pathway gets more narrow and the margins have to be even bigger for walker in order for him to have a chance. >> bill: okay. i take it we'll have a late night. maybe not. brian, thank you out of atlanta. nice to see you, sir. >> dana: love having brian on. fox news alert. top of the hour topping the news. ftx founder sam bankman-fried is headed from the bahamas to the hot seat on capitol hill but he may not be ready in time for a planned hearing. what's behind that potential delay? a class action lawsuit against ticketmaster after the taylor swift ticket fiasco. we'll talk to the team leading the case. the biden administration is now considering quote drastic measures at the border. what could those be? we're live in eagle pass, texas with more on all those stories throughout the hour. first elon musk releases new information on the inner workings of twitter and

political influence over its content including suppression of the hunter biden laptop story. welcome in a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino. good morning. >> bill: good morning. i'm bill hemmer. good morning at home. musk gave the documents to a journalist who published them on friday night in a series of tweets. they include details on twitter's efforts to block the "new york post" reporting on hunter biden's laptop only weeks before the election of 2020. musk saying that more, quote, smoking guns are on the way for release. >> you'll see over the next weeks and month is elon musk is going to slowly produce more information and more evidence of involvement. what i predict you are going to see in the weeks and months ahead are things that the biden administration did to suppress conservative free speech and encourage twitter to ban certain people who were hostile to the biden administration and their

policies? that should be concerning to every american when the federal government is involved in suppressing free speech. >> bill: let's see who is willing to talk about it. hillary vaughn is live on the hill in washington today. good morning. >> good morning, bill. house republicans are promising to investigate after elon musk did release this stash of internal company documents detailing what led to not only the hunter biden laptop story being censored but how other accounts and tweets were deleted and banned at the request of political parties like the biden campaign in 2020. >> how is this different than what is happening in china today where they try to control every single person? now we're finding government used businesses to control what we could find out, what we can say, whether we could even forward or retweet. where is the uprising? >> the independent reporter said it was routine for high profile celebrities and the biden

campaign to request twitter to take action against certain accounts saying by 2020, requests from connected actors to deleted tweets were -- to delete tweets were routine. more to review from the biden team. the reply would come back handled. the reporter noting that both parties had access to these tools and in 2020 the trump white house also put in requests but says the system wasn't balanced because it was based on contacts. democrats had more ways to complain than the gop. elon musk says it's the very definition of election interference. >> twitter is doing one team's bidding before an election, shutting down dissenting voices on a pivotal election that is a very definition of election interference. twitter was acting like an arm of the democratic national committee. it was absurd. >> in terms of the hunter biden laptop story, even those at

twitter were not sure their hacked materials policy excuse was going to hold. the reporter tweeted they freelanceed it. hacking was the excuse but within a few hours pretty much everyone realized that wasn't going to hold but no one had the guts to reverse it. bill. >> bill: hillary vaughn from the hill. more to come on that right nouchlt >> dana: let's bring in marc thiessen former speech writer to george w. bush. andy mccarthy has this headline. we haven't talked about this yet. how the f.b.i.'s nod and wink got social media to censor the post hunter biden reporting. andy goes on to say the players know exactly what they are doing. they say enough to endorse the lie but leave themselves room to deny that they did so and then they think we're idiots. marc. >> well, ask yourself a simple question. why is the left so freaked out about the fact that elon musk has taken over twitter?

they control every other social media platform except for tiktok which is controlled by china. it's not like their monopoly have been broken but musk has the receipts and now has the information that he can put out to show that there was a systematic suppression of conservative speech and a systematic manipulation of the american electorate. he has the evidence. that's exactly what happened. these are the same people who in 2016 were upset that the russians were spreading disinformation and this called into question the legitimacy of donald trump's presidency. in 2020, they were the ones spreading disinformation saying ironically that the hunter biden laptop was russian disinformation when we know it was not. and twitter just gave in and at the behest of the f.b.i. with whom they were having weekly meetings. the biden campaign and 51 former intelligence officials. we need to get to the bottom of

