the water for much of the year and it is going to have unintended consequences we can't even imagine. >> bill: what a story. i did not know. douglas kennedy. nice to see you. >> dana: more severe weather ripping across the south overnight. daylight revealing damage from a tornado that touched down close to new orleans. it damaged homes and tore off the roof at a winn dixie. one homeowner was riding out the storm in the closet when the house was blown off the foundation. he thanks god to be alive. we'll have much more coverage later. republicans releasing a bombshell report on the origins of covid finding strong signs the virus could be tied to china's bio weapons program spilling over to the general human population during an incident at the research lab in wuhan. more on that to come. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom,." i'm dana perino. >> bill: i'm bill hemmer.

curious minds want to know. more work to be done. this new report helps connect the dots. lawmakers pulling together a wide variety of public and non-public information. some of it still classified and still secret. republicans also want to know why the u.s. intel community may have down played the important facts regarding the origins of the virus. >> we want to talk to every government employee that had any role in making decisions that impacted tax dollars going to fund gain-of-function research in the wuhan lab. >> the key lesson learned is dr. fauci mislead the country and he did so right from the get go. it is bad enough when you have the truth and you don't share it. but what's worse is when you have the truth and you say things that directly contradict it. >> dana: congressman brad wenstrup joining us in a moment. we have rich edson in

washington. >> in a few weeks republicans assume control of the house and with it the power to subpoena witnesses and documents. already republicans and a handful of congressional committees are intensifying investigations into the covid pandemic. the latest report from republicans on the house intelligence committee claim based on our investigation involving a variety of public and non-public information, we conclude there are indications that sars covid two may have been tied to china's biological weapons research program and spilled over to the human population during a lab-related incident from the wuhan institute of varology. they say they played down the links between bio weapons research and covid-19. u.s. intelligence agencies refused to answer their questions. the republicans say they have not found a smoking gun, though, that resolves covid-19's origins. the report says it based its

bio weapons conclusion in part on information from outside experts. in october of 2021, the intelligence community released an unclassified report criticizing that method saying quote we remain skeptical of allegations that sars covid two was a biological weapon because they're supported by scientifically invalid claims and they don't have direct access and proponents suspected of spreading disinformation. the office of the director of national intelligence released that report. we reached out to them and they say they have no comment on this republican report. back to you, dana. >> dana: thank you so much, rich. congressman brad wenstrup is leading the gop investigations into the origins of the covid pandemic. how did you get about finding this information and if you could, maybe sum up in your mind the most important finding in the report. >> glad to do that. a lot of things we found through open source. what we were able to realize is

in china they have their academy of military medical science. part of that academy is a subset called the fifth institute. this institute is involved outwardly on coronaviruss and bio weapons. we have this information. in 2005 our own state department said we know that the chinese are looking to create offensive bio weapons. in 2015 the chinese even released an entire book that talked about human viruses as a genetic weapon and also in 2015 open source we saw that there was an article published where two people together created a what we call gain of function-type of virus. you take parts from two different viruses to create one and in many cases the concern is will it be super infectious.

even in 2021 we found the state department came out and said that the scientists from the institute that are associated with the military were publishing articles associated with the wuhan institute of varology. the association has been clearly identified throughout. in their report in the i.c.'s report they said there is a broad agreement that covid-19 was not developed as a bio weapon. they don't give us any level of confidence on that. which they do with their other theories. they also give us know basis for this. so there is so much information that is out there, we want to get more out to the american people and hope to declassify what we've put together. right now we have an unclassified report. >> bill: let me jump in a moment. i think i'm reading a critical line from the report saying we have not seen any credible indication that the virus was intentionally rather than accidentally released. which would suggest absent of

intent, correct? >> yeah, i would say that. that we don't know, whether it was something that was released intentionally. which i find it hard to believe they would want to release it on their own people. but at the same time it could have accidentally got out of the lab. bill, i don't have much doubt in any mind and this is my opinion with everything i read. the first super spreader event came from the wet market. i believe that to be the case. the question is how did that virus get to the wet market? all types of scientists saying this thing is genetically engineered. you can go through fauci's emails. that concern has been there from the beginning. so one thing that i am concerned about is adam schiff will have their report saying there is no need to get to the origins of this. actually there is a need to get to the origins of this. one for our national security, two for our global health security, and as a physician, i can tell you, you need to know how things begin if you will be able to treat them, take care of

