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 update on worldwide dangers

threatening the united states. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino. >> bill: i'm bill hemmer, good morning to you at home. today's hearing comes amid growing threats as mexican cartels hold control along the southern border. friday's kidnapping of four americans in mexico the latest example of growing threats and deadly danger. two of the four americans were found dead, two survived and are now back in the u.s. being treated in a brownsville, texas hospital. the white house yesterday calling cartel violence a top priority. >> americans are being slaughtered, would president biden take the same approach if it was al qaeda or isis operating just across the border from an american city. >> the president takes this very seriously issue the fbi and other agents have been on top of this from day one. that is what he will continue to

do. >> would president biden consider using the u.s. military to disrupt cartel operations? >> i will not get into the military and how it is being used. >> dana: biden administration under pressure as border crisis spireals out of control. the white house considering plans to bring back some trump-area policy like detaining families that enter the u.s. illegally bret baier and mark meridith ahead with detention on american families. first live at the justice department, what are they going to do, david? >> it is a great question and as the two americans continue to recover in the texas hospital, it is a safe bet fbi director chris wray, bill burns and others will be asked specifically about cartels. many senators believe a worldwide threat hearing that is

taking place today includes threat of cartels just across the border. this video is chilling, we've been showing it for a couple days now. crossed into mexico for a medical procedure, being removed from a white van and being thrown into the back of a flat-bed truck and yesterday merrick garland addressed this tragedy. >> cartels are responsible for the deaths of americans and we are fighting as hard as possible, the dea and fbi are doing everything to dismantle and prosecute leaders of the cartel and networks they depend on. >> garland warned of cartels last weekdays before this tragedy took place. the problem, doj admit they need more people employed to remedy this serious threat, garland predecessor, former attorney general bill barr took it several steps forward when asked about cartels operating on the

u.s. border. watch this. >> they are terrorists. there is another hostage issue the mexico government. the mexican government is being held hostage by parimilitary organizations that effectively control mexico. it is pretty close to a failed narco state. >> senator lindsey graham says he is not talking, acting with legislation to designate to make certain drug cartels foreign terrorist organizations and set the stage to use military force if necessary. will the president go that far? karine jean-pierre would not answer peter doocy's question, it is possible we'll see action from the white house. >> dana: thank you. >> bill: pressure grows for the white house to act, biden administration might be considering reinstating a trump era policy that detains migrant

families together at the border. mark meridith has more. is that where it is going, mark? >> good morning. that is the big question, the white house is under growing pressure to address a surge of migrants crossing into the united states with end of title 42. now "new york times" and other outlets reporting they would go back to detaining migrant families, reversal from what we have seen the last few years. we reached out to department of homeland security and they say no decision has been made. the administration will prioritize humane processing of migrants and white house is facing questions about this possibility. >> you aren't ruling it out, why is this considered a possible option now? >> i will not comment on rumors out there, i'm not saying it is being considered. >> currently families are allowed into the u.s. and told to appear in immigration court

later. this change in policy could mean the families be held in detention centers. a just, safe and humane immigration system should not place families in detention, should not return to the past where families are detained in sub-standard condition with children. major political problem because you have progressive groups, including caucus we just talked about who say should not be considered, the white house insisting no final decision has been made. the president will head out west next week. >> bill: thank you, mark, nice to see you from the white house. >> dana: joining us bret baier, anchor of "special report," so good to have. listen to robert o'brian, national security advisor for trump. he made this comment comparing cartels to something we know

well, watch. >> cartels control the border south of the rio grand and south of the california border and starting to exercise control in america. it is terrifying, they are as brutal as isis. they behead people and pumping fentanyl into our country. we have to take action. >> dana: has this all come to a head, bret? >> >> bret: really head, you will see biden administration stiffen policy, especially ahead of the expiration of title 42, that enables getting migrants out of u.s. based on covid protocol. that ends may 11. look for the administration to possibly change policies. what you are talking about there is listing cartels as terrorist organizations and there have been calls for that. senator lindsey graham threatened it and chip roy said

that should happen. there are others on capitol hill saying, if you do that, it will enable more illegal immigrants to come in and claim refugee status. bottom line, there are a lot of talks going on to change what is happening on the border. >> bill: michael waltz was with us last hour. get on. get it out of the mind. he talked about using sophisticated military hardware that can see from space and help the mexican government on behalf. is there much talk about that publicly in washington? >> i think the intel side is wide open, bill. you are right. working with the mexican government to go after the cartels is something that i know has been talked about and i've talked to people about it. the trouble is that you have to have buyin from the mexican government and federal and the police and military in mexico and that takes real negotiating

on a government to government level. president biden went to mexico in january, talked about border security. cartels have real control of the cities on the other side of the border. >> dana: intel chiefs sitting down and we'll follow that, bret. one thing we're talking about, threat to national security at the southern border and biden administration is making shift, looking like they might return to holding migrant families, this is something that ended when president biden came into office, but they are thinking of doing that. and representative benny thompson, says i'm alarmed, these policies are cruel and harmful to children and don't prevent families from traveling to the united states. now the presidency has this on his plate, as well.

