were. you didn't google that? what is she talking about? she didn't know. it's the royal family. they are the original racists. >> he spoke to the one unifying thing in the country. we all want the same thing. we want meghan markle to shut up. >> bill: i'm happy we got the bleeps right. >> dana: you are never bare minimum monday. take care. let's get to this now. fox news alert president biden facing his biggest energy decision since killing the company stone pipeline. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom." >> bill: i can take a little more of that, i think. >> dana: jimmy failla could stay all hour. >> bill: he could. does he want that? he is shaking his head no. i'm bill hemmer, good morning. >> dana: we want to talk to you about this up in alaska. pretty outrageous.

the proposed willow oil project in the national petroleum reserve could pump up to 180,000 barrels of oil a day projected to bring in billions of dollars of revenue and create thousands of jobs but climate activists are pressuring the president to kill it. supporters of the project say it's critical to the state and country. >> the oil and gas sector represents the backbone of alaska. if the president is talking about supporting the backbone of this country, it starts with the states themselves. the willow project is studied as it has been could represent anywhere near about $10 million over the life of it to local communities and state government. it is critical. >> bill: they waited more than 20 years to see if it can happen. mark meredith has the lowdown from the white house. >> president biden spends time talking about renewable energy products. now a bipartisan delegation from

alaska urging the white house to approve the oil project as soon as possible. friday the president met with alaska senators murcowski and sullivan and democratic congressman. they are calling on the president to approve the willow project. $6 billion proposal from conocophillips to drill in the national petroleum reserve. if approved the oil producers could develop up to 180,000 barrels a day. lawmakers support the project say the president has all the information he needs to make the right decision for alaska and for the nation and we approve a economically viable willow project alternative without delay. the white house supports scaled back versions of it. environmental groups don't want to see it go through at all. the sierra club writes saying the willow project would have a devastating impact on public lands and our climate and approving it after passing the largest climate bill in history would be a giant step in

reverse. supporters are rejecting the outrage outright. >> this is a project that is good for jobs and emergency energy security. the other thing i press them on they talk a lot about racial equity, racial justice. the vast majority of the alaska native people of our state want this project. >> now final decision on this project is expected at some point this month. we don't know exactly when. imagine how it will play out going forward on the 2024 campaign trail. we have seen republicans make points when it comes to gas prices saying there could be efforts to bring prices down if there was more drilling at home. this project would get a lot of attention as well. we haven't seen the president on camera today yet but heading a speech to a group of firefighters this afternoon not far from the white house. >> bill: nice to sigh mark meredith from the north lawn. >> dana: last week when we were dealing with the murdaugh trial the governor of alaska was here

and he was impressive and frustrated with the white house and the "wall street journal" saying the willow oil test for biden saying willow should be easy to approve especially given the world's growing energy security. if mr. biden kills this project either outright or on the sly no one should believe another word he says about energy or oil prices. kudos to fox and friends first for getting the young man saying native people want the jobs. >> bill: this is a huge area in alaska. the size of indiana. conocophillips acquired the lease in 1999. so it has been 24 years right now. remember the white house is saying that oil companies don't act on the leases that are already given permission. here is a good example where you can act and we'll see what decision is made. >> dana: we're just about a year away from the start of the 2024 primaries and some republican candidates and potential

candidates are already beginning to carve out their positions. >> we're going to finish what we started. we started something that was a miracle. [cheers and applause] we're going to complete the mission. >> i will be the president who rallies our people and restores our freedom and confidence again. strong and proud, not weak and woke. >> what you saw was surgical precision execution day after day after day and because we did that, we beat the left day after day after day. >> dana: joining both of us now is josh, is senior political correspondent from axios. this weekend was significant. you had the candidates deciding to run putting a step forward talking about policies, talking about how they would win and you had a couple say they would not be running. larry hogan, the governor of maryland not running in the republican primary. how did you size up the

