merits of this case. >> bill: the rubber could mete the road on this. something to watch. nice to see you. department of justice, david spunt. >> dana: the bodies of two americans killed by a violent cartel last week in mexico have been brought back to the united states. mexican authorities handing them over at a border crossing in brownsville, texas. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino. it has been an incredible story all week. >> bill: sure has. i'm bill hemmer on friday. two other americans who survived returned to the u.s. tuesday. now there is an apology. the mexican cartel blamed for that attack apparently condemning the violence handing over five of their own gang members along with a letter saying they broke the rules. lawmakers on the hill demanding answers and action calling for a crackdown on the cartels and a secure border. something that cannot come soon enough for all the folks who live there. >> we see the violence that the cartels bring along. we see what they do to the

people that they are trafficking into america, how they enslave them in the sex trade and how the treat these people and leave them for dead in the deserts. we need to pick up the pieces of those families who lose loved ones to fentanyl poisoning. >> dana: mexico's president obrador rejecting claims that mexican drug traffickers are responsible for the fentanyl in the u.s. and saying it is u.s. problem. not mexico's. >> bill: bill melugin back at his post in brownsville, texas, where he has been most of the week. hello. >> good morning to you. it is well established fact that fentanyl is mass-produced in mexico by mexican drug cartels in their labs using chemicals imported from china. mexico's president said they have nothing to do with that and it's all the u.s.'s problem. he said take a look. here we do not produce fentanyl

and we do not have the consumption of fentanyl. why don't they, the united states, take care of their problem of social decay? fentanyl is pouring into the u.s. through mexico. case in point look at these images. dea in los angeles just busting three mexican nationals who had 1 million fentanyl pills in their vehicle. this happened on wednesday in the l.a. area. they are now facing federal charges and potential life in prison if convicted. it is also pouring in through the ports of entry. take a look at these images. nogales, arizona cbp officers seizing almost 550,000 fentanyl pills in just a two-day span this week. all those pills hidden in vehicles coming in from mexico. cbp has seized more than 12,000 pounds of fentanyl at ports of entry since october 1st. again, almost all of that coming in from mexico. in the meantime, take a look at

this video. the bodies of the two deceased americans killed in that cartel attack last friday finally back on u.s. soil. this took place yesterday here in brownsville at the port of entry. the bodies of woodward and brown are back in the u.s. where they will undergo autopsies in the u.s. the cartel is allegedly apologizing for this attack. look at these images. a remarkable development. the gulf cartel reportedly tied up five of their own people, left them near a truck and left a handwritten apology on the windshield essentially saying those five men were responsible, they were undisciplined and they acted without orders from the cartel. they issued an apology to the families of the americans and to the family of the innocent mexican woman. the bystander who was killed during that gunfire. back out here live circling back one more time to the mexican president's comments that fentanyl is not produced in his

country. just three weeks ago the mexican army announced that they busted, quote, the largest fentanyl lab on record in a northern city. the american president may want to check with his own military for what's happening inside his own country. >> bill: bill melugin. >> dana: go to d.c. where lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are demanding answers from top intel officials on the cartel threat, inflow of drugs and border security. gillian turner in washington. >> a bipartisan core -- the anger is bubbling over in the wake of the two americans being murdered in broad daylight just acrows the border. take a listen. >> i don't see any evidence we're getting the cooperation we need from mexico to deal with this crisis at our border. >> this is a war. it truly has become a war.

