interesting guest on this. okay? he warned us years ago about the dangers of social media. we'll talk to him coming up. thank you, edward. nice to see you at the white house. thank you. dana? >> sensitive meeting with the president of taiwan here in the united states, sparked heightened tensions with china. speaker of the house kevin mccarthy will be sitting down with taiwan's president later today, along with a bipartisan group of lawmakers. chinese officials are calling the meeting a provocation and red line that must not be crossed. welcome to a brand-new-hour of "america's newsroom." i'm dan dan. >> i'm bill hemmer. one hour down. >> yes. >> still feeling good? >> you got it. >> welcome back. great to have you. >> thank you. >> the meeting at the reagan library in simi valley, california, is the highest level meeting with taiwan on u.s. soil. already today's sit-down is drawing strong reaction out of china, including threats of

retaliation. senator tom cotton calling on the white house to take a stronger stand against china in support of taiwan. >> president biden and the white house is going out of their way to minimize this visit, to say it's merely a private visit, not to defend the rights of senators and congressmen. not only are we going to continue this practice, but we'll stand up to any provocation that china undertakes in the western pacific because of these meetings. >> senior national correspondent william la jeunesse l live in si valley. >> with many western countries angry for china right now for a variety of reasons, this is an opportunity and pivotal moment for taiwan, which is about the size of maryland with a population of florida. taiwan is david. china is goliath. that's one reason president tsai needs support not just from the

white house, but members of congress, including speaker pelosi, formerly, of course, and speaker mccarthy to counter that threat. china claims the island as its own and sees today as a provocation and warns of consequences. >> this act seriously violates the one china principle and provisions of the three china, and gravely undermines china's sovereignty and territorial integrity. >> exactly what china is going to do is unknown, but they do see today as a provocation and warn of consequences. exactly what they'll do, well, they've begun live fire drills along the taiwan strait and jets have been crossing into contested airspace. now, from the u.s. point of view america says it is not going to be bullied, nor intimidated, and speaker mccarthy doesn't answer to china, to whom he chooses to speak. >> there should be no reason for china to overreact here. i'll leave it at that.

>> president tsai often refers to her job as walking a tightrope, trying to balance her country's security and independence without provoking beijing. her week-long visit is about underscoring taiwan's importance to the u.s. as a bulwark against china's military expansion in asia. >> taiwan is the berlin of the new cold war. it's a place where much of the contest may play out. ideally we'll be able to maintain deterrence. that's the importance of the situation we're in now. i don't think that means scaling back our diplomatic engagement with taiwan, but i do think it means increasing our military presence in the region. >> so there will be a meet-and-greet around 10:00 local time, dana, and then the speaker and the president will make statements to the press around noon. members of congress, more than a dozen here, republicans and democrats, will speak to the press at 2:00 local. back to you. >> thanks for the setup,

william. appreciate it. >> we're learning now about a bipartisan group of senators that met secretly with taiwan's president in new york on friday. they talked about a bill to impose sanctions on china if it were to invade. taiwan's leader also meeting a day earlier with a top house democrat, minority leader hakeem jeffries. robert o'brien with us for more. thank you for getting up early in california and joining us. how has this administration handled this matter to date? >> i just got back from taiwan, spent time with with president i ing-wen. more needs to be done. i hope when speaker mccarthy

talks with tsai ing-wen we'll talk about the $21 billion in arms ordered by taiwan but yet to be delivered. getting that to them as quickly as possible. and helping with our economy, to encourage more taiwanese investment in america, but more investment in taiwan. we need to support the taiwanese people, show support that their democracy. this meeting is an important step in that direction. >> robert, how do you explain to people, our viewers, why this is a matter of our national security? >> so for a number of reasons. first taiwan is an incredibly important geopolitical space, the first island chain around taiwan -- around asia. if china took taiwan, it would be like the cork in the champagne bottle popping open and the pla navy, the communist chinese navy and army would have access to the whole pacific, hawaii, aleutian islands, alaska, even california. second, 90% of the nano chips

