reaction. which is the first time anyone has done that. so it's quite exciting. >> this is the first time they achieved net energy gain from fusion. in the past, bill, the lasers use more energy than they generated. no commercial application for maybe a decade but we should get details in ten minutes from a presser with the energy department. >> bill: look forward to that. nice to see you. >> dana: disgraced ftx founder sam bankman-fried arrested last night in the bahamas. he is accusing of defrauding investors in a scheme described has a house of cards built on a foundation of deception. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom." good morning, i'm dana perino. >> bill: i'm bill hemmer. federal prosecutors in new york unsealed the indictment against bankman-fried. his appearance on the hill was scratched today. he was held by police last night

in the bahamas and the subject of a criminal investigation by the u.s. d.o.j. the securities and exchange commission announced charges for fraud, conspiracy, money laundering. they also announced charges today. texas congressman telling us last hour telling us why bankman-fried must be held accountable. >> what he did was steal. he told money to prop up his house of cards. used it to funnel quite a bit of donations to politicians here in washington. he took stolen money that needs to be paid back. >> dana: charles payne and andy mccarthy and james freeman ahead. david spunt live at the justice department with more. >> instead of appearing before congress virtually he will be in a bahama courtroom this morning before getting ready to come to the united states. the indictment released by the southern district of new york within the last 20 minutes. eight-count indictment. the headlines here, four of

those counts deal with wire fraud. then there is a con spur tee to commit commodity and security fraud and money landering and to violate campaign finance laws. bahama authorities announced the arrest last night. he has a multi-million dollar estate in the bahamas and has been hiding out since ftx collapsed. phillip davis, the prime minister there said the bahamas and the united states have a shared interest in holding accountable all individuals associated with ftx who may have betrayed the public trust and broken the law. lee zeldin furious that bankman-fried was arrested not that he was arrested for those crimes but that his congressional testimony will likely be severely delayed given these charges. zeldin said last night in a statement tomorrow sam bankman-fried was scheduled to testify in front of the house financial services committee. house republicans were ready to

grill him six ways to sunday. now breaking tonight sbf was arrested. why not allow him to testify tomorrow and answer our many questions under oath? on twitter bankman-fried previewed his testimony saying they won't get a lot of answers they're looking for. ftx and related investment firm fell apart a month ago after a run on deposit exposed an $8 billion shortfall. just to think. he was getting ready to testify this morning. hours before he gets arrested and completely goes silent. not clear who his attorneys are. will he testify is the question as this legal saga now goes on? >> dana: joining us for more is assistant u.s. attorney andy mccarthy and james freeman and charles payne host of making money. since the criminal complaint has been released, andy, we'll turn it over to you.

the one charge that surprised us and understand a little more is one on campaign finance. >> we know, dana, that what the allegations is that the money that was diverted to alameda was part of the pot that he used not only for venture capital investments and big real estate purchases but also for campaign donations. that really is not part of the enforcement part of the sec. that is probably why we see it in the justice department's criminal complaint. and not played up in the civil complaint. to my mind just looking at this quickly, what interests me is who are the other conspirators? as we say, conspiracy law takes two to tango. a person can't conspire by himself. he is charged. he has to have co-conspirators which means they have to have identified co-conspirators and gotten cooperation from some of

them that would enable conspiracy charges. >> bill: would they have to work with the company, andy, or not necessarily? >> it would be in the company's interest to work with them. if they ever decided to prosecute any of these corporate entities, the way the sentencing guidelines are structured, if the company has cooperated with the justice department, they are likely to get a big break and perhaps not be prosecuted at all. if they don't, that's a big problem for them. >> bill: let's bring in charles payne. a lot of developments over the past 12 hours even. >> i'm frustrated like everyone else. i wanted to hear him speak under oath today in front of congress. i want to watch everyone there. especially people who got the campaign donations. this is just the tip of the iceberg. i'm a little concerned about maybe a contagion effect. late friday the market had a big

