>> we have nine seconds we'll wave and urge you to join brian on the radio. get dressed and stay within yourself. >> what she said. >> bill: do all of that now. good morning. here we go again. classified documents found at a private office used by president biden. found only days before the mid-terms and it's raising a lot of questions as we say hello on a tuesday in january. i'm bill hemmer. >> dana: i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." the timing of all of it, too. you have a duty to report and to the public, i would argue. >> bill: how about the fact the story broke when the president was out of the country, too. something going on? >> dana: the documents date back to biden's time as vice

president. his attorneys found them while cleaning off an office at the penn biden think-tank. he used the office from 2017 to 2020. >> it immediately handed them over to the national are chives. the day after. the discoveries prompted an investigation. merrick garland traveling with the president in mexico today has tapped a trump-appointed u.s. attorney to handle this. >> dana: months after the f.b.i. raided president trump's mar-a-lago estate in response to the alleged mishandling of classified documents by the former president. is the f.b.i. taking it easy on president biden? >> documents that are classified are not under protection and they're being accessed and do they know? do d they get all the documents? how come the f.b.i. isn't looking at all the documents to make sure there aren't more there? that's why they did a raid on trump and should be doing the

same thing on biden. >> dana: alexandra hoff is covering the story from the white house. >> a lawyer for the president says these documents were found in a locked closet at the penn biden center here in washington. a discovery made on november 2nd. he continued with this statement quote, since that discovery the president's personal attorneys have cooperated with the archives and department of justice in a process to insure that any obama/biden administration records are appropriately in the possession of the archives. while in mexico president biden ignored questions on the matter. >> [[inaudible] >> the president had been more outspoken when it came to trump's possession of classified documents which led to the f.b.i. raid of mar-a-lago. former president trump posted this asking when is the f.b.i. going to raid the many homes of

joe biden? perhaps even the white house. these documents were not declassified. congressman comer chair of the oversight committee is pushing for fairness writing we expect the same treatment for president biden, apparently inappropriately maintained classified documents in an insecure setting for several years. republican congressman michael waltz added this. >> my question is, these were apparently documents from his time as vice president. so they've been sitting around for five years? how long have they been sitting around and who had access all of this time? how many people had access all of this time? >> as you mentioned, the attorney general merrick garland has called on a u.s. attorney based in chicago to review these records. back to you guys. >> dana: thank you so much. >> bill: a few things to add. apparently it was not in pennsylvania, it with as in washington, d.c. the university of pennsylvania was using the former vice president's name at the time. they paid him for that, too, by

the way upwards of $9 hundred thousand for three years. had a few of the capitol building. 60 minutes in september he was asked about it. >> when you saw the photograph of the top secret documents laid out on the floor at mar-a-lago, what did you think to yourself looking at that image? >> president biden: how that could possibly happen. how -- why anyone could be that irresponsible? >> bill: the tables have turned, dana. >> dana: they have. their lawyers have a lot of things that will say it's different this time. however, there will be a special prosecutor or -- an attorney from d.o.j. to look at it. i also think on the timing of it. they knew this a week before the mid-terms. i don't think anyone's vote was going to be swayed because of this issue, but if they hid it from america until after the

mid-terms, i think that's wrong. if they knew about it at the time, i believe you have a duty to report. >> bill: we may or may not get an answer to that question. the president wants to run for re-election we're told. maybe there are folks out there who don't want to see that. he is out of the country, in mexico, the story breaks. we'll see how he responds to it when he comes back here state side. five minutes past the hour. more coming up. now this from the border. >> it's a slap on the face, you know. we are in the midst of a crisis, we see it every day. biden was not coming to see the reality of the border. he was coming to see a sanitized clean el paso. what was the price they promised them to be able to clean this up and make biden look good? >> bill: she slammed the visit to the border as nothing more than window dressing. democrat and republican senators are taking their own tour of the

