it will be great. >> feels like spring. it's amazing in february. >> if you prefer just audio and streaming on fox nation, i have the perfect solution, radio show ready to go. marc thiessen the first guest. >> have a great day. see you here tomorrow. >> bill: good morning, everybody. emotions running high in ohio. families impacted by the toxic train crash pushing for answers at a town hall. the officials they wanted to hear from weren't there. the questions remain today. i'm bill hemmer back live in new york city. good to be back with you. >> dana: i'm dana perino. this is "america's newsroom." you will see some very impassioned pleas for more information and better information. officials just not knowing what to do to provide that. it has been nearly two weeks since the train derailed in east palestine, ohio, it blanketed

the community in smoke and forced families to evacuate. >> bill: fears of an explosion had crews conducting a controlled burn of toxic chemicals. officials gave folks the okay to return home. >> dana: the governor insists it is safe to breathe the air and drink the water but people who live there say it feels anything but safe and voiced their concerns last night. [inaudible].

>> i don't know what to do other than to provide you assurance for -- >> don't lie. >> i understand. we're doing all that can be done to look for the source of potential -- >> bill: representatives from norfolk southern, the company that operates the train that went through town in early february. they were scheduled to be there last night but they pulled out at the last minute we're told citing fears that residents could become violent toward the company. >> dana: it made people angry that they said that about them when they just wanted to ask questions. pete buttigieg was not there. they're wondering why he is missing in action. here is what he said.

>> i don't know, your guess is as good as me. >> dana: lucas tomlinson is live there. you have an update for us this morning? >> i sure do, dana. outside east palestine high school and middle school has been opened since monday but the cite of the train rerailment in eastern ohio near the border of pennsylvania. officials from norfolk southern railway skipped the meeting because of fearing for safety. the fear of toxic chemicals in the public are still thinking. >> i have been sick with upper congestion. >> my kids we're running in to grab something. they keep breaking out in rashes. >> i work by the rail track and

experienced headaches and coughing. i try not to go outside because every time i go outside my throat gets scratchy. >> ohio governor mike dewine told martha maccallum the water is safe to drink after tests came back negative but continued to encourage residents to continue drinking bottled water and avoid the tap. many residents are still scared. >> my biggest concerns is the drinking water, the effects of the drinking water. >> i feel like they haven't been truthful with us. i worry about the kids, young mother and pregnant mothers. >> biggest concern i have is about dioxins. no one is talking about that period. >> president biden's epa chief is due in town at 12:30 to speak to residents and many residents want answers. >> dana: thank you for that. >> bill: let's talk to two now.

ben and debbie, they live in east palestine. good morning. i want to start with you. you were there at the town hall last night. what did you learn? >> i learned that norfolk southern isn't going to do a thing to step in and help this community unless they are forced to. and i learned that the epa can only do so much because this company is a juggernaut and they'll just pay the fines. >> dana: debbie, how about what you've experienced over the last few days? i don't know if you were able to hear what that report included but many residents said they personally have experienced either symptoms of a headache or even children having rashes. anything that you have experienced personally or know of with your family? >> yes. actually my granddaughter, she had to go to the emergency room. she had sore throat, eyes were

burning. respiratory issues. we have a duplex that we have rented out right in front of the railroad tracks and i was down there taking some samples and within probably ten minutes, my throat felt like it had sand in it. i had a sore throat for several days after that. my husband has a lot of issues with headaches going on right now. so it is really affected. you hear a lot about it in town. i think it's affected a lot of people. but nobody is really listening. they are saying it's safe. and we just don't feel it is. >> bill: we have heard a lot about the reports about those that feel like they have a headache 24 hours a day. the governor was there and what he had to say about the epa and safety for the drinking water and the environment there. >> the water in the system, that

water is safe. if you have an individual well, what we have said is we'll come out, the epa will come out and test your individual well. so until your well is tested, that's what your water source is, you should not drink it. >> bill: five wells supplying the drinking water for the town are free from contaminants according to the epa. >> unfair for the people that have wells. rural area. hundreds of wells in this area and those people are outside of the town. who knows what kind of support they'll get from norfolk southern. maybe in-town wells will be tested. i was a town hall in another city last night and there are people that say they have chemical pneumonia, people say they have wells that they know are contaminated and trying to call and haven't been able to

