fun. >> bill: i thought it would be a cool event on a sunny day. >> dana: it's rainy. you cannot rain on the easter egg parade. people love that event. it's a nice tradition. good monday? >> bill: good monday. i'll be back later today working for john and you are working for -- >> dana: the five. sandra smith is next. here is the "the faulkner focus". >> fox news alert. vladimir putin unleashing dead lay missile strikes in eastern ukraine. lviv has served as a safe place for refugees. seven people were killed this morning. russia ramping up its ground offensive in the east. zelenskyy says his people are going to fight to the end in mariupol. president biden's plan to lift title 42 could unleash a massive surge in illegal

immigration. and overwhelm the men and women who protect our border. this is "the faulkner focus" and i'm sandra smith in for harris. fox news has learned there were more than 220,000 migrant encounters at the border in march. that is a two decade high. and border officials say there could be 18,000 illegal border crossings a day when the administration lifts title 42 next month. that's the trump-era policy that let border agents turn away large groups of migrants due to covid concerns. we've also learned there were nearly two dozen known or suspected terrorists caught at the southern border just last year. lawmakers from both sides of the aisle say the president needs to be careful before he opens the floodgates. >> rescinding title 42 was grossly irresponsible. there is a crisis at the border. >> certainly right now the cartels are looking at title 42. the moment they lift that you'll see a lot more people

coming across. >> we're doing the exact opposite of what we should be doing. this isn't about protecting people or making sure that americans are safe. this is all about how much you can control law-abiding americans and yet open our border. >> my hope is it will be reconsidered. we need to come together and show our values that we can secure our border. >> dana: that was both sides sounding off over the weekend. bill melugin is live at the border in eagle pass, texas for us to kick things off this morning. hi, bill. >> hi, sandra. good morning. we have obtained cbp records that reveal there were at least 23 known or suspected terrorists encountered at the southern border in 2021. look at this graphic and we'll explain. you are looking at hits on the terrorist screening database maintained by the f.b.i. as you can see there were four in san diego sector, four in el sent row, two in yuma sector,

two in tucson sector, four in del rio and four in the rio grande valley sector. it adds up to 23. only the ones they know about and who were caught. if you look at file video here we'll explain why that is such an issue. keep in mind multiple high-level cbp sources are telling us in the last six months alone 300,000 gotaways. people are getting through in massive numbers. border agents are dealing with proper sention and paperwork and tom homan tells us this is a major national security issue given these numbers and he says dhs secretary mayorkas has to start treating it like one. take a listen. >> he knows 23 people have been arrested. he knows that. he is the secretary of homeland skooufrment at what point does this man have enough integrity to tell the white house i cannot keep this border open no

matter what because you have created a national security issue of the highest proportions. if he had any integrity at all he would tell the white house no, we need to secure the border. >> in the meantime mass releases continue. look at this video we shot just within the last hour here in eagle pass, texas. we witnessed bus load after bus load of single adult migrants being mass released at a local ngo out here and being told up to 500 are going to be released just at this ngo in particular. we've been showing you guys these mass releases not just here. it is happening all over the border. border facilities are over capacity and don't have room to keep putting people. we talk about the march numbers. they show that the federal government released 80,000 illegal immigrants into the u.s. last month. when you factor in the more than 60,000 known gotaways last

month as well, sandra, we talk upwards of 140,000 people who crossed illegally and still in the country right now. >> some of these numbers you are reporting are so hard to believe. thank you. see you later on. the "wall street journal" editorial board writing about biden's immigration damage saying that ending title 42, quote, will be this. if mr. biden wanted to undermine public confidence in the pro-immigration cause he could not do better. this is an invitation for migrants to keep coming in for any reason. americans can be forgiven for concluding that mr. biden's defact owe policy is to allow unchecked immigration without admitting it. will cain, "fox & friends" weekend co-host joining us now. great to have you here this morning. how much damage will this do lifting this title 42 policy? >> let's put it into context, sandra. there is a ton of numbers coming at us. to me the number that jumps out

