us together. he could model the behavior he's advocating for. >> i keep thinking of him in philadelphia with the blood red background on the podium and calling half of america terrorists. that brings together a hell of a lot. >> a hell of a lot. >> maga extreme -- if he could eliminate the term maga extremist from his vocabulary, i think that would help a little bit to prove he does want to bring people together. >> and lose maga is a clear after present danger and threat to democracy, but let's unite, let's do it. good advice. take it, mr. president. thanks to everyone. next up, "america reports". >> there is a lot of activity in the region but there's always been a lot of activity in the region and you know well that iranian proxy groups have been attacking our troops even well before october 7th. >> john: defense secretary lloyd

austin covering a lot of ground in his first press conference since his secret hospital admission, addressing the elephant in the room saying he did not handle his diagnosis and hospitalization correctly, and reiterated the u.s. plans to respond to a deadly attack on u.s. service members in jordan. i'm john roberts in new york city, and look who is here today. >> just like magic. >> gillian: we managed to shake free of it. great to be with you, john. i'm in for sandra smith, she's out on assignment. "america reports". general austin's briefing comes as u.s. officials confirm iran manufactured the drone used to kill the three american service members and injure dozens more during sunday's strike. calling the attack on sleeping soldiers egregious and looking for a multi-tiered strike in retaliation. >> john: tensions ratcheting up near the red sea, united states taking out an anti-aircraft

missile in yemen, raising concerns the group could be expanding its target zone. >> gillian: tom cotton joins us with reaction, but first jennifer griffin, she's at the pentagon this hour. hi, jennifer. >> hi, gillian. well, it's the first time we have been able to question defense secretary austin since his secret hospital stay and the questions were pointed. the secretary was contrite and took responsibility for keeping the president and his national security team in the dark about his prostate cancer and ending up in the icu. >> i want to be crystal clear. we did not handle this right and i did not handle this right. i should have told the president about my cancer diagnosis. i should have also told my team and the american public. and i take full responsibility. i apologize to my teammates and to the american people. >> austin walked gingerly up to

the podium, still rehabilitating his left, post-op, one in six black men, too afraid to get screened. >> it shook me, and in the black community, it was a gut punch and my first instinct was to keep it private. i don't think it's news i'm a pretty private guy. i never liked the burdening others with my problems. it's just not my way. >> questioning soon turned to the looming u.s. response to iran and proxies killing three americans. pentagon briefed congress in a classified briefing yesterday. >> there's been a lot of telegraphing about targeting and responding to the drone strike. so much so that the iranian proxy leaders have left the country, some are back in tehran.

what is the point not to kill any iranian commanders? >> i would tell you that we will have a multi-tiered response and again we have the ability to respond a number -- in a number of times. >> last night the u.s. sent f-18 super hornets to bomb ten unmanned drones in yemen preparing to launch. on tuesday night, a houthi cruise missile came in one mile of the u.s.s. gravely missile destroyer seconds away from impact. closest a houthi missile has come to a u.s. warship. other missiles have been shot down at least eight miles away from the u.s. ships. the u.s.s. gravely used the closed in weapons system to shoot the missile down, which is the first time that this has been used in combat. u.s. defense officials tell us they have completed forensic work on the remnants of the

drone and assess it to have been manufactured in iran. gillian. >> gillian: jennifer griffin, thank you. >> john: bring in arkansas republican senator tom cotton, member of the senate armed services committee, great to see you. play more of what lloyd austin said, why the u.s. waited so long to step up action against these iranian proxies who were attacking u.s. forces. here is how he responded. >> at this point we should -- it's time to take away even more capability than we have taken in the past. we look to hold the people that are responsible for this accountable. and we also look to make sure that we continue to take away capability from them as we go forward. >> john: at least in that part of the answer he did not say why the u.s. waited so long, but the idea of taking away capability, there are many people and you are among them, no, what you need to do is not take away capability, punch iran in the

nose so hard it stops this. >> yeah, john, not waiting for 4 or 5 days since the three americans were killed and some critically wounded, three years of joe biden failed iran policy. secretary austin admitted to me last year in a hearing that there had been over 80 attacks on american positions and we only retaliated 4 or 5 times, and that was before the october 7th atrocity in israel. now in the last three months, it's been over 160. and we continue to look the other way, turn the other cheek, to shoot at empty warehouses in the desert, and sounding increasingly like that's what's going to happen here. we are telegraphing what we plan to do. as jennifer griffin said, most of iran's key leaders in iraq and syria have high tailed it back to iran and sounds like the secretary and the president have taken off the table entirely targeting iranians or iranian assets like the ships they are using to conduct intelligence in the red sea.