soar. we were going along nicely and all of a sudden the market fell in the last hour of trading. and you look at some of the names that are associated with crypto. coin base, their bonds are trading at $0.50 ton dollar. some speculation maybe some institutions. i'm concerned on the market perspective. i'm most concerned and shared this with you all that it hasn't become a sam bankman-fried story. he was allowed to create this whole thing under a system that has been in my mind defrauding the public for a long time. silicon valley and wall street. the system of taking companies private. gooseing them up to crazy valuations and putting them out to the public. this is an opportunity to call everyone to account because it is a system that is so heavily leaned against the average person watching this television show right now. investment, pensions and

everything else. >> dana: james, one of the things you see as technologies development and advance and social media as well. washington is always so far behind. now you won't get the congressional testimony. if they were thinking they wanted to do some sort of legislation. >> i'm hopinink about enron tha us oxley and putting enormous costs on people who never defrauded anyone. legislators don't know a lot about this space. the laws still apply. i think there was a sense that this was unregulated because he had set up his exchange in the bahamas and obviously he has resisted efforts to regulate the coins his company issues as securities. but look, we're all still liable for the anti-fraud laws in the united states and he deserves the presumption of innocence. this into the individuals involved in the company.

the sec -- there may be a debate what the regulation was when they operated in the bahamas. he sold shares to u.s. investors, 90 of them or more mainly institutions. the sec is saying that's fraud because when you took the money from retail customers and put it into your hedge fund, you were misleading your investors about how safe this was. there are statements from him about how much he did to manage risk and they had this special technology where it protected their customers so well. and it looks like that's the heart of the sec case alleging that was a fraud upon his u.s. investors. >> bill: andy, we talked to you last hours. you wrote a piece of his arrest. and the line you use here is what puzzles me is the timing. and we just read off the charges and there were eight counts. number eight is defraud the u.s. and violate the campaign finance laws.

we weren't really in tune with that until now. but we also know that he was giving to a lot of democratic politicians. now his testimony has been pulled because he has been arrested. can you connect dots in a manner that to some may appear to be an obvious conspiracy and to others they may think it is too far of a leap? >> well, it's not too far of a leap to speculate in a way i think that's responsible. the reporting, bill, is that he has given $40 million in contributions to democrats in this cycle. the second highest to george soros of democratic contributors. you had the democratic justice department, possible the democrats on the committee didn't want to hear questioning by aggressive republicans about the fact that all that money went into these politicians while the public, people who invested with sbf appear to have lost their shirts.

now, the one thing i would add is that bankman-fried himself says that he also contributed heavily to republicans but they did that by dark money vehicles because he didn't want to deal with the hassle of the democrat media complex complaining about how could you possibly fund republicans. so, you know, maybe there have been some blowback there, too. it would be crazy not to think that there is some connection here between the fact that spotlight would have been shown on all the money that went to a number of politicians. >> bill: james is chomping at the bit. >> everything we learned so far it wasn't his money. the point of campaign finance laws is disclosure to know who the money -- who is giving the money and who is receiving it and what amounts and the sources, and the heart of these cases allegedly he deserves his day in court it wasn't his money but customer money sent to alameda research allegedly right

from the beginning according to the sec complaint. this is his hedge fund and apparently according to the sec, alleging customers were not -- it was not clear to them where the money was going. in fact, when it was deposited straight to alameda it had another name, the sec alleges so people wouldn't know where their deposits were going. i would assume the government is making a case it wasn't his money. >> again i get back to the point this is created in system. this is an indictment on the whole financial system. they do due diligence supposedly. when they take -- for instance, when they take these companies public. they go public at $70 billion. ftx was another name on this side of the ledger. they lost and getting crushed. >> those folks coins he printed.