candidates this weekend? >> look, let the games begin. you had trump giving what amounted to his kickoff address at c pac to a pretty supportive crowd and he is laying out a vision of unadulterated belligerent populism that he thinks is the future of the republican party and trying to make the 2024 campaign about that vision. and then you had ron desantis who spoke at the youth summit in florida and reagan library who looks like trump's biggest competitor and is laying out his record in florida, the fact that he governed and took on some of the same fights and won them in florida. but he is also trying to move into some of the supporters that trump has long held. so you had trump and desantis and nikki haley and mike pompeo speaking at cpac. one is a presidential candidate

and one seriously considering getting into the race. >> bill: republican governor of maryland. hogan was successful for a number of years and how he sees the race now republican primary. >> writ now you have trump and desantis at the top of the field. soaking up all the oxygen, getting all the attention. a lot of the rest of us in single digits. the more of them you have, the less chance you have for somebody rising up. >> bill: basically saying there are two lanes. one is trump and one is desantis. based at cpac on saturday night what did you think of his performance and message? seems like you were somewhat impressed. >> it is clear there is not an anti-trump lane. there will be republicans like a nikki haley who will try to come up with a third way trying to talk about a younger generation, a more pragmatic vision, focus on electability and maybe that type of lane can catch fire in contrast to trump and desantis.

this is looking like a two-man race right now and the -- what's interesting politically trump is trying to get that 30% of the party that is pure maga and trying to solidify that support and draw a sharp contrast. the big challenge for governor desantis is does he try to move more in the maga lane or try to build a broad-based coalition that can unseat trump in the primary? >> dana: let's talk about democrats. biden has yet to formally declare and drawing a challenger, mary anne wilson and frustrated with rule rigging in the primary system. watch here. >> the dnc should not be rigging the system. they don't pretend anymore. >> they are rigging the system for biden. >> they even admit that. >> dana: how much longer can biden let this go on? >> he has got an issue with his

own base. i've never seen a sitting president who in poll after poll after poll is seen over half of democratic voters don't want him to run for re-election again. there is a lot of concern about his age and stamina and whether he is up for another re-election. so look, i'm not sure if mary anne wilson will give him the most trouble but i wouldn't be surprised if in new hampshire, getting punished by the dnc and biden white house because of the primary calendar, whether there is someone that goes up to new hampshire and goes in one of the early states and runs as an outsider and tries to show that biden is a little more vulnerable than the conventional wisdom. the age factor won't go away. it will be an issue whether he faces problems in the primary. >> bill: have a great week, josh, thank you. fox news alert. female border patrol agent assaulted by an illegal

immigrant over the weekend. she was working solo trying to take the migrant into custody in arizona's tucson sector. fox news was embedded as troopers busted a suspected cartel stash house in the rio grande valley. back on monday in mission, texas, bill melugin has the story there. hello. >> bill, good morning. that's right. the gulf cartel runs the human smuggling stash houses throughout the rio grande valley and we were with texas dps troopers as they busted one of them in palm view ten minutes away from where i'm standing right now. troopers and border patrol found eight illegal immigrants held inside this stash house including a 15-year-old girl. you will see in the video some wearing the cartel wrist bands we see here indicating they've paid a cartel to be crossed illegally into the united states. some of those migrants telling us they paid $1500 to do so. that house had deplorable

conditions, no running water and the cartels will hold these migrants in the stash houses before they move them deeper into the united states. take a look at this video. with texas dps in the rgb as they arrested the drug smuggler from mexico. part of a group tracking on cameras as they were moving five bundles of marijuana into the country. they recovered all five of those bundles, 137 pounds of marijuana. you might wonder why does the cartel move weed these days? it is still illegal for recreational use in texas. people still want it and still making a profit off it. take a look at this picture. texas dps arrested a member of the gulf cartel caught in the act of bringing in nine illegal immigrants across the river in the rgb. suspected guide, coyote for the gulf cartel and taken into custody here. take a look at these images.

