>> cold whether throughout the northeast. >> i'm not swimming. >> whatever you do today, i just ask you stay within yourself. >> bill: good morning, everybody. house republicans now knocking on the door. we have had seven days of uncertainty but the balance of power now coming into focus as we say hello to you. good morning i'm bill hemmer live in new york. >> dana: is this live? >> bill: it is live. >> dana: i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." good to be with you today on tuesday. after a week of counting votes, control of washington is almost settled. almost. republicans one seat away from clinching the house. >> bill: right now 217. they need 218. more than a dozen seats still in play. many of those are in california.

we'll bring you any race calls as soon as we get them here today. >> dana: on the governor's side fox news can project democrat katie hobbs has defeated kari lake in arizona. another big loss for republicans who are trying to move on from last tuesday's disappointing results. >> the mid-term election postmortems, finger blaming continue to roll in. what fun. i just want to say really, the most important point right now, by far, is that the gop is going to take back the house. so the big thing now is win georgia. >> why support us? we'll balance the budget. stop the debt ceiling increase. make sure we preserve social security and medicare. >> we need good, strong, independent leadership that listens to voters not just the washington lobbyists. >> dana: republicans are gathering in orlando for their annual governors association

conference. hi, mark. >> ever since the mid-terms so much of the focus has been about who is going to washington. as you can imagine here later today in beauty sunny orlando we'll hear from a lot of people. the biggest names in republican politics. people who won statewide races, places like iowa, new hampshire and beyond to visit. should president trump be the republican nominee in 2024? he is expected to announce his campaign plans later on tonight. governors still support the maga movement and others say it is time for a new message. >> one of the messages from the election is for republicans generally is we need as a party to move past president trump. >> now just a horrible time for big political statements. save that for early 23 would be my message. >> this afternoon we're going to

hear more from governor sununu. he will be on a panel discussing the future of the party with other governors. florida governor ron desantis is expected to attend this year's conference. it is happening in his backyard. we don't believe his remarks will be open to the press to sidestep some questions whether he plans to challenge trump in 2024 and hearing from some of the new governors. people who won for the first time like sarah huckabee sanders of arkansas and from nevada. how they plan to govern and give the party a roadmap going forward. interesting to hear about the party given so much at stake at the moment. >> dana: thank you so much. >> bill: analysis. kellyanne conway with us. good morning. axios says something intriguing. i don't know if it's right or not. we can debate the veracity of this suggestion on screen. a republican civil war is erupting in virtually every

level of the party. it threatens to destabilize the ranks of senate, house and gop leadership. how much of that do you agree with? >> i agree it is great for the news business. many people want to divide the republicans. i think we need unity. that's the word of the day. i will call for unity with the republicans. bill and dana, the democrats were unified last week on how to divide america and scare them into getting to the polls. we had a much better message and respected the voters talking about their top concerns, inflation, crime, immigration and the rest. we flipped a lot of blue seats. i think states that obama won twice like florida, ohio, iowa are now solidly republican up and down the ballot. a lot of pockets of good news. chief executives talking about how to govern today. we'll have the house maybe by the end of the day majority. all that aside we need to unify. unity means you don't have these on the record sniping comments from consul ants that represent

mitch mcconnell and rick scott. you know what? pick up the phone. walk across the street and talk to each other. don't let it spill into the public. the voters, americans and our democracy deserve better than that. they deserve a party that knows where it stands. i have one more thing to say. i this i the way we unify is not just on strategy message but tactics. i think democrats have done a better job investing what i call the non-sexy parts of politics. their ballot harvesting and banking early votes. somehow our voters still feel very shy voting early. some don't trust the machines. others say i'm a traditional voters and go to the polls. we need to get smart not just about voter engagement but banking the ballots early. we are taking a chance that grandpa can get out of the house on election day or any event

walt that can effect any of us. we need to start banking those votes early. >> dana: that has been echoed from a few folks. today when they meet in orlando needs to be part of the conversation if republicans hope to compete with democrats. a potential announcement from president trump. a tweet from jen psaki regarding biden versus trump. just throwing it out there for everyone arguing the reason potus shouldn't run again you know trump is 76, right? i don't know if everybody ages at a different rate so we can maybe set that aside. do you think the president former president will announce today that he is running for re-election or for election a second time even though he would be only able to serve for four years? >> that is the plan. he feels there is a lot of unfinished business. i think president trump agrees with the majority of americans, dana. and the majority of democrats in all the polls that don't think joe biden should be there in

