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 fentanyl smuggling at

border crossings already has kept more than 900 pounds of the drug off our streets. homeland security secretary mayokas said it is a major shift targeting the fentanyl supply chain. >> we are watching the precursor chemicals used to manufacture fentanyl and tracking that chemical specifically. it is a monumental shift and example of how we take it to the cartels, to the traffickers and we won't stop. >> dana: telling us yesterday the u.s. needs to work with mexico in order to fight the cartels. >> they will sell people, drugs, anything to make money. what we are trying to do is figure out what the best way to gain the cooperation of the mexican government. this is honestly, i think they would admit, their problem, too. >> john: griff jenkins is tracking this and live at the border in mission, texas this

morning. first of all, thank you for the loan of the tie. i left the house without one. i appreciate it. >> you look great, john. good morning. this surge by the feds couldn't come at a more important time because it proves the amount of fentanyl we're seeing seized is that the cartels have been making more fentanyl. an example in the port of entry where secretary mayokas was. on friday and saturday this past weekend there were 2 1/2 million fentanyl pills seized. 800,000 on friday, 1.7 million the next day. that is why they are standing up this operation blue lotus that began march 13th last week and surging. they made 18 seizures, 16 federal arrests. you can see in the full screen here it has 900 pounds of fentanyl, 700 pounds of meth, 100 pounds of cocaine. that's why the secretary says they've got to get this under

control. listen here. >> in addition to more arrests, the ultimate goal is to dismantle the larger criminal networks. we have lost too many americans to fentanyl and other illegal drugs. >> meanwhile take a look at this brand-new video from texas dps. you can see the date march 14th. this chase began just a day after operation blue lotus started in this the smuggler was there dallas and five migrants that bailed out were recovered and apprehended. a daily occurrence. we've been out every day with texas dps. i asked my sources there about this operation blue lotus and the federal seizures with secretary mayokas talking yesterday and they said it is great news but since operation lone star began in march of 2021, they've seized 376 million lethal doses of fentanyl. 376 million lives were at risk

because of fentanyl that made it past the ports of entry, john, send it back to you. >> john: griff, i think the tie looks great. >> dana: florida republican governor ron desantis touting a potential run for president in a new interview with piers morgan. he points to his success in florida and landslide re-election last year saying he is confident he could beat president biden. >> you could beat biden? >> i think so. >> you are running then? >> i didn't say that. i think i could. if you look at florida. >> who would be harder to beat, biden or donald trump? >> those are two different -- >> dana: let's bring in trey gowdy and the author of a new book start, stay or leave. trey, how do you look at this 2024 race as it is shaping up? you have ron desantis who hasn't declared he is running but seems like he is going to taking a shot back at president trump.

>> dana, i would call that self-defense. ron has been taking on weaponry, taking on attacks for weeks now. you mentioned he had an overwhelming victory in november and yet one of president trump's surrogates accused ron of fixing the vote. another one of president trump's surrogates said he was backed by george soros. at a certain point whether you run for president or not, you have to defend yourself. i don't know, i have not asked ron. we served together, i have not asked him if he is running for president. i think other people are going to get in. dana, the whole process is so degrading. you have allegations of grooming high school students when you were a teacher. all this fixation over nicknames. we are picking the leader of the free world. the leader of the most important country in the world and we are debasing ourselves with having these little quarrels over nicknames and allegations that

go back 30 years that are preposterous. we ought to do better than that. >> dana: i want to play another sound bite for you where ron desantis is talking about the potential of alvin bragg in new york trying to arrest president trump. listen. >> if you are a very strident prosecutor, this guy is on the left and not processing a lot of crimes and manhattan is less safe. you'll go after somebody on the other side for a novel offense does not inspire confidence and people see it as weaponizing the justice system. i think it is wrong to do that and i just made it be known. >> dana: house republicans where you used to be have decided to try to investigate bragg on this as well. bragg says he won't turn over documents. see if he ends up having to testify. >> this would be one of those rare instances where even people on the left ought to be able to say this is the wrong fact

pattern, the wrong jurisdiction and it's being brought by the wrong person. president trump may have legal exposure in other cases, i don't know, he may. this is the weakest case. it is being brought by someone on his first day in office alvin bragg announced all the crimes that he was not going to pursue. resisting arrest. imagine how interesting and ironic and backwards it is that donald trump count resist arrest, interfere with a law enforcement officer and that wouldn't be prosecuted. for that matter prostitution he says is no longer going to be prosecuted in his jurisdiction. you can pay for sex but you can't pay for somebody to talk about it afterwards. it's backwards. if you have a good case against donald trump bring it on classified documents or retaining government property, bring it on obstruction, whatever you got. this is the weakest of all and it is being brought by exactly the wrong person.

