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and goes one step further blaming this on a democrat district attorney out for political gain. baloney says the d.a. garza. >> this is definite lay travesty. this d.a. is elected by local voters. it's a democratic county. difficult for us to get good d.a.s. >> this is not about me, this is just another shot at our community here in austin, texas, here in travis county. >> that d.a. also saying your eaves decide whether a defendant is innocent or guilty and not the job of a governor. bill. >> bill: thank you, casey. casey stiegel in dallas on that, thanks. >> come out of easter resurrection sunday and you are thinking about the resurrection of christ and then on monday this tragedy, this evil hits louisville, kentucky. what we need to focus on right
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now is those that are in the hospital, those families that have lost loved ones and support our brave men and women of law enforcement community that ran towards the danger and ran towards the fire. >> dana: kentucky's attorney general talking to us a short time ago about yesterday's deadly bank shooter in louisville. five people killed by an employee who entered the bank with a rifle. eight others injured including three police officers who ran into the bank to confront the gunman. one of those officers is still in critical condition after getting shot in the head. we pray for his well-being. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm dana perino. good morning. >> bill: i'm bill hemmer. louisville police rushing into the bank three minutes after the shooting began swiftly ending the carnage inside old national bank in downtown louisville. officials say 25-year-old connor sturgeon opened fire off his
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co-workers. he live streamed the attack on social media until officers killed him in a shoot out. all five victims worked at the bank. a manager on a video call with her colleagues watching in shock as they were gunned down inside the bank's first floor conference room. one survivor running from the room when the shooting began. >> he started -- he had a long assault rifle and started firing shots. blood is on me. >> bill: garrett tenney is live in louisville. what will we learn today? >> in the last couple minutes an update from the university of louisville hospital on the status of those who are being treated after yesterday's shooting. we're told that of the five victims who are being treated, four of them are now in stable and fair condition meaning one of the patients who is in critical condition has been upgraded to fair condition and told that that officer who was shot in the head remains in
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critical but stable condition after undergoing brain surgery yesterday. the name of that officer is one of those that we want to be focusing on today. 26-year-old nicholas wilt. you can see him at his graduation ceremony when he formally joined the force ten days before this shooting. he and the other officers are being praised for their heroic action which saved lives. listen to the witness describe the gun battle as they looked on from their office window just across the street. >> all of a sudden gunfire just erupts. glass exploding left and right. he takes a shot to the chest. his bullet proof vest caught. it knocked him down. a few other officers are with him and coming up from both sides. more gunfire continuously going off until they took down the shooter. >> those officers were wearing body cameras and told that video will be released soon. no specific timing on that but
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here is how the police chief described what we'll see on that video. >> just to see how our officers responded yesterday just unflinchingly going in and engaging the suspect and actually stopping him from taking additional lives. the act of heroism cannot be overly stated from yesterday. >> overnight -- overnight a fifth person died from their injuries, 57-year-old deanna who worked at the bank. police are still trying to figure out a motive for the 25-year-old gunman who live streamed his attack on social media. officers are scouring his digital footprint. posts in which he wrote they won't listen to words or protest. let's see if they hear this. last night several vigils were held to honor and remember those who lost their lives.
