Skip to main content

tv   Americas Newsroom  FOX News  December 14, 2022 7:00am-8:00am PST

7:00 am
that in terms of how quick your recovery is. she will be off for a few days and i wonder what the physical ramifications are of that. we'll have to get somebody on to talk about that. you'll see a lot more unfortunately. there is also this. >> they don't want to work at all. they have destroyed this border. we don't have operational control anymore. title 42 simply says when someone enters our country illegally from another nation we send them back to their country. but this administration will not uphold that. there are projections it would be 13 million more people going to cross this border illegally in the next two years under the biden administration. >> dana: kevin mccarthy last hour as record numbers of migrants from all over the world illegally cross into the u.s. and expected to get worse when title 42 expires. >> bill: i'm bill hemmer. good morning. homeland security secretary
7:01 am
mayokas on the border yesterday as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle call the administration to take action. he said the white house is exploring a host of solutions to prevent a crisis when title 42 expires including changes to the asylum program. >> dana: no time like the present. jacque heinrich is live at the white house. what changes and how quickly could they get them in place? >> we're waiting for the details. for days the white house has promised more details soon on how they plan to manage the coming surge. but both monday and yesterday no news there except a as the it acknowledgement that migrants believe the border is open. >> we're working to combat misinformation from smugglers, individuals who attempt to cross the border unlawfully and don't have a legal basis to remain will be subject to removal. >> the white house is not responding to a bipartisan call to extend title 42 set to
7:02 am
expires in seven days. joe manchin and henry cuellar joining republicans in telling the administration dhs has not outlined a viable plan to maintain operational control of the southern border. we must work together to keep dhs's authority to expel migrants until an acceptable set of alternative policies and resources is put into place. cuellar saying he doesn't think the administration is listening to what is happening. >> i don't think they do or if they do they have a very different perspective. look, it is okay to listen to immigration activists. it is okay to do that. it's one perspective. who is listening to the men and women in green and blue and more importantly who is listening to our border communities? >> even california governor newsom is delivering a tough warning saying the fact is what we have right now is not working and it is about to break in a post 42 world unless we take
7:03 am
some responsibility and ownership. significant coming from newsom who is aligned with this administration on most everything. there have been whispers for months that some in the west wing to like to see the doj extend the deadline of title 42. keep it in place for a while. the u.s. doesn't have a clear idea of what system will replace it. >> dana: thank you. >> it's fraud. it does not matter the complicity of the investment scheme. it does not matter the amount of money involved. if you mislead and deceive to take what does not belong to you, we will hold you accountable. >> bill: disgraced ftx founder sam bankman-fried charged with conspiracy and fraud among other charges. the 30-year-old is accused of sinnedling millions from his customers and trying to buy
7:04 am
influence. one of the biggest financial frauds they have ever seen. congressman lee zeldin standing by with reaction. to the news and david spunt live in washington with more today. >> sam bankman-fried woke up to his second morning in custody in bahamas. a judge ruled late yesterday that bankman-fried is a flight risk and denied him bail. yesterday federal prosecutors laid out his eight-count incitement calling the case one of the biggest frauds in american history. that is a quote. the u.s. attorney in new york says bankman-fried took tens of millions of dollars of customer monies and donated to republicans and democrats with a specific calculated goal in mind. >> all of this dirty money was used in service of bankman-fried's desire to buy bipartisan influence and impact the direction of public policy in washington. >> the majority of the money went to democrats according to
7:05 am
prosecutors. the contributions were disguised to look like they were coming from wealthy co-conspirators. they were actually funded by alameda research, another of bankman-fried's companies with stolen customer money according to the feds. democratic congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez called on politicians from both sides of the aisle to return any of that so-called dirty money to customers who were left in the dark without their money. white house press secretary though karine jean-pierre punted multiple times when asked president biden's opinion about sam bankman-fried's political donations citing the hatch act. a rule aimed at keeping campaigns out of the white house. >> i'm covered by the hatch act from here. i'm limited to what i can say and i just can't talk to political contributions or anything related to that. i cannot speak about it from here. >> his opinion. >> i cannot speak to this from here even his opinion, even his thoughts about the
