much the tensions are currently boiling over into the 11th month of this war. russian forces today are doubling down in the brutal battle out east ukraine forces are pulling out of a city to save more lives. ukraine soldiers will start training on the leopard two tanks in germany. it could take several months before they are seen on the battlefield on the front lines here in ukraine. as far as what the government is saying, i talked to a senior official today in kiev who says these are highly maneuver able tanks and fast and do very well on the landscape of what we're seeing. >> bill: getting ready for the spring battle. alex hogan live in kiev. nice to see you there. >> dana: american on vacation in mexico kidnapped, shot and killed along with his fiance, sister and cousin. their bodies buried in a shallow grave in a van riddled with bullets. welcome to a new hour of

"america's newsroom." >> bill: i'm bill hemmer. jose gutierrez is an architect from cincinnati. he was in mexico visiting his fiance over the holidays and they went missing christmas day. 300 miles northwest of mexico city, the region known for cartel violence. >> dana: williamlagelage is live in los angeles. >> bill: 40 million americans a year visit mexico. being kidnapped is a small risk, some areas are a lot worse than others especially where cartel checkpoints leave tourists defenseless. the latest victim ohio architect in mexico visiting his fiance. they were offered dinner with two relatives when they disappeared on christmas day. >> we were just going to have a dinner together along with her sister and her cousin. >> witnesses report seeing the four pull into a van, later

found filled with bullet holes. bodies buried nearby. officials confirm the fatalities this week with his employer saying we'll miss him more than words can express. where this happened is in the middle of mexico. not a common tourist destination. the states in red are too violent for americans to visit, quote, do not travel due to crime and kidnapping. violent crime, extortion and gang activity are widespread in this area. u.s. citizens and legal permanent residents have been victims of kidnapping. that is in the nexus for drug trafficking and a flash point between the two cartels. in december the cartels killed two judges, rammed a truck into a prison to free fellow members. in november 10th bodies were found hanging from bridges and the cartel killed the head of the state national guard.

police have failed to gain control. twice as many americans will visit mexico than canada this year. millions more than visiting any country in europe, dana. right now only the yucatan and cancun have no travel advisory. travel travel -- >> dana: i went to montreal last weekend and i would recommend it. it was safe but cold. we had a good time. >> bill: the f.b.i. arresting two people allegedly attacked proper life pregnancy centers after the leaked supreme court draft that overturned roe v. wade. the d.o.j. was facing criticism for only charging those who identify as pro-life even though the majority of abortion related violence was against proper life groups. david spunt at the d.o.j. >> last year d.o.j. indicted 26 people for attacks on reproductive centers. think abortion clinics.

not one prosecution in calendar year 2022 for anyone attacking a pro-life pregnancy counseling center. that changed yesterday in 2023. the f.b.i. and d.o.j. announced the arrest of two people who vandalized this pregnancy resource center in florida last june. a few days after the supreme court overturned roe v. wade. some of the phrases spray painted. if abortions aren't safe neither are you. caleb free stone and amber smith stewart facing federal charges for violating the face act. a federal crime to use force, injure owe intimidate for anyone seeking abortion services or pro-life services. the f.b.i. released updated reward amounts of $25,000 apiece in cases where pro-life pregnancy resource centers fell under attack. the attacks are not -- authorities remain hopeful to catch these people and charge

them with federal crimes on the wanted posters. since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade last june, roughly 70% of the abortion-related violence cases involve attacks on pro-life businesses or groups. this coming from f.b.i. director christopher wray. bill. >> bill: thank you. d.o.j. today. thank you. >> dana: a new twist in the bizarre saga of top officials possessing sensitive material. a small number of documents marked classified have been found in the indiana home of former vice president mike pence. his attorney says they were stored there by accident. last november a reporter asked pence whether he took any files from the white house. >> as we sit here in your home office in indiana, did you take any classified documents with you from the white house? >> i did not. >> dana: house judiciary committee chairman jim jordan. he did not think he had. sounds like he did. i think what everybody wants to

know, congressman, is what is going to happen? where does this story go from here? >> i don't know. i think what we all expect is equal treatment under the law. president trump was working with the national archives and with the department of justice and pence is also. we saw this in a "washington post" story. joe biden's lawyers had a shared understanding with the d.o.j. to keep his document classified document issue quiet. so they kept that from the american people. that's the big difference here. again the vice president pence found it, reported it, got it out there versus what joe biden and his lawyers and d.o.j. were working together to keep the information from the american people. understand as we pointed out several times they knew the information before the mid-term elections and didn't share it with the american people. >> bill: have you checked your closet, sir?