get it sampled yet and after that is the oil. there is multiple tankers that were carrying petroleum lube oil, 5, 2 of them the oil is unaccounted for. each tanker, there are over 60,000 gallons of lube oil in the soils and they just rolled down more dirt, new track and trains were going 30 minutes after the evacuation was lifted. they had to have known the evacuation order would be lifted for the trains to be on their way that close after the order was lifted. >> dana: incredible. important to add that to the timeline. i want to ask you about the fact norfolk southern said they didn't want to go to the town hall last night because they believed their employees would perhaps be the subject of violence. that it wasn't safe for them to be there. i know that you know this community well. apparently those comments from

the company -- i don't know what they saw that made them think that -- didn't sit well with a lot of residents there. what is your response on that decision to not go to that town hall? >> well, i think with the whole town -- i can speak for myself but what i'm hearing from the town people them not showing up shows no responsibility on their part. they aren't taking this seriously as far as how -- with our town, how we're dealing with it. it is like they don't care with them -- as soon as the evacuation was lifted within ten minutes the first train came through. that was basically a slap in the face to us. we were still obviously under a lot of duress and with them doing that it just -- we felt like nobody was hearing us,

nobody was listening to us. our issues weren't being taken care of. we didn't have a voice. with them not showing up. >> dana: ben, since you were there can i ask that same question about them saying they didn't show up because they were concerned about their employees' safety. >> are they concerned about our safety? we've been dealing with this for 13 days now. there is several dozens of police officers, many of whom i know, they are, you know, state troopers, county sheriffs, local officers, nothing was going to happen. people are driving themselves crazy with this situation trying to understand -- people grown up in their grandmother's childhood home and people saying you have to get out. they try to balance what level of safety. now they are saying you have to go back in and it is hard mental math to try to figure out what level of safety are we actually living in and what level of

stress we have to actually be going through to get through all of this. >> bill: you represent your community very well. thank you for your time today. ben and debbie, good luck. we'll stay on the story. thank you. >> dana: another story here, house speaker kevin mccarthy leading a group of republican lawmakers to yuma for a firsthand look at the border crisis following a senate hearing on fentanyl with some of the biden administration's key drug officials. >> the vast majority of fentanyl is coming in the ports of entry, two in california and two in arizona. >> would cutting -- >> i believe it would. the cartels are acting with deliberate calculated treachery and make these pills, buying pill presses and dyes and dye molds mostly from china as well that look identical to the real pharmaceutical medicines. >> dana: the drug crisis only getting worse. opioid overdose deaths skyrocketing to more than 80,000

last year coming as a panel tells the fda narcan, the overdose reversing nasal spray is safe to sell over the counter. i guess that's good but better if you didn't need it at all. >> bill: we were in yuma for a day. it is a complicated and complex matter. hard to consume a complex story in 24-hours time. one takeaway you have is the people pay their taxes and you ask yourself what are you getting in return from your federal government? a few of the folks we met in arizona. check it out. >> this is playing ideology playing out on the border. interest electric to all abandonment and avoidance. >> it feels like groundhogs day when we first faced a border crisis. this is far different, far intense. >> we're at it over two years and still don't have the policies that will bring this back under control. >> we need this administration

to actually secure our border. to see mayokas say the border is secure is a blatant lie. >> bill: one another guy on border patrol for 27 1/2 years and just retired. freer to talk right now. tall fences and large gates will get the job done. we're a long way from that. >> dana: coming up later in the show a congressman from arizona, a freshman, will be good to get his thoughts as that investigation gets underway and there is a hearing next week in yuma, arizona. >> bill: a long way from figuring this out. president biden barely said a word. now considering a speech on the aerial object. why has it taken so long? it's been two weeks. what do we need to hear as the american people? senate minority leader mitch mcconnell will answer that coming up in a few minutes. >> dana: we are confirming details of a deadly military helicopter crash near a crowded highway that killed everyone on