>> yeah, and getting hit from the right and left on this issue. listen, the biden administration made a conscious effort to try to give the heisman award, the stiff arm to all the trump-era policies they could, especially when it came to border policy, they thought it was bad. now they get into this and the surge increased and fentanyl is coming over in major numbers, they are going to have to shift in some way and have to embrace perhaps some trump-era policy despite the fact the left doesn't want them to. >> dana: i even knew what the heisman meant. >> bill: she's getting better. >> bret: that was for you, dana. >> bill: i've been counseling her, she's coming along. updates and headlines from the intelligence hearing today. >> dana: an awful lot of no

comment, that can be frustrating. we'll watch it for you. >> bill: covid hearing and afghan hearing, all happening now. dana, keeping close eye on the hearings as top intel officials just walked into the room, the house is looking at origin of the covid pandemic and we'll tap in and see if they are making progress with roberts redfield and others coming up. >> dana: author of "goosebumps" claiming the his book was edited without his knowledge. >> bill: what was said might surprise folks in washington, d.c. >> if you are running the state, you should think how can i make the state for my people, florida likes business.

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>> i first met barack obama. i don't know why they called it that. >> bill: back in football history. i don't have a good answer. >> dana: good, somebody tell us. >> bill: "goosebumps" facing a monster, the woke publisher, reporting claim removed references to weight, ethnicity and mental health cht. the author said no changes were shown to him. fox business host kennedy. how do you doing? >> very well and terrified of the sense ourship. >> bill: african american was changed to brown skin and tall instead of obese.

six feet tall, they didn't deny it, the changes were made and the author says, you never talked to me. >> what do you think about going into museum in holland with a file and sawing off bump strokes of van gogh? these are works of hart, same thing. people should be offended and challenged and maybe read how people were described when we used more descriptive words, this is a classic thing, they are getting kids interested in books. i will tell my children, go get the older copies because there is dirty stuff in there, the new stuff is sanitized. before kids were tiktoking. >> what? >> dana: best mom, we live in the same building, i love learning from her.

scholastic said it made changes to keep language current so it wouldn't negatively impact a young person today with focus on mental health. perhaps this is well intended, no, this is his work and art. >> right, the path to hell is paved with good intention, you are are worried about a person's body image? i am more worried about the stuff on tiktok and instagram about the reels instructing young women how to develop eating disorders, that is more destructive than trying to soften the language of a book. >> bill: crazy changed to chilly, dark and stormy night for halloween no longer wears black face, okay, it happened. let's talk business. last week kevin o'leary was on

and the hosts were stunned and you have jamie dimonsaying the following about entire states in america. roll this. >> florida likes business. they want you to come. texas is the same way. if i was some other states, why do people like going to these states? taxes, pro-business, better life for people. we have more employers in texas than new york state. >> dana: they win. >> what do you get in california and new york? high taxes, high crime and get homelessness. people feel unsafe. in florida and texas, good for businesses like citadel and chase, which has a giant campus outside of dallas.

it is good for small business, too, broader school choice, affordable real estate in a lot of areas and no state income tax, all pro-business and pro-family things that make it more attractive for big companies and mom and pop shops, it is impossible in new york and california. you get clobbered and taxes in regulation and barriers to entry. >> dana: is there a tipping point where new york and california realize they are losing population? >> i hope so, that is up to voters. if you keep voting in blow-hard governors who are interested in maintaining power, than for businesses to start and thrive, they have strangle-hold in places like that. i have faith voters will chip away. >> bill: i like jamie dimon, and what he says, he runs j.p. morgan, they are building a

massive skyscraper in manhattan, but he's not pulling out of new york. he's selling the virtues of texas and florida. >> dana: expanding there. >> i'm sure a lot of employees would like to move where they can afford a yard and save money for college. >> bill: some have. >> dana: and a walk-in closet would be amazing. >> lake carrie bradshaw. >> dana: train derailment prompting an investigation into norfolk southern. and appearing before a judge and how she responded to request for a bond. >> you commit a felony and threaten people to do something you want, that is definition of terrorism.