border patrol in the rio grande valley arrested five confirmed gang members who crossed illegally in recent days including f them with various criminal history including negligent homicide, aggravated assault and weapons and explosives offenses. a taste of people crossing here. back live you mentioned off the top cbp confirming that a female border patrol agent was violently assaulted by an illegal immigrant she was trying to take into custody over the weekend in arizona. the tucson, arizona sector. cbp confirmed she suffered injuries to her hands and face. she will be okay. the f.b.i. now investigating this assault on a federal agent. >> bill: send it back to you. a lot to get to already. >> dana: inflation still refusing to go away. now the fed says more interest

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>> dana: jerome powell addressing lawmakers this week. they've been looking at raising rates several more times to trying to tackle high inflation. we have more on what consumers should expect. what do you read? >> it appears that we might be in for more financial hardship

going forward. if you ask the president or anyone here at the white house, he is in charge of a booming economy. >> the president's economic agenda, the way we see it and others have as well is that it is making progress to bring inflation down. you have inflation that's down from last summer. we always understand there is more work to do. >> inflation was at 1.4% when president biden took office and reversed every economic policy from the last administration. the federal reserve says all the government spending president biden signed to law has pushed inflation. the fed using their blunt instrument to whack the economy over the head. jay powell testifies tomorrow in front of the senate and likely hear him say we're far from their inflation goal meaning more interest rate hikes this month and may. credit card interest rates for everyone in the u.s. will rise and mortgages will become more expensive. the 30-year fixed for a house is already 7.1%, up four weeks in a

row. >> he is trying to bring inflation down but trying to do it in the face of massive spending that joe biden and the democrats have put into the system. this has been going on for two years and overheated the system with massive stimulus spending. >> the president released his budget this week. we expect more government spending to be in that budget. >> dana: edward lawrence at the white house. thank you. >> bill: one of our closest allies in europe standing shoulder to shoulder with the u.s. in the war of ukraine days after meeting with president biden at the white house. germany's chancellor warning china against sending weapons to moscow. >> i think it would have consequences. we are now in a stage making clear this should not happen and i'm relatively optimistic that we will be successful with our request in this case. we'll have to look and be very,

very cautious. >> bill: senior strategic analyst retired four star general jack keane. good morning to you. the last comment there about relatively optimistic that beijing will refrain. do you think china will not give weapons to russia? >> well certainly exposing the fact that they were going to do it. i think the administration did the right thing there. there is head winds that china is facing as a results of that public declaration. clearly here we have the german chancellor who has been soft on russia in the beginning and certainly has economic dependence on china is issuing a clarion order here not to do it. that in itself sends a message. the e.u. said it is a red line for them. they would begin doing something to pull back from china. the united states has issued strong warnings. bill, what we have to recognize

is this strategic partnership between russia and china is a serious one. china looks at the war in ukraine that if russia loses, it strengthens the hand of the united states and the west but also south korea, japan and australia also helping ukraine. that would make it much tougher for china to achieve its goals in the pacific region when it comes to taiwan. this is a serious relationship to be sure. the chancellor of germany recognizes that. >> bill: that statement out of beijing what was it more than a year ago, no limits, right, general? that was the phrase they agreed upon. we'll see whether or not that's the case. another story here from the "wall street journal." pentagon seized giant cargo cranes at giant spying tools. china's concerns are paranoia driven. do you know much about this, sir? >> i don't know any of the

details. nothing about that surprises any of us. china is conducting the most comprehensive penetration of the united states in our history. certainly surveillance is one of the goals. we saw spy balloons, obviously and we had huge trouble in how to deal with that effectively. but we have to recognize what china -- their goals are so comprehensive. they want to replace the united states as the world's leader. they want to dominate in four areas, economically, militarily, technologically and geo politically. they are on economic super power now but they have some head winds in front of us. the most rapid growing military in the world and dominate in the indough pacific region but a far way from dominating the world like the united states does. technology tracker is saying that china is rapidly becoming the world's super power in terms

