j you can't joke about that. everyone will love it. >> if you don't like free speech you'll like it. >> we'll catch you tonight. >> bill: good morning. the house covid committee holds its second hearing on the origins of the pandemic on the heels of a new senate report that shows the possibility of two lab leaks in china. former dni head john ratcliffe will testify today. