>> pete will be my first guest. >> you spend your saturday night off work and you come back on sunday. >> bill: good morning, still no speaker of the house in 11 votes. kevin mccarthy coming up short late last night. we are learning a new framework emerging that might give him a viable path with more concessions to the block of 20 republicans who oppose him. talks could stretch into the weekend. maybe we get a vote today. we'll find out more when the house reconvenes at noon. jim banks out of indiana will join us for the latest moments away. stay tuned. meanwhile this. blowing the lid off the idaho

murder investigation. a newly unsealed affidavit revealing how police caught the suspect in the killing of four college students. if you read through the affidavit the details we've learned so far are stunning. it's friday, good morning and i'm bill hemmer. >> dana: a busy "newsweek" for the first week of the year. asme owe dana perino and "america's newsroom." it has been nearly two months since the students were found stabbed to death in their beds and court documents are revealing the trail of evidence police used to arrest the man they say is responsible, 28-year-old bryan kohberger. here are the biggest takeaways. >> bill: the suspect's cell phone data. the device was off the grid during the murders. they believe he did it deliberately turning off his phone to hide his location. key evidence still remains. >> dana: then less than two hours before the killings, his phone was pinged leaving the town where he lived in washington state. shortly after the murders his phone showed up again just south of the scene in idaho.

>> bill: the data shows him taking a round about route home and later that morning phone shows up back near the home pinging a tower near the scene of the crime. >> dana: what seems like an unbelievably sloppy mistake, a knife sheath found in one of the victim's beds. investigators pulled dna from it and linked it to kohberger using a sample of his father's dna. >> bill: one of the surviving roommates pictured on the bottom right came face-to-face with the killer that night. that is new information. we have not heard that until now. she told investigators she heard noises inside the home. opened her bedroom door when she saw a man dressed in black and wearing a mask walking toward her. she tells investigators she froze in shock. >> dana: the father of kaylee goncalves on "fox & friends" moments ago. >> i can make this man feel like he picked the very worst family

to do that to and every time he turns on the tv he sees us and every time he thinks something positive is happening in his case, he sees one of us communicating and he realizes he has 0 hope. >> bill: covering all the developments now. paul morrow is on scene. criminal defense attorney jonna spilbor is here in studio. now to jonathan hunt live in idaho. >> let's drill down into the details of this now. and the timeline is significant here. in the hours before the murders which you'll remember happened around 4:00 a.m. on november 13th, bryan kohberger according to police left his home across the state line in washington state in pullman, driving that hyundai. his phone was pinging indicating

the phone was in the car. just hours before the murders took place around 4:00 a.m. his phone stops pinging cell towers. it may have been put in airplane mode or turned off completely according to the police officer writing the affidavit. the phone goes completely dark. and then they believe that he entered the house around 4:00 a.m. they know the timing because right at 4:00 a.m. 1 of the roommates there received a door dash delivery. it was after that. a surviving roommate then hears crying. she hears someone she believes is playing with a dog. she hears -- she believes xana crying out and she hears a male voice that she doesn't recognize saying, quote, it's okay, i'm going to help you. then minutes later, the roommate sees this man walking towards her dressed all in black wearing a mask.

he has no identifying features that she can notice except for what she called bushy eyebrows. he walks straight past her as she hurriedly shuts and locks her door and then the man leaves out of the same sliding glass door that police believe he entered the house. the car then heads away from the scene. the phone pings again about 30 minutes after that. suddenly back on the grid. the car takes a very circuitous route back to his residence. what was he doing on that drive home? could he have been getting rid of a weapon? remember, the knife used in the stabbing of the four students hasn't been found. could he have been getting rid of blood-splattered clothes. do police have any idea where the critical items are? why did it take the roommates

hours to call the police after she saw the man and heard the strange noises and critically if it was kohberger, was this the first time he had carried out any sort of violent crime? a lot of analysts will say you don't kill four people in your first crime. a lot of people will be looking here and in pennsylvania now at unsolved murders, bill. >> bill: thank you so much. leading our coverage today in moscow. >> dana: let's bring in paul morrow retired nypd inspector and he is back in idaho for us. you read through the affidavit. i love your opinion about the police work done in order to get the suspect arrested and if you had any sense from reading the affidavit if there is a clue where the murder weapon might actually be. >> first i would say that you have to commend the police for the work they've done here. it looks to be first rate. as we said on the show numerous times the idea this case had gone cold really didn't hold.