this came about. not just the story, they deplatformed the "new york post." it's incredible. >> bill: clapper and brennan, they were the ones ironically guilty of disinformation, marc. >> 100%. think about this. twitter allowed the ayatollah to have the twitter account and vladimir putin to continue tweeting and the taliban and chinese foreign ministry to continue tweeting but they suppressed the "new york post." that was their priority. and as part -- at the behest of these 51 intelligence officials. now that republicans have control of congress they need to call up the 51 intelligence officials under subpoena and find out how this letter got started. i've been on letters like this where you sign your name and calling for a specific policy. it gets started by somebody. somebody has the pen and it is

circulated by somebody and a campaign to do it. who is behind this? where did it start? >> dana: there are many retired intelligence officials who are furious about this. they didn't sign it. they weren't approached to sign it because there are only certain people approached to sign it and gave it a lot of weight. beyond the -- let's just say that you don't care for the "new york post" and you are a democrat. the fact that they are not more concerned overall about censorship of ideas. thankfully khanna was telling twitter this is terrible. he said i'm a biden partisan but this story is turning it one of censorship. >> khanna deserves great credit for that and unfortunately his voice on the left was few and far between. the reason they weren't complaining about it is because the censorship was only going in one direction. they controlled all the platforms. if you have a monopoly on social

media and suppressing conservatives that's not a big concern for you. now you're not in control anymore. elon musk has twitter and is now replat forming the people you deplatformed and giving them a voice. all of a sudden now they are concerned it could go the other way. i don't think musk would do what the left did to the right but we have a conspiracy that we're dealing with. we spent all this money on the mueller probe chasing a conspiracy theory that donald trump colluded with the russians. this is an actual conspiracy between the f.b.i., former officials and biden campaign to shut down a story that would have harmful and gave an excuse to the media not to cover it. when joe biden was debating donald trump, he said on the debate stage that this was a russian plant. no one questioned him. cnn questioned whether donald trump was spreading russian disinformation because he raised

it. that's how bad it was. so this is a big, big scandal. everybody should be concerned about it. it threatens our democracy. >> bill: makes you think the lack of curiosity from other media outlets suggests it may not go anywhere. we'll see. it is out there for now but may not go anywhere. >> dana: the house republicans have just won the majority and there will be more coverage of that. >> bill: there will be hearings. like we said last hour there were hearings before and nothing came of those. >> dana: you could have hearings and go nowhere. >> bill: last work, marc. >> just the truth will out now. the republicans have subpoena power. i expect every 51 of those officials to be called up to congress and testify under oath about what they knew and what they said in that letter and we are going to find out what was behind all this. >> bill: nice to have you on today. see you later. what he points out, too, the wuhan lab leak theory that was suppressed as well.

the piece about andy mccarthy. he says caution in that letter. caution for the 51 intel meant suppression, just not in so many words. >> dana: rather than just saying we're not sure, this could be but here is the story for you to read anyway. >> bill: more on that when we get out the next series. elon musk says he will. >> bill: oral arguments before the supreme court on the limits of free speech. a woman's refusal to create a website for a same sex wedding. david spunt on the steps of the u.s. supreme court with more on this today. david, good morning. >> hi, bill. whether they want it or not this issue puts the nine supreme court justices directly in the middle of a culture war. i want to address the noise right now outside the supreme court. a big crowd supporting this

business owner saying that her right to the first amendment of the constitution has been violated. we have a group out here where it says create freely right now with balloons and out here for several hours showing support for her. lori smith runs 303 creative. online graphic design firm refusing to create custom wedding websites for same sex couples. she says marge is only between one man and one woman. she is worried state officials will punish her explaining why she won't create every message that a client may want. listen. >> colorado is censoring and compelling my speech forcing me to communicate, celebrate, create for messages that go against my deeply-held beliefs. >> there is a law in colorado called the anti-discrimination act forbids business owners from refusing public services based

on race, disability and sexual orientation, among other protected classes. officials make clear if you offer a product, even an artistic service, it must be offered to all. >> 303 creative prevails here, then any business that can be characterized as expressive. that's a lot of businesses, could start putting up signs saying no jews served, no christians served, no blacks served. we had that practice during jim crow. i don't think we want that practice back again. >> free speech will be the main consideration for the justices but they can't escape the underlying religious context. the underlying context cannot be ignored. the court's 6-3 conservative majority expected to rule in favor of this business owner. we'll see what happens this