our justice system, it would be great if someone on the left said i don't like president trump but this is the wrong case to be brought at the wrong time on the wrong facts. i haven't heard that yet. >> dana: a couple have including van jones who said it on cnn. i don't know if bragg will listen to him. one of your friends senator tim scott there is an article about him today in "politico." he will have a big fundraiser and making stops in iowa and new hampshire. not a declared presidential candidate. do you think he will make a go for it? >> i hope he does, dana. i will tell you the same thing i told him. he is good for our country. whether he wins or not is secondary to me. i think all of us would benefit from hearing his story, his optimism, his hopefulness. he is an unusual elected official. he is exactly in private what you see publicly. he balances the pain of our country's past with the promise

of today, the potential of tomorrow, so look, we usually talk sports and mini-series. we don't talk politics. i think he is good for the country whether he wins or not to show there is another way to run to be the leader of the free world. you don't have to talk about nicknames and accuse people of grooming high school students. you can be aspirational and seek this office, too. >> dana: funny, i never talk about sports usually only politics but in your case i will make an exception. trey gowdy, thanks, have a great day. >> yes, ma'am, you, too. thank you. [shouting] >> john: heavy rain not stopping los angeles public schoolworkers from picketing on the streets yesterday. 30,000 employees walked off the job yesterday demanding better wages and more staffing. classes once again canceled today for more than listen to

this -- [no audio] >> 35,000 teachers striking in solidarity. for context the average worker is earning $25,000 right now. the goal is to secure a 30% pay raise. more full-time work opportunities. increased staffing levels and respectful treatment after accusations of harassment. this is left parents scrambling. l.a. represents the second largest school district with 600,000 kids staying home today.

school system set up daycare options and grab and go food stops but won't address the learning loss. the parents union saying the strikes are a bully tactic that do nothing to help our children. we have yet to see a single one of these strikes make good on the promises of educational utopia. [no audio]

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country are stuck in legal battles to evict squatters out of properties they own. in chicago one family says a professional squatter -- didn't know there was such a thing -- now lives in the house their late mother handed down to them. >> evicting a tenant or squatter is illegal in the state of illinois and they make it really clear that you can be arrested or you can face charges. he never comes out of the property. i've been over there for hours and hours. had the police there. he won't come out. >> john: the house was taken over by mr. murray a convicted criminal with a long rap sheet. it can take up to eight months for a squatter to be kicked out. >> dana: the ceo of moderna faces a round of questions about the cost of the covid vaccine when he appears before a senate panel today and why taxpayers

could be on the hook for thousands of dollars in a lawsuit the pharmaceutical giant is facing. we're live in d.c. bernie sanders has been champing at the bit to try to do this hearing. >> expect tough questions from both sides as a key pharmaceutical ceo gets thrilled. he is taking aim at the high cost of prescription drugs. the ceo of mott eastern yeah. sanders is expected to go after him noting moderna made billions. republicans have questions, too, about the price hike. some likely to express scrapty sis many about vaccines. moderna is accused of stealing

technology to create the shot. a spokesperson for one saying we hope the ceo will provide answers to the senate committee w moderna is now seeking to put the responsibility for its infringement liability to those same taxpayers, a position the district court has rejected twice. their argument it was doing it on behalf of the government. taxpayers should defend. the justice department agrees. retired federal judge is skeptical. >> when i was on the court, typically the government doesn't pop up in the middle of somebody else's lawsuit. that struck me as being quite unusual. >> the other significant concern is taxpayers being on the hook for moderna's legal troubles. >> dana: thank you for setting us up. mike. we'll pay attention today. >> john: american hospitals grappling with a shortage of lifesaving drugs. in some cases forcing them to

ration out treatments or figure out workarounds. here to talk more about is the medical director of city m.d. doctor, this isn't the first time. goes back at least a decade. what is behind it this time? >> good morning, john. i think it's a confluence of factors. we have an increase in consumer demand. we're seeing an increase in infections and an increase in illnesses and disease. of course, you have supply chain disruptions that might in part be due to quality control measures, economic inflation. we see, for example, a manufacturing plant that just shut down acorn pharmaceuticals responsible for making some of the most important medications we need like cancer medications, methotrexate for drug cancers and other types of medications used to treat colon cancer. a confluence of all of these