none of that is going to scare iran straight. if iran has a proxy strategy going back 30 years and all we do is hit their proxies, it simply validates iran's strategy and puts more american lives at risk. >> john: earlier this week we had on the program former vice president mike pence unique in modern times, his administration was about the only one that struck iran directly after similar incident that killed an american contractor. when they took out soleimani. what pence said thinks should happen now. >> my hope is that what president biden has approved here is not striking more militia bases as they have done in the past in syria or in iraq, but actually to take this fight directly to iranian forces and frankly, i think the time has come for them to strike oil or military infrastructure in iran.

>> john: the biden administration says we don't want to escalate or broaden the war, sounds like they are scared to death to do that. >> they are scared to do and joe biden has been scared to death since the moment he took office. we saw the fiasco in afghanistan in 2021, and putin invading ukraine, and iran thinks they can shoot rockets and missiles at our troops in the region. and iran has been training and arming and equipping and advising all of these militias and terrorist groups for years. who cares if they knew about this specific attack. they are responsible for what you see in jordan that killed our troops, what you see with yemeni outlaws shooting missiles at a naval ship. and what you saw on october 7th when hamas committed atrocity against israel.

iran is responsible for all of these things. and unless we take action like donald trump did in 2020, or ronald reagan did when he sank half the iran navy in 1988, attacks will continue. >> john: when mark zuckerberg said this about the potential for social media to cause mental harm to young people. listen to what he said. >> mental health is a complex issue. and the existing body of scientific work has not shown a causal link between using social media and young people having worse mental health outcomes. >> john: martha heard that and thought it reminded her in this moment in congress three decades ago. >> there is no justification for the fda to regulate cigarettes as a drug. >> we have looked at the data and the data that we have been able to see has all been statistical data has not

convinced me that smoking causes death. >> addiction involves three different criteria. they are intoxication, physical dependence, and tolerance. and to my knowledge, there is no evidence that nicotine or cigarette smoking plays in any of these definitions. >> john: the moment from 1994 turned out to be b.s. you get the sense that's what they were pushing yesterday, too? >> i use common sense. prevalence of mental health challenges with america's youth, especially young girls, it spikes 10 or 12 years ago and what happened 10 or 12 years ago, widespread adoption of smartphones and the explosion of social media among america's youth. i think most americans can kind of put 2 and 2 together and realize we need sensible controls on social media for young people. that's why i have bipartisan legislation that would require

genuine age verification and give parents a say over what their kids are doing online. parents have that say in the real world. they should have it in the digital world and other companies like tiktok, a stooge of the chinese communist party, actually pushes it on them, pushes young girls to watch videos about body image issues or young boys to see violence and degrading pornography and actually trying to poison the minds of america's kids. when the chinese version of tiktok just tells chinese teenagers to eat their vegetables, do their homework and respect their elders. >> john: senator tom cotton from arkansas, appreciate it. >> gillian: border patrol reporting a significant slowdown of migrant encounters in shelby park. it is becoming increasingly clear the razor wire the biden administration is fighting to remove is actually working, being effective as a deterrent. matt joins us from eagle pass,

texas. >> hi, gillian. over the past couple of weeks, our crews have noticed that here in eagle pass the large migrant groups have all been stopped and now we have some new numbers, cbp sources say in the last week of january, 71% of the illegal apprehensions at the southern border happened in arizona and california. here in eagle pass, back in december you may recall, a huge surge of 3 to 4,000 migrants a day. that has plummeted to just a few hundred. texas officials tell us we are in the historically slower colder months so see what the spring brings but some other elements. since the december surge, texas has seized this property and put up the massive razor wire barrier. texas national guard telling migrants who approach to turn back to mexico and texas is also criminally arresting single adult migrants who illegally pass into the park. that is all new.