border in search for solutions, mark meredith live in el paso with a look behind the scenes. what did you find, mark, good morning? >> we saw quite a bit last night. eight u.s. senators were at the border hearing both drug smugglers as well as drug cartels drying to get contraband and people over the border and the rio grande river into the u.s. and how much it is happening on pretty much a daily basis. only our cameras were there as this bipartisan congressional delegation got to see the fortified areas along the border. they got to see what is happening. they got to see from the men and women on the front lines and at one point even on our tour we came across two chinese nationals trying to illegally cross into the u.s. in front of the senators. border agents were searching the two men. event stood out to texas senator john cornyn. >> people wonder what are chinese nationals doing coming across the southern border? the fact of the matter is these

are international human smuggling organizations, criminal enterprises for the right amount of money smuggle you from anywhere in the world. >> now these senators insist this trip is a fact finding mission, not a photo op. they will be going back to d.c. to take what they've seen and learned and turn it into proposed legislation to address security and asylum back logs. on monday ahead of the tour they had a chance to sit down with law enforcement and humanitarian groups. the people dealing with the struggles on a daily basis and dealing with it for years. while many groups have different knights they admit there is not a one size fits all solution but pleading with the senators to take what they were learning and turn it into action and get something done as fast as possible. they were in new mexico and texas. today they will head into yuma, arizona where senator sinema will be giving a tour what she is seeing in her backyard. the senators what they saw here

on the ground want to take that information back. they realize there is a crisis happening here and across the country. >> nice to see you in el paso. you wonder if anything -- maybe. they got a long way to go to make it better, we know that. >> dana: we also have congressman gonzalez from that area and henry cuellar and both be our guests coming up. >> bill: eight minutes past the hour now. >> dana: prosecutors say the husband of missing massachusetts mother ana walshe bought hundreds of dollars of cleaning supplies a day after his wife vanished. shopping list for murder. we're live in massachusetts with more. hi, molly. >> the husband of ana walshe remains behind bars being held at a high bail. the search continues for its wife and taken a grim turn. we're here at a transfer station, trash transfer station where investigators are digging

through the trash in the late night hours an hour from the cohasset home where she lived with her three young boys and husband lived before she disappeared. there is evidence connected to a dumpster from the mother-in-law's apartment complex. brian walshe is charged with misleading police. according to court documents he claims on january 1st, the day anna disappeared. he drove to visit his mother and shop for her at whole foods and cvs. videos show no proof he went to either store. prosecutors reveal walshe didn't tell police he had also gone to a home depot january 2nd to buy cleaning supplies while wearing blue surgical gloves. a surge of the home led to the discovery of blood in the basement along with a blood stained knife. her cell phone pinged in the area of her home january 2nd, a

day after her husband claims she left for a work trip to washington, d.c. walshe's defense attorney says he has been cooperative. >> we have consented to searches of his home, we have consented to searches of his property, we have consented to searches of his cell phone. >> this is still a very active investigation. he is being held on $5 hundred thousand cash bail and due back in court on february 9th. >> dana: thank you. sad. they have three young children and the story is unfortunately not the first time we've heard of a situation like this. her mother is in serbia and read more at fox news digital. they have a reporter who talked to her mother. >> bill: she sad mama, come over, please come. that trip never happened. that's online right now. another crime story we're following from idaho. the suspect now in the murder of those four university of idaho students due back in court thursday nearly two months after the brutal stabbing facing four

counts of murder in the first degree. meanwhile, classmates of the four young victims return to school tomorrow for the first day of spring semester. many say they're still understandably on edge. >> they have post-it notes of a number you can call with the on-campus security walking you to and from your dorm. >> bill: critical questions remain unanswered. the murder weapon has yet to be found in idaho. >> dana: mudslides prompting mass evacuations in california. check that out. fast moving water. >> bill: the biden administration said to be weighing a ban on a gas stove in your house. what would it mean for millions of american homes? >> dana: a political pivot suggesting the president is all in for 2024. what he is doing and whether it

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city of montecito that killed 23 people at the time. >> bill: a key group of voters, evangelicals in america. could faith be the deciding factor the next time around? rich edson live in washington checking into the story today. what did you find out? >> good morning. in november '80% of the white evangelical christian vote for the republican house candidate in their district according to the 2022 national fox news voter analysis. faith leaders say no republican is winning the presidential nomination without evangelical support. >> there is no path to the republican nomination for president in 2024 without in my opinion, not only appealing centrally as a core part of one's message to those voters. >> i've talked to the former president recently. i think that eventually, if not immediately, evangelicals will end up coalescing around former

president trump again. >> jeffers is meeting with former vice president mike pence. he says pence would be a strong contender if he runs. trump got big backing from evangelicals in his two presidential elections. christian praised him for his three supreme court picks. trump blamed a disappointing mid-term performance on republican handling of the abortion issue, especially those that firmly insisted on no exceptions, even in the case of rape, incest or life of the mother. that lost large numbers of voters. mike pompeo told us in a statement, quote, people of faith, especially evangelicals, matter enormously in our elections. these are americans who understand that the american idea is deeply rooted in judy owe christian values basic respect for life and the fundamental dignity of every person. some faith leaders have praised florida governor ron desantis appealed to religious

conservatives on abortion, vaccine requirements and schools. bill and dana, back to you. >> bill: we'll watch it. rich edson. important story. >> dana: as president biden begins shaping his path towards 2024 he is quietly trying to move to the middle. in just the last week he has taken a bipartisan trip to kentucky with senate leader mitch mcconnell. even traveled to the southern border for the first time ever for a few hours. he has significant progress to make if he wants to gain back the support of the public including his own party. former chief of staff to senate leader mitch mcconnell. there is a story at cnn with several administration officials anonymously saying we're operating under the assumption he is running. it is all systems go. they're anonymous because they don't want to get ahead of the president. this was a poll taken by cnbc at the end of november of last year where you had all surveyed saying that a majority do not want biden to run in 2024.

so if he is going to run, he has his work cut out for him? >> no question about it, dana. a telltale syme sign is the clinton pivot. govern the first two years as a socialist and attempt to come back in the last two years is the center. bill clinton in the early nine 0s. in that instance he signed well care reform just three months before his own election campaign in 1996. i don't see that happening. i think that joe biden has a lot of challenges here, not the least of which is he has boxed himself in ideologically. you can show up at the border and take pictures. what he can do about is limited given his stated stance of this administration with immigration. he can spend money on republican priorities. the problem is with inflation the way it is republicans don't

want to spend money on anything. what he can do in the center of the electorate other than maybe take pictures and stand for photo ops is relatively limited. >> dana: analyze how the left wing of his party, pretty powerful and bigger than it used to be. the whole party is farther left and republicans are farther right they might say. how the left wing take any of his attempts to move to the middle? >> i think the great unspoken reality of that is the matter of the president's age. you have a progressive base that tends to be a lot younger, a lot more difficult for this president to relate to on a practical matter but also very, very far left and one of the reasons why in the first two years this president has been courting progressive policies to the left of bernie sanders. they've always felt like that's a liability there. they are also the first people in the polls you see show up to say they don't want him to run for re-election. they want somebody more representative of their

coalition. that's the thing. when you pivot toward the center, that group will get pretty anxious. i think it could be a huge problem for him. a catch 22 as he gets closer to making this decision. >> dana: i'm not sure voters will buy it again that he is a centrist when you look at the first two years and the actions they did make a lot of progressive dreams come true. wanted to ask you about the republicans. we had the big speaker vote behind them and the rules package and moving forward. the "wall street journal" writes in the "wall street journal" the disorganized gop and other sides of the great inversion. he is saying republicans need to get a grip and fast or they and we will lose the ability to halt the country's march to the left for a decade or more. what is your prognosis for the republicans entering the new congress? >> the speaker fight was a little bit of a mess. you hate to see that play out in public. it was successful and legislating is an ugly business. the most encouraging part is day