is the one you quoted at the beginning. if title 42 is lifted we can expect 18,000 border crossings a day. still just a number. so let's see if we can put some color on that number. over a month period of time that's half a million illegal border crossings. that the united states of america importing the city the size of kansas city every month or atlanta or albuquerque every month. if you expand your population by the size of kansas city or milwaukee what's inside that city? we're starting with a criminal act. crossing illegally is a criminal act but you will import yet more crime. look, kansas city has a murder rate in 2021 of 224 murders. atlanta, 158. milwaukee county on pace for 300. this is what we are asking for. quite honestly the numbers are higher because you start

already with an illegal act and ask yourself what can hide within a city the size of milwaukee coming in every month? 23 terrorists that we know of in 2021 crossing illegally. this is what we're asking for. sandra, before we move on this is where the conversation needs to go in my mind. does this represent an invasion? i'm using that word very spifsically because here is the real issue. the biden administration will do nothing about illegal immigration. can states like texas and arizona take over the process of securing our border? they can't as long as it's an immigration issue. but if it represents an invasion where the criminal cartels coming in are they invading our borders, the criminal cartels? then you have power under article 1, second 10 for governor abbott, duesy, to begin to do what the federal

government won't do. keep an invasion of a city the size of atlanta proper, not metro, atlanta coming in every month. >> what we can say with certainty there is growing pressure from the president's own party to do something about it. you heard from henry cuellar, chris coons and others. we'll see which way the president goes as he continues to see that pressure from democrats. meanwhile, to the point about that policy being lifted that was intended to address covid concerns, now you have this, will. president biden's new coronavirus response coordinator saying that lockdowns are no longer necessary to stop the spread of covid-19. listen. >> we are at a point in this pandemic where i think we can gather safely. make sure people are vaccinated and you have testing and improved ventilation. these are the strategies we have learned over the last two years. if i implement them do i think it's safe for people to gather

together indoors? absolutely. >> officials adopt new message on covid-19 behaviors. it is your call. that's not the case in philadelphia. the city revived its mask mandate. several businesses and private citizens are suing over the mandate. is it possible that this science is changing or has changed this much? >> no. the facts haven't changed science has not changed. politics have changed. i think covid is a store see about addiction. we know it caused record spikes in addiction. what i'm talking about comes in this form. the addiction of certain public officials to the power they gained over the last two years in philadelphia. it's an addiction to the quite honestly virtue signaling and separation of those who think vaccinations or masks makes you a better person and it is an addiction to safety over

freedom. some who truly have given in to fear over the last two years of a virus, by the way, that is becoming less lethal as we go along. mutating into a more benign form of itself. we're addicted to fear, power and being better than each other. >> we'll see what direction it goes. things are changing in new york city. the status is changing. we'll watch how it's handled all over the country. will cain, thank you very much. another democratic-led state goes all in on identity gender teaching. how parents in massachusetts are fighting back against the woke agenda. >> i think what you are really seeing is the russians are trying to demonstrate that there is no safe haven in ukraine. what you are really seeing is they'll say there is no safe place. >> the first civilians killed in a rare attack in the western city of lviv. a safe haven for refugees as zelenskyy calls out president

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>> sandra: explosions rocking lviv in a rare and deadly attack in a city that has become the crossroad for millions of refugees. seven people were killed in russian missile strikes as they brace for a russian offensive in the east. mariupol still refusing russia's surrender or die ultimatum. they're holding out inside a

steel plant. >> the situation in mariupol remains as severe impossible. inhuman. the russian federation deliberately did. i want to be heard clearly. there hasn't been a single blockade since the blocking of mariupol. anything to save people. finding this solution is extremely difficult. >> sandra: griff jenkins is live in kyiv, ukraine for us at this hour. hi, griff. >> hi, sandra. we have some news on the situation in mariupol but first the strikes in lviv. that city has been mostly spared from the fighting. the last time a missile hit that city president biden was in poland but now monday morning four missiles, as you mentioned, hitting there. at least seven dead with 11 injured. we are oh he hearing for the first time from the mayor of lviv. here is a little bit of what he

