president biden but the two on -- two and twos as they are called are highly diplomatically sensitive, they agree they will take two questions and then exit the room. a little bit of news there, not a whole lot. sandra, macron saying he will continue to talk to putin what to do in ukraine. president biden saying that he is willing to sit down with putin if putin shows a willingness to end the war in ukraine, and a little bit of news there as well on the rail strike. >> sandra: warning on the rail strike that it would cause a recession, john, obviously as they still work towards a solution, and vladimir putin, while he says he continues to fight that war in ukraine, the president urging all support back here at home saying i have no immediate plans to contact vladimir putin, so that is that, about an hour long, john. >> john: to digest all of this, molly hemingway, what do you want to start with?

ukraine, rail strike, something else? >> i thought it was interesting they did talk about the situation in the ukraine. the first part of the press conference how the american taxpayer will be expected to continue funding this proxy war against russia in ukraine. toward the end, the question how to get to a negotiated settlement. this might be, might be entering the best opportunity for a negotiated settlement that we have had since the beginning. both presidents seem to indicate that they would be welcome to that. president macron talked about the need to respect ukraine's wishes on what they are going to get out of that settlement, right and valid since they are the country so harmed here. also true that this country, our country is the one that is mostly financing the operation there, and so we also should have a say in what the terms of that negotiated settlement will be, but there's a lot that's gone wrong and a lot of death and destruction, but a lot of people would like to see an end to this because there is more death and destruction and seems there might be an opening coming

up soon. >> sandra: what was your take away from the discussion on the rail strike and the president warning it would lead to recession. where does that leave us now to avoid it to happening. >> very serious situation. i think people understand the rail system, we have supply chain problems, another thing they were talking about with president macron's frustration with some of the recent democratic legislation that's passed, concerns about how the supply chain changes will act our relationship with france and other countries, and the goal to disrupt china and things that way. our rail system is way behind where it should be. so much happens, so much transported by rail. largely under utilized, a lot more that could be done by rail if there were better financing and funding and these rail workers are very important, they are asking for something and i think congress understands the

need to negotiate here. >> john: what do you think happens with the house bill in the senate. 60 votes to override a potential filibuster, and what do you think happens with the amendment on the paid sick leave? >> i think the rail workers are in a strong position to get the paid sick leave. a lot of frustration of all the presidents in the history of the presidency, the one that these rail workers thought they would have the best chance of getting a good negotiated settlement is joe biden, a name for himself, a user of railways, it's been kicked over to the senate as a problem they have to deal with. but it looks like something will happen there. >> sandra: i was wondering what your take away, too, was, from the energy discussion, not much of one, but the president talked about using the u.s. helping europe to diversefy.

>> it's about president macron talking about how pleased he is the biden administration has worked to return some of those climate changes to our way of handling our economy, he said he was very optimistic about working with biden for the next two years, i noticed he said two years and not six years, which was interesting. these climate change things that are happening are such a burden on taxpayers. this was a very important press conference when it comes to how much american taxpayers are going to have to pay for some of these regulatory changes that the biden administration has agreed to, changes with the ukraine war, it's a very expressive press conference. >> john: a lot may change some january. good to see you.

>> sandra: we have rolled into our two here. new at 2:00, confidence crippling over the state of our u.s. military. a new survey by the reagan institute finds americans losing trust in our national defense. reveals public trust is down 22% since 2018. >> john: largely due to the perception that the institution is becoming overly politicized. >> sandra: and now questions over whether the military is too woke to recruit. the same survey says the majority say they are not willing to serve. >> john: all of this putting a spotlight on the top pentagon officials. >> the american people as the wall street journal wrote about want the military to be focused on deterring wars, and on preparing to prevail in any potential future conflict. >> sandra: so will the pentagon get the message? vivek is on deck with his analysis. >> john: gillian turner is live

at the pentagon, gillian. >> hi, john and sandra. it's not just trust in the u.s. military as an institution on the way. one of the clearest findings from these reagan institute surveys, american's willingness to serve in the military is also on the decline. 26% of respondents are not willing to serve at all, 13% of 18 to 29-year-olds say they are extremely or very willing to join the military. one of the driving factors in lackluster recruitment, the talk of politization. >> we have time to embrace critical race theory at west point, socialism at the national defense university, mandatory pronoun training. >> the most capable, combat critical force in the world. it has been, and will be so going forward. >> american views on priorities overseas emerge clearly in the surveys as well.

