>> join me at 7:00 p.m. eastern for a coast to coast christmas cook along with the doocy family streaming live on fox nation. >> i will be on the do we call it -- on "outnumbered" in a few hours. watch that at noon. >> see you in st. louis tonight. i will look in the bible with the frosty story. >> dana: good morning. a flight to freedom today. brittney griner landing in san antonio, texas overnight after the prisoner swap with russia. she is back on u.s. soil. other americans, including paul whelan, still sit in russian jail cells. we'll discuss his status with national security council spokesman john kirby next hour. first this hour part two of the twitter files revealing how the social media giant censorship of conservative went far beyond the hunter biden laptop story.

i'm dana perino. bill has the day off. good morning, mike. >> thrilled to be working with you. i'm mike emanuel "america's newsroom." journalist bari weiss posted more last night. secret black listing that made conservative voices disappear across the platform. twitter executives denied the shadow banning. they engaged in visibility filtering. she explains, quote, think about visibility filtering as being a way for us to suppress what people see, the different levels. it is a very powerful tool one employee told us. republican senator tom cotton said his colleagues in the house will dig into it when they take the majority next year. >> progressive left in america no longer believes in the principles of free speech and free inquiry and open debate. they rely instead on censorship and shadow banning and black lists. it is very bad for our democracy. some of these twitter executives

have testified before that these practices didn't occur. the new house republican majority i think has another line of inquiry for oversight hearings in a few weeks. >> roe khanna is standing by and we have griff jenkins with the details. >> we knew another drop was coming. this one has us raising questions today whether twitter executives lied when they claimed under oath they did not shadow ban in the lead-up to the 2020 election which we now know those exelby called it visibility. we learned that conservatives were the targets. she also wrote this. take for exchange jay bhattacharya who said lock downs would hurt children. he was on a black list that prevented his tweets from

trending, or consider the popular talk show host dan bon jeanne who was put on a search black list. conservative activist charlie kirk was made a do not amp plea file status. a secret group of twitter officials called the shots. you see them here. one of those targeted dan bongino said he is grateful to elon musk for the transparency. >> this guy did an enormous service for freedom and free speech around the world and deserves a big pat on the back for that. >> musk says twitter will offer a solution to users being shadow banned and working on a software update that you can determine if you have been shadow banned and what to do about it.

she said matt taibbi will have the next installment of the twitter files. >> fascinating as daylight gets into the twitter files. griff jenkins starting us off this morning. thanks. >> dana: ro khanna was one of the only democrats to sound the alarm about suppressing the hunter biden laptop story. he joins us now. a little bit from what you said to them. you wrote on october 14, 2020, this seems a violation of the first amendment principles to restrict the distribution of that material especially regarding a presidential candidate seems not in keeping of the principles of nyt versus sullivan . i say it as a total biden partisan. it has become more about censorship and became a bigger deal than it would have been. you are a principled person and understand the constitution and tried to warn them. i think they ignored you and now you have the revelation that actually yes it was happening, congressman.

>> dana, it is problematic. look, technically they are private actors but they are a modern public square and should not be engaged in censorship. it is one thing for them to say don't put up sensational pictures of hunter biden. i understand that but to censor the "new york post." they haven't written a positive about me in my six years in congress but never dream of saying shut them down or don't allow them to publish articles. that's the essence of democracy and we need to stand up for the first amendment. >> dana: some out there saying -- before they would say that anybody who thought conservatives were being shadow banned on twitter was being paranoid. now they're saying of course they deamp -- do you think elon musk is doing a good thing by releasing this information? >> i do. i do think we have to have

transparency. there are two conflicting values. on the one hand we shouldn't be censoring people based on viewpoint. what concerns me with the second release of the twitter files it seems some people are being censored because of their beliefs. another thing is to have spiffed i don't think you want these sites to have anti-semitism or racism. my understanding it is going beyond that. not just that they are taking down speech that is hate and elon musk said he wants the take that down. they are censoring based on viewpoint and it is not what we do in this country. >> dana: musk was responding to adam schiff from california saying he was concerned about hate speech and he wrote back saying actually the hate speech is down by 1/3 now prior to his acquisition. i assume they're working at it. we want to get you on record and glad you came out.

