tomorrow 6:00 a.m. eastern time. >> thanks for answering the call. we need that to close our show. if you run from the tv, run to the radio. our first guest steven a. smith this morning. see how it goes. >> so long from new york. here now "america's newsroom." >> stay within yourself. >> dana: on the outside looking in, america on the sidelines as russia and china wrap up a three-day sum et setting their sights on a new world order. good morning, john. >> john: i'm john roberts. this is "america's newsroom." the summit putting biden's foreign policy to the test. lawmakers get a chance to ask antony blinken about it in less than an hour scheduled to appear before two senate committees today. >> dana: the alliance is seen as a threat to the global order.

they signed two agreements strengthening ties. according to the white house, this is just a marriage of convenience. >> i wouldn't go so far to call it an alliance. president xi sees a counter weight to american influence and nato influence on the continent and elsewhere around the world. president xi, president putin sees a backer here. a man who doesn't have a lot of friends on the international stage. >> john: russia continues to wage war in ukraine launching deadly strikes during the summit. china promised to broker a peace agreement which has drawn skepticism from the united states. >> dana: rich edson is at the white house with reaction. >> a major show of solidarity between russia and china against the west and the united states. russian president vladimir putin says that peace proposal from china could be the basis of some

type of agreement in the war in ukraine. the u.s. says it would lock in russia's gains after putin invaded a neighboring country. president xi has wrapped a three-day state visit to moscow. the two are presenting dine -- china as a neutral player. the white house says it's nonsense. >> they can speak with words but i don't think you can reasonably look at china as impartial in any way. they haven't condemned this invasion. they haven't stopped buying russian oil and russian energy. >> the two leaders strengthened economic ties. more russian energy going to china, more chinese companies investing in russia. russia is isolated from much of the world economy, u.s., european union and allies like japan imposed heavy sanctions of russia since it reinvaded

ukraine is year ago. the white house calls the ties a marriage of convenience between the two countries. as xi left moscow he told putin now there are changes that haven't happened in 100 years. when we're together, we drive these changes. putin responded i agree and then xi told putin take care of yourself, dear friend, please. much of this is expected to come up with afternoon and this morning. antony blinken is testifying before two senate committees. subject is about the budget but they will ask the secretary anything they want. back to you. >> dana: as they do. great to have you. let's bring in former secretary of state mike pompeo. let me show you something that xi said to putin yesterday. there is a change coming that hasn't happened in 100 years. when we are together, we are driving this change. they often speak in riddles. what do you take from it? >> good morning, dana. great to be with you. they often speak in riddles but

this is no riddle. to hear the white house place this down as if it's unimportant is a strategic mistake. it may be a shotgun wedding but they are still married. at least for today the chinese communist party is providing lethal assistance to ukraine almost certainly. china is getting energy at a discount price. the chinese are getting a 15 to 20% discount on each barrel of oil allowing them to continue to dump their products here in america. the biden administration allowed the chinese and russians to come together and presents an a risk to every american citizen. >> dana: peter doocy talked with john kirby. >> when president biden met with xi i want to make sure every country abides by the international rules of the road. does he think china is abiding by the international rules of the road? >> we have significant concerns

about china's behavior particularly their coercive and aggressive behavior but other areas we believe there is room for cooperation. you have to keep the lines of communication open. >> dana: does that present a good point, it is important to have lines of communication be open. the spy balloon. you couldn't get an answer out of china. >> this is pretty typical of this administration putting process over substance. the ability to make a phone call as opposed to the ability to change the chinese communist party's behavior against the united states. a couple things we should think of. one, clear russia is the junior partner here and now becoming a state of the chinese comeist party. 1,000 nuclear weapons to add to the chinese arsenal. now two members of the u.n. security council join against the united states of america. bad for the united states as well. finally, i think we may be in a

situation again where this administration has drawn a red line and the chinese communist party has crossed it willy-nilly. they said if lethal assistance was provided there would be real cost to china. they've done nothing in the face that we can see a deal between xi and putin that will put the people of ukraine at risk, europe and the united states as well. >> dana: "politico" has a piece today that says biden administration lack of information on spy flight. what the biden administration isn't telling congress about spy balance saying the delay on release of information raises questions about the extent to which the u.s. fully understands what intelligence foreign governments may be collecting without washington's knowledge. you were also at the c.i.a. not just the state department. is it possible there are things that are just kept secret for our own national security purposes or are they trying to hide something because they don't know? >> dana, it's certainly possible