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this morning you can see here the shattered doors and windows at the entrance of the national bank boarded up with flowers on the ground in front. we expect an update from officials here in about an hour and a half or so, bill, both on the investigation as well as more on the status of the officers and victims. >> bill: thanks for that. louisville, kentucky the latest there. >> dana: joining us is daniel linskey, the former superintendent and chief for the boston police department and you were with us yesterday. we appreciate the quick analysis from you. the governor also talked about the police. governor andy beshear yesterday. >> while i hurt today, while i will grieve when i'm able, i'm also grateful. i'm grateful for an incredibly quick response from lmpd, the jefferson county sheriff's office, louisville fire and rescue, louisville metro ems getting to this scene in three
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minutes. i'm convinced saved other people's lives. >> dana: i think that is true, right? the quick response made sure more people weren't killed or even injured. >> absolutely. at a time when law enforcement is having a bad challenge trying to recruit people into the profession we have a cop ten days on the job who stood up and said i will take that challenge and he ran toward those bullets and as a result people are alive today because of his actions and the officers with him. absolutely. amazing response. >> bill: try to piece this together. we don't know what's true and what's not, right? they've told us very little. barely 25 hours old the story itself. there are reports he had social media posts online that he didn't like trump. he used pro nouns like he or him. reports he may have been terminated soon. maybe this is true, maybe it's not. maybe it meant something, maybe it meant nothing. a student at the university of alabama, father was a life long
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basketball coach. he played basketball as well. do you put all this together, doesn't seem to be warning signs in this that i can note here. maybe you see it differently. and if i'm right, how do you stop this? >> the warning signs that i've heard of are the note to his parents and the note to his friend that he was going to do this, right? we see active shooters. these are individuals intent on suicide doing it by committing homicide. we have to address the mental health issue and address people getting suicidal and stop that process so they don't try to do suicide by homicide. they don't have the strength to do it by themselves. they want to kill human beings, innocent lives and have police take their life. >> bill: the note to his friend was that morning, i believe. >> that's my understanding. >> bill: this happened at
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8:37 a.m. >> it's a short period of time. i think we saw some social media posts and writings when he was in college talking about his isolation and the fact he didn't feel part of what was going on. have a hard time making friends. when families, friends, relatives see that stuff, you have to do something and see what's going on and make sure they are okay. doesn't mean anyone who had a bad day or blue moment will be a problem or challenge. it is our responsibility as parents, neighbors, friends and families to check in on folks and see what's going on to try to take them off that progress where they go to the point where they snap. suicide is an option and they do it by means of taking innocent lives. >> dana: the police got there. have you heard anything about the security at the bank itself? >> i haven't yet. banks usually have some type of security. we saw a good response from my reading of response for people walking the mall. it looked like planning, training and preparation saved lives. and it looks like the bank was at least prepared for that.
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louisville p.d. i listened to the auto transmissions on the way down there. professional cops in the midst of a crisis who kept their cool. you could hear them directing resources to try to get the officer who was in the line of fire and trying to figure out how to get swat shields between that officer and the killer. they did an amazing job. people are alive today because of their reaction. that's training. that's the one thing until we figure out the problem, we have to make sure we're training our cops. >> bill: we rely on you a lot. thank you for coming by today and we'll see what more we get. >> sorry we talk about these issues, and not others. >> dana: two weeks after russia arrested a "wall street journal" reporter the state department has officially designated him as wrongfully detained. this moves evan gershkovitch case to a special state department office that will work to negotiate his release. rich edson is live in washington with more. what's our leverage?
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>> the designation means the united states views evan gershkovitch as a political hostage that the russian government fabricated the charges and elevates it to the special envoy to hostage affairs designed to negotiate situations like this. that office has broader power to coordinate the u.s. government response and even to consider a potential prisoner exchange. state department says secretary antony blinken is calling on russia to immediately release gershkovitch and blinken maintains journalism is not a crime and condemns russia's -- american diplomats in russia are trying to arrange a visit to see evan in prison. >> we're continuing to seek access at this point. it is a violation of russia's obligations under our consular convention and a violation against international law. we have stressed the need for the russian government to
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provide this access as soon as possible. >> gershkovitch was arrested late last month. formally charged with episcopal nudge. an accusation the u.s. has denied. the u.s. has also demanding russia release paul -- he worries about getting left behind again. over the past year the u.s. did prisoner swaps to release two other prisoners. >> dana: keep us posted on that. >> bill: american military secrets now spilled out in the open and the diplomatic damage could be significant. the reaction from our allies and our adversaries the day after this broke. >> dana: house republicans accusing the f.b.i. of spying on catholic churches. what the agency was allegedly looking for.
