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 president's son hunter biden

living or dying. elon musk is looking for transparency at the platform. i'm gillian turner in washington in for harris. the release is emails showing the back channels between the platform and 2020 campaigns. republicans are calling it a smoking gun. the response to a list of things the biden team wanted reviewed. twitter granting them. more emails show top level executives decided to label the post story as hacked materials. that is one of twitter's own employees questioning the rationale for blacking the story acknowledging there was no proof the infamous laptop was hacked. republicans are promising an investigation into this and more once they take the house majority. >> you see a clapper and brennan using their intelligence clearance to lie to the american

public. what elon musk has been able to do. now we know why the white house wanted to fight against him owning twitter. now we need to look at facebook and google. they have become arms of the democratic party and the biden administration. this is just the tip of the iceberg what we need to investigate going forward. >> the other layer to all of this alleged government involvement in discrediting the post reporting. former intelligence officials including john brennan and james clapper signed a letter five days after the hunter biden story was first published claiming this. >> this is the classic textbook soviet/russia things as work. russians have analyzed the target. all of a sudden 2 1/2 weeks before the election this laptop appears somehow without -- and emails on it without any

meta data. it is all very curious. >> dana: the revelations are tearing washington apart this morning and we're going to break it down. >> sounds like it is the beginning with another round of twitter files to be released soon. musk said over the weekend he gave sub stack writer access to the complete corrections. he is expected to do reporting. the reporter laid out round one what he learn. twitter's posts and users were removed at the kwf a political power. democrats held more clout due to political leans of staffing. he revealed this comment saying more to review from the biden team. another twitter employee responded quote, handled these. musk was asked directly about the mainstream media largely ignoring these twitter

revelations. >> they were complicit in deceiving the american public. and rather than admit that they lied to the public, they are trying to pretend this is a nothing story. >> the messy internal debate at twitter over censoring the hunter biden laptop story labeled as violating the company's hacked materials policy. the extraordinary steps taken to stop the story from being shared by twitter marking it unsafe and utilizing a tool reserved for extreme cases like child pornography. musk was asked directly if he believes twitter colluded with the democratic party and biden team in the 2020 campaign. he called it the definition of election interference, gillian. >> thank you, mike. take a look at this. "new york post" is criticizing the f.b.i. today out with a cover story calling elon musk

twitter gate revelations fed lies. ari fleischer is a former white house press secretary. great to see you. the conclusion that matt, the reporter after going through all this stuff essentially is that here is proof that he presents that both biden and trump campaigns had inside lines to twitter senior executives to make decisions. the key difference, though, that is late bare in the emails. there is no record that twitter accommodated requests from the trump campaign like they did the biden. >> i have been around the government and campaigns long enough to know everybody tries to get access to people in communications every where whether it's abc, nbc, cbs. it is the job of operatives to have numbers and access. >> and the job of journalists. >> the job of journalists is to be fair, objective and neutral. what they have here is proof of

a collaboration effort between the biden and came an twitter, social media. it reinforces everything conservatives and republicans have been led to believe how biased and how the deck is stacked, the game is rigged. communications in america overwhelmingly a liberal endeavor and conservatives and republicans have to work twice as hard to get to the same point even when it comes to suppression of the truth, which is now what we know about how they handled this story about whether joe biden lied to the american people about not knowing of his family's business deals. >> it sound like in the business of calling balls and strikes here you are saying no foul for either campaign reaching out to twitter, they are doing their jobs advocating for the rights of their people. the problem is twitter's response here. that's what needs to be the focus of any congressional investigations, any consideration of the story in the media going forward, right?