>> i don't think we have anything like that. i wouldn't think anyone does. i don't know, who is next? is vice president harris going to tell us? are we going back and back? i don't know. what is important and what we're looking into in a big sense at the judiciary committee is we have would have one standard, equal treatment under the law. good to see what's happening with people who attacked pro-life centers. there have been over 100 churches, 100 crisis pregnancy centers attacked and this is the first time we've heard of anyone being charged with a crime. when we had that many. of course, if you are a pro-life activist praying in front of a clinic you get your door kicked in and arrest you in front of your wife and kids that happened to mark howe outside of philadelphia. good to see what we're now seeing with people who have been attacked on the pro-life side. >> bill: adam schiff and eric swalwell kicked off the intel committee and quick to respond to that. give this a listen.

>> this is -- it will bring distrust in the intelligence community and not want to share information with congress that we need to make good decisions. >> political vengeance. too bad. that committee has always been bipartisan and one of the appreciates pieces of glassware and smashing it. >> always been a bipartisan committee? when adam schiff was chairman are you kidding me? what they did to president trump and the trump/russia investigation? understand when adam schiff was saying all the things he said that turned out not to be accurate he was saying them as the chairman of the intel committee. a guy who gets briefed on things. an air of confidence that comes with it and turned out not to be accurate. look, speaker mccarthy has been clear and told the conference he said look, if you saw the information that i get briefed

on as part of the gang of eight regarding these two individuals you would be doing the same thing i'm doing. i trust the speaker and then i have to be on the -- they won't be on the intel committee. >> dana: another topic we've seen how the white house will try to attack house republicans. republican party in general. it is on throwing granny over the cliff once again. listen to president biden. >> president biden: we also want to talk about the extreme republican economic plans. apparently security, cutting the republicans wreck our economy. >> dana: this is coming up in the context of the debt ceiling debate. how will republicans fight back? >> bill: of course we won't cut social security and medicare. we want to get a handle on the crazy spending. five weeks ago democrats passed a 1.7 trillion bill that republicans opposed and one week

ago karine jean-pierre says the white house will not negotiate with republicans on raising the debt ceiling. are you kidding me? they spent like crazy and now say give us more money to continue to spend and we won't talk to you guys. that's ridiculous. no one byes that. we need to put in place structural changes that are important. one that's simple. how about the senate do a budget. something they haven't done in years. you borrow more money and you have to tell the bank here is our business plan and show them a budget and plan. but the senate hasn't had to do that. chuck schumer, how about you guys write a budget and this one as well. what if we say we get to the end of the fiscal year and haven't funded the government, the appropriation process isn't complete we spend at the current level. we don't have some government shutdown showdown scenario. spend what we are currently spending. a lot of families have had to do that and businesses had to do that and deal with even worse things because we have this

record inflation under joe biden. do some practical things. >> bill: can you get a majority of republicans to vote for it? >> i think we can, yes, i do. >> bill: we'll see. jim jordan. thank you for your time live on the hill. fearless prediction. >> dana: you have a fearless prediction? >> bill: it will be a whopper of a fight. that was pretty fearless. >> dana: when i say the election will depend on turnout, very profound and fearless, well done. >> bill: 11 minutes past the hour. >> we're out here, hold on. it's going to get wild. >> bill: the storms are stunning. video goes on and on. pummeling houston, downpours and tornadoes causing catastrophic damage. >> dana: americans struggling to keep a roof over their heads. how lawmakers are pushing the