it or try to prevent it. >> dana: my last question, a lot of americans would look at this and say how in the world could this effort not be bipartisan? you are trying to get to the origins of covid. what was your interaction with the democrats? did you offer to work with them? did they offer to work with you or are these two separate tloorts won't come to the same conclusion? >> we have several members on the other side of the aisle that are just as upset as we are with the intelligence community refusing to answer our questions. it has happened in committee. we have sent letters requesting information and we either get stonewalled or we get nothing whatsoever. i've even heard a democrat say if you aren't going to answer our question it makes it hard for us to want to fund your budget. it is becoming a little more bipartisan. i hope it is. in the last two years you haven't seen the intelligence committee bring in anybody concerning this of stature that we intend to do. >> bill: it seems foolish for

the world to move on without trying to find an answer. whether or not you get any cooperation out of china is another question. brad wenstrup, thank you for coming on today. to the border we go. one of the large of the meth busts in border patrol history happened. they seized 3,000 pounds of li liquid amphetamine disguised as bleach. title 42 ends in six days. bill melugin will get busier. eagle pass texas today. hello. >> good morning. here we are mid-december. temperatures dropping along the border. illegal crossings exploding highlighting the fact this border crisis is not seasonal despite what the white house mass previously claimed. we'll take you to el paso. look at the brand-new fox news footage showing well over 1,000

migrants last night waiting to enter el paso. they have already illegally crossed the river and entered into the united states. now they are waiting to be let through a chain link fence to get further in to be processed by border patrol. predominantly nicaraguaian migrants. it is in the low 30s and some have to start campfires in an effort to stay warm. that el paso sector absolutely hammered in recent days averaging well over 2,000 illegal crossings per day. we'll take you up to the eagle pass area. look at this. once again our drone team over another large massive group of migrants, several hundred of them who crossed illegally at the same time as usual. all of them adults from nicaragua, cuba, columbia, and the dominican republic part of the del rio sector which has seen already in the last two months over 107,000 illegal crossings. those numbers up 55% over the same time last year. and last year set the all-time

record for this sector. then we'll bring you down to the rio grande valley. look at these images. border patrol stopped a driver with a trailer attached and infrared scans they see 15 illegal immigrants being smuggled inside of that trailer. the driver an illegal immigrant himself. they were all arrested and turned over to border patrol. exact same checkpoint they stop a heavy piece of road equipment, construction equipment, road paver and find a loose plate. take it off and find four illegal immigrants being smuggled with no way to escape. lastly, take a look at these photos. exact same checkpoint in the rio grande valley. one of the biggest liquid meth busts in the history of u.s. border patrol with agents finding over 3,000 pounds of liquid meth hidden in clorox bottles with a street value of nearly $1 hundred million. it goes to show the creative ways those smugglers and cartels are trying to get deadly

products into our country. it doesn't stop. >> bill: we have some tough news here as well. a few days before the big holiday and we're off 2% on the dow for a whopping 687 to the negative side. we had retail numbers come in about two hours ago. maria b was telling us they expected them to be down.1%. they were down.6%. a big miss. probably an indication what the fed is doing is working by raising rates and trying to slow down the economic engine. but it is not going to make a lot of folks happy as they watch this thing go south. all right. that's that. 11 minutes past the hour and there is this out of florida. check it out. >> come on. come on. >> you're good. you're good. >> dana: we reported yesterday on the near death experience where a florida officer after coming in contact with fentanyl at a traffic stop.

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>> dana: green energy companies are spending big bucks on solar farms in rural areas. the building boom is raising concerns that short-term profits for landowners could cause long-term damage for communities. mark meredith is live in richmond, virginia for a closer

look. >> good morning to you. there is a great debate underway here in virginia and states all over the country how much land should be devoted to the solar farms. in some smaller communities like the one in virginia the debate can be quite contentious. we're talking about solar farms we're talking about large areas of land that have been cleared out to make way for hundreds if not thousands of different solar panels. for the farmers that lease the land the power is either transferred to nearby communities or added to the larger power grid. energy companies offering $1 thousand a acre the lease land for these projects. in charlotte county, virginia we met angie. she and her family signed a 25-year land lease for a solar farm saying they had reservations initially but are now thrilled with what the farm has turned into. >> we want to be good neighbors, not bad neighbors. we wouldn't have done this if we thought we were doing something that was detrimental to our community. we want to help, not hurt. >> but charlotte county pausing

approval for new solar farms at least for another year over concern that some of these projects are coming up too quickly. farmers tell us they're worried with so much land being devoted to the solar farms, even with some safeguards in place, it could severely disrupt the nation's agriculture industry. >> i think that investment is going to affect all of us regardless of where we are or where we live in the state. it can have tremendous impacts. i'm not sure we're considering all of the impacts. >> the federal government says it knows farmers are concerned. just this month they launched $8 million to study how animals and crops can co-exist with the solar projects and a lot of questions what is in the future. >> dana: everybody should be talking about it and having a collective discussion. thank you very much.

>> paper bag. >> is it open? >> dollar bill. >> dollar bill. >> okay. breathe. deep, inhale deep. >> bill: that's a cop on body cam video captures a horrifying moment. in central florida a fellow cop by the name of kortney was conducting a traffic stuff an a brief exposure to fentanyl nearly killed her. we are thankful for her colleagues because they may have saved her life. two days after the incident she joins us now. good to see you, courtney, you look good. wow, on the video you were talking about dollar bills. what did you mean by that? >> so actually i don't remember saying it. i don't really remember much of the incident. but i do know that when i found the narcotics it was wrapped in a dollar bill. i was trying to explain to them

where exactly the drugs that i believed i was exposed to at the time was at. so they were aware so it didn't happen to them as well. >> bill: you were making a traffic stop. and you approached the driver or passenger and believed they had narcotics on them. pick up the story if you remember. >> i was doing a routine traffic stop. one i've done hundreds of times before. i asked normal questions. i always ask to make sure is there anything that will hurt me in the vehicle if i have to go inside. ultimately i did search the vehicle which resulted in me being able to search the occupants of it. when searching a passenger i did locate drugs on their body. one being a dollar bill. when opening the dollar bill i partially opened it because i could feel something inside. i noticed a white powder substance. i've dealt with fentanyl many times before. i believe that's what it was and

i wrapped it back up, put it in there and sealed it away. and went from there. >> dana: listen to detective sullivan. >> if the other officers weren't there there was a high chance and probability today would be completely different and that we would be wearing our thin blue line straps that go over our badges. >> dana: thankfully there was recognition on behalf of you and your colleagues you needed help from the narcan. i wonder what it is like -- what does it feel like when you start to have the symptoms that would lead to needing narcan? do you remember that and what it was like? >> i remember being in my car and i was fine. getting in my car, speaking with a fellow officer on scene through the passenger side window. i was good to go. i felt normal. as i went to go put my car into

drive i was talking on the radio to notify dispatch. we made the decision to not test any of the narcotics roadside because of the wind conditions. it was windy. the possibility of us opening the narcotics could endanger us. so we went -- when i went to notify dispatch we were going to head to the police department i felt very light-headed and i couldn't talk. like i was choking. after watching the body cam now i hear myself, i was choking but i remember consciously being aware. i didn't think i was overdosing. that never went through my mind at the time. i was so hyperfix ateed on my car is in drive. hit the brake, keep the brake so don't role. i wanted to get a drink so bad. i thought it would help me for some reason. >> bill: what a story. we have this video here. this is july of last year in san diego. apparently another officer collapsing after fentanyl

exposure. we covered that story last summer. some of the headlines from september, august and june, west virginia officer given narcan during a traffic stop. august 2nd florida cops administered narcan placing a man out of arrest. in kansas officer exposed to fentanyl took five rounds of narcan to bring it back. it's everywhere. you are northwest of orlando near leaseburg, florida, the lake district of central florida. are these drugs that common in your small town? >> yes, sir. i can tell you that i deal with -- whether it be me finding fentanyl through traffic stops or on overdoses where we respond to overdoses almost every shift if it's not every shift, it is every other. we deal with that, i would say. i see fentanyl overdoses or in people's possession almost weekly here. >> dana: we're glad to see you up and at them. you had headaches last night.

