>> i think so. i think we'll get it in late june and maybe you'll have me back. >> bill: thank you for coming on today from louisiana. appreciate your time. >> take care. >> dana: the war on free speech is playing out across america from silicon valley to capitol hill. the titans of tech waging battle online and in congress. apple ceo meeting with lawmakers as elon musk takes on cook and apple in a battle over free speech and twitter. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino. >> this is the richest man in the world going after the richest company in the world. >> dana: choose your fighter. >> bill: the battle over online speech reaching a peek in 2016 and people in washington and left leaning news rooms used what looked like political consideration to allow or censor

information online. how companies like apple and google are deciding what the ideas are and are not acceptable. >> what are our actual cultural commitments to free speech and open debate? that's what's at stake here. the real threat to free speech in our country today plays out not just through the government. that's half the problem. but through the hybrid of goveme power especially anti-competitive corporate power to suppress free speech and open debate in the country. the essence of our national soul and what's at stake in this debate. >> dana: lawmakers raise security and privacy concerns about tiktok. gillian turner covering the tiktok angle. let's go to hillary vaughn on capitol hill with more about twitter and apple. >> good morning, apple ceo tim cook will be coming to capitol hill this week to meet with republican lawmakers. we have confirmed he will be meeting with the incoming chairman of the house judiciary

committee jim jordan and the incoming house energy and commerce committee chairwoman kathy mcmorris rodgers focused on antitrust but questions will apple's relationship and cooperation with the communist party of china to crack down on 0 covid protests might come up as republicans look to launch an investigation into joe biden's john -- son hunter's relationship with china. >> in the case of hunter biden, it sure appears -- let's get the facts, he has an inappropriate relationship with communist china. what is his relationship? what's joe biden's relationship? how does that impact american policy? >> elon musk is promising to release internal company files at twitter that detail what led to the censorship of the hunter biden laptop story as the white house says they're keeping an

eye on musk leadership at twitter and republicans are outraged. >> that's offensive to me. the government will go after someone who wants to have free speech? what do they have to look at twitter about? do they want to go more after american public about whether they can have an opinion on something? i think they should stop picking on elon musk. >> and i got a chance to catch up quickly before this hit with senator elizabeth warren and asked if she thinks democrats are unfairly picking on elon musk. she laughed in reaction to that but also said the bottom line is she wants content moderation decision made transparently and right now she thinks it's elon musk who is calling the shots. >> dana: hillary vaughn on capitol hill for us. thank you. >> bill: house republicans accusing tiktok of lying. lying about how it collects data here in the united states as they ramp up investigations of that giant. the white house is close to a deal that will allow tiktok to

keep operating here in the u.s. gillian turner has more on that in d.c. what's the latest? >> good morning. what house republicans are accusing tiktok lying about is the surveillance of american. it's a hefty charge. could eventually carry legal consequences. new letters sent by two congressional committees tiktok told the panel the following. tiktok does not track user's internet data while not using the app and two, china-based employees do not have access to u.s. users' locations data. both claims are misleading at best and at worst false. senate republicans agree. >> tiktok is one of the most massive surveillance programs ever especially on america's young people and why i've encouraged every american if they are using tiktok to delete it from their phone and if they can to get a new phone all together. >> the parent company is called bytedance, a chinese company

with established ties to the communist parter. listen to mark warner. >> all of that data that your child is inputting and receiving is being stored somewhere in beijing. the idea that we can somehow separate out tiktok from the fact that the actual engineers writing the code in beijing, i think donald trump was right. >> yesterday the state of south dakota joined president trump. he banned tiktok from all government advises. >> south dakota will have no part in intelligence gathering operations of the chinese communist party. the president biden reversed trump's ban on tiktok in the federal government last year. now with this house panel lawmakers are holding the social media giant to respond to a request for more internal company documents in december. once that gets sent we'll get

back to you. >> dana: for more on this let's bring in jessica tarlov co-host of the five and jason chaffetz. is it dawning on the democrats and the white house this is a private company we're talking about in twitter. what will they keep an eye on? is there some harm to the world that's happening because elon musk took over? >> we were talking about this yesterday. i don't understand that outrage over it necessarily and the complete freak-out. i have to go to mastodon and post. if you want to be on twitter be on twitter. that's what it is now. elon musk owns it. if you don't want to hang around with those people you're free to go. i think the misinformation question is important here and what he is going to allow. it served a great purpose when covid first struck in early 2020. the trump administration worked with twitter to make sure that information was and then worked with the biden administration.