7:06 am
contributions, donations. >> that was stag miller with the associated press asking the president's opinion. bankman-fried could spend life behind bars if convicted. he won't be in the u.s. until at least february 8th or later if the transfer gets delayed. >> dana: joining us for morley zeldin, republican on the financial services committee. great to have you. i want to put on the screen. these are the charges against sam bankman-fried. they run the gamut from wire fraud and conspiracy, commodities fraud and the campaign finance law one. what did you think of yesterday's hearing when the new ceo took to the stand in order to give testimony to you yesterday? >> i think what was very telling over the course of hours was how you could be utilizing your time to probe for important information for the public to
7:07 am
know more about what took place. this is an incomplete day yesterday because after john ray was to testify for hours we were supposed to have sam bankman-fried testifying via zoom to answer questions. yesterday sam bankman-fried's testimony was released publicly and having a hearing where you are going back and forth with sam bankman-fried presents the opportunity to ask the follow-up questions. while i believe that sam bankman-fried did commit crimes and that he should be arrested and should go to prison for a very long time, that's my personal opinion, i do think that the timing was quite questionable that it was just before the start of this hearing that he was arrested. inside of the testimony that sam bankman-fried had provided, he says that 25% of his time over the last year was spent engaging with policymakers and regulators. i would love to see his answers to the follow-up questions of
7:08 am
what he was meeting about. what was the regulations he was seeking? and we don't know exactly why this arrest was made just before the start of the hearing. i do find the timing to be not a coincidence but suspicious. >> bill: do you know how much money he contributed to the republican candidates in the last cycle? >> i don't know the exact figure, no. >> bill: is it millions or do you have a guess? >> i don't have a guess. i know the top line tens of millions number that has been reported but i don't have the specific number. >> bill: here is what we do know. he gave 50 grand in october to the biden victory fund in 2020. gave 2800 to the biden campaign that same month. he was also the second largest donor to congressional democrats in the mid-term elections donating nearly $40 million second only to left wing billionaire george soros. a lot of theories and
7:09 am
speculation as to why this hearing did not happen. what is yours? >> i think that if i'm a prosecutor and you trying to put together the strongest case you want him to take the oath and able to answer the questions and see what is said to help build the case to make it stronger and get new leads. you are not allowing him to testify and arresting him just before the start of it, it seems like you are trying to protect someone. we don't know specifically exactly why he was arrested just before the start of this hearing. but if it was done to prevent him from testifying as opposed to waiting until after the hearing is over, one possibility could be the relationship and engagement with the chair of the sec. they were working together on access to new platforms and they were talking regulations and they were having meetings and gary gentsler was cfo of the
7:10 am
hillary clinton campaign. this is just one of the rumors and theories out there. we don't have an exact answer. >> dana: for the folks at home watching this about campaign financing. there are limits how many you can give to a candidate. one of the things he was doing was donating his money, the money that he was using from the company, in other people's names so that he could give more money but that that person, say it's me, i don't actually have to fork over the $5 thousand. he will do it for me. now, would i be in trouble as well in that hypothetical situation if i knew? but also was he doing it without people knowing? >> so it is important to find out who knew what. legal contributions are -- sometimes a contribution can be accepted and you aren't aware until after the contribution was received that based off where it came from, the sourcing, that it
7:11 am
is an illegal contribution. so now you have that first step is don't accept illegal contributions. let's say you have accepted the contribution and you have it. in this case it's interesting. we're just after an election. some entities may be saying they spent the money. we're coming off the election. they might not have it to return. the next piece. what did you do with the money? if you're talking about refunding it, you aren't refunding it to the person who gave it to you. if you donate it to a charity, that's a nobel cause, find a good charity out there to do good with the money. but ultimately you have customers trying to be made whole. i think it would be helpful for john ray and the company managing the chapter 11 bankruptcy to figure out some entity where any individuals who want to be able to return the contributions can make sure the money is being used to help make these customers whole. >> bill: these waters run deep. you get the sense we're just at the very beginning of it.