case, since it is contentious will come down at the end of term, a lot of support out here. more support for the business owner than those against the business owner, bill and dana. >> bill: we'll see where it goes. david spunt, u.s. supreme court. >> dana: an update on the flu, covid and rsv. pushing hospitals to the brink. my mom was talking about that in denver this weekend. what experts say is behind the surge in cases and whether it could get worse. >> bill: t-swifty fans filing a lawsuit against ticketmaster. the ticket fiasco is not over yet. can they win against the ticket giant? ♪ those who tried me felt more energy in just two weeks. uhhhh... here, i'll take that. [woo hoo!] ensure max protein, with 30 grams of protein, one gram of sugar and nutrients for immune health.

>> dana: swiftys are steaming mad. two dozen eye rate taylor swift fans are suing ticketmaster for fraud and more over the ticket sales disaster last month. we have details. good morning, william. >> good morning. whether you want to hold a concert or attend one you are likely going to deal with ticketmaster and the basis of this lawsuit that claims the company violated antitrust laws by knowingly selling tickets to scalpers and bots to make additional fees when tickets were resold misled preregistered fans. released a small number of tickets to intentionally jack prices in the sale and resale market. illegally sold tickets to wipes prior to a general release and

obstructed view tickets without telling buyers and pulled particulars from buyers' baskets before they could complete the sale. 2500 for each violation putting any settlement in the millions. it began to unravel in november when ticketmaster anticipating demands had fans get in line electronically to pre-register. millions signed up. on sale day fans overwhelmed it and scalpers reselling tickets for $25,000 and many pre-registered fans got nothing. taylor swift said the company told her it could handle the demand. they said there were bought bot attacks. the senate plans to investigate for fraud and price fixing. followed ticketmaster merger with live nation a few years ago. tickets averaged $2500 days

after they went on sale. and basically they allege the plaintiffs ticketmaster was a player in this practice that allowed them to make money on the resale market. >> dana: we'll see where it goes. thank you. >> bill: a lot of disappointed fans. you are about to meet one now. julie and her attorney. good morning to both of you. both fans of taylor swift and got caught up in this. let's see if there is an avenue here. julie, i read your story and tell our audience what you went through. if i were you i would have thrown the laptop out the window. >> i felt like it. >> bill: ticketmaster said 3.5 million pre-registered. 1.5 million were given a promo code. 2 million put on a waiting list. you log on, a fan and what happened? >> i logged on and was in a

waiting queue. i think i was sitting in line between 3 1/2 to 4 hours before i first got in. when i initially got in it is a frantic grab for tickets. you have to grab tickets, put them in your cart and told someone else got them. i did it a couple times. finally got in and able to hit purchase only to have the site crash and kick me back out in the queue. then that kind of was a wash, rinse repeat for nine hours. all in all 41 times i was able to get tickets in my cart. 41 times i tried to buy tickets and i was never able to. i did try the second day on the capital one pre-sale. i signed up for the card for this purpose. only to find out that my card was declined because i had over $14,000 in charges pending from the 41 attempts to buy tickets. i walked away unable to buy tickets. >> bill: i know it was

frustrating and upset about it. something legally objectionable against you? >> i would say yes. you got in and tickets were priced differently than what we were told they would be priced. tickets would disappear before you could even get them. i have talked to so many people. a lot of people who either didn't get pre-sale codes or some people that did and not necessarily fans. i don't know how they vetted who technically was a verified fan. you didn't have to enter the code until you were ready to buy the ticket. there could have been a lot of people in that line that didn't have codes. >> bill: your attorney works in dallas and are you in salt lake city. jennifer, welcome to the discussion here. what would make this right? you bring a civil suit for a reason. what are you looking for? >> the system needs to change. the system is broken.