one they repeal the 87,000 new i.r.s. agents the democrats bestowed upon the american people last year. that's the kind of thing that unites republicans with the center of the electorate and moves the ball forward. i suspect on the legislative front you'll see a lot more of what they've been talking about a last year and a half and i suspect they march forward with it. the great uncertainty are the big things you deal with in the first year, the continued government funding and the debt ceiling. well oh he see how they process all that. from a day one perspective i'm encouraged by what we see. >> dana: josh holmes. happy new year and thank you for being here today. >> thank you, dana. >> dana: take care. >> bill: 24 past. criticism of president biden following him south of border. what his mexican counterpart is saying to the president about america's approach to the region. this is a bit of a stunner. stay tuned for that. the georgia bulldogs trying to win back-to-back national championships. they were up late last night in athens, georgia, dana.

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alexis mcadams live at the hospital in buffalo. good morning there. >> great morning here in buffalo, new york. damar hamlin is back home in buffalo, new york. here at the hospital behind me at buffalo general recovering and also doctors running tests to figure out exactly what happened that led to him going into cardiac arrest. look here. the tweet he sent out yesterday. big news weighs back home in buffalo, 24-year-old sharing the big news that he was here tweeting that he was watching the world come around him and was truly an amazing feeling saying the same love you all have shown to me is the same love i plan to put back into the world and more. bigger than football. one week ago, bill, hamlin wasn't able to breathe on his own after a routine hit on the football field that left him in critical condition for days. according to the hospital here in buffalo, hamlin is stable and continues to make significant progress. doctors in cincinnati, he was

watching from his hospital bed and it got hamlin off on his feet. the bills had a big lead. >> we learned this week the bills mafia is a very real thing and feel the love from you all in western new york. he watched the game yesterday when the opening kickoff was run back he jumped up and down, got out of his chair. set every alarm off in the icu in the process. >> the bills mafia has been watching this recovery closely. it is too early to know when and if he will return to the football field. the head football coach said he had a chance to talk to hamlin on monday and see him in person. the team taking this recovery one step at a time. >> what a blessing just incredible progress that he has made. incredible care that he has been under.

>> as hamlin recovers, bill, he is undergoing tests and they will be facing off the bills against the miami dolphins on sunday. an emotional game if they win. they could face off against the cincinnati bengals again. >> bill: we'll debate that, alexis. fearless prediction. if the bills keep winning he will be in the stadium for one of these games. a wonderful sight. >> dana reads sports. >> bennett looking to this side of the edge. mitchell, one-handed catch for a touchdown. >> dana: that was a snapshot of one of the biggest blow-outs in college football history. georgia bulldogs with a 75-7 victory against tcu back night. -- the team scoring the most

points ever in national championship game. they had handshakes on the field and a gatorade bath. the second year in a row they're taking home the trophy. the parters are watching this in georgia. i know them plus a lot of others. >> bill: right before the game kicks off, right, the reporter was it espn? she asked the head coach of georgia saying what do you want to do? he said aggression. and he stopped. >> dana: that's what i'll say to you tomorrow morning. >> bill: anything else? that's our objective. tomorrow morning you'll say that to me. >> dana: what's our objective? >> bill: aggression. president biden in mexican city for the north american leaders summit after his three hour trip to the border amid the historic crisis there accompanied by several lawmakers and officials including our next guest.

henry cuellar out of texas won a close re-election. thank you for your time and being here today. you said if there is a crisis, show up. just show up. apparently that wasn't enough for you, was it? >> well, he did show up, which i'm glad. on thursday he came out with a plan that i have talked to some of the border patrol agents and they feel the plan will work. you provide an incentive for people that want to ask for asylum to do it the right way and if they don't, there should be a disincentive if they come in between ports of entry. we have to have the resources to implement this correctly. >> dana: over the past two years 5 million have come across. 1.5 million are gotaways that we don't know where or who they are. does this qualify for asylum. a migrant saying what his objective is coming to america. >> i want to thank president biden for giving us this

opportunity. we come from a country that's really poor and looking for work. >> dana: does that meet asylum? >> no, no, no. in fact, most of the people that are coming in for asylum, you know, they need to understand that the law under asylum means there has to be a persecution by the state based on religion, sex or one of those reasons coming from poverty and looking for a job, that don't allow it. when you look at the number of successful asylum cases, you know which is the number one country that gets the highest percentage? china, not one of the latin american countries. we need to vet people before they come in and asking for asylum. >> bill: you said it's okay to listen to immigration activists,ist is okay to do that. what of the people on our side of the border? do you think the open borders crowd has too much of his ear?