7:12 am
lee zeldin. thank you for your time today. republican out of new york. >> thank you. >> bill: senate banking committee conducting a hearing today on the crash. big names testifying. shark tank star lost roughly $10 million plus the actor ben mcken sterox an outspoken critic of celebrity-endorsed crypto firms. some celebrities endorsed him, sbf, during this process and that hearing is underway. what's curious about this there was a house hearing yesterday, not a lot of people paid attention to it. they would have had he been there. followed by the senate hearing today. some people pay attention to but we would be watching it closely if he were there. >> dana: also a terrible crime we have to report to you. the suspect in the brutal home invasion attack on paul pelosi an update. he is appearing in court today facing charges and what those will be ahead. >> bill: going one-on-one with the champ. mike tyson opens up about his
7:13 am
days in the ring and his life ever since. it is good stuff. check it out. >> how did you feel about the guys you were in the ring with? >> i wanted to kill them. >> i can tell. i'm laughing nervously. from our heirloom inspired sheets to our super absorbent bath towels, to our 100% cotton quilts. every single piece is made right here in america. we believe in keeping our heritage 100% american made. enjoy our farm to home products and receive
7:14 am
7:15 am
hearing aids that i can personalize to each ear right from here. brilliant. ♪ [christmas music] ♪ ♪ ♪ weathertech gift cards have the power to wow everyone on your holiday list. offering a variety of american made products. weathertech! nice! like floorliners... cargo liner... tablet holder... boot tray... cupfone... sink mat... pet feeding system... anti-fatigue comfortmat and more. order the weathertech gift card instantly for the perfect gift at weathertech.com are you a veteran, own a home, and need cash? you need to know about the va cash out loan from newday usa. it's called the newday 100 because it lets veterans borrow up to 100% of their home's value. not just 80% like some typical loans. that extra cash can make a huge difference
7:16 am
in these times of skyrocketing prices. here's more good news: home values have skyrocketed too. that means even more cash! take out an average of $60,000 to pay down your high-rate credit card debt, consolidate your second mortgage, personal loans, and car loans, and lower your payments by $600 every month. best of all, there are absolutely no upfront out-of-pocket costs with this loan. and even if you have credit concerns, give us a call. the va has granted newday automatic authority to make our own approval decisions. when lenders say no to a veteran, newday can say yes.
7:17 am
7:18 am
>> dana: the man accused of breaking into the home of speaker nancy pelosi and brutally attacking her husband paul with a hammer is due in court today for a preliminary hearing on state charges. we're live in l.a. with christina coleman. >> today's hearing prosecutors will present evidence to support the state's multiple felony charges against 42-year-old david depap that includes attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon. the san francisco d.a.'s office did not disclose which evidence will be presented but stated
7:19 am
before that some of the items taken from the crime scene includes two hammers, tape, rope, gloves, zip ties and they will show body camera footage from the two officers who say they witnessed the man swing a hammer into paul pelosi's head on october 28th. he suffered serious injuries to his right arm and hand and had to under go surgery to repair a skull fracture. he made his first public appearance since the attack at the john f. kennedy center for performing arts a little over a week ago to honor americans. many celebrities and politicians were there and he got a standing ovation. depap, in addition to multiple state charges he faces separate federal charges including attempted kidnapping of a u.s. official. if convicted, he could face up to 50 years in prison on the
7:20 am
federal charges alone. he is a canadian national. a homeless man addicted to drugs who posted various covid and qanon conspiracy theories online and lived in a liberal hippie commune in berkeley. today's preliminary hearing is expected to start in less than two hours and no cameras are allowed in the court. >> dana: is that typical? >> in some cases yes and definitely this one. >> dana: thank you so much. >> bill: stronger forms of fentanyl and meth are driving more americans into homelessness. shelters across the u.s. reporting their populations have tripled over the last year. large homeless encampments popping up in major cities serving as open drug dense. our next guest lays out the crisis in a book called "the least of us, true tales of america and hope in the time of fentanyl and meth." the author
7:21 am
is with me now. nice to see you, sir, pleasure meeting you. you are one of the few who have drawn this connection between meth and fentanyl that is driving the homeless crisis. could you just state how you make that connection and what you see on the streets of america today? >> right. sure, the meth and fentanyl that is being produced out of mexico now and for the last several years is coming in in quantities that are staggering. they are unprecedented and they are essentially covered the country. these are the two most potent drugs we have ever seen on our streets. certainly fentanyl the deadliest. methamphetamine, the consensus is developing what is coming into the united states now is coming in in the most potent form it has ever come in and
7:22 am
particularly the methamphetamine seems to be very clearly connected to rapid onset symptoms of schizophrenia, paranoia, inability to govern one's life and you find people once they begin using this drug, they then fall into homelessness. the other part of that, though, is that both of these drugs do masterful jobs of thwarting the basic instinct for self-preservations. these drugs are coming in such powerful and enormous quantities once people are homeless for whatever reason -- there are many reasons why people become homeless originally. once they start using these drugs, getting out of homelessness is an extraordinarily difficult task and one that many counties are simply not prepared to handle. >> bill: a couple points here. fentanyl deaths in america in 2022, 72,000.