a lot of the forensic work required in a case like this does take time and takes legal process, search warrants and it's evident in the affidavit and then follow-up. it is no surprise that it took them a little bit of time. i would point out there are two unsung police officer heroes here which are the washington state university cops on campus, because they found the car, the white elantra on november 29th two weeks after the event. >> bill: i want to take our viewers through what we learned in the affidavit. at 2:00 a.m. we believe all residents were at home. a total of six people at the time and a dog. 4:00 a.m. 1 surviving roommate wakes up claiming she hears kaylee playing with her dog and say they're is someone here. the roommate hears crying from xana's room and a male voice

saying i'll help you. audio of whim purring and a loud thud from 50 feet away from that house on that camera. dog is also heard barking. 4:17 to 4:20 roommate opens the door a third time after hearing crying and sees a person dressed this black with a mask on. the male walked by the roommate. she stood in a frozen shocked phase and locks herself in the room. investigators now believe the murders took place between 4:00 and 4:25 a.m. the cops were not called for another eight hours. can you make sense of that? >> it's very tough. it's really one of the salient questions hovering around this case. at this point all you can do is speculate. i'm not telling you anything you haven't heard when i say this was reportedly something of a party house. there were a lot of people who had come and gone at various hours of the day and night in

the past. we don't know what that roommate's state of mind was. she was woken up out of a sleep. maybe a little intoxicated. so look, all i can say is that it's somebody who has been through a heck of a lot and i know it is a very large gap in the case. i'm sure it's something the police are looking at strongly. you know, at least she does remember that and her description of him the bushy eyebrows tracks to the accused. >> dana: one last quick question. any idea where the murder weapon might be? >> again, very tough. he did take a circuitous route on the way out of there and unexplained hours in the timeline. one of the things he might have been doing is trying to throw people off relative to the cell towers and an inclination and turned his phone off, it appears. he had that much background knowledge. i have to say, you know, this guy was no criminal mastermind. he left all kinds of clues all over the place. does demonstrate how hard it is

to get away with murder these days in a case like this and commend the comes for getting this done. they took grief up front but hung in there and got the case closed. >> dana: thank you. you'll be there with lawrence jones over the weekend as well. thank you. from the legal perspective jonna spi spilbor. how good is the state's case against kohberger? >> it has probable cause to arrest bryan kohberger. now, what the defense is doing from this moment forward is attacking the reliability of the evidence starting with this probable cause affidavit and look, we got a lot of answers from the probable cause affidavit but also raised more questions, i would say. you brought a lot of them up talking to your last guest. when i look at the probable cause affidavit i say to myself the first clue that the police had was likely that surviving

roommate, right? she gives a description. she identifies a man in the house at a particular hour who she did not recognize. then you've got the knife sheath but you don't know at this point if there will be any dna on the knife sheath. they had a big piece of evidence and i'm surprised that they have not yet investigated more of why the roommate did not report this for another 7 to 8 hours. that's a big deal. >> bill: you come at this from a criminal defense attorney's mind and you think of this in a different way. reading through the affidavit they have more evidence, one would suggest, right? based on this affidavit. paul said he left evidence everywhere. did he really? the affidavit shows you are trying to tie a man in the murder of four people by a cell phone tower and you are trying to tie him by one spec of dna find on a knife sheath left on a bed next to one of the victims.

>> initially tied not to him, to his father. so that's dna once removed. >> bill: if one of the four fought back why don't we have this in this affidavit. >> we don't have it yet. prosecutors didn't need it yet. all they needed was enough to arrest this guy. if they want to get a conviction down the road jurors will want to see that. they will want the direct connection, tissue under the nails directly connected to tissue from bryan kohberger. they might have it. we don't need it yet and they haven't shown it to us yet. if we had to go to trial solely on the probable cause, it is not enough to convict beyond a reasonable doubt. they don't need that yet. if this is all they had the prosecution would be in trouble. >> dana: one last question. this is standard just for viewers at home to understand. he has a public defender. in these cases does the defense

attorney ever turn to the new client and say did you do it? >> never, ever, at least not anybody worth their salt. we never ask whether they did it. our job is to analyze the evidence, present that to our client, and get to the truth. >> bill: he is 28. you have to remember studying crime for at least eight years, maybe more. maybe in his own mind he is thinking how do i commit the perfect crime? we'll see whether or not he pulled it off when it goes to trial in october. jonna, thank you so much. we'll be in contact with you for a long time. there is this, too. watch. >> the longest speech on the floor. it made history. >> does it undercut your power as speaker? >> only a weaker speaker if i was afraid of them. >> bill: high noon on the hill. tough talk giving way to a

breakthrough in the stalemate for speaker. is kevin mccarthy getting closer to the gavel? congressman jim banks out of indiana will talk to us. >> dana: chill audio tapes revealing the emergency response that saved the life of damar hamlin.