there are things that can't be shared broadly that they know. i'm confident that they have shared it with members of congress, at least they should have shared it with them. they have an obligation to do so. we're good at figuring out what the bad guys are spying on us about. we miss things. that's the world of espionage but make no mistake about it, we should be very focused. it seems like a long time ago when the chinese were running spice from houston, texas and i recommend to the president we close it down and we did. they are trying to undermine our way of life and want our kids to live more like their kids. it would be bad for the united states. we need to be vigilant to make sure we understand what the communist party is trying to do to us and pushing back against it. i've seen no evidence to date the biden administration is up to that task. >> dana: i was reading a columnist from the "washington post" said america should be concerned about more cooperation between china and russia.

do you think that's true? >> yeah, every once in a while even the post gets something right. we should be concerned about this. we spent a lot of time thinking our way through how to separate the chinese communist party and russia. they have now found a way to come together even if it felt a little like a couple of bffs signing a silly agreement that doesn't mean much. the economic engagement between the two is important and will impact the united states and jobs all around our country and we should be absolutely on point in pushing back against what it is they're trying to do. we have the tools to do that. we aren't victims but have to be ready to act. >> dana: we'll watch that happens on the hill today. >> john: we were talking about the potential threat from tiktok. listen to this. more than two dozen official government websites have tracking codes made by tiktok's china-based parent company embedded in them according to

the "wall street journal." experts say the presence of such trackers suggest that some states are inadvertently taking part in a data collection effort that could threaten our own national security. this comes after months of warnings over the popular social media app and its hold on american users. >> tiktok is programmed to be addictive. it preys on children. it is disguised as candy but it is actually cocaine. if you look at how tiktok is actually being used inside of china, i'm not talking outside of china. they use it as an educational app for stem, science, technology, engineering and math. >> john: tiktok's ceo is trying to save the app ahead of his testimony before congress in what is likely to be a fiery hearing with members of the house, energy and commerce committee. aishah hosni has the latest on this fight from capitol hill.

>> good morning. tiktok's ceo chew has been meeting with lawmakers here on the hill and trying to build up as much publicity surrounding tiktok as he possibly can before tomorrow's big hearing. now this week chew took to his own platform from a high rise overlooking the capitol to rally the app's now 150 american users. listen to what he says. >> they started talking about banning tiktok. it could take tiktok away from 150 million of you. let me he know in the comments what you want your elected representatives to know what you love about tiktok. >> he is directly speaking to all those users telling them what is about to happen. now there are multiple bans proposed by various lawmakers here on the hill and the biden administration as well has reportedly threatened a nationwide ban if chinese owner

bytedance doesn't sell its stake in the u.s. version. now tiktok tells fox it's protecting national security is the objective di visment doesn't involve the problem and third party monitoring and verification. what is interesting, guys, chew doesn't even allow his own kids to use this app or even the kids' version of tiktok. lawmakers will have tough questions for him tomorrow. >> he has to show that information is not going to the chinese communist party. that they have guardrails and blockades for collecting data. that they are not feeding certain data to children in the united states and other data to children in china. it is a long uphill climb. >> tiktok is getting a tiny bit of love on the hill, john. we're expecting quite a few tiktok influencers to hit

capitol hill later this evening to participate in a rally being put on by progressive jamal bowman later this evening. >> john: pressure mounting on tiktok to prove why it shouldn't be banned. aishah, thank you. >> dana: alex murdaugh case is in the books but the investigation into his surviving son buster is heating up. why south carolina authorities are taking a closer look at the death of one of his former classmates. >> john: alvin bragg downgrading felony charges, now more and more of new york's finest are headed for the exits. >> dana: florida governor ron desantis sounding confident in a potential match-up against president biden in 2024. is he inching closer to announcing a bid for the white house? >> call me anything you want and also a winner. i didn't say i was running. i said i think i could.

