most of us were making judgments with our face like mike lee, i think we appreciated him. >> his was like am i being punked? >> ashton -- >> i could take the disinterest face to a new level if you took me to the grammys. here is "america reports." >> john: kayleigh, welcome back, by the way. police in texas busting a major fentanyl lab in houston that was posing as a car rental business as officials warn mexican drug cartels are building up the deadly fentanyl operations across the country. a devastating effect on american families because of the often fatal consequences. >> sandra: and that includes the family of 19-year-old j.j. neederman, unknowingly poisoned by a fill laced with fentanyl. his mother tanya will join us whether she thinks president biden is serious about addressing the crisis.

steve scalise will be here on the push to impeach dhs secretary mayorkas and now explosive testimony on the border and the illegal drugs that are pouring over it every single day. >> failed at your jobs, entrusted with the highest level of power at twitter, when you were faced with "the new york post" story instead of allowing people to judge the information for themselves, you rushed to find a reason why the american people shouldn't see it. >> we are talking about hunter biden's half fake laptop story. i mean, this is an embarrassment. >> i think you guys got played by the fbi. >> john: republican house oversite committee on twitter on hold for a moment due to a power outage on capitol hill. not before sparks flew as lawmakers tried to get to the bottom of why the social media giant suppressed the hunter

biden laptop story up to the run-up of the 2024 election. happy wednesday. >> sandra: we'll let you know as the lights get flipped back on, this is "america reports." three former twitter executives were subpoenaed by james comer and forced to testify under oath today after internal emails revealed their discussions and the ultimate decision to censor what they saw as negative information relating to the now president's son and biden's family business dealings. >> john: many critics say it interfered with the 2020 election. >> sandra: pete sessions is standing by with fresh reaction from the new testimony. >> john: first to david spunt, how long has this hearing, david, been in the works for? >> john, it's been in the works for a long time.

republicans have been eying such a hearing since 2020 for about two and a half years, they have not been in the majority until now, doj and fbi watching the hearing, hearing from former chief legal officer, also from former deputy counsel james baker and yul roth, three names integral in making key decisions before during and after the 2020 election. is "the new york post" story weeks before the election. delaware computer shop owner contacted the fbi in late 2019 after he says hunter himself dropped it off at his shop and never picked it up. the fbi took possession. and then new york post ran this cover, biden's secret emails, exposing information about

hunter's business dealings overseas. new york post account was suspended for weeks leading up to the election. >> in hindsight, twitter should have restated the post account immediately. >> i'll be the first to admit we didn't always get it right. >> days after the article, dozens of well respected intelligence officials signed on to a letter and called the laptop story "misinformation." >> we return not to focus on advancing this robust agenda progress, but instead to take up an authentically trivial pursuit based on the victimology of right wing politics in america. >> james comer says it was not misinformation or russian information, james baker, he had worked as the top attorney for the fbi, implicated in the 2016 election attempt to tie then

candidate donald trump to russia. >> i did not act unlawfully or inappropriately in any manner with respect to hunter biden's laptop. >> hunter biden has been under federal investigation since at least 2018, and congressman comer, the chairman of house oversight told politico earlier today he actually wants doj to hold off on indicting hunter biden until the house can complete the probes, we know house oversight, house judiciary are looking into it, not that doj is rushing, we are touching five calendar years into the investigation of hunter biden with no charges at this point. >> john: and the investigation continues. david, thank you. sandra. >> sandra: u.s. officials tell fox they have confirmed a report on the china surveillance program, based in the country's island province. comes as the pentagon says china's defense minister actually turned down a request to speak to our defense

secretary, austin, immediately after the u.s. shot down beijing's spy balloon on saturday. we are also getting more brand-new images from the u.s. military showing the debris recovery as that is still in process. bryan, what are we able to see and what are the conditions today? >> from our vantage point, the conditions are perfect, especially from a salvage operations perspective. the water is nearly completely still, flat, calm, it is 64°, unheard of here, a rare day in the middle of winter off the coast of myrtle beach, south carolina. there is a ten nautical mile security perimeter set up, this is as close as we can get. fox news drone has a shot up, live pictures where the warships are over that debris field. what's left behind from the chinese spy airship. we saw at least four more boats put into the water by the navy