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>> dana: the u.s. economy creating 223,000 jobs last month and unemployment rate taking a dip to 3.5%. that's a super low unemployment rate. fox business correspondent edward lawrence is live in washington with the details. how do you read this report? >> the unemployment rate ties the record low. labor participation rate in this, what the fed watches, it remains the same. a concern for the federal reserve. what the market is larking at, this report indicates the

federal reserve will stay the course on smaller rate hikes this year and possibly two rate hikes this year. that's what the market is reacting to now. it will open just under 300 points today. the last time the economy created 223,000 jobs was december of 2020 in the pandemic. the president biden says that he is relying on his spending to boost the economy going forward. listen to this. >> president biden: now we need to focus on implementing some of the big laws we actually passed and so american people can feel the benefits of what we've done. the big laws we passed are. they are the law and they will happen but didn't take effect. >> many economists say the spending is pushing inflation. you still have inflation outpacing wages, 7.1%. average hourly wages went up 4.6% year-over-year. a huge gap where paychecks aren't keeping up with the cost of living for another month in a

row. here is where the jobs are in the report. manufacturing is up 8,000 jobs, construction up 28,000 jobs. retail adding 9,000 jobs, leisure and hospitality adding back 67,000 jobs and healthcare increasing 55,000 jobs. on manufacturing, the president likes to say he created 700,000 jobs when he has added back jobs, all the jobs lost in the pandemic and just created 149,000 jobs. >> dana: thank you so much. everyone is paying attention to those numbers today. >> i advance the name of kevin mccarthy as the next speaker of the house of the 118th congress. >> i rise to nominate kevin mccarthy, >> santos. >> mccarthy. >> advance the name of kevin mccarthy very proudly. >> kevin mccarthy as speaker of the people's house. >> dana: a new vote set for noon kevin mccarthy hoping to make

progress today. more committee seats for the house freedom caucus, a vote on congressional term limits. lowering the threshold to remove a speaker and budget controls. one person on the floor for it all is congressman elect from indiana jim banks. good to have you, sir. you've been there the entire time. i know it can maybe feel tedious but is there progress made on the pro-mccarthy front this morning? >> i don't know if i see light at the end of the tunnel yet but i'm hearing about it. a lot of progress made overnight. negotiations continue with the hold-outs as you just mentioned, a number of i believe really healthy concessions have been made, a vote on term limits, a commitment to allow for regular order on appropriations and spending bills. i have always said i want a house of representatives of congress from the speaker of the house matters a lot less and the rank and file members like

myself matter more and have an opportunity to do the things we said we were going to do as conservatives when we got to congress. we're there. we are at a place where the institution will work better. kevin mccarthy is committed to that. i hope we can resolve this before we get to the weekend and move on so we can come back next week, roll up our sleeves and get to work on the big issues that matter. >> dana: might not be the week the freshman members thought they would have when they won elections in november. some questioned whether the speaker position is even a job worth having if you have so many concessions. listen to one of the hold-outs, matt gaetz on with us last night. >> the construct of these rules concessions functionally turn the speakership into a ceremonial position. matter of fact if my colleagues get what they want the chairman of the freedom caucus will be more important than the speaker of the house in determining the legislation that reaches the floor, how amendments are processed, and how spending occurs going forward. >> dana: what do you think of

that? >> the speaker of the house matters but i think the heart of what matt and so many of us believe on both sides of the speaker question is getting the congress to a place where a single member like myself coming from indiana can go down to the floor and offer an amendment and have my voice heard in the congress. that's what kevin mccarthy has committed to allowing to happen as the speaker of the house. those are the concessions he has made to allow for a better rules process, a more functioning institution so conservatives can get to work on the issues that matter most like securing the border, like holding china accountable, like supporting our law enforcement around the country. those are the rules that kevin mccarthy has already conceded to will allow that to happen. i believe -- i'm not frustrated at all. it will be a healthier congress to help us be more effective

over the last couple years. >> dana: i wonder what you think about some of those people in the republican party that won in biden districts. so they had difficult elections, they were able to get a lot of support and money, of course, from kevin mccarthy and his team but they worked very hard to get to this point. when somebody like matt gaetz said it will make the freedom caucus more powerful than the speaker, when they figure out a way, how do you appeal to more americans across the board? do you think this exercise has contributed to any confidence that there will be a big tent that the republicans can showcase in the next two years? >> yeah, dana, again the rules allowing members to have a greater voice and the leadership to matter less is good for conservatives like me, good for moderate members as well as they make their voice heard. again, i believe we're at a good place.