>> 100%. it's the job of the ref to blow the whistle in both directions depending what happens on the field. you must be objective, fair and neutral. players in the game can yell at the ref, demand it go their way and flop. but the media in america has abandoned its mission. that's what this proves. the reaction to twitter doing this, the muted response. elon musk is right. they can't handle the truth. they can't write the story properly because they were complicit in suppressing the story. >> we'll talk more about that later in the hour. i want to ask you about this this while you're here. the potential change to primary call en dairies. they're hoping to shake up 50 years of tradition. the dnc voted to move their first in the nation caucus from iowa, where it has been for five decades, to south carolina. the president initiated the change himself.

he says the state with more diversity should kick off the nominating contest. he finished fourth in iowa in 2020. iowa senator joannie ernst is firing back. >> i am sorely disappointed that the democrats chose not to have iowa as their first in the nation caucus. we have seen a number of pushes in the past to change this. i'm glad that republicans are staying the course and, you know, how i feel about this. i feel that democrats have really given middle america the middle finger. >> president trump's former chief of staff says the move is purely political. listen. >> does it help, who does it hurt? it hurts pete buttigieg from indiana, gavin newsom and bernie sanders. and it helps joe biden. it is a hurricanely an effort. they would not be doing this -- joe biden would not be doing

this unless he was running for president. >> occasionally ari in washington doing the right thing aligns with doing something that is politically expedient. that seems to be what the white house is saying is the case. what do you think? >> the political calendar is political. i have no fault with anybody making a calendar based on politics. it has been a long time -- they are no longer a party of -- they're shifting their calendar to match the base of their -- middle america is not part of what the democrats want to appeal to and why they're doing it. the other factor is -- >> the whole claim from the white house is this will be a boom for diversity. what do you make of that? >> most of the democrat primary

voters are african-american, south carolina is a very black state in the democratic primary. it is a reflection where they want the voters to be in that state, which is a reflection of the democratic base. i have no qualms with nothing. that's politics. nothing wrong with that. one of the problems the iowa democratic party failed in 2020. they are still counting ballots in iowa, remember that ended in a tie between buttigieg and sanders and you went to new hampshire and nobody knew who won iowa because it was a miserable failure to count the ballots accurately in iowa. the combination of the democrats changing demographics and failed caucus run by the democrats in contrast to iowa republicans is what brought you to this point for the democratic party. >> got to leave it there. thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you. >> border agents are overwhelmed

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>> the end of title 42 is fast

approach, fax news cameras this weekend captured hundreds of migrants passing into texas in eagle pass. it is one small section of the southern border. major drug bust still happening on both sides. mexican police cracked open coconuts and found hundreds of pounds of fentanyl and border agents near corpus christi found 25 pounds of fentanyl in the gas tank. the amount in that bust was enough to kill 5.6 million people here in america. the biden administration is reportedly considering a massive overhaul of the border security efforts. texas congressman cuellar says president biden can count on this being a defining issue come 2024. take a listen. >> the republicans whoever runs against the president will use open borders, etc. , etc. the way they used it against some democrats.

so 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. >> a member of the house ways and means committee from texas joins us now. thank you for being with us. all kinds of reporting now that the biden administration is the run-up to the expiration of title 42 looking at ways to redo their border policies and ramp things up. axios says they are considering, quote, barring some asylum seekers and surging prosecutions of illegal border crossings. does that sound like it will cut the mustard to you if that's indeed the policy they put forward? >> i don't believe them and henry cuellar doesn't believe them and their own agency that puts out the numbers of the day luge of people, drugs and crime waring into this country contradict their statements.

i don't believe their surge in prosecutorial resources or expedited deportation will work. i think the political will isn't there. every time they mention that they talk about single adults. and the fact is the cartels will accommodate children and spouses as passports to get in the country and they will continue to expose our policies, exploit them and laugh all the way to the bank because they are making record number of profit off of this new line of business unfortunately. >> while we have you here i want to talk politics. kevin mccarthy says the gop hold-outs on his bid to become speaker would be throwing away your party's hard-won majority. he can only lose four votes. >> if people don't come along, that will delay our ability to secure the border.