factors. we have to remember that 90% of the raw materials of the ingredients we use for medications are manufactured in third world countries in china and india . so these are all the issues we're facing. it is only getting worse. >> john: which brings me to a point. you just emailed this, a tweet you sent out back in february, the 5th, i believe. you lamented our reliance on china as a supply chain for pharmaceuticals and present cursors. you think about it often and concerned china controls most of our medicine supply and could choke us off in a heartbeat. blood pressure med, cholesterol med, we must bring manufacturing home. made in the usa matters now more than ever. >> i brought it up with military guests to say things are getting hot between the u.s. and china. and if they decide that they've had enough of us, they could choke us off and everything from

pharmaceuticals to stuffed toys will stop coming in. >> yeah, it is absolutely frightening. they have a lot of leverage over us. right now for me, for example. it is easy if i run out of an antibiotic, if we don't have pencil-in i can switch from one class of antibiotics to another. i've done it all winter when there was an influx in infections. for some people, john, it is life threatening. sometimes there is no alternative for your cancer medication or nothing else we can substitute and it can result in patient death. we need to take this pharmaceutical infrastructure as seriously as we are with the collapse of the silicon valley bank we saw recently. >> john: a question that i have. i remember back in the early days of the bush administration

all the arguments about people going up to canada or getting mail-order drugs brought if from other countries. why can't we import drugs from canada? because we can't guarantee quality. now the stuff is coming from china and nobody says boo. what happened to those concerns? we were told no, we have to buy drugs manufactured in the united states. now it's literally a minority of the drugs people use every day. >> you are absolutely correct. look what we were doing recently when we faced the baby formula shortage. bringing it in from other countries out of desperation. we shouldn't put ourselves in that position to be desperate to rely on other countries and other manufacturers. again, i think it comes down to profit and pharmaceutical companies number one priority and also the fact we subsidize other countries. it is completely unfair and we need to see changes in this country. it is only getting worse and i'm fearful for my patients.

>> john: u.s. leaders say we have the best healthcare on the planet. most expensive and in some ways we look like a third world country. such a contradiction. >> absolutely. hopefully our lawmakers in d.c. will put patients first. covid lockdowns and pandemics a lot of people put their health on the back burner. we're seeing more diseases now and something we need to tackle. >> john: we'll see if they do. i wouldn't bet on it. thank you so much. appreciate it. >> dana: giving parents a voice in their kids' education moving up the agenda on capitol hill. how house republicans are trying to turn this hot button issue into law. plus it is one of the most dangerous drugs hitting the streets. now the dea is sounding the alarm about an animal tranquilizer fix -- mixed with

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skin. the feds calling it the most dangerous drug our country has ever faced. joining us now the former dea special agent. we've talked about it before with you. the dea's statement saying its the most deadly drug threat the country has ever faced. fentanyl even deadlyer. they have seized xylazine in 48 out of 50 states. we've known about this drug tore a while and now it spread overwhere. when the dea increases their level of concern are there additional resources that come to bear to fight it? >> well, there is more focus on the investigations. obviously the dea is very focused on the sinaloa an new generation cartels. the fact is that china doesn't need to bomb america with traditional bombs. every day they're destroying

communities, killing our family, kids, because they are using the deadly chemicals that are made in labs in china. and you can buy this xylazine on their websites. i looked. $1 a kilogram of xylazine, a flesh-eating drug that causes necrosis, the rotting of human tissue. when is the white house and the department of education, the department of health going to realize it is not dea's job, i applaud their efforts, to warn the public on the new chemical health hazards for our country. dea is going above and beyond in my opinion because it's not a drug. it is mixed with illicit fentanyl. not pharmaceutical grade fentanyl or pharmaceutical grade xylazine. they are made in labs in china. haven't we learned in this country that china wants to destabilize and destroy our

country and they've been doing it with these chemicals? when is enough enough before somebody steps up? >> dana: you got video from philadelphia. what concerned you the most and what did you see? >> dana, i've been doing this business many years. i have never seen in my life where people were desperately sitting on the streets walking like zombies sticking others with needles in their necks and everywhere. it is like the night of the walking dead. the mayor there aren't concerned. what about the disabled vets mixed in there that are using the stuff that have no more soul left because they have no hope? we're now helping the world with all the world's problems, right? but what about our own citizens?