and texas dps and fox sources tell us mexico is conducting meaningful enforcement, in part, intercepting groups of illegal migrants and sending them south. the cooperation seemingly came after biden cabinet officials met with the mexican president in december for what was described as productive talks on illegal immigration. now the bulk migrating to other states like arizona and california, where shocking new video from la jolla in san diego, driving ashore and then taking off running. it's not clear if the group of eight was ever caught. and some numbers from the san diego sector, on monday alone, more than 1300 illegal crossings there, including more than 160 chinese nationals. and back live here in shelby park this afternoon, we can report the state of texas has not relinquished control. it is not allowing border patrol agents back in here.

gillian. >> gillian: matt, thank you. >> john: and more how the border crisis is spreading across the country. outcry and outrage in new york city after migrants attacked nypd officers. wait until you see what the perpetrators did after being released without bail. paul mauro is standing by to react to that. >> gillian: and residents in boston say a new shelter is coming a the tremendous cost to the kids, shutting down a local rec center to make way for migrants. we'll talk about what is happening. >> john: the incident in new york city, the double bird, not only that double bird, a single bird from another guy and blowing kisses walking out of court from another guy. because the biden administration is telling us these are people who are economic -- they are refugees who are fleeing oppression in their country, and

yet they come here, and two police officers and then they pull the crap they do coming out of court -- governor hochul is outraged about this. >> gillian: one of those guys, the suspects, has two open criminal cases already in new york for the short amount of time he's been there for assaulting a security officer at a store, trying to rob another store like a nordstrom rack, i think it was, so these are not people, you know, who are coming in and putting their best foot forward, to put it mildly. >> john: to put it mildly. another person had another quote about that. we'll leave that for another day. now this. >> fani willis and nathan wade will have to tell the truth in court. the motion to remove fani willis and nathan wade misappropriation of public funds. >> john: will the fulton county d.a. beat the clock to respond to claims relating to her

relationship with nathan wade? >> gillian: the man who hosted the kansas city chiefs party that ultimately led to the tragic deaths of his three friends is now checking himself into rehab. we have a fox digital exclusive coming up next. from pep in their step to shine in their coats, when people switch their dog's food to the farmer's dog,

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>> john: embattled fulton county district attorney fani willis has until tomorrow to respond to allegations she had an affair with special prosecutor nathan wade. this comes as a motion to disqualify here in the election interference case against former president trump. steve is live at the center of it all in atlanta with the latest for us, steve. >> john, for weeks now the attention on this case has been on the prosecutors, and what attention they have gotten for their own behavior. there are new questions being raised about donors to fani

willis, the d.a., donors to her campaign. some of those donors business partners with the prosecutors she hired nathan wade. also a lawsuit against the d.a.'s office, trying to get more information about how wade was actually hired and the official relationship between the two, whether or not it is improper or not is being investigated by both the georgia house as well as the georgia senate. but some legal analysts say even if evidence of misconduct is found, there's no evidence that that could be grounds for removal of fani willis from the case. >> if you've got evidence a prosecutor has been abusing state funds, sleeping with people in the office, all this stuff, that needs to go to the state attorney general or to the legislative oversight bodies or the bar disciplinary committees, taken very, very seriously but i don't see a judge in a particular criminal case wanting

to hear a lot of this evidence introduced unless there is a clear connection between the alleged misconduct of the prosecutor and the prejudice to the defendants in the case. >> so it's really watching and waiting now for that big hearing on february 15th. we could see willis on the stand actually talking about potentially her personal relationship with nathan wade. she's obviously going to try and fight that, but she might be compelled to testify. both have been subpoenaed to appear at that hearing in two weeks' time. >> john: it could be must-see tv if they let cameras in the courtroom. >> mayor adams, any response to the migrants being released? what's your response to the migrants being released after attacking nypd officers? >> gillian: new york city city mayor adams refusing to comment

