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top of the hour this wednesday. i'm jim sciutto. >> and i am erica hill. right now several key hearings happening on capitol hill. a pretty busy day in washington. this hour lawmakers will grill active administrator billy nolan after multiple close calls on the runway and some of the aviation incidents sparking safety concerns. also federal reserve chairman jerome powell appearing before lawmakers for the second day defending his decisions to raise interest rates in an effort to tamp down inflation. we're also watching the top u.s. intelligence officials testify, among them fbi director chris wray, the director of national intelligence avril haynes as what they see the biggest global threats facing the u.s. today. cnn's melanie is live on capitol hill today. several events and several bits of testimony on the hill today. walk us through what you're watching. >> yeah. a very busy day here on capitol

hill. we are tracking a number of high-profile hearings, and i want to walk you through a couple of them. the first one we are watching is in the house financial services committee. that is where we are going to hear testimony from jerome powell, the chairman of the federal reserve. yesterday, he received quite the bipartisan grilling in the senate and so he'll be in the hot seat and he was grilled over interest rates and jobs and i expect we'll hear more today and the second we're watching is in the senate commerce science and transportation committee which is having a hearing on aviation safety, something that has been in the news quite a lot lately. they'll hear from the faa active administrator and it comes amid this new string of safetiness dents which we should point out still does not have a permanent leader. this will be an opportunity for lawmakers to ask what is going on with all of these close calls happening on runways lately? finally the third we are watching is the senate in

intelligence committee which is having its worldwide committee, and they'll hear from the cia director and the fbi director. we are expecting china to be a big focus of that hearing and the public and lawmakers do not always get the opportunity to hear from the intelligence committee. we are watching a number of different topics and no shortage of news on capitol hill today. >> that is an understatement, today and every day, my friend. it certainly keeps you busy. thank you, melanie. this morning, mexican officials have completed the autopsies of the kidnapped americans that were killed in that country. the two survivors being treated in a texas hospital. >> this is such a sad case. they went there for a medical procedure for one of them. cnn national correspondent diane gallagher in salt lake, south carolina. first to you. we have the autopsies now and we have the ongoing investigation

of who was responsible here, what the u.s. and mexican response is going to be. what do we expect to learn throughout the day? >> you know, there are still so many questions. one of the things that we are expecting today is for one of the survivors, latavia washington mcgee to be released from the hospital. the condition of the other survivor, eric williams is unclear at this moment, but to your question about what else we're asking about and we're trying to get more information. yes, the autopsies have been completed by mexican authorities, but the cause and manner of death has not been released and that's a big question that we're following, and also the repatriation of the deceased. it is unclear when those americans will be able to return to the united states and be reunited with their families. all of this as we're learning more about the time line of what actually happened minute by minute and this is according to mexican authorities who say that at about 9:18 a.m. on friday, that's when the americans

crossed over to the mexican side. they were lost for a while. they were trying to connect with the doctor that was supposed to perform that medical procedure and more than two hours later, that's when the dramatic video was shot that shows the kidnapping of the americans at gun point and authorities say there that they tried to trace that vehicle using surveillance cameras, but the trace went cold until they got a tip yesterday morning. they say they followed that tip. that tip led them to a wooded house outside of matamoros mexico and that's where they found the americans and they did not find the individuals involved in the killing instead an individual performing surveillance. this man, a 24-year-old from matamoros, mexico, was arrested and authorities are not saying whether he's linked to organized crime or the cartels in this area, but jim and erica, still so many questions about what transpired here and of course, what justice will look like.