look at the people we lost. we never lost this many people in wars. >> it needs to be your number one priority as a mission now we're failing. this is a war we're currently losing. >> the cia director insisted the intelligence community is focused on those cartels, fentanyl trafficking in particular. he said they are going after them from their roots. take a listen. >> we've transformed our approach at the agency to how we look at this issue to focus on networks meaning present cursor chemicals. >> coming in from china. >> china and also fentanyl. >> they aren't messaging this as the number one threat. you are not briefing the president on these issues correctly. >> after this hearing, it turns out that lawmakers say they will continue to push back on this. it is important to comment, dana here this didn't get a lot of

traction nine days ago on march 1st. the mexican president actually said to the secretary of state that mexico has more democracy, a quote. more democracy than america. dana. >> dana: that's interesting while he tries to basically dismantle the electoral system. thank you. >> bill: president biden meanwhile revealing a whopper of a budget plan. $6.8 trillion. calculators don't have enough zeros. they came the plan will cut the deficit. kevin mccarthy says it is wasteful and entirely unserious. other republicans say it is dead on arrival. lucas tomlinson is on the lawn of the white house this morning. good morning. >> the trillions of new spending the "wall street journal" says will grow the debt by 50%. $17 trillion in new debt in the coming years. to pay for it president biden says he will tax wealthy americans.

>> anybody who thinks our present federal tax system is fair, raise your hand. i'm not joking. people making 400,000 aier don't any it's fair. begin to pay your fair share. >> here is what's in the budget. increase taxes on those making more than 400,000 and defense spending jump. a big number. experts say not when you factor in it's 3% increase from last year. inflation would wipe it out. more is needed to keep up with china and modernize the nuclear triad. u.s. defense budget at historical loans with percentage of gdp. 6 billion supports ukraine and europe. 26 billion to strengthen the border. 3 billion to help pour countries deal with global warming and funding for 100,000 police officers. biden blamed maga republicans for defunding the police.

interest payments, and here is kevin mccarthy adding more context. >> we will pay more than 10.5 trillion in the next ten years just on interest. but for the american public to know since 1940 to today we've only paid $9 trillion in interest. so he will do what took us 80 some years to happen in less than ten years. >> we're expecting to hear from president biden in a few minutes at the white house to talk about the new jobs report. >> bill: thanks, waiting on headlines on that. >> dana: joining us for more on this the former ceo of cke restaurants, the parent company of carl's junior and hardee's, great to see you. the "wall street journal" editorial board said about the budget. a recipe for an economically and weaker america. he is warning people of his intentions unlike in 2020.

what did you see in the flurry of activity yesterday? >> it is not a serious governing document. it is an attempt to garner votes and support on the left and he will need that support if he has any chance of getting reelected. it make sense in that respect. but a governing document it's ridiculous. the numbers are absurd. we'll have 80% of federal spending on three things, social security, medicare, and interest on the debt. 17% of discretionary spending which includes defense and in case people live under a rock we have a problem with china. defense spending needs to go up. we need to address these issues and not with some phony we'll tax more. >> bill: he wants to raise taxes 5 trillion. >> 4.9. >> bill: i don't know how much that is. a lot of money. how much did he propose cutting

inside that? >> in taxes? in spending? realistically nothing. he wants to increase government spending. the real message is that the democrats and biden believe that the government isn't involved enough current will i in our lives. our personal lives and businesses and that if they were more involved things would improve which is exactly the opposite of any realistic assessment of what happened over the past two years since he has been in office. we've gone straight downhill. >> dana: do you have recommendations for anyone opposing the president's budget the republicans how they can better persuade america that a budget like that is harmful to their personal interest? >> i think people understand spending. that we are overspending. so if you talk about reducing the size of the bloated administrative state in the country i think people get that. i do think out there there is support for not for cutting social security and medicare but for making them so they are sustainable and reasonable

programs. adjust them to current modern circumstances. these programs are many decades old. it is time they were changed so they could last. they could actually protect younger people, not just people current will i retired. >> bill: a good debate for the campaign season. >> you could convince america on those points. if you go in and say biden is wrong, this is wrong and that wrong and start throwing numbers people turn off. they stop listening. if you talk about reducing government and trying to make programs stable and sustainable people hear that. >> bill: the fed is raising interest rates and continue for most of 2023 is my guess. jobs number we added 311,000 jobs for the month. more than expected. they were looking for 200,000. unemployment rate rose slightly to 3.6%. what did you see in the numbers that came out today and how healthy is the economy? >> a lot of people are trying to get back into the labor market. the saving rate is below