you know how much they got? pennies on the dollar. it is not -- >> they're worth this, now. >> they got it for pennies on the dollar. the main point why do we shield the folks that supposedly built this guy up in the first place? why did the public give ftx money? s see -- >> those are the victims and we'll find out. >> dana: i'll watch you. thanks so much. >> i need all the viewers i can get. >> it is a joke. we're going to do the best we can. mayokas is here today and should be impeached by this congress coming in. we're being inundated. this administration has turned their back on america. >> bill: lieutenant governor dan patrick last hour. mayokas heading to el paso

today. what is he going to see or do? they warn the lifting of the title 42 border policy may spark another increase of a surge. today "new york post" cover rush hour for migrants. the policy ends in eight days. peter doocy has the story from the north lawn. nice to see you. >> the national security advisor at the white house is now admitting that if this covid-era tool for expelling migrants during a pandemic goes away there could be national security implications. >> the team has been working very hard to insure that we are taking steps to be able to manage the expiration of title 42 and to put in place a process that will be orderly and humane. we believe that in doing so, we can protect our national security concerns. >> those concerns for border patrol read like this. in the past 48 hours over 16,000 encounters. over $97 million in narcotics in

the last 48 hours. four firearms obtained, three gang members, two sex offenders, two murderers, two warrants and one injury to a child. now there are former homeland security officials responding to curbent homeland security officials. >> the two words we hear for two years is order lie and humane. what they don't talk about is protecting americans and bringing some sovereignty back to our borders. that's what they're not talking about. they have no intention of doing that. >> officials around here counter that by saying they put forward an immigration plan, their first week in office. we know it went nowhere in congress. we know that for two years almost now migrants have continued pouring across the border. if there is some sort of a more bipartisan plan to put forward, we are getting no sense of urgency from officials here about that. >> bill: thanks.

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tornado in that part of texas. it's moving across the country and affect millions of people. we're keeping a close eye with our friends at fox weather and wanted to share that with you now. okay. in the meantime dana has more on what's going online with the bluebird. >> dana: the latest batch of twitter files shedding light on the company's decision to ban president trump and staffers were divided on the move. >> the fifth installment was about the removal of president trump from twitter two days after the capitol riot. after january 6th twitter employees organized to demand their employer ban trump. quote there is a lot of employee advocacy happening, said one twitter employee. it was added we have to do the right thing and ban this account said one staffer. it is obvious he will try to thread the needle of incitement without violating the rules. they then banned president trump

even though key staffers said he had not incited violence with tweets ton morning of january 8th, 2021. >> people who are arguing that virtually any statement he makes including a fairly inoctober oakous one is the face of censorship. >> musk said the next ones will how it addressed covid. those who had questions about it. and musk has been aggressive in his criticism of dr. fauci. the white house is firing back. >> these personal attacks that we've been seeing are dangerous on dr. fauci and other public health professionals as well. they are disgusting and they are divorced from reality. >> in the most recent installment after twitter banned president trump, employees quickly wanted to pivot to target what they called medical misinformation. dana. >> dana: mike emanuel, thank you

for that. >> bill: joe concha, fox news contributor. you write the following. elon musk shows shadow banning of conservatives no conspiracy theory. explain your case there. >> well, a couple of years ago if you said your account was being shadow banned. tweets were being deamplified and suppressed and not getting the engagement you thought you should be getting or were getting at one point you were called crazy. now we see because of the receipts that it was indeed real. there is so much to unpack here, bill. unfortunately we appear to be the only news network doing the unpacking. the "washington post" has several stories on elon musk very negative. nothing on the latest document dump. i've seen nothing in the "new york times" home page. nbc news has one story about musk getting booed at a chappell no. no coverage of suppression

carried out by activity is within a social media giant or attacking elon musk. the same, suppress, ignore, dismiss the story with social media and most of traditional media working in conformity and lock step to do so. >> bill: in the meantime this company is changing quickly. every day we get another headline about what is happening internally. they have the trust and safety council. it has been disbanded. here is a line from that. our work to make twitter a safe place will be moving faster and more aggressively than ever before and continue to welcome your ideas going forward how to achieve this goal. what was the trust and safety council? did they have anything to do with trump or -- >> probably. everything seems to have to do with trump particularly as it pertains to social media. twitter employees compared trump