>> yeah. certainly. which -- which may be hard to come by unfortunately for a number of those families, diane. i know that is understandably part of what we're hearing from some of the family members of the victims that they are hoping for justice here. what else have we learned? >> you know, erica, jim, a lot of this is processing everything that has happened over the past few days. we spent some time with latavia washington mcgee's family this morning. she was unharmed, at least physically in all of this, but her mother, barbara burgess told us that shaeed woodard who died in this was like a son to her, that she helped raise him and that zindell brown was like another son, a cousin and they all grew up together along with eric williams in the small city of lake city, south carolina, together. they went with her, her mother told me because she felt safe

with them and they wanted to support her on this road trip down to mexico for that medical procedure. she said that when she saw that video that rosa was just talking about, she feared that her daughter was going to die and now she's going to process the fact that woodard did pass away and sort of go through that. she didn't want to talk too much about him, and she did get to speak to her taught or the phone and her daughter was crying and that she described to her the moments of the shooting and what happened. >> they was driving through and a van came up and hit them and that's when they started shooting at the car, shooting inside the van or whatever and i guess she said the others tried to run and they got shot at the same time, shaeed and she watched them die. every one of them that had something to do with it, i want them locked up.

>> eric williams' wife also spoke with cnn. she said that when she talked to her husband that he was emotional on the phone because he viewed shaeed woodard and zindell brown as brothers to him and their 11-year-old son was very happy to hear from his father. >> she watched them die, her mother said, rosa flores, diane gallagher, thanks so much to both of you. happening now, lots of activity up on capitol hill. jerome powell testifying a second straight day and today facing questions from house lawmakers on the financial services committee. powell making way for potentially more interest rate hikes yesterday, something to brace for. >> cnn global economic analyst, always good to see you. there was heated back and forth yesterday as i would say likely expected. we talked about this a little bit last hour, but there was a lot of attention between this back and forth between powell and senator elizabeth warren.

she's basically saying, look, you are choosing to get rid of 2 million jobs. he's saying i have to or millions more will be impacted. is this really this binary choice here? >> what a great framing, erica. thank you for that. look, there's some truth on both sides. so jay powell feels that we still need to get inflation under control. he wants to hike rates, but the problem is when you do that, companies tend to pull back. they start spending and yeah, there will probably be job losses. i would say we're in one of the strongest job markets that i've ever seen in my life and i've been doing this for 32 years and that's some context. i also have a lot of empathy for where elizabeth warren is because the true fact of it is where rates go up people do pay the price more than others and when it goes up on a house, on a car loan and a student loan, you

get folks that are struggling more. the problem here and this goes to your broader question is that the fed has limited tools and for the last, not just few years, but 40 years, i would argue, politicians on both sides of the table have been pushing the ball to the fed and saying you deal with these problems. we don't want to take the tough voices and that's where we are right now. that's the squaring of this very large, awkward circle. >> okay. to their ability, to square that circle, the fed got inflation wrong, right? denied that it was, you know, as intractable as it's proven to be so late to raise interest rates and they kept interest rates low for far too long and helped contribute to a stock market bubble. why should we believe that this time we should get it right and bring inflation now just enough without taking the economy. >> well, jim, that's a very good question. you know, i think -- i don't know, and one of the reasons we don't know is we are dealing

with the most complicated economy we've in decades and let's think about the causes of inflation, yeah, we have a hot labor market and that's what policymakers are worried about and we also have a war in ukraine that's keeping energy prices very high and it's affecting food prices and it's a very complicated world, and so i don't want to point the finger at the fed alone and say oh, my gosh, you guys have gotten it wrong and it's your fault, this mess. it's a complicated world and i think they're doing the best we can. >> our colleague poppy harlow spoke with the head of the imf and i know we're tight on time, they basically said jerome powell should continue doing what he's doing at this point. when we look at recession concerns they're not unique to the united states. so how much is the fed, how much even are lawmakers in the country looking at what's happening globally and how does that influence the decision that powell and the fed are making? >> excellent question. a lot of countries and leaders

abroad are saying that. they're saying u.s., get your house in order because what happens in the u.s. affects the world. when our markets are out of control and when our inflation is out of control it affects the world. i tend to agree that the risk of pulling back and missing a bigger bout later on is more worrisome to me than, you know, the cost of capital going up. i would love to see, though, some supports for working people and some fiscal policy to put a safety net under folks as rates do go up. >> it would be interesting to see whether that would happen. rana, always appreciate your insight and expertise. thank you. >> thank you. >> still to come, republicans are, pressing outrage over the way fox host tucker carlson is framing the events of january 6th, this after he was given access to tens of thousands of hours of footage. what more are they saying? that's ahead. >> yeah. senators, not members of the house. they're seeking elon musk's