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the community after being accused of attacking officers with rocks and explosives. only defend ant granted -- was jurgens. >> we have liars who commit crime, i set bond in the amount of $500,000. >> they claim jurgen was a legal observer on behalf of the national lawyer's guild that says defense attorney says that doesn't protect jurgens from criminal prosecution down the line. he knew in advance something like this was going to happen, he could lose his law license and his freedom. >> the national lawyers guild is known to have legal observers

wear neon green hats while attending. security video shows two people wearing neon green hats, it is unclear if that is jurgens or affiliated with the guild. the guild says nlg observers serve as important role in supporting movement and activists and nlg proud to contribute to advancing critical work we do. next up, preliminary hearings are expected to appeal their lack of bond. >> dana: thank you for following that. >> bill: bring in leo terrell. what did you think of the court's decision from yesterday? >> i am ecstatic, this judge lowered the hammer on the defendants, these are serious charges and the nation should watch this case. it is slam dunk case.

why? these individuals had the same uniform and protective gear and weapons, their intent was to damage facility and change policy, that issic maing of domestic policy charge and this district attorney, if they play hard-nosed, get admission to the source of all this equipment they had at that particular facility. this is critical to deter them. >> bill: peter johnson, the da, the group changed clothing into all blackout clothing and had shields like riot-type shields, homemade, bags of rocks, fireworks and molotov cocktails. they came ready. >> you are right. this is the paother than of groups coming from out of state to disrupt activity. they are not protesters, these are criminals and i hope da does

not plead this case down, they could face five to 35 years, this could deter other riots. >> bill: we heard about cashless bail all over formerly great american citizens. this judge denied bond, what does that tell you about what is happening in atlanta? >> you have basically a governor who is a republican, attorney general who is republican and they are lowering the boom on a democratic city in atlanta. the judge realized seriousness of the charges, domestic terrorism is not shoplifting, she said, no, these people because of the seriousness of charges, do not deserve jail. bravo for the judge. >> bill: who provided the equipment? >> that is the question. >> bill: that is what you want to know. >> who provided the equipment?

they got private attorneys, where is this money coming from? you and i can sit down and have a cup of coffee and talk privately, i have my suspicions, right now who is the source of all this equipment and the private attorneys for all of them? bill, they came from different parts of the country, but coordinated and working together. atlanta, please do not plead this case down, go to trial. >> bill: "wall street journal" writes this, is violence by political right deplorable and by the left if is defensible, that is the question to ask, they are talking about this story. do you see a double standard there? >> yes, i see a double standard. i've been a civil rights attorney for 45 years, they are not civil rights profesters,

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>> bill: markets reacting to fed reserve chair jerome powell that the fight against inflation will be long and hard and interest rates may go higher to reign it in. markets did not like that and went south in a hurry. president biden facing a headwind from beijing, china. edward, how are you, good morning? >> you said it, federal reserve

chairman said interest rates will go higher for longer than expected. on the foreign front, china reopening could push inflation, their population increases demand and we see inflation. the chinese president yesterday calling out the u.s. directly for suppressing the chinese economy and causing challenges, the foreign minister says the u.s. needs to change their attitude or face consequences. fbi warns tiktok is national security threat, with recent escalation from china, white house press secretary said there will be no change in approach to china. >> is there concern a want competition over conflict seen as weakness by the chinese? >> i'm not sure how it is seen as weakness when we are more compared to outcompete china and protect national security. >> china set to increase military spending 7.2% and

president biden's budget will increase spending by 2% according to bloomberg. chinese experts worry the communist party is outmaneuvering president biden. >> they have this strategy of biding their time and would use charm on the outside. anyone who was shrewd would see they were investing in military and taking our technology and doing things of greater concern now. >> it seems time after time we have seen he's waited for overwhelming pressure from the outside before he takes actions against china. >> bill: edward lawrence, thanks. >> strict act would give the secretary of commerce authority and responsibility to identify and counter threats from foreign technology products and services in the u.s. >> dana: mark warner unveiling a

bill to look at items like tiktok. marco rubio agrees, take a quick listen, martha. >> they have grown faster, grown more prosperous and more powerful at our expense. it is okay, they are going to be a big, powerful country, we are not trying to prevent that, but it can't come at our expense and that is what has happened and what can no longer be allowed to happen. >> dana: different legislation he is putting forward, there is a movement, do you think it will get anywhere? >> look at the myriad of -- lab leak, which people seem to believe then it killed over million people in this country intentionally or unintentionally, you have tiktok, increase in the army at

a large rate. this tiktok story goes beyond national security, it is about the poisoning impact on young minds, which is also perhaps, if you take the united states down several pegs, super effective tool as way to do that. writer from the "new york post" did a piece where she pretended to be a 14-year-old boy in order to open an account on tiktok and she -- the things she was sent over the course of several days as this 14-year-old boy includes misogyny, guns, borderline pornography, not things the child was selecting, you have to read this piece and look at the pictures closely. it is so appalling. this child was not selecting these things, it was a fake child, a reporter, any child who has a tiktok account is getting