said regarding those attacks. >> before the russian aggression started there was a decision to take all military facilities from within. the limits of the city of lviv. over 200,000 ukrainians are finding temporary protection here in lviv. over 100 embassies moved here and the enemy knows it very well. their objective is to intimidate. >> we're learning among the injured according to the governor there a 3-year-old boy has serious injuries. we're watching the dire situation in mariupol after that surrender or die ultimatum. ukraine's prime minister says

they will not yield. >> the city still has not fallen and there is still our military forces, our soldiers. so they will fight until the end. >> this is the breaking news. we're just learning from ukrainian officials our sources here, our ukrainian producers say that ukraine has made a video and released it here in ukraine of the russian friendly ukrainian oligarch who fled house arrest and arrested last week in ukraine custody. making this video in which he is offering to trade him for those ukrainian forces trapped in mariupol along with the residents who haven't been able to leave. we'll continue to follow that. finally, sandra, here in kyiv this city also not spared from

strikes over the weekend. two significant ones hitting in the area killing at least one person. the mayor here saying if you fled before the war, please stay away because it is still not safe to come back. sandra. >> sandra: griff jenkins reporting from kyiv. be safe. we'll see you again shortly. thank you. >> do you want president biden to come here? >> yes. it is his decision, of course. and about the safety situation depends on that. but i think he is -- the united states and why he should come here to see. >> sandra: that was president zelenskyy urging president biden to visit the war-torn country a week after u.k. prime minister boris johnson met with nim kyiv and walked the streets with him today. days after the president has no plans to go there. meantime house minority leader kevin mccarthy telling "fox

news sunday" say russia may not have invaded ukraine at all if president biden had sent arms sooner. listen. >> ukraine wanted to defend themselves. had we moved the weapons to ukraine earlier it would have saved thousands of lives and probably the decision of putin not to enter. >> sandra: let's bring in james carafano from the heritage foundation. great to have you here. do you agree with that? that's a pretty strong statement from kevin mccarthy there that had we acted sooner and sent arms in sooner, that this invasion may never have taken place. >> i think that's absolutely pretty clear. if we had -- not just the united states. but if the u.s. and its european allies had done a year ago what we're doing now, loaded up ukraine with food and medical supplies and built them up with weapons and put

pressure on the russians, that would have forced putin to look at his war plans and realize that the ukraine wasn't the pushover he thought it was. the reason why we got where we are is putin thought in three days he could take the entire country down and occupy it. then everybody else would hang their head and look the other way. that kind of effort would have absolutely forced him to reconsider that this was a low-risk operation. which i believe putin actually thought it was when he kicked it off. >> sandra: this is the austrian leader who met with vladimir putin. he said this yesterday about the russian leader's perspective on this war in ukraine. listen. >> i have think he believes he is winning the war. i think he is now in his own -- he thinks the war is necessary for security guarantees for the russian federation. he is now in his world but i think he knows what is going on now in ukraine.

>> sandra: dig into that for us. have you ever had any doubt that he hasn't understood fully what is happening on the ground there in ukraine with his troops, that he believes that this is necessary, and that he believes that he is winning? >> it's very clear he didn't have a very good assessment going in of what his forces could do and what the ukrainians could do. and an appreciation for western response. to be fair, a lot of people made those same mistakes. look, it is very clear he is still committed to the war and he still has enough situational awareness to know what the pressure points are. right now it is very clear that putin is really following a triple threat strategy. it's obvious he won't take over the country. i'm sure he knows that. he wants to end this war. i think he still believes he can end this war on the strongest terms possible. so what do you do to put pressure on the ukrainians and demonstrate to the russian people you're still the strong