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streets wednesday through saturday during the afternoons. this is not new in new york. remember six months ago? my neighborhood they started doing this. >> dana: are they still doing it? >> bill: they are. checking doors. >> dana: has it helped? >> bill: i think so. little by little i think new york gets a little bit better. >> dana: not like the business owners aren't already taxpayers. it is unfortunate. mayor adams should take a look. >> they sent everybody on the street to help pay. >> dana: if they're businesses they have to raise prices as well. also this in crime. watch here. >> you figure your daughter has to be a gang banger in order to get shot. she don't have to be a gang banger. she can be the perfect student. the perfect child. it still happens to them. the sad thing about these people get caught and they don't do nothing about it. >> there is no punishment.

>> dana: the parents of an 11-year-old shot and killed in the bronx outside having an after-school snack. her death is one of the many violent incidents among children that have been rising across the country since 2019. the situation is growing worse especially in new york city. senior correspondent laura engel has more with the girl's parents. she joins us live with their story. >> each case of juvenile violence add to heartbreaking. there is a story of devastation and despair. >> my daughter's life was denied. wedding and graduation was denied and having kids was denied. these kids commit these crimes, they go to jail for 3 or 5 years and come out and live a life. >> the parents of 11-year-old who was shot and killed as she stood outside a nail salon last

year are forever heartbroken and they weren't surprised to hear that the person who killed their daughter was 15. >> it doesn't surprise us. nowadays those are the killers now. the shooters, little young 15, 12, 13-year-olds getting away with these murders. >> last week a 17-year-old was killed outside a fast food restaurant in texas, 217-year-olds and 16-year-old were charged with murder. murders by juveniles acting alone increased 30% while murders involving multiple offenders under the age of 18 increased 65%. for the last few years investigators, district attorneys and community groups have pinned some of the problem on pandemic disruptions with schools and social services. one policy expert we spoke to this morning on criminal justice said immediate action must be taken. >> we need to do realtime and more importantly show others

that would come up like them there will be consequences and you better not do it. we need a deterrent effect for juveniles. >> back in new york the nypd commissioner acknowledged youth involved shooting and violent criminals no matter their age will be held accountable. >> bill: democratic lawmakers now urging the white house and president to enact national rent control in a letter to the president they say end corporate price gouging. the rent is too high. millions of people are struggling to stay stably housed. we're joined by the new host of the bottom line. dagen mcdowell and sean duffy. hello to you both. i want to show our viewers this. goes back over the last four years. pre-covid numbers now in 2020 and 2019. one bedroom, got it? one bedroom is 940.

2019, now 2022 it's 1153. pre-covid times are better. post covid is not. question for you, dagen, is this idea to protect people or is it to allow them to maybe punt on a payment? >> it is dangerously dumb and stupid. they have taken an idea -- this is why we do cover issues from new york city and california and places like san francisco because it is possible that the damage that left wing nuts in places like new york and california, ideas they've implemented here and on the west coast wind out national ideas. because new york city has rent control. this is a national rent control idea. and it gets implemented. this is economics 101. price caps lead to shortages,

period. so normally when prices go up, that is a signal to create more supply. but you cap prices or nationalize rent regulations it will take the power away from localitys and states you discourage new development and what happens is it leads to maintenance of existing properties getting hurt. i am actually not -- if this was such a good idea why didn't they try to pass it in congress when they were in control? again, now they are trying to put the hammer down on joe biden to pass an executive order and that's unconstitutional. >> dana: they've already learned their less on after covid as well on the rent piece. critics say it's disincentive property improvement. encourages slum landlords, discourages new construction and leads to condo conversions.

that means fewer places for people to rent. >> i wouldn't have to read that. dagen is smart. not only that you have a lot of small business owners, small individuals that own the properties and rent them out as a family enterprise. what happens, dana, is when you put in these rent controls they can't deal with the rising cost of the upkeep on the property but also we've seen interest rates have risen makes the cost of the property that much more. so they have to sell. who steps in to buy? not another small family, it's corporate america. more corporate owned housing as opposed to decentralized phenomenon where different businesses and families own. >> dagen is opposed and duffy is opposed. >> 70% of rental properties are owned by individuals including grandmas and grandpas. in the wall street editorial about this.