after police officers were arrested. they have arrested seven suspects, five released without bail. the suspect seen here strolling out of court, flipping off cameras and blowing kisses. let's bring in paul mauro, retired nypd inspector and fox news contributor. i don't even know where to start with this, paul. what do you make of the video of the attack and then the video of the suspects, you know, flipping the double bird coming out of court. >> first of all, take away, that's a perp, it's a hardened criminal. he's in a country not his own, and behaves that way to the cameras, why does that matter. what happens here, what happened in 1980, castro emptied his prisons and sent the inmates to florida. these guys are almost certain former prison inmates, crews in and around midtown doing pick

pockets, at least 90% of the arrests are migrants, asylum claimants. they are from -- you don't learn that upon hitting the ground here in america. they had those skills back in the old country and came here. one of the nuances we talk about this as to whether or not they should be deported or not, governor hochul pandering, now, we are going to look at this, she's not going to do anything but that said, where are they going to go? venezuela will not take them back. they are here on a one way ticket, even if alvin bragg had done his job and his job dropped the ball, no place to send them unless between venezuela and here or wherever they come from, if they are not venezuela, my understanding is they are, they claimed asylum in another nation and potentially deport them to an interim nation. but the way ice protocols are, we are not getting these folks

out of here. >> john: apparently city hall has put out a statement, the men and the women work tirelessly to keep us and our streets safe. violence of any kind is unacceptable and should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. if that is the case, why are the guys back on the streets with no bail? >> you put your finger on it. one of the culprits here, and he's getting a little bit of a pass. we should be really doning the manhattan d.a. office for an answer here. even by the d.a. standards these were bail eligible crimes. and they have admitted that they didn't ask for bail. and they don't seem to be very forthcoming as to why. you have the evidence clear as a bell, you have them in custody, they say that we charged them with bail eligible felonies. c felony, up to 15 years. and yet they cut them all loose

by their own -- you know -- >> john: why would they do that? >> i wish i had a better answer. >> john: they have no way to pay bail, go directly to rikers, why the governor thinks they should be. >> i wish i had a better answer. i'm -- >> john: chief of patrol thinks they should be there. >> if you let the police do what they need to do on this stuff, they are going to handle the migrant crime. hearing from them all the time, they are out before we put them in. and charged with a misdemeanor, they don't even go to court. so, it's really frustrating situation for the police. now they see their own attacked and hear all of these comments from the politicians that really say nothing, we are going to look at it, cops should never be attacked, of course, we all agree with that. any sane person is going to agree with that. but when you press the prosecutors in this town on the bail reforms, they always default to well, serious crimes

we do get bail. we just don't want -- we want don't want to institutionalize people into the jail system. it's a theory. but break your own theory, these were bail eligible and but didn't ask and nobody is interested in explaining it, you know there's a problem. >> gillian: one of the suspects has two criminal cases open in the city already, one is for stealing merchandise, the other for assaulting a security guard in a clothing store. what does that tell you? the guy already has a record. >> once again, by their own standards, oh, but we will arrest and detain and ask for bail for people who do it again. no, we are going to hand on to them, it's not about not being incarcerated for the hardened criminals, but those who slightly run afoul, that is the lie right there, they are not

hanging on to anybody. >> john: why isn't the federal government saying wait a second, you came in claiming asylum, you are committing crimes, you are deported here. >> why are they going to send them. venezuela will not take them. he's going to say i emptied my prisons, got rid of these guys. i'm not taking them back. short of flying a b-52 and handing them parachutes and dumping them out of the plane, there's no way to sends them. this was a one way ticket for venezuelan prisons, now they are our problem and the other hidden aspect you are not hearing about, committing a lot of crimes in and among themselves. rivalries now developing between various immigrant groups, areas of the city, seeded, colombian crews operating downtown, venezuelans in midtown, just what we need now, this kind of gang warfare in the city. don't have enough trouble.