we're so glad you are here and grateful for you to share your story and i hope you have a very merry christmas. >> thank you, you also. >> the house, the house moved off the foundation like i took a ride. a couple of my neighbors, you know, rushed in and got me out. thank god for that. >> dana: vicious tornadoes tearing through southeast louisiana. thousands of people are without power. we'll have a live report and there is this. >> i'm covered here by the hatch act. limited on what i can say. i cannot speak to 2024. i'm covered by the hatch act. so look, i need to be careful, the hatch act. >> dana: the white house trying to have it both ways on the hatch act using the law to dodge tough questions and making some very political statements from the podium. what gives? bret baier on the disconnect and what the press corps can do. than gross domestic product? world war ii - and right now.

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here. it is everywhere in this pocket up and down these neighborhoods, random homes with destruction on the roofs and in front and in some areas even outside of here, damage there in the another city also. this system has wreaked havoc with over two dozen tornadoes in the south over the past three days. unfortunately the state of louisiana, bill, with three deaths an 8-year-old boy and mother in keithville, louisiana to the northwest. one person in the new orleans area lost their life yesterday. so two tornadoes in the past eight months here unfortunately as the system is still tracking into the florida panhandle, parts of alabama and georgia. seems like the weather will not let up these days. >> bill: december tornadoes not a common sight. good to have you on scene and best to everybody there in louisiana. >> dana: president biden's handling of the border not

helping his approval ratings. the fox news poll shows 56% of voters disapprove. up 5% from the same time last year. i was surprised to read the headlines the white house is scrambling. that doesn't mean leadership. it means -- scrambling planes in the sky to deal with an important issue. they had time to plan for this and now facing possibilities of 14,000 migrants per day crossing into the united states. >> yeah, good morning. it is not like they didn't see this coming. i talked to secretary mayokas on "fox news sunday" months ago when title 42 goes away. title 42 enables the government to use special powers to kick out illegal immigrants coming across the border very quickly. without that, it is going to be a very long slog and the influx of people that they expect over the next week is just going to

be astronomical. we've already seen numbers through the roof. they're worried about fentanyl and cartels using this to get more stuff in. talking to the border patrol like fighting a water balloon. you hit one side and they go to another area and that's what they are really concerned about. >> bill: we'll see this play out, too. it is getting more attention in the media, believe it or not, now. getting a little more attention from democratic politicians in some circles. let's see how far they push it. our colleague and friend here dana perino used to be working in that white house, right? so she is an expert on this next topic. >> i used to ask her questions. >> bill: we've got this collapsing crypto and the 30-year-old wonder kid donated upwards of $40 million to democratic candidates and causes. who knows how many dollars he gave to republicans. haven't been able to nail that down yet. when this question comes up at the white house she pulled out the hatch act. politically i cannot stand here

and talk about something connected to politics. this is how it went this past week. >> the president received campaign donations from him and many other prominent democrats and republicans as well. will the president return the donation? >> i'm covered by the hatch act limited on what i can say and anything connected to political contributions from here, i would have to refer you to the dnc. >> president's opinion. >> i just can't talk to political contributions or anything related to that. i cannot speak about it from here. >> bill: as opposed to what happened on november 2nd, bret, right before mid-terms. roll this. >> unfortunately we have seen mega maga republican officials who don't believe in the rule of law. they refuse to accept the results of free and fair elections and they fan the flames of political violence through what they praise and what they refuse to condemn. >> bill: republicans would argue