i dare elizabeth warren to stand up in front of aarp we'll cap your rent. suck it up. >> bill: you have 24 kids so this is perfect for you, right? a.i. is coming to the computer and here already. some questioning whether or not it is a good learning tool or not. "wall street journal" says a.i. can saved indication from itself. wow. >> i look at this and say you want kids to learn and they need to learn how to research and compress information and give output. if a.i. does it for you not a great thing. what concerns me is the fact that it's free. google is free as well. facebook is free. you have this great technology a.i. how am i the product if i'm using this gpt, that's frightening to me how this can be used against us. >> dana: it's already here.

>> the teachers unions should look out. i talked to a number of people who are leaders in this technology including somebody this morning. this should not take chat gpt out of the schools because you are essentially putting a burden on the poorest students. they need to learn how to integrate this into learning because it is going to be in the workplace number one. chat gpt or similar systems can actually act as a private tutor. the student can communicate with it. ask it questions, engage with the technology and actually the technology can teach the student analytical skills in a way that the teacher might not. so -- >> dana: we'll put you down as a yes, and you as a cautious maybe. >> or no. >> it's not going away. if we ignore it we're at a

disadvantage again educationally to china. >> bill: a year ago you no he what you can soon on the computer? you can say give me a picture of freud sitting in a field painting a portrait of himself and it will do it. >> you know what i did this morning? explain the core themes of the great gather -- gatsby. >> i don't need that. i have you. >> dana: glad you have each other. check out their new show at 6:00 p.m. every night. new lawsuit trying to expose the government's role in suppressing the hunter biden laptop stories. a top advisor for stacey abrams defending anti-police rioters in atlanta saying they are non-violent. how does she justify that? [explosions]

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that is because why. you have a power line that has come down partially over the roadway. it's all over the place. officials estimate more than 17,000 are still without power and as you look further down across the businesses here and the homes, a lot of stuff damaged and destroyed. the same system that did all this destruction produced a funnel cloud further east of here captured on a cell phone video as it crossed highway 73. could you imagine? officials say that tornado emergency was issued around 3:00 central time yesterday and considering how bad it got so fast, everyone grateful no injuries or fatalities here. >> i'm proud of all the first responders. my 25 years here the worst damage i've seen. catastrophic. >> the pasadena animal shelter had major damage. dozens of dogs had to be moved to a safer location. today schools in pasadena and

deer park are closed as national weather service teams are out here trying to determine how strong this tornado was. the preliminary reports from the national weather service indicate an ef2 which can be winds of up to 130 miles-per-hour. >> bill: hang tough down there in southeastern texas. an hour ago we rolled the video and it looks like a movie. apparently had to do an rv. >> dana: two people were in it. think we can play it for you here. let's watch. >> oh my god, oh my god. >> dana: quick thinking by the couple there to get out. they hid in the muddy ditch here with their dogs. this poor family. they're okay. and they actually the rv was okay as well so they have shelter.

>> bill: best to all of our friends in texas. >> dana: and now this. a watchdog group is suing the suss just advertise department looking to get the f.b.i. files regarding social media suppression of the bombshell hunter biden laptop story shortly before the 2020 election. james freeman is assistant editor and fox news contributor. i want to summarize for everyone. judicial watch brings the lawsuit seeking all records of communication between any official or employee of the f.b.i. and any officer or employee of meta , twitter or any other social media company regarding the laptop reportedly used by hunter biden. this is going to bring another element to this story. there is a lawsuit. >> we hope more information. thanks to elon musk we've gotten a lot of twitter files showing the government's effort to encourage, intimidate, coerce, whatever you want to say, influence social media companies to elevate certain things and suppress others.