to hitler. they viewed him as the leader of a terrorist group. he wasn't attending joe biden's inauguration. it was quite a stretch that he would going to target it. there was a little dissent within twitter. not much. i deeply understand how censorship can destroy the public conversation. bottom line, ayatollah who called for israel to be whipped off the map kept his account. the president of malaysia said it was all right to kill french people. he is on there. there was no consistency whatsoever between trump and other world leaders. >> bill: quick work there. nice to see you, joe. >> i feel like we have a lot of support coming from this end. i just want to feel confident that the support is coming from the french end as well and it

feels like it is. and we're getting the word out there and that's our intent to bring kenny home safely. >> dana: the distressed dad of missing college student kenny deland, last seen two weeks ago in france while studying abroad. he may have left earlier on his own. he was scheduled to come home december 15th. hi, david lee. >> the family of rochester, new york college student kenny deland says it is difficult because authorities are not keeping them informed about the investigation to his whereabouts. the family blames privacy laws because their 22-year-old son is an adult. prosecutor in the city where he attended class and lived with a family saying he may have left the city voluntarily. he had difficulty making friends. he is headed to another city and

his phone was detected for the last time. he was spotted december 3rd entering a sporting good store 100 miles south of where he had been living. the last time they texted november 27th, everything sounded normal. two days later after not attending class the school filed a missing person report with police. he is in a fragile mood and may be depressed. he packed a small bag with a change of clothes, cell phone, wallet, sandwich and not contacted them since. >> my gut says he is safe but i can't get my head wrapped around why he hasn't reached out. that's what puts the fear factor really in your gut as to the whereabouts and the safety of your child. >> the family posted a website to raise awareness of his disappearance. he said he wanted to travel to a

port city before returning to the u.s. >> dana: president biden will be delivering remarks on inflation any moment. this is the roosevelt room across the hall from the oval office. if he is on his way it won't take him very long to get there and will talk about inflation, which it was at 7.1%. cooler than expected but still year-over-year is pretty high. >> bill: they were looking at 7.3. down two tenths of a point. the gains were cut in half on the dow. we have to talk to the fed if we have a handle on it. 7.1 for the month of november. more from the white house when it happens. in the meantime there is this. >> cdc has no credibility after mask mandates, ignoring natural

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the gas stations selling gas at $3.09 or less. the most common price for gas stations across the country is $2.99. the decline in gas prices giving consumers a break they need helping them keep our economy going. two-car family they are saving hundreds of dollars a month. it's a big deal. today's report contains another piece of good news. food inflation has slowed last month provided much-needed relief for millions of families at the grocery store. this is welcome news for families across the country as they get ready for the holiday celebrations and family dinners. it's also important we put today's news in a broader context. when i took office we inherited a nation with a pandemic raging and economy reeling. we acted quickly and boldly to vaccinate the country and put in place a new economic strategy. a strategy built on economy that was based on from the bottom up and middle out.

now 21 months later we can see how our economic plan is working. we've added every single month of my presidency we've added jobs for a total of 10,500,000 new jobs. 750,000 are manufacturing jobs. where it is written, i apologize for repeating. where is it written that american can't lead the world once again in manufacturing. the need to continue to invest in research and development. look what's going on in the nuclear front. a lot of good news on the horizon. unemployment rate is down about 6.4%. down from 6.4% when i was sworn in. it is now 3.7%, near a 50-year low. we've done all of this while lowering the federal deficit in the two years we've been in office, $1.7 trillion.

$1.7 trillion we've lowered the federal debt. no administration has ever cut that deficit that much. now inflation is coming down as well. prices of things like televisions and toys are going down. good news for the holiday season. used car prices fell for the fifth month in a row. new car prices didn't go up this month. that savings is critical to so many families. gives them just a little bit of breathing room for the holiday season. all this means that for the last several months, wages have gone up more than prices have gone up. wages have gone up more than prices have gone up. i want to be clear, it will take time to get inflation back to normal levels as we make the transition to a more stable and steady growth. but we could see setbacks along the way as well. we shouldn't take anything for granted. what is clear is my economic plan is working and we're just getting started. my goal is simple. get price increases under