today. we also saw an unmanned underwater vehicle that was brought in yesterday. the u.u.v. will help the salvage team, debris field 15 square football fields wide. for the navy, weather conditions will get worse this weekend, bad news for a salvage operation. a local salvage business owner tells us it's because of underwater currents. >> timing is paramount almost with any salvage, timing is extremely important. getting out there before the debris field widens and some of these items, depending on how heavy they are, could literally be skipping along the bottom, moving along. >> much, if not all the debris left on the surface of the ocean has been recovered. it is being analyzed by the fbi in quantico, virginia, but china says the debris belongs to them.

>> the balloon does not belong to the united states. the chinese government will continue to resolutely safeguard its legitimate rights and interests. >> as far as what they have been able to recover thus far, the pentagon just said in a press conference that they have learned a lot about this surveillance program based on what they have captured. but would not get into more detail. sandra. >> sandra: way to keep your balance there as you delivered a very strong report through that. thank you very much. >> john: you have to know he's about to throw a rod in the water, too. discuss the growing china threat in a moment, but first the top story on the house hearing into how big tech suppressed the hunter biden laptop story and whether they are guilty of government organized censorship. pete sessions serves on the house oversight committee and will talk to us. thank you for joining us. i want to play something that the committee heard from the

former head of trust and safety for twitter about censoring the hunter biden laptop story in "the new york post." >> i've been clear in my judgment at the time, twitter should not have taken action to block "the new york post" reporting. just 24 hours after doing so, the company acknowledged its error, it isn't obvious what the right response is to a suspected but not confirmed cyber attack by another government on a presidential election. i believe twitter erred in this case because we wanted to avoid repeating mistakes of 2016. >> john: even hunter biden's attorneys are now, congressman, acknowledging at least the data, if not the laptop itself, belonged to hunter biden, yet here we have twitter by itself censoring a legitimate story for political purposes. that might strike some people as being just plain wrong. what do you say? >> well, in fact it is, and the only reason we found all of this

information out you remember we were told, none of this was true until elon musk made sure we had the actual documents and came forward. these perpetrators that were before the committee today have all admitted they made mistakes, that they, if they had to do over again would not have done is that. but the bottom line to this is it was hidden until they were caught. they got caught and so theirs is a different story today than we had heard for several years. we are going to meticulously move through this, jamie comer -- james comer, young chairman, is making sure we are gathering the information that we need. questions still abound, why did the fbi approach them, what did the fbi ask them to do, were they compelled to do things because they felt like it was the right reason. were they provided information that was false. and the bottom line is to all this even "the new york post"

was a subject to being taken off of twitter, inappropriately, so today is the beginning of the search for the truth. >> john: to the point you made there, congressman, a second ago about the fbi, what facebook ceo told joe rogan. background, fbi came to us, some folks on the team and be on high alert. we thought there was a lot of russian propaganda, we are on notice a dump similar to that. zuckerberg said the hunter biden story fit that parameters. a federal agency in frequent contact with social media, tuning the antenna, yet still having plausible deny ability saying we did not tell them to stop the hunter biden story. >> hillary clinton's campaign

began all this in 2016. not only misinformation but actually untruthful evidence that they were presenting and the federal government was co-opted by this also. every bit is not only realtime information we need but our friends, the democrats, of course, want none of this to be told and they say it's irrelevant. it's very relevant when the government is initiating their information to suppress free speech, we know we are in trouble, and that is what it appears as though we have captured that dead on. >> we just have a little bit of time left here, congressman, i want to ask you about the chinese situation and the balloon and where we go from here. what the president said about the balloon last night at the state of the union. listen here. >> make no mistake about it. as we made clear last week. if china threatens our sovereignty we will act to