of science and technology. they track 44 advanced technologies. china is leading in 37 of them. they also make the claim of the top ten research institutions in the world, ten of them are in china and they produce nine times the amount of research papers of quality on advanced technology than what the united states does. they have put huge amount of their dollars, their government dollars into research and technology. we often say they are stealing ours to build theirs. but they, while they are continuing to steal ours, they are building their own obviously. >> bill: thank you so much. we'll talk later in the week. big battle going on in the southeast of that country and see what determines the outcome there. jack keane, thank you for your time. >> you're welcome. >> dana: now an update on the ethics investigation into congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez. it centered on her infamous

appearance at the met gala in 2021. investigators found she may have broken house rules by first dlarg payment for a number of expenses, the tax the rich dress, jewelry, hotel room and makeup artist and hairstylist. the "new york post" cover beggar's ball. she recently paid everything back but only after the investigation began and only paid the makeup artist and hairstylists were chasing for the money and one point sends a note to her saying it would be a shame if this had to go to collections. only then did they get paid after the investigation started. >> bill: if you pay it back does it make you free and clear? don't know. >> dana: probably takes out the sting. she is in a little hot water for that. >> bill: might still be on the hook. riotors arrested in atlanta. most don't even live in the state of georgia.

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this is the state of georgia. you cannot come here and bill just for the record, some of those arrested yesterday were from massachusetts and new york and france and canada. >> bill: 35 arrested. all but two came from outside of georgia. police putting the site on lockdown as crews respond to numerous fires on that property. a story we're watching today and probably throughout the week. >> dana: for the second time in a month a train operated by norfolk southern has derailed in ohio. officials say the train wasn't carrying hazardous chemicals unlike the one in east palestine. we are joined by the chair of the national transportation safety board. part of this could be that we're paying a little bit more attention to train derailments but it feels a little alarming. what do you tell people to reassure them that these rails are safe? >> well, we are investigating

this second derailment. there were hazardous materials cars on this train which was about 2 1/2 miles long but none of them breached and so there wasn't a spill of hazardous materials. there was a spill of another liquid but that is in the process of being cleaned up by the railroad. we are investigating this one. overall i would say if you look at rail transportation, whether freight or passenger, it is far less dangerous than moving these materials on our nation's roads which account for about 43,000 fatalities annually and millions of crashes. >> dana: would it be safer if we tried to deliver more of these materials via pipeline? >> well, i think that's for others to determine. certainly there are different accident rates and incident

rates in each of the transportation modes with aviation being lower and pipelines being lower than rail. rail being lower than movement of these materials on our roads. >> dana: sherrod brown from ohio speaking over the weekend. >> the railroads continue to enrich their executives at the expense of public safety and public health and lay off workers and compromise on safety. the fact ohio has now had four derailments as of yesterday, four derailments in the last five months. east palestine was the most serious but we still have questions about these other derailments, too. >> dana: in your investigations do you determine if a company come prom ai ices on safety. >> we look at the safety of a company. certainly we'll look at the safety record as part of our investigation.

what we're focused on is what happened. in these two derailments more so at east palestine where it had a significant impact on the community and was really tragic. but we will look at what happened, how this occurred, what sort of management systems, policies, practices were in place that allowed this to happen and then we will issue safety recommendations to prevent it from reoccurring in the future. >> dana: one more thing. a different situation. a flight on friday from new hampshire to virginia. there was incredible turbulence. unfortunately one of the passengers on that private plane has died. that is something that your organization, your entity investigates as well? >> yes. that is something we investigate. we investigate every civil aviation accident in the united states. my heart goes out to the family of the passenger that did pass

away. with this incident, we did -- we are now looking at about ten minutes into the flight the flight crew, there were two flight crew received a stabilizing trim failure message, horizontal stabilizer controls the up and down pitch movements of a plane. the trim reduces the workload for the crew. they were in the process of diagnosing that when they received a momentary inflight upset. so this is something we are investigating. >> dana: jennifer, we appreciate you joining us and thank you for your organization trying to get to the bottom of what happened in these incidents. thank you. >> thank you so much. dana. >> he will have to pay out of his own pocket to settle the cases. >> he has generational wealth. there is no way he has 1800 acres in moselle.