and so what is needed is transparency. ticketmaster needs to disclose how many tickets they are releasing. they need to disclose to fans what their chances, what the reality is of the sale. how many tickets are released, how many -- we would love to hear how many ticketmaster how many bots and scalpers were on the site that day. we believe that some were given to scalpers and to bots not even taylor swift fans. there is no transparency about these tickets. you see tickets now on sale for $25,000. who is the seller of these tickets? how are they getting them? they are not going to taylor swift fans. taylor swift fans did not have an opportunity to actually purchase the tickets. they stood in line, they were in a queue line for hours only to

find out that they couldn't purchase tickets or there weren't tickets available. so we need some answers about what really happened that day. you would think that a company where the ceo makes $30 million a year they would have the technology in place to keep bots and scalpers out of the sale so that the real fans, the people that taylor swift intended to have tickets, would actually have the opportunity to get a ticket. >> bill: last question, jennifer, i read you are looking for $2500 for each violation. how much money is that? how many violations were there? >> it's not enough to right the wrongs that happened on that day. i don't know what the total is going to be. there is a punitive element. depends on what a judge and jury thinks about this. >> bill: does julie get $2500 in

the end if you win? is that the endgame? >> the antitrust laws give you the difference in what you had to pay versus what the value of the ticket was. times the damages by three and there is a punitive element left for a judge and jury to decide. >> bill: you are out of tickets. good luck to you, julie. i think it will work out in the end and i think you'll get your tickets, trust me on this. >> i hope so. i would say in the words of taylor swift, band-aids don't fix bullet holes. >> you are exactly right. thank you. jennifer and julie, i hope it works out. you are both fans. thanks for your time. >> dana: the pentagon saying the u.s. reached a pivotal moment in its relationship with china. why that is putting a renewed focus on america's military might. the white house reportedly considers an overhaul of its immigration policies.

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border patrol agents working with deputies have made the largest seizure of fentanyl. it was in liquid form trance ported in a secret compartment of a gas tank. the chief of the reef owe grand valley it was enough fentanyl to kill 5.6 million people. equal to the population of houston, texas. this comes on the heels of a stop on the mexican side of the border where 660 pounds of fentanyl were seized. the deadly opiates were concealed in coconuts set to cross in arizona. >> the sophistication they use to smuggle dangerous fentanyl. to date the texas department of public saved has seized over 6,000 pounds and 350 million lethal doses of fentanyl. >> in laredo in november they

seized 8.3 million methamphetamine. it was in a trailer that appeared to be empty. there was a secretary inspection. dog used and methamphetamine were discovered. driver and passenger were arrested. the flow of migrants is constant. nearly every morning groups in the hundreds are arriving in eagle pass, texas. title 42 was a tool that allowed agents on this side of the border to send back about a third of them. towns on the border now are bracing for increased traffic when title 42 is finally done away with. >> dana: lots of concern down there. thank you, mike tobin. >> bill: for more on how the white house plans to address the crisis and what it could mean for a biden re-election campaign. rich rich --

>> they're increasing prosecutions for those crossing illegally according to axios. moderate democrats say the white house needs more of that especially as president biden considers running for re-election. they are warning the white house that republicans will campaign relentlessly on record encounters at the southern border during his term and they are telling him to change course. >> the republicans, whoever runs against the president will use open borders, etc. , etc. the way they used it against some democrats. i think he still has time to start really addressing the border in a compassionate way but at the end of the day you have to enforce the law. >> he says the white house has the tools to address the border in a compassionate way though he is not sure if they will. fox news poll conducted a month from the mid-term elections republicans had a 20 point advantage on addressing border security.