protect our country, and we did. >> john: about all he mentioned about the balloon. invading u.s. sovereignty is one thing, but shooting the balloon down after it has transited through sovereign territory is quite another. congressman mike turner, your colleague on the oversight committee, likened it to sacking the quarterback after the game is over. >> i think that what the chairman said is true, but the policies, not just the united states military but intelligence has been to keep things from happening as they saw it and to keep our data and information and security clear. this was a clear violation, the american people found out about it, and this administration got caught. they are not up to making sound national security decisions as evidenced with hunter biden and the president himself. we have seen this for a long period of time. it's coming full circle right now, right in front of us, about

the chinese influence on the democratic party and in particular president biden and his family. >> john: congressman pete sessions from the great state of texas, hopefully they have the lights back on and you can get going again. appreciate your time. >> thank you. >> john: sandra, you hear the chinese foreign ministry saying the balloon does not belong to the united states, although i think the law of the sea might kick in. something that's at the bottom of the ocean to whoever finds it. >> sandra: everybody has a different reaction whether or not the president went strong enough on china, ro khanna, the democrat from california suggested the president should lead with it, that obviously did not happen. he did address it, so more on that coming up. >> john: looking forward to that. >> sandra: fox news alert, south carolina, the courthouse where alex murdaugh's trial is underway, it has just been evacuated, we have been told, putting the double murder case on hold for the time being.

the judge interrupted testimony there, happened around 12:30 p.m. eastern time, less than an hour ago, told everyone in the building they needed to evacuate. the judge did not say why, but there are local reports police are investigating a bomb threat. >> john: more intrigue there. the man accused of attacking former house speaker nancy pelosi's husband is in court today. will we hear more from david depape. >> sandra: republicans slamming president biden after the state of the union address. they say he is vastly overstating his economic achievements for the first two years in office. let's see what our econ panel has to say. david and robert are ready to go. >> the one thing the president is saying, something he knew was not true. social security and medicare are off the table. welcome to ameriprise. i'm sam morrison. my brother max recommended you. so my best friend sophie says you've been a huge help.

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>> sandra: i don't think i've ever been so excited for our econ panel before. that's coming up. president biden travelling to wisconsin at his first stop after the state of the union address last night. the president expected to focus on the economic achievements of his administration first two years in office. he's also expected to lay the ground work for an expected 2024 re-election campaign.

david, robert, former obama economic adviser and fox news contributor. our conversation off camera was pretty spicy, let me tee you up with this moment from last night on president biden's claims on republicans and medicare and social security. listen to this. >> some republicans want medicare and social security to sunset. i'm not saying it's a majority. let me give you -- anybody who doubts it, contact my office, i'll give you a copy. i'll give you a copy of the proposal. >> sandra: so, was that an accurate statement or not? >> no. but go ahead, robert. >> thank you. >> sandra: what did i tell you. >> 100% accurate, i'm not going to spin it, read it, and you know i never read stuff here. from senator rick scott. last february rick scott released a 60-page. >> sandra: he made it out like all republicans stand for that.

>> i'm not going to read 60 pages. page 38, government restructuring. all federal legislation sunsets in five years. if the law is worth keeping, congress can pass it again. sunsetting is automatic -- i'm no longer reading. sunsetting means terminating automatically. medicare and social security are legislative problems. >> sandra: was it a bit misleading -- >> no, senator mitch mcconnell a month later. >> don't take my word. we will not -- listen, we will not have part of our agenda that sunsets social security and medicare. >> sandra: and mccarthy said it's off the table. >> of course it's off the table. >> hold on a second. >> may i get in here as well? >> to you. >> over and over again over the last couple of weeks, president biden, that republicans want to cut social security.