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>> dana: a source tells fox news the f.b.i. did two searches at the penn biden center in recent weeks with the cooperation of biden's legal team. materials taken did not appear to have classified markings. the university is home to the biden school of public policy and administration. >> bill: remember early on andy mccarthy said what's at the

university of delaware? also jonathan turley. maybe they got some handwritten notes but no classified material. >> dana: that's good to know. put that one to bed. >> bill: april of 2021. roll it. >> president biden: i'll not oppose any tax increase on people making less than $4 hundred thousand. no one making less than 400,000 bucks a year. i don't know a lot of people when i grew up made that money, won't see a penny increase in their taxes. we created more jobs in two years. we created more new jobs in two years than any president did in their entire term. 12 million new jobs. unemployment rate is 3.4%. that's a 50-year low. >> bill: over and over like a politician would like a broken record president biden repeating the same economic talking points while ignoring major news like the three unidentified objects hovering over the u.s.

instead focusing on what he calls his blue collar blueprint. fox team coverage, maria b is standing by and first to edward lawrence outside the white house with the news from today. >> the president added back most of those jobs. one of the big fuzzy math he is using there trying to remessage the economy here. new congressional budget office report doesn't help. it looks bad for taxpayers. inflation side the cbo says current laws that president biden signed and economic conditions going forward the inflation rate will not reach 2% target until 2027. no better when looking at deficits or budget deficit. now the president joe biden calling the congressional budget office the gold standard yesterday and then he said this. >> president biden: it's not the debt this year or last year. we cut the debt by 1.7 billion the last two years. this is a 200-year obligation accumulated. i made it clear in the state of the union i will not negotiate

whether or not we pay our debt. >> the truth is, president biden increased spending and the emergency covid spending started to end in the first and second years of the president's term. now the increased spending he signed into law is starting to show. a new federal deficit is projected to be 1.4 trillion this year and then the cbo report says the deficit over the next ten years has been revised up by 3 trillion because of newly enacted legislation and changes to the economic forecast. >> the debt trajectory is unsustainable. you can look at what is happening to the cost of net interest payments of servicing this debt. it doesn't get better after 2053 put it that way under current law. and so fiscal trajectory is unsustainable. >> the federal debt will reach more than $46 trillion in 2033. you have to either add revenue

or cut spending. republicans want to cut spending. biden wants to add revenue. they have to figure it out. >> bill: it will be a battle. >> dana: maria bartiromo is here with us now. president biden said this yesterday. >> president biden: look, folks, let's be crystal clear about what's happening. if you add up the proposals of the republican friends have offered just so far what they've offered. they've offered these now. it would add more than $3 trillion to the debt over ten years. where are they going to cut? will they cut medicaid, affordable care act, social security, medicare, veterans benefits? aid to farmers? >> dana: buckle up. that's the refrain you'll hear through the re-election campaign. >> you will hear that. in reality we know the democrats and biden administration borrowed more than $5 trillion just in the last two years and that is where we saw the debt

explode and now we talk about these very worrying reports from the cbo. look, there is no question that this spending needs to be reined in. social security will be insolvent by 2035. spending on discretionary items looks like a area targeted. defense spending is also an area that the republicans want to go back to 2022 spending. that would mean a $75 billion cut in defense spending. a hard pill to swallow in the face of a spy balloon above us from communist china among other things. >> bill: it sets up a pretty big battle over the debt. >> it sure does. we'll see the showdown in the coming weeks. cbo said that we will default in july if in is not taken care of. kevin mccarthy, the house speaker, has said there will not be a default but trying hard to get conditions on the table. some spending ideals that they all can follow. the white house is not playing so far.

>> dana: the "wall street journal" headline the biden federal budget blow-out. the new cbo forecast shows the deep fiscal hole democrats have dug saying white house spinners are boasting that joe biden's presidency has been historic. they're right in a mere two years he mid wived the biggest expansion of government since the 1960s. as they continue to do that the money available for discretionary spending for all the programs you want to have gets smaller and smaller. >> of course. they'll have to cut it. it will continue to get smaller and if it doesn't it means much higher taxes for generations to come. so when they say things like we're leaving our children in a bad position yes, that's what it means. the bills have to be paid at some point. unless you talk about massive spending cuts or much higher taxes, you are not going to even make a dent in it. you need a growth story. we don't have a growing story. there is no plan for growth.

today we just got more inflation data, producer price index was up 6%. we also had a sharp decline in the philly fed number basically a number that covers the philadelphia manufacturing industry. it was expected to be negative 7%. it was actually negative 24%. >> dana: what does that mean? >> it tells you manufacturing is weakening in a big way and that's on top of housing already in recession. we talked about the very strong jobs numbers. employment numbers will catch up to a much weakening economy we're seeing in other areas. >> bill: could be a rough ride when we open in four minutes. >> it is already down about 300. >> the pre-market. >> bill: oh joy. accused fraudster democratic mega donor heading back to court and the judge could tighten the screws on his bail conditions.

