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>> good luck to all the teams. >> good luck. >> xavier, villanova. everyone have a great day. >> ainsley will be on "outnumbered" today. >> yes, see you at noon. bye, everyone. ♪ ♪ >> nice, they are jacked up, holding cartels accountable. mexico arresting one suspect in the kidnapping and killing of an american tourist. is a u.s. intervention overdue? i'm bill hemmer. >> dana: i'm dana perino. two americans are dead. this happened blocks from the u.s. border, the gunmen shot and kidnapped them in american
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daylight. >> it started from myrtle beach, north carolina. the two killed are on the screen. the ones who survived are on the other side. >> dana: authorities found them in this wooden shack on the outskirts of town. they were tortured for days. >> bill: the man arrested was guarding that being sha. ambulances rushing the survivors back across the border into brownsville, texas. according to lawmakers back in d.c., it is time for the american military to take charge. >> dana: peter doocy asked karine jean-pierre about that yesterday. >> cartels kill americans on this side of the border with drugs and now killing americans on the other side of the border with guns, why is president biden so comfortable with
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cartels operating so close to the u.s.? >> because of the work this president has done, because of what we've done on fentanyl. it is at historic lows. >> would president biden consider using u.s. military, taking the same approach if it was al qaeda or isis? >> the president takes this very seriously. >> dana: bill melugin, good morning. >> we are in front of the local hospital in brownsville, where the two surviving americans are being treated this morning. the two deceased americans, their bodies are still in mexico with the fbi saying they are working on bringing them back to the united states. new this morning, take a look at this picture, the first suspect that mexican authorities have arrested in connection with this attack. mexican authorities say this is the man who was guarding the shack where the americans were found yesterday. they were discovered about 30
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minutes outside of matamoros. this man is identified as jose guadalupe. they are looking for more suspects involved. take a look at this video. the two surviving citizens have been brought back to the united states to brownsville to the hospital. the cartel gunmen moved them from place to place to throw off investigators, even bringing them to a health clinic to throw them off. consurviving american has a gunshot wound to his leg, but expected to be okay. the fbi saying in part, the surviving two victims were transported to point of entry in brownsville, texas and receiving medical care at a local hospital. one victim sustained serious
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bodily injury during the attack. we are working to recover the deceased victims to the united states. the americans were attacked just minutes after crossing from brownsville to matamoros. they were in matamoros to get a medical procedure done, a group of friends had shown up. what led to the gunshots is unclear. multiple federal sources say they believe this was a case of mistaken identity with the americans potentially being mistaken for a group of hatian drug smugglers. attorney general merrick garland said he is outraged by the attack and promising consequences. take a listen. >> the cartels are responsible for the death of americans and we are fighting as hard as possible, the dea and fbi are doing everything to prosecute the leaders of the cartels and the networks they depend on. >> bill: this deadly attack on
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americans just minutes from u.s. soil is renewing calls from u.s. lawmakers to get the u.s. military involved, go after the cartels, take the fight to them with some lawmakers wanting to designate the cartels as terrorist organizations. back to you. >> dana: thank you. >> bill: on the map, a sense of perspective. this is where bill is, brownsville, texas. the border snakes by texas to north and mexico to the southern and this is where the fourern were hit. the influence of cartels in mexico, what we've done here. here is the area of concern here, brownsville, texas. these are cartel territories, seven major cartels throughout mexico. this particular green corresponds with the gulf cartel, we mentioned. like at the sinaloa, aqua color here,
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closest to the border, new mexico, texas and ca.. what if they move human beings or drugs into america or american cities? on this map, the sinaloa cartel is in orange. this is two months ago. you expect major cities like new york or boston or washington, d.c., but stuns me. this is boise, idaho. this is grand junction, colorado. this is allentown, pennsylvania. this is where the cartels can have influence all across the country. take a walk over here, crime is one thing, the drugs is a different thing, dana. these products are made in china, shipped to southern ports of mexico. they are produced in mexico and then transported across our border and you are seeing the fentanyl from the major cartel areas in mexico. >> dana: there is the human
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smuggling of which this could have been a part. the trafficking of humans is a profitable enterprise for cartels, that is another thing we're looking at and michael waltz, a congressman from florida, former green beret, u.s. patriot, he will be up next. >> bill: congressman michael waltz is on standby. right now on the hill, house republicans holding their first hearing on the origins of the pandemic. here to talk about that, former director of national intelligence john ratcliffe. good morning to you. you were in the trump administration during early days of covid, you have certain insight many do not have. how much in this hearing can congressman winstrop and others prove? >> well, quite a bit, bill. full disclosure, i'm had conversations with chairman