7:23 am
that's more than double than it was in june of 2019. sam, this is a call to arms, or it should be on a national level. you gave an interview with "new york magazine ". i want to share a quote you gave during that interview. you said it doesn't kill people, it is also like the pure raw face of addiction. people out of their minds wandering in the streets screaming naked like some allen ginsburg poem. people would prefer not to have to face it. it is easier to send condolences to someone who is dead than deal with someone out on the streets out of his mind. sam, i tell you, you come to my subway stop in new york every afternoon, every evening, you will see exactly what you are describing in the quote you gave that magazine. >> you see this all over the country here in america. we have this real reluctance as
7:24 am
americans to face what -- the real face of addiction. when people are on meth in that way they very quickly show the raw face, the face that none of us really wants to get close to or confront. yet this is all over the country and we're seeing addiction and mental illness kind of integrally combined. it has always been the case. just never seems like the intensity or numbers we're seeing today. that's why this opioid epidemic of addiction and fentanyl and meth is really calling on us to address the mental illness issue, provide more housing and services and provide more services for addiction as well as addressing the just staggering supplies coming out of mexico over the last six years. >> bill: sam, thank you. you are on important voice in this. out of nashville, tennessee and
7:25 am
we'll stay in contact. thank you. >> a heard a gust of wind and heavy rain and all the wind picked up and i just grabbed ahold of the bar in the restroom. it shook the house. >> dana: terrifying moments in texas as powerful tornadoes carve a path of destruction through the south leaving three dead. more ahead on the search and rescue efforts underway this morning.
7:26 am
7:27 am
hi, my name's steve. i lost 138 pounds on golo and i kept it off. so with other diets, you just feel like you're muscling your way through it. the reason why i like golo is plain and simple, it was easy. i didn't have to grit my teeth and do a diet. golo's a lifestyle change and you make the change and it stays off. golo's changed my life in so many ways. i sleep better, i eat better. took my shirt off for the first time in 25 years. it's golo. it's all golo. it's smarter, it's better, it will change your life forever.
7:28 am
i'm jonathan lawson here to tell you about life insurance through the colonial penn program. if you're age 50 to 85, and looking to buy life insurance on a fixed budget, remember the three ps. what are the three ps? the three ps of life insurance on a fixed budget are price, price, and price. a price you can afford, a price that can't increase, and a price that fits your budget. i'm 54, what's my price? you can get coverage for $9.95 a month. i'm 65 and take medications. what's my price? also $9.95 a month. i just turned 80, what's my price? $9.95 a month for you too. if you're age 50 to 85, call now about the #1 most popular
7:29 am
whole life insurance plan available through the colonial penn program. it has an affordable rate starting at $9.95 a month. no medical exam, no health questions. your acceptance is guaranteed. and this plan has a guaranteed lifetime rate lock so your rate can never go up for any reason. so call now for free information and you'll also get this free beneficiary planner. and it's yours free just for calling. so call now for free information. so how many vaccines have you given to people? me? about 1000. walgreens...millions. no way can i miss her big debut. with your booster, i think you'll be there. for every twirl. i got a shot so my sister won't get sick. way to go, big bro! so while we're here... ...flu shot, as well?