historic levels and card credit spending is above historic levels. people are running out of credit cards and money in savings accounts. the government hand-outs are drying up and disappearing as time goes on. people are having to get back to work. so you see real growth in the retail sector, in hotel and restaurants because those are the entry-level jobs that people get. you have had people sitting out of the economy for three years. they get back at the lower wage jobs to get training they need. wages go down a little or stabilize, which is exactly what should happen. the depressing thing is that the programs that biden implemented over the last two years including not just the america rescue plan which drove this big inflation surge but also infrastructure spending and the green bill they call the inflation reduction act, that spending is infusing money into the economy at the same time powell is doing everything he can to slow the economy.

so the more he has to raise interest rates the more pain we suffer, the more money the government infuses into the economy the more he has to raise interest rates. you have the administration and fed working at cross purposes. who will get caught in the middle is working americans. >> dana: thank you for being here. we love seeing you. >> bill: could be a tough year. >> going to be a tough year. >> bill: it is 9:12 in iowa and you have desantis at the microphone on a book tour on the heels of a des moines register poll that came out earlier today that kind of shaped up a two-person race in iowa between donald trump and ron desantis. plenty of time to go. that was their early conclusion that we saw today, dana. >> dana: we'll keep an eye on that. vest visa and mastercard giving a victory to the second amendment. >> bill: two journalists exposed

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>> bill: big win or gun buyers. major credit card companies pause their decision to track gun shop purchases. visa and mastercard got major backlash from some groups and second amendment advocates saying the move could lead to discrimination against legal purchasers. several states have bills pending that would ban the

tracking purchases at gun shops. maybe it is not over just yet. katie pavlich was on with us yesterday. she was right. she made the argument and she won this round. >> dana: she did. put my money on katie indeed. we were going to talk about this today. sparks were flying at a house hearing yesterday. lawmakers sparred over what is the weaponization of the federal government hearing testimony from two journalists showing how big tech censored twitter to muzzle conservative views. >> you had individuals, millions of americans who in many cases were being mandated to take an experimental vaccine. when those that wanted to consider taking it were trying to make an informed decision, you had opinions that were being silenced because it didn't fit a specific narrative pushed by the biden administration, correct? >> absolutely correct. >> republican congresswoman kat

cammack asking the question. as you sit back this morning and reflect on the hearing what did we learn and where does it egg from here? >> well, it is pretty terrifying when you start to dig into all the different ways we see weaponization of the government against its own citizens. that was one example you had the collusion between the cdc, nih and biden administration silencing, black listing informed scientists who have been nothing but honest brokers in the process but their opinions were silenced because it didn't fit the political narrative. this weaponization extends beyond that. the f.b.i., d.o.j. going after parents. it is every little thing that we have warned against big government growth and so this morning i sit back and say holy smokes, we have a lot of work to do. this is not tin foil hat conspiracy time. this is real efforts to rein in government and empower people back to their constitutional

rights. it is pretty scary, dana. >> dana: two of the witnesses were journalists taibbi and shellenberger. let's listen to this and have you explain what happened here. >> you consider mr. musk to be the direct source of all of this? >> you are trying to get me to say he is the source i can't answer your question. >> if you are telling me you can't answer because it's your source the only logical conclusion that he is in fact your source. >> you are free to conclude that. >> i've never seen anything like it. it was wild. prior to that exchange with representative garcia and taibbi we saw a ranking member call them so-called journalists implying they're not real journalists despite the fact have multiple "new york times" best sellers, 30 years in the

industry. so again this really was case in point of the assault of our first amendment rights. you had big government entity like congress, members of congress trying to coerce these witnesses into giving up their sources. it is what we've been talking about the entire time. >> dana: i have a little sound from this congresswoman. >> i'm not exaggerating when i say that you have called before you two witnesses who pose a direct threat to people who oppose them. this isn't just a matter of data was given to these so-called journalists before us now. >> dana: how did the witnesses react to that? >> sitting in the room the look of shock on their face was reflected in all of us in this room. jaws hit the floor. you had a member of congress calling two journalists a threat to our constitutional republic and then said their credibility

