terrible time and you are already serving more people than you ever have, correct? >> correct. we're 55% over where we were pre-pandemic serving over 450,000 people a month. >> before the pandemic, 50% more than that? >> correct. pre-pandemic was $3 hundred thousand and now 450,000 people and affecting all of us. >> it is not just people. this is working people that have a job. they just still can't make ends meet. >> dana: it's a tough time and thank you for covering that for us. we enjoyed being with you today. harris faulkner is next. >> harris: a fox news alert. communist china doing something apparently many of our lawmakers couldn't do for themselves. they are uniting them on capitol hill against china demanding answers after the covid origins report came out this week. after that spy craft by china

traversed the nation before our military shot it down. after china said it is still thinking about arming russia in its war on ukraine. the list is so long. i'm harris faulkner. the action against china fully on display. a china select committee held its first hearing in prime time yesterday. >> just because this congress is divided we cannot afford to waste the next two years. our policy over the next ten years will set the stage for the next 100. we can now allow the ccp to prevail. >> earlier yesterday democrats called for accountability. democrats calling for it from both china and the biden administration. >> there is a considerable dispute as to whether covid came from a wet market or came from the lab. the reason for this dispute is that china was absolutely opaque. they failed to cooperate.

they failed to come clean. state department has done almost nothing to tell the world how china's responsible not maybe for the virus but certainly for their failure to cooperate afterwards. >> harris: senator josh hawley with this letter to the department of energy after a report said it found covid most likely originated from that infamous laboratory in wuhan, china. we must immediately pressure china to be transparent and hold china accountable. after everything americans have gone through they are entitled to answers. in focus now kellyanne conway, former senior counselor to president trump. first senior congressional correspondent chad pergram to catch us up on what's happening after the hearing last night on capitol hill. >> good morning. members of congress realize they have a problem with china. now lawmakers must decide what to do about china. that could come via legislation. members want to help taiwan get

read emil tearly for a potential invasion and also a role for the private sector. perhaps tangling with china in cyberspace. >> so this thing that looked so formidable i think is made of papier-mache and you can punch holes in the firewall in china. they won't gain access who tried years ago to work in china. they have banned and have nothing to lose by working for the cause of freedom. >> lawmakers are writing legislation to ban tiktok and a bill to curb the purchase of farmland by foreign nationals if it is near an american military base. lawmakers are trying to bolster overseas alliances. senate majority leader chuck schumer just met with the prime minister of india. >> we made clear the two leading democracies of the world, the world's oldest democracy and

largest should be a powerful check against president xi in this century. >> but whatever path the u.s. pursues comes at a high cost. >> we are beyond the point where we have risk-free options. everything that we do going forward will be dangerous. china is preparing to go to war. russia is already at war. this is one of the most dangerous periods in history. >> lawmakers said both parties underestimated china and presumed that free trade will spark democracy and bolster national security. harris. >> harris: thank you very much for laying it out. espionage. military power, the list goes on. the list is long. yesterday a top biden official did not even mention any of that when asked about what his biggest concerns are. >> yes, sir, congressman. if i understand your question correctly about trans national challenges, i would list several. certainly climate change would

be one, certainly food security would be one. pandemic disease would be another. proliferation. >> harris: kellyanne conway. consulting president and former senior counselor to president trump. you know, in the white house china was mentioned so much at the beginning of the pandemic and it almost feels except for the fact that the pandemic is over, that's what the president says, it almost feels like we've gone back in time and now willing to talk about china in america again. >> the reason the democrats are on board they are looking at the polls. they are hearing that people want to know the origin of a virus, a pandemic that killed 20 million people worldwide and a million in our own country. they want to know about the uighurs and chinese fentanyl. they want to know about the trade deals. i'm happy that more americans are focused on china. gallup ran a poll showed that

85% of americans say we're in for a year of international discord. 64% thought america would become weaker and china would become stronger. they are worried about this. during the pandemic we were noticing that people were raising their eyebrows at china. if there is anything to declassify it has to be the documents at the energy department. goodness. >> harris: it is so true. we were talking off camera. if there were ever a time to declassify those things to know what killed us and so many other people around the world and a time to know why somebody got to fly across the united states in a spy craft and we didn't shoot it down from one coast to the other it would be now. how did things start? it tells us so much about what the enemy is willing to cover up and how they do it.