control without choking off economic growth. bring inflation down while keeping our labor market resilient. build an economy from the bottom up and middle out. economy with good jobs, good wages, and for the long run not a boom or bust economy. because of my plan, we're beginning to see historic investments that are leading companies to invest hundreds of billions of dollars. hundreds of billions of dollars to build semi conductor factfact reese right here in america to create tens of thousands of good-pay jobs in the years ahead. significant number of these jobs will be jobs that pay an average of $125,000 a year. many don't require a college degree. so things are looking up. what's next? because of my plan, we're taking powerful interests to lower -- powerful action to lower prescription drug costs and

health insurance premiums and energy bills. just a few weeks starting in january, families will get a little more breathing room. they've been told for some time since we passed the legislation that we are going to be able to lower the price of drugs. let me give you one example. coming january 1st, seniors with diabetes on medicare are going to pay no more than $35 a month for prescription of insulin. up to now they've been paying as much as $4 hundred a month. that's a genuine savings for seniors. this matters to so many families with loved ones who have diabetes and rely on insulin to survive going from the average of $4 hundred down to $35 a month. in january, they won't have to choose between paying their insulin and in many cases putting food on the table. it matters. it is real savings to people. it is just about to kick in. the same is true from healthcare

to clean energy. by taking action we're making real progress in strengthening and stabilizing our economy, giving americans across the country some breathing room in the process. look, i know it's been a rough few years for hard working americans and small businesses as well. for a lot of folks things are still pretty rough. but there are bright spots across america where we're beginning to see the impact of our economic strategy and we're just getting started. i will say again i've never been more optimistic about america's future. today's news gives me reason to be optimistic. we're building a better america, an economy from the bottom up and the middle out, not the top down. when the poor have a shot, middle class do well, the wealthy always do very well. we just have to keep going. i know we can get this done. god bless you all and may god protect our truth and take

questions. i will be seeing you all later in afternoon. i'm not taking any questions right now. thank you very much. >> do you now when you expect prices to get back to normal, mr. president? >> president biden: i hope by the end of much year but i can't make that prediction. i'm convinced they're not going to go up but continue to go down. >> do you plan to veto the -- >> dana: reporters always give it a shot. the president only taking one question when he expects prices to go down. >> bill: by the end of next year. more than a lot of people would like to know. consumer price index was a little lower giving us hope inflation might be coming down in the near term. >> dana: gas prices being down. cost of goods going down, toys, a good thing for families going into the holiday season. we'll see. the fed i think has some things that they still feel like they need to do. the number is still at 7.1%.

>> bill: current ceo of ftx taking questions from house members as we speak. this is john ray. he took over ftx after sam bankman-fried got blown up and all the money went out the wrong door. who knows where the money is now and how much can be accounted for. he said never in my career have i seen such an utter failure of corporate controls of every level of an organization. he says a very small group of grossly inexperienced and unsophisticated individuals were running that exchange. while this is happening in washington, back in the bahamas late last night bankman-fried was arrested and there was a one alert that crossed out of nassau that he has arrived at the magistrate court there in nassau and he is reviewing the charges with his legal team and considering all his legal options. at age 30, when you follow this

story, you aren't quite sure what the options might be. we'll find out in time. a story that's breaking in washington, d.c. and leading some contrails, significant ones back to the bahamas. we'll see what goes down in the house hearing today. senate tomorrow. >> dana: check this out here. >> these viruses have been hiding out. we're getting hit hard. it is an unintended consequence of the lockdowns and people being sheltered. >> dana: surging cases of rsv and flu along with covid raising health concerns across the u.s. the growing treple-demic strange medical systems nationwide. we're live at a pharmacy in florida. good morning, phil keating. >> with the holidays right around the corner people gather ehrlich with friends and family public health experts qureia that the worst of the treple-demic may be yet to come.