>> i think in the past they have only listened to immigration activists. you have to listen to the men and women in green and blue and this is something the president did go down there and talk to the men and women in green and blue but you have to listen to border communities. what new york and chicago or washington is getting is only a drop -- only a drop of what we get down there to the border. so listening to landowners, mayors, county judges and all that. folks down there, it is important. we don't have a single sanctuary city or county along the border, none. i've talked to so many border officials and none of them has said just letting people in is the right way. >> dana: you know, you have been pushing back against the biden administration and asked for their help because they wouldn't call you back. you have a colleague in tony gonzalez. his district is the one

president biden visited and wasn't invited to join him. >> when i tried to be part of this el paso visit, which i represent el paso, i represent nearly 50% of the southern border, the white house told me i wasn't able to be part of it. they think this is a political challenge, not a policy challenge. you hear them say that they want to work with republicans. i'm not this crazy extremist republican. >> dana: this is not going to get solved by any one party alone. what would you say to tony or to the white house about that decision? >> again, i don't know how that decision was made to who was going. i didn't know about it even myself until the very end. i can tell you about tony. tony gonzalez is a friend of mine. senator john cornyn is a friend of mine. those two individuals, we talked many times to try to find bipartisan ways to address this issue. i will continue working with tony in appropriations and i

want to work with senator john cornyn and other folks, democrats and republicans. the ones that want to find practical solutions and not just political messaging, both the left and the right. >> bill: gonzalez wasn't even invited. that's his town, el paso. wasn't even invited. henry cuellar, thank you for coming back and we'll speak again. the issue will be a long one. >> thank you, dana and bill. >> bill: thank you. >> dana: federal officials are considering a ban on gas stoves over concerns about the health effects of air pollutants. new study links gas stoves to nearly 13% of u.s. childhood asthma cases. consumer products safety commission said the rule would only apply to new problems not the 40% of american homes that already have gas stoves. inflation reduction act provides $840 rebate for anyone who wants to switch to an electric stove. i mean -- >> bill: you can put the stove next to your electric car.

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>> dana: republican-controlled house passing its first piece of legislation aimed at the i.r.s. and would wipe out more than $70 billion in agency funding. that money is part of the democrats' so-called inflation reduction act that be paefshd the way for the i.r.s. to hire tens of thousands of new workers. republican house members said they would do it. they've done it. i don't know what happens in the senate. maybe nothing. >> hopefully at least maybe -- maybe a whole lot of middle income, lower income, small business owners might be able to breathe a sigh of relief because you talk about astronomical overreach. no way it was only going after rich folks. certainly not the jeff bezos in

the world. so right now we have 8300 revenue agents, 2700 revenue officers, 2,000 special agents and 8,000 examiners. why would we need 87,000 more on top of that? who would they go after? it's really nuts. remember last year when they were going to -- the whole thing bubbled up about having -- if you use venmo small business, 600,000. it's in there. -- 600. it is so crazy and nuts. we don't need any 7,000 more i.r.s. agents, examiners and officers and 79.6 billion we don't need to put in there. they say there is a tax gap. taxes owed but not collected of $458 billion. i don't know where that number

came from. it is a dangerous gamut. >> bill: they could get a couple of senators. the president won't sign this bill. >> i hope they do. i really do. it is one of those things. this is not -- again, you use the jeff bezos of the world and sell the programs that way but ultimately particularly small businesses is who i am worried about. folks who file and small businesses file their incomes that way. i just think they would be sitting ducks. >> dana: the venmo stuff was so complicated and democrats said it went too far. they delayed it for a year. it makes the sword is hanging over your head for another year. a lot of people that might get paid by venmo are hustling. gig work trying to make a way to make ends meet. it feels like a lot of heavy handed government. >> who pays the real price for