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cartels seem to have a free hand in cochise county with rampant human and drug smuggling. a congressman is joining us in a minute. he will be on the tour. first go to bill melugin live in cochise county, arizona. you aren't in texas. what are you seeing in arizona? >> good morning to you. that's right. when this congressional delegation gets here today they will see a part of the border different than anywhere else including texas, the tucson, arizona sector known for its evaders, and criminals. recent arrests made lately. almost everybody they catch in this sector are single adult men often dressed in camouflage looking to sneak into the united states. listen to the numbers. since october 1st border patrol says in this sector they've arrested more than 55,000 single adult men. the tucson sector border patrol chief testified nobody crosses

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that was hidden in a vehicle there. not far away from where we are now. house speaker kevin mccarthy and gop delegation will be here later on this afternoon. we'll be here for that and you can expect fentanyl will be one of the topics of conversation for them. >> dana: incredible picture behind you as well. >> bill: arizona congressman knows the border firsthand. his district represents a portion of it where bill is located there and joins me now. good morning to you. i met your sheriff in person the day after the super bowl. here he is on what's happening in cochise. you have 130,000 people in the county. the county seat is the population of 5,000 and the cartels are the biggest employer. >> one of the biggest employers down there. 1500 people plus we've arrested in our county, u.s. citizens come to our county and committed crimes and over 100 were

juveniles. >> bill: 1,578 people booked in a county population is low, 1500 u.s. citizens committing crimes by trying to bring migrants across. what that means is they are working with the cartels. what do you hope speaker mccarthy and others see today, sir? >> thanks for having me on. good morning. this is an important day. we have the speaker of the house coming here as his first trip to the border as speaker and he chose cochise county to do that starting in the tucson sector for a reason. the way you set up this segment tells the story of numbers of gotaways, tells the story of numbers of apprehensions and what keeps a lot of parents up at night like myself the numbers in fentanyl. the numbers we're seeing. we had a segment with sheriff daniels. if anybody knows the border it will be the sheriff who has been fighting the fight for a long time without any support from the federal government for the last few years. the situation has gotten out of

control. now you are looking at the private sector of employees of 1500 of them employing the most people in this area. you would never thought this would happen. matter of fact, tucson sector chief said not too long ago a few weeks ago that before he called this unprecedented. now he doesn't have an adjective to describe it. that's what we face today and what the speaker and my colleagues will be able to see firsthand. >> bill: it is remarkable. the job is enormous as you know. the longer you allow it to fester, the worse it becomes. on tuesday in yuma, arizona we met a border patrol agent who just retired. chris clem is his name. very impressive guy. here is how he said what he would do if in charge of immigration in america. >> we should be a nation of tall fences and wide gates. let people in that deserve to be here. we have to get poison and bad

people off the streets. >> bill: i have to imagine you would have liked some from the other party to join you today. that's not going to happen at least today, right? >> not today but i'm hoping that as -- the more attention we draw on this, the clearer it becomes to the american people all over the country what we're facing here. i have continually said that this is no longer a border state issue only. actually i think that every state has become a border state. as you talk to my colleagues across the country, bill in other states they are being plagued by the fentanyl crisis in similar ways than us here. this is where it starts but it goes through the entire country. this is something that impacts everyone, both parties. when i talk to parents that have lost children to the fentanyl overdose crisis, it doesn't matter what side of the aisle they sit on. they lost a child. that is what we're missing is the human element of what's happening to people on this side and quite frankly you talk about the rollovers and migrants dying

when the drivers are fleeing that are american citizen drivers. migrants are dying as well. the crisis hits everyone in different ways. there is no attention by president biden or secretary mayokas of this. i'm proud of speaker mccarthy making it a priority and being here early in his tenure as speaker and my colleagues as well. we'll advocate for this. i was in cochise county myself earlier this week. morale is low with our agents. border security and as a big topic for them. law enforcement doesn't feel the support from the federal government which is their responsibility of the federal government. >> bill: big time. you are getting the short end of the deal on that. juan, thank you for your time. tall fences, wide gates is what i took from chris clem. we'll follow the tour for headlines. thank you for your time. >> thank you, bill. >> there are reports the balloon