three-quarters of respondents say china is a u.s. enemy, up from 58% in 2018. 82% respondents say russia is an enemy as well. 65 percent last year. 71% are concerned russian aggression will inspire other regimes will invade their neighbors. >> taiwan is on the minds of american people. they know it matters to the u.s. economy and are concerned about president xi and the communist party. >> 75% of the americans polled say they do view ukraine as an american ally. they want the biden administration to continue to provide support to the country during the ongoing war. a lot of interesting nuggets from the reagan defense institute in the surveys, john. >> john: a lot of good information comes out of there. thanks so much. >> sandra: vivek, author of "nation of victims," thank you for joining us.

reminder, this was general milley on white rage, from a 2021 house armed services committee budget hearing. listen to this. >> i do think it's important, actually, for those of us in uniform to be open minded and widely read. and the military academy is a university and it is important that we train and we understand, and i want to understand white rage, and i'm white. and i want to understand it. >> sandra: interesting moment there he was defending our military's approach to addressing racism and extremism and now we see where we are today with there reagan national defense survey of trust and confidence in the u.s. military as we just noted, now down to 48% as of november 2022, vivek. >> look, it turns out the u.s. military felt a staggering 25% short of the recruitment goals

this year. that is a big deal. and turns out as if as a nation you are constantly engaged in self-criticism, forgetting the ideals of the nation, but self-criticism, axis of identity politics like race and sexual orientation, fewer young americans want to serve in that military. and so i think our national security and our national spirit go hand-in-hand, it is the responsibility of the military to look after its unique purpose, which is to protect americans from foreign threats, period, and when the military itself veers from that purpose, and itself is a vehicle for becoming a form of self-criticism of the united states, that's when you see the decline of trust in the military, and unfortunately, a decline in the willingness of people to serve in the military, sadly where we are today. >> sandra: when you look when asked in that reagan national defense survey if woke practices decreased american's confidence in the military, majority said,

50%, i should say half said a great deal or some, vivek, you say this and you wonder if the pentagon is going to take a message from this. >> i would certainly hope so. i mean, when any institution veers from its main purpose, people trust that institution less. the military is not an exception. and general mark milley and others like him may think they are exhibiting greater empathy and nuance, greater aspect of the nation's history and failures, but then with critical race theory and ideology, people are less unified wanting to defend the nation. it's clear it has had a toxic effect and should not be a bipartisan issue. it's important we have the military staffed by people who have confidence and enthusiasm to serve this country.

i hope they wake up. >> this is something you've been talking about, the medical industry, a former associate dean telling "fox & friends" that medical schools are virtue signalling with their new curriculum and doctors are talking about the impact that is having on medicine, listen to this. >> the diagnosis that's been made is that there's racism in healthcare producing this outcome. there's no evidence it's true. there are thousands of studies that are terrible that don't prove the point. this seems to be a virtue signalling activity that has gone on and way more than half, probably all the medical schools. >> sandra: what is the risk with medical schools virtue signalling. >> another symptom of a cancer that has infected one institution of american life after another. turns out medicine is not an exception. and when you racialize

something, you silence open debate. people are afraid of being called racist. so the studies to find the systemic racism get published. and editor and chief of "the lancet" forced to step down for allowing a podcast where a participant said they did not believe there was systemic racism in medicine. it has created a culture of fear that stifles open dialogue and debate and i will tell you the progress of science, progress of medicine, the progress of any field depends on free speech and open debate and i think this culture of so-called anti-racism has put a wet blanket on that dialogue. >> sandra: appreciate you joining us on all of that. thank you, a lot to think about there, john. >> john: yeah, no question about that. vivek always gives such great food for thought as well, so articulate. >> sandra: i think everybody's ears perk up when you see what's

happening in the military and as a result you see the drop in confidence from americans in our military, we worry about recruiting, we worry about the messaging coming from the top, interesting to rewind to 2021, heard that from general milley and if the pentagon will get the message and make any changes. >> john: we will continue to watch that. and the latest dispatch from the mauna loa eruption on the big island of hawaii. associated press reporting geysers of red hot lava as high as 200 feet into the hawaiian school. only miles from reaching an important highway, some people have decided to hit the road before the lava does. william has been monitoring the eruption. why is this highway such a big deal for folks there? >> i think you know, it's a major shortcut from hilo in the east, and kona in the west, 45