2024. if donald trump can stick to a binary choice between the economy, energy, border, security, putin, crime in our communities and the other major issues, what it was like under president trump before covid and what it has been like under president biden, that is a cage match rematch that will have a clear contrast for people. not a referendum but a choice as joe biden would say. i think donald trump is uniquely positioned to unify the party. people say he is a divider. you and i have discussed many times donors and pundits don't choose the nominees, the voters do. this will be as trump characterized it to me this morning a long slog. he knows that. in other people want to run they can do that. i know what you know. winning the presidentsy is very hard. i want republicans to start governing also. if president trump talks about and doesn't really keep doing

these digs on social media against some of the other republicans because they are all on the same team. they all have the same set of principles and policies. so i want less personality, less about personalities, more about policy. less about politics and more about principles. i think you will see president trump lend a little past president and all these accomplishments that america misses and benefited from and the underdog underestimated guy from 2016. if he can show the hunger and swagger not the boondoggle of a campaign in 2020, but if he is underestimated the arc of donald trump's career and life has been to defy the naysayers and critics. there are significant head winds building. people are upset about last week. a finger pointing not a good exercise and we should take our wins and build on those. >> bill: thank you. we'll see where we are in all that stuff tomorrow. thank you so much. her point about the drop boxes

and ballot harvesting. if you can't beat them, you have to join them. and mail-in voting. the stigmatism attached to that two years ago has to be removed if you want to win the close races. coming up next hour we'll show you a few close races in the house that may determine the majority. >> dana: tonight on special report mike pence will be on with bret. he was on with sean hannity last night and has thoughts about the former president running for re-election again. it will be an interesting day in politics. the announcement is not coming until 9:00 p.m. and more for you tomorrow morning as well. new border apprehension numbers for october are setting a new record. they are reporting more than 230,000 migrant encounters in the first month of fiscal year 2023. the most of any october on record. senior correspondent mike tobin is live in eagle pass, texas. the numbers are eye-popping. >> they certainly are.

like clockwork the migrants keep coming across the border. they started before dawn here in eagle pass, texas. remarkable images with our fox news drone team and thermal imagery. the group arrives at the rio grande making the last step before they get into the united states. one of the things to keep in mind despite it being the southern border it is cold here. when they get to the other side the agents are handing them thermal blankets. the group that came across this morning was 150. you mentioned if it seems like they are coming across in record numbers it's because they are. the fiscal year 230,000 people came across, 40% increase from the same time period last year. that same time period last year in october 16, 4000, came across then. more than double the previous year. keep in mind 64,000 gotaways this october. people who got into the u.s. and no track and doing whatever they want to development it is not just people coming across. agents in arizona have seized 3

million fentanyl pills in four seizures over a period of five days. seized in the same set of seizures 20 pounds of fentanyl powder, 47 pounds of cocaine and meth and other party drugs. dhs secretary mayorkas will be in the hot seat today before the house homeland security committee and let's see what he has to say about this mess. >> dana: the pictures are stunning with all the drugs laid out like that. thank you for your report. >> bill: where does it end, right? one race call away. republicans could clinch the house. 218 the magic number. all the races still outstanding. >> dana: the university of idaho rocked by a senseless killing spree. police have more questions than answer. >> on the heels of a shooting at the university of virginia. the suspect was on their radar for months. judge janine. how to keep campuses safe.

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>> dana: a school bus crash in eastern kentucky on monday sent 18 students and a driver to local hospitals with what police call varying degrees of injuries. saying the bus was traveling westbound on state route 40 when it went over an embankment. it was carrying students ranging from elementary to high school. thankfully no one was killed and the crash is under investigation. >> bill: police have identified four university of idaho students found dead in an off-campus apartment on sunday. investigators believe all four are victims of a homicide. dan springer live in moscow, idaho. what do we know about this, dan? >> bill, unfortunately not very much. we hope to learn a lot more today. right now the moscow, idaho

police are sitting on a lot of basic information about what they are describing as being a homicide leaving the campus and small community in the dark looking for any answers. here is what we do know. sunday around noon police got a call there were four university of idaho students unconscious in a rental house off campus. when they got there all four were dead victims of a homicide. they are 20-year-old ethan shape an and three co-eds from idaho. a 20-year-old in a relationship with chap-in. 21 eared madison mowing en and 21-year-old kaley. the picture was taken hours before their deaths. they were apparently at a party saturday night and reportedly found the next day by one of their friends. university of idaho officials put the campus on lockdown. it was lifted after only one hour with the police and later the mayor saying that there was no ongoing threat to the public.