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winstrop in advance of this hearing and talked to him about the types of intelligence he needed to see and that was our intelligence on communications in early 2020, between chinese communist party officials, world health org officials and u.s. officials in public health institutions like the nih and the niaid. all of those communications show a number of things. one, china and world health organization obstruction of investigation into the origins of this and also our own officials and the fact that early on our intelligence showed that the scientific community believed covid-19 was in fact 70% chance, i think the estimate of most scientists, result of a lab leak at the wuhan institute
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of virology and intelligence was at odds that this occurred naturally in nature. the focus from chairman winstrop and members will be on both the prevention issue of a future pandemic and on the accountability and role those officials played. >> dana: one of the things the chairman has found is an e-mail that shows dr. fauci commissioned a study that would say that it was actually naturally occurring, not an accident or leak from a lab. this is a "new york post" editorial yesterday that fauci shadowy covid power play made america less safe, the house probe is beyond necessary to ensure such abuses are never repeated. this is important, this is not about scoring points, this is about preventing something like this in the future. >> absolutely right, dana.
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prevention needs to be the first goal of the hearings and finding out how this began and how you prevent it from happening again. your point about dr. fauci, i became in this and i asked about the assessment this was naturally emerging and dr. fauci was saying in april and may of 2020 that the mutation of covid-19 were consistent with a jump from animals to humans and as he was saying those things, i was seeing the intelligence that reflected the opposite and the statements from scientists to dr. fauci himself saying that the opposite was in fact the case. that is one thing the committee is going to try to layout predicate for this and ultimately dr. fauci and
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dr. collins and others, to reverse that and push a paper saying it was naturally emerging will have to explain that. >> bill: do you think that is the headline that comes out of this when it is over? >> i do because i think at the end of the day, we know china is our number one adversary, we know they mean us harm. the thing american people are struggling with is did u.s. taxpayer dollars go to gain of function research without their knowledge and frankly in violation of laws that say that shouldn't be happening in this country. was it outsourced in a way that led to an accident and killed a million americans. i think they deserve answers to that. >> dana: house americans will call for declassification to the intelligence you were privy to, do you support that? >> i do. one thing that happened in
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january of 2021, mike pompeo and i had a number of conversations before we left office, how much can we put out and protect sources and methods. we put out department fact sheet that included information showing this civilian lab was run by the chinese military conducting secret scientific experiments on coronaviruses with the chinese bat lady zen lee and this was identical to covid-19 and the first victims or symptoms from covid-19 were the scientists in that lab. we had hoped that would spur an investigation more quickly than it has. i do think it is important to point out that a million americans were killed as a result of this virus that started three years ago and this is the first hearing in the house of representatives on the origins of covid. it shows this is political in
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nature and we need to get past that so american people can get answers and declassifying that information while protecting sources and methods is a good way. >> bill: seven million killed nationwide, first hearing we've had three years down the road. if they show this came from the lab after the hearing and get testimony the american money was doing gain of function, we will look at this pandemic in a drnt way thank you, john ratcliffe, for being here. >> we defied the experts, we did it our way, the florida way. the result is that he woo are the number one destination for our fellow americans who are looking for a better life. >> dana: florida governor ron desantis praising his track record in the sunshine state and fuelling speculation about a potential white house run next year. why the rumor mill is heating
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up. >> bill: searching for are sws after the chaos in kabul, the first hearing on this disaster happens next hour. michael waltz and what he wants to know coming up. >> dana: remarkable and mayor eric adams putting onus on small store owners, calling on them to ask people to remove their mask before entering, is that really a workable solution? >> if you are refusing to remove your mask, don't confront the person. now you say, let me at a attention to the person in the store lingering around with a mask. ry month? car loans can be expensive, and the payments high. consolidate that car loan into a newday home loan and save hundreds every month. what's the #1 retinol brand used most by dermatologists? it's neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair® smooths the look of fine lines in 1-week, deep wrinkles in 4.
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>> dana: florida governor ron desantis delivering his state of the state address as he considers running for president in 2024.