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>> gillian: welcome back, keeping an eye on harrison township, michigan, where president biden is arriving, to meet with members of the united auto workers union after the group endorsed his bid for re-election. commander in chief has been dogged by pro-palestinian protestors trailing him wherever he goes cross country to voice opposition to his support for israel. alexandria hoff joins us from dearborn, michigan with details. what makes this issue so significant there? >> yeah, especially significant

here, i mean, the detroit area is home to the largest concentration of arab americans in the country. there was a protest over the president's visit that was held here in dearborn last night and today an event held by arab leaders in the community, they said president biden should not show his face in michigan. we have seen this in other recent events, the president will hold an event, hoping to talk about one thing but community members want him to hear something else, mainly their demands for a ceasefire in gaza. the intent of the president today is to speak with members of the united auto workers union and celebrate that endorsement that he did receive last week. >> look, i kept my commitment to be the most pro union president ever. i'm proud you have my back. let me just say i'm honored to have your back and you have mine. that's the deal. >> just because a union backs a candidate does not mean all members do and the president needs individual support.

the latest poll has biden trailing trump by eight points, 47 to 39. president biden did win here by 3% but consider the michigan voters there made 5% of arab americans, that's a group that the president could not ignore. last week several community members declined a meeting with the president's campaign. dearborn, michigan mayor wrote these conversations must be had with policy makers, not campaign staff. i will not entertain conversations about elections while we watch a livestream genocide backed by our government. debbie dingell offered this, michigan congresswoman. >> i think frankly this community is not going to be willing to talk to the white house until there is a cipher. >> so the only thing on the president's schedule today is the meeting with the uaw workers. we will let you know if that

changes. >> john: nih panel set to launch an investigation after a study in the u.k. showed evidence at least five people contracted alzheimer's from a now banned hormone treatment. the shots were given to roughly 27,000 children around the world between the 60s and the 80s. so, what exactly are these hormones and how could they potentially cause alzheimer's? dr. marc siegel joins us with details. what's it all about? >> john, these are pituitary hormones given to children who are very short stature and used to do that by taking pituitary gland from a cadaver, people watching need to know it's not going on now, it has not been going on since the 1980s, period. we use a synthetic hormone now. what they found in 2015 is that four people that died were likely developed what's called

prion disease, people know it as mad cow disease, and they found to their surprise they found the sticky proteins of alzheimer's disease. what the new study has shown, five people as you just said, looks like it's likely that they developed early on set alzheimer's because of the proteins they got from these injections. it's not proof, but they didn't have the genetic predisposition and didn't have other signs of alzheimer's that would come from another source. so i think it's fairly likely, but people out there need to know right now alzheimer's disease is not contagious. you can't get that from the person standing next to you. we are talking about a very specific rare, rare group. but it sheds light on the disease, i think. >> john: we do need to point out and stress that, not like somebody who has alzheimer's disease or at risk of it coughs on you that you could get it. more along the lines of

contracting hiv from a blood transfusion that if you get a cadaver-derived substance, that whatever it was that that person had, that they got the substance from, could potentially be transmitted to you. >> yeah, that's exactly right and i'm glad you gave that analogy of hiv blood or organ transplant. you get something that came from another human being, always a very, very, very slight risk. the other side of this, exciting for science, a big debate going on. is beta amaloid protein the cause of alzheimer's. c proteins, maybe alzheimer's does come from it, maybe it is a precursor. this sheds light on that. it is so rare and the same with prion disease you do not need to be worried about contracting it,

but trying to figure out what the mechanism of alzheimer's is. what we use now attacks the build-up of that protein. so this would give a nod more in that direction. again, the point, you are not going to get this. >> john: the treatments, in which they would take a pituitary gland from a dead person, spin it up in a blender and take growth hormone from it, that means there's a lot of people out there, because you are age, what, 37 to 66, people wonder what might happen. as of 1977, if i'm not mistaken, they found a different method to purify the growth hormone so it does not carry the same degree of risk. >> i agree with you. everything you said is right. they sterilized the preparation to a larger extent and very

unlikely it carried the risk. even though the people that had it, the 30,000, almost 30,000 people who got it in early childhood, i would argue that they would have gotten it by now. i think we are talking about extremely rare. remember, we have a model of this with mad cow disease, everyone was afraid of it and i wrote a book where you shouldn't be afraid of this. it turns out mad cow was something overblown. these are extremely rare risks. let me explain something. this is about proteins that fold in an abnormal way. that's the prion and the beta amaloid protein. almost never happens and does not happen from this preparation except extremely rarely and shows you how modern science has advanced to more synthetic techniques. >> john: really appreciate the explanation. >> great to see you, john. >> gillian: also this, a stark warning from the head of the fbi