guy? hammer ukraine cities and kill innocent people to wear down the will of the american people an get them to want to quit. you have to show military success on the battlefield. real tangible benefits like taking mariupol, uniting the two pieces of occupied ukraine. that's a big win. getting more territory. the third, the one we don't talk about very much because it makes us the most uncomfortable is the russians have taken hundreds of thousands of ukrainian citizens and forcibly put them in russia. that's a huge bargaining chip at the table. the three things i think he is relying on to put him into a strong position to end the war on his terms. >> sandra: huge questions how long it will last and you heard from zelenskyy himself saying and committing to fighting this until the very end. here was senator chris coons over the weekend calling this a critical moment. watch. >> i deeply worry that what is going to happen next is that

we'll see ukraine turn into syria. the american people can't turn away from this tragedy in ukraine. the history of the 21 century. >> that would be a huge strategic loss for western europe and festering sore in the way syria continues to threaten to destabilize the rest of the middle east. ukraine is in a much more critically strategic position. one is you have to continue to support the ukrainians so they can fight and hold ground not just now but in the long term. you have to have some way to rebuild ukraine because if you can't, then it just becomes syria. then you have to deal with the issues of protecting nato interests long-term and deterring putin from trying this on the energy front we have to be energy independent of putin. america has to be a global

dominating energy power and militarily we need to have forces in nato for putin to say if you cross the blue line you all die. >> sandra: i want to move to north korea. do you want to see president biden visit ukraine? >> russia pays attention to what we do not what we say and the photo ops we take. what we accomplish on the ground is way more important. >> sandra: got it. there is also north korea i want to ask you about that said yesterday it test fired a new type of missile over the weekend. the 13th test this year. u.s. special envoy for north korea says washington and south korea agree on the need for a strong response. how would you like us, the united states, to respond? >> what a lot of this, most americans probably aren't paying attention. they always think the north koreas are talking to us. the south koreas had an important election. they elected a conservative

government much tougher on the north koreas. the most importantening is that the united states, japan and south korea together present a strong face of deterrence to north korea. that has to happen. that's the fire break. that's what keeps this thing from ever potentially escalating out of control. right now we have, i think, a great government in japan. we have a stronger partner in south korea. the united states needs to step up because potentially there is a strong conventional and strategic deterrent that will cause north korea to think twice. while we have all these other problems going on in the world the last thing we need is north korea spinning out of control. >> sandra: thank you very much for joining us. parents in another democratic-led state fighting back against gender identity in schools. plus democrats look to be in real trouble, it appears. even the liberal media says they will need to make big

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the mid-terms. democrats appear increasingly concerns about biden's popularity. even the liberal media raising the alarm. >> people correctly perceive he is not in control of the situation. and i think ever since that afghanistan last summer, people have had -- voters overall have not had a sense of leadership from the white house. have not had a sense there is a president in control who is strong and consistent and knows what he is doing and can project, you know, a consistent message from one day to the next. >> democrats are facing a very dire situation in november. >> how is the economy doing? how are your schools? are your streets safe? it's those issues powering the republican wave this november. >> sandra: power panel now. crystal knight and i will start

with you first. are democrats worried? >> they absolutely are and should be. i think the president has -- he campaigned on a number of issues, student debt cancellation, policing reform, those are major issues that haven't been tackled. build back better plan still hasn't passed. while infrastructure is a key sticking point for this administration it might not be enough for the november elections. this is something the president and his team have to refine and sell to voters why democrats deserve two more years in congress and why this administration deserves another four years for the presidency. >> sandra: seems like another fair admission the president is struggling here and his party is struggling as a result of it. >> almost like saying the sky is blue it is so obvious. he is on -- if air force one is going to new hampshire she want to divert the fight. the key fights are in maryland and illinois and california.