>> yes. if you look at the polls also there was a time during the administration that saw north korea as a greater threat than china and russia. that was what was in the news. it is now china and been china and a little more russia given the invasion of ukraine. but i think while americans minds are focused on china our legislature and the white house, state department need to follow the people on this. >> harris: follow the people, right? >> always. >> harris: you mentioned the white house. the white house says there is -- a quote, not a consensus when it comes to the origin of covid-19. remember, it is two federal agencies saying that laboratory in wuhan likely caused the outbreak. the f.b.i. is one of those agencies, their director sat down with bret baier last night. >> the f.b.i. has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in wuhan.

the f.b.i. has folks, agents, professionals, analysts, virologists, micro biologists, etc. , who focus specifically on the dangers of biological threats. here you are talking about a potential leak from a chinese government-controlled lab that killed millions of americans. that's precisely what that capability was designed for. >> harris: he mentioned 64% of americans in recent polling think the united states is weaker. spine in a can. can we buck it by the bus load to the white house. this is the time to stand up to china. >> let's hope there are people in the president's party. we know the vice president is not capable of this. particularly from congress if not some governors who say listen, this has to be -- a nonpartisan issue striving for a bipartisan solution. i was happy to see wray give that interview.

look what washington democratic party have been doing with the f.b.i. all january 6th, january 6th in the f.b.i. they are focused on the wrong thing and yelling squirrel when now you have the country very sensitized to china. also these are the same people who called senator tom cotton and many others i worked with conspiracy theorists. that was lunacy this could actually have happened in a lab, not the wet market. all put their chests out. now that they are casting doubt on the prevail theory came from a lab they looked for russia collusion for three years. we saw people going to hospitals, people never coming home and we've seen millions of people die from this pandemic and yet they still won't admit that they were wrong and that this is the prevailing thought. >> harris: i'm glad you mentioned the word ventilator because now what we know is

without flipping people and doing the things that we were probably hurting them more than we were helping them. our doctors and nurses didn't stand a chance against that fire of a virus because china had original experience and medical notes that they could have shared with the world and they chose not to. thailand tried. they tried to get in there. the who. i don't know how hard you try when you are paid not to. >> they said early on it can't go through human-to-human contact. i don't know why we give them so much money rick either. americans are scrutinizing for what we're paying. they ought to be looking at organizations like that who seem very political in their agenda and when it came time to do their work, anticipate and mitigate global pandemics and explain to the rest of us they fell down. they were definitely wrong. i worked in the trump/pence white house and we worked on it

every day in a non-medical person trying to communicate facts to the public. it was so fast moving. a lot of our experts were wrong on the daily and we're seeing that now. that does not excuse us needing to go to the very beginning back to the beginning. >> harris: absolutely. that's what you do. >> one of the greatest legacies of the trump/pence administration they involved china in almost every tough conversation we had whether it was trade, forced technology transfers, uighur persecution, chinese fentanyl. december 1, 2018, when president trump and first lady was there with him calling out xi at the g-20 saying your fentanyl is killing our americans. that has exploded now. hunter biden's father doesn't want to cover the drug crisis. we need to investigate that with china. >> harris: when you watched the hearing yesterday with the mom who lost two sons who thought

they were taking percocet laced with fentanyl and it killed them. the forensics of how things begin. that's how we solve murder investigations. we do everything from the beginning, the timeline matters. all right. great to have you. always good to see you in person, too. chicago mayor lori lightfoot. you said this was going to happen just lost her job in last night's election. the first one-term mayor in 40 years and she played the race card to the bitter end. yes, she did. plus closing argument today in the alex murdaugh double murder trial. today jurors got an up close look at the murder scene. it is two years later and in daytime. they went there. they are expected to start closing argument. we'll take you there. in the meantime nancy grace in "focus" next. use the 3 ps: plan ahead by getting a va cash out home loan from newday.