fed a steady diet of this stuff. call your girlfriend a b and record it and see what her reaction is. these are guns that you can find online. >> dana: pull up that "new york post" cover, number three, the one martha is references and it is entitled sick talk and it is shocking, parents should read that, they don't know what is on the other end of a 14-year-old's phone. >> i can't imagine any parent who reads this article and doesn't take if off their children's phone today. chinese element, in china, they don't allow kids under 14 to spend more than 40 minutes on tiktok, they won't allow it, or after 10:00, it gets shut down. it doesn't include anything like this material we're talking about. what it includes mostly on the application, educational

content, historic content and old-school science. all areas thatture on kids are getting very little of. >> bill: the writer is asia grace, here is one line. while the platforms promote some content largely harmless and entertaining, much is sinister, we should all be terrified. two weeks from tomorrow, the ceo of tiktok will appear before a house committee and you look at call number two, list the number of things that have happened over the last couple years. 2018, what is your opinion of china, favorable or unfavorable? it was 53%. in 2023, 15%. ceo of tiktok, had a chance to meet him the other day, very nice, grew up in singapore, been on the job two years and he will testify. i have to think he's going to take a lot of sharp hits from

both republicans and democrats on this. >> dana: the question is not what is out there and available, he's running his business. what do we do to make sure it is safe for our kids and not being used as propaganda? you have the government aspect and parental aspect and i'm tired of hearing parents say, she likes it, he likes to go on tiktok? what are you, their buddy or their parent? when you look at the garbage being fed to the young boys, it is pavilovian, if you feed this to a young boy, he will start to think this is cool and in order to be a man, he needs to think these things are cool. wake up, america, because this is -- >> dana: will we have more on the story today? >> yes, hope to talk to asia grace today, i think very innovative reporting on her

part. >> bill: see you at 3:00 today. 12 before the hour, there is this to take a look at. >> all we're looking for is freedom, no longer taking phone calls from the town, from congressmen, senators and governor, they are sitting on their hand, letting us rot. >> bill: families in wisconsin trapped by a native american tribe, the roads to and from their home are blocked by barricades, get more on that straight ahead when we return.

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>> bill: this is your version of celebrity news. new honor for keanau reeves. >> dana: what an honor. >> bill: bacteria so good at killing fungus named after the john wick actor, he said it was cool and surreal. >> dana: he is very gracious. >> bill: that is update on celebrity news. >> dana: check this story out, families are held hostage by a tribe, dispute over compensation for the land and prompted then to block the road.

live in wisconsin with details, hi, mike. >> about 65 families moved here to northern wisconsin for the care-free life and at risk of being stranded due to the dispute with the chippawa tribe. this highlights a breakdown between the indian tribes, u.s. government and local government. the dispute boils down to residents that live on the other side of the reservation, they had an easement that use the road, but that expired 10 years ago. the tribe wants $20 million. they barricaded the road at the end of january. they have been having to take a snowmobile across a frozen lake, but the lake is unfreezing.

>> going on day 35 or 36, it is getting old fast. >> we have two or three weeks -- land over generation and the reservation is all they have left. big setback for homeowners, they had temporary restraining order filed to take down the barricade, it was rejected by the federal court. >> bill: latest job numbers coming today, labor market hotter and tighter than needed, desperate need for skilled workers. that needs growing as struggles get back on track. live for fox business in new

jersey. good morning. >> good morning, bill. here at lincoln tech, they have seen enrollment decrease, look at schools across the country, they cannot meet the need with the gap we are seeing in the trade fields, bring in the president, robert. we are not seeing the gap being filled, what is causing that gap and need for electricians? >> we need electricians to handle work and we have older o electricians retireing and there is not enough young electricians to fill that void. what needs to change to get folks in this line of work? >> schools like lincoln tech in the industry and on way to sustainable career. >> i want to talk to one

student, working on electric board for a light switch, most peers want to go to a four-year school, but you are here, why make the decision to be an electrician? >> i want to be in the work force and making money and that is my reason. >> i love it. allen taught me a bit. i want to put on my safety goggles. we are building the light switch, we are going to power up. switch it on. not supposed to touch the copper, boom, look at that. by end of the day, allen will have this on. thanks, fascinating to see everything they are doing here. we need more folks like allen to power this. back to you. >> you are in the state of new jersey, well done, madison. new jersey, thank you. cool. >> dana: i love the kids are getting out there.

i have a younger cousin who is an electrician, crushing it. >> bill: real estate is good, well paying, if you are looking for something, might be what you want. >> dana: good to be here, see you later. 10 seconds actually. >> we begin with fox news alert, congress demanding answers and first hearing on true origins of the covid virus, i'm julie in for harris today. thank you for joining me, two are behind the lab leak theory, the white house says there is no definitive consensus. they are intent to get to the bottom of it. >> transferred from a bat to intermediate source to human, in other words, did it come from nature or was it the result of laboratory o