that will delay our ability to become energy independent and repeal 87,000 i.r.s. agents and delay our ability to hold government accountable. i'm hopeful everybody comes together, finds a way to govern together. this is what the american people want. otherwise we'll be squandering this majority. >> newt gingrich says mccarthy can get a lot done. >> kevin mccarthy has the same size majority that nancy pelosi had for the last two years. with that majority she managed to pass trillions in spending and a whole bunch of radical left wing bills. you can get a lot done once you get to the speaker. >> you are backing kevin mccarthy, his position right now is on tender hooks. >> i watched him listen to the conference and he has made a number of accommodations. i think it is a fair question in terms of how will we as members

be empowered and our voice matter in the conference deliberations? that's a healthy conversation and a normal one, actually, going into a new majority and with a new leadership team. i think the other cause for concern is just the confidence by the members that the leadership will fight and follow through on our agenda, on the narrative, on the accountability of this lawless administration. i think leader mccarthy has made that clear abundantly. nobody has worked harder. he has tapped a former political opponent in jim jordan to lead the charge on the oversight. and he was a great ally and advisor to president trump. i think he has a record that demonstrates he is ready to drive this agenda, our narrative and again most importantly hold this lawless and corrupt administration accountable for two years without any oversight and accountability.

>> your colleagues on the other side, house minority leader hakim jeffries downplayed that democrats will vote for a moderate speaker. >> i wouldn't say it's a possibility. right now democrats are preparing forget ourselves ready as we transition temporarily from the majority into the minority. continuing to work with the biden administration, with democrats in the senate. building upon the great work led by speaker pelosi and others that has been done over the last few congresss when we've been in the majority. let's see what happens on the other side of the aisle. >> what do you say to that? sounds like democrats don't agree with your pick for speaker. >> i don't think they'll have a say. republicans will be ready. this is a family conversation. i think mccarthy will address the concerns. we'll hit the ground running and hakeem jeffries and their folks on the other side of the aisle

will need to be prepared for us exposing their failed policies and the overreaching unconstitutional lawless administration what hasn't been kept in check. had any check for two years. that's what they need to be prepared for. >> have to leave it there. thank you for your time this morning. >> thanks. >> fox news alert now. the f.b.i. is joining the investigation power outages in a north carolina county believed to have been caused by intentional attacks that left over 40,000 customers in the dark and freezing temperatures. it turned into a criminal investigation when crews found signs of potential vandalism at a bunch of different sites including two substations that were damaged by gunfire. let's go to jonathan serrie live from atlanta. >> investigators have yet to determine a motive. the sheriff says no far no individual or group has come forward to claim responsibility. the sheriff says make no mistake, this was a targeted

attack. gunfire severely damaged equipment at two electrical substations saturday night knocking out power to more than 40,000 customers. the outage occurred around the time of a local drag show that faced protests. it fueled speculation on social media. investigators have yet to find evidence of any connection between the drag show protests and this unprecedented attack. >> we're very united here in our county. we're not going to let this hold us back. i can promise you to the perpetrators out there, we'll find you. >> because the streets are dark at night, local authorities imposed an overnight curfew and opened a shelter at a sports complex where people could stay warm during the cold nights. local schools canceled classes today. duke energy says many residents could remain without electricity through thursday because the damage requires extensive repairs and in some cases large

pieces of equipment need to be replaced entirely. looking at the website power outage.u.s. as we speak approximately 35,000 moore county customers remain without electricity. a little more than half of all customers in that part of north carolina. gillian. >> thank you. it's the final sprint in georgia's senate runoff. president biden's communications team says he is supporting his party's candidate from afar. parents of four murdered idaho standees are demanding answers. >> stop playing games. this is people's lives and the future of this community. i sent my daughter to college to get an education. she came back in a box. i can speak on that. >> what that dad says police are telling him now and what it could ultimately reveal about the killer's motive. christina coleman will bring us the latest from moscow, idaho

