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managing to evade the border patrol and they got away. that's more than the population of 12 different states, three times more than wyoming. >> dana: homeland security secretary mayorkas admitting there is a crisis at the southern border but refusing to take blame. that didn't go over well with republicans who are calling for his impeachment. >> you can try to hide from the american public at how we got to this point and point fingers at congress for fixing systems. we've seen gamesmanship out of the administration and gimmicks and i called for your resignation last year and i stand by my request. >> dana: bill melugin live in eagle pass, texas with how today looks. good morning, bill. >> good morning to you. the u.s. border patrol chief has said he loses sleep at night thinking about the got aways. we don't know who they are or why they are actively evading

law enforcement. some of the guys they are catching he has good reason to worry. this was just put out by border patrol. 54 convicted sex offenders agents have arrested crossing illegally right here in the del rio sector where i'm standing just this fiscal year so far alone. the crimes are heinous. multiple child rapists, some convicted of rapes of incapacitated children and sexual assaults of children. some crimes are too egregious to say on television. this is one of nine sectors along our southern border. it doesn't stop there. look at this video given to us by texas dps. their troopers and border patrol arresting this mexican illegal alien after he came across the river on a jet ski. get to the u.s. side. picked up by the human smuggler. records show he is wanted in florida on a full extradition warrant for multiple counts of sexual assault on a child.

child molestation and sexual battery on a child. some are already in the u.s. look at the mug shot here. border patrol in miami arresting this mexican illegal alien in orlando, florida, record checks on him showing he has convictions for molesting three separate children. back out here live is just a small sample size of why there is so much concern about 1.8 million known gotaways here at the southern border in just the last few years. people seen on cameras or sensors coming across the border but border patrol doesn't have the manpower to arrest them. in the last seven days they average 550 known gotaways at our border every single day. we'll send it back to you. >> dana: remarkable. >> sandra: tensions rising after some house republicans blocked a move to reauthorize a u.s. surveillance tool. it sparked concerns over the future of fisa amid a looming

deadline. josh hawley is here to respond. let's first, though, start with david spunt live at the justice department for us. >> good morning. the deadline to extend section 702 of the foreign intelligence surveillance act is next friday a week from tomorrow. intelligence officials say the clock is running out and they are concerned section 702 allows u.s. intelligence officials to collect intelligence from foreign persons overseas without a warrant and could be speaking or texting with u.s. and only specific communications between the foreigner and the american could be included in the sweep. >> donald trump doesn't want it. i think if we want to be more efficient and effective up here, we need to start consulting more with the leader of our party. hopefully speaker johnson is talking to donald trump a lot. >> former president trump told

republicans to kill fisa saying spying on his 2016 campaign. referring to former aide carter paige and michael flynn. nothing to do with 702 or up for a vote. trump now says he wants to kill fisa. in january 2018 he kept it alive tweeting just signed 702, this is not the same fisa law that was abused during the election. i'll always do the right thing for our country and put the safety of the american people first. speaker mike johnson says intelligence briefings changed his mind on the issue. watch. >> the abuses of the f.b.i., terrible abuses over and over and over. i went to the scif and got the confidential briefing to understand the necessity of section 702 of fisa and how important it is for national security and gave me a different perspective. >> speaker johnson told our chad pergram this morning on camera

that he sees a path forward but didn't expand on what that path is. >> sandra: david spunt, thank you. >> dana: joining us for more on this josh hawley, republican on the homeland security committee. this is currently in the house but does affect the republican party at large. congress and ultimately everybody here in america. do you want to see the changes that were made in the current proposal for reauthorization passed by the house to get over to you all? >> i think we have to reform section 702. i'm not in favor of just renewing it without serious reforms. we've seen major abuses, americans spied on. the f.b.i. improperly used the secret database 280,000 times. 280,000 times. the idea we would reup fisa and not make any changes. the other thing that scares me. right now the big tech companies can sell your private

information to the government under section 702. that should not be allowed. we should ban that. >> dana: the republicans that put this forward and worked on the bill say they have addressed those abuses to try to make sure that can't happen again to somebody like donald trump. >> unfortunately they haven't addressed the abuses that i just named. for instance, the data brokers, big tech companies that collect all this information from us when we're online. usually without our consent. they would still under the house bill he the ability to sell the information to the united states government us knowing. that's not right. we need to protect the security, privacy, personal information of americans. >> dana: that's under 702? >> that's under 702 currently. >> dana: at the time there wasn't big data going on and so i show my age a little bit. secretary mayorkas yesterday talked about how few chinese migrants have been sent back to