i hope we can resolve it today, elect the speaker of the house, bring consensus and unity to our party. we'll be better off for it. this exercise this week, while it has been long and tedious, i really do believe has a healthier outcome for the republican party. we have to do what we said we were going to do. keep our commitments. that's what republican majorities have failed to do in the past and why voters are skeptical of us from the outset. if we keep our commitments over the next couple years we'll growly the majority and win back the white house in 2024 and i believe this week could help contribute to making that happen. >> dana: when the history books are written it will be like a half a sentence in the big scheme of things. good perspective to have. thank you. >> bill: a couple of buttons on this talking to bret earlier today telling us in the conference call this morning among mccarthy supporters are getting a little anxious, right? now we can confirm that conference call will take place

at 10:30 a.m. among mccarthy allies. he could get some converts today. i'm hearing, dana, there are 7 or 8 that are a hard no. it means it could go into the weekend. people are traveling, the math could change in the house in all likelihood. as we sit right now a good chance the story doesn't end. >> dana: if everyone goes home from the weekend they hear from their constituents and media and might make some of them change their minds. we could be in a different situation come monday. >> bill: or do the proxy thing. >> dana: that ended. >> bill: they did it for three years. >> dana: it could be solved today as well as jim banks said. >> bill: tens of thousands of migrants illegally crossing into our country every month. president biden praising kamala harris for a job well done. soaring food prices not only crushing everyday americans. a-list celebrities are sounding off on the cost of everything.

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>> at the outset let me be clear, title 42 or not, the border is not open. i'm very much looking forward to joining the president in el paso this weekend. >> dana: mayokas yesterday. the administration extending title 42 to include cubeance, nicaraguans and haitians. every day so far this year cuban migrants have landed in florida. many hoping for asylum. phil keating is live in florida there. was is dania beach? >> president biden saying yesterday that cubeance, nicaraguans, haitians and venezuelans make up the entirety

of the illegal immigration happening mexico to texas right now. no overnight landings of new boats last night in south florida, which is the first day in a while. but there were two boat landings 24 hours ago in the florida keys a town south of key largo. like all illegal migrant arrivals, they're detained, put on buses and brought here for processing at the customs and border protection facility. down in the florida keys from key largo to key west they're witnessing often daily arrivals. migrants stranded on the highway waiting to be picked up by police or sheriff's deputy. straining locals and feds. migrant encounters have surged 500% since october 1st including boat loads of haitians like this one that landed off key largo tuesday. roughly 400 cubans who landed in

the uninhabited around fort jefferson have been removed for proper sense. the park is only accessible by boat or seaplane. it was a bit of a dire situation and water and food had to be provided until they could be taken on a boat and brought to key west. dana. >> dana: thank you. >> bill: president biden now praising the vice president and border czar kamala harris. did you watch this yesterday? praising her for the handling of the migrant crisis. the v.p. did not think there was a problem to begin with from september. >> the border is secure. we have a secure border in that is a priority for any nation, including ours and our administration. >> president biden: the think that i'm proud of the vice president. she went beyond the united states and contributors to try to get the rest of the world to say look, this makes sense.

and, you know, she got commitments of 3.5 -- $3.2 billion. >> bill: how is that working out for you? tyrus is here along with "the five" co-host jessica tar love. >> 2.3 million arrests at the border last year. 2021, 1.7 million. 600,000 known gotaways in fiscal year 2022. dhs reported 390,000 known gotaways in all of fiscal year 21. there has been close to a million known gotaways somewhere in america as of fiscal year 21. time for kamala harris to take a bow? what do you think? >> we have a saying. the president's speech basically peed down our back and told us it was rain. that was a really long-winded