7:30 am
let's do it. when you need to talk vaccinations, our pharmacists are here. ♪ ♪ veteran homeowners: gas, groceries, everything's costing more. if you need cash, call newday. you can borrow up to 100% of your home's value. veterans get more at newday usa. >> bill: 10:30 in new york. idaho police filling in the gaps on the slaying of four college students in moscow, idaho. the night started at 9:00. fellow roommates began their night at the corner club. the next thing police know the two surviving roommates return home. less than an hour later katie and maddie were seen at a food
7:31 am
truck followed by ethan and xana going home. once they were all inside the home we know kaylee made repeted calls to her ex boyfriend and all went unanswered. the coroner ruled the killings took place between 3:00 and 4:00 a.m. and 7 hours later the 911 call was placed. police are still trying to fill in the gaps. that's what we believe we know for a timeline of events. what is happening now today matt finn is live in moscow, idaho today. matt. >> good morning, bill. we want to show you some new video from a police body camera. it shows an officer stopping what appears to be some young adults here in the field not far from the crime scene. he stopped to question them about underage drinking. if you look closely in the background of that body camera footage, you can see what appears to be four people walk by in the background. that is important. it was around 3:12:00 a.m. that
7:32 am
incident happened. we know police say the murders happened between 3:00 and 4:00 a.m. we want to show you this is the field where the students were initially stopped. seen on camera questioned about underage drinking. to show you how close it happened to the actual murder house, the crime scene, we have a second camera right in front of the murder scene. the video appears to show that those four people in the background of that video were walking from the direction of the crime scene of that house and walking this way. so that video is important because it makes you wonder what they may have seen, what they may have heard. police tell us the new video is a part of their investigation. this is a very busy campus. we're standing right in front of a fraternity house. those four people in the video could be innocent and could have just been walking by on a saturday night but this new element is being investigated by police. also a police are asking the
7:33 am
public to continue to be on the lookout for the 2011 to 2013 white hyundai elantra. we got surveillance from a gas station. the screen shot white car drove by around the time of the murders on november 13th. police are asking the public to continue to look out for that white hyundai elantra. it appears to be a white car in the vicinity as well. police continue to insist this is not a cold case. they are getting tips every single day, bill. >> bill: matt finn on the ground in moscow, idaho. thank you, matt. loud explosions rocking ukraine's capital earlier today. ukrainian forces reporting they shot down a swarm of russian attack drones made in iran. all this coming as the u.s. considers sending its advanced patriot air defense system to
7:34 am
help protect ukraine. nate foye live in kiev for us. >> good morning. president zelensky said early this morning 13 iranian-made drones were shot down by the air defense system but even an intercepted drone can cause significant damage. the scene as we arrived a few hours later. thankfully nobody was hurt. you see a government office in kiev severely damaged. apartment complexes, also sustained minor damage. again thankfully nobody was hurt. we saw residents alongside investigators with debris scattered all on the ground. we saw residents starting the process of fixing their windows that had been blown out. again, the temperatures right now, bill, are freezing here in ukraine. president zelensky told the country about the attack this morning. listen to this. >> the terrorists began this morning with launching 13 drones based on preliminary
7:35 am
informational 13 drones were shot down by ukrainian air defense. well done. i am proud of you. >> with smoke still rising from a government office in kiev, authorities surveyed the damage below hours after a russian drone strike. >> this morning the terrorists started firing drones. all 13 were shot down by our ukrainian air defense systems. well done, i'm proud. >> nearby residents began fixing windows in freezing temperatures side-by-side with investigators examining the scene. right here you see fragments of the iranian drone or one of the 13 that were shot down this morning. some damage here in the city of kiev right here behind me you see a government building that has sustained major damage. you see the corner of it has been completely taken out. windows have been blown out as crews are assessing the damage
7:36 am
inside. we also have crews here removing debris from high up in these trees as a result of this morning's air strike. also four apartment complexes here in the city of kiev sustained damage. >> i spoke with residents who were woke up by the strike this morning. one man stood out to me. i asked him if he feared for his life. he told me the first time this happened he did. he was really scared. this is now the third time that a strike has come close to his apartment. he says at this point it has become normal to him. send it back to you. >> bill: we'll see what happens if and when the patriots get there. live from ukraine. >> dana: parents are sick kids are having a tough time finding the most basic antibiotics as cases of flu and rsv continue to rise. what you can do if your pharmacy has run out. what musk is doing at twitter to cut down on costs. >> what he did is spent $44 billion to buy twitter and lift
7:37 am
the hood off to show us what's going on inside.
7:38 am
7:39 am
7:40 am
7:41 am
>> dana: the shortage of antibiotics are making it hard for parents the take care of their children. we need all the antibiotics we can get our hands on.