this is key because what judicial watch is seeking with documents that an f.b.i. agent sent to twitter the night before our colleagues at the "new york post" broke the first bombshell story about hunter biden and the access business or whatever you want to call it, the big money coming from overseas for things and services you can't figure out what hunter was doing exactly. so the timing is more than bizarre. it is -- but to have the f.b.i. sending documents to twitter right before the story breaks and what does twitter do? immediately start preventing that story from being shared on twitter and then lock the "new york post" out of their account for days. >> bill: maybe there is more to the story. didn't the twitter files answer a lot of this already when they put out information that it was suppressed? >> we see a lot of evidence that there is the f.b.i. discouraging

but what were they saying to twitter that persuaded this emotion to invoke their hacked materials policy even though they really didn't have any evidence it was hacked? come from a laptop that hunter biden had left with a repair man. it was not hacked. you would think everybody involved really knew that but this would disclose what exactly was told by the f.b.i. >> dana: the other story you wrote about in the "wall street journal." an attempt to figure out a way to keep rich people from leaving the state or push them out more. the state wealth tax alliance. check out any time but you can never leave. what is this all about? >> you might think that taxes are probably high enough in california, new york, illinois, places like that. this is a coordinated effort. at the state level lots of lawmakers, an effort encouraged and funded by a big teachers union. american federation of teachers

seeking to raise wealth taxes, not income, wealth but look for ways to prevent wealthy people from leaving. if they do leave, make them continue to pay. now, you would think if you were a politician and you knew that your policy was going to drive people out of your state, you might say maybe it's not the right policy. they are focused in many cases on figuring out how to keep taxing people even when they want to leave. >> bill: california is going much further than that saying we can tax you for years after you leave our state. >> dana: what's the justification for that? >> fortunately we have a federal constitution that does put limits on the ability of a state to reach outside its borders and tax people who are not its citizens or no longer its citizens. we understand why california politicians want to tax people in texas and florida, be able to reach nationwide. i think they will have a problem with that. i would hope so ultimately.

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>> dana: all right. just a if you moments ago federal prosecutors in kentucky were providing a briefing to reporters about tyre nichols. you can see him there. he died from extensive bleeding caused by a severe beating according to preliminary autopsy results after being arrested in memphis, tennessee. state and local have the responsibility to when to release the body cam video. parents have seen it and a question when the public will see it. what he said is that what he would say on behalf of investigators they're working on that and keep you posted. that is probably imminent. the late tyre nichols right there. >> the first time in iowa history we'll be funding students and not systems. we talked about woke ideology, crt, sex education in elementary

and parents have had it. we had a school district that was removing parents from the seventh graders choices and that is not what parents want. >> bill: that is the republican governor of iowa. kim reynolds on the story with martha yesterday celebrating the passage of a landmark school choice bill. that legislation sets aside money for families who want to switch from public to a private school. here to talk about it martha maccallum from "the story" at 3:00 eastern time. what did she tell you? >> interesting. there is an overwhelming hunger for more choice from parents across the country. 21 states offer a program like this and seen it growing over time. people want more control and take the portable money and say i would rather spend it at a catholic school. a lot of kids are going to them because they have more freedom and discipline in the classroom. the other side what it is doing to politicians politically.

kim reynolds is a rising star in the republican party. glenn youngkin, ron desantis. he won his florida governor's race in many ways by a major thin margin the first time around on the issue of school choice. there were many families, many minority families in florida say i want that. i want to choose where my child goes to school. in new york you have the pushback by the unions. they are cracking down how many charter schools they are allowed to have. people from the independent voters are bristling at this in a way you see them acting maybe on the abortion issue for democrats. this is a huge issue for republicans. the more i think republicans lean into it the more successful they'll be and seeing someone like kim reynolds. it is also very important politically. >> dana: a map of all the states with school choice laws. you can see that here. so it's pretty exciting for

people who want school choice but i imagine the teachers union is going to dig in. >> the teachers union loses their mind over this. they lose control. in new york one of the charter schools success academy, they want to be in the same school building physically as a public school and now they are getting pushback from the chancellor. eric adams says he is on the side of this and prove on the side of it and let these schools go to this panel where they can say you have 700 empty seats in the school. we have 3,000 kids who want to fill them in this charter school. give them the opportunity if queens and bronx to go to the school. this is a political winner for anyone democrat or republican. they break the back of the unions. if there was one positive thing that came out of covid people's eyes were open to the fact the unions, it is their m.o. they are for the teachers, not the students. >> bill: remarkable to hear from the parents when they know their kid is getting this education.