you wrote an article about this if you want more information about what you think. quiet behind you in the capitol now. that won't be the case when the republicans take over the majority. they will do some investigations and oversight of the biden administration. how do you expect that to go? >> i think it depends what the republicans want to do. i understand that they will do investigations. we did investigations. we were in the majority. i hope at some point we can have legislation. how do we bring manufacturing back to america? how do we deal with china? and the fact that they are dominating on certain technologies? those are the issues where we can have bipartisan support and what i would like to focus on. >> dana: speaking of bipartisan support there was a bombshell dropped this morning by kyrsten sinema. the senator from arizona. she was a democrat until this morning. she has dropped that. she is going to be an

independent registering that way and caucus with the democrats. maybe not a lot of changes to be expected on that front. however, i did want to ask you traditionally the democrats that are incumbents in the senate support other democratic incumbents. she is up for re-election in 2024. do you expect chuck schumer and the rest of you to support her in her re-election or would you allow for her to be pry married and support a person against her more of a progressive left democrat. >> i think she will face a strong democrat. the place i have the most disagreement with her when she was opposed having wall street and private equity pay a tax on the carried interest. they weren't being taxed the same way as teachers and firefighters and i strongly disagreed with that. i would support a democrat there

but obviously it's a free country and she is an independent and glad she is still caucusing with the democrats. >> maybe she thinks is a representative of how she thinks and helps her in her re-election. we'll see. a long time to go between now and then. have a good weekend. >> thanks for having me. >> fox news giving a close-up look at the out of control migrant crisis on our southern border. our cameras catching troopers making multiple human smuggling busts while embedded with an elite texas dps tax force in the rio grande valley. bill melugin is live in la joya, texas. good morning. >> good morning. that's right. while we were embedded here in the la joya, texas area.

troopers got into a brief pursuit with a human smuggler who bails out in front of somebody's house and illegal immigrants are running all over the place. troopers tackle them and take them into custody and open up the back of the vehicle and find more illegal immigrants in the trunk. several wearing those cartel smuggling wrist bands indicating they have paid a cartel before they crossed illegally into the united states. then you will see the smuggler himself in the yellow jacket who was chased down and arrested by dps troopers, also a mexican national. told troopers he was paid $1 hundred per person to smuggle them. in the back we find two other illegal immigrants laying motionless thinking if they don't move nobody will see them. this happened essentially in somebody's front yard and what people living out here on the border have to deal with day in and day out. minutes later take a look at the second piece of video. another human smuggling bust in the exact same area. troopers arrested this group of illegal immigrants from mexico

watching them cross illegally and run into a neighborhood before being picked up by a vehicle. they stopped that car, arrested everybody inside. one of the illegal immigrants had a black bag. in the bag were several boxes of ammunition. 45 caliber ammo. all of those guys arrested again in that residential neighborhood. we'll take you up to laredo. also from texas dps showing an 18 wheeler with a gravel trailer attached pulled over by dps and border patrol. inside of that trailer they find 15 illegal immigrants being smuggled including a small child. the driver of that vehicle a u.s. citizen from san antonio. he was arrested and charged with human smuggling. look at these images. this incident is horrible in texas. another big rig truck stopped. a man was being smuggled crammed in a tiny little compartment of that truck. almost no room to move. several other illegal immigrants hidden inside that truck. texas dps arrested that human

smuggler as well. you can see how crammed that man was inside of that truck. horrible image right there. back live it goes to show these human smuggling incidents are happening multiple times a day all over the border. the reason it's happening is once illegal immigrants cross into the united states they don't just sit at the border. they want to get deeper into the country. as you can see from these images a lot of them are willing to take some pretty drastic measures in order to make that happen. the cartels and human smugglers are capitalizing off of that. >> more shocking images from la joya, texas. bill, many thanks. >> i'm glad an american is coming home. she was arrested for a trumped-up charged. to exchange the merchant of death for this? it's made us weaker, it has made putin stronger and americans more vulnerable. >> dana: the likely next speaker of the house raising questions about the prisoner exchange for

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that apparently confused the cashier and the pair left without their cards actually being charged. the columbia county sheriff's office say investigators identified one suspect of a 19-year-old from flint, michigan and yet to identify the female suspect. we'll keep on it. >> brittney griner is back on u.s. soil for the first time in ten months. she landed in san antonio this morning after being freed from a russian prison in exchange for a notorious arms dealer viktor bout. the cover of today's "new york post" calling it a quote deal with the devil. wisconsin congressman mike gallagher standing by with his reaction. first senior correspondent casey stiegel live in dallas with the latest. >> good morning. talk about a big homecoming. listen to the exchange between brittney and russian federal security forces just before her flight was about to take off.