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>> they were looking, the f.b.i. in the richmond field offices was looking to put sources in churches and informants in catholic parishes. someone needs to give them a lesson in the first amendment. how do we decide what hotel to book? fear not, i got you. choice hotels has a hotel for every type of stay. like a comfort with the kiddos. spacious! that's what they all say. stay twice and get a $50 gift card when you book direct at choicehotels.com.
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>> bill: the governor of new jersey telling rutgers university not to take legal action against striking workers. democratic governor was personally involved in the failed negligent achess with faculty unions before the strike. the impasse affecting 67,000 students. 9,000 staff members involved in the strike. the first in the school's 257 year history. they are looking for higher wages, affordable housing and better health insurance. see how it turns out in new jersey. dana. >> dana: house judiciary
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committee chairman jim jordan is i issuing a subpoena to f.b.i. wray. >> this all started with a memo specifically from the f.b.i. ric richmond, virginia field office. not a national memo. it is still giving f.b.i. folks at headquarters in washington, d.c. and around the country plenty of headaches. this subpoena was issued yesterday. in the form of a letter from house judiciary chairman jim jordan. he wants f.b.i. director chris wray to come before the committee and answer questions about this memo. the house judiciary committee obtained a document independently reviewed by fox news that indicates the f.b.i. originally floated the idea for someone to look into the radicalization and enlist their assistant to serve as suspicious activity trip wires.
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in plain english put someone under cover in the catholic church. this information is outrageous and reinforces the need for all f.b.i. material responsive to our requests. it shows how the f.b.i. sought to enlist cath rick -- to report on their parishioners. wray didn't try to put a spin on the richmond field memo when asked about this specifically last month before congress. watch. >> when i first learned of the piece i was aghast and we took steps immediately to withdraw it and remove it from f.b.i. systems. it does not reflect f.b.i. standards. we do not conduct investigations based on religious affiliation or practices full stop. >> this morning senate majority leader chuck schumer called out what he says language from former president donald trump
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suggesting republicans in congress should defund the police. marco rubio, the senator from florida said he would take that and amend it to include that the f.b.i. is trying to infiltrate catholic churches. there is certainly a political angle here. the f.b.i. confirms to fox news they have received this subpoena and are working to try to get the relevant information to congress. >> dana: david spunt, thank you. >> bill: the white house weighing potential regulations on a.i. artificial intelligence. what will they do. the director of the tech policy at the heritage foundation. nice to have you here. let me read this thing and i will let you have it. we believe powerful a.i. systems should be subject to regulations needed to insure such practices are adopted and actively engage in governments on the best form such regulation could take.
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okay. to you we go. not in a.i. form but in english form. >> okay. this is interesting. we're kind of caught in a can undrum. we have putin saying who is going to lead in a.i. will rule the world. you have xi from china saying we want to rule and lead in a.i. development by 2030. so if americans don't erect these guardrails and write the rules of the road then thor tarrance will do it for us. they have depicted their intent to do so. there are a couple things we can do when it comes to looking at these new technologies and trying to govern them in a responsible way. the first thing you look at international standard setting bodies. china is deepening its influence in a lot of these bodies, these international bodies which basically show how technology will be built and they determine how it is used and deployed throughout the world. american voices need to be heard.
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our values need to be put into the technology and risky model like large language models. chatgpt. we need to open source this cord like gpt2 was in 2019 before they took that information back and were less transparent. a couple of things we can do. i want americans leading the charge when it comes to governing these technologies. i don't want the ccp involved and russia. >> dana: i feel like washington is so late to the party. listen to president biden and you tell me if you have confidence the federal government is going to be able to execute and offering you just said. >> president biden: a.i. can help deal with challenges like disease and climate change. we have to address the potential risks to our society, to our economy and national security. >> dana: it's as if they just heard about it at the white house. >> there have been caucuses going on in congress for many years now. we're late to the party. that's a problem.