no one is elaborating on that. police confirmed to the idaho statesman the suspect is still at large. no one has said how students died. the bodies were taken to the medical examiner's office in spokane, washington for autopsies on wednesday. all classes were canceled yesterday. and there is a vigil for the victims tonight. right now the city has many more questions than answers. police still have not set a news conference. no scheduled today. the mayor has speculated about a -- many possible scenarios including a crime of passion or possibly a robbery gone wrong. right now the police aren't releasing any information until they do there is only speculation at this point. bill. >> bill: thanks, wow. bizarre story. on the border with the state of washington. details, updates if we get them. thank you, dan. dana. >> dana: the university of

virginia three football players were shot and killed on campus sunday night. two others wounded. the suspect a uva student now in custody. all of this is raising new concerns about campus safety. let's bring in judge janine pirro. before we talk about virginia, idaho, any thoughts how that is being handled? >> it's very interesting when they said there was no danger to the public and the statement that it's a crime of passion. a call is made that someone is -- has been injured. to me -- i know nothing about it. i am just guessing now. they know who did it, they don't want to describe the shooting. it clearly it appears it was all a shooting although we don't have the autopsy reports. and they -- the person who called may have been involved in the actual killing because of it was a crime of passion that person cared about one of those four people. and you see it in homicides. it is not unusual. >> bill: you have seen this

before in your own experience. >> yeah. >> bill: let's talk about uva. police chief yesterday about this shooting. >> mr. jones came to the attention of the university of virginia's threat assessment team in the fall of 2022. they received information that mr. jones had made a comment about possessing a gun to a person that was unaffiliated with the university. >> bill: stunning story here. >> it's not the only thing they were familiar with. there was also a hazing allegation and investigation against mr. jones that went -- they were not able to resolve it because no one would testify. number three, that was also not mentioned is the fact that in february of 2021, there was a concealed weapons violation outside of campus and he did not report it. jones did not report it, which is necessary according to school protocol. so you've got three triggers right there that we know of

today as we're sitting here. so, you know, look, parents are concerned when their kids go to college. they are concerned whether it's on campus or off campus. make no mistake, just because your kid is in college doesn't mean they are protected. that cradle we thought of in school and gram or school and middle school and college doesn't exist anymore. universities now have to be as good as the best police department in a big city. that's a big statement and it is necessary. because we've got three warning signs right here in uva. i don't know what's going on in idaho. i don't know enough yet. something else is going on there. kids know what is going on and they have to have the ability to talk to someone on campus. these student threat assessment teams have to be on top of this. >> dana: i want to ask you about this, judge. good to have you this morning. >> nice to be with you. >> dana: this robbery pattern in queens. things start in new york and

spread across the country. people robbing necklaces off girls. show it here. trying to get the necklace off of her and she fights back a little bit. also is a tweet from nypd crimestoppers wanted queens robbery pattern. seven incidents between october 24th and november 7th. suspects removed the victims jewelry from their neck while riding up on a moped. you were here in new york when it was a disaster, right? you remember being told don't wear your jewelry and it went away because there was law and order. now it's coming back? >> it went away and some progressive liftists decided they knew what was best for social justice. which no one ever defined to me. no discrimination. they went after a 75-year-old man. 48-year-old woman. 14-year-old girl. they will drag you until they choke or kill you to get your

chain off. we're now living in a society that is total chaos and as a result of the last election right now there is cashless bail. they know that they will be let out immediately. they know they won't be fined. >> bill: this girl was 12 years old and listen to what she had to say. >> it happened fast. i didn't feel when i was getting dragged. i only cared about the necklace. so i didn't know, like, what to do or how to react. other than that i -- kids should be safe. >> she is right. kids should be safe middle of the day. >> bill: a common tactic for people. an easy thing to do on a motorcycle, moped or e-bike and approach somebody and try to get away with robbery. last comment. >> we're now living in very dangerous times. you have to adjust what you do, how you dress, what you say, where you go. and who you go with.

this young girl shouldn't have to address this kind of trauma. >> those guys on the bike got away with this before. >> if you go on twitter you can see their pictures. nypd is great. they'll find them. >> bill: another federal court blocking president biden's student loan hand-out plan. will the administration finally give in? this from last night. >> the democratic party finds itself in the middle of the biggest financial fraud case in u.s. history. this is bigger than bernie madoff. unlike that who was getting rich, the democratic party was getting rich off of ftx. >> bill: you ask what is going on here? we'll try to connect the dots between the collapse of that crypto currency giant and the democrats. why the close ties could spell big trouble ahead. our traditions are grown and sewn right here in our hometown of moulton, alabama.