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>> john: an old, cold case now heating up. south carolina authorities are now considering the death of one of buster murdaugh's former high school classmates back in 2015 to be a homicide. the bombshell announcement coming weeks after the alex murdaugh double murder trial wrapped up. jonathan serry is live in the sout southeast bureau. >> they put fresh eyes on it. an attorney retained by the victim's family held a phone conversation with the chief of sled, the south carolina law enforcement division. the two agreed to conduct a joint investigation putting those fresh eyes on the 2015 case initially ruled a hit and

run. state investigators plan to be present in and when steven smith east body is exhumed. they want an independent autopsy. >> it is important to me because i just love my son and since i couldn't protect him, i will fight for him. >> his body was found on a country road 15 miles from the hunting estate of alex murdaugh who was convicted of murdering his wife and young son. he was a classmate of buster, murdaugh and has denied any involvement in the case. lawyers for the smith family say they have no evidence that murdaugh with his death. >> buster has nothing to do with this as we know. whatever is mentioned in the records are what investigators will look at.

we have no knowledge at all about buster or the murdaughs having anything to do with this right now. >> the smith family was always skeptical of the hit and run theory. all of the victim's injuries were shoulders up. below that and his clothes, they say, showed no signs he was pushed or dragged by any vehicle, john. >> john: the investigation will continue anew. jonathan serrie for us in atlanta. >> dana: the 1-2 punch against law and order in new york city. nypd has blown past its overtime budget by nearly $1 hundred million this fiscal year that sets the pace for a new record. the police force is facing a staffing crunch. more than 3700 officers retired last year, the highest number in decades. joining us now is retired nypd inspector paul morrow. you might have set a trend. the new york city council speaker talking about this overtime issue.

>> it has been extremely difficult to a, get an explanation, b, to rein it in and get them to have a coherent plan to get this overtime spending in check. i dare say no other agency could possibly get away with this. >> dana: isn't there overtime because there is a need for police to be out there fighting crime? >> get away with it. starting salary is $42,000. they're all getting rich and robbing the bank. they flooded the subways to cops to try to take the subways back. the same person, the speaker of the city council saying crime isn't rampant in new york city. but at the same time blaming the cops for spending this overtime money. let's put it in context. they upset that the nypd will go over 5 million in the overtime budget. new york city is going to lose

500 million a year from fare beating along. that's a crime that used to be enforced by the nypd when we had broken windows policing. allow the nypd to do its job. we balanced the budget. according to bloomburg news $5 hundred million to a billion per year will be spent on illegal migrants that we have encouraged to come here. so this is a legislative conjure ors trick. blame the police. look how bad they are. they're robbing us blind and we have to keep the city safe. >> dana: flooding the subways with more police has worked. >> it has. the state is picking up some of that overtime budget. which was not calculated into this. once again, getting away with it. these are all just tells about what is really going on. >> dana: what is your level of

concern about retirements and resignations to show you this call for number 2, 239 officers resigned in january and february. that's up 36% from the same year and 117% from 2021. >> the word is resign, not retire. entirely new in the police department's history. people are leaving before they get their retirement years in. that was unheard of in my day. people hung around to get their 20 years. people aren't doing that anymore, all right? look, to take the hill you have to hold the hill. you need the cops on the ground. you need that effect. that's the most effective tool as a police officer. pepper spray, the most effective is your professional presence. people seeing cops on the scene and being out there. you need the bodies to do that. the highest number was at the year 2000. 40,000 cops. you had to hold it.