minutes versus two and a half hours on the coast road. a lot of tourists will show up soon, could be a major headache. the top of the screen, you see the narrow rivers of lava, that means it's very steep. if you look at the bottom, where it circled there, it's more like a lake. that tells us the terrain is flattening out and the lava is slowing down. t two vents are feeding the streams. the question is, how long will it last? that will largely determine the damage. the last lava floe lasted three weeks and came close to hilo. right now, there are no threats but spewing a lot of toxic gasses affecting those with respiratory issues. this full screen will show you that lava is 3.1 miles away from closing saddle road, the one we talked about.

if that happens, months to reopen. >> take ten of the biggest dump trucks, we are getting that many dump trucks of lava every second delivered by this lava floe. so if you think you can pile up stuff i want front of it faster than it can deliver, you are wrong. >> it's a magnet for tourists. but there is a safety problem, you have the speeding heavy trucks and tourists that don't mix. >> there's a lot of fear and trepidation if you get close to it. go up to the craters and look into it, it's powerful. the closer you get, the more powerful it is and the scary it is. >> could officials divert the floe of lava, yes and no. to native hawaiians pele is

sacred, and it's not on the table. this is one of the things to get close to without getting killed. >> john:'s spectacular. sandra. >> sandra: just getting this in now, john, the senate is set to vote this afternoon on averting a rail strike. a lot hinging on this decision, obviously, as the country watches what happens next, john. >> john: a deal chuck schumer announced to bring it to the floor, on the seven paid sick leave days. don't know if it will happen this afternoon or tomorrow, but the president wraps it up by tomorrow afternoon. also coming up new at 2:00, learning an important new detail from inside the murder scene in idaho but not coming to us from investigators. we are hearing about it from frustrated parents. that's as police appear to give conflicted statements over the

past 24 hours whether the four victims were actually targeted and whether this was an isolated incident. we'll hear from a veteran investigator what it tells him about how police in idaho are handling this case. >> sandra: president biden holding the first state dinner of his presidency, he welcomes emmanuel macron tonight. but overshadowed by what they are going to serve tonight. the dinner drama coming up. veteran homeowners, need cash? with the newday 100 loan, there are no upfront costs

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>> john: we went to break knowing there was an agreement

to bring the rail strike measures to the floor, we were not sure when it was going to happen, well, they didn't waste any time, it's on the floor right now. three votes taking place. first vote on a 60 day cooling off period for the rail unions, would push it back a bit. the second, amendment for seven days paid sick leave, the measure that bernie sanders from vermont insisted voted on, and the third approved house bill, sandra, to prohibit a rail strike. we should know in the next hour, 90 minutes what's happening. >> sandra: if they attach the sullivan amendment, it will go back to the house, and schumer said i'm glad the two sides have come together to avoid a shutdown, which would be bad for the country, i hope we can add the sick days. so monitoring that. >> john: and whether or not the sick days pass, they can still pass the bill to prohibit the

strike that was passed out of the house, stand alone. >> sandra: we are watching the senate floor. take the news from there. we will bring that to our viewers. at the other end of pennsylvania avenue, the president is getting set to hold the first state dainer of his presidency. and they sang each other's praises, their relationship has strained over numerous economic disputes. peter, you didn't get to fire off a question formally, you tried as the president departed the room but what did we learn? >> we learned the inflations with the inflation reduction act, the french think it's creating too many jobs for the u.s., at the risk of broader jobs in france. most defensive and animated president biden got was when the

topic was on the rail deal. he says that he just wants to sign the bill to avoid a deal. he says he supports the seven days of paid leave, says he supports paid leave for everybody. however, it does not sound like that is a priority for these threatening to strike rail union workers. listen. >> i love you guys, i negotiated a contract no one else could negotiate. only thing left out, whether or not it was paid leave. you know i've been trying to get paid leave, not just for rail workers, for everybody. but that other team, called the republicans, they voted against it, said we could not do it. one of the few nations in the world that don't have paid leave for the workers. >> another issue of joint cooperation between the u.s. and france is the war in ukraine, and figuring out how to get putin to leave ukraine. both of these leaders seem satisfied, just funneling security assistance to the forces that are resisting putin's forces in ukraine, they