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carlson access to tens of thousands of hours of footage from the capitol attack. >> a number of his fellow republican lawmakers, senators, specifically not too happy with fox's decision to play that with tucker carlson downplaying the insurrection. >> it was a mistake, in my view, for fox news to depict this in a way that's completely at variance with what our chief law enforcement official here at the capitol thinks. >> i was there on january 6th. i saw what happened. i saw the aftermath. look, was there violence on january 6th. i think the footage that's available should be made available to all networks, and everybody should be able to see for themselves just what kind of chaos we had on that day. >> i think it's bullshit. i was here. i was down there, and i saw maybe a few tourists, a few people that got caught up in things and when you see police

barricades breached and when you see police officers assaulted. i just don't think it's helpful. >> he's not the only one. cnn chief congressional correspondent manu raju is live on capitol hill. you also spoke to mccarthy last night. what is he saying? >> yeah. he defended the decision. he did not agree with the criticism from senator mcconnell and also the criticism from the u.s. capitol police chief who said that this portrayal on fox news of january 6th was offensive. it was misleading and he aligned himself squarely with that, and when i asked the speaker whether or not he regretted providing this footage to tucker carlson who attempted to whitewash the events, the speaker defended his decision. >> the footage that you gave tucker carlson last time you went on saying this is a mostly peaceful chaos, as he said, he

downplayed brian sicknick's death and saying it was not an insurrection. do you regret giving him the tapes so he could whitewash the events of that day? >> i said from the very beginning transparency and so what i want to produce for everybody is exactly what i said that people can actually look at it and see what went on that day. >> why -- it was a portrayal of what happened that day? >> each person can come up with their own conclusion, and i wanted to make sure there was transparency. >> he continued to say that he wanted to provide for transparency, but they would not explain why he provided it to carlson who has long had a history of downplaying the, vents of that day that mccarthy himself condemned immediately after that happened on the house floor days later, but really exposing the divide here between the house republicans and senate republicans in particular over january 6th, the fallout of that and the role of donald trump and the party going forward. mccarthy, of course, aligning

him squarely with trump and mitch member connell on the other side taking a much different approach on how the party should handle these issues and all being exposed now and over mccarthy's handling of the security footage and this attempt to provide a different light about what happened on january 6th by fox news and by some house republicans, as well. >> thom tillis not mincing words calling it b.s. manu raju, thank you very much. an executive at fox news show that what they said and what they communicated in private contrasted what they told their viewers and repeatedly. a trove of text, e-mails and other material made public tuesday as part of dominion voting system's $1.6 million defamation lawsuit against the right-wing channel. fox's staff, privately criticized and dismissed trump's election fraud lies even though the network continued to promote them on the air. take a look at these messages from november 20th between fox

host tucker carlson and laura ingram. carlson writes trump attorney sydney powell, quote, is a nut to which ingram replied. no serious lawyer could believe what they were saying. just one night later this is what ingram was saying on the air. >> now legal challenges continue in a number of states, serious questions about vote counting, poll watcher access are outstanding, but unless the legal situation changes in a dramatic and unlikely manner, joe biden will be inaugurated on january 20th. now to say this does not mean i don't think that this election was rife with problems and potential fraud. >> despite what tucker carlson has said behind the scenes, he is still, to this day, sowing doubts on air. this is from his show on monday. >> in retro sspect that the 201

election was a grave betrayal, by a man who took power in an election so sketch they many americans don't believe it was even real. >> joining me now to discuss npr mead why correspondent david folkenflick, good to have you on today. >> great to join you, jim. >> so, david, based on what we're hearing from tucker carlson despite the fact that now we know he was lying to his viewers around the election saying one thing in private and one thing on the air and he was still calling the election into question. are any murdoch-owned publications whether it's fox, fox business, "the wall street journal," are any of the readers of the publications seeing what we're seeing here and the revelations from these court documents? >> oh, i think if you read "the wall street journal" you are getting a very straightforward news report and its pages often