that power our economy come from taiwan. and then third, taiwan is a democracy. we have an interest in promoting democracy around the world and supporting free people. the idea that the chinese communist party, which, by the way, has never ruled taiwan. the communists have never been in charge of taiwan. that they can take their neighbor would set a dangerous precedent. there's a lot of reasons america to be strong on taiwan. we can't allow them to bully speaker pelosi, speaker mccarthy, any american, on who they want to meet with. we have a lot of freedom in america. we're not going to turn it over to china to tell us what we can and can't do. >> taiwan is the new berlin, that's the best way to characterize it for the american people. i didn't realize you were there, how many days you were there, whether you broadcasted that, whether you wanted to keep it quiet or not, but a month ago the biden administration said they'd put service members on

the island itself with taiwan. why not make that 2,000? >> listen, we should. one of the other nice things we'll start doing -- i learned this when i was in taiwan, i was there for five days. it was well broadcast in the region, that the chinese communist party attacked me for going, which was quite flattering, being a former official, i was glad they were still paying attention to me, so i was happy for the courtesy they gave me by attacking me. look, i was there to support the people of taiwan. we've got to train the taiwanese army. we'll start bringing taiwanese soldiers to america for the first time in many years to train them. we want peace with china. the taiwanese people want peace with china. no one wants an invasion. the way to have peace is to have strength. a strong taiwan, a strong american military, will deter the chinese from some sort of

venture, like putin in ukraine, will only lead to death and misery in china and taiwan. >> robert o'brien, thank you for joining us this morning as the meeting is about to get underway in california. >> thanks for having me. >> house republican leaders are accusing some states and school districts are misusing billions of dollars in covid relief funds, claiming schools that shut down during the pandemic have spent the money to push left wing social agendas while students struggle with learning loss. chief washington correspondent mike emanuel joins us live with more. the american people were generous with the covid funds. >> sure. >> when they weren't spent well or at all they were frustrated. what's the update? >> dana, good morning. some leading lawmakers are pressing the education secretary for answers. house oversight chair and others are raising concerns about misuse of pandemic funds on favored social agendas, citing examples from illinois, california, massachusetts, and

new york, where the lawmakers say covid relief money was used to implement implicit bias training, ethic studies, and lgbtq plus cultural competency. >> when you look at left wing leaders, in many of these cities, especially in the department of education, and with their bosses of the teachers union, you've got a situation where they said, let's use this money, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to push a radical new left wing agenda. >> the california department of education insists it is factually untrue these funds were spent as the lawmakers suggested. quote, california state plan reflects our investment of federal and state dollars to meet the most pressing needs facing our students, ensuring they can read at grade level, supporting their mental health, and recruiting more teachers. comer's response is they co-mingled federal money with state funds. >> anytime you say, well, you used this money to push a

radical left wing agenda to try to indoctrinate these public students on this new crazy pronoun and lgbtq world, they'll say, no, we didn't use that money. we used money from this pot. >> the lawmakers note american students continue to suffer from learning losses due to lengthy school shutdowns. dana? >> mike emanuel in washington for us, thank you. >> you bet. >> advise me if i'm going to hit anything. be my eyes, please. back up. back up. >> the terrifying sight yet again, this one from iowa, and a first look at the widespread destruction in glenallen, missouri, the state right next door, 30 minutes west of the mississippi river, about two hours south of st. louis. drone footage just in now. police say multiple people killed. mocks weafox weather ahead. >> and a mother seeking answers

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stephen smith is burying her son for a second time. a second autopsy was performed over the weekend. south carolina police reopened their investigation after discovering ties between smith and the surviving son of now convicted murderer alex murdaugh. police later said the links are not serious. >> both the president and the press secretary say they do not comment on active legal matters, except when they do comment. we're live. good morning. >.>> when it comes to the arrest yesterday, the white house is staying quiet. >> why don't you have more to

say? >> it is an ongoing case. i've been clear about that, prudent about that, not commenting on ongoing cases. we're going to stick to that. >> reporters still tried to get the president to weigh in during an event on tuesday, but the president chose not to take questions. he also told reporters last week on the south lawn he wasn't going to talk about it. what we don't know, what kind of impact this will have on next year's presidential race. a quinnipiac poll shows president biden leading over trump, but by a small margin i know, quote, despite overjoyed reactions, many democrats don't want to further emboldening trump or his allies by adding oxygen to an already explosive case. >> i fear he'll benefit in the same way in 2016.