she dove head first into that one. in the last six months, 18 times she has cited the hatch act, all right? that's the setup for my colleague dana to go ahead and ask you the appropriate question. >> dana: i just feel that the hatch act is not supposed to be an escape hatch for this particular issue. one of the things she could have done if she was looking for a safe port in a storm is to say the justice department is -- has just released an indictment. we'll let this criminal case go through. i'll refer you to the dnc for more. to say that she can't personally comment on it because of the hatch act, i don't think the counsel's office would probably agree with that. they might prove me wrong. >> you are exactly right. >> dana: good. >> the hatch act the 1939 act the u.s. office of special counsel has this handy dandy website where they say the purpose of the act is to maintain a federal workforce

free from partisan political influence or coercion naming 25 things you may not development among those is not say how the president feels about contributions from the owner of a crypto currency company that is accused of fraud and a ponse scheme. that's not in the list. she uses it effectively. the reporters back off. some reporter sometimes should say tell me in the hatch act where it says you can't answer this question. >> bill: apparently joe biden, there is a report on cnn that suggests that she is all in for another run, jill biden. what do you make of it? >> well, i think this has been forecast that she is very behind this. they say that there are 7, 8, 9 people that say she is involved and now is fully behind the president. i think if you look at the polls, she is in the minority according to the latest polls about whether the president should run again among democrats. but the mid-terms changed the

dynamic as we know. he has some wins on the board and there is wind at his back as far as running again. >> bill: he would be 82 in two years. >> dana: this week you saw him. a report said he is frustrated and tells his staff i know how old i am. you don't need to keep telling me about that. this story leaked right before the holidays and i believe after the holidays they'll come back and say you had time to talk to family and go ahead and do it. >> one more thing very quickly. gavin newsom said he is behind the president 100% and suddenly ends up at the border wall talking about immigration and how important it is for democrats to get on this issue. sounds different than what he said. >> bill: there are no accidents. >> dana: fun to watch on the sidelines. >> bill: bret baier in d.c. some cities and states say don't throw away the facemasks.

could mandates be around the corner? controversy about a young football player lighting up the internet. f five fought 11 and he says he is 12 years old. what does tyrus have to say about that? ♪

considering a return to mask mandates with a trifecta of viral ill nest necessarys on the rise. some doctors say masks may not be the answer, especially for kids. >> the ongoing tripledemic is leading some cities to once again consider mask mandates.

talking about cases of flu, rsv and covid prompting places like new york city and los angeles county to encourage people at this point to wear a mask in indoor public spaces. for some, the decision is more than just a recommendation. it is mandated. the philadelphia public school system has implemented a mandatory two-week indoor mask mandate for its over 200,000 students when they return from winter break. so has new york college. the push for this masking has led to public pushback. watch. >> they come into our store and restaurants and listen to what people are saying, everybody is sick and tired of it. it's going backwards and not going forward. >> in an interview dr. walensky said you don't need to wait for the cdc's recommendation to wear a mask. we spoke to doctors. many say they're pointing to the mask wearing and school closures as one of the reasons why we're

seeing rsv cases spike across the country this year especially in school-age children. >> bill: let's bring in tyrus. hello to you, sir. >> good morning to you, boss. >> bill: ready to go back to this thing? >> no, i don't think anybody is. unfortunately even if the masks help which science has shown they really don't, the way that this has been handled, the misinformation that has been given out, people are going to be automatically going no, we don't want to do this again. this forcing masks on people didn't go over well before. then the science challenged it and now you go back to it or try to mandate it again you get 1,000% pushback the way things are handled. no one will accept it. we're not seeing where it helps at all. >> dana: the teachers union will be on top of it. ask you about this. cori bush from missouri, a

congresswoman, she is an advocate for defunding the police but spent half a million campaign dollars towards her own private security. using campaign donations to pay for private security. here is what she said about it. >> they would rather i die? you would rather me die, is that what you want to see? >> suck it up. defunding the police has to happen. >> dana: how do those two things make sense. >> they don't, that's the whole point. can everyone say that now? that doesn't have private security and top end private security? where you defunded the police and no more squad cars driving around or the call time for 911 the 30 minutes so every resident can say did you want me to die? they live in the first world. it is about me, not anything else. defund the police probably raises her a lot of campaign funds but it won't affect her because of her security team.