now with this attrition we're down 2500 cops since 2019. you can't hold the hill if you are continuing to lose the troops. >> dana: they are frustrated with the felony cases being downgraded to misdemeanors by the prosecutor, the district attorney alvin bragg. he has downgraded 52% of all felony cases to misdemeanors in 2022 in one famous case he is trying to upgrade a misdemeanor to a felony which seems like a bit of a stretch. >> one felony he wants to get. let's put it in context. we've thrown out numbers. i arrested this guy for a felony assault. he had a knife and whatever it is. when the affidavit came back from the district attorney's office it was downgraded to harassment and the cops won't sign it. in the last two years since he

has been in office, south of 59th street, boutique manhattan patrol south. bragg's area is up 64% in crime. north of 59th street 39%. 48% rise in crime since alvin bragg is in office and he is downgrading. something about that is off. >> dana: if you thought about leaving the police force knowing you would arrest somebody who gets off might lead you to believe why am i doing this? >> it has an effect on the ground. you go into police work because you want to do good work, not the money. you take the white hat off the police and told they are getting away with something by the city council, the effects won't be good. >> dana: thank you for being here. >> john: he has expertise. manhattan grand jury in the trump investigation meets today at 2:00 eastern with another witness expected to testify. law enforcement says an indictment could come as early

as this afternoon. but how this will all unfold still up in the air as we enter uncharted territory with the possible indictment of a former president. >> dana: president biden's top cabinet secretary is defending his budget and republicans have a lot of questions and we'll ask senator john kennedy what he wants to know. medical workers hitting the beach trying to prevent spring break overdoses. are students getting the message? >> i feel there is a good chance it would be laced with fentanyl if it's just a random uber drive that picks you up and never met in your life before.

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back-to-back works. how in the hell did you do that? pretty good, man. i'm kind of looking for back-to-back myself. >> dana: there was a little more on 2024. ron desantis the governor of florida talked to piers gorman. >> call me whatever you want. but also call me a winner. that's what we've been able to do in florida. >> you are running this en? >> i didn't say that. i think i could. if you look at florida. >> who would be harder to beat, biden or donald trump? >> i don't know. those are different. >> dana: you had the post cover ron hits don. maybe you will see more of this? what do you think? >> initial question from piers morgan is could you beat biden? he said i don't know and asked him about the nicknames. he said he couldn't spell ron dedesanctimonious. that's a good thing he is taking

it in stride. so many of candidate trump's rivals got very upset about the belittling nicknames he gave them. desantis is like i don't care. >> dana: brushing it off. see how it goes. fun to watch. >> john: water off a duck's back. biden cabinet officials will testify on capitol hill to defend president biden's proposed budget, a big one. republicans in congress have long argued excessive government spending hurts working families. louisiana senator john kennedy is a member of the senate appropriations committee parsing the president's budget and joins us now. good to see you senator. thank you for coming in. put the number on the screen. it has an impact when you write it out in full. $6$.8 trillion. it takes up an entire wall, senator to put that figure up there. there might be room for another 0 or 2. this is huge, one that senator grassley of iowa says a roadmap

for fiscal ruin. my question is what are you going to do about it? >> we're going to ignore it. i agree with the numbers, john, they're breathtaking. we'll probably run out of digits at some point under the biden administration. we are going to ignore it. what we do will have a huge impact on the economy. there is no way that we are going to get control of inflation without tanking the economy and causing other banks to go under unless we attack it on both the monetary side like chairman powell is and the fiscal side. we have to reduce the rate of growth of spending and debt accumulation. because every dollar we spend stimulates the economy and makes jay powell's job harder. >> john: one of the big areas of controversy is defense spending. he is proposing a 3.2% increase in defense spending.

look at what china is doing, 7.1%. the u.s. defense budget is roughly almost four times that of china. last time i checked it goes a long way when you build aircraft carriers. >> china doesn't have to reach a consensus on anything. president xi just says it will happen and it happens. the budget is an important part of a larger problem. let me just cut to the chase for what it's worth. if i were president, what i do today is pick up the phone and call chairman powell and say look, i'm not trying to tell you what to do i just want you to hold off for a few days. the second call i would make would be to congressional leadership, republican and democrat and get everybody at the white house and if i were president i would tell mr. powell look, i wish you would

consider not raising interest rates this time. in the meantime i am going to announce that we are going to reduce the rate of growth of spending and debt accumulation to help you do your job and i think you would see markets settle down. i think you would see the banks settle down, and i think it's our best chance -- our best chance to cure inflation without -- >> john: he wants to give the fed interfere answer. >> i would say come to a meeting. do what you have to do but let me say it again. there is no way to solve the inflation problem without tanking the economy and the banks unless we reduce the rate of growth of spending and debt accumulation. >> john: some people might say it is asking a pony for your birthday and not demanding one. janet yellen suggested that there may be more ahead when it