how he handles that. at the end of the day it's just a social media platform. >> bill: just last hour the treasury secretary janet yellen said there are legitimate national security concerns regarding tiktok. what do they do about it? what action do they take? >> they should have shut this down a long time ago. when you have people on the intelligence committee on both sides of the aisle telling you this is a spy tool for china, shut it down. they should have done that a long time ago. >> bill: trump was right. >> trump was right. you have senator warner who is pretty responsible saying he is right. we can come together on this. they are looking at the intelligence community knows this is a spy tool for china. >> bill: trump was right. >> trump was right about this. >> oh my god. >> bill: got it, good. >> dana: i think about this. gillian turner was saying there is a december 16th deadline. within the biden administration itself there is a debate happening and disagreement because you have the business

side of people saying we really have to have some sort of trade relationship with china and then you have the national security folks saying however this is a spy tool and you have almost every teenage girl in america on this app for hours of the day. america could shut it down? how about will the biden administration come out? >> if we have an enormous data preach as a result of this. i belief they were misleading committee and china will have our data for the rest of time and access it whenever they feel like it. the biden administration has to be on the side of that. they can at least say we did act to shut this down. everything that goes on in china is run through the ccp. this idea that any company is independent. the same way it works in russia. our congress people and senators are right on this. when they talk about tech issues i think they're off base and they don't have -- on this i

would say they are a few weeks ahead. >> bill: not just america. it's being held in london as well. jason, musk says he wants to allow the files of free speech suppression in twitter to go public. >> yeah. >> bill: if that happens that's sunlight. those are house hearings that we'll all watch. >> yes, look. we have to have nerds in the room to decipher the code that's coming out. a lot of people on the conservative side that feel they have been shadow banned and suppressed along the way and he will release this like he did with tesla when he created all the patents. he made them open source. now he goes into twitter and bringing the smart nerds into the room and saying we'll expose all of this and the left is freaking out. what are they freaking out about? that the truth will come out? >> bill: this is battle for the future of civilization. if free speech is lost in

america tyranny lies ahead. that's strong language. do you agree with that? >> i don't think freedom and everything in our country relies just on twitter. but the principle is the right one and it is openness and transparency and i want to try to see the left argue against it. they are worried they know there has been collusion with the federal government and where republicans will bring people to congress is going to be about what was going on on hunter biden's laptop and all the things that did affect an election. >> republicans have to do a better job than making it about hunter biden's laptop. how important the first asmt is to america and we need to remember as well that first amendment applies to what the government does in terms of their censorship. this is a private company. elon musk will get kudos from the left on what his policies are on misinformation and who stays banned. >> dana: great discussion today. i like it. >> the chinese are trying to

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twice about coming to the aid of taiwan if china decides to invade. >> dana: the former national security council director for china last hour giving us the big picture on beijing's strategy after a new pentagon report warned it is accelerating an expansion of its nuclear arsenal. rich edson in washington with the details. >> china has more than 400 war heads and could have 1500 by 2035 according to a report the pentagon just released. it also says last year china launched about 135 ballistic missiles for testing and training. officials say it was more than the rest of the world combined. >> the more proliferation there is, the more concerning it is, the more destrap liesing to the region it is. certainly we would want to insure from a regional, global and stability standpoint that we can maintain an open dialogue.