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china is screaming ahead. we retain the biggest knowledge base in america. >> dana: how can we keep that? >> that's a good question. it comes down to education as most things, right? make sure that our personnel is the strategic imperative. those of us looking at the problem and a.i. researchers we need the capacity to be as robust as possible to beat foreign adversaries in this race. >> bill: just today i think this crossed six hours ago. chinese regulators released draft rules designed how they want to manage how companies develop this. the chinese companies. for example, the content generated by a.i. needs to reflect the core values of socialism and not subvert the state power according to the draft rules. >> here we go. we've seen this with chatgpt. the safety layer seems to be very biased. humans are designing and coding
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the algorithms. we need to imbue american values of transparency and openness into these systems or china will take over and we use these technologies more and more and it will be more prevalent. do we want a china-based society or america-led society? >> dana: america. america first. >> bill: this is a still image. we watched this person earlier today and she is the real thing. but it's a robot. we're not even a robot. it is generated through a.i. >> it is growing -- >> bill: she is speaking arabic but looks like she could work for the brick bc. >> china has unveiled their news anchors a.i. generated as well. 80% of jobs, a portion of their tasks will be touched in some way by a lot of a.i. genretive
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technologies. >> dana: thank you so much. another brutal san francisco attack caught on camera. we warn you the video is disturbing. a former city fire commissioner hospitalized with serious injuries after a homeless man beat him with a metal pipe. what led to this assault coming up. china says it is ready to fight after large-scale combat drills surrounding taiwan. what taipei and the u.s. are to make of the message. >> not a matter of if. but when china invades taiwan. taiwan doesn't have a week to wait like the biden decision did on the spy balloon. their long-term goals. (other money manager) but you still sell investments that generate high commissions for you, right? (fisher investments) no, we don't sell commission products. we're a fiduciary, obligated to act in our client's best interest. (other money manager) so when do you make more money, only when your clients make more money? (fisher investments) yep. we do better when our clients do better.
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♪ ♪ - why are these so bad? - if i would've used kayak to book our car, we could have saved on our trip instead of during our trip. ughh - kayak. search one and done. >> bill: we have breaking news on the political front. democratic national committee has chosen the city of chicago to host its convention in the summer of 2024. so they got a brand-new progressive mayor in the city of chicago. crime has been an issue for some
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time. the teachers union was out there in force in that election about a week ago. and the democrats have chosen chicago going back what was it, it will be 46 years since 1968. >> dana: interesting. pretty interesting. >> bill: chicago is it for the democrats. you know by now the republicans have chosen milwaukee. so it will be an upper midwest battle. >> dana: what does that tell you from the board? >> bill: tells me wisconsin is very important. doesn't tell me much about illinois. that will stay in that category. >> dana: too far gone. >> bill: they did the shift in baseball and it is still there. imagine that. >> dana: i understand that now. >> bill: west coast we go. the former san francisco fire commissioner beaten by a homeless man with a metal pipe. we have to warn you it is graphic and goes on for a while, this video. the attack taking place in broad daylight outside his mother's home in the scenic marina district leave him with serious head injuries.
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claudia cowen has more on the attack, video and frightened neighbors who say crime in san francisco is out of control. claudia, hello. >> good morning, bill. residents on edge after a second vicious attack was caught on camera as in the case we profiled last week of bob lee. the victim in this case is well-known and highly regarded. this attack happening in a part of san francisco considered relatively safe. this video is hard to watch. it shows a man identified as 24-year-old garrett dodi swinging a metal type at 53-year-old, a former san francisco fire commissioner visiting his mother in the upscale marina district not far from the golden gate bridge. he released this video to draw attention to the city's deteriorating public safety. the assault happened after he asked a group of homeless men not to camp near his mother's house. you can see him trying to shield
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his face before hurrying away. blood streaming down his face. he underwent emergency surgery for a fractured skull and broken jaw. he needed 51 stitches. his friends say this assault shines a light on the city's tolerance of violent homeless people. >> we all live in this petri dish of mental health. the city is not dealing with it. the insane asylum is our neighborhood and that's what has become of san francisco. >> the man faces multiple charges including assault with a deadly weapon. his public defender says she believes it was a case of self-defense after the man came after her client with pepper spray. the video doesn't show that. dodi faces seven years in prison if convicted on all charges. the man's friends say he will be permanently disabled. the attack happening less than 24 hours after tech executive bob lee was fatally stabbed not far from there.