do not seem like they are in a big rush to try to get the russians and the ukrainians to a negotiating table. >> i have no immediate plans to contact mr. putin. mr. putin is, i mean, choose my words very carefully, i'm prepared to speak with mr. putin if in fact there is an interest in him deciding he's looking for a way to end the war. he has not done that yet. >> very notable, too, the joint statement between president biden and emmanuel macron the staff put together features support for protestors in iran. it does not feature support for protestors in china. sandra. >> sandra: peter, thank you. john. >> john: the focus for tonight's big state dinner has turned to the menu being served and the tasty maine lobster more than

300 guests will be chowing down as their entree'. but a main democratic congressman is talking about it, saying president biden should not serve lobster because they industry. sean duffy, and juan williams. congressman jared golden, democrat from maine said on twitter, highly critical of the president, if the biden white house can prioritize purchasing 200 maine lobsters for a fancy dinner, the president should also take the time to meet with the maine lobstermen they are regulating out of business. back in 2020, the president said he was going to take care of blue collar fishermen, including lobstermen and nada has been done since then. >> if the question is to me, john -- >> i'm looking at you. >> i think what you have to do

here is understand that this is a moment where the congressman can get attention for lobstermen. his constituents and doing a good job of it. is it realistic, i don't think so. i mean, in fact, lobster is a high price right now, a great year last year. big problem is not with the administration or regulation it's like whole foods who said they are going to stop selling maine lobster. why, because the fact the netting often times traps whales and things. but i just want to stop and get away from the politics and say you know, this is a moment when we all as americans want to celebrate the country at a state dinner, and to put on the best space and the best food and you know, beauty of america to our guests. and he's chosen maine lobsters. i think that's -- >> john: one of the reasons is, it's a red, white and blue dinner, and the lobsters turn the reddish color. >> and people like eating lobsters. >> i take juan's point. but joe biden said i'm going to

step in and meet with them and help them get their businesses back up and running so they don't go out of business. but it does not surprise me, john. democrats who want to shut down lobster fishing want to eat lobster, shut down american oil and gas, but they still want to fly private jets and drive in their suvs. open up the border but they don't want illegal immigrants in their neighborhoods or their cities. just more hypocrisy that comes from democrats whether it's lobsters, oil or immigration, the list is long, but does not surprise me. >> john: your point about whole foods boycotting maine lobster. the president is flying in the face of lobstermen and also environmentallists with the dinner with macron. >> right. but understand time and again. what you have here is a situation where everyone wants the lobster industry to succeed. i don't think anybody says oh, we don't like lobster, to your point, sean, but the thing is, that there are also wider concerns about whales and other environmental issues and you have to find a way to deal with

it. the congressman, i can't finds fault with him. he's going to go after biden, ok. this is the moment to do it to get attention for the lobstermen. you said hypocrisy, no, people like lobster, but you got -- >> if you promise to meet with the lobstermen, meet with them. and you balk on the promise to them and i agree with you, he should call this out and bring attention, you know. >> at this moment. >> john: the point is, your point is, if you eat their product, meet with the people. >> have a meeting. >> john: i want to ask you about the rail strike, the senate is voting right now. what happened to union joe? he took this thing and said oh, four unions don't want it, give it to congress. >> it's so weak. engineers, trainmen, eight of them -- i think out of the 13 unions agreed to the deal. >> john: four didn't. >> and biden is for the

benefits. tremendous impact on our economy including other jobs -- >> john: one said joe biden blew it, simply asking congress for legislation to end on a national strike more favorable to workers, he could not advocate for a lousy handful of sick days. both pawns of corporations. bernie sanders brought it up. >> stop a strike from happening, it will devastate the economy, damage it significantly. they are going to come back, probably pass in the senate, sent back to the house, no strike, sick days, everyone will be happy. but joe biden could have fought harder for the unions and that's why you see union men and women leaving the traditional home in the democratic party. >> john: does not have to come back to the house unless they

have the 60-day cooling off period. see what happens. >> stop the strike. >> john: john, sean, juan, a ring to it. >> sandra: very well done, looking for an update from the senate floor. no news as of yet. john, playgrounds are no longer safe from the fentanyl crisis. a 10-month-old accidentally ingested the drug while playing. >> john: and the four college student murders, how investigators are walking back. >> every time i wake up i remember what's going on, and it's like that's -- i don't know how you ever get used to this. it's never going to -- >> life will never be the same. -- go away. g.