this honestly? it's advertised one way but in real life it is a crusher. i hope it doesn't go through. >> bill: rubber will meet the road on the defense spending thing. a lot of house republicans don't like it. cuts in the budget. "wall street journal" headline. defense is now a republican target and the headline. you have to get ready for russia and china, etc. how do you see it? >> it is a tough one in a sense we do. there are some advances being made in the world. we nov one of the things that has happened throughout the course of history of empires that they've stretched themselves too thin and become complacent. we don't want to do that. we don't have global ambitions to nominate the world. other people do. the old phrase we'll find fraud, waste and abuse? you wish that was maybe the elegant solution to this. there is a lot of fraud, waste and abuse. if it doesn't get resolved. if there are no cuts in defense the other side will say well, we don't want to cut all of our

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>> bill: violence and chaos in mexico after the arrest of a drug lord el chapo's son. he is wanted in the u.s. for the

surge of fentanyl that killed tens of thousands and devastated communities across the country. >> a clear and present danger to the united states national security. they are flooding america with poisonous fentanyl and making mass amounts of methamphetamine. we have never seen ever a terrorist organization kill this many americans. >> bill: former u.s. marshal worked on the narcotics beat for 30 years. great to have you on. you were the u.s. marshal with guzman was captured several years ago. do we know where they all are in mexico today and could we, if given the desire on behalf of the mexican government, take down them all? >> yeah, no doubt about it. you know, that's how the mexican authorities were able to capture el chapo g guzman a few years

ago. the u.s. led mexico to the location to get him placed under arrest. we know where a lot of them are. the mexican government knows where they are. they showed that with the recent arrest. the surprising thing they've had him under surveillance for several months. the mexican government if they really wanted to could go after the cartels and take them down. what happened after the arrest, the chaos? a clear example of the cartels being terrorist organizations and all of whom are terrorist organizations. there is no doubt about it. >> bill: let me show our audience a few things here. 3500 members of the armed forces, ten mexican soldiers killed, 35 injured, 19 cartel gunman killed. 21 detained. on it goes. you are suspicious of the timing, you say. how come?

>> the president and mexican government have said they had this man under surveillance for several months. when you have him under surveillance and the person is wanted. i did this all time as the u.s. marshal and my time with the el paso police department. somebody is wanted and you see them, you arrest them. he is under surveillance for several months and decided to wait until a couple of days before president biden's visit to the border and mexico to arrest him. i think this was basically just a show. the mexican president wants to show the president and the u.s. that we're doing everything to go after the cartels. other cartel members are wanted, the other brother of the guzman family. there are several. the leader of another cartel. no doubt in my mind they can go after them if they really wanted to. they are just not doing it. the mexican cartels are running

mexico. it's as plain as that. they're in control and calling the shots in mexico. >> bill: i don't think a lot of people remember this. the same guy was arrested three years ago, october of 2019 and let him go because of the violence. the mexican president thought if i release him back to his cartel maybe the violence goes away. perhaps it stopped for a moment there. but you have to wonder what is his tolerance for cracking down and that would be acceptable to us so we aren't affected by them anymore? >> obrador i hope he realizes his slogan of hugs is ridiculous. it doesn't work. the only thing the cartels understand is being placed under arrest or killed. when they released him the first time it was a big mistake. a black eye to the mexican government. it made the cartels bolder to show all you have to do is use force against the mexican

military, mexican government, the police and you are going to win. this was a black eye. an embarrassment to the mexican government. something like that would never have happened in the united states. >> bill: i know you don't like his slogan but these are bad people as you well know. we'll stay in contact with you, sir and hope for some progress south of the border. thank you for coming on. >> these floods are deadly and have now turned to be more deadly than even the wildfires here in the state of california. common sense. just be cautious over the course of the next week. again, particularly the next day or two. >> dana: california's governor as forecaster warn residents to brace for damaging cyclones over the next week swamping roads, batterin