>> are you ready for your flight? do you know where you're heading to? no? you fly back home. >> didn't even know where she was headed. her plane touched down at kelly field on joint base san antonio around 4:30 this morning, 5:30 eastern time. one day after her release was announced. from there a senior official says she will be reunited with her wife and parents at a nearby medical facility where she will undergo a series of evaluations. something that is protocol in a situation like this. the swap itself happened on neutral ground over in the united arab emirates. you can see brittney and the arms dealer viktor bout there on the airport tarmac. bout was doing time in an illinois federal prison arrested in 2008 for conspiring to kill americans. now he is back home on russian

soil. once brittney is medically cleared the 32-year-old is expected to eventually return to her hometown of houston. mike. >> i'm sure her family is thrilled. casey, thanks very much. >> dana: exciting to think about her being reunited with her family today. let's bring in congressman mike gallagher member of the house intelligence committee. the tactical win of bringing her home does not address some of the concerns that you can have, two ideas in your head at the same time as gutfeld says on "the five." listen to peter doocy and the white house press secretary yesterday. >> why did russia get such a better deal? >> hour choices was brittney or no one at all. one american or no american at all. >> we gave up a prolific arms dealer who was convicted of trying to kill americans called the merchant of death. >> the professional athlete is also an american citizen so

let's not forget that. >> dana: congressman let's get your thoughts today especially given that traditionally it has been that if you're in a situation like this you would take the one held the longest. that did not happen here. >> of course we're happy for her family. when you have an american come home it's a great thing for her family. but the concerns are at least two-fold. the first is just the terms of the trade itself. as you point out, we're talking about one of the most dangerous men in the world who is a convicted terrorist, the merchant of death, tried to kill americans. in return for a professional athlete on trumped up drug charges. the reality is putin took a hostage and used it to exert leverage over the united states in the middle of a conflict in europe and we're supporting the other side. the signal it sends more broadly. i'm concerned the signal it sends that it is open season to take american citizens hostage because this is not just an isolated incident. the biden administration also

let a sanctions violator, chinese sanctions violator and huawei official go to get two canadian citizen. it creates a pattern where we're willing to accept a bad deal and send a signal that it's a good idea if you're a rogue regime and want to get leverage over america to take americans hostage. >> dana: paul whelan did an interview that he said he is disappointed but glad that brittney is home. do you think that there is anything that -- else that putin wants that would help us have some leverage in order to get him home? >> of course the main thing putin wants right now is control over ukraine. we should not allow that to happen. we shouldn't give it to him. of course, he sees this as part of a broader chess game here. this is just an individual piece on a broader game. sometimes i worry we're playing geopolitical checkers. we don't have a company hereent strategy and don't understand

the nature of the regimes that we're dealing with. too often we try to project our sensibilities to evil men like putin or xi, that doesn't work. you have to understand you're dealing with hard men who only respect hard power. time for us to get tough and negotiate from a position of strength, not weakness. >> dana: you have a new assignment from possible speaker of the house kevin mccarthy. china and the u.s. are locked in a cold war. we must win it. here is how we will. what do you plan to do to try to win this war or explain to people why we need to be worried about it? >> speaker elect mccarthy is creating a select committee on china and asked me to chair it. elevating the importance of this issue is critical. i want to point out it's his intention to make it a bipartisan effort. we had the china task force led by chairman mike mccaul. tried to get the democrats to participate. they refused. we want them to take this

seriously. defending america from chinese communist party aggression should not be a partisan exercise. to do that we need to reduce our economic dependence on china, need to make sure we're surging hard power west of the international date line and defending taiwan in particular and need to understand how china is trying to corrupt and subvert our domestic institutions and make sure they aren't allowed to do it going forward. an important effort. we want the democrats to participate. the chinese communist party is our foremost threat in the world today. >> dana: we'll be following that as well. have a good weekend. >> thank you. >> social gaming platform that lets you spend virtual money is exploding in popularity with kids. oh dear. after the fdt crypto collapse, is this a good or bad thing? you might think the suspect in the brutal baseball bat attack on a new york city street would be kept behind bars. think again. the stunning details next.ow