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>> bill: here in new york city the new mayor eric adams facing criticism for saying gun violence in public schools began when we took prayer out of the classroom. fellow democrats ripping the mayor saying he is ignoring the separation between church and state and here is how the mayor responded to that claim. >> faith is who i am and anyone who takes those words as stated that i am going to try to compel people to follow my religion, no, i'm a child of god. i believe that wholly. i will not compel people who believe in whatever faith. i'm in all of them. >> dana: that's a good answer. >> bill: don't hear it very often, do we? >> dana: good for him. a reparations task force in california is increasing the amount of money it wants to

compensate black citizens for slavery and racial discrimination. it proposed $220,000 per person now up to $360,000. the total price tag could top half a trillion dollars. no indication how the cash-strapped state would pay for it. kelly o'grady from fox business is live in los angeles crunching the numbers. how does it add up? >> that's right. the first in the nation task force is now examining a variety of reparations proposals with roughly 1.8 million african-american americans in california it could cost the state as much as 640 billion. the task force came to that figure colonel law rarityed to housing chris crime nation and health hairs. not all proposals have cash. many have land and services. the task force has until july 1st to submit final recommendations. hundreds voiced their support for cash payments, grants of

land and other compensation. >> there is only one thing -- one thing that would stimulate this economy and that one thing is capital, money, reparations. that will stimulate this economy for the 2.6 million blacks in california. >> it's a sentiment echoed by secretary of state sharing if california could admit its sins and change the narrative there is a way forward for states and cities across the nation. but there is no indication yet on how this would be funded. california is already facing a $22 billion budget deficit which will likely get worse on the runaway spending on social programs and the fear is taxpayers will be footing the bill. some taxpayers argue who had no hand in the past 400 years. another big concern is this inflation nightmare, is more money the right answer? >> dana: kelly o'grady in los angeles. thank you. >> bill: we now know that alex murdaugh sentenced to life in

prison for the murders of his wife and son. the community still demanding answers in three other deaths that are believed to be tied to the family, among them mallory beach in a boat crash in 2019. her father finding peace in one conviction at a time. >> i want to see justice served. it's been a long last four years. it's an outcome we were hoping for. >> bill: want to bring in mark tinsley. the attorney for the beach family whose testimony helped convict alex murdaugh. good morning, mark. thank you for being here. a clip from the judge on the stand last week when we sat and watched. he mentioned your name and called you a tiger, watch. >> i can just imagine on that day june 7th when a lawyer is confronted and confesses to having stolen over half a million dollars from a client

and he has a tiger like mark tinsley on his tail, i know it had to have been quite a bit going through your mind on that day. >> bill: i know you are happy with the conviction. what comes next in a legal sense? >> happy is probably not the right word. there is a great deal of relief. to think that something that i did played a role in the warped mind of alex murdaugh in deciding to kill his wife and son is a burden and we don't necessarily think logically. sometimes we think emotionally. so there was a certain amount of relief in this conviction but we still have a ways to go. >> bill: how suspicious were you of murdaugh and when did that begin? did it begin in 2019 with the boat crash? >> well, so i knew alex before,

so i was rightly suspicious about a number of things, not these financial crimes, not certainly that he was capable of murdering his wife and son. i mean, his wife until he was probably 10 or 12 years old he was still calling baby. so never could have contemplated that. but i knew who he was. i knew how manipulative he was and what he was capable of. and so that helped me dramatically in putting pressure that i needed to put on alec. we still have a ways to go to answer your first question. >> bill: there is a case still out there. you went after him repeatedly and he suggested he had no money. but on the stand he admitted to pilfering millions and millions of dollars from vulnerable clients that he represented. so where was the money, where did it go? >> well, that's the $10 million