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the governor touching on his success and touching on hot-button issues like this. >> we rank number one for education freedom, number one for parental involvement in education. we believe that borders matter and fought against illegal immigration in the state of florida. florida is proud to stand for law and order. we are tough on crime and support the men and women of law enforcement and we have made it very clear to prosecutors who believe they can disregard the law. you will be held accountable. >> dana: desantis ended by saying, "you ain't seen nothing yet" and his upcoming itinerary shows he may have his sights set on higher ideas, follow the plane. follow the plane. >> bill: nothing happens this those states politically. back to capitol hill and question about the cartels, here
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is ron vitiela from earlier. >> we've had a chaotic border and the cartels are making money hand over fist. they have too much influence in mexico and now starting to have influence in the united states, lawless area in matamoros and other border cities is danger to all of us. it is a problem. >> bill: former border patrol chief about the cartels as they expand power from south of the border north into the u.s. michael waltz, former green ber et commander will talk about this. do you see this mexico government willing to allow the american government help them in some capacity go at the cartels? >> i think we need to send a clear message we are going to go
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after the cartels one way or the other, we sent that message to colom bia in the '90s and we dismantled two cartels. not talking troops on the ground, talking cyber, space, intelligence, special operations. cartels declared war on us, they cannot control our border that controls 30% of mexico. go on offense and use every asset to start dismantling and taking them down. >> bill: next topic here, family detentions, for the past two years the policy of this administration has been to keep the families together and not hold them in holding facilities once they cross the border, that may change. do you think the administration will do that?
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what is the effect of that? >> they are at a point now, despite political misgivings, they have to go back to policies that work, remain in mexico, extending title 42 or sending message to migrants that everyone will be detained is a deterrent plsz we have to get to, this is not sustainable. >> bill: you are about to go into a hearing, i believe the very first one after the pullof kabul. you are a veteran yourself, what will you accomplish in this hearing? >> this will be a voice for grassroots veteran organizations and including the soldiers that were there. you will hear from a sniper who believes he had the suicide bomber in his sights and wasn't allowed to take the shot. they will talk about how they saw the taliban executing dozens
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and dozens of afghans just feet in front of their position and the afghans themselves tragically were throwing themselves on barbed wire to kill themselves rather than face the taliban. for grassroots organizations like task force pineapple that were chartering planes, getting people out, you will hear frustration and betrayal they felt from the state department who wasn't doing their job. and for so many of us, me included, who turned my office into a operation center to help these people, you're going to hear it is on sdltgoing and it will take 18 years at the current rate to get everybody out that we promised, who stood and fought with us. this is about the american people truly hearing what happened from people on the ground. >> bill: it is one thing to wind
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down a war, it was 20 years on, another thing to throw everybody in the back of a c-17 and get out of town, right? >> but they didn't. they threw a lot of people, but left 80,000 allies who stood and fought with us and taliban using items we left behind, are hunting them down and killing them as we speak. in addition to so many others we didn't get out. we left our allies behind. >> bill: the covid hearing is underway, we will hear from you when your hearing begins. michael waltz. >> dana: mayor eric adams is urging shoppers to lower masks and show faces, is this realistic? the head of the bodega association says no and he will be here to explain.
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and federal trade commission going after elon musk and musk says it is another case of government weaponization, we'll tell you why.