they couldn't pay me enough to be on a security team for someone like that. >> bill: half a million dollars and it will go higher. lightning round. have you seen the 12-year-old football player? >> the man child? man child. >> bill: i parently he is 12 years elite with a mustache and -- >> he looks like he could be my uncle. genetics sometimes is what it is. i would have to do a dental swab if i was playing them. >> the average height and weight is 4'6 and 5'3. he is steam rolling people. >> what i would like to say, my son is 11 and he is 5'10 and around 187 pounds. so he kind of -- it is possible. he doesn't have the mustache. he has a baby face. i didn't get mine until i was 30. >> bill: a picture of me when i

was 12. maybe six. i wasn't using a razor. >> late bloomer. he is probably peaking now. as big as he will get. the mustache is a dead giveaway. >> you think he is legit? >> i hope so. if he is 23 and an accountant somewhere he should be arrested for child abuse but let's just hope this isn't a little league baseball situation where he is 14 or 15. >> bill: the nba will name the mvp after jordan not lebron james. >> what's his record in the finals? enough said. michael jordan. i am a celtic fan. no one hated michael jordan more than i did but i respect him and he is the goat, period, period end of sentence. lebron is great in this era but

jordan transcends. >> bill: here is the contrast. mj6, james four. michael jordan six, lebron james four. he is still playing. nba all-star teams and all defensive selections. >> there is an as -- how many guys didn't get champions in michael's era? barkley, ewing. he dome -- dominique. he stopped other guys from getting their moment. drexler. >> dana: what about clyde? >> i know that was on your mind. >> dana: i agree with everything tyrus said. >> jordan, again. >> dana: what are you talking about? >> he is the goat. >> and a good bowler, too.

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tough talk comes as putin's army keeps an assault against the ukraine cities. winter there, nate foye is live in the capital city with more. hello. >> russia says it could lead to unpredictable consequences if the u.s. were to send the patriot system to ukraine coming as russian strikes continue today as you mentioned in the cities of car kiev. two people were killed in kherson after this attack yesterday. today's attack 100 yards from here. this is a city recently taken back by the ukrainians and it was also home to an american who has just been freed in a prisoner exchange. look at this, bill. this man lived in kherson for two years before russian forces arrested him under suspicion of

being a cia operative. he was tortured and given very little water or food. he was released along with 64 ukrainian soldiers. it is unknown how many russians were handed over as part of that deal. take a look at this, bill. at an undisclosed location we met up with the georgia legion. mostly georgian and american fighters helping to defend ukraine. his unit is making significant progress on the eastern front and why russia is now targeting ukraine's power grid. listen. >> mostly they're targeting civilian blocks or civilian infrastructure. all critical infrastructure. it is revenge because we are winning them at the front lines and they are revengeing on us. it's what terrorists do

generally. >> the state department is announcing additional sanctions on 40 more russians including an oligarch and close associate of president vladimir putin. we'll send it back to you. >> bill: nate foye live in ukraine. thanks. >> dana: elon musk losing the title as the richest man in the world. he sold more than $3 1/2 billion worth of tesla shares and sold more than $40 billion worth of shares in the past year the fund his purchase of twitter. he is now second place behind the ceo of ldmh. i don't think musk cares. >> bill: if you watched since he really got involved in twitter over the last three months if you see what tesla's share price has done? >> dana: it's why he had to reassure people everything will be fine at tesla. >> bill: before we go. queue it up for us. >> dana: everybody is getting

into the christmas spirit including this polar bear caught making snow angels at the zoo in salt lake city. polar bear fur repels water and that helps them stay warm in the winter. >> bill: i did not know that. that could be on the news quiz today. >> dana: i'm all in. at least we have the answers. see how the rest of you do. harris faulkner is up next. here she is. >> harris: fox news alert. when humanity overruns a nation's border, is that nation safe and secure? america is about to find out the hard way. so far the white house is not budging on extending the trump border law that protected us in the pandemic and stopped the caravans of illegal immigrants. now tens of thousands of people from 150 countries are massing in mexico to come here on december 21st. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner foc