for the monitor, but for many this is all they know. fighting for their livelihoods. what would that do to most fishermen if they had to follow this mandate? >> well, it's an extra cost that fishermen have to bear or would have to bear if this is ever enacted. right now the government is talking about charging $700 a day to carry an observer on board, something that we have done for the past 30 years. we have carried observers on board our vessels on a regular basis for the last 30 years so we just think it's, you know, it's a cost that we can't bear moving forward, and i think the bigger -- the bigger challenge for us is that it -- right now it's just in the herring fishery but where does it move to next.

will roll into the squid fisheries and other fisheries and a cost we have to pay annually every day we operate at sea. >> sandra: which way do you think the justices are leaning on this, based on what you heard yesterday? >> you know, i don't know where they are leaning right now. i hope -- i think that we -- i think paul clement gave very good arguments to the supreme justices and we have to wait until the ruling comes out some time in june and hopefully they rule in our favor. >> sandra: one last thing, speaking to allen and he was gracious to give us his time to talk about this, the monitor on the boat at the demand of the federal government you are handing over your information you worked hard to finds. as commercial fishermen, you are seeking out secret spots, and suddenly you are giving over all that information. quick final thought for you.

>> well, in our case, all of our fishing vessels are very regulated. we have vms systems on board, they are tracking us every day all the time, we are not opposed to having observers on board the vessels. we are all about sustainability, about healthy fish stocks and conservation in the ocean. >> sandra: we hear you, but it is another added cost for the fishermen, and that's the center of your case. thank you for joining us with your story. we'll keep following it. >> thank you very much. >> john: president biden hitting the road to promote bidenomics, some democrats think it's not a winning message. how is biden planning to change course as his poll numbers plummet?

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