china if they were be deported. this is what he said yesterday. >> for the first time i had an engagement with my counterpart from the people's republic of china to insure china would begin the accept removal flights and we actually did effect one flight most recently, the first time in a number of years. >> dana: incredible. arrests of chinese migrants at the border in fiscal year 2021, 342. it goes up from there to so far in fiscal year 2024, 36,912. we can imagine why they would want to leave china and come here. now they won't take their migrants back. what should we do about that? >> you have 36,000 in the last few months. he has done one flight? one flight back? this is outrageous. we have had record numbers of known chinese communist party members crossing the border. record numbers of people on the terrorist watch list crossing

the border and he says what, that he is not responsible, there is nothing they can do? he is the reason -- he and joe biden are the reasons the border is open. they opened the border and abused the asylum process. these are their policies. they are responsible. that's why he should be impeached. that's the solution here. he need to be impeached and we need to close the border. >> dana: i assume that he works for the president, the president says he has confidence in him. i do wonder about whether you know and whether you can share with us, if mayorkas can't send them back or isn't sending them back, are we aware of where these migrants are in the country? >> i don't think we are, dana. that's the scary part. tens of thousands of chinese migrants, many members of the chinese communist party. hundreds, maybe thousands of people on the terrorist watch list. we don't know where they are. we have lost contact with many of them. we don't know where almost any of the people who crossed the border are because it's catch

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this. the state department's eyed lodge cam overemphasis of deia has penetrated every borough under the biden administration. mike pompeo is blasting her on x saying the biden administration's core commitment is to create a marxist doing ma on the american people and waste tax dollars to do it. the position was vacant for over a year. the state department is standing firmly behind her. listen here. >> we are working to find the best possible candidate and we believe we did find the best possible candidate. secretary believes that having a workforce that reflects america in all of its diversity makes us stronger and improves national security. >> we've asked the state department for comment about these previous comments of carr johnson. they haven't gotten back to us. there is a briefing today and we'll ask about it. >> sandra: griff, thank you so much. we'll be watching for it. >> dana: this news as well. inflation rising again last month.

in march prices were up 3 1/2% from the year prior. pattern we've seen all year long piling on top of rising inflation in january and february. americans are stretching dollars to pay for basic necessities like home loans and auto repairs. shelter is up almost 6%. auto insurance up 22%. car repairs 12%. ceo of the mike rowe works foundation, mike rowe, joins us now. nice to have you here. we travel around the country a lot and we're stuck here a little bit in our bubble. how are these types of prices affecting folks out there? >> a frog in a boiling water. it is a little more every day. it is not -- when you see them on the wall like that with statistics, yeah, that part of your brain can make sense of it. i was talking to the guy that runs dollar general not too long ago and he was saying that the biggest phenomenon in their stores happens during g check-o when people realize that the

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they were reported in kharkiv. that could become the next major front of the war . ukrainian president zelenskyy says russian troops will launch a summer offensive that could happen as early as next month. >> president biden: we want to address the launch a significant attack on israel by iran. as i told prime minister netanyahu our commitment to israel against the threats from iran and proxies is iron clad. >> sandra: president biden standing shoulder to shoulder with a -- there is a planned invasion of the last hamas stronghold in southern gaza. the head of u.s. central command is visiting israel to discuss the threat of iran. this is dan hoffman. so first off, your reaction to what you heard from the

president there and how you would like the u.s. to respond as we look on this. >> i think that there are two issues at play for the united states and our national security. the first is the lead-up to the attack. that means that we should be sharing all of the intelligence that we have on the attack that iran is planning against israel. if we can gain some warning about that attack, then it might be possible to preempt it before any harm is caused. then the second question that's open for the biden administration is the day after the attack, let's say that iran is successful in launching an attack, how does israel respond and how does the united states respond? does israel decide that they need to respond with a follow on kinetic strike against iran whether inside their tear tone or against their proxies. does the united states support that. i don't think the biden

administration will discuss them publicly but there will be some call to action for sure. >> sandra: dan crenshaw is calling out the administration's response saying it is weak. listen. >> that's the thing about peace through strength. if you want peace you have to exhibit strength and you have to demonstrate you stand by your allies. a lot of people forget the strength part. that's very uncomfortable. you have to say things that feel uncomfortable, right? that's the world we live in. >> sandra: your thoughts on that, dan. >> i think the first reaction from the biden administration when israel struck the irgc commander for lebanon in syria was to deny any u.s. involvement. and i don't think that was very good message discipline. i think we should have said nothing at all other than we support israel. we shouldn't have denied any responsibility for the attack. it makes us appear weak as representative crenshaw rightly