prominently display what transpired and you're hearing folks from "the wall street journal" site making sure that its viewers believe in the brand promise and telling the news straight and without favor. it's a game that murdoch plays and how he treats his upscale newspapers like "the times of london" and "the wall street journal" and "the new york post" which he treats like fox news which you will see the thread throughout the entire report. >> we should note, is it correct that fox news banned any discussion of this given that it was fox news where the majority of these lies were shared to viewers. >> you saw its own media correspondent and the anchor howie kurtz come forward about ten days ago saying he was barred from discussing on his show that he disagreed with it and that was the corporate edict. that's an extraordinary admission because for fox news

to smother coverage of the biggest story in media, call it one of the biggest story nos politics right now is a concession that they're not putting news values first. >> listen, it allows the lie to continue and why we see in polls why many republican voters still believe to this day that the election was stolen. the lawsuit goes right to the top. it reveals that fox corp, news corp. chairman rupert murdoch, he repeatedly himself rejected the election conspiracy theories, reading now dominion lawyer asked him do you believe that dominion was engaged in a massive and coordinated effort to steal the 2020 election? no. have you ever seen credible evidence to suggest that dominion was involved to steal the 2020 presidential election? no. so the boss knew it, and by the way, the questions went on and he continued to answer no. the boss knew it and let his outlets continue to spread those lies. what are the consequences? what are the most likely consequences here in this case? >> well, right at the moment,

this is barreling towards court date, a trial date, i should say in the middle of next month. it's a $1.6 billion defamation case brought by dominion voting systems whose machines were described on fox's airwaves and at times seemingly endorsed by a number of top stars as having thrown votes from donald trump and the sitting president to joe biden. it seems likely that they lose in court they'll have to pay a lot and they'll appeal it and at that point one might see some sort of settlement. the key thing for murdoch is he made clear in that same deposition he would never apologize and he didn't think they did anything wrong and they would be relaying the president of the united states and the newsworthy figure and his attorneys, but what is really happening is that they want to acknowledge their own viewers that they presented things that were false and they wanted to pay money to avoid that. >> that's something that happens in the corporate world.

you mentioned the split that you often see between how "the wall street journal" covers stories. there is this sense and you hear some time that within fox news, there are the nighttime, prime time broadcasters who go out on a limb and sometimes further, but that you do have a newscast of record, et cetera, that takes a different track in terms of how to cover these things and the court document and the former editor bill salmon said this, it's remarkable how weak ratings make good journalists do bad things and we chase the nuts off a cliff. he was saying, as well that they were still covering those things many weeks after the election when they knew they weren't true. is there a split within fox as to those who cover this honestly and those who spout about it in prime time? >> i think there's a sharp divide and a divide inside the news division about how aggressively to go after the

facts and whether to turn one's gaze away. you saw in some of those documents a number of fox news journalists, reporters and a producer in their private text messages that came to light as a result of this trial -- seeking of evidence in preparation for this trial, and they were saying essentially they were being punished. christian fisher, one of the reporters covering the white house at the time for fox news. jillian turner who were saying essentially they were having the opportunity to host programs for fox and serve as substitute hosts taken away from them as they fact-checked these issues. a producer on special report, their political newscast texted to kristen fisher saying he had to leave because he could no longer defend -- imagine defending where he worked to his infant daughter as she grew up. he didn't think fox cared about that anymore. you saw people saying there were constrictions to level with the audience and by the way, the documents revealed in this -- in

this evidence show that that was at the top, and that fox news, the chief executive and others really wanted to tell viewers what they wanted to hear and in a tone they could absorb as opposed to level with them with the events. >> and the trouble is we're seeing a similar gaslighting with the events of january 6th. david folkenflik, good to have you on. >> pleasure. still ahead here. close calls on the runways and close calls in the sky. the faa in the hot seat on capitol hill and what we may learn from that testimony. that's next. oll tax refund of up to $26,000 per employee. all it takes is eight minutes to g get started. ththen work with professionals to assist your business withth its forms and submit the application. go to getrefefunds.com to learn more. what's the #1 retinol brand used most by dermatologists? it's neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair® smooths the look of fine lines in 1-week, deep wrinkles in 4. neutrogena® so you can kiss wrinkles goodbye!