they need help desperately. mental illness is off the charts. you can't afford treatment. you know what i heard, dana? some of these people with the open wounds, they can't even go into the treatment centers because of the fear of spreading this disease across all the patients. it is very sad. the other thing is dea is out there trying to investigate this stuff but it is coming out of the chinese labs. there won't be follow-up in china. what is our government going to do about this? just let our people die at historic levels? >> dana: the desperation is clear and your passion is appreciated. thank you for helping us think it through today. >> thank you. >> john: he has a passionate voice, house lawmakers looking for parents bill of rights act. republicans are moving forward with an investigation into a 2021 memo from attorney general merrick garland on alleged

threats against school board members. gillian turner is here in washington with her eye on this story. what are you finding out? >> house republicans will hold a hearing in a few hours to consider the parents bill of rights act. it is legislation that aims to give parents more rights inside their children's classrooms. they released the interim report last night indicating they plan to go all in on attacking the biden administration. take a listen. >> it could be a hot button issue if democrats continue to jam their policies like this down americans' throats. >> in that report they accuse the biden administration of colluding with the national school board association to use law enforcement and counter terrorism forces against disgruntled parents in 2021. the chickens are coming home to roost. >> we said we would address the fact that parents need to have a

say in their kids' education and brought forward hr5 the parents bill of rights that we'll be date tomorrow and vote on by the end of this week. >> in 2021 attorney general garland put on a memo about threats about school board members and school policies during that year. >> unfortunately, the bureaucracy has branded teachers with a scarlet -- pardon me, branded parents with a scarlet letter and called them terrorists. we cannot have the education bureaucracy called parents who care about their children or involved in their children's education radicals. >> democrats have proposed a counter measure to the gop bill called the bill of rights for students and parents. it is sponsored by a representative of oregon saying her aim, john, is to unite

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>> dana: brian kohberger could be convicted by a firing squad if he was found guilty.

they revived the option for the death penalty but only if the state can obtain lethal injection drugs. he is accused of killing four students on november 13th last year. prosecutors haven't said whether they'll seek the death penalty. the trial starts in june. >> john: wow. the man accused of breaking into the home of house speaker nancy pelosi is expected to appear in federal court today facing assault and kidnapping charges. senior correspondent claudia cowen is live in san francisco with the latest on this case. >> good morning. long before he ever stands trial, the defendant has been in and out of a courtroom every other week facing both state and federal charges. today we're back in federal court for a status hearing where the lawyers are expected to brief each other and, of course, the judge on where things stand in terms of discovery. there is a whole lot of evidence

in this case, including police body cam footage that captured the moment the defendant swung a hammer into paul pellpelosi's h and breaking into their home through a glass door. we got to hear his confession during a taped interview with police where he laid out his plan to kidnap then speaker nancy pelosi and break her kneecaps and made a jail house call to the local fox affiliate newsroom for apologizing not going farther. he faces kidnapping and assault charges in federal court. in san francisco superior course he faces half a dozen state charges including attempted murder that could send him away for life if convicted and the state's case is expected to go first. the 82-year-old pelosi continues to recover from a fractured skull and other injuries to his

hat. he has worn a hat and gloves at recent events and not spoken publicly about this attack. eventually paul pelosi will be called on to testify as both a victim and a witness. back to you. >> john: san francisco looks like new york in terms of weather. >> dana: an explosive new lawsuit accuses zuckerberg and meta turning a blind eye to evidence of sex trafficking. the file reading the only logical inference is the board has consciously decided to permit meta 's platforms to facility state sex human trafficking. martha maccallum joins us now. want to read to you meta 's response to the lawsuit. they say we prohibit sexual exploitation in no uncertain terms. this lawsuit mischaracterizes our concern. look at these stats and put them

on the board. 59% of online victim recruitment in active sex trafficking occur on facebook. victims recruited online in 2020 in facebook. >> it is stunning. what they charge is there is systemic evidence based on the numbers you put on the screen that shows that this kind of trafficking is flowing through facebook. the lawsuit comes from pension funds and investors who are essentially suing the board for their lack of oversight on this issue. but one of the things that we've uncovered in looking at the border issue is what a huge story this is in america. what's happening is you have people who are told they will be domestic workers, brought across the border by the cartels and once they get here they are not domestic workers at all but sold into the sex slave trade. a lot of that transaction and a lot of the collection of people in all of these can be flowing through these websites through facebook and instagram.