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one week since that awful tragedy, bill. and still no arrests or suspects identified by police. >> bill: you have to get him. claudia cowen, california. >> dana: officials tell fox news damage to u.s. intel operations and relations with our allies is bigger than snowden. what former house chairman michael rogers told us last hour. >> the scary part. that leaker has more information, it is on an electronic medium today. and that person is also likely sitting on a bunch more than just this. this is just the piece that you caught. this person isn't new to this. these messages sounds like to me have been going back a while. u.s. intelligence didn't catch it until very recently. >> dana: let's bring in michael allen, former national security member under president bush. that was interesting to me to be reminded that there are probably
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more documents where this came from, michael. >> yeah, i think so. it would be hard to believe that the leaker or spy as it is would have only access and only possess oneslide deck from the joint chiefs of staff at the pentagon. it is a reasonable assumption that there is more out there. dana, as you know, this hurts us with our allies. undermined the ukrainians. we've tell graphed to the russians they have weaknesses in their air defenses and lets our adversaries know about the holiest of they. the russians now we are on to them to figure out if we have a spy in their operation or trying to figure out how the national security agency may have hacked into a computer or tapped a phone. this is bad all the way across the board. we have a lot of work to do to clean this mess up. >> dana: do we have a spy in our operations?
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>> yeah, that is obviously the case. we have someone who was able to, i think, leak this particular document. it doesn't appear to be a hack by the russians as much as it does a hard copy that somehow got out of the building and was posted later to the internet, or it was given to the russians who posted it as a means by which to send us back counter disinformation as it were. >> dana: i was trying to figure out who does the leak benefit, right? can you tell? >> i think it benefits the russians because one, it talked a lot about ukrainian capability and how much staying power that the united states forecast that they have and lets the russians know that the c.i.a. or defense intelligence agency has terrific sources within the russian military intelligence agencies. that has made them go on a huge
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plumbing operation to figure out how to stop the leaks and figure out how they might have hacked into the computer system and put a stop to it. our war fighters will no less what the russians are up to and over time it degrades the effectiveness of the united states worldwide. >> dana: last question. the documents and write-ups that i've read would indicate that ukraine is going to fall behind in the next month or so because they don't have enough equipment and people. with that kind of information, do you know if that was about a month ago when the documents came out. is that still true? and what can we expect in terms of our support for ukraine? if they're facing a defeat, what then? >> well, two things. one i think it undermines the biden administration's policy because it is sort of proves that they have been piece milling military assistance to the ukrainians and unnecessarily prolonging the war. so on the whole, i think it
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means that we need to rush things to the ukrainians even faster. >> dana: michael allen. thank you, we'll stay in touch. >> thank you. >> bill: now, dana, we have taylor swift news today. she broke up with her boyfriend. did you know she had a boyfriend? >> dana: yes. >> bill: you did? >> dana: it was a prediction they were going to get married. >> bill: the breakup is good for business is what we find today. t. swift, a huge spike in streaming. the increase over the past two days are songs rumored to be about her ex-. they met in new york and dated for six years. we took on this topic on gutfeld. greg was well behaved and in a good mood. >> dana: it was my prediction she would get married. >> they produced albums about
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how bad guys are. >> dana: they were never married. i don't know. the mystery continues. >> bill: what was joe doing the whole time? sitting there like a toad taking it? come on, joe. >> dana: this news here out of minnesota. >> we believe maddy's disappearance is involuntary, suspicious and we're all concerned for her safety. >> dana: a young mother vanishing hours after she was cracking jokes with her sister. suspicions swirling in a small minnesota town. nancy grace shares her thoughts next. veteran homeowners, have you looked at the interest rates on your credit cards lately? get ready for a shock. the rate on credit cards is now over 22%. if you want to save hundreds of dollars every month,