>> pentagon report says of china's military says the army continues to make progress implementing major structural reforms fielding and building readiness and strengthening competency with joint operations. it says the u.s. should reflect on its own nuclear arsenal and the report highlights china's increased pressure on taiwan, the island off its eastern coast that beijing is trying take take over. china stepped off missile launches there after nancy pelosi's visit in august. officials say that pressure has remained elevated to what they call a new normal in its campaign against taiwan. u.s. officials have said china is trying to establish the capability to invade and occupy taiwan by 2027. officials say they do not believe that beijing is

imminent. general mark milley noted china's military last fought in combat in 1979 and lacks the experience, background and training to invade taiwan right now. back to you. >> dana: thank you for the update. appreciate it. >> he snuck in behind. will he pull it back? he scores! he paid the price but the u.s. takes the lead. >> bill: he paid a price all right. what a goal that was. the one and only goal the u.s.'s victory over iran. the u.s. faces the nether land's in the knock-out round. this is in the hotel when the team got back to the hotel afterwards. awesome video and filled with joy and enthusiasm and energy and wow. the brotherhood they have for each other is evident there. fox sports studio analyst fifa

world cup live in qatar. we were watching it at a bar across the street yesterday. the place was going nuts. i said this team has something special. they are young and they are hungry and they like each other. how do you see that? >> look, this is a team you can fall in love with quickly. as you mentioned very young team. they got wonderful heart and wonderful spirit and a youthful swagger that translates when you see them run around the field. an incredible personality off the field. talking to players like tyler adams. the way he handled the press conference before the game with iran and the questions he was getting about politics and international affairs is just a credit to who he is. this entire team. they are all different in their own way but come together like any good team. heartening to see what happened yesterday and what's happening with this team back home. my son was texting me. he was at school. a lot of the kids were at school

watching this game. shout-out to all the teachers out there that allowed their classes and students to watch this game. it is a wonderful thing that is bringing us together not just to celebrate american soccer but celebrate america the greatest country in the world. a pleasure to be in doha at our set here. >> dana: how significant that they made it through to the next round? >> we have qualified for men's world cups in the past. our women's team is a champion and always at the top. men's team is trying to get there. we qualified for world cups in the past and gotten out of the group in the past. that is not anything new but with this young generation that we have, we have high hopes. keep in mind after this world cup in 2026 we'll be hosting the world cup bringing it back again. last time we did that from a men's perspective was back in the 1900s when i had more hair in 1994 and we'll blow it out.

it bodes well for the future on the field with this generation. that much more experience come back to 2026. >> bill: we can show the hair back then. you stood out. some of these players, they are young, you said that a lot of times. youthful. but they are also stars on their own teams in europe. i don't think the casual soccer fan is aware of that and how good they are playing to their respective teams. do they have more talent now than we have seen in years past? >> i think they have more opportunity and resources. as an old guy it warms my heart to see the pathways that have arisen for these players. i had to star in a world cup in order to get opportunities in europe. now we have players that sometimes don't even play a season professionally that are being mined by some of the biggest clubs around the world. you mentioned christian playing at chelsea in england.

tyler adams playing in england. weston mckinney playing in italy. they are playing in some really big clubs because the reality is that people recognize there is quality when it comes to soccer in the united states. look, i know that soccer is not king in the u.s. every year it gets a little bit better. we don't have to apologize for what we are or aren't as a soccer playing nation. we're passionate and discerning and we have a wonderful history that we can draw upon but we also have an incredible future on and off the field. we're a country of soccer whether we realize it or not. it will get bigger and bigger as we go on with the players that we're talking about and the fans out there. there was a young boy or girl that watched that game yesterday and saw christian score the goal that ultimately may end up representing the country. we have to figure out how to win with the men like we do with the

women. >> dana: thanks for all the hard work out there. >> bill: nice to see you. good luck on saturday. we want to share with our audience now a moment of joy and when the team got back to the hotel after the game late yesterday. [cheers and applause] >> bill: so good. >> dana: a lot of joy. the player is out of the hospital and all right. >> earlier in the week we showed you the clips of the press conference when iranian journalists were trying to challenge our players and they were calm and mature about their answers. you represent us well. the round of 16 kicks off saturday morning. team usa against the netherlands. 6:00 if you are waking up in california. we'll have to find a spot to watch it then.