outlined. >> sandra: the latest reporting on the timing when the retaliation could happen, this is according to the latest reports, one from bloomberg reporting iran could launch strikes involving high-precise missiles and drones targeting military and government sites in israel. one of the people quoted in the report was a matter of when, not if, tehran will attack israel. what about that? what timeline do you think they are looking at? >> well, iran has a lot of options in terms of where they can strike. they have proxy terrorists in yemen, the houthis. lebanese hezbollah and surface to aramis ills in syria and hamas in gaza. they've also got the option of striking directly from iranian territory. israel's foreign minister said if iran does that israel will strike in iran. as far as the timeline is

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shouldn't be asking israel to do a cease-fire and not asking hamas. >> it takes two to have a cease-fire and the truth is that israel has to be able to defend themselves. but they also should be working towards a cease-fire to get the hostages released. >> dana: that's what they are doing. that ignores israel's multiple cease-fire offers rejected by hamas and the terror groups increasing demands. >> president biden: there is now hamas they need to move on the proposal that has been made. as i said, we'll get these hostages home where they belong. >> dana: yesterday hamas said oh, we actually don't even have the hostages to negotiate with. they could be lying but that was also awful. the israeli ambassador held up this sign with sinwar's home number.

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>> dana: we have just learned that o.j. simpson has died at the age of 76. his family putting out this statement just moments ago. on april 10th our father, succumbed to his battle with cancer surrounded by his children and grandchildren. during this time of transition, his family asks that you please respect their wishes for privacy and grace. that was from the simpson family. apparently was battling cancer, sandra, and you said you had seen him recently and he had looked fairly frail in the last few months. >> sandra: prostate cancer that he was not able to overcome. a tmz camera asked if he would enter hospice care which he replied no. 76 years old. began to look very frail during his cancer battle. clearly everything you just described about his later part of his life overshadowed his early football success.

this was o.j. simpson buffalo bills, 11 seasons in the nfl. that was overshadowed by his trial and controversial acquittal for the murders of his former wife nichole brown and her friend, ron goldman. we have memories going back to those days. the white bronco, police chase. that was a time, 1995. >> dana: i was a waitress when that jury decision came down. before all that happened, he had a pretty incredible football career. won the highsman trophy in 1968. set numerous records there as i'm sure the sports fans amongst us will be able to tell me. he was inducted into the pro football hall of fame in 1985. do you remember he was an actor? he was in -- what was the movie? naked gun. >> sandra: that was part of his

very complicated career before all of this happened. someone who knows a lot about that is jim gray joining us now. jim, i know you have gotten the news, o.j. simpson dead at the age of 76 following his prostate cancer battle. >> yeah, it's difficult to process this because such an amazing football career, broadcasting career and then overshadowed by the conviction of civil charges on the killing of ron brown and nichole brown simpson -- ron goldman, sorry. i knew o.j. quite well when i worked at cbs, o.j. worked at nbc and they would send me to his games and he would end up giving me a ride home from the airport, ride to the game, spent several meals together and i never saw a guy who enjoyed his

public persona more than than o.j. he would show up at a place and everybody would light up. then he was acquitted on the charges and accused of murder. i never spoke to him again after that time. did see him at a fight one night. but our paths did not cross. a very disturbing, complicated life, o.j. simpson had. >> dana: tell us about his early football talents at the university of southern california indeed winning the heisman, setting numerous records. >> he was a great football player, great running back. the single season rushing record for a long, long time in the national football league broken by aric dickerson in 1984. his record stands to this day. o.j. was the first running back in the national football league to eclipse 2,000 yards in a

single season. hasn't happened too much in the national football league history. he had that record. he was a bigger than life figure. when he came to the university of southern california, he kind of lit up, he kind of lit up the playing field and he kind of took hollywood by storm. he was one of those guys that had this magnetism that attracted everybody to him. had a big smile, had a tremendous career in commercials with hertz, amongst others, and running through airports and he was an icon in football. and he went on to have a broadcasting career with abc and nbc. appeared regularly with -- he was a fixture and had a spotlight in america on television because what he had done on the football field and also in movies.