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>> harris: after nearly sects weeks of testimony closing arguments are set to begin shortly in the double murder trial of once prominent south carolina attorney alex murdaugh. this morning the jury visited the family's 1700 acre hunting estate called moselle. the witness agreed to let the attorney general hold a gun to his head. watch. >> i will do what you tell me to do based on the defense theory of the case. >> the defense oh greed with the assessment that paul stood their for a moment bleeding down his injured left down and walked toward the door. >> what does the shooter do? >> he is coming in the door.

it was the shooter do? he shoots paul in the back of the head after he passes him. >> what did you find odd about the theory, first of all? >> i think the theory is preposterous in my opinion. >> harris: nancy grace host of crime stories with nancy grace on fox nation is following the action. caught your sunday night special. it was excellent. first of all, the reenactment. effective or no? >> very effective. i would like to point out it's one of the first times the jury has heard from the actual state attorney general, allen wilson, taking part in the trial. very effective. because there is movement in the courtroom. not a bunch of words. they actually saw the state's witness act out the defense theory and it didn't make any sense. i think it was critical that they did that. it is very rare you see people

handling guns, especially long guns in the courtroom. it can send a chill down the spines of the jurors. they did it. i believe it worked, harris. >> harris: what about visiting the crime scene? why did prosecutors fight so hard against that today? it is daytime and two years later. those are the obvious things. is it a stunt? what don't prosecutors like about taking the jury to the crime scene? >> well, as you know well, anybody that doesn't want a mistrial doesn't want to go to the scene. it is fraught with the possibility of mistrial. if they pass one guy holding a sign saying alex murdaugh is guilty, they will move for a mistrial and the state is in trouble. i believe the viewing is over because right behind me i believe that i saw the state attorney general walking back into the courthouse. believe you me, they would never have allowed the viewing without all the lawyers standing around

like vultures to protect the jury. >> harris: that takes me to the next point. you are reading what's going on behind you is in concert with what we are being told. they left the estate. it takes about 25 minutes to get there. we don't know the time. as you see people walk in they are coming back. tell me about the attorneys in this case and closing arguments. we have seen and heard so many words. at times most were spoken by the defendant. it was word, word, word driven. which ones matter and what will they use in close? >> well, i really believe the state has got to hammer down that dog kennel video and harris, you know how i love to take notes during trial. the murders occurred between the dog video ending at 8:45 and paul not responding to texts at 8:49. that's a pretty small window.

we've got murdaugh there at the scene in the kennels, which he denied to hell and back until so many people identified his voice. he finally had to say after all this time yeah, i was there. think about it. if your spouse and your child have been murdered, first thing you would have said is, i was just there at the kennels. we did a video. then i went to see my mom. came back and they were dead. but instead that very night he knew that timing was critical. the time of the murders and he lied about it. only the killer would have known that. >> harris: so nancy, the killer and/or maybe someone like what the defense has postured and that is a pathological liar. he lies about everything. they wanted the jury and courtroom to see how much he lies and how his lies have hurt people in the past and how many of them have been about money

and then the prosecution did the same thing and, in fact, may have made the case for the defense in some ways in letting alex murdaugh talk about how much he lied. >> there is a very important jury charge. the reading of the law. the judge will conduct it to tell the jury the law that they are to govern the facts. one of those charges is if you believe any witness, including the defendant, is a liar you are authorized under the law to discount all of their testimony. a liar in things small is a liar in things big. i expect the state to hammer that in. you can lie about money until you are blue in the face but when you impede a murder investigation of your wife and your son, that is damning. >> harris: if you impede on investigation and become part of the problem instead of part of

the answer, that is a crime. >> absolutely. you can choose not to speak to police. that's okay under the fifth amendment but when you speak to police and you lie, you have committed a crime. >> harris: nancy grace, i will brag on you a little bit. so glad you are there. thank you for being in "focus." nancy is also covering the trial on her fox nation show crime stories with nancy grace available now exclusively on fox nation. homeland security chief mayokas is facing more heat if that's even possible and impeachment talk on capitol hill. one congressman says he would arrest him if he could. it is not just mayokas who is facing the threat of impeachment. >> the message was trust us. we're the government. the cabinet is a reflection of the president and this administration has the approach of hear no evil, see no evil. people are really suffering. this is life and death for these people.