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>> dana: new inflation numbers out this morning show producer prices increased more than expected last month up 7.4% from a year ago. the number down from 8% in october. what does all it mean? edward lawrence is live at the white house. is relief still out of reach? >> it's a great question. it is hotter than expected. that's the stuff that -- that's the price that companies are paying for the stuff that they need to make the stuff that we buy. you see there it's at 7.4%. hotter than expected but it is the first time it is slightly below the cpi inflation that we see when we go to the store. the hot number still means that there is some pressure for companies to pass on higher costs. we may be seeing more inflation moving sideways instead of actually down. so more and more market movers are telling fox business that inflation and cure for

inflation, higher interest rates, will mean a recession next year. in an interview that i did last week before the federal reserve went into a media blackout period the new york federal reserve president john williams told me the number one economic issue remains in inflation. listen. >> honestly, i think this will take a couple of years. my home is we will be at the 2% inflation goal by 2025. importantly, i expect to see a pretty significant decline in inflation next year as supply chain issues improve. as we see the slowing economy. the economy getting better in balance. >> that's a couple of years of economic pain for americans as the federal reserve chairman describes it. we're experiencing -- expecting half a percent rate hike next week when federal reserve members meet. they are also indicating we'll see smaller rate hikes for longer next year to get the rate of interest rates above the rate of inflation to try to slow this down. many economists believe it is

government spending that is making it harder to get that inflation under control because the amount of money we have spent over the past 20 months. >> dana: thank you, edward lawrence. keeping an eye out for us. mike. >> mike: dana, brittney griner may have been one of the highest profile americans held overseas but her release spotlights the others anguishing in foreign jails. one study found at left 67 u.s. citizens were being detained in 19 countries. one is amad locked up in iran since 2018. his sister joins us now. welcome. president biden says he wants to bring home all americans detained overseas. let's play the clip. >> president biden: i don't want any americans to sit wrongfully detained one extra day if we can bring that person home. make no mistake about it. this work is not easy. negotiations are always

difficult. there are never any guarantees. but it's my job as president of the united states to make the hard calls and protect american citizens every where in the world. every where in the world. i'm proud that today we've made one more family whole again. >> mike: are you confident the white house and state department are working hard to bring your brother home? >> you know, i believe that they have it in their heart and want to do it and they want to bring him home. i'm not sure sometimes if they understand the urgency behind what they need to do to bring him home. so i was very happy to hear what the president said yesterday. brittney's homecoming is good news for all of us. if the president can get brittney griner out of russia during these tense times with russia, then he can certainly get my brother out of iran. >> mike: the white house press secretary karine jean-pierre didn't seem familiar with your brother's name.

>> iranian hostage in iran. she is grad for the release of brittney griner but disappointed neither the president or jake sullivan met with her and her family. his name is ahmad, an american iranian hostage. >> you are talking about abram -- i didn't hear the name. look, i don't know that case specifically. >> mike: how alarming is that for you and your family? >> it is heartbreaking to hear that. one of the worst things for a hostage, the worst fears is being forgotten and so my family has done everything we can to make sure his name is out there and that our government knows about him and it was incredibly heartbreaking to hear that she

didn't know who he was. and she was asked the same question on july 15th and then also said i'll have to get back to you. i don't know anything about that case. >> tell us about your brother and his arrest and his time being held in an iranian prison. >> my brother was given in april of 2018 visiting iran with his wife, my sister-in-law. they were staying in the childhood home of my sister-in-law where she grew up and the house was raided in the middle of the night and he was taken. he was held for eight months. we didn't get a chance to see him. he didn't see anyone. interrogated, in solitary, and he was released after eight months. given a court document that said he was cleared of all questions and charges.