that's not who republicans said. robert read it, it was a long plan scott came out with, rejected by republicans, part of, eliminate federal programs that can be done locally, move government agencies out of washington, and then he says all federal legislation, all federal legislation, sunsets in five years. that was not accepted by republicans, but it's the same thing that happened -- let me finish, robert. same thing done during the 2020 campaign when -- we are friends, when a lie came out from the biden campaign saying that there is a social security plan that eliminates all social security that washington post gave that pinocchios. so he's lied about it before and he's lying about it again. >> sandra: so much i want to get to, that was your reaction to that. he also said some of my republican friends want to take the economy hostage. i can't imagine you agree with

that. these were the laughs he received over his remarks on oil last night. listen. >> have you noticed big oil just recorded profits, record profits. last year they made $200 billion in the midst of a global energy crisis. i think it's outrageous. why? they invested too little of that profit increase domestic production. i said we are going to need oil at least another decade, and that's going to exceed -- [laughter] and beyond that, we are going to need it. >> sandra: he went off script there, and robert, that appeared to be an admission that we are going to be dependent on big oil for quite some time in this country. surprise to you? >> two topics there. one, with respect to putting the economy at hostage, we are talking about the debt ceiling there, and we know we should pass it, we passed it three times under trump. the republicans have pass it 49

times since reagan, more than the democrats. with respect to oil, we should have oil, natural gas, fracking. >> sandra: he wants to bring an end to the fossil fuel industry. >> i supported president obama's approach to all-in energy approach. >> sandra: i'm asking you to respond to what the current president said last night. >> it's here for a decade and longer. >> i'll shock all of you, saying i'm for biden's personal tax plan. you know what the personal tax plan is, he paid 24.6% in federal taxes for $610,000. i think i would like that plan because i paid over 30%, i think a lot of americans paid more than 24.6%. i would like to get rid of all deductions, have biden's personal tax policy as my tax policy, where the highest rate would be 24.6%. get rid of all deductions. >> sandra: i will give you this

one quick take, and there were many moments last night that could have easily been perceived as anti-business, and i see you agreeing with me on that, robert. >> yeah, so you and i have spoken about it. listen, he hits big pharma, big oil and big tech hard. i think his blue collar blueprint made a lot of sense, but listen, he's for a lot more regulation than you and i would be. >> he may not hit big tech as much as big oil, big tech, 40% profit margin, he does not focus on the profit margin of big tech. >> we need business friendly environment in the country. thanks for you to being here. >> john: reported bomb threat putting the alec murdaugh trial on hold. prosecutors unveil new evidence. is the smoking gun needed to persuade the jury. >> sandra: and republican lawmakers reportedly split over

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>> john: turkey and syria still reeling from monday's major earthquake. at least 11,000 people are dead, about 50,000 more injured, and at least 6,000 buildings destroyed. rescuers in a race against time now as they work to free survivors from underneath the rubble. firefighting teams from fairfax, virginia and los angeles arrived in the region today to try to help. confusion at the trial of disgraced south carolina lawyer alec murdaugh after everyone in the courthouse was forced to evacuate the building. it all happened in just the past hour. jonathan is live in our southeast bureau with what we know so far. jonathan, assume a threat against the court? >> yeah, exactly. got a statement from the south carolina law enforcement division or sled, confirming officials received a bomb threat. out of abundance of caution, ordered evacuation of the building. we have some video to show you of people being moved to the

other side of the street, both sled and colleton county sheriff's are investigating before they allow people back in the courthouse. for now, the court has taken an early lunch break, instructed if they get the all clear to return at 2:30 in the afternoon. a lot of stuff happened this morning in this trial, the jury heard extensive testimony from annette griswold, paralegal who worked for alec murdaugh. described him as frenetic and difficult but said she liked and respected him. she became concerned when murdaugh told her not to mail checks to a business partner of the firm, instead murdaugh said he would hand deliver them. then she discovered he had allegedly deposited a check intended for the firm. >> well, i said he's been lying this whole time, he had these funds, he lied to me, that feeling in the back of my mind

was correct, unfortunately, he did take these funds. >> prosecutors are trying to prove murdaugh killed his wife and son to distract and delay investigations into his alleged financial crimes. but during a cross examination, griswold said her boss grieved the loss of his family and was more humble and considerate to his employees. three months later he went into rehab and sent her an apology for his financial issues, she read a loud in court. >> i have an awful lot to try to make right when i get out of here. the worst part knowing i did the most damage to those i love the most. i'm not sure how i got to where i did, i'm hoping to mend as many relationships as i can. >> if they get the all clear, the trial will start again at 2:30 this afternoon. >> john: see where it goes from