>> harris: the increasing frustration over the transportation secretary pete buttigieg's slow response to the toxic rail disaster in ohio. 20 days. republicans saying impeachment is on the table for him. the power panel is next.

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a 20-year-old autistic woman. they say an ms-13 gang member did it. kayla hamillton of maryland suffered mightily before she died. congressman jim jordan and tom mcclintock demanding answers from dhs and hhs. they have wrote a letter. the biden administration's open border policies to gang members exploit to the detriment of american citizens. the lawmakers note the suspect, a 17-year-old, was arrested last march when crossing the border. but was then released to the custody of his aunt in maryland. all this comes as house republicans appear to be building a case to impeach dhs secr secretary mayokas for his alleged dereliction of duty. clay higgins laid out a list of charges that could be filed

against mayokas. >> i know secretary mayokas is watching this. this committee will lay out the case against you, sir. about to arrest you for louisiana revised statutes i would. i'm see to it that you have plenty of time in the course of your remaining life to remember the names, the 200,000 americans who are dead because of fentanyl coming across the border that you have blown wide open. >> harris: power panel. lee zeldin former long island congressman and new york governor candidate. patel new york congressional candidate. congressman, i will come to you first. higgins said i would arrest him if i could. does he have grounds for that? can they really go after mayokas? >> no, not from the standpoint of powers of a prosecutor. congress does have important oversight roles.

a clear legislative purpose for conducting hearings. congress has a role to play as it relates to appropriations bills and laws that should be passed to secure our border to improve interior enforcement and make sure customs and border patrol have the resources they need to combat fentanyl and more. this is an important congressional purpose to be conducting these hearings but no, i served eight years in the house of representatives and at no point did i or any of my colleagues get handed that power of prosecutor. that's not the role of the house. congressman higgins, who is a former sheriff, a very serious person, i'm sure he is personally speaking very genuinely he would like to if he could but not something congress can do. >> harris: it's something worth pointing out. very true. makes you understand why he would be thirsty to do that. he has done stuff like that

before and potentially knows what he thinks is a criminal when he sees one. how much trouble is mayokas in politically right now? you don't think of his position typically as being political. some of what he has done is saying patrol agents were whipping people when they weren't and clearly that's proven they weren't. it is a lie. >> look, secretary mayokas has, you know, done an unprecedented surge of border agents and asked for funding for resettlement. the state department under our treaty obligations is required to do refugee resettlement and it has been gutted and we had 2 million person visa and green card back logs not addressed, either. so no doubt there is a comprehensive and needed for a long time, a comprehensive immigration reform solution that republican and democratic

administration and congresss have not addressed. now, it is exactly comments like oh, i would arrest him, that create the air of unseriousness from congress. >> harris: i don't know about that. that's where i started was what they are looking at. a criminal case, a young woman autistic and raped and murdered. that kind of emotion when you see a mom testifying before the border crisis hearing yesterday who lost two sons, two of her babies to fentanyl. they thought they were percocet and they were laced with fentanyl. i don't know if strong words are what we would expect. it's the actions that have been taken that illicit such pain. >> certainly you and i and the rest of us can be incredibly sad and angry. you have a serious body in the house, representative that has the role to write a bill and pass it with seriousness. i think it just takes away from that when a congressman is

throwing out arresting federal officials. it would be like arresting federal officials during the trump administration for any border crossings that surged then, too. >> harris: we're at historic position right now. a million people have come over a million since the beginning of the fiscal year of october 1st. we're far ahead of where we were last year. i don't want to get it twisted in what aboutism and what happened in the past. our present and future is really critical right now. lee zeldin, last word and let's get to the next. >> what's interesting you have the house of representatives, 435 members come from blue and purple and red districts. oftentimes when you are seeing competing passion amongst democrats and republicans they are representing the passions of their constituents. i know that somebody like congressman higgins is speaking out not just on something he is passionate about but hearing

from many of his own constituents who want to see him and hear from him that way. like maybe in some democratic blue district you might see someone arguing the opposite side. it is representative in this republic. >> harris: researchers say air in east palestine contained higher than normal concentrations of nine harmful chemicals after the toxic derailment. the findings are in direct contrast to the epa's assurance that the air quality in the area is safe. despite that, the epa chief has a warning. >> the accident occurred. as a result, some of our creeks and streams have pollution in them. we are working very hard to clean up that pollution. for the time being while the pollution is present, as a father i would not advise anybody adult or child to play in the creeks and streams. >> harris: oh my goodness.