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>> dana: senators emerging from two classified briefings with more questions than answers. that's now how it is supposed to go. they say the white house is lacking key issues. both parties are pushing for more transparency. reports say president biden is considering a speech before he leaves for poland on monday. so senate minority leader mitch mcconnell joins us now. i'm curious based on your experience in washington how unusual do you find it that the commander-in-chief after shooting down three -- four objects out of the sky in the past ten days or so hasn't spoken on it at all? >> it is perplexing. we've been in these briefings, as you suggest. but they don't seem to know anything. so we're anxious to hear what

analysis, if any, they've been able to achieve on the chinese balloon. and to just get a sense of what these other three actually were. i've never been in briefings where i learned so little. if the president knows a lot more, time for him to tell us all about it including the american people. >> dana: and what of the posture going forward? will it be something they do regularly if they're able to tell you? it is expensive using side winder missiles at $4 hundred thousand a pop. >> what is the game plan for protecting our skies? you get the impression they were quite surprised by all of this. that would suggest that maybe we need a new plan to protect our own airspace. but the complete absence of any useful information has been what has been most on display here over the last week and a half. so i hope the president will say

something to the american people. i hope it goes far beyond what we've been able to glean from these so-called classified briefings that we've had over the last week or so. >> dana: it looks like from reading that many in the foreign policy establishment especially on the left are encouraging the administration not to get too mad at china about this and secretary blinken might have an opportunity to talk to one of his counterparts in the near future. what do you think the biden administration should say to the chinese? >> well look, the chinese are clearly an adversary. they've teamed up with iran to support the russians in ukraine. and they are not being helpful on anything i can think of in the national security space. of course, we've had longstanding challenges with them with our commercial interaction. with them stealing our intellectual property. the chinese are not our friends.

i think secretary of state, if the meeting does finally occur, needs to be pretty forceful. >> dana: you are about to depart for the munich security conference, a very important time for europe to be thinking about what is happening in the war in ukraine. a year ago when the conference took place the war hadn't started yet. hardly any confidence at all with 43% and only some 37%. while we're watching the russians try to make more advances and we're listening to the ukrainians saying they don't have enough ammo and our defense department is saying we might have to figure out a way to get more funding so that we have enough ammo for ourselves and to give to allies like ukraine. what is biden's responsibility in trying to make sure that people in america whose support for ukraine is softening will

want to continue to try to help them? >> i'm going to try to help explain to the american people that defeating the russians in ukraine is the single most important event going on in the world right now. it will save us an enormous amount of money down the road if the ukrainians can succeed. they are not asking for any of our personnel. they're asking us for financial help. the europeans are stepping up. they've done an awful lot that seems not to be recognized. for example, handling enormous numbers of refugees. in terms of the cost of it, dana, it's about.02% of our gross domestic product. we are also monitoring very carefully the money that is being spent. this should be a bipartisan support for this. my biggest criticism of the president is he seems not to have done enough soon enough. had he moved more rapidly, we

might have been able to help the ukrainians have even more success than they've already had. but it seems like these weapons systems the end to get there a little too late on every occasion. i'm sorry public opinion is sliding but i want to reassure the american people this is enormously important. we need to stay together on a bipartisan basis in our country and defend these people who are bravely fighting for freedom and for democracy in ukraine. >> dana: one last question more close to home. everyone is looking forward already to 2024 and the election cycle. it appears to be a report that jim justice, the governor of west virginia is seriously considering running for the senate seat in west virginia. that would be against joe manchin if he decides to run for re-election. are you bullish on the chances of taking back a west virginia senate seat for the republicans? >> there was a poll just in the last week that showed the

governor of west virginia with a 10-point lead over the democratic incumbent joe manchin. that is good news for us. we're in the candidate recruitment period right now in other states that are extremely important if we will be able to flip the senate in 24. i would add montana, ohio and pennsylvania to the list of ones we're focusing on to try to get the very most electable candidate nominated, which gives you the best chance of winning in november. >> dana: senator mcconnell, have a safe trip overseas. appreciate your time. >> there are police everywhere here. why can't we get answers from them? >> bill: that was the scene late last night. those impacted by the ohio train derailment blasting the lack of answers at a town hall. we get reaction from

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