of the members of congress shouldn't be commenting or interfering in the legal process. we should let it play out. >> so we'll be looking to see whether or not in the days and weeks ahead, if the white house changes strategy on this. today we're not expecting to see president biden on camera. there's another press briefing this afternoon. i doubt we'll hear anything different from what we heard yesterday. the president is heading out to camp david tomorrow for the easter weekend. bill? >> not going to stop you guys from trying. we'll see how that goes. thank you, mark. nice to see you. >> this about fake case was brought only to interfere with the upcoming 2024 election. it should be dropped immediately. >> former president trump back in his florida home last night, lashing out at the timing and motives behind his arraignment on dozens of criminal charges. his next court hearing is not until december 4th. that's just when the presidential primary season is heating up. joining us now, rnc chair

mcdaniel. what have you seen in terms of response so far? >> oh, it's energizing republicans across the whole spectrum. we've seen this, dana. even jeb bush and bill barr, people who haven't always been fans of trump, are talking about this overreach of da bragg, the fact he's upgraded it to a felony, ignoring crime in new york, a politically-motivated persecution against president trump, and our base is energized and angry by seeing this political persecution, not just of him, but of republicans across the spectrum. we saw this last year with parents going to school board meetings, being labeled domestic terrorists. right now the greatest crime in america is to be a republican. >> how does this affect the 2024 gop presidential primary? polls show president trump's numbers continue to go up. is it almost a foregone conclusion he would be the nominee? >> i think it's too early to say that, because we haven't had

debates. i don't think we even have the field set yet. every candidate running against president trump has said they think it's an overreach, unifying the party against the woke democratic party. da ignoring violent crime in new york, allowing murderers and racists to downgrade the charges, while he's upgrading and avoiding the statute of limitations on this. we have to fight back as a united party. we need people to volunteer and get involved if we're going to fight back against the democrats. >> in the meantime yesterday -- it might have been hype ber hyp, but a ton of money was spent, $45 million for the supreme court race in wisconsin, but if you look at the winner, which was the liberal democrat,

protasiewicz, she spent $14 million. daniel kelly, the republican, spent $2.6 million. there was a big fundraising discrepancy. was that all? do the republicans face a messaging challenge in these states? >> yeah. i think there's a couple things. obviously candidates need money. democrats give their money no matter what, coming in and out of elections. the republicans take a pause. we need to continue to invest this these candidates. wisconsin, we just won for ron johnson, flipping a house seat in 2022. the i will say something else. when you're losing by 10 points there's a messaging issue. abortion is still an issue. we can't allow the democrats to define republicans and put millions of dollars up in lies and have it go unanswered, because the lies become the truth if they go unanswered. we have to put the democrats on the defense on this issue, talk about the fact that they support gender selection abortions and due date abortions. the rnc raised the flag. i'm a suburban woman.

i know this is an issue. i hear it with my friends, my young daughter. this is not an issue going away for our party, and we can't put our head in the sand and think it's going to heading in 2024. >> in chicago, the liberal progressive meet the more moderate. the messaging against vallas was that he was pro-life, even though he had a mild statement about being supportive in some way back then, but they made that race about abortion. your point is well taken. last question here. reports say president biden is no rush at all to announce that he's running for re-election. look here. fox news poll on biden's performance among key groups of women, 43%. suburban voters, 41%. rural voters down to 31%. does his waiting to announce indicate to you that might announce not to run? >> you know, i just don't see that with the manipulation of ther practice calendar to favor biden, putting south carolina first, abandoning new hampshire

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>> a high-profile tech executive stand to death in california. his killer is still on the loose. bob lee is his name he founded the popular cash app. he was attacked near downtown san francisco. investigators are trying to figure out a motive. that case continues in northern california. >> wow. >> and there's this, bill. the nation's capital hit with another brutal crime, and this one was especially gruesome. a virginia woman killed after being stabbed more than 20 times in her d.c. hotel room while she was visiting for a concert. the suspect, no stranger to the authorities. so what happened? we're live in washington with more. hi, rich. >> dana, police say kristiy batista checked into a washington hotel about 6:00 p.m., and less than an hour later 43-year-old george cin cinder jr. arrived in a hotel parking lot on a bicycle, stopped at her door and entered her room somehow. police say they found her