question where did it go? what you see from the records he is turning everything into cash beginning in 2019 shortly after the boat crash. so he is writing checks to eddie smith. maybe there were some drugs bought. the lyons share of that money went to cash and what he did we haven't been able to find out yet. >> bill: interesting. what did mallory beach's father tell you about this conviction? >> you know, you saw that clip and early on phillip made a comment that his daughter hadn't died in vain and was going to serve a greater purpose. we just didn't know what it was yet. and the sentencing came on the four-year anniversary when they found her body. so it was a very poignant day and they are pleased that there

has been -- the victimization of alex victims has stopped. there has been some justice as a result of her death and we look forward to continuing to bring some accountability for her death. >> bill: job well done. a few more cases still outstanding. mark tinsley from south carolina today. thank you. >> thank you. >> dana: could banks see a rise in demand? one local nonprofit is trying to copy. we'll have that next. from newday home loan and save hundreds every month. there are no upfront fees to apply.

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>> harris: president biden breaking his promise to find out about the threats from president xi. democrats and republicans are both applying maximum pressure on the president. he has to pick up the phone. we're waiting for him to do that, to talk to china. plus climate activists and young liberals are protesting and millions are angry at president biden over a new oil project. that has big bipartisan reports. republicans warn biden not to kill this bill. house oversight chair james comer, marc thiessen, pete hegseth. top of the hour. >> dana: the federal government reducing food assistance to pre-pandemic levels and inflation is making it harder for parents to feed their families. it is putting strain on food

banks. thank you for being here and what you do, julia. great to have you from a food bank. the economy is great what you hear from president biden. they say the economy is strong. what do you see there as these covid-related food benefits will unwind this month? >> you know, texas our unemployment rate is at an all-time low but the cost of living is at an all-time high especially with the four basic necessities, rent, utilities, gasoline for your car and food. in fact, food is a leader in inflationary rates today and so that's really impacting our families that rely on federal support such as the snap program. >> dana: so how are you then trying to deal with that? i want to show everybody on the screen the prices that people are paying at the grocery store. we all know those are up a lot. 70% increase for eggs, for example, milk. the basic necessities.

that means they are also more expensive for you at the food pantry. how do you make up that difference? >> we've been dealing with inflation for a number of months now and initially we were paying money out of our general funds to buy food because we just weren't receiving enough food to handle the inflation and the increase in people who need our support. we can't do that anymore. we can't sustain that. we're doing the best we can to provide food to our partner agencies to help those families and the snap reduction is really going to hit our families hard. >> dana: it is something that people could plan for, right? this does happen. american taxpayers were generous during the pandemic to make sure people who were forced out of work through no fault of their own could have a helping hand. now that is coming to an end. as a president said the pandemic is over in may, some thought it had been over for a while. do you think the consumers that

have been coming to your food bank know what is about to hit them? >> i don't. i don't think they fully realize even though they have been directed to the health and human services website. we certainly are providing theed ca ashen to let them know. the other thing the food bank does is we have families learn how to budget better for groceries and how to stretch the dollar to help them off set these high inflationary numbers. but i don't think they fully realize the impact that it is going to have. they will start seeing the reduction mid-month and we're here to do the best we can to support them and provide them with food and education and learning opportunities how to stretch the dollar. >> dana: food banks across america do amazing work including yourself. thank you for being part of our show today. thank you. >> thank you. >> bill: happy monday. before we go i have something for you here.

i have the story of a confused cat on a treadmill. are you interested? >> dana: yes. >> bill: the 1-year-old kitty named jasper out of arkansas trying several times to relax as the treadmill keeps moving. jasper can't figure it out. >> dana: why is this happening? >> bill: have to find somewhere else to take my nap. >> dana: he is on bare minimum monday. harris faulkner is up next. here she is. >> harris: we begin this hour president biden's china problem is deepening. that chinese spy craft made unfettered travel above our heads across america more than a month ago. president biden said he would demand answers from his chinese counterpart, president xi. so far that has not happened. on a whole host of other things deafening silence. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." surveillance, covid origins,