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>> more than three weeks since the murder of the four idaho students stabbed to death in their home. no suspects, no weapon and don't know the motive for the killings. family and friends of victims including their entire community want answers. police reversed course last week saying the victims might not have been targeted as they initially believed. the father of one victim, however, suggests his daughter or best friend may have been the killer's target and sharing his frustration with the investigation. >> i do not feel confident. that's why i pushed the envelope and saying a little bit more. i hate to be that guy but there

is a job to do -- everybody has a job and role to play. >> christina coleman joins us from moscow, idaho this morning. >> hi, gillian. moscow police will not talk about and will not say how the students were attacked as in was one student stabbed much more than another. i know this is a graphic detail but they are not releasing those details at this time. but this could shed some light on whether a student was targeted in this case. kaylee's father is frustrated with the lack of information in this investigation says there was a difference in the brutality of the attack between at least two of the victims. the coroner determined the cause and manner of death for the four students in this attack as homicide by stabbing. for all four of those students. lawrence jones cross-country lawrence noted there were differences in the way kaylee

and madison were killed per his sources. lawrence says kaylee's father confirmed that out of kaylee and her best friend, maddy. one had injuries much more brutal than the other. he would not confirm which one. lawrence johns cross-country he referred to their different injuries as point of damage. take a listen. >> their points of damage don't match. i will just say. it wasn't leaked to me. i earned it and i paid for that funeral. i paid for that. it is my right. you are taking that from me. >> calm down. >> if you don't want to say nothing that's your bit. don't say i'm leaking anything. i paid that bill. sent me doctor to college to get an education and she came back in a box and i can speak on that. >> just very upset, desperate for answers here. all of those parents. a hand print can be seen next to evidence tape on the window of the house where the students

were murdered on november 13th. it is possible that hand print could belong to the killer. he could have touched the wall and doorknobs and different areas of the house. at this point the victims had a lot of friend and a number of people in and out of the house. all part of this ongoing investigation, also we learned just moments ago from the family, they tell fox news kaylee's father tells fox news that an update is going to happen shortly this afternoon from moscow police. we're waiting to hear that. hopefully there will be significant information on that. a lot of people want more details in the case. we'll have to wait and see what they have to say. back to you. >> christina collman in idaho for us. let's bring in a profiler and forensic science program director. thank you for being with us. what do you make about this claim from the family that two -- at least two of the students had conflicting means of death.

what does that mean in terms of the investigation? >> it's very important because what it means is that when you see a difference in terms of the injury pattern to one victim as opposed to the other victims. more stabbing, maybe even i don't want to be too gruesome. being treated differently. dismemberment or postmortem placing of the body. all of that tells us that victim was more than likely the target of the attack. >> so it's usually the case that the primary victim will be more brutalized, is that what you are saying? >> yes. the primary victim will get the attention of the offender. it comes out in the form of how brutally attacked that they are. so yes, that's accurate. >> we heard in the clip from kaylee's father last thursday, her mother, told fox nation she

believes police cleared some of their initial suspects very fast. what is she saying? >> well, she is saying that she doesn't trust the fact that some of the people the police are saying have been cleared are, in fact, cleared. that's tied into how angry the families are. i think we can certainly understand that. when you clear someone, it's important that you get a very firm baseline of how you are clearing them. were they in prison, in a hospital? you don't accept self-reported information, which is something like nope, i wasn't there. oh, okay, check that off the list. and as casual as that sounds, sometimes that's been done in case. so you really have to get a foundation for why that person is being cleared and hopefully that's being done in this case. >> idaho police also revealed

there is a sixth person on the lease for the house where these students were murdered but that person was not present during the murder as far as they understand now. there is a whole lot of people surrounding the periphery of this story, this investigation, at least it is being presented to us journalists, roommates in the house, people on the lease not in the house, food truck driver who served two of the victims. the driver who brought them home. does all of this cloud the investigation and do you think this is why more than three weeks in there is no more clarity on who is responsible? >> no, this happens in all cases where you've got people and you have to eliminate them. you have to. that keeps you going forward. but again what you have to do is develop a protocol on what is it going to take to clear these 5, 10 people and everyone has to be cleared according to that protocol, otherwise the