they have to try to prove that. when you think about how they shut down misinformation during covid and the hunter biden story, if they are going to say that they are an arbiter of what should and shouldn't be flowing through these platforms, they need to address the serious human tragedy that happens. >> dana: we talked to a dad whose son committed suicide after getting involved in this sex exploitation scam on instagram. watch here. >> the scam was they send a message. they used instagram saying i know somebody you know pretending to be a young girl. there is a lot of criminal activity originating within social media. tech companies have the ability to filter and censor some of this especially more mine -- minors. >> dana: he had four younger

siblings. >> i remember that story. it just breaks your heart this young man got sucked into this and it led to the end of his life. there are also hundreds of individual lawsuits against meta for the material that is out there. again, as i always say, you know, as parents you have to be on this. we have to limit kids' access to these platforms. it is dangerous. >> dana: he said something similar, that dad. you can't allow your children to have phones in bedrooms and bathrooms by themselves. >> we have to have parents bond together because there has to be support in numbers, right? if your kids' friends aren't allowed to have their phones in their rooms yours isn't either. parents have to take responsibility for what's going on here. it has to be a joint effort. >> dana: how seriously do you think meta takes a lawsuit like this? >> it goes to the core of their business. are they a free platform where

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i'm christine mahon. i'm retired from public health nursing and from the army reserve. my retirement funds allow me to enjoy what i love to do. i volunteer with the medical reserve corp. as long as you can make an impact, why stop? >> harris: a grand jury is still deciding whether it will indict or not indict former president

donald trump. critics are calling the liberal d.a. alvin bragg, who is going after trump, only having pure politics as his motive. plus the house oversight chairman demanding president biden publicly correct his claim denying his family members got payments from a chinese company linked to hunter biden. those receipts are so problematic. vice president kamala harris has so many jobs. she found time to record a message for a trans tiktok star a happy first birthday being a woman. congressman byron donalds, jason chaffetz and tyrus top of the hour. >> john: homelessness a growing problem nationwide. everybody knows that. the crisis exploding in arizona where it is up 23% since 2020. the owner of a sandwich shop in

phoenix saying he no longer feels safe as more and more tents keep popping up on his block and encroaching on his business. he struggled to keep the sandwich shop opening and wondering how long it can hang on. joe joins us now. thank you for being with us. describe what is the situation like outside your shop on a daily basis? >> well, you know, the homeless tents started coming down on 13th avenue. forever they were protecting me and kept them off 13th avenue because i have a back porch where people eat and drink, of course, their sodas and have sandwiches. and the people, of course, get up in the morning and do what they have to do and it's not very appetizing. >> john: "the new york times" profiled you and your business saying within a half mile of their restaurant the police have

been called on eight incidents a day in 2022. at least 1097 calls for emergency medical height. 236 incidents of trespassing. 185 fires, 140 thefts, 125 armed robberies, 13 sexual assaults and four homicides. that doesn't exactly make for a nice neighborhood. >> no, that's why they call it the zone. a bunch of zombies walking around on drugs and it is very scary. i have loyal customers. i have been here 37 years. they support me but, you know, they get approached and sometimes they get scared. >> john: it is good you have loyal customers that keep coming back and help you and your wife stay afloat there. you have had to put up a fence there. one of your entrance ways somebody set a fire. do you fear for your safety on a

daily basis? >> yes, i do. i'm 69, going to be 70 soon. i'm not a young chicken anymore. i get scared sometimes. these guys are angry and one guy came up, a big, big, big man and screaming and yelling at one of my lady customers. she ran into the restaurant. i got out of my car and turned around and looked at me and said you have a problem. he was going to hit me. if you hit me you go to jail the rest of your life. something triggered in his brain and he stopped and walked across the street and got in the middle of the street and started screaming at a bunch of people in the cars. some days are good. >> john: a few seconds left and wanted to point out that you have joined with other businesses to file suit against the city because they are not doing enough. sadly, your wife debbie is saying i've had enough, we have to sell an get out of here.

>> yeah. she has had it. she can't do it no more. she gets too depressed. she has been screamed and yelled at and cusseded at. it is not right. the city, three years, four months and they haven't done nothing to help us at least. >> john: we hope you can keep the business alive. thank you for joining us. >> thank you, guys. >> dana: thank you for being with us. john, amazing story. appreciate it. we'll see you tomorrow. harris faulkner is up next. here she is. >> harris: it is time and we may be closer than ever to publicly finding out what actually started the coronavirus pandemic that killed more than a million americans. president biden approved a measure directing the feds to declassify relevant intelligence reports how covid started. the problem is when will we see them? apparently they're dragging their feet o