finding the cold, cough and flu medications sometimes the shelves are empty. once these are gone, the owner here and pharmacist, once those are sold, then what? >> that's it. i actually was fortunate enough to get these from our secondary wholesalers. not even our primary. >> they have nothing. >> nothing. i could only get the two. >> thank you very much. the story for pharmacists, independent ones that they're dealing with now. in south florida the last massive and densely populated event happened saturday night in fort lauderdale. the winterfest boat parade. hundreds of thousands of people watched the holiday themed boat parade and floating. very few, if any masks. people not worried about transmission. as for the triple threat of

covid-19, seasonal flu and rsv the cdc sees flu a bigger threat than covid. 13 million people have fallen ill compared to 9 million last year. states with a high rate of infection are the purple and deep red. ranking a high rate include florida, georgia, illinois, pennsylvania, minnesota. no state is immune now. the cdc reports hospitalizations are up 13%, the director says rsv cases appear to be slowing. covid cases are rising. and flu cases are breaking records. the most flu cases we've seen in the past decade as that doctor alluded to, dana, a lot of this is because people weren't out and about as much over the past two years. their immune systems are a little weaker. >> dana: we have to build those immune systems back up and get through this season first. thank you, phil. the nypd hit with its biggest

wave of departures in resignations in 20 years. it's up 40% from a year ago as crime is spiking in the city. let's bring in the retired nypd lieutenant joe. this is not a surprise to you. you have told me even going back last year that you had fellow officers saying that they were ready to retire and going to leave. 42% increase over last year? does that number surprise you? >> no, it doesn't surprise me and it is going to get progressively worse as we stated before. what is happening, dana, this isn't just a defunding. it is a systematic demoralization but major police departments across this country. no wonder that places like colorado and florida are woohing the cops down there. better pay and circumstances. what cop in his right mind

wouldn't leave if he had the opportunity? many don't have the opportunity and they're stuck under the circumstances. >> dana: in addition to the pay do they feel they are more supported and protected being able to do their jobs without being held to a standard that they can't possibly meet? >> no, it's beyond the pay. what is happening right now is that these cops don't have the backing of anybody especially the city council, the mayor. because we have gone from, as i stated before, pro-active policing just to knee jerk policing. that's exactly what is happening in new york and the major cities. the reason for this is they took away the indemnification for the police officers. if they do their job according to the book stated in the nypd they will still have problems with the city council and not taking their back. nobody wants to put their neck on the line. it's a thankless job now.

no wonder, this mayor is more concerned with putting a face to applications and his diversity policy is ridiculous. we're the most diverse police department in the world. now he is carrying it out to other agencies. it is ridiculous we have to put up with this in this city in this time. the numbers will get worse. crime will go through the roof. you can't hold the cops accountable for this especially the mayor who knows exactly what is going on. >> dana: we'll stay on top of it. >> any time, dana. take care. >> bill: the coroner weighing in on the idaho murder mystery. what she is saying about the dna evidence and how it was or was not preserved at the crime scene. leaders out of washington allowed the fentanyl crisis to spiral out of control and it happened for years that's next. >> people are selling in bigger

quantities. so the availability of it is a lot higher. and the investigators were seizing a lot more in weight.

>> dana: still no answers for the idaho murder mystery.

no suspect, motive or murder weapon. the killings took place between 3:00 or 4:00 a.m. and 7 hours later the 911 call was placed. alexis mcadams is in moscow, idaho. can they fill in the gaps? >> they are trying to work to fill in the timeline and gaps using surveillance video by nearby businesses. this all comes as the hunt for the killer in moscow, idaho continues. one of the pieces of video evidence police were able to get in the beginning stages as retraced the victims' steps. this one shows kaylee and maddie at a local food truck hours before they were murdered. they were at this local bar. investigators collected surveillance footage from the corner club that has cameras inside and outside of the bar. investigators downloaded several hours of video evidence from a nearby gas station that is only

a half mile away from the murder scene. this just shows you exactly what areas they're looking at. as police look at the video from two local businesses and ask the public to review their videos investigators are seeking information to track down a white hyundai elantra, a 2011 to 2013 model. one month later. no suspect, motive or murder weapon in the case. we're learning more about possible evidence collected at the scene. i can tell you the coroner told me just yesterday that they were able to preserve possible dna evidence on the hands by putting paper bags over it and believe the killer's dna could be under the girls fingernails. >> fentanyl is now a leading cause of death for americans between the age of 18 and 49 . investigation by the "washington post" finds leaders in washington were slow to meet the challenge allowing the crisis to spiral out of control.