as a dad. wow. that was honest and transparent. rare. growing pressure on transportation secretary pete buttigieg over his response or lack there of. he sat for 19 interviews and attended a swanky white house dinner the first days after the crash and didn't mention it once. some republicans say impeachment is not off the table for him. mike collins says the solution is you get rid of pete buttigieg and get somebody in there that knows what they are doing. i come to you. i realize he is not a chemist or anything like that. but your pulpit travels with you and you can get the attention of who you need to. this report to date is damning about the high levels of contaminants in east palestine.

>> no doubt they are. as president biden always does, don't tell me your values, show me your budget. under trump the ep was cut by 26%. despite there being a backlog of over 50 toxic sites across the industrial hartland, ohio, pennsylvania, upstate new york and places like that. i completely agree that regulation, that funding to clean up toxic sites is a very important thing. it seemed wasteful. like insurance. we buy insurance for accidents. if something doesn't happen it seems like we wasted our money. when it does you wish you had it. and this is a long-term problem in our country. we need more funding to clean up toxic waste sites and for the epa. it has been created by decade after decade of starving these agencies. my question is why the obsession

with pete buttigieg on this specific issue? >> harris: because he is the transportation secretary and federal rail agency is underneath his purview. >> ntsb isn't even. >> harris: they know it's their job. i hear what you are saying about the regulations. i don't know if you caught the "washington post" article yesterday that said nothing that the trump administration did in terms of its cuts. nobody is denying anything you say that those regulations were loosened. none of that had anything to do with what is playing out in east palestine, ohio, none of it. >> we had 52 toxic waste sites. >> harris: we are talking about people who can't drink the water and the epa told them not to. >> it's across the country. >> harris: start with flint. you could go there. go ahead. >> right after september 11th,

2001, the epa was putting out statements being okay to breathe in the world trade center site and we haven't learned these lessons of that rush towards giving that green light. so from one standpoint you have that aspect of this issue with regards to the toxicity of the air and the impacts on the people who live in that community. as relates to secretary butte bu butte -- buttigieg. you should be present. in some respects there is a desire if we don't talk about it maybe the issue will go away. if you are signing up to be the secretary of transportation, it is your job as you pointed out to use your bully pulpit to show up there, to bring the resources, to call for action and not try to blame someone else who hasn't been in power for years. it is just about showing up. not making excuses and getting the job done. the people who live around the

east palestine site, they just want action. >> harris: norfolk southern had to take some of the waste back to ohio. you ask a good question, why pete buttigieg? you know why? he wanted the highest job in the land. he ran for president. he is different in that role and knows he is different. now he needs to act like it. great to see you both. thank you. attorney general merrick garland in the hot seat facing questions from senate judiciary republicans on the hunter biden investigation. plus fed up chicago voters showed mayor lori lightfoot the door. >> i'm not surprised but i couldn't be more happy to have somebody in there that actually takes seriously. i'm glad the city spoke out and said no more lori lightfoot. >> harris: she is firing back on the way out playing the race card and everything. so what's next for chicago with

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>> harris: chicago's mayor lori lightfoot is out officially losing her re-election bid. the city's first one-term mayor in 40 years. they always get reelected or at least prior to runoff. crime spiked precipitously during her term. major headlines calling out her swift demise. the "chicago tribune" wrote in four years lori lightfoot went from break-out political star to divisive mayor of a chicago

beset by pandemic and crime. chicago sun times with how lightfoot went to rock bottom. lightfoot was unapologetic in her concession speech last night. >> i didn't win the election today but i stand here with my head held high and a heart full of gratitude. regardless of tonight's outcome we fought the right fight and we put this city on a better path. no doubt about it. >> harris: except for that 59% hike in crime. garrett tenney is live in chicago. garrett. >> voters clearly didn't agree with the mayor's assessment and rising crime is a big reason why. she finished third last night 17 points behind brandon johnson and former chicago schools chief paul vallas heading to a runoff april 4th. crime and safety will continue to be the top issues for voters.