>> sandra: hertz commercials i remember as well. go back to the moment of time when you learned he was accused of these heinous murders, you described this big personality that would light up the room when he walked in. do you remember going back to may moment in time when you learned he was accused of this? >> it was hard to believe because i had been in o.j.'s company hundreds of times. i had never seen him have a bad public moment. he had signed every autographed. smiled for everybody, shook every hand, he was available, he was accessible, he was seemingly very comfortable with his celebrity. i knew nichole, had played softball in the fourth of july softball games. been to his house on numerous occasions. had a double life. i did not know of any of the domestic abuse that had been

going on. i was shocked when i heard this about o.j. simpson and more and more evidence that came out it back more and more shocking. i didn't know about any of the extracurricular activities he might have had with any drug involvement or anything like that. so it was all a huge surprise and shocking and sad for those of us who did know him to learn that this had gone on. and the depth of it. so yeah, it was very, very hard to reconcile and as the years have gone on, you know, it didn't make it any easier. how could a guy be like this that you thought you knew but like this that you didn't know. like i said, a very strange, complicated, disturbing life and it's, you know, hate to see anybody die, particularly somebody who, you know, you had known quite well but -- i don't

have the words for that right here because it's -- how do you sum up someone's life like this? >> dana: we appreciate the raw emotion of it and you are going to be here to talk about the masters and how exciting that is and this news just breaking again, o.j. simpson has passed away from complications of cancer. his family said he was surrounded by them and asking for privacy. the not guilty verdict was incredibly controversial and sparked a lot of conversation about race and celebrity and the criminal justice system. he wrote a book titled, request i did it marketed how he would have committed the murders. that was very controversial as well and he had additional problems with the law, sandra, in 2008 convicted of armed robbery and kidnapping. and yet he was still always out

there. as jim was just saying, when he knew him before all of that happened, that he really loved his public persona and loved being out there. that was even true even the last several years we've seen that as well. jim gray, stand by and we want to get clay travis on now. clay, you join us. i believe you are in nashville just learning the news about o.j. simpson and love to get your reflections. >> thanks for having me on. to me o.j.'s life is basically a line there, right? before nichole brown simpson and ronald goldman based on the evidence he killed them in cold blood. he was one of the most beloved sports figures in america. if he died in 1989 or 1990 there would have been an outpouring of grief and the nation would have come together to celebrate his life to that point. after this point, i think frankly a lot of people are

saying it's too late. he never had to pay a price for the double murder that i believe he committed. and if you look at o.j.'s life, it now -- i think -- most people don't know that he was a legendary running back or won the heisman trophy and maybe the first real true spokesperson for athletics that became a superstar. he was a comedy actor in naked gun movies. he was an incredibly beloved cultural icon who then in the early 90s committed a double murder and got away with it. for a lot of people -- i talked about this on my radio show because the crown has been on and i said for me, i turned 45 on saturday, there are three or four events that i can recall where exactly i was. one of them is 9/11 certainly.

one of them is when i found out that princess diana died back in 1997. i remember watching the o.j. simpson trial live, the verdict, i believe it was 1994 or 1995 in my high school. the entire high school shut down. everybody put on the televisions to wait and see what the verdict would be. the other one for my generation is the challenger explosion back in 1986. that's how much for people who are younger or people not aware, that's how much the o.j. simpson trial completely took over the american cultural firmament and i think still to this day there are a lot of people who are still angry over o.j. being able to get away with what i think is quite clear a double murder. >> dana: he was found not guilty by that jury in 1995. clay travis, thank you so much for getting up with us. we'll take a very quick break and be right back with more breaking news at o.j. simpson

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>> harris: we'll have the breaking news, o.j. simpson has died after a cancer battle and we'll also hit this really hard, president biden's painful economy is now hurting more americans by the second. yet he is telling them it's getting better. what does he see that we don't feel? 2024 worries have gotten to be pretty bad. plus president trump's push to delay his hush money trial denied for a third time. his first criminal trial is set to begin on monday. we'll get into it. senator marco rubio is with me. leo terrell, jason rantz, "the faulkner focus" top of the hour. >> dana: fox news alert and this news in this hour. o.j. simpson has died at 76 years old. born september 9th, 1947. his family put out a statement

saying he was surrounded by them. they are asking for privacy. he was battling cancer in these last several months. he has lost that battle today, sandra. there is a lot of reflection coming in about his life as an incredible athlete but then, of course, it's hard to explain to somebody young how over the top the coverage of the trial when he was accused of murdering his wife and her friend. >> sandra: he went on to live a private life in las vegas. >> dana: a larger than life character but he has passed away today. harris faulkner will have more for you and all the other stories as well. here she is. >> harris: we'll begin there with the breaking news that's just minutes old at this point. o.j. simpson has died. he battled cancer. he was 76. his family made an announcement from his