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>> bill: new inflation report out about 60 minutes ago. wholesale prices rising 8%. less than expected which may be good news maybe. still near a historic high. of course, in the end you pay. right now the markets like it. we're up at the open significantly. so we're 300 points to the upside for the dow 30. 9:31 in new york. >> dana: president biden's plan for free college education hitting a roadblock. there is a massive student loan hand-out proposal on hold after a texas court ruled against it. harold ford junior is co-host of the five and sean duffy is a fox news contributor. great to have you both. sean, i want to read to you from the white house press secretary. she said the administration will continue to fight these baseless lawsuit by republican officials and special interests and will never stop fighting to support working and middle class

americans. but is it baseless? >> it's not baseless. we all know washington's program the way money is spent is through the congress. the constitution gives the authority and power of the purse to members of congress. this is a $5 hundred billion spending spree by biden that was -- that was pulled out of thin air. i don't think this is going to stand up in the court. i think that as you look at this pause taking place, i look at students who have taken out debt should pay it back. but we talk about working class americans. these are rich americans, doctors and lawyers who can make up to $125,000 as an individual and $250,000 as a couple. so this is really wealthy americans who will do really well in their lives and taxpayers will be responsible for funding their education. >> dana: elizabeth warren the

senator from massachusetts said this on twitter. let's be clear, president biden has the legal authority to cancel student debt. republican officials need to get out of the way so americans can get this much-needed relief. somewhat galling. they say there is a legal authority but never cite any cases. if they try to hang it on the hero's act that was supposed to be for veterans who fought after 9/11. this is not the same thing, harold. they are basically getting some pushback even bernie sanders former press secretary saying it was the democrats bribing young voters to vote for them in the election knowing that it wasn't constitutional and was going to get rejected anyway and they could blame the republicans for not letting them have their money. over to you. >> first good morning. thanks for having me on. i was never for this from the outset. we talked about it on your show and on "the five." look, the courts will decide this. i think there is a lot of

passion on both sides. those for and against. and i get that. when i say i was not for it. i felt we should have conditioned it on those occupations and professions where america needs work and even perhaps narrowing it down. as we've talked before, we should have a conversation about the rising cost of college education in this country which is rising too fast. so i think where senator warren -- i disagree with her. this is not republicans standing in the way. this is whether or not it's constitutional and legal which is what i think congressman duffy is talking about and we'll have to wait and see what the courts say. if the courts say it is legal i'm willing to accept that. if the courts say it is not legal i'll accept that as well. >> dana: let me ask you about leadership votes. you both took them. the headline in the "wall street journal" about this happening today and the republican side and narrow republican house majority will require pelosi-like unity. if republicans don't want mr.

mccarthy, articulate and vision and process and hold a vote and then get behind whoever wins. back room plots to undermine the leadership are hostage taking on this bill or that will play into the hands of the opposition. what will happen today? will mccarthy hold on? >> first off, last night they had a candidate forum where all the candidates make a presentation to the conference. the only person running for speaker last night was kevin mccarthy. the vote comes today, dana. i don't think kevin mccarthy will have 218 in the conference but paul ryan when he ran for speaker didn't have 218 in the conference. nancy pelosi didn't have 218 for the conference. she was 30 votes short. what will happen is kevin mccarthy will move in the next month and a half and get the rest of the votes. mar marjorie taylor green from all enforced him and he has done the work and deserves the job. >> a lot of people on the republican side will look at the races and be interested in it.

however, on the democrat side, the leadership on the democrat side have a lot to think about. are they going to continue -- will pelosi continue or look to a new generation? those fights are a little more interesting this time around, harold. >> they are. i think speaker pelosi, whatever she decides to do i think democrats in the congress and those of us not in congress but are democrats will respect that and honor that. i hope that whatever happens, dana, on both sides that there is a seriousness in how they think about not only this congress but the future. i hope the republicans as they think about their future understand that the democratic party needs the republican party to be strong. we would like to be stronger but we need them to be strong because the only way we can get things done is if both parties are serious and credible. i'm hopeful whether it's mccarthy or whoever it might be that republicans rally behind him or her and whatever democrats decide to do that they rally behind him or her whoever the leader might be.