investigation will still include them. so this is not unusual. i think what is particularly unusual here is the lack of information. there has to be more information coming out to the public. >> we'll get more shortly, hopefully. thank you so much for joining us. we appreciate your expertise. >> you're welcome. >> elon musk's twitter document dump is generating heat. now critics are firing back saying don't shoot the messenger. the georgia senate runoff is less than 24 hours away. political heavy hitters are going to bat for their candidates. >> senator lindsey graham in georgia helping walker. joe biden is going to massachusetts to campaign for warnock? why is that?

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>> the world's largest active volcano continues spewing gas over hawaii. molten rock is at a crawl but could cut off a major highway on the big island. we're near the highway this morning with max. >> the lava is spreading out and slowing down as it hits flat terrain. it is only moving at 40 feet per hour. it is still creeping its way toward the main east/west highway. it is 2.25 miles away and slowly inching closer by the minute. scientists say they don't know when exactly the lava will hit the highway or even if it will. a lot of questions right now. while no evacuation orders are

issued and no homes or communities are threatened. the volcano is spewing hazardous gases created volcanic smog down wind. the amount of ash appears to be significantly reduced. the aviation alert has been downgraded from red to orange. temporary flight restrictions around the volcano remain in place. officials also say they've seen an increase in people trespassing in the restricted area around the volcano. they say it is not only dangerous because there is crevices and lava tubes you can fall into and the hot lava itself but near a military training ground and unexploded ordnance that you can run into. back to you. >> max in hawaii this morning. thanks very much. >> he has been running over a year for an office and hasn't told us what he would do if he had it. on top of that he has not told us the truth about the basic facts of his life. >> we need to get back to the

people who become leaders. we don't need followers no more. he has been following joe biden around. guess what was so funny. our president was in massachusetts campaigning for senator warnock who lives in georgia. >> democratic incumbent warnock and republican walker hitting the trail for the final big push before the runoff tomorrow. the warnock win would increase the democrat majority to 51-49. heavy hitters are stumping for both the candidates. president biden is keeping his distance. some political strategists say it's the right move. one saying the white house is smart to not nationalize the runoff. it plays into republican hands bringing president biden into the fold would only increase republican turnout. while senator warnock has a slight lead in polls newt gingrich makes this prediction. >> traditionally republicans don't vote until election day. i think they're beginning to

learn the lesson and get people out to vote much earlier. long lines in both republican areas and democratic areas. says i said i suspect if the election ended today warnock is slightly ahead. but a real chance tomorrow there will be a big surge. >> let's bring in the power panel. doug collins and kevin walling. thanks to you both for joining me today. doug, you know, the balance of power is determined, this is the last senate race sort of hold-out straggler here. yet it is still pretty important. >> it is very important. i think from two perspectives. one, if walker wins tomorrow, which we're hoping he will do, it maintains the power sharing agreement in the senate. that means schumer has to go more procedure to get things out of committee if it's deadlocked in committee and appointments and other things like that. it is important especially now with the house being in republican hands. the second thing it also does is

prepare sort of a gateway to 2024 when the map will be more in the republican's favor in the senate with the once the democrats having to defend most of the seats. it just sets up a precursor to that race where you will have to win other republicans race and you already have the advantage in georgia. >> how do the democrats view the status right now? is this race really still open? >> critically important. i think you are seeing democrats really encouraged by this early voting numbers, nearly 2 million people have already gone to the polls smashing runoff election results in the past. estimates show that warnock is leading by 300,000 or so of those ballots, which is going to be critical heading into tomorrow. that's a big gap for herschel walker to try to make up. to doug's point he knows georgia better than anyone. it is critical in that it's part of the power sharing. if we get 51 chuck schumer has a