was tainted because they were republican witnesses. the irony is that those two gentlemen are democrats. this is an american issue. we should all care deeply about the protection of the first amendment. the entire bill of rights. but yet they saw this as a political opportunity to attack people that didn't fit their narrative. this is so far beyond party politics. this speaks to the ultra progressive agenda of dependency and control and they are losing control of the narrative so all the more reason why this select committee on government weaponization is so important. we have to claw back these powers and make sure that people understand that the government works for them, they don't work for the government. >> dana: thank you for joining us today. very interesting to see a lot of these hearings get underway in the last couple of weeks and the weaponization of the federal government is one of those hearings -- committees that we will continue to follow. thanks and have a good weekend. >> have a good one.

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china's authoritarian system. >> bill: that's the director of national intelligence with a dire forecast for china. president xi begins an historic third term. relations with the communist regime have been going downhill over taiwan and tiktok spying and covid origins and the spy flight over the u.s. last month. we'll let you no he what happens when we get morehead lines. >> dana: residents and businesses are leaving portland after several years of rising crime and growing homelessness. a recent poll shows an overwhelming majority of residents feel their quality of life is getting worse. dan springer is live in seattle with more. we covered this story a lot. you can't be surprised people are deciding to leave. >> that's right, dana. we do a lot of these stories. to be fair to portland there are a lot of people in the city working to reverse this

troubling trend but it is a painfully slow process. in the meantime as you mentioned the city has lost population each of the last three years, unprecedented in that city. experts are predicting a fourth year after this one. the top reasons are crime, homelessness and high taxes. katie schneider is described as a pretty typical portland liberal. reliable vote for democrats and tax increases but moved her family out of portland to washington state after violent crime became too much for her to bear. the city set a new record for murders. many shootings happened in her eastside neighborhood. this fall the city also set records for car thefts with 11,000 and vandalism with property damage of $19 million. >> haven't heard a gunshot since we moved. it has been great. it's the little things in life. >> some businesses are also leaving. wal-mart is closing its only two portland stores this month

affecting nearly 600 employees. it is believed shoplifting i ni just down the block closed a huge portland store citing rampant shoplifting and they've been grappling with a growing homelessness problem. the portland business alliance found that 78% of residents feel their quality of life is going down. this while income taxes are rapidly going up and are now second only to new york city. >> the question that voters are now really pondering is are we getting the value for what we pay? and i believe that they are making choices now because they don't feel they are getting take value, to go to other places. >> what tax fatigue may finally be setting in. another tax increase in may that would raise taxes for people being evicted to have lawyers, polls show that measure right

now is trailing in the polls. dana. >> dana: wow. dan springer, thank you. have a great weekend. >> bill: the speaker kevin mccarthy will hold a ceremony celebrating the passage of a new crime bill smacks down an attempt by the d.c. city council to reduce maximum penalties for things like carjacking. mike lawlor is with me now. good morning to you. you had 173 democrats vote for it before the president came out saying i won't veto it. he put them in a corner. however, they still voted to allow the d.c. council go forward with the changes. i think that's the key point. what do you think of that? >> no question the president pulled the rug out from under them when he reversed course and said he would sign the bill. i think democrats across the country are finally coming to the realization that crime does not pay. kathy hochul the other day

finally said the bail reform changes in new york were absurd quote, unquote. what we've seen in washington, d.c., murder and homicide is up 30%, car thefts up over 100% year-to-date. this is absolutely unsustainable and it is happening across the country. and republicans have been very clear on this from the very start. we need to crack down on crime and if states and municipalities are unwilling to keep their residents safe, then the federal government has an obligation to step in. public safety is the number one priority of any government. we have to keep our residents safe. what we're seeing nationwide is a surge in crime due to out of control woke radical policies making our communities less safe and so here we had an opportunity and an obligation as congress to push back against this crazy bill in washington,