stabbed, cinder with cuts and blood on his hand, and a kitchen knife with half the blade broken u.o. this week, he was ordered held without bond on murder charges. in a statement, the victim's family says our, quote, our family is devastated by the loss. she brought joy to everybody who knew her, a shining light in all of our lives. please respect our privacy as we mourn her at this time. the suspect was a long criminal history. court documents say this past october, a woman claimed he pulled a gun on her and took her keys and phone. initially the u.s. attorney's office argued against his release, saying, quote, the defendant has already a concerning history of violence and noncompliance while on supervision. soon after, he struck an agreement with prosecutors, pleading guilty in exchange for a suspended sentence. fox 5 here in washington reported some of his criminal history involves second-degree theft, syracuse abuse misdemeanor and failure to comply with probation. violent crime is up again this

year in d.c. congress and president biden recently overrode d.c.'s newly-passed changes to the criminal code, calling them too lenient. the mayor is pushing for more money for police and school safety officers. >> rich, thank you. >> ai can help deal with difficult challenges like disease and climate change, but also have to address the potential risks to our society, to our economy, to our national security. >> that from yesterday. the president talking about that with a panel of experts on artificial intelligence. that technology, ai, is advancing rapidly, prompting some tech leaders to call for a pause. tristan harris is today. he was prominently featured in a documentary called "the social dilemma" that came out years ago, used to work for google, now director of the center for humane technology.

nice to he sue you again. you were one of the original guests on the hemmer time podcast. nice to chat with you again. thanks for coming on. you put out the clarion call on social media years ago. how different is artificial intelligence? >> well, yeah. i think when people think about the metaphor of social media, here with this technology, giving us so many benefits, and those benefits are real, the ability to connect with friends, the ability to see information very efficiently, and it can look pretty good, you know, 19 out of 20 times in youtube recommendations, but we saw with social media, if you let it get entangled with your society, and you walk away, with unpredictable effects, you entangle with your society too quickly, it's hard to unentangle. now suddenly everyone lives in a shattered breakdown, because social media is polarizing society. ai is going to give us amazing benefits, help us solve diseases, invent solutions to climate change, but the problem

is that ai undermines society, no matter how tall the skyscraper of benefits that it creates, if it undermines the foundations of society they won't land in a society that works. it's important for everybody to know that 50% of people surveyed, who work on the field of ai risk and ai safety, so half of those people, believe there's a 10% or greater chance that humanity either goes extinct or is disempowered, fundamentally disempowered, by our ability to control ai. that's like getting on a 737 airplane and half the engineers say if you get on this plane there's a 10% or greater chance that it goes down. the point of the letter to pause these giant ai experiments -- not all of ai, but pause the specific companies working on these massive new large language models is to buy ourselves time that we can get it right, right? the point of a lockdown in exponential curve of covid, or any pandemic, isn't to lock down forever, but it's to buy

yourself time to create the institutional responses and guardrails to get it right. >> i want to push forward with a few questions here. microsoft is not on board, meta. those are big boys. bill gates said i don't think asking one particular group to pause clears the challenges. clearly there's huge benefits to these things. we need to identify the tricky areas. okay. so what are the tricky areas? you just alluded to some of the benefits, right, a moment ago, and you signed the letter. so if you get a pause, and we call a time-out, russia is not going to do that. >> uh-huh. >> china is not going to do that. that's a problem. >> that's right. yeah. so specifically six months was chosen because it's enough time that you can actually create some guardrails, but china and russia won't catch up in that time.

china is more than two years behind the u.s. on this class of ai. so pausing doesn't mean suddenly they win. the second thing is that these technologies are fundamentally unsafe or volatile. one of the reasons china has not been rapidly deploying this new kind of ai is because they view it as uncontrollable. if you can't control something, if you ask it, you know, these large things, hey, what happened with tiananmen square, and it responds with an answer you don't like, you don't want to deploy that to your society. we don't want to undermine the society. the new ais, democracy runs on language, when you have language, you have the operating system of your democracy, just like social media. you break share reality and it breaks your ability to have a functioning democracy. we have to get this right. let's learn from the lessons of social media. let's not wait till afterwards where it's hard to put the guardrails up and get it right. let's get it right before. >> i've got a thousand questions. just a quick answer here.