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>> sandra: a major update on the investigation into the college murder mystery in idaho. police are walking back previous claims the killer targeted one or more of the four victims in the off campus home. also learning for the first time through the father of one of the victims that the victims died in the same bed as each other. it was one of the victims and her best friend who spent a lot of time together. revealed that at the vigil last night. but the victims' families are frustrated at the vigil. >> they looked at colleges, they came here together, they got in the same apartment together, and in the end, they died together in the same room, in the same bed. and it's a shame and it hurts.

beauty of the two always being together something that will, it comforts us. >> sandra: so heartbreaking. joe cardinalli, you have seen so many crime scenes, the father was revealing something police have not revealed to the public. in if that is the case you are suggesting perhaps the father is making assumption, but he's revealing that vigil last night two of the victims were in bed together when they were killed. >> right, we don't know if that was the norm for them, they were so close, you know, in bed together, they sleep together, it's a point that if the police did release that to the father and he blurted it out, that's one thing, or the father could be assuming it. but even though it's two weeks into this, we are still gathering a lot of information and it's so important that people just be patient with this. regardless if they think that is a blunder made here or there, the police have to do their

investigation and they have to be patient with this. because sometimes these things go for weeks, months, years. but you know, you never know. they have to get to the basics of this right now and sort everything out and it's such a large scene inside there as the pictures, you know, demonstrate. >> sandra: and by the way, the father that you just heard from at the vigil is going to be joining martha next hour with his story, of course, and his ultimate sadness of the passing of his daughter. this is madison's father on the investigation. to your point about this takes time, a certain level of frustration growing with the parents with not getting any answers right now. >> always just hope for a resolution of something like this so we can start moving on. it seems like they should have figured it out by now. >> sandra: understandably. >> absolutely understandably. this is their loved ones, they want answers. i would want answers, you would

want answers, but sometimes the answers just aren't there, and i would not speculate to the parents and say well, maybe this -- there's no maybes involved here. you want to give them concrete answers that are going to give them some closure. so if it's not there, you can't give it. sometimes you might give the family something the press does not know and nobody else knows, you might say listen, looking like this, keep it confidential we need your help with it. that's one avenue you can go down. but if you don't have it, you don't release it. it's a very, you know, simple fact over there. >> sandra: i'll finish with this question, some new images coming from inside of the house. not officially released by the police, but the crime scene is accessible now, appears some journalists have gotten up close to the window and taken pictures. the house was left -- it's still in the exact condition it was the night the victims returned back t their home. it's a mess. it's a college off campus house. beer bottles, solo cups, food

left out, coffee cubs from starbucks, understandably a mess, it's a college house. i'm wondering from you if they need to go back through that crime scene, if they -- if nothing turns up in the coming weeks will they comb back over that crime scene? >> it's going to be a little tough now that they have released it, it's going to complicate things even further. the fact they went through it a few times and back and forth, maybe they were getting pressure from the family they wanted to get some of their loved ones possessions out of there for other, you know, sometimes we let them in funeral purposes and everything. or something the pressure, when can we get this, and they say hey, guys, are we done with this, everything we needed, and that's when they will let them in. but a crime scene like that is very tough, difficult to process because you have so many things you have to take into consideration, and elimination prints are very big in this. >> sandra: bill daly made the

same point, it's a college off campus house, it's not cleaned very often and a lot of people are coming and going, this takes a lot of time. good to have you here today, thank you. we hope to know more soon. thanks, joe. john. >> john: a day at the park turned into a nightmare for a san francisco father who says his 10-month-old son was poisoned by fentanyl while playing in the park. emergency workers saved the child's life by giving him narcan. claudia reporting from california, happened at a popular family park in a nicer neighborhood. >> that's right, john. the upscale marina district far from the open air drug market downtown at the tenderloin, and also next to a middle school. it's unclear how the 10-month-old obtained and ingested the fentanyl, but appears while he was playing in a pile of leaves with his nanny