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critical infrastructure. our water treatment plants, our electrical grid, our oil and natural gas pipelines, our transportation systems. >> gillian: that's the fbi director chris wray not mincing words about the threat from china during a house hearing. he cautioned lawmakers chinese hackers are prepping to wreak havoc on infrastructure across the board. mike gallagher, chairman of the select house committee on china. sir, as alarming as the comments were from the fbi director, none of what he said is news. we have been covering this for years. if anything, what is most notable, the degree to where i they seem to be ratcheting up successful hacks of u.s. infrastructure. >> yes, the first time the fbi director, nsa director, national cyber director all testifying

together and i think the most forward leaning open source system we have had describing what china is doing to us, what amounts to a cyber invasion of the united states. it's not a hypothetical threat, it's happening right now. equivalent of placing bombs on bridges, on our grid, on our water utilities, and there's no economic purpose or even traditional espionage purpose for doing this. one of only two purposes. one, to hold us hostage so we would not respond if, for example, we got into a confrontation with china over taiwan or the second as director easterly testified to, massive devastation and death and societal chaos here in the united states. so it was a very sobering hearing, at the same time the biden administration is trying to make nice with the chinese party, they are attacking us and critical infrastructure in cyberspace. >> gillian: i know one of your big agenda items is to try and, as you say, in the absence of

federal leadership push back against the chinese and deter cyber criminals from some of this stuff. talk to us about what we are doing in the committee. do you feel you've been able to make any headway? what is it like? >> yeah, i mean, sounding the alarm hopefully is a call to action for anybody involved in our critical infrastructure to contact and figure out how to make cyber resilience a core part of your agenda. but there are things here we can do to bolster our cyber defenses. one thing that came out of the hearing and was reinforced by the testimony of the fbi director, ban or force the sale of tiktok. threat of manipulation or collection of data as well as tiktok being a dominant news platform controlled by the chinese communist party could spread disinformation is too severe so we have to take action on that now. another thing we can do is to prevent american investment in chinese technology companies, cyber companies doing things

designed to destroy america. but ultimately this is a human problem. we need to do a better job of using the creative sports we have given the pentagon to recruit the best and the brightest in cyberspace to work with the federal government, defend our networks, defend our grid, so our humans attacking the problem are simply better than the people china is using to get after this problem. >> gillian: before i let you go, sir, as an american with a service record i want to ask what your response is, what you made of the comments in the press briefing by general austin, the first time we have heard from him since three service members were killed, and first time since his hospitalization for cancer treatment. >> obviously i wish general austin a speedy recovery, but questions about the fact two weeks went by and the white house was unaware the secretary of defense was hospitalized. i don't know how that happens,

particularly at a time when the troops are under fire and dying in the middle east, the fact the president was not talking with him every day raises questions, and how seriously the administration is taking the ongoing collapse of deterrence in the middle east. that was unacceptable in the terms of u.s. national security. >> gillian: he'll be facing questions in the months ahead. thank you for taking time with us today. >> john: donald trump commanding lead over nikki haley among republican voters in her home state. but one key group of voters is still split just about right down the middle. we'll talk to byron york about that. >> gillian: a tough week for congresswoman cori bush, not the only member of the so-called squad under intense scrutiny. >> let me buckle up and do adulting. you are not fit to lead people. the vast vast vast majority of the house of representatives

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theories. mike emmanuel live in washington with more on all this, mike, a dust-up on the house floor. what was that all about? >> congresswoman marjorie taylor greene went after ilhan omar about controversial comments attributed to her. >> censuring ilhan omar, allegiance to the united states without mental reservation or purpose of invasion. >> marjorie taylor greene, not trying to solve a problem for the american people, but once again to bring another frivolous censure resolution.

>> about minnesota congress ilhan omar, a translation said she is somalian first, muslim second. omar is blaming a bad translation writing it's not only slanted but completely off. but i would not expect more from the propaganda. i pray for them and their sanity. and jamal bowman posted poetry about skepticism of the 9/11 attacks. he regrets the post and does not believe conspiracy theories. and when reporters approached him he said i ain't talking about that. and cori bush and rashida tlaib, no votes, a bill passed 422-2, 1 vote present. john. >> john: mike, thank you. gillian.

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