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>> dana: more than two dozen reported tornadoes in the south overnight in mississippi and alabama. two in louisiana. power outages and flash flooding major concerns this morning as people wake up and survey the damage. one bridge in mississippi was completely washed out. so those commuters will have a difficulty getting to work or school today. the storms are now moving east

with threats of damaging wind gusts and possibly a couple of tornadoes. stay tuned to fox weather to find out more. >> bill: it's out there. this is out there, too. dating app predator now behind bars thanks to a sharp-eyed police officer. timothy olson was taken into custody of wisconsin linked to the death of one woman and other women he was with passed and suspect in identity theft and burglaries. mike tobin. >> police in wisconsin have this man in custody accused of preying on vulnerable women after drugging them. there is a case where he is accused of kidnapping a woman at gun point. one woman is dead and police fear there may be more victims. he was arrested yesterday after being spotted in franklin, wisconsin. officers pursued him, a struggle. he was tased by police. olson is linked to a number of case where women were contacted

through a dating app. when they met up the woman would fall unconscious and victimized as identity and money was stolen. he is linked to one woman who police say on november 17th fell unconscious in olson's presence. she was rushed to a hospital and died five days later. there is also a case from november 23rd when police say olson offered a woman and drink, refused and he followed her to the parking lot and forced her into a car at gun point and held for a number of hours, driven to an atm and made to give him money. >> he is wanted by several jurisdictions for several incidents previously reported on. in addition, olson is a suspect in a kidnapping and identity theft that occurred in franklin on a 79-year-old woman on november 23rd. in addition at the scene we determined that olson is

involved in at least two borg lair east in the cities that occurred prior to his arrest. >> as for as the potential of other victims police think they may be too embarrassed to come forward. >> bill: more to come. thank you in chicago. >> dana: criminal defense attorney jonna spilbor. are there more charges that could come to bear on this man? >> yeah, absolutely, dana. i think who police want at this point is to make a solid connection between this guy and the death of his most recent date a couple of weeks ago. so our viewers know, apparently this creep was on a date with a woman who passed out in the middle of the date and later died. they want to know whether he had anything to do with the debt. an otherwise healthy 55-year-old woman shouldn't die while sitting on a bar on a date. they have him on other charges. police will need to connect those charges either using some

toxicology, perhaps using some other forensic evidence to really get a handle on what they can and cannot make stick as charges for this guy. >> dana: the police chief said it is possible that some of the potential victims are going to be too embarrassed to come forward. how important is it that they do so their testimony can be brought to bear? >> that's really interesting because if all they have are victim testimonies, it is going to be difficult for prosecutors because as we all know, you can't just bring in bad character evidence to prove somebody acted in conformity. there will have to be more than that. so hopefully there will be some forensics and recordings, some texts. if they can get a warrant, dana, that's what i would like to see. get a warrant for his house, car, whatever and see if he has a stockpile of date rape drugs or a stockpile of fentanyl or

something causing these women to pass out while they are on an unfortunate date with him. >> dana: there was a study showing that 14% of attacks occurred after meeting on the app. a warning from a doctor. those with mental illness like depression may be more susce susceptible -- in a dating app people can shape themselves however they want to appeal to vulnerable victims. any message for women who might be on these apps? >> please, please, please trust your gut. nobody is going to protect you better than yourself. if you get a bad feeling between the appetizer and main course and you want to sneak out, do it. don't feel bad hurting somebody's feelings. i would rather be wrong and alive than right and dead. that's a message to every woman out there. please trust your gut. >> dana: great to have you. thanks for being on this story

today. >> bill: strong message. from washington the senate has passed a bill protecting the right to same-sex marriage. lawmakers approving the legislation 61-36. a dozen republicans joining democrats. that bill was spurred by concerns the u.s. supreme court could overturn the 2015 decision that legalized gay marriage. the bill goes to the house where it is expected to pass. >> dana: the christmas shopping season colliding with crushing inflation. how half a dozen states are trying to put money in your pocket. america's children dealing with catastrophic learning loss from the pandemic is prompting one gop presidential contender to slam union chief randi weingarten as the most dangerous person in the world. do they have a point? martha maccallum on that straight ahead. ♪ don't know much about history, don't know much biology ♪ ♪ don't know much about a