comes to bank bail-outs. listen here. >> our intervention was necessary to protect the broader u.s. banking system. and similar actions could be warranted if smaller institutions suffer deposit loans that pose the risk of contagion. >> john: former obama economist suggested on america reports last week they've set a precedent with svb. they will have to make depositers whole above and beyond the fdic insured levels as well. where will we get the money to do this? >> we won't have it. and what you see going on now is an exercise in the federal banking regulators and particularly the fed covering its rear end. they were responsible for this. i will come back sometime and explain why. they are covering their rear

ends. >> john: you have introduced, along with a number of other republican colleagues in the senate the fairness in fentanyl sentencing act which would say the current mandatory minimum threshold for sentencing does not reflect the substances capacity to end lives. a lower quantity should trigger a higher sentence. most prosecutors are raising the threshold. you want to lowerist in fentanyl. the reason? >> there ought to be a special place in hell for anybody who deals fentanyl. when my son was growing up i lectured him the risk of addiction. kids will experiment. today you have to tell your kids you can't try it at all. it will kill you. you can't experiment. you get one shot. say it again, there ought to be a special place in hell for people who deal fentanyl. >> john: thank you for joining us this morning and appreciate it. hope you have a good hearing

today. >> thank you. >> dana: fox news taking a walk along with a mobile medical unit on the beaches of south florida to warn spring breakers about the threat of fentanyl. we're live in fort lauderdale with the details. how is it going, bill? >> nice and quiet now. the full on spring break partering doesn't ramp up until the afternoon and evening. now a lot of drinking, a lot of drugging in oftentimes a spring break rite of passage. recall the group of west point cadets last year who accidentally overdosed on fentanyl-laced cocaine. the dea says fentanyl is the number one cause of accidental o.d.s in the u.s. the most deadly drug ever encountered. the special purpose outreach team is passing out free narcan nose sprays. they are trying to save lives. talking with the college kids about the risk of doing drugs like cocaine and ecstasy that

may be laced with fentanyl. narcan can reverse o.d. for an hour for the person to get medical care. they've handed out 2500 narcan doses. >> they're coming down on spring break having fun and partying might be using drugs they bought in the club. the drugs are laced with fentanyl. >> there is fentanyl smuggled into the country from mexico hidden in everything you can think of. cdc says 67,000 americans die every year from fentanyl. college spring breakers tell us they're aware of the fentanyl issue and risk with some saying their parents even warned them about it before they flew to florida. >> somebody o.d.s on spring break unfortunately. from here on out don't want to mess with any cocaine or any bills. just stay away. stick to booze, honestly. >> and the dea is also now

alerting its finding fentanyl laced with xylazine known as the zombie drug that can rot human flesh. it's an animal tranquilizer. narcan won't help with that. >> dana: we'll talk about that later in the show as well. thank you. >> dana reads sports. >> dana: the world baseball classic coming to a thrilling close last night in miami. watch. >> 3-2. he struck him out. ohtani strikes out trout and japan is back on top of the baseball world. >> dana: they took down team usa. the final out pitting two superstars against each other. ohtani struck out mike trout. fans in japan erupted in jubilation. their third win in the history of the classic. i love seeing the celebration. they're having a good time.

>> john: i love seeing the celebration, too. i wish it was the american team doing it. but if you recall, on the program on monday when japan was going into the semifinal, i said i'll bet japan emerges victorious. >> dana: i do remember that. >> john: i didn't think they would win this year. >> dana: i will consult with you next time i read some sports. >> john: i'm like the johnny carson of sports, right? put it to my forehead and ill oh he tell you what's going on. no relief in sight at the border. texas troopers were on a high speed chase and causing danger for other drivers on the road. the ski crash lawsuit involving gwyneth paltrow. who made the stronger case? mark geragos breaks it all down coming up next. so it's decided, we'll park even deeper into parking spaces