7:42 am
we have more from new jersey. >> good morning, dana. this cvs you see behind me is running very low on amoxicillin, a widely needed antibiotic by parents. we're looking at why that is here and across the country. it turns out many of the critically needed ingredients that go into the making the pharmaceutical drugs come from overseas. disruptions in china due to 0 covid policy affects our supply of medication domestically. the chart shows that 83% of the companies supplying our drug ingredients are overseas. by the end of last year facilities in india accounted for almost half. companies in europe make up 22%, china accounts for 13%. companies in the u.s. making up just 10%. in this graph you can see how india and china have grown their
7:43 am
supply of drug ingredients to the united states. here they were associated with 20% in 2000 but by the end of last year it had grown to 62% for the year. china the portion in blue grew from 4% to 23%. american companies making drug ingredients that part in red here shrank from 15% to just four. we talked with the ceo of u.s. antibiotics that describes itself as the only licensed u.s. manufacturer of a mocks -- amocks sill in. >> 80% are produced in india or china or overseas in any case. and that puts us, as a country, in substantial risk. not only risk of not having the medications, but it is a public health risk. a security risk for our country. we become dependent upon some of
7:44 am
these other countries. >> u.s. antibiotics said it is in touch with the fda but also says until we bring the supply chains back to the united states we'll continue to see this as a problem. the cvs here says a mocks -- it is on back order. >> bill: elon musk cutting costs on twitter skipping on rent payments and selling office equipment. hearing plans to get rid of severance for employees who were let go. martha maccallum anchors the story with us now. he is trying to save money here and there. what do you think about -- >> so interesting. they've cut back so much. they have no communications department. so there is no one for reporters to reach out to in a lot of these cases to get information on all of this. it also just smacks of someone who has run businesses and who understands that the way it was run before can't work anymore.
7:45 am
now a privately owned company and look for places to cut costs. a lot of employees have been working from home and trying to cut back on that as well. so my guess is that this is sort of a recalibration period. i'm struck lately by how much the similarities between the former president donald trump and elon musk, right? both at one point dominated twitter. the only two people i can think of people say did you see that tweet, right? from donald trump? another person who famously liked to cut costs, donald trump, right? who people complained about. why didn't he pay this bill? the electricity went down at the arena, we didn't pay the bill. interesting similarities we are seeing here. he has to do good governance and has to pay people the severance they were promised. >> bill: it's a private company now. he is running it on his terms i would argue. >> yeah. he has looked at the numbers. the company doesn't make any
7:46 am
money and he paid $44 billion for it. that's a tough equation. he has to figure out places. >> dana: you had jack dorsey saying -- he is so weird to me. i continue to believe there was no ill intent and hidden agendas. mistakes were made. i won't read the whole thing. he goes on and on. he wasn't even there when he said we had all the information at the time. nobody even asked him. if you look at the information that's been released so far, the people that worked under him were making the decisions to ban donald trump and he said he had all information at the time? >> he was on vacation at the time. interesting musk has gone to great pains to protect dorsey. it seems like they have a good relationship and he doesn't want it to come down on him. but i think some of what dorsey said here is pretty fascinating. he says he made a huge mistake and that only the original author should be able to remove the content that they produce. and moderation is best
7:47 am
implemented by algorithms. once we started giving power to people at twitter to make human decisions what stays and what goes it all -- he said it all unraveled and -- >> bill: he is getting a pass on this and musk is helping him. interesting to watch what tesla stock price has done. keep an eye on that. another story for you. tiktok, students are no longer asking their teachers questions about difficult issues and problems, they are going to tiktok to find the answers. >> dana: sometimes the teachers are pushing them to tiktok because they think they aren't allowed to talk about it in the classroom. >> i don't think tiktok is a good resource. just an expansion of what we've seen through social media. people turning to facebook at one point, google is another sort of category but people looking to places other than their parents or people that
7:48 am
they trust in their lives to make very big decisions and to get input. and so much of this information is just sort of wild, wild west. it is not always reliable. i would just really warn kids and parents to have conversations about this and to say if you are -- the information you get there may not be truthful because some kids are too young. they don't realize that. they think if they see it on tiktok it must be true. that's obviously very dangerous. >> bill: we make predictions at the end of the year. i wonder if we believe tiktok will be used in america a year from now? >> that's my prediction. i when reveal it now then. we'll do it on "the five" later for new year's. >> bill: you were thinking that? >> dana: i my number two is tiktok will be banned in the united states. teenage girls rule the world and they'll be mad. >> bill: the reason for that a lot of state governors have already taken action. >> dana: it is going that way.
7:49 am
>> it seems unfathomable that there isn't a secure american company running something like this. you lost me. but that's as far as i go. i love that prediction and hope it comes true. >> dana: two men who thought they didn't have a chance to get out from behind bars because of a crime committed two decades ago are freed from prison with two women through their podcast. >> i've been behind prison walls for 25 years and walk out and to see how the world has changed. if you're a veteran homeowner and need cash, call newday and use your powerful va home loan benefit. it lets you borrow up to 100% of your home's value, not just 80%. and with home values near record highs, you could have a lot more cash than you think.