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>> bill: millions of americans feeling the pinch of high inflation may get a bit of relief. 20 states offering one-time tax credits or rebates to help taxpayers stay ahead of rising costs. both republican and democratic governors looking to spend money from covid relief funds to cover that. some states have delivered payments. others will pay out next year. >> dana: parents are taking the school board to court. guidelines have been designed to cut parental involvement out of

decisions in their children's lives. we have the details. >> these parents in montgomery county, maryland are fighting the school systems transgender policies that says information about a students' transgender status may constituent confidential medical information. disclosing this information to other students, their parents, guardians or third parties may violate privacy laws. some parents are furious arguing the school system's policy is designed to work around parental involvement and what they see a pivotal decision in the lives of their children and enables school personnel to allow students to transition to a different identity at school. from the complaint the plaintiff parents object to the guidelines because they argue they inappropriately instruct schools to withhold information from parents regarding their children's gender identity as expressed at school. the judge is a u.s. district judge in maryland and maintains

the school district's policies doesn't violate parents' right. now a transgender psychologist joined the fight saying the policy will rip families apart. >> all children need their parents. parents are in my experience well meaning. they love their children. we don't want to shut them out and deprive them of the opportunity in this area to love their children in the way that's best for them anymore than we want to shut parents out of the lives of their children in terms of school participation and school performance. >> dr. anderson argues one of the most important factors in helping gender questioning children is family support. dana. >> dana: mike emanuel on the story. >> bill: mike pompeo is going after the head of the teachers union. he writes i challenge randi weingarten, the most dangerous person in the u.s., to beat me.

i think he took it a step farther, too. martha maccallum is here to talk about this. hello to you. i think it was who is the most -- i get asked who is the most dangerous person in the world? the most dangerous person in the world is randi weingarten? >> dana: it's a big charge but i understand where he is coming from. he is talking about the decline of american education and our inability to educate our children. we have lost this sort of wrapping our arms around the idea we want to be competitive and give them an edge and we want to win, right? so this idea of teaching our children and allowing them to win and be competitive in the world has been so dramatically undercut by the learning loss that happened from covid and now a new study that shows more clearly the documentation of how much income these children are likely to lose. it goes back to will they drop out of school in eighth grade? will they drop out of school in high school because they are

struggling to keep up? that leads to the inability to buy a car, to buy a home, to maybe get married, teen motherhood, all these issues that are so complicated. what we have heard from randi weingarten is excuses about what happened. what about solutions to fix it now? this is what i keep coming back to. where is the emergency hair on fire moment? we have an entire department of education which some people argued should be eliminated in the country. i don't know what their purpose could be if it is not to wrap their arms around this in an emergency crisis fashion and say we'll get our kids caught up in the next 18 to 24 months and focus on learning. we aren't going to focus on indoctrination or talk about other stuff. that is a luxury to touch on with children when they don't know how to read and write. >> dana: a lot of covid money that was not spent. i was in preparation for reagan defense forum talking about military readyness. one of the reasons mike pompeo from a national security

standpoint saying this is a problem is talking about recruitment for the people who can be in our military, work in our military and have a career there or maybe just have 4 or 5 years there. that is not even possible if k-12 education isn't good enough and you have a possible 3 or 4 years of losses. you will have a big gap there. >> it is right. the other thing is we have to stop thinking that it's only covid. this was happening long before covid, right? we were already down at number 14, 18 in reading and math and science in the country before covid even happened. i also call on the first lady, an educator. dr. jill biden we were told to refer to her as because she is so committed to education she got a doctorate in it. this would be a perfect thing for her to say i'll fix the learning loss in the next two years and if reelected if they have decide that's what they want to do i want to make sure

our children are in the top five over the course globally. >> bill: you mentioned this. federalist headline number two. covid learning loss could cost american kids $9 hundred billion in lost income. back out to martha. what you are arguing is performance and what pompeo is arguing. 70 countries, american students rank 35th in math. he argues all of this is on weingarten's watch. >> it did happen during her watch. the sense of urgency has absolutely not been there. you know, one of the problems is i dare to say that even the teachers, younger teachers, are the victims themselves of an education system in this country that has sold them short, right? so now you have people who are in their 20s and 30s who are part of this system that has failed us over the prior decades i would argue.