analysts say the president always has to look beyond holding the white house in 2024. >> they have the control of the senate and the white house. this is a necessity not just because of the substance of the issue but because republicans are in position to take the senate if the democrats don't moderate on a host of issues. >> in two years americans will vote to fill 33 seats in the senate. democrats control 23 of them. a much more difficult landscape for them heading into the next cycle. >> bill: rich edson, thanks, washington, d.c. >> dana: defense secretary lloyd austin says the u.s. reached a pivotal moment in its relationship with china and the stakes couldn't be higher. >> these next few years will set the terms of our competition with the peoples republic of china. and they will shape the future of security in europe and they will determine whether our children and grandchildren inherit an open world of rules

and rights, or whether they face ought congratulations who seek to dominate by force and fear. >> dana: let's bring in general jack keane. in the last few years you see a consensus bipartisan that china is an adversary and it is a pivotal moment. where do we stand? >> you are right about bipartisan consensus. at the reagan forum, their survey indicated 75% of the american people see china as a major threat. look, they are trying to replace the united states as the world's number one global power. they want to change the world order as we know it that was established post world war ii and prevented world war iii. the democracies united under u.s. leadership over these 70 plus years provided that degree of stability. china wants no part of that.

they want their own sphere of flew in the world. they see the united states as the declining power and look at the divisions we have in our country and see themselves as a rising power. we have a fundamental ideological struggle. at the heart of their movement is the control of their population. and the repression that it brings to their people and the aggression abroad. they believe their authoritarian model will outlast and win over the united states's model of an open democracy. xi talks about this all the time. >> bill: mike turner from ohio was talking about china over the weekend and said this on cbs. >> when china is expanding nuclear weapons. if we blink, if we don't respond they assume they can get first strike capabilities that holds us at bay but at risk. then you have the leader of a

nuclear power that might make that miscalculation and cost unfathomable lives. >> bill: you helped build up our own forces. there was a big reveal in california. the b-21 not yet ready for operation but this is something that has been in the planning stages for 30 years. >> right. >> bill: it is a stealth plane that can fly either with a pilot or without and it can carry nuclear munitions. do the chinese have anything close to an aircraft like this? >> they are developing stealth technology like we have and also developing an unmanned stealth bomber which this is as well. they have clearly advanced technology over the united states. something that the united states has not been behind on technology, you know, since the end of world war ii and the most significant technology is hypersonic glide missiles.

they have that capability and we're still testing to get our capability. and it is a serious deficiency. the bomber fortunately, because it is stealth, can penetrate china's air defense systems. that's key. we have a b-two bomber now that's stealth but 30, 40 years old. this has advanced technology on it and most of it is classified in terms of what can happen. it will be a significant instrument in the united states military kit bag and in the region so our audience understands while we're the world's number one military power. we have hundreds of bases around the world. china has one outside of china and can deploy our military any place in the world. we have seen it happen time and time again. china cannot project power like that. in the region where taiwan is off the coast of china, chain ya outguns and outmans us. more ship, more airplanes and missiles than the united states has. it just is a fact.

at some point quantity has a quality all of its own. and we have got to fix that as quickly as we possibly can because we don't want to give president xi and his military leaders any incentive to take action against taiwan because they have a military advantage over the united states. so that as far as i'm concerned is job one to fix that deficiency we have in the region. >> dana: one last question. when you see a reveal like that, to me it is amazing and incredible and you probably have known about this bomber coming for a long time but a reveal like that for the american people, for me there is a lot of pride there. >> there should be. the united states is out front on most military technologies in the world. and this is something that the united states started before any other country did. that is the stealth technology where that airplane, as you look at it, it is designed in a way for radar systems not to be able to detect it.

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is still in the bahamas but says he will testify before the house financial services committee about his crypto exchange's massive collapse. he may not be able to make it to the december 13th deadline. he tweeted this to committee chair maxine waters, once i've finished learning and reviewing what happened i would feel it was my duty to appear before the committee and explain. i'm not sure that will happen by the 13th. when it does i will testify. let's bring in clay travis, outkick founder. i read that and this is not your decision, sir. >> well, i keep waiting for someone to show up and arrest him because this is like bernie madoff with better pr. all he has done is try to send as many different messages. he did "the new york times," given different interviews and quotes to media. as a result, it is trying to send the message i've got nothing to hide here and he is trying to claim, dana, and it keeps growing, that really, he

didn't know what was going on. and that the implosion of this company, the billions of dollars in lost investor money, was not his fault but it was beyond his control. that doesn't really fly. ultimately my understanding based on all the evidence here is that he was loaning himself money to speculate with in another side of the company. so when everything implodes and he loses money it is hard not to believe there wasn't fraud committed and i keep hearing the story line here he is being walked out in handcuffs and brought back to the united states. >> dana: there isn't that much pressure on the democrats in congress who got a lot of money from him. republicans got some, too but democrats got the lions share saying no, you'll be here on december 13th and we'll get more information. i want to play this other clip.