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>> dana: unfortunately at least two people are dead after a bomb cyclone slams california with 65 miles-per-hour wind gusts knocking out power lines and toppling trees. winds were so strong a tractor trailer rolled over in the middle of a bridge. officials are trying to restore electricity to 100,000 people and flood watches are still in effect. >> john: not the best way to end the drought there. gwyneth paltrow sitting in the defendant's chair as the trial over a 2016 ski crash gets underway. she is accused of slamming into a man on the slopes leaving him with a concussion and a number of broken ribs. paltrow is counter suing for damages, a dollar and attorneys fees claiming that he crashed into her. >> distracted skiers cause

crashes. defendant paltrow knew that looking up the mountain and to the side while skiing down the mountain was dangerous. >> she doesn't know what's going on. am i being assaulted? >> john: let's bring in mark geragos, criminal defense attorney. who did a better job in opening arguments, mark? >> i think if you are going to handicap it, paltrow's side did a better job. i think they pointed out quite a few things that tend to support her theory here and mind you, i have always taken the position that by the time you get to opening statements, the jury's mind is decided and it certainly did not after the first witness didn't get any better for the person suing her. >> john: the first witness was a friend of terry sanderson's, the person bringing the case against paltrow. it is craig ramone.

he testified yesterday it was paltrow who ran into sanderson. >> i heard this scream and then i see this skier just slam into the bank of terry. the tips go out like this and he falls face down so he is kind of spread eagle. >> john: on the surface, mark, that sounds like a pretty credible witness statement. >> if you saw the cross examination, it went sideways pretty quick. i don't know if you have the clip but watching it, it just goes to show -- why don't we take a look. >> john: let's look at the cross examination where his testimony starts to fall apart. listen here. >> harry was wearing a helmet, true? >> true. >> the person he collided with was not wearing a helmet, is that true?

>> i don't know. >> did you tell me she was not wearing a helmet? >> i'm not -- i don't remember what she was wearing. >> john: so what the defense attorney did or -- the defense attorney did was compared what he was saying on the stand with what he told him in a deposition five years earlier. a lot of inconsistencies there. >> not only inconsistencies, there was also this is somebody who is a friend of the person. he gave a different story initially to the police when they responded, than in the deposition, now in court, and let's just say my takeaway from that cross examination was he either has some memory problems or was hit in the head himself. >> john: maybe face down in the snow. under the law the plaintiff has got a big hill to climb. he has to prove she ran into him, what his injuries were and

the collision caused his injuries. she may take the stand as early as today. there is a sense that she wants to clear her name in the court. how do you think she will do based on her long experience of acting on the silver screen in a case like this? >> well, in a case like this, where it is not necessarily -- remember, we're in civil court. we are moving around people's money. she didn't counter sue for some outrageous amount. she wanted a $, there are reasons for that. i think she will do well. allocations are i think it will be an upgrade in terms of characterization of witnesses from the witness you just played to when she testifies. >> john: we'll be watching for that in court. mark, great to get your thoughts. appreciate it. >> dana: look at the chaotic scene in san francisco. that's a rowdy group of

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but look, john, the fed is fixing something that the white house created. if you look over the years at the pandemic the government handed out 1.3 trillion in three rounds of stimulus checks, beefed up unemployment and childcare credits. none of that was accounted for when other government benefits were also being handed out. 6 million more americans are receiving food stamps now than before covid and 20 million more people on medicaid. all of this as the unemployment rate hovers near historic lows. it is a painful dichotomy when people aren't sure if their bank deposits are safe or get a loan. people that can afford it the least that might be paying the biggest price. >> the biden administration hasn't done them a service because now those particularly at the lower income levels will pay a very high price when we get the unemployment that will

come with the recession. >> so in a nutshell we're paying the price of biden's spending and powell's printing and now we're worried about bank deposits, job losses and a deep recession should it happen. >> john: so many things that are floating around that are warning signs ahead. let's cross our fingers. hope is not a strategy but hope it comes true. >> dana: a new push is underway to fight the deadly epidemic of fentanyl as it continues to poison and kill nearly 300 americans every single day. homeland security launching operation blue lotus to stop the opioid from entering the country across our southern border. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino. bill hemmer is off today. >> john: i'm john roberts in washington. this new multi-agency operation targeting fentan