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this administration. we know the president is powerful. he holds the seat. is it helpful for him to support from a distance? that's the real question that each candidate will have to ask himself or her self-. >> how is the economy doing? how are the schools doing? are you safe in your streets? these are questions so many americans will ask themselves come the mid-term elections and now this. parents in massachusetts are fighting back against a woke school agenda. they are now suing one district claiming teachers encouraged kids to change their pronouns and names without parental consent. the latest democratic led state where the gender identity debate in schools has taken center stage. america's parents aren't woke but they are awake to gender ideology education plans. it seems there are no lessons learned by democrats here, david, continuing to push some

of these woke policies. >> if the mid-terms are republican ideas on education against the democrats. we'll have parents marking up students' papers voting for republicans this fall. the pandemic has put our students behind in signs, reading, math. and voters and parents in particular want an emphasis put on making sure students are learning the basics. that's what you have republicans talking about and why voters ultimately are picking republicans in school board races across the country. areas we've never won before we're winning races and it will go all the way up the ticket. >> sandra: it's fair to ask democrats are getting a clear view of how this is hurting their party, some of these issues especially when you see things like this. this is on a critical issue.

boston university professor writing in the atlantic this republican party is not the party of any group of parents but the party of white supremacy. is that helpful? >> i don't know that it's helpful but what it is doing it's showing an eye to what is really happening in the education system across this country. parents on the republican side of the aisle have really rejected critical race theory and they have rerejected it based on the big lie something being taught in schools. that's what they're highlighting in the op-ed about white supremacy. people don't want to hear the truth about the ugliness of this country and they don't want to hear about it, how can they figure out a way to create law, create policy to make sure that children are taught this. this is a future generation of kids growing up in this country unaware of the real truth about america. that's what the problem is when it comes to education.

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>> sandra: a gruesome murder mystery in new york city. they have found the body of a mother of two stuffed in a duffel bag in queens. senior correspondent laura engel following the story with us. >> we're now getting reports that the woman who was found in that duffel bag may have been stabbed as many as 60 times. but the work continues as investigators search for answers in the horrific murder and body disposal of this woman. some of the crime caught on surveillance video. police releasing this chilling image of a person walking down the street in the neighborhood early saturday morning dragging a bag behind them which later revealed the remains of the 51-year-old woman last seen friday night going out with friends. a person walking their dog made the discovery saturday morning around 8:00 a.m. noticing blood coming from a duffel bag lying

on the ground a short distance from the woman's home. they traced the trail of blood to her home where she lived with her husband and two boys. her son and husband were out of town and the 13-year-old was in the house. he was questioned and release. investigators are looking into a text message the husband received from his wife's phone saying quote, your whole family is next. >> the killer would have to know the husband's actual name quite likely. you are not in your spouse's phone as husband and the fact therefore the victim would likely have to have access to that phone. >> gal and one of her sons had been missing once before according to some reports deepening this mystery. no arrests and no one named as

a suspect or person of interest. we'll have more from the scene later this afternoon. >> sandra: thank you, we'll see you later on. meanwhile new york city mayor eric adams says he agrees with bill bratton the progressive policies have helped spark the crime surge across the country. after last week's subway shooter the mayor a former cop himself says violent repeat offenders must be locked up. >> major mistakes made throughout the years that destroyed the trust that the police commissioner is talking about. we have to rebuild that trust. but we can't rebuild that trust by allowing those who are dangerous and that have a repeated history of violence to continue to be on our streets. >> sandra: op-ed in the hill put it this way. subway attack shows once again why anti-police policies put us all at risk. not just here in new york city. violent crime is soaring in democratic-led cities coast to coast. let's bring in fox news