want to bring in a former dea special agent. thank you for coming back here and good morning to you. what they did is they went back decades. they say biden, trump, obama, bush, all these administrations failed over the years and that accumulation of failures is what led to the emergency today. how do you see it? >> so, bill, when i was at the special operations division i witnessed firsthand that the corporate cartels in america dumped 100 billion pills into america and many people got addicted. i also was at the special operations division when i went to brief high-level elements of the government and my guys briefed eric holder, okay, the attorney general of the united states and warned him about the dumping of synthetic drugs into america from china. it is when the madness started. over time the chinese started pushing a lot of fentanyl into

america and started pushing all the chemicals to mexico. basically the cartels took over because it was a big moneymaker. it is all about making money. one of the big things that people need to realize is the mexican cartels had ongoing relationships for years with the chinese chemical brokers to make methamphetamine. so it was an easy transition to go from the methamphetamine chemicals to the fentanyl chemicals. and so it's out of control now and plenty of blame to go around. >> bill: let me show you a few numbers here. fentanyl deaths in america by the year primarily fentanyl. in june of 2019, 33,000, you see where it jumps to in june of 2022. it is so unacceptable. here is a line from the "washington post" piece. the dea, country's premier anti-narcotics agency stumbled through missteps confronting the biggest challenge in 50 years. the agency was slow to respond

as mexican cartels supplanted chinese producers creating a massive illicit pharmaceutical industry. the vehicle traffic through the port entry at san diego is where the greater majority of these deadly drugs is coming through. i guess we could go back 20 years, i guess you could go back 40 years new -- if you wanted. what are we doing about it now? >> if i was in charge i would look after the chemical production labs in mexico. this administration won't do that. dea and law enforcement is doing an incredible job. in less than four months may to september dea seized over 10 million pills. border patrol over 5 million pills in eight days in november. law enforcement seized 3 million bills in september and october. saving millions of lives. for example the dea came out with the statistics.

six out of ten fake pills will kill. law enforcement can't do it alone. you need the government, department of justice, homeland security. homeland security secretary says the border he has operational control. total lie. we need more engagement. there has to be a sense of urgency. let's go back to the fundamentals. this government now is not even telling people in the schools that fentanyl will kill you. one pill can kill. they aren't even talking about this is a poisoning. not a drug crisis. >> bill: during the world cup last weekend i saw the first commercial on tv. thank you for coming on today. all of this is insufficient. i know you think that. thank you, derek. here is dana. >> dana: special grand jury in virginia has indicted former loudon county superintendent over the district's handling of two sexual assault cases.

both due in court this afternoon. we have details from washington. hi, mark. >> good morning. for the last several months the virginia grand jury investigated how loudon county school officials handled two incidents of sexual assaults done by a single student. the exsuperintendent and another spokesperson have been indicted. it was launched about virginia's attorney general. a report from the grand jury found there was no coordinated cover-up of last year's assault but jurors found multiple administrators and officials failed to properly handle the situation. last week the superintendent was fired from his job accused of not being honest with the school board about his knowledge of the incidents and facing three miss demeanors. he said i'm disappointed that has made false and irresponsible act indications.

it rocked the school district. we're expecting more updates later on today. >> dana: mark meredith, thank you. he can read fast. >> bill: quick two hours. a lot covered. >> dana: indeed. more to come today. we have "the five" coming up today. >> bill: lovely outfit. >> dana: thank you. it was great being with you today. harris faulkner is up next. here is the "the faulkner focus." >> harris: fox news alert now. his young mastermind ideas were supposed to make people rich beyond belief. now disgraced sam bankman-fried, the founder of the failed crypto currency exchange ftx is a felon in the bahamas. he was the second largest democratic donor this last election cycle shelling out tens of millions of dollars. what did he get for investing so heavily in that democrat political party?