you are big on personal responsibility. listen to call for two. how he spread thin. >> there are a lot of other things going on. i had a tendency to be involved in many things, to be, you know, spread thin sometimes. >> dana: ask any mom in america. she is spread thin, too, right? that's not an excuse for taking people's money and using it inappropriately. >> not a defense for losing billions of dollars. when you break it down on all the money he donated to democrats and beyond. partly he is being protected because many people don't really understand the crypto universe and they feel like they should understand it better. there is a little bit of intellectual inferiority on the aspect of this story. lawmakers in their 60s, 70s, 80s, they don't understand

crypto and it is protecting sbf now. there aren't that many people when it was bernie madoff. people understand how stocks are traded. they don't understand the crypto exchanges and the way it's organized and that's helping sbf argue it was too complicated and it got out of control and he didn't know what was going on. >> dana: i would put myself in that category. i have been trying to understand crypto. it has never totally sunk in. until this story. now i start to realize okay, so the shell game he was playing or appears to have been playing is one that ultimately lost people a lot of money and it's a real shame. he will come to capitol hill, i believe that. thank you for being here today. >> thanks. >> bill: thank you, clay. so-called triple dem i can pushing hospitals to the brink. will it force some cities in america to bring back the mandatory mask?

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>> bill: flu season arrived early and hard this year. hospitals face the biggest surge if patients in more than a decade. the treple-demic of the flu, covid and rsv is pushing some hospitals to the brink and some cities are talking about bringing back the mask mandate. we're in queens, new york. what are they going through, bryan? >> bill, good morning. pediatric admissions at the children's medical center are up 50%. typically they see 200 children a day. now they're seeing upwards of 300. some with the flu, some with covid-19, most, though, with rsv, the seasonal respiratory virus that causes trouble breathing particularly in infants. >> where we can take care of these children inside the hospital and we've created additional care spaces, another

75 beds or so. we're using alternative care stations or post op areas and treatment rooms and doubling patients into certain room if they have the same viruses and conditions. >> according to the cdc nationally a 66% increase in rsv cases compared to the same time last year. cases are trending downward, rsv does not typically peak until january or february. in new york about 15% of tests are coming back positive for rsv. that's three times as high as the same time last year. the cdc says the flu hospitalization rate nationwide is at a 10-year high. in november it was 40 times higher than last november and in the seasonal surge plus the covid-19 cases hospitals are dealing with a treple-demic stretching emergency room resources and causing long wait times. new york senator and senate majority leader chuck schumer is calling on the department of health and human is services to

do more. >> we're short of doctors and nurses and respirators, we're short of beds. if they can supply those things immediately. >> indoor mask mandate could be coming to los angeles county this week. no word if it's coming to new york. >> thanks, keep us posted. bryan llenas in queens, new york. >> dana reads sports. >> dana: as you might have noticed bill is happy today. his bengals beat the chiefs snapping their five game-winning streak. burrow completed 25 of 31 passes for 286 yards and two touchdowns. he ran for a third as strong as k.c. is the bengals had their number. the third time they beat the chiefs this calendar year. the first time was last january. >> bill: we remain humble.

it was a pretty good game. any time you can beat a team as good as kansas city three times in ten months, 11 months you are doing something right. >> dana: before we go, check this out. >> bill: okay. you have a reckless driver causing chaos in a parking lot in texas. a truck ram ming into several cars. they saw a dog behind the wheel when police responded. the leash got caught on the gear shift. the owner was shopping. no one was injured and the dog has quite a story. >> dana: yes, he does. >> bill: wait until the dog talks. >> dana: we would love to book him tomorrow. gillian turner is in for harris, "the faulkner focus" is next. >> thanks. fox news alert now. internal document shining a spotlight on twitter's internal battle. power struggle over whether to let bombshell reporting about the