so we need better teacher training, we need teachers to be paid an merit and give them incentive for people who might choose other careers to choose teaching. the teach for america program to be ramped up to solve the problem. a lot of smart college kids out there spend a summer, a year post college working in this program to catch american students up. it is a dire need. it must be addressed and mike pompeo is 100% right on that. >> dana: governor doug ducey. he is saying all the ymcas will be focused on this for two years. in arizona you might be able to take advantage if you're a parent there. >> see you later. >> dana: mega donor soros putting his fingers on the scale of justice and how his pockets are putting soft on crime district attorneys in office. >> we have a major problem in this country with rogue prosecutors who get into office usually funded by people like

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>> dana: well, talk about bad timing for public safety. as a crime wave sweeps across america far left district attorneys backed by george soros will soon take office. tell us more, david. >> fox news digital poured through the records campaign finance records in 50 states. specifically looking for any prosecutor candidates or district attorney candidates that george soros may have backed and found four, at least four in their investigation across the country. two that have been in office and two that are newly elected to office and take the helm soon. let's go to iowa. polk county iowa. the first prosecutor elected in polk county first -- in 30 years, think about that. according to the fox news digital review she received money not directly from soros but different channels that made

it to the local level to her campaign. she won in maine and the cumberland county district attorney. a $3 hundred thousand payment from soros-backed groups to the justice and public safety pac that helped her. in texas, soros money helped out a district attorney gonzalez to win another term and george soros previously helped dallas county district attorney who won again for another term. he defeated his republican challenger by more than 20 points. soros is estimated to be worth south of $10 billion but his original fortune was far greater. he gave away more than $32 billion with a b to help fund some of these progressive causes in the past. he is part of a group called open society foundations. we have reached out to him via representatives. fox news digital has not heard back. >> dana: stay on top of that for us. thank you. >> bill: now to the royal visit.

prince william and kate visiting the u.s. for the first time as prince and princess of wales. they arrive in boston later today in begin their first u.s. trip in eight years. molly line is there in boston to watch everything go down. >> absolutely. hello and good morning, bill. the late queen elizabeth came to boston in 1976 and today her grandson and his wife. the prince and princess of wales that will arrive taking a three-day tour around theaire as part of the festivities surrounding -- founded by prince william and focused on environmental solutions to repair, restore and rejuvenate the planet the earth shot prize is named for president kennedy's speech in 1962 challenging americans to land astronauts on the moon.

the awards will culminate with a ceremony where five winners are announced each receiving 1.2 million toward their programs. a royal visit especially in the states is complicated by the reported tension between prince william and his younger los angeles-based brother harry and his wife meghan. not to be outdone by carolyn, the president of robert f. kennedy human rights a foundation named for her father announced to honor harry and meghan in new york city in a hope award. they went to the oldest institution in u.k. history and said they couldn't have structural racism. just a few hours the prince and princess will be welcomed by the boston mayor. they'll visit nonprofits and green companies leading up to the friday night awards tear

money. >> bill: enjoy the trip. molly line in boston. >> dana: she loves boston. she represents us very well. before we go check this thing out right here. okay. one family's christmas decorations are no match for a hungry bear. this was in lake tahoe. the bear went after an inflatable deer. that's not what he thought it was. the attack was captured on a ring doorbell camera. bummer. he thought he got the prize catch of the season. >> bill: it's plastic. wonder what that felt like in his stomach. >> bill: i'm thinking about getting a tree this year. you can walk down to the deli and pick one up, five feet tall. >> dana: i'm five feet tall. >> bill: it's easy in new york to do that. >> dana: our building dem -- dem

decorated. a lot of people are taking pictures of our all america tree outside. >> bill: i will see you later and make sure on saturday morning you set your alarm and get up early and get the family and friends together. team usa, the show starts at 9:00 eastern. game starts at 10:00 and we'll see if we can win again. >> dana: julie banderas is in for harris, "the faulkner focus" is next. >> fox news alert. critics torching the white house's barely there response to the ongoing protests going on in china. chinese citizens rising up against the communist party's hard line covid lockdowns and demanding freedom. president biden himself has said 0 about the issue. this is "the faulkner focus" and i'm julie banderas in for harris today. critic after critic after critic calling out th