uplifting. ron desantis, florida governor, every time he opens his mouth he makes news apparently. now he is urging teachers to get rid of the smartphones in the classroom. >> i think to myself why are kids on their phones during class? a school district would be in their rights to say leave your phone in some cubby. if you get it at recess and want to text people, fine. but they should not be always on their phones being distracted from the lessons. >> bill: there will be reaction. here is some of it. he is so dangerous in every way. a authoritarian personality. that's just one. i could go on. >> sometimes it's amazing it is for -- there is not a parent across am who doesn't look at this and say no kidding. >> bill: the nazis will tell kids not to chew gum in class.

>> such a no-brainer. why teachers and principals don't stand up and say of course you aren't allowed to be on your phone. we got tossed out of class for chewing gum. you should be tossed out of class if you are caught on your phone. they are so afraid of kids or parent who might say what if my child needs to reach me during social studies. no, you can't talk to your child during social studies. you have to wait until lunchtime. desantis knows it will resonate. >> bill: i would like to get to a school that banned it. >> dana: did you get tossed out of class for talking too much? >> bill: absolutely until i learned. i changed in the eighth grade. >> my daughter is a little chatty. >> dana: former secretary of state mike pompeo defending a

section of his memoir about khashoggi. what he is saying now.

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>> dana: former secretary of state mike pompeo is facing criticism from some quarters for a reference in his new book to murdered saudi columnist khashoggi. he writes he was more of an activist than journalist. that is sparking outrage from the "washington post." greg palkot has the details. >> tough talk in a new book from former secretary of state and former c.i.a. head mike pompeo about slain writer and saudi arabia critic khashoggi. the "washington post" columnist was brute le killed at the saudi consulate in 2018. questions his credentials as a journalist saying he didn't deserve to die but we need to be clear about who he was and too many in the media were not. he calls a global upset about

the killing full outrage saying khashoggi was an activist with questionable past associations. in a statement the publisher of the "washington post" defended khashoggi saying his only thing was exposing corruption and oppression among those in powers. work that good journalists around the world do every day. as for the saudi crown prince pompeo says there is no evidence tying him to khashoggi's murder and widely reported the c.i.a. did conclude the man they call mbs ordered the killing. and what does khashoggi's widow think of what trump administration veteran pompeo had to say? in a tweet she posted he should be silent and shut up. the lies about my husband. dana, in an attempt to put the khashoggi killing into context he noted it happened in a pretty ruthless part of the world. critics call the former secretary's analysis ruthless as well. >> dana: thank you so much.

mike pompeo will join the "outnumbered" couch and discuss the controversy there and that's at noon eastern time. you already knew that. >> bill: you'll be watching that. before we go got something, something here. a little girl in rhode island. ready for this one? a little girl in rhode island asking her local police department to run a d fricke a test on a partially eaten cookie. you ask yourself why, right? she wanted to confirm santa claus was real and now we have the results. shall we? officials say this quote there were no complete matches to anyone the combined dna system. there was a partial match to a 1947 case sent erred around 34th street in new york city. additional dna samples to make a more definitive match. end quote. the search now continues for the little girl in rhode island. we all know about the miracle on 34th street. >> dana: maybe she will come to new york city. maybe her parents will bring her

here and go down there and see what they can find. 1947. great year. my mom and dad were born then. my dad texted me yesterday saying check the garage. didn't have any classified documents in there. good to know, dad. real good to know. not my document. >> bill: check the safe. >> dana: i don't have a safe. shall i admit that? >> bill: does your dad have a safe? >> dana: i don't know. we're pretty open. harris faulkner is up next. >> harris: breaking developments this hour with 20 republican governors launching lawsuits against the biden administration suing over what president biden is doing making the crisis we're in at the border permanent. allowing hundreds of thousands of people into america each year and they can stay. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." texas is taking the lead on this with the 19 other states signing on. the lawsuit says the new program

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