will there be a pause, do you think, or is that past us? >> people are still working on the pause. i hope there will be one. >> okay. we'll see. tristan, i'd love you to come back. okay? >> absolutely. >> it's going to be with us for a long time, right? >> yeah. >> thank you. so now 22 minutes before the hour, dana, i know you missed it. the trouble with t. swiftie's t-shirts. thasome fans accusing the singef selling shoddy merchandise on her new tour. they say the shirts are fading after a single wash. >> what? >> the singer's team responding saying that's the way it's supposed to be. they say the clothes are meant to look distressed and vintage? >> oh, okay. truth in advertising, maybe the ftc will get tickets to the concert and check it out. >> yes indeed. when we go to the show, we can

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field. this is in missouri now. sunlight revealing the destruction across many states. the dangerous weather moving east with very few signs of slowing down. fox weather's max gorden in arkansas, still recovering from last week's deadly outbreak. max, what are you seeing today? >> >> no rest for the weary here in the midsection of the united states. here in little rock, as you mentioned, they're still recovering from the ef-3 tornado that tore loss to the northern part of the city. utility trucks behind me. all the buckets had to go down, because we've had a line of thunderstorms move in the area. lots of lightning and some heavy rain at times. going over to glenallen, missouri, where we saw a tornado touch down in the early hours of this morning. missouri state patrol saying there have been victims, casualties there, as well as injuries, no word on how many people have been hurt or killed in that tornado. storm chasers in the area say

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its fair share of bad weather. guys? >> thank you, max. hoping for the best for today. max gorden there in little rock. >> thank you. >> the red cross is bringing relief to those affected. fox corporation has donated more than a million dollars after last week's twisters in arkansas. if you'd like to donate, head to redcross.org/foxforward. you can also use your phone's camera to scan the qr code that you see right there on your screen. there's always alexa, too, in case you need it. check it out. >> tonight is the beginning of a chicago that truly invests in all of its people. a city that's truly safer for everyone by investing in what actually works to prevent crime. >> chicago's next mayor, brandon johnson, acknowledging the city's crime crisis after he was declared the winner in yesterday's runoff. johnson was backed by progressives like bernie sanders, pushing for more social programs. his moderate opponent, paul vallas, was backed by a police

union, and called for a crackdown on rising crime. we bring in martha mccallum. look at the numbers here. just homicide and robbery, both up 15%. total crime up 46%. and they decided they didn't want lori lightfoot as mayor anymore in chicago, and went with somebody even more progressive. >> it's kind of a stunning outcome. i think a lot of people thought when lori lightfoot lost her race that it would mean there would be a movement toward somebody who was tougher on crime, someone who was more aggressive on education. i mean, chicago is in really tough spot. you have in the chicago public school system 1 out of 20 black students can do math at the grade level. 1 out of 20. so those students are so underserved by the public school system in chicago. now, he is from the education system, brandon johnson. as a teacher, he pushed to lower

standards, he pushed to give less homework to reduce test preparation as a way of, quote, rebelling against the structure. so, you know, i mean students need to be at a level where they can compete in society. we have to encourage education excellence, which does not really line up with most of the equity movements, which tends to bring the standards down and equalize. i'm not sure that's getting anybody ahead. also city taxes are likely to be higher for businesses. you see so many businesses that closed down in chicago over covid. it's a recipe that may not succeed. we will see. >> vallas was the fix-it guy when it came to schools. >> yes. >> and lost. and when you think about crime, too. how many weeks do we sit here on a monday and talk about how many people were killed in the south side of chicago. it's moved to the northern suburbs as well, grabbing the headlines. if you go to the south side of chicago, you talk to people,

they'll tell you political leadership will change this. is johnson the man for that job, to change it? i don't know. >> he won by a decent margin. so the question is, is getting out the vote, the question is how is all of that working in chicago. we'll continue to see a migration from these cities to other places in the country. ken griffin took his enormous business and left for these reasons. so it's sad, because when you see that kind of economic center pull away from the city, you're going to have lower opportunity and likely more crime. >> you know what else happened, i learned more about this as i got back yesterday, so brandon johnson, the one who won, he ran a bunch of ads, and just targeted paul vallas as a pro-life person, trying to time him to maga and republicans. on the same day in wisconsin you had the republican lose by a sizable margin to the democrat, the liberal democrat. if you look the at votes here, she got 55% of the vote. daniel kelly, the republican,