contributor joe concha. welcome. do you believe those that supported some of these policies are waking up to the impact of them? >> some are but some are not. we see letter from alexandria ocasio-cortez calling about the danger in adding more transit cops to the subway. this is even one week after what we saw in brooklyn last week. some politicians are getting it. eric adams is getting it finally. there are those on the left that represent this city like alexandria ocasio-cortez who think nope, don't add more police. it will add to the problem. >> sandra: considering that's happening and the new york city mayor says we need to do more to show our police we support them, can it be done at this point? >> i wonder. so much damage has been done by the previous mayor. deblasio took away millions. they wanted to roll back tough on crime policies and violent crime surged. they point to an alignment

between democratic lawmakers and black lives matter. people are getting it out west. the problem now we remember in minneapolis and seattle they tried to abolish the police and voters rejected it. right now it's the pottery barn rule if you break it, you bought it. democrats own this issue and they can be as tough as they want. they are seen as softer on crime than republicans. >> sandra: it will take a serious admission that these policies are leading to the spike in crime. major crimes in new york city up 44% through april 10th. chicago. it is awful what you see when you wake up on monday morning what has happened in that city in a given weekend. violent crimes in d.c. up 30%, los angeles ticking up as well. so mid-term elections quickly approach. there is a lot of big issues on the minds of american voters.

crime certainly is top of the list for many. >> inflation and crime are the number one and number two most important issues, ukraine and russia number three, right? all these other woke policies we heard so much about during the 2020 campaign goes back to the bread and butter. is it more expensive for me to live in this country or my town? less safe? yes, is it easier to get into this country? yes, through the border. education. >> sandra: do i have control over what my kids are learning in the classroom all some of the top issues. move on to this. everywhere you go people are talking about elon musk and what he will do next. the guessing game continue. media meltdown is continuing over his $43 billion bid for twitter. he wants it to be a town square for free speech. snl over the weekend. >> that's how badly white guys want to use the n word.

come on. elon built electric cars and going to mars, why is evolving himself with twitter? if the prince of england gave it all up to mary and actor from suits. [applause] >> sandra: joe is not laughing. not just late night comedians. this from a democratic straj guy. >> he is a danger to twirt and freedom of speech. he has been known to say some of the transphobic and homophobic things to his millions of followers. i think elon musk buying twitter or creating this arena would be problematic. >> sandra: everybody has their opinion of what he is doing and not doing. is it all a game? from the beginning i was speculating he was going to buy it up only to shut it down and start something else. i don't know. nobody really does which direction he will take it in. what do you think of the media's coverage of this? >> one word comes to mind,

hyperbolic. when you have the "washington post" and cnn saying that democracy is at stake if elon musk buys a social media company. snl. i don't get the joke. he goes from the guy saving the planet through the electric car to the second coming of donald trump? i've never seen him saying anything remotely racist. this show lost me in 2016. right after trump won the cold open usually the most funny part of the show. she sings all lua and looks into the cama and says i'm not giving up and neither should you. i thought what am i watching? this isn't comedy it is activism. >> sandra: elon musk has caused a meltdown. what is his endgame? what is your speculation on what he does? >> i think he has the dream we all had. we have enough money if we don't like something we buy it and change it to conform to the way we want it.

he have is a free speech absoluteist. he calls himself that and sees what is going on in this powerful platform. the brooklyn shooting a couple minutes ago. where was the first place you went to to find out news about that? you went to twitter because you have people on the ground serving as journalists on the spo. he sees what happened with donald trump. he sees what happened with hunter biden. he said i like the platform. i don't like what's happening to it and i want to save it. the critics say he is the threat to free speech while they embrace twitter's actions to this point. it is remarkable. >> sandra: i've never been able to get over where he does most of his tweeting from. >> oh. i'll use the power of deduction on that one. >> sandra: you won't forget it. most of it is done on the toilet. just, sorry. not a great way to end the show. >> bill: a lot of mine is the

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♪ ♪ ♪ this is "outnumbered" and i am emily compagno. we are here with former attorney general bill bonner and kennedy joining us today. we are so grateful to have you both here with us swimming thank you, emily. >> getting to a top story, three separate mass shootings over easter weekend, and pittsburgh, 217 old boys were