>> harris: so much agreement this morning. i love that. >> dana: we have a theory on the five of harold ford junior and his future and we look forward to stirring the pot. we have to watch "the five." >> bill: now to a growing debate surrounding the gender affirming care for young people. raising concerns over puberty blockers. is there a cost to pause puberty? dr. marc siegel has a look at the surgical side of this issue. good morning. >> as a physician, rather than as a reporter, i can tell you that each patient must be treated differently. the right answer for one is not the same for another patient. >> i didn't understand what i was doing to myself. >> 18-year-old chloe of central valley, california was born biologically female but at the

age of 12 she began socially transitioning to male after experiencing gender dysphoria. >> on social media i was seeing young adult women posting pictures of themselves. seeing this image that didn't match my own my thoughts started to drift towards maybe i'm not a girl. >> at age 13 she started taking puberty blockers and testosterone. in 2020 at 15, chloe had an elective double mastectomy referred to as top surgery. chloe says she regretted her decision less than a year later. today identifies once again as a woman. >> the loss of my breasts and potentially my ability to mother children naturally might be the most painful part of it. >> her experience with transition is a stark difference from the findings of a recently released study in the journal of the american medical association. it compared two groups of

patients ages 13-24. the group that had the procedure experienced less chest dysphoria than the group that did not. >> i don't think it should shape clinical care because three months after an operation people can easily feel happy. >> stella is founder of an organization that raises public awareness about issues facing gender questioning children and young adults. >> what we need to know how does it feel after a year and five years and ten years? >> to change from one gender to another gender in every area of your life is as dramatic as any kind of behavioral change i can think of. >> for 29-year-old noah, the controversial surgery was a long time coming. he began transitioning from female to male at 18 years old and received top surgery two years ago at age 27.

but he knew he was different as early as middle school. >> it was one of the things where you have to weigh the risk. for me i was willing to die on the operating table rather than continue to live a life that wasn't mine. finally i could see me when i looked in the mirror, not a stranger. >> bill: fox news reached out to northwestern medicine for comment. they responded we provide affirming medical treatment that honors every individual including those transgender and gender diverse. above all we must show kindness and sensitivity at all times. we must also consider that what we do now as physicians may or may not have a long-term consequence. >> bill: thank you, dr. marc siegel with us in new york. >> dana: breaking news just now. russia launching huge missile attacks across ukraine this hour.

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>> dana: breaking news out of ukraine. russia launching a mass missile attack triggering air raid sirens across ukraine. senior foreign affairs

correspondent greg palkot is live from kiev. what do you know? >> dana, something has been happening in the last couple of hours here. it is very quiet in kiev right now. maybe deadly quiet. we don't have that confirmed yet. a couple hours ago first we heard air raid sirens, then we heard blasts. apparently missiles have struck kiev and all across this country. confirmed from the mayor's office three russian missiles right here hit in the center of the city. one hitting a residential building about a 10-minute drive south of where we are right now here at the hotel. firefighters and rescue workers at the scene. no casualty figures yet. part of a mass russian attack on ukraine. the word we're seeing from officials across the country are that every region of ukraine has been struck. missiles have been seen or detected on radar coming from the east and south of this country including cruise missiles fired from bombers over

russia. we're now getting word of emergency black-outs not just here in kiev, pretty dark here right now, but in various cities. it could be that russia is continuing its strategy of targeting electrical infrastructure. the power grid here. we have confirmation of that from the mayors of two different cities in this country. the reasons behind this attack, well, the office of president zelensky offers one reason. he said it's a response to the tough words coming from president zelensky in a video message to the g20 summit today he demanded that russia leave all parts of ukraine and he demanded that the borders of ukraine are restored. also analysts have been feeling just the last couple of days that incredible retaking of the southern key city of kherson by ukrainian forces could be the reason for this. right now what we're looking at