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oh, whoa, i was actually just thinking i would take a nap. pretty tired. okay. >> dana: new york city bodega workers live in constant fear, crime increasing, threatening their safety and mayor eric adams adding to their plate proposing they ask shoppers to ditch their masks for the security cameras. >> when you see people wearing masks, oftentimes it is not for the pandemic, it is fearful of the police. >> dana: will criminals follow this rule? the president of the bodega association joins us. goes by frank. thank you for being here. >> bill: special day for you. >> dana: happy birthday. >> 22. >> dana: what do you think of this idea? have the masks added to the problem of thefts and robberies
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at bodegas? >> the idea that everybody take the mask off, that would be great, but to the bodega worker or owner to enforce that rule is wrong. because that is going to bring more problems that is going to salvage more relation with the community. now most of the people wearing masks are people that are paranoid with the virus or they are criminals. we don't have protection, we cannot do that. they want to do it on the low. they come council members and turn into law nobody can wear the mask. they can enforce that. >> dana: it's a law? >> it's a law. >> bill: i understand the mayor
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is saying cops are trying to find the bad guy, if bad guys are concealing themselves, this is something they might want to consider. here is a cop. what store owner or worker wants to have unnecessary confrontation with a possible criminal, it is not worth it for them. the mayor should worry about people in albany and getting them to change the laws. i imagine you agree with that? >> i do. i agree with that, we have a campaign, i've been fighting for public safety since 2020. we support the nypd and need to work together. the mask, when people on the street, with those who -- the use, should be stopped by the police or searched by and why they want the store owner to do
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that, we don't have the means to do that. we cannot do that, they are entitled to do whatever they want until it is illegal? >> dana: increase in crime across the city, i know you are no stranger to this and you have seen, you all are on the frontlines of it. burglars, robberies, felony assaults and rapes. how much do you think the bodega owners can take or are you afraid they will forego their american dream and close? >> well, you know, the bodegas, we come here and work and a lot of bodegas and supermarket think to go somewhere else, but we have to stay here and confront. we need to work with elected office and bring public safety back. new york is a great city. we all care about new york and safety. that is what we have to do, be
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tough with i believe cs. have to be consequences. the real reason why crime so high is because no consequence. the people go out and do whatever they want, they will be out in next 24 hours, no consequence or charge. >> bill: you are from the dominican republic, been here how many years? >> 30 something years. 36 years. >> bill: wow, practically original. you live in the bronx and dana showed you numbers happening in new york or philadelphia or washington, d.c., big cities in america are different today. >> yes. >> bill: how do you see that in your town now? >> the crime is getting worse, everybody is scared and i tell you because i have been shot three different times all my life. in 1990, crime was high. now crime is worse.
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you know why? before you were afraid of the police because there was consequence, you would do time. now no consequence and people are not afraid of police. when they don't respect the law, it is more scary. i believe in law and order. >> dana: you are going to albany toic tathe case there. >> i am going to albany this weekend, i've been advocating and going to try to talk to elected office and ask to work on public safety. that should be the first duty, public safety. new yorkers, we are now in danger, we have so much violence, so much crime, it is chaos. >> bill: we all want the city to get better. >> dana: happy birthday, sir, thank you for being here. >> bill: good luck.
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elon musk apparently cannot block this, the federal trade commission opening a probe into the exposing of twitter files along with the company's mass layoff plan. musk ripping the investigation as a "shameful case of weaponization," kelly o'grady is live. >> new report reveals how intense the skrut nee is following his twitter takeover. what the city calls harassment, ftc sent overa letter of requests and looking to depose the ceo. can the platform protect the data following sweeping layoffs? protecting safety is what the ftc is supposed to do and they are conducting rigorous investigation with a consent order that stems from $150
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million settlement going back to may of 2022, that is long before musk took over. the demands are request for all of musk's internal communications and the identities of every journalist given access to the twitter files. we dug into past ftc cases, the scale reaches a different level. house judiciary subcommittee suggesting the ftc has partisan motivation saying this, there is no logical reason why the ftc needs identities of journalists, it is inappropriate in journalists disclosing. elon musk fireing back, it is a shameful case of weaponization of a government agency for political purposes and suppression of the truth. host of lawsuits and probes musk is facing, this is unique, representing government inquiry to first amendment protected
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activity. >> bill: i sense a few tweets after this story. thank you, nice to see you. >> dana: the senate is set to question intelligence officials on threats to the united states, china likely to be the main focus, our cameras are rolling and we'll bring you updates. president biden expected to make a decision on major oil project in alaska. senator dan sullivan on why drilling is critical. >> it is a game being played between the white house and environmentalists that got him there and people of alaska and this country. right now, we're preparing and hoping for the best and preparing for the worst. a newday home loanlidateo and save hundreds every month. this is going to be great. taking the shawl off.