here. >> we went from what i would describe as unprecedented to a point i don't have the correct adjective to describe what's going on. >> does anybody get to the border without dealing with the cartels? >> no, sir, they own the territory south of the border. >> the vulnerable mother deals with the cartels, the child deals with the cartels, do they treat them well on these journeys? >> no, sir. >> do they treat them well after they get here? >> no, sir. >> sandra: emotional testimony over the worsening situation at the border. testimony that dhs secretary mayorkas had previously tried to stop congress and you, the american public, from hearing. now some house republicans are moving swiftly to build their case against mayorkas, including possibly making the rare move of launching impeachment proceedings against a cabinet secretary. let's bring in house majority leader steve scalise. thank you for being here today, good to see you. where do you stand on this push.

should he be impeached? >> sandra, good to see you. what we have been doing through the oversight and investigation subcommittee is really building the case, showing the country what happened, but also asking tough questions. a lot of questions that secretary mayorkas wouldn't answer when we were in the minority, now he has to answer and ultimately get the facts out there. wherever they lead, that's ultimately what a good investigation does, and there's going to be accountability. and i think accountability is the most important point, but first you've got to get the facts out. a lot of things this administration have said that have not been backed up with facts. time to get the facts out. >> sandra: based on what you just said, you can't make a decision right now if he should be impeached. >> obviously we have pointed out how bad this open border is, it's a major crisis, not just the millions of people coming in, but the deaths, you saw the human trafficking, you just covered that in your report. we see deaths every day, almost

200 young americans are dying from drug overdoses from fentanyl because we have an open border under joe biden's policies. he could fix it today, he wouldn't. secretary mayorkas says the border is secure, it's not secure. there are a lot of questions for him and for the people that work for him. we've been to the border, embedded with the border patrol agents, they will tell you what the problems are and they are not getting the tools they need from secretary mayorkas or president biden to secure this country's southern border. >> sandra: so your republican colleague, andy biggs said in different words showing the urgency behind the impeachment, also saying let's do the inquiry. >> let's do the inquiry, but if we are going to sit around and talk about it and not do, and not have any action on this to investigate and then proceed with normal due process rights for secretary mayorkas, then i think you are making a huge mistake because we just don't have the time. >> sandra: do you believe that

to be the case? are we running out of time? >> well, there has to be an urgency, that's why we are moving so quickly. we have only been in the majority a few weeks, and in fact, the committees just got appointed in the last two weeks and yet we are already having hearings. you have seen jim jordan, jamie comer, the next step is accountability. there should be no cap how far it goes. facts need to drive it, get the facts out and hold people accountable who have done these things, not just at the border. so many problems in the country from so many different agencies and we are holding all of them accountable. people are angry about what's happening in the country, unlike what joe biden said last night acting as if the state of the union is great, everything is fine, no it's not. there are major problems. he's done harm to hard working families through his actions and it's time for action and accountability. >> sandra: another person demanding answers, a mother who lost her 19-year-old son to a

fentanyl overdose. joining us next hour. and roll the tape on nancy pelosi hoping biden will run for re-election. >> he was a remarkable two years, a remarkable two years, and again, connects very empathetically with the american people. so i hope he runs, i'm for him if he runs, and i know the democrats will fully embrace him. if he runs, it's over. your reaction to that? >> well, it will be over, all right, but what is the definition of remarkable that she used multiple times. record inflation remarkable, 40% higher people are paying for gas, they can't find baby formula, food is double digits higher, border is open, crime a rampant in communities, it's not a remarkable record. it's a dismal record. why a vast majority of democrats don't want joe biden to run. he has to make that decision. we have to get the white house back and the bottom line is

getting a republican in the white house who is willing to fight for those hard working families who are struggling under the weight of joe biden and nancy pelosi's socialist extreme agenda. it's crushed middle class families, lower income fam lishgs it time we go back to work fighting for them, that's what we are doing in the house majority. >> sandra: congressman steve scalise from the great tight of louisiana. >> go tigers. >> john: you two can talk about that later. republicans holding their first hearing on the education system as democrats slam it as a political stunt. are gop lawmakers the only ones standing up for parents? >> sandra: she has been a vocal critic of transgender athletes participating in women's sports. and now swimming star riley gains is speaking on her fight to protect women's sports and