is the air raid sirens in place. not allowed to move around but not seeing at this time anyway any more missiles coming into the city. we're on alert and it is happening in kiev and across the country. back to you. >> dana: please stay safe. >> bill: dan hoffman drafts off that great reporting there. former ci station chief served in moscow and a few other places. i want to play this clip about kherson and zelensky, his overall take on the war and where it is now headed as a result. >> ukraine should not be offered to make compromises with its conscious. we respect the rules and people of our word. ukraine has always been a leader in peacekeeping efforts and the world has witnessed it. if russia says it supposedly wants to end this war let it prove it with actions. >> that was the wrong bite. number two. roll it in english. >> it is the beginning of the

end of the war. of course, you see our strong army. we have step-by-step coming to our country to all the occupied territories. >> that's a statement. the beginning of the end of the war. how do you see it? >> i think president zelensky has always had a knack for under standing the impact of public relations. he was a former actor and understands the value of social media. in a television spot like this, it is a message to vladimir putin who just weeks ago said that kherson was part of russia. zelensky's presence shows it is not. it is also a message to the west, to nato and european union that ukraine is going to take this fight to the finish. russia has slaughtered too many ukrainian civilians in their homes, hospitals and schools for ukraine to stop before evicting russia from ukraine's territory as zelensky emphasized today. >> bill: while this is happening

there are talks with the russians in turkey ongoing, we believe. we reported that yesterday. even though they took this town of kherson, it is on the west bank of the river. on the east bank is the russian army still today. so they are there. that's where the front has moved. >> right, they are there. that's exactly right. ukraine doesn't control the entire region of kherson. they control the city. right now we may be looking at a pause in military action because of wet ground. once the ground gets harder with winter we may see a renewal of the hostilities and that's why vladimir putin is relying on this long-range artillery. it is not going to sap the will of the ukrainians to continue the fight. for the basic principle that a rogue nation should not be allowed to invade its neighbor, slaughter its civilians and illegally steal its territory. >> bill: as it stands today you tell our producers ukraine wants

more air defense, more stinger missiles, more artillery with greater range. a big basket of things. we're spending a lot of money so far in ukraine. is that money designed to win or is that money designed to force a truce at the table of these negotiations? >> i think the biden administration would argue it is up to ukraine to decide when negotiations begin. i think ukraine assesses they have to remove russia from the done bass and crimea. russia should pay important the billions of dollars of damage they caused to ukraine. let's be clear. ukraine has done more to defend europe and the united states than any nato member has ever done against russia. had they not done that you can delay a dictator like vladimir putin through appeasement. had ukraine not been able to

fight. you won't stop him. vladimir putin, look, invaded georgia in 2008, interfered in our elections and elections throughout europe. has supported dictators like assad in syria and enabled the use of chemical weapons. ukraine is stopping vladimir putin and value to the world economy. if russia succeeds in their war against ukraine there will be massive negative impact on the world economy. >> bill: the town of kherson is the only provincial capital in nine months of war that russia was able to conquer and now they've been forced to relinquish that town. good to have you, we'll call on you again soon. dan hoffman. >> all right. >> dana: right now dhs secretary mayorkas in the hot seat on capitol hill lawmakers pressing him on the chaotic ouster of the border chiefs. new documents revealing how the

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>> bill: f.b.i. director christopher wray testified last december that the agency would use a spy ware tool called pegasus only for research and

development. that's r and d right. new documents the f.b.i. weighed using it to track americans. gillian turner is tracking the story. >> democratic senator believes wray provided misleading testimony to congress under oath and the f.b.i. actually planned to use this very powerful spy ware tool called pegasus even targeting americans' phones when necessary. the f.b.i. says the director's testimony was accurate when given and remains true today. there has been no operational use of the nso product to support any f.b.i. investigation. senator told us yesterday quote it is totally unacceptable for the f.b.i. director to provide misleading testimony about the bureau's acquisition of powerful hacking tools and wait months to give the full story to congress and the american people. what is pegasus spy ware? it is a phone hacking tool that

penetrates mobile devices and extracts the contents including everything messages, photos, contacts, and video. it is created by an israeli spy ware firm black listed by the u.s. government. cybersecurity experts call it a powerful and stealthy cyber weapon. take a listen.>> it uses 0 clic order to infect the target's phone without requiring any interaction from the target user. much more sophisticated in the way it collects data on user's phones. >> lawmakers are worried the f.b.i., though they didn't use it yet, may take it up in the future without oversight. >> bill: wow, gillian turner, thank you. we'll follow it. >> dana: homeland security secretary mayorkas and f.b.i. director wray are facing questions on national security from the chaos at the southern border as well as the chaotic departure of