but he was put on a travel ban and he was not allowed to leave iran. and he was called in november of 2020 out of the blue and sentenced without a trial to ten years. so it's a very odd situation. it is heartbreaking and we just need the president to do what he needs to do to get him out of there. >> mike: how is he holding up? >> my brother is stoic and he will never do anything to worry us. so he doesn't share details of his condition. i know from reading books and talking to former hostages what he ising -- going through. i hope he doesn't find out the white house didn't know his name because that would crush him. >> mike: we pray for good news for you and your brother and thank you for telling his story today. >> thank you for having me. >> mike: what is the white house doing about the other americans wrongfully held overseas? we'll ask john kirby when he

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>> dana: the city of richmond, virginia is finalizing plans to remove its last confederate statue. it could come down as early as next week. there are legal issues. descendants of hill argue they have authority over the space since the general's remains are buried beneath the statue and filed an appeal in court. we'll follow that. >> the golden state is starting to tarnish.

more and more businesses are leaving california as taxes and skyrocketing labor costs push them to other parts of the country. william la jeunesse is live in los angeles with more. good morning, william. >> good morning, mike. when these companies leave, so do the jobs and the taxes those workers pay. get this, 70% of state revenue come from personal income taxes and more than half that from the top 1%. so those corporate jobs are really important. yet 152 companies, large companies, almost 13 a month, left california. that is twice the rate of 2020 and 3 times higher than 2018. over the last four years according to a hoover study california lost 352 corporate headquarters including 11 fortune 1000 companies. hp, oracle, chevron, tesla,

lucas oil, a software company to arizona. kaiser aluminum to tennessee. trimble analytics and verity yeah health to cal -- colorado. >> there is limited red tape to run the company which we saw over the last 2 or 3 years during covid. secondly, colorado wants you to be there. incentives to both hire employees in colorado and train employees in colorado. >> 40 smaller companies with under 100 employees also left. why? lower taxes, less regulation. better quality of life at a lower cost. better schools and labor is easier and cheaper to hire. >> labor costs in places in texas, for example, could be 35%

lower than places in california like los angeles, san francisco. but more likely it is generally in the 20 to 25% range. >> so what does it mean? california now projects a $25 billion budget shortfall for next year. governor newsom says he is not worried as the state just passed france and germany as the world's fourth largest economy. top destinations, mike, texas, tennessee, nevada, florida, arizona, and new capital projects california ranks 16th but we do have sunshine. back to you. >> mike: interesting they aren't moving to washington, d.c. how about that? william la jeunesse live in los angeles. william, thanks a lot. >> dana: cash may no longer be king. a social gaming platform called roadblocks is an app that combines gaming, social media and e-commerce, the ultimate

virtual universe. kids don't want cash anymore, they want row bucks. i like to ask my friends what is the big gift kids want for christmas? i never heard of this company. it is a big deal. >> it's the thing. it is what my nephew is getting for chris -- christmas. one of the hottest gifts for kids. it's an online gaming platform. users can play games, create games and sell items from the games to other users. it has its own virtual currency. they can buy special outfits and trade it and donate it to others if you want. you can buy mom and dad roblox gift cards online and get the subscription that gives you

$450. there is also stand ayinde -- you can monitor who your child communicates with on the platform but the online gift card is the thing right now. you know, this isn't crypto. this is actual gaming. kids love it. my nephew is very creative and obsessed with it. he likes to create games. it is fascinating to me. >> dana: it is good, clean fun? >> so far from what i've seen, yes, i'm not on it but looked into it. >> dana: it is interesting. if you are looking for a gift, this could be it. how easy is that? you don't have to leave your house. tell me about this also. amazon, the headline, wait, what? amazon launches tiktok style feed in push to accelerate social shopping? >> yeah.

you know how you go to instagram and maybe watch cat videos. maybe that is just me. amazon wants you to watch short tiktok reels, whatever you want to call it, videos of things you want to buy. >> dana: i better not do this. >> serious. i needed a fire extinguisher for my apartment. i went to amazon and watched a video of this guy yangs -- using it. but then i decided i will buy it on amazon. they know it's happening. if you shop on amazon a lot you will see there are more and more videos about products and what amazon is doing is hiring influencers. 20 something gorgeous young people that say look at me in this new skin cream. they will be hiring them and paying them to create these videos on amazon so you buy the face serum or the outfit or whatever it is. >> dana: this sounds much more dangerous for me than roblox.