the two men have drastically different strategies for how they plan to address them. johnson, endorsed by the teachers union, was a strong proponent of defunding the police and sponsored an effort to do that. he now wants to raise taxes and take that money to inhaves in more social services to try to address the root causes of crime. here he is last night. >> you deserve a chicago that's better, stronger, safer for everyone. no matter where you live, no what you look like, you deserve to have a better, stronger, safer chicago. >> paul vallas is endorsed by the police union and wants to hire more police officers and reversing recent policy changes that he argues restricts cops from doing their jobs. >> i want to thank the voters of chicago for making this campaign about the issues and nothing but the issues.

public safety is the fundamental right of every american. it is a civil right. we will make chicago the safest city in america. >> the race will give us an indication where the city is headed politically. whether voters want to embrace a more progressive candidate and agenda than the city has had the past four years. >> harris: that's a great question. garrett, thank you. i want to bring in sean duffy. former wisconsin congressman. former wisconsin congressman you might have something to say about chicago. >> hi. i love chicago. a great -- it was a great place. how arrogant is lightfoot to say i left the city better off. you lost. most voters say you didn't. we're worse off. in government your mayor is the closest access point to government with a most impact on your life. when crime spikes 40% in your city people don't feel safe.

you can be as progressive as you want. if i don't feel safe in my community walking down the street you say you have to go. my kids aren't safe any longer. >> harris: i remember living next door to wisconsin in minnesota and when i was in kansas and missouri chicago was the place. you could get the cheap airline tickets and go and shop with girlfriends and hang out and we always felt safe. if you are in that part of the country, you know chicago. but what i thought was really interesting, why play the race and gender cards on the way out the door? she really took herself someplace south by saying 600 black people are running in this race, i can't win. that's the only reason why people vote. >> that's what worked for her in the past. i'm not voting on race or gender. >> harris: business owners want their stores to be safe to shop

in. >> you go to the miracle mile. michigan avenue. all the great stores. you spend a lot of cash there. they were looting, rioting down the streets. a lot of people who normally go to chicago for the experience you talked about were like i'm out to the point of green. these shops suffered and many closed. >> harris: interesting to see the if vallas goes on or if his competitor more progressive than lightfoot goes forward. i think people a look at their safety first. let's get to this. attorney general merrick garland facing tough questions on capitol hill. the hearing is going on. we've dipped in and out of it. republican lawmakers are demanding answers on hunter biden's business deals and if the investigation will have no political interference. >> u.s. attorney in delaware has been advised that he has full authority to make those kind of referrals you are talking about

or to bring cases in other jurisdictions if he feels it is necessary. i will assure if he does he will be able to do that. >> let me give you my view if weiss, the u.s. attorney in delaware, must seek permission from a biden appointed u.s. attorney to bring charges then the hunter biden criminal investigation isn't insulated from political interference. >> harris: how big of a concern is protecting the investigation from the hands of the white house in your mind? >> a big concern. most people look at the laptop, which the white house, big tech worked so hard to suppress, and now we're seeing a d.o.j. with a pretty political attorney general. not going anywhere with the investigation. if there is nothing there share it with us. how do you get to that conclusion. if there is something we want hunter and joe biden to have the same standard of justice that

every other american has. >> harris: especially when it comes to questionable deals with china. i think right now in the capitulateed position we're in with china and we wait to see if they will arm russia against ukraine, i think it's worth us knowing what those deals really had. i have to let you go but i'll bring you back. thank you for watching "the faulkner focus". "outnumbered" after the break. "outnumbered" after the break. an average of $70,000. use that low-payment home loan to pay off your high-rate credit cards. then, pay off your car loan. and then take the cash left over and put it in the bank for the financial security that every veteran deserves. the day you get your clearchoice dental implants makes every day... a "let's dig in" day... mm. ...a "chow down" day...

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