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the acting chief of the faa is on capitol hill right now. >> being grilled by lawmakers. this, of course, after it comes after an alarming string of incidents in the sky and a number of close calls on the ground which we've been following including this plane that actually clipped the wing of another plane on monday in boston. safety concerns on runways are a major, major topic and the line of questioning today. aviation correspondent pete muntean is monitoring this for us. what are we hearing this morning? >> this hearing is specifically focused on the reforms the faa has made to how they certify aircraft after the 737 max disasters that killed more than 300 people abroad, but it is so

interesting that these close calls on runways are already coming up. senator ted cruz is a ranking member on the senate commerce committee. he said that since the last time billy nolan was on the hill on february 15th, there have been three more of these close calls on america's runway since. we're averaging one every ten days now. look at the breakdown, jfk, honolulu, boston, austin, burbank. we have just found out about an incident in sarasota and we found out on monday, but it happened on february 16th and these incidents range in cases where the airplanes come very close to one another. we are talking about hundreds of feet in some cases which is very scary to some safety advocates. i just want to point out here that this is so interesting because there's been so much change in the aviation industry, and i want you to listen now to dennis tager of the allied pilots association and the association that represents

american airlines pilots and he points out that the system is stretched to the max. there have been a lot of retirements and a lot of new people coming in, as well. listen. >> it's a system under stress. the faa sees it. the faa administrator said i need data and let's have a meeting, a safety summit. the data is right behind me and these incidents, things that we've been talking about well over a year ago are starting to show up on a flight deck and in operations. >> that faa emergency safety summit happens only one week from now. we will see as this hearing unfolds what else comes up about these close calls and these near-misses on the runway known as runway incursions, jim and erica. >> a nice name for something and scary if you experience it yourself. >> pete, appreciate it. thank you. the federal trade commission has confirmed a wide-ranging probe into twitter's privacy practices.

the agency looking whether twitter under elon musk violated a settlement that violated the requirement to protect user data. >> bottom line, did twitter expose user data? that's exactly what the ftc is trying to get to the bottom of. it's a rare move for the ftc to acknowledge an investigation like this. it really doesn't happen very often if at all and it comes after the disclosure of about a do dozen letters that the ftc sent to twitter about the privacy practices and the letters were in the house staff report that was released yesterday. let me run through a couple of the things that the ftc is to have asked twitter about and the staffing changes after elon musk took over the company and messages about elon musk and details about the company's twitter blue subscription service, and even the office equipment that twitter was reportedly trying to sell off as

part of its cost-cutting measures and a wide ranging set of topics that the ftc is interested in and it goes to these concerns about whether or not twitter may have lived up to its obligations as part of this settlement to protect users' privacy. the report itself from the house is this staff report created by the subcommittee intended to look at whether the u.s. government may have weaponized against members of conservatives or members of the public in response to that report the ftc said in a statement that protecting the consumers' privacy is what it should do and it should come as no surprise that they are conducting an investigation with the consent order that came into effect long after mr. musk had it again. we're talking about allegations that twitter violated its

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happening right now, the nation's top intelligence officials are on capitol hill addressing global threats that the u.s. is currently facing. >> the heads of the fbi and cia will answer questions from lawmakers as well as the director of national intelligence who just moments ago emphasized tensions in particular with china. >> and given that background perhaps needless to say the people's republic of china which is increasingly challenging the united states economically, technologically, politically and militarily around the world remains our unparalleled priority. natasha has mono been monitoring.