lot more breathing room with folks like west virginia's joe manchin and arizona's kyrsten sinema and gives the vice president a little breathing room where she doesn't have to be the tiebreaking vote in the senate. democrats are focused on this race. >> recent op-ed from the daily caller says a 51-49 senate means chuck schumer can tell mitch mcconnell to suck moon shine. in contrast 50/50 would force schumer to respect republicans. is that true? >> come on, look. it makes it harder. it means if anybody believes mitch mcconnell won't make powerful play as minority leader they are fooling themselves. kevin and i go back and forth about this. if the vice president doesn't have to be in the senate maybe she can find where the southern border is. >> maybe. >> can you respond to that?

>> absolutely. i've been advocating for a long time the administration needs to focus more on the border and solutions. it is not a bad thing for mitch mcconnell to drink moon shine. not a threat to the republican leader. >> more on twitter's release of the hunter biden files. they are going after the messenger in this case matt taibbi. here is just a few of a ton of reaction. quote, imagine volunteer to do online p.r. work for the world's richest man and pretending you're speaking truth to power. the richest men red pill themselves to disaster. a third. what a sad, disgraceful fa. taibbi will eat for the rest of his life. is it worth it? >> well, i think those people should be looking in the mirror and wondering why they were

deceptive, why did they deceive the american public? instead of trying to redirect blame to matt teaby they need to respect some responsibility for not being truthful to the american public. >> the hunter biden collusion says they are attacking the messenger. the media are too invest et in the suppression of hunter biden story to acknowledge the extent of the scandal. >> the 2020 election was decided not about hunter biden. brought up during the debates between former president trump and president biden. it was decided on the state of cove i had. >> i don't think anybody is arguing that americans went to the polls on this story but it gets to the heart of first

amendment rights here, the freedom of americans to express themselves on a social media platform. that what was stifled. the election is a secretary concern. >> twitter is a private company. the first amendment doesn't apply to twitter. they can censor and do whatever they please. we need more regulation and eyes on what social media is doing. this was mostly a nothing burger coming out of this release. you saw republicans and democrats on both sides asking twitter the take down some controversial pieces that were in violation certainly of some of the twitter standards. and sometimes twitter went along with it. if elon believes in full transparency release all the files not the curated thing as a partisan hack that elon is now where he says he endorses republicans for the house and senate the past election. he is not an honest broker with this. >> i think he protests too much.

they are getting into what their twitter world was and again, the first amendment kevin is right. the other issue here is more campaign in-kind contribution. there have been polls said if this information had came out especially in certain areas where the numbers were closer that it would have affected the votes of people who voted for joe biden. so this is something they come out with. it needs to be fully vetted on all sides who dealt with twitter but goes to show twitter and the social media marketplace is the new marketplace for ideas where people go to. it is important that it be open to all sides and not just who wants to change the message. i think that's where the issue is coming up here. interesting how many liberals are attacking the messenger and not dealing with the issue of what they were keeping censored. >> the point here, kevin, both sides reached out -- i talked to ari a moment ago. both sides reached out to

twitter. no harm, no foul. they are trying to defend their teams. it is the response that we're given here edited as you mentioned but or curated as you might say according to what elon musk wanted to put out but focusing on one story. we'll get more. the problem is twitter's response. >> exactly right. that's why we need more oversight of social media. i think it is something that doug and i probably agree on in terms of the power of social media and they got full rein and who has the checks and balances. they curate. it's a problem what americans are seeing. >> again, this is not a problem -- >> go ahead. >> it's not a problem anymore of being in the open bull finish re tin board. when you have a company deciding what goes up they are into editing and news reporting and takes it into a new realm. >> exactly right. >> got to leave it there.

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♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> emily: hello, this is "outnumbered." i'm emily compagno. joining the martha maccallum, sharon saw me, amy freese, and -- we begin with elon musk with more smoking guns after saying -- a report on political censorship and twitter, suppression of the hunter biden laptop story ahead of