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>> john: a former university of kentucky women's swimming star who called out the biden administration over what she calls the gender ideology propaganda attending the state of the union. riley gaines raising concerns of a white house push for transgender athletes to compete in sports based on their gender identity, rather than biological sex. comes after she was forced to compete after transgender swimmer lia thomas last year, where they tied in fifth place. riley gaines, former five time sec champion, good to see you. >> nice to see you, too. >> john: your first state of the union address. what did you think? >> it was a unique experience, i enjoyed meeting everyone, but

there are some theater, coming from the leaders. >> john: i don't think the president was going to get into your particular issue during the state of the union address. for the audience point out you have been a tireless campaigner to ensure female athletes have an equal opportunity to perform in women's sports. let me just repeat that. to ensure female athletes have an equal opportunity to perform in women's sports. the fact that you even have to do that is beyond ironic. >> it's beyond ironic and honestly, you have all these people telling me how couragegous it is and how brave i am, but does it make someone brave to acknowledge women deserve equal opportunities, that's how far we have come as a society and in our culture. >> john: and but n criticized by many people for taking that

stance, you don't hear about male athletes fighting that make sure fael athletes have an equal opportunity for men's sports, no. if a woman transitions to a man and competes in men's sports, it's no competition, but the other way around as it did with lia thomas, from number 462 to numb we are 1 overnight. >> that's important worth noting. the state bills being passed, everyone arguing in opposition of the fairness in women's sports bills are talking about trans women being able to compete and it's because trans men are not under jeopardy. the men's category is not under threat, it's the women's category under threat. >> john: one of the things that you are campaigning against with the ncaa is to make sure that men who have transitioned to be a woman do not share the same locker room as female athletes. did you share a locker room with lia thomas? >> yes, ncaa of course we competed against thomas but were not forewarned we would be sharing a locker room with lia.

we did not give our consent, they did not ask for our concept, but in that locker room we turned around and there's a 6'4" biological man dropping his pants and watching us undress, and we were confronted with male genitalia. that to me was worse than the competition piece. not even probably a year, two years ago, this would have been considered some form of sexual assault, voyeurism, but now not even are they just allowing it to happen, it's almost as if these large organizations are encouraging it to happen. of course, after ncaa champions, the ncaa nominated thomas for woman of the year, so we are celebrating this movement, this is not something that happened by chance on a one-off basis, they are encouraging men to compete in women's sports. >> john: following graduation, your intent to go to dental school, you have put that off because you want to continue the

battle you have begun and hoping that other female athletes will step up to the plate here, but they're not. and why don't you think they are? >> you know, people are terrified, especially speaking from my experience of talking to other ncaa swimmers specifically. lia thomas's teammates are told their school has made their stance for them. they are told if they feel uncomfortable seeing male genitalia in the locker room, they should seek counseling resources. told they will never get into grad school if they speak out, terrible, awful things that are not true. and that they will be called a bigot and hateful and trans phobic, but there are two sexes, you cannot change your sex and women deserve opportunities. >> john: we'll keep watching you. riley, good to meet you. >> sandra: interesting discussion. two people who helped former ftx ceo sam bankman-fried will

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>> sandra: the two people who helped former ftx ceo sam bankman-fried with the bail bond will remain a mystery for now. kelly o'grady on the latest saga. why do the lawyers want to keep their identities a secret? >> they don't want to deal with the death threats his parents have been receiving, so yesterday we did expect to get the names of the two individuals beyond his parents that co-signed his $250 million bond, so the judge ruled to release those names to the public. in the 11th hour, the court repealed counsel submitted a notice they are going to fight it in the court of appeals. they have argued the cryptoking's parents have received death threats and

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