gaffe-filled thing supporting amnesty is what i got from the speech yesterday and talked about an app. and who was he speaking to? the individuals that he was just talking to are in the middle of walking here or traveling here so i don't know if they caught the interview. it was virtue signaling and couldn't have been at a worse time given what was going on in the house at the time. >> dana: people are confused why he has never gone fought border in his life. he will go on sunday. but why they have ignored it for so long and all of a sudden this he give the speech leading into his re-election announcement. the quav will no longer be why haven't you gone to the border, what are you doing to fix it? >> i think they didn't have a solid plan, right? mayokas put out a plan which was very loose in april, i think, april or may and we were saying it is great if you build more facilities and judges. we need to know the brass tax

how you will make sure that people remain in mexico and home countries. what the asylum process will look like. this speech and plan went a long way to answering the questions. i know people on the right and left are dissatisfied. the aclu is upset about this and everyone's right if you put a foot on american soil you should be able to claim asylum. joe biden is saying no, the first country you need to show proof you tried to claim asylum. >> bill: i don't think anybody believes they're serious about it. arizona tried to do something and they are sued by the same government that say they're cracking down. it doesn't make sense. >> the number of democrats in border states and inland us a because of the busing of migrants who have held biden to account. we need your help. i want to say something about the optics. giblet's portfolio when he was vice president. made sense he gave it to kamala harris. i wish she had delivered this and say we have a plan.

i don't know how that was decided. if he just wanted that moment. the optics of her standing behind him and saying nothing didn't help her. >> bill: to further the point. if this was in his portfolio as vice president he never went there. the border is a big deal. and inflation. cardi b has some things to say. grocery prices are ridiculous now. eat outside and more to say. a ton. here is a rant online. give it a listen. >> lettuce was $2 a couple months ago and now it's $7. of course i'll say something. the bleep, this is bleep crazy. i can only imagine what middle class people or people in the hood. anybody that is responsible for these prices -- bleep.

>> dana: tyrus. >> we're all dumber for that. listen, probably a great rap song and awesome she cares about the price of lettuce and it was frustrating. you have to use your publisher and directors and stuff when you want to make a message that people can take seriously. leave the f bombs out. i know it's difficult. i have to do it every day when i want to drop them. >> dana: i wonder what rhymes with lettuce. on a serious point, when she does something like this, it gets a lot of attention. this is not just for cable news. this will be everywhere, her fans will sight. >> she was a huge wedge in the democratic primary in 2016. she came out in support of bernie sanders and did one of the f bomb laden rants about taxes. tell me where my money is going. she met with bernie and they talked about everything from criminal justice reform and economy and hillary couldn't get her and a lot of young people

were listening to cardy. >> it was a great conversation. >> why do we praise celebrities for saying the obvious? >> dana: it helps other people saying it besides us. >> peeing you down your back and say it's rain. >> dana: bill hemmer and dew point, have we ever -- >> bill probably not, you, yes. >> dana: good to see you. thanks for being here. president biden is finally going to the border for the first time. texas governor greg abbott is ahead. accountability for taxpayer dollars in higher education. florida governor ron desantis looking for a closer look on money spent on woke programs in public colleges and universities. for a payroll tax refund of up to $26,000 per employee,

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>> dana: public school enrollment is plummeting. school officials blame a lack of funding, staffing cuts and competition from charter schools. parents and critics say the problem is the public schools themselves. fox business's lydia hu is live in new york with the latest. hi. >> hi there, dana. new york city public schools

lost one out of every ten students who sought education elsewhere and didn't return. this is part of a nationwide trend. look at this. according to an analysis by the "wall street journal" new york, los angeles, philadelphia and ft. worth, texas suffered declines in student enrollment of 10%. in all about 1.4 million students left public schools for various reasons and that includes these five kids from florida. their dad said the mandated virtual learning showed him what his kids were and were not learning. >> the kids being home and the assignments coming home and the expectation that the parents were now going to be the teachers kind of i think left a bad taste in our mouth. >> now with fewer students, some school districts like denver and indianapolis are shutting down or consolidating underused

schools. superintendents insist that streamlining will help improved indication there because it takes money and allows for more classes and extra cur i can lars. the question is, will it bring students back to the public schools or for parents, the father you just heard from, probably not. the answer for him lies with supporting school choice. he seems to be one of the thousands of parents who have now voted with their feet. >> dana: really interesting issue. lydia hu, thank you. >> we seek normalcy, not philosophical lunacy. we will not allow reality, facts and truth to become optional. we will never surrender to the woke mob. florida is where woke goes to die. >> bill: that was from earlier in the week tuesday. florida governor ron desantis is pushing for more transparency in higher education in his state. he has given an order that allstate universities report spending on diversity