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>> dana: president biden is under pressure to approve an oil drilling project in alaska northern slope. advocates say it will create jobs and lessen our reliance on foreign oil. others are concerned about the environmental impact of having oil rigs there. dan sullivan sits on the public works committee. this is i feel like we could have this argument every year, it comes up again. what about this project, willow project, makes you think it
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should be approved? >> good morning, dana and bill. we had a meeting with the president last week and our argument was this is exactly the kind of energy project president biden should support given his administration's priorities. it has highest environmental standard in the world, lowest greenhouse emissions of any project in the world, according to the biden administration own impact statement. it supported strongly by vast majority of alaska natives, if they care about equity and justice, this is a project they should support. vast majority, every union in alaska, all building trades in america, big unions that support building oil and gas in our country are 100% supportive. 2500 jobs for the project, 75%
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will be union jobs and the national security implication of this project is you guys always talk about and i emphasize a lot, putin and xi jinping fear energy dominance and it is hard to square what the biden administration has been doing. they recently lifted sanctions on venezuela and importing oil from venezuela, a terrorist regime with terrible environmental standards, horrible human rights record and that makes no sense. national security suicide to be relying on dictators like those venezuela and saudi arabia. they are treating venezuela better than alaska, shouldn't be that case. we hope the president makes the right decision and something he should be supporting. >> dana: do you think he heard you? >> look, you know, i always say
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in the oval office, dana you know this, you are respectful to the president. we appreciated his time, it was over hour-long meeting. they were mostly in listening session. the environmental groups are pressing them really hard, but we had a press conference last week with vast majority of top alaska native leaders in our state and they're saying this is kind of the second wave of colonialism, eco-colonialism, telling alaska natives how to live their lives is condescending and we were making that point to him, as well. >> dana: question. the president decided perhaps either by merit or because of politics, he is moving away from far left progressive positions. one, you are seeing it on immigration, it is making the
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left mad, he is starting anyway. on crime, they realize they have a problem on crime and now seeing democrats saying, defund the police was a terrible idea, now we need to do something. is it possible, maybe i'm being optimistic, that trend could happen with energy? >> i'm certainly hopeful and i think this decision is going to signal the way in which the president is going to be moving on energy. the brutal invasion of ukraine by russia revealed folly of the biden administration's policy, which are driven by far left to shut down the production of american energy. then when prices went up because of the biden administration policies, on working families, they went overseas to start begging from dictators and some
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adversaries for oil. i think the vast majority of americans say, wait a minute, shouldn't we produce in america with highest standards and our unions and getting revenue for the government, alaska, the federal government. why fund saudi arabia and venezuela for energy? i hope that you're right, we'll see, with this decision. like i said, we've put forward the arguments we think the president should approve this and this has highest environmental standard, lowest emission of any project in the world, that was the president's own scientists that said that in the environmental impact statement that came from the biden administration. >> dana: we'll follow it, senator, thank you for joining us this morning. >> thanks. >> bill: fbi director will
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new code beginning next month to allow banks to flag gun purchases. >> good morning, dana. credit card companies and banks know where you shop based on distinct code. a trip to the gun store could be identified to law enforcement as suspicious. industry source says new code will identify purchases at gun and ammunition stores. a group approved the change last week after repeated requests by a bank that describes itself as socially responsible investor. the ceo spoke about detection scenarios that could be created using the code to flag suspicious activity. >> nothing to do with legal gun activity, this is known patterns
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that we know are potentially illegal. >> a 2018 "new york times" analysis found hefty gun purchases were made before some of the deadliest shootings in america. gun rights advocates fear the new code will lead to surveillance of gun owners, denied transactions and reports filed by banks. >> oversight hearings into how it is this code came to be and what are implications of this code and how it can be misused. we're concerned about a private database of gun owners or potential gun owner. >> once in use, your bank won't know what you bought, just that you made a purchase at a gun
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store. >> dana: we'll track that and see if it holds up in court. >> bill: thank you. house republicans pushing for a vote to ban biological males from competing in female sports. the measure moving up the agenda, see where it goes with griff jenkins, hi. >> griff: house education moving forward with protection of women and girls act, chairwoman virginia fox previewed it for us yesterday. >> we are not targeting anyone, we want to protect what was passed in title nine 50 years ago, which the democrats led on. if men are allowed to compete against women, no way women will be able to win, it is just not fair. >> democrat congressman is fighting it saying this, this is not about girls and womens
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sports, it is about attacking trans kids to limit rides of and demonize the lgbtq+ community. a track star claims she lost opportunities to biological males and says this bill would mean a lot to her. >> i was forced to compete against two biological males and every time i lost, i was not close once and i'm encouraged by the fact there are people willing to stand to protect women's sports. >> griff: she lost her case, her attorney says it is being reheard in the second court of appeals. >> bill: thank you, griff jenkins in washington, d.c. thanks. >> dana: fox news alert, fbi director christopher wray and top national security officials are on capitol hill with an da

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