d.c. that would reduce penalties on criminals and really hold them accountable. and so we passed that legislation, the senate passed it and we'll sign it today and send it to the president so he can sign it into law. and we can reverse course here. >> bill: when it got to the senate the chicken was already cooked, right? but you had 31 democratic senators vote with republicans. you wonder if that didn't happen how many would have been like what you saw in the house. here is the tweet from the nrcc. too extreme even for biden. just take a sample of the ad that's coming out now to take advantage of this vote. roll it. >> 173 house democrats voted to support reduced sentences for violent crimes. so crazy even president biden won't support the anarchy. >> bill: it goes on from there. i haven't done the math myself

yet but of the 173, how many are in swing districts? >> it seems a good number of them. i have think that's why so many of them are so upset because the rug got pulled out from under them by the president. they were towing the party line to be soft on crime and seemingly learned nothing from the 2022 elections where in new york, for instance, we flipped four democratic seats in large part due to crime. so now they are rueing the day they voted against this bill and supported the radical plan out of washington, d.c. but it shouldn't have taken politics for them to figure this out. they should understand we have a responsibility to keep our residents safe across this country. and this policy, along with policies out of new york and you are seeing in portland, oregon, what you just reported, it has

to stop. shoplifting, car theft, murder, homicide. it is out of control. and we have a responsibility to do something about it and these 173 democrats failed in their obligation. >> bill: just reflecting on the mid-terms in november, susan wild of pennsylvania was a race we were paying little to, matt cartwright and spaing berger in virginia. we'll see whether it impact their wreck -- next election. >> dana: the fight over abortion access is shaping up in texas where a federal judge is getting ready to rule on a case that could force an abortion pill off the market. plus what goes around comes around. vinyl records making a comeback. that's true at my house. for high fidelity fans it is music to their ears. ♪

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they bought more than 40 million records last year. the artist responsible for one out of every 25. take a guess. shoot. >> bill: you said shoot? >> dana: i learned from judge jeanine. totally innocent and she was right. taylor swift. >> bill: i saw the prompter. >> dana: i know you did. you didn't cheat. it was there. >> bill: give hemmer a break, right? high stakes legal case over access to abortion unfolding right now. we're awaiting a ruling from a federal judge in texas on an abortion pill that plaintiffs want the fda to pull off the market. next step might be the u.s. supreme court where shannon bream hangs out on the steps. anchor of "fox news sunday" in new york. nice to see you. lay out the case for us. >> these pro-life groups that said the fda wrongfully approved this drug back in 2000.

it is one of the two drugs the protocol people can use for medical abortion, more than half of abortions are performed this way people can do drugs at home but this group is saying it wasn't safe. it never should have been approved and they want to claw it back. if one of the two protocols goes that's the end of it for now. >> dana: elizabeth smith, this is what she said. this case goes to the heart of the fda's authority and the direction they have to look at scientific and medical research and make determinations what is safe. this is being -- everyone is paying a lot of attention to this. what happens in texas court could affect the nation. >> it's possible. yeah. this question about whether the fda did it right back in 2000 and subsequent renewals are trying to go after this process. this judge could do a nationwide injunction to shut it down for the entire country or relevant to this case we'll shut it down in texas to the challenge here.

worry for pro-choice advocates he could shut it down. the medical abortion through the mail is the only option where the others have been foreclosed. >> bill: when do we get an answer? >> every minute. it will go to scotus. >> dana: is that why a company of walgreens is in the crosshairs of some of these states? >> some states are afraid to offer them saying they could result in an abortion and we could be sued. >> dana: california's governor said we were done with walgreens. >> bill: the initial poll in the iowa caucus. trump one, desantis number two. "washington post" says desantis indicates privately he intends to run in 2024 as allies prepare. >> there have been groups that are not directly affiliated with desantis putting together the infrastructure and pacs and

money. there will be infrastructure in place for him. >> dana: we're live in iowa there. >> a book tour that happens to swing through iowa. >> dana: will you be going to dafsh dave -- davenport, iowa. >> then new hampshire and south carolina on the book tour. >> when you have a book out saying making the case for how well i did in florida and went out these controversial things head on. now let me do it for the rest of america without saying that's what he is going to do. >> dana: he is being interviewed by the governor of iowa. who do you have this weekend? john kennedy. >> a lot to say about the budget. not a fan of what the president proposed. i also sat down with the president of finland yesterday with a long border with russia and fighting to get to nato and