initiatives. florida education commissioner manny davis junior. critical race theory as well. good morning and thank you for your time. can you spell out what he means by having all the state schools report to the governor's office in tallahassee? what do you want to know? >> good morning, bill. thanks for having me and yeah, the governor clearly stated florida is where woke goes to die. i think our residents and taxpayers deserve transparency. finding out exactly where our tax dollars are being spent inside of these institutions. sometimes these institutions think they're completely indepented but funded by the florida legislature and approved in the budget the governor signs and important our residents have clear transparency on where the dollars are being spent. >> bill: do you have an idea how much money we're talking about and how many people and classes involved, how many schools? >> well, we're right now in the fact finding mission.

we have university system, we have 28 state colleges, so we are serving all of them to get all of that information and have the exact dollars that are being spent on what with a line item on which department and which policies they are being spent on. >> bill: a deadline on that. angie dixon, a florida state rep out of jacksonville and slammed the idea. in the so-called free state of florida under governor desantis the freedom to run dei programs at public colleges and universities appears next on the radar for destruction. nothing is safe and it is sickening. what is your reaction to her? >> my reaction is the governor has been very clear that we are responding to our taxpayers and residents that they should have complete transparency where their tax dollars are being spent. it has nothing to do with eliminating everybody's freedom but we need trance pair see where the dollars are being spent generated by our

taxpayers. >> bill: a deadline of next friday the 13th. >> that's correct. >> bill: we'll see what you get back. thank you for your time today. manny diaz running the education department in florida. thank you, sir. >> dana: new details how the buffalo bills medical staff sprang into action when damar hamlin collapsed monday night. an update on his condition and what's next for the team. the cdc is raising the alarm about two new covid variants spreading across the u.s. how concerned should we be? contestants ready? go! only pay for what you need. jingle: liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. i'm frank siller from the tunnel to towers foundation. i'm here at the patriot awards to honor some very special people. gold star families and families of fallen first responders. after their loved ones died serving our country,

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>> bill: a great new show on fox nation, it debuts over the weekend. six-part series called a year on planet earth. amazing video here, fantastic footage from 60 different locations. we put this together, have a look at this. >> incredible animals that face the seasons head on. over a year on planet earth. >> bill: just a small sample there, dana, a small sample now. it looks fantastic and starts on fox nation sunday. now you know, log on in. okay. perino, what's up? >> dana: damar hamlin's doctor saying a big break through. he woke up and able to community. the fast response from the

team's medical staff likely saved his life. david lee miller has the latest. >> hi, dana. hamlin's doctors say it's too soon to discuss whether he will return to professional football. but his condition continues to improve. moving hands and feet and doesn't show signs of head trauma. i appears to be neurologically intact and doing well. in other words, they say all cylinders are firing right in his brain. unable to speak and under sedation he wrote a question to his nurse that had his caregivers and everyone else smiling. >> he asked did we win? yes, damar, you won the game of life. that's the most important thing out of this. >> he has shown remarkable progress. now he still has a long way to recover. his condition does continue to improve and speaking out for the first time since he was

hospitalized his teammates shared their relief about the good news. >> we're extremely happy for him and his family. we just want to love up on him so the next chance we get. i don't know when it will be. if we get to see him any time soon. it will be awesome. >> nfl says it won't reschedule the game that was halted. that decision complicates the playoffs. commissioner has raised the possibility of a playoff game taking place at a neutral location rather than before a hometown crowd. team owners will discuss that idea later today. dana. >> dana: all right. thank you. >> bill: i tweeted yesterday we have a miracle in cincinnati. i believe that. so many times you hear about these cases of regular people, not nfl stars, who are forced into a coma, sometimes self-induced in order to save their life and it doesn't work out. when they asked the doctors yesterday how did he communicate

that question, by text or on a white board, the doctors said old school, pen and paper. they were so proud of the fact that his neurological function is intact. it is so rare, dana. it doesn't happen this way. begot it. >> dana: very good outcome. we are right now as you can imagine january 6th are seeing the two-year anniversary since the january 6th riot. a moment of silence on the house steps coming up. >> bill: it's been two years to the day. see how it goes as it unfolds on the hill. 10:00 here in new york. >> dana: fox news alert top of the hour topping the news showing new details into the timeline of idaho slayings, court documents show the murder suspect came face-to-face with the victim's surviving roommate. we have the minute by minute details.