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>> dana: even though california governor gavin newsom has not declared he is running for the white house he is acting like it. the democrat is touring red states to promote his liberal policies and discussing the 2024 presidential landscape. griff jenkins is live in washington. what did you pick up, griff? >> good morning, dana. i picked up what political journalists are saying, looks like someone is laying the ground work for a white house run. is that in 2028 or 2024? newsom toured the four republican red states last week, arkansas, me is miss, alabama, florida, accusing governors like desantis and huckabee sanders of
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being authoritarian leaders launching a $10 million pac pushing back against g.o.p. policies that claim are an attack on our freedoms but denying rumors. >> i am not running. it is the question that we have to ask any time someone puts out a pac, i get it. no what else to do with the money and am plea filing good people across this country and supporting our president in the process. >> but president biden has yet to formally announce his bid for re-election. al roker at the white house easter egg roll he intends to run but not ready to announce it. newsom's term ends in 2026. >> dana: here we go. >> bill: the search continues for a young minnesota mother of two. her name is madeleine kingsbury. she dropped her kids at daycare a week ago and hasn't been seen
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since. her sister speaking with fox news. >> the morning of friday, march 31st, she had sent me a text at 8:15 in the morning. regular text for her. we were chuckling about a funny photo exchanged between us. that was the last communication. >> bill: with us now fox nation host nancy grace. nice to see you. good morning. put together a timeline now. she was last seen dropping her two kids off at daycare at 8:00 a.m. the father of her kids says that he was with her until about 10:00 a.m. the police are saying between 10:00 a.m. and 1:30 her car left home and then came back later early that afternoon and the police will not confirm who was driving the car. they do not know. that's about as tight of a timeline we can put together right now. what do you read there this and
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what do you need to know? >> well, this is what i know. i spoke with madeleine's sister in depth as well as local sources. her vehicle, a dark blue town and country was seen all around town as far away as 20 miles away at a gas station in rushford, minnesota. but here is the thing about this woman. she didn't just fall off the turnip truck, okay? this woman ran part of the public health at the mayo clinic. she had that degree. she was working on her master's degree. juggled two children, elen and noah ages 5 and 2. getting this emotion to daycare in montessori, getting this back. she was looking for a new place to live. i find that significant. she and the bio dad had split but they did still often do
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drop-off and pickup together. she missed work. this woman never misses work. this is what we call routine evidence. not routine, typical evidence. evidence of routine. this woman had her schedule in 30 minute segments. i wake up, fix breakfast. get them to daycare. i go to work. she never missed work and she didn't call in. that tells me that she start our timeline right there at that last text. i'm going with the text with the sister, the funny picture exchange. that couldn't be recreated by somebody else. when you joke and laugh via text with somebody, somebody can have your phone and recreate your personality. that was real. that's the only thing i believe right now is she was alive and accounted for at 8:15. she is not a mom that runs off to have me time and massages and the hot rocks on her back and the mud bath. no. she wants to be with her children. she didn't go on a walk about.
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>> she was a worker and mother. you mention her sister. this is meghan, right? she talked earlier today. roll this year. >> i just spoke to her. >> extremely out of character. i was in contact with her almost constantly every day for many years. she had no enemies. she had many friends, never had a bad word to say about anybody. she would never up and leave her kids, never. >> bill: that's exactly what you were saying. we hope the best for her. police are still in the investigation and we'll stay on it. we get the word out and hope for the best. thank you, nancy. >> thank you. >> dana: police officers risking their lives to save a family from the flames. we'll meet those heroic officers next.