and twin brother nearby. according to his nanny, he lost consciousness and turned blue, and she called the father, and harrowing scene. he came upon the scene, the boy was given cpr and narcan. he was back to his normal self a few hours later. he said we came out of it with a positive story and tell other people to be aware this is a risk. the incident is under investigation. police say they have not found any fentanyl there, but nannys say along with the child in their care, they have to watch out for needles and people who appear to be high. >> it really concerns me to see the constant proximity of those who in my opinion who appear to be under the influence of drugs and addicted, how close they are to our parks. >> one local supervisor tweeted "hopefully this will serve as a

wake-up call to those who are content with our status quo response to this crisis." san francisco has a harm reduction approach. rather than pushing drug users into treatment and recovery, according to medical officials, more than 500 people in san francisco have overdosed this year. 359 of those deaths were caused by fentanyl. no question this little boy is lucky to be alive, john, and police say they are stepping up patrols around that park. >> john: another black eye for a once beautiful city. claudia, thank you. >> sandra: surprising admission from a one-time twitter executive who says it was wrong to censor the hunter biden laptop story. why did it take so long? and will former employees speak out. >> john: and the senate voting to avoid a rail strike ahead of the holiday season? can we expect to see an

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byron donalds voted no, i got your press release yesterday, you voted no, because you don't believe congress has any business in this, why not. >> number one, even though they are using a law from 1926 that says congress can act in it but does not mean we should. listen, joe biden and his administration, they are the ones that negotiated the deal between the rail car unions and the railroad companies. they are the ones that did that. eight of the 12 unions supported the deal. there were four, the largest four, their union bosses are the ones holding out, and they are the ones who are holding the american economy hostage, essentially. so, now you are going to come to congress to bail out the negotiations? number one, that does not mean the unions have to agree to it, they could say no, ignore congress like they ignored the president. number two, are we saying congress will settle labor

disputes in the united states? it's not our purview, not what we should be doing. >> john: looks like the senate will probably approve all this. another story we have spoken about before, hunter biden story on twitter before elon musk bought it, and now they acknowledge blocking the story was a mistake. and he said we did not know what to believe, what was true, smoke and ultimately for me it did not reach a place where i was comfortable removing the content from twitter. he really is deflecting blame here. asked if it was a mistake to block the story from being shared, he said yes. and two years later they say by the way, the stuff was true. >> look, the only reason they are coming to the table now, house republicans are taking over and we are going to investigate. if the democrats are still in charge you would not be getting the statements from them. the social media executives need

to understand, you have a platform but you don't have a right to decide what's true and what is false. that is something where investigations due diligence, people deliberate and finding out the facts comes from, not just because you own a social media platform. this is what's wrong in the united states, and i will go further. it is critically clear to me the white house has been influencing to suppress stories and free speech, that is a violation of the first amendment. we are going to investigate this. if you truly believe in democracy, you believe in the american people able to freely share their ideas and should not be censored because somebody is not comfortable. >> john: it's going to be a busy year next year, the next two, for that matter. congressman byron donalds from the great state of florida. great to talk to you. >> any time. >> john: quick update, when we

were talking with senator mike braun about the ftx hearings, nine members of the agriculture committee received campaign donations from ftx, among those was mitch mcconnell, john thune, and joni ernst, didn't know what they did with the donations. six other members had given them back. senator ernst's office says she has given the money to charities in iowa, including food banks. so she now joins the other six who are saying they gave the money to charities as well. >> sandra: and some you know, one way to do it, some critics say it should go into a fund to go back to victims, some have lost millions of dollars and others life savings. and news out of the supreme court a moment ago, the supreme court said it would hold arguments in february on the merits of the biden student loan forgiveness program, enforcement remains on hold, so that just

in, john. >> john: and meantime, the president keeps getting around what's going on in the court by just delaying the deadline to restart student loan payments. so, we'll see who wins out in this argument eventually. >> sandra: all right. that does it for us. thank you so much for joining us. i'm sandra smith. >> john: i'm john roberts. we will see you again tomorrow for another edition of "america reports."

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>> martha: good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum at fox news head quarters in new york. in moments, i'll speak with the fare of one of the four students that were viciously slain in their off campus home. we'll get to that in just a moment. but first, congress in the middle of a hearing, the big crypto collapse and the man behind it.