i think i should do that instead of this. i know she doesn't need another coat but she is going to want this coat and then i usually end up getting it. >> there is a little bulb they will put on your amazon app. it is not there yet. when you see it, watch out shoppers. >> dana: cheryl casone, thank you, good information for us to have. mike. >> mike: powerful story ahead. a fentanyl overdose killed lisa's 28-year-old son joe in 2018. she made it her mission to put a stop to the deadly drug crisis ravaging our communities. we speak with her next hour. sam bankman-fried says he is willing to testify before the house next week. but will he appear in person or stay safe in the bahamas?

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committee of financial services on tuesday. what to expect? let's ask susan lee. >> so likely from the bahamas and remote rather than in person for sam bankman-fried according to numerous sources. he only confirmed his participation this morning in a tweet writing as the committee still thinks it would be useful, i am willing to testify on the 13th. is all that voluntary? he only confirmed his participation after being threatened to a subpoena by maxine waters. >> i think it is credible to tell him he needs to be at the december 13th meeting. if he is not, let's see what is happening. because i think that subpoena is on the table. >> the hearing is scheduled for tuesday morning at 10:00 a.m. in washington. meantime the senate banking committee also wants to hear from sam bankman-fried next week and trying to get answers on the

crypto collapse and where the funds went. in numerous interviews in recent weeks you heard him admit some of the funds to his personal hedge fund alameda. >> one phrase one could use to be alameda sent the dollars to the dollars. but that's -- the answer is they were wired to alameda. i can only speculate about what happened after that. >> that would be illegal as it violates the terms of service and he wrote this ftx u.s. was solvent. not sure if u.s. customers will get their money back. >> dana: i will pay attention to that one as well. susan lee, thank you so much. >> mike: to the murder mystery in moscow, idaho. a neighbor tells fox news the front door of the house where those four college students were killed nearly four weeks ago was wide open in the early morning hours before the 911 call came

in. alexis mcadams is live in moscow with the latest. good morning. >> good morning, mike. a neighbor told me just the other day when he walked by on his way back from campus he looked at the house where the murders occurred around 8:30 or 9:00 a.m. and said it was wide open. the main door we saw investigators walking in and out of. we've had so much focus on the backslideing back door that was a key piece of evidence. new evidence that we're digging into. the two roommates on injured were on the first floor where the door was open for a few hours before investigators were called. police want to talk to the driver of a white hyundai elantra that they say could have key evidence in the case. >> anybody that knows one or knows of someone who owns one and driving one get ahold of us through our tip line or call us directly we would appreciate that. >> this car was spotted on king road which is right off the main

road that we've shown people where it has the frat house and more actions. you have to go up a hill and a dead end by the home. you have to go through a parking lot and apartment complex. one way in and one way out. >> we do know that car could have key information. we are asking the public for help in this. we have gotten so much information. we want information someone might have if they know someone who had the car or where that car might be. >> it has been nearly one month since the innocent college kids were murdered in the off-campus house. no arrest. the community remembered the victims at their christmas parade last night. >> while we grieve i want to encourage you to also lean into the joy of the nights like tonight when we come together to celebrate the season and our town. >> you can see there the community members laying flowers

in the downtown. it is a time of grieving still, mike and also a time of celebration for some. this is winter graduation this weekend. we expect to see a lot of people back out on this campus before it clears out for winter break. we can tell you the ports of entry along the u.s. canadian border are aware to keep an eye out for the white hyundai elantra. anyone with information asked to call the idaho state police. >> mike: many thanks, alexis. >> dana: american basketball star brittney griner is back on u.s. soil after being set free in a prisoner exchange sending a notorious arms dealer back the russia. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm dana perino. bill hemmer is off today and i'm lucky enough to have mike. >> mike: i'm mike emanuel. high tension between the two countries following russia's invasion of ukraine. negotiators