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snowden. leaked pentagon information. sources are saying it puts our nation in danger. it now appears the biden administration didn't even know about it for weeks. plus san francisco's crime crisis highlighted by video of a violent attack on the former fire commissioner. white house reporters want biden to answer their questions. their frustration is boiling over. congressman chip roy of the great state of texas, ben dome -- and others top of the hour. >> dana: police officers in frankfurt, indiana rescue a family of six including a little baby from a fire. >> get out, get out. get out. >> could i have your baby? give me the car seat. she is good. i got her. i got her. >> dana: those three officers joining us now.
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officer madison -- they are joining us now. why don't you tell us about what happened as you answered that call. >> the call came in about 2:00 in the morning for a structure fire with possible people trapped inside. so as we arrived, you could see the front of the house was clearly involved in flames and we tried to locate where the people were and do what we could do to help them. >> dana: what did you see when you arrived? >> when we arrived you could see part of the residence was engulfed with flames and there was a lot of smoke coming out of the residence. we knew we had to act quickly. luckily the sergeant was able to go around to the other side of the house and able to locate a ladder and get everybody out without injury. >> dana: had you responded to a fire like this before? >> not one where there was
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actually people trapped inside. >> dana: officer martinez, what was it like that people were inside and a baby who couldn't fend for itself? >> a scary moment for everybody realizing that the baby was outside the window in the baby seat. we knew we had to act quickly. thankful the ladder happened to be there and thankful for the sergeant's quick reaction and a great teamwork. >> dana: which one of you brought the baby down? >> so i'm the one in the body camera video at the window. we handed it off like a train from me to officer douglas and to officer martinez. >> dana: officer snyder, we were talking earlier today about the incredible amount of training that police officers go through for all sorts of different scenarios, in particular earlier this hour we were talking about the police in louisville who responded so quickly to that shooting yesterday.
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in this scenario, as you said you haven't been responding to a fire where there were people inside but the training that you all do, do you think it led to your being able to be so calm, cool and collected to help the family get out safely? >> i think amount of training we go through is what will help us remain calm in the face of an emergency. we are there to help and get everybody safe. we have to be the ones to stay calm. >> dana: officer douglas, tell us about your desire to join the police force. was it to do things like this? >> absolutely, you know, from a young age i have always wanted to help people. i'm a caring soul. always the first person to give the shirt off my back to somebody else. being able to handle a call and have success will be something i remember for the rest of my career. >> dana: officer martinez, about your decision to be part of this and see results like you got the
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other night. >> absolutely. i think we all joined the force to make a difference in the community. i think in this situation we were able to do that, make a difference and an impact on people's lives. that's why i joined the police force. >> dana: we're glad you did. sergeant snyder give us an update on the family and how they are doing. >> the family is all doing well. baby checked out. breathing normal. everybody seems to be happy just waiting to move back in. >> dana: the three of you go and have a great day and we wish we were there to buy you lunch. you deserve it. thanks for all you did. >> bill: good job. frankfurt, indiana. >> dana: amazing people. before we go a little thing here. i had a chance to do a podcast episode for the everything will be okay podcast with former senior trump counselor kellyanne conway. here is part of it. >> my advice to young people.
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i say it all the time. learn to say the word yes more and accept the word no more. >> dana: there are so many little pearls of wisdom in this interview. we don't talk politics at all. work life balance and advice and all the things she accomplished in her life so far. much more to come. >> bill: good series. >> dana: harris faulkner is up next. here she is. >> harris: a fox news alert. under the biden administration we're up against a massive national security threat because of the leaked classified documents. the intel has been floating around for quite awhile. worse, the administration apparently did not even know about it and has yet to say who put us all in danger. think about it. the president's one job really is to keep us safe. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." sources saying it could be bigger tha
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