7:50 am
at newday, you could take out an average of $60,000 to pay down high rate credit cards, consolidate personal loans, and car loans. call now. after years of chasing the big idaho potato truck... i finally caught it. oh man. always look for the grown in idaho seal.
7:51 am
7:52 am
7:53 am
7:54 am
i'd like to thank our sponsor liberty mutual. they customize your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. contestants ready? go! only pay for what you need. jingle: liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. >> harris: bracing for impact. america will likely see up to 15,000 people coming across our
7:55 am
border per day unless one man changes something. president biden, can you hear us? the white house is considering new asylum rules but additional flights to shuttle immigrants around the country. new developments in the idaho murder mystery. police just got a tip. and the commander-in-chief commanding people to stop fixating on his age as a reason not to run in 2024. texas attorney general ken paxton, nancy grace, will cain, "the faulkner focus" top of the hour. >> bill: thank you, see you in a few moments. turns out there is science behind shooting penalty kicks at the world cup. one sport psychologist spent five years studied every major shoot-out in every major men's tournament for 50 years. his takeaway. anxiety is the best predictor of success. the players who hurried through their kicks missed more shots than the players who took time to compose themselves.
7:56 am
>> dana: everything you learned in kindergarten you needed for your life. what i love is so many people now do have anxiety and they think it holds them back. it can be something that you can channel it in the right way can take you forward. >> bill: i second that. >> dana: thank you. check this out as well. >> i sat there for many years wondering if the truth was ever going to come out. i thought -- there was times i was starting to lose hope. >> i never thought i would ever see the free world again. >> dana: two men locked away for 25 years are walking free today thanks to our next guests. they started a podcast called proof, which exposed major flaws in the case and convinced a judge to overturn the ruling. they join us now. congratulations to you both. i can't imagine the sense of pride that you have in your work. can you tell us a little bit about this case and why you decided to take it on?
7:57 am
>> yeah. this case actually is a case that susan came across when she was working on another story out of georgia. the case of jody watkins. she was on the phone with joey saying if you think my case is crazy you should talk to my friend lee clark and that's how it first came across our radar. from there we started researching and it was a case we had the look at and move forward with. >> dana: susan, what were they accused and wrongly convicted of? >> a conspiracy to murder their friend. when they were 17 and their friend was 151 of the games went to visit his friend at his home and brought down his father's gun. while there the two boys played russian roulette and brian lost and was shot and killed. that evolved into the police theory, which is that there was
7:58 am
a conspiracy by a gang called the free birds who, based on a set of gang rules that included rules like always stand by your brother, never do drugs and if a brother knocks on the brother, kill him. based on these supposed gang rules, this murder had to occur and that's the story the prosecution went with at trial and convicted them both and sentenced them to life in prison. >> dana: you said there was a woman coerced by police into testifying falsely. >> yeah. one of the -- it was a woman who had a party. the party hostess a few months after the shooting and she claimed that lee and dean were at her house and confessed and were bragging about killing brian and why they killed brian. that's what she testified to at their trial. we went to talk to her and we found that actually that didn't
7:59 am
happen. cain had been at the party that night. lee was never there. we found out she had been threatened by the detectives to testify in that way under threat of losing her children if she didn't. >> dana: susan, obviously there are so many threads to the story, i encourage people to listen to your podcast. fast forward. now you're at a point where this case gets overturned and they're freed. what was it like when you met the two? >> it was amazing and a sense of relief to know they are home and that they can restart their lives after being locked away for so long for something that to them was always so crystal clear they never did and the evidence was always so thin. especially for lee who wasn't even there the night this all happened and yet somehow got drawn up into the story and sent away for 25 years. >> dana: do you have a next case you are working on together? >> we are working on a season
8:00 am
two that will launch in april of 2023. >> dana: congratulations and really inspiring and for people out there who don't listen to podcasts, i encourage you to listen to proof. incredible work. >> bill: two smart ladies. dig and see where the story leads. >> dana: those two can't get any compensation from the state under georgia law and they have freedom now. harris faulkner is next. here she is. >> harris: we have breaking news today. america bracing. but is america ready for what's about to happen on the southern border? former president trump put into place a measure to slow down the caravans and the groups, the large groups of illegals with title 42, keeping many of those illegal immigrants south of the border in mexico while our border officials could catch their breath and try to process people's claims to be here. now title 42 is ending in a matter of

121 Views

info Stream Only

Uploaded by TV Archive on