got 44% of the vote. he was outspent by a huge margin from $14 million to $2 million. and that issue, in that race, really came down to abortion. so we had rona mcdaniel on. she had a point. she was basically saying i say a problem the republicans need to deal with it. let's listen to her here. >> when you're losing by 10 points, there's a messaging issue. abortion is still an issue. we can't allow the democrats to define republicans and put millions of dollars up in lies and have it go unanswered. >> so what happens next? >> 100%. we saw what happened in the midterms. republican candidates chose to basically ignore what had happened at the supreme court with abortion, to not articulate it, to not talk about it, to not say, you know, this is what a growing baby looks like at 14 weeks. do you want to be in line with where europe is or in line with where north korea is? i think there was a fear of talking about it, but i think it's quite clear there will be a

lot of elections lost for republicans if they allow the other side to dominate this conversation and to define it for them. >> can i mention one other thing? because in florida, ron desanitities, the governor, has a supermajority. he will sign a six-week abortion ban limit. that might be difficult to talk about that nationally. >> you know, agreed. what needs to be made clear, after the supreme court decision, is that what it did is empowered states' rights. >> right. >> ron desantis, the governor of florida, can say, in my state, this is what the people voted for, what they wanted and approved. in your state, it may be very different. i mean, we saw what happened in kansas, a conservative state, where they voted to continue the abortion laws as they were. that's what the people of kansas got to decide. so they need to have a massive communications expert come in and talk to them about how do you talk about this issue. >> it's tough. >> i think people are more in

the middle on this than they realize, but, you know, it's been completely defined by liberal politicians. >> massive advantage for democrats in the vote in milwaukee and also madison. >> absolutely. >> at the universities in particular. >> absolutely. that's the issue at the universities. >> over80% of that vote for the democrats. >> wow. >> that's big. martha, thank you. see you at 3:00. what a day you had yesterday. wow. the cost of human smugglers on the border. new video of a stash house on the southern border. about 100 cramped inside. a live report on that moments away. veteran homeowners. if you need cash, the last thing you want to do is spend cash just to see if you qualify for a home loan. yet, some lenders charge you hundreds of dollars in upfront fees just to apply. they keep your money even if they turn you down. call newday. unlike other lenders, at newday there's no upfront appraisal fee, no upfront termite inspection fee and no upfront water test fee. not $1 out of pocket.

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>> the white house is taking major heat, reporters asking why there's no comment on trump's case when there was so much commenting on the january 6th riots with 500 criminal cases pending. and apparently no lessons learned in crime ridden chicago.

voters just elected a new mayor who backed defunding the police and may be even more liberal than the failed mayor lori lightfoot. plus, you've noticed, no doubt, gasoline prices are going back up as predicted. , our oil reserves are depleted by a desperate president biden. "the faulkner focus" top of the hour. >> thank you, harris. meanwhile on the border, agents telling us human smugglers are cramming illegals into stash houses. we're on the story, eagle pass, texas. matt, hello there. >> good morning, bill. when illegal migrants enter the country on the southern border, oftentimes human smugglers hide them in stash houses until they relocate them to various locations across the country. u.s. border patrol says they are consistently busting the stash houses, like this one in the

el paso sector. border patrol says 95 illegal immigrants were being kept in this one single home, from mexico, guatemala and ecuador, mostly male, consistently told that they pay coyotes to smuggle them, indebted to the cartels, therefore enriching them. border patrol reports it rescued a group of 140 migrants, not far from where i'm standing. border patrol says on monday the large group of migrants illegally crossed the river near a local ranch, and became stranded on an island and needed to be rescued. that group was made up of undocumented migrants, including seven migrants in china. bill? >> thank you. >> before we go -- >> yeah. welcome back. >> thank you very much. it's good to be back. i was not just playing hooky. i went halfway around the world to rwanda, visited a friend, her good work there. itthe foundation is called same

sky. the goal is to help women become financially independent. they make baskets and beadwork. we saw the gorillas. a baby one was pounding its chest. the conservation efforts of rue rwanda, as well as the people. we loved it. "the faulkner focus" is next. here's harris. >> we begin with a fox news alert. the case against a former president looks like a dud. and the liberal district attorney alvin bragg can't even explain it. he says there's new evidence against trump, but he can't show it. he's failed to do so. the politics of this moment are red-hot. he just might get burned. i'm harris faulkner. you are in in "the