that's been consistent that china is the number one national security challenge. i wonder what else are they focusing on today? >> china was a very significant focus of the haines' opening statement and she outlined a number of issues or threats that face the united states at this moment. of course, she talked about russia and the invasion of ukraine and she outlined details of what they believe the trajectory of the conflict actually is. she believes and the intelligence community believes that if russia does not initiate a mandatory mobilization and identify substantial third-party ammo supplies they will likely not be able to continue their offensive there as well as threats posed, by of course, north korea and iran, two major threats that the united states believes will continue to pose significant challenges to the u.s. over the coming years, but this is really an opportunity, a rare opportunity, for the public to hear directly from these intelligence leaders not just about the things that we see

necessarily in the headlines every day, but just the broad array of threats posed by these kind of rogue countries and also, you know, just apart from that the origins of covid-19, right? those are going to be posing significant questions to the intelligence leaders today, of course, along the same lines with the threats posed from china and the inability for the intelligence community to have a direct window to that. there will be a lot of threads that the leaders will be asked to pull at today and there will be a closed session in a classified session that the leaders will hear, and this is an opportunity for the public to hear them in an open setting for the first time in a year. >> no question. the trend lines of china are alarming. natasha bertrand, thanks so much. also following developments in florida today where governor ron desantis is throwing his support that would ban nearly all abortions in the state. >> in the coming weeks the republican leader gearing up to show floridian as he molds a

potential presidential run and how far he's likely to go on several conservative issues. leila santiago is in florida with more. give our you viewers of what he lining up here. >> let's talk first about the abortion bill that erica was talking about and what the governor said yesterday during his state of the state address. he said we are pro-family and pro-life in the state of florida, absolutely speaking to support this bill and let's talk what that would change. currently in florida it is 15 weeks. this would change it to six weeks and does have exceptions for rape or incest, but democrats will be very quick to point out that at six weeks don't even know they're pregnant. so they are calling this sort of an all-out ban and call it very extreme and dangerous. so abortion is one thing that's on the table that governor ron

desantis is signaling his support for and then there's education which has been a big part of his platform, calling for the fortifying of parental rights and bills that really align with what he has said over the last few days as he's promote his recently released books and we're talking about books that would take away, diversity and equity inclusion initiatives on college campuses that would ban any sort of requirements for teachers to use preferred pronouns for students and would expand the voucher program. listen to what else he said about education. >> we must continue our momentum with k through 12 education by increasing teacher salaries, enacting a teacher's bill of rights, providing paycheck protection for teachers, expanding school choice and fortifying parents' rights. our schools must deliver a good education, not a political

indoctrination. >> and here's another line that we need to pay attention to in terms of what to expect from ron desantis and he finished that speech you heard right there by saying you ain't heard nothing yet. you should expect to continue saying that as he lays out what else he's looking to put on his platform for what could be an expected announcement soon and the rise of a presidential gop nominee. >> yes. more to come, layla, more to come, appreciate it, my friend. thank you. still to come this hour, an alarming new study on young children and opioids. why the number of children under the age of 5 dying from overdoses is soaring.ustomi ze yr car insurance. so you only pay for what you need! whoo! we gotta go again. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ ♪ i gotta good feeling about this, yeah ♪ ♪ i'm with it ♪

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a growing number of victims' deadly opioid overdoses are children under the age of 5. let's think about that for a minute on accidental poisonings. jacqueline howard joins us with details. how does this happen? how do children under 5 get poisoned by this? >> i know. it's so disturbing, but this study shows it's a consequence of the ongoing opioid epidemic. the more people who have opioids in the home the more likely a young child might come across that and become accidentally exposed. this new study also says that when you look at that time period 201918, opioids were the most common substance contributing to fatal poisonings and it was followed by then over the counter pain, cold and

allergy medications and illicit drugs and that 47.3%, jim and erica, that's what's really, really troubling here and pediatricians are watching this trend closely. >> as they're watching this closely, where is this happening? you mentioned opioids in the home? is it just at home? >> that's right, erica, in the home. 65% occurred in the home and this is also shocking, over two-fifths, 42% were in babies, kids younger than 1. again, jim and erica, this is how wooe seeing the opioid epidemic impact the youngest kids. >> that's heartbreaking and incredibly important to get that information out. jacqueline, thank you. sorry to end on that down note. how about this? how about a note of appreciation. thanks to all of you for joining us today. >> yes. well done, erica. i'm jim sciutto.

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