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about whether or not they will keep their app. we wanted to talk to the people. those that use the app here in the country and most of the people that we spoke to were aware of the threat that the app and the national security concerns tied to china. even though americans don't love being told what to do or what not to do, we actually heard from a lot of folks that say they are into some regulation. others say it is useless, we have to give in to social media. listen to what they had to say. >> not really. i got nothing to hide so i'm not really like too concerned about it. >> that's a tough question. they should look into some regulations to it. not banning it completely. >> i don't see the downside of it fully. with social media there is a down side for everything. >> i like it. there is funny stuff on there. but i know low key the chinese government is getting my info. >> all the information is out there already. if not tiktok there is no changing social media and getting rid of it.

>> a little bit of appear agenty there. there is already a level of government crackdown. 30 states have banned the chinese app on government devices. the ban spreading to college campuses. at last count 12 states have banned the app on at least some if not all of their public universities. so far bans have been limited to government-related spaces. depending what comes out of washington it could be widespread. >> bill: we'll be watching the hearing. very interesting. nice to see you here in new york. thank you, dana. >> dana: millions of americans retire every year. now some are ready to unretire and return to the workforce. all kinds of reasons for that. lydia hu reporting on why. >> it's about one in six retired americans who are considering going back to work. that's according to a survey by paychecks. the top reasons behind this trend include needing more money and inflation.

on average, this group that is considering unretiring have been out of the workforce since 2019 roughly one year before the pandemic. we had a chance to talk to one south carolina resident who says the rising costs of everyday expenses motivated her to get back to work in education. watch. >> because of everything that has gone up, food, gas went up a lot, and just repair costs on our home but the actual upkeep was through the roof. so i could not just afford that. so i needed to go back to work. >> the number of older adults in the workforce had been growing as some supplement social security and others try to delay drawing it. according to the bureau of labor statistics more than a quarter of adults ages 65 to 74 were working in 2021 and it is projected to grow to more than 30% in 2031.

this return to work trend among retired americans is emerging, dana, in spite of the largest cost of living increase to social security benefits in 40 years. that increase of 8.7% takes effect this year. >> dana: if they want to go back to work i tell you, they are great employees and i hope people take them up on their willingness to return to the workforce. thank you so much, lydia. >> bill: thank you. before we go, we -- i want you to have a great time at 5:00 today. five people on "the five" and today it will be six. >> dana: for a little while. not the entire show but a significant portion with benjamin hall and look, this guy is amazing and there is so much to cover with him. even if you watch "fox & friends" you have to watch "the five." we have a few tricks up our sleeve. i don't know, just kidding. we'll take it easy on you. >> bill: you will make him nervous all day.

>> dana: i don't think he gets nervous. >> bill: i agree. >> dana: he is so together. >> bill: he understands the conviction of his story and his experience. >> dana: and wants to share it and inspire people. >> bill: it comes through, too. nice to see you this week, ben. know you are watching and be there at 5:00. maybe dana will take it easy on you. >> dana: i can't wait to see you. julie banderas is in for harris. "the faulkner focus" is up next. have a good weekend. >> julie: fox news alert president biden rolling out his massive 2024 budget plan and it has all theer marks of the political map of where he wants to take the country. this is "the faulkner focus" and i'm julie banderas in for harris. thank you for joining me. lots of zeros, $6.8 trillion we are talking about reigniting the debt ceiling debate and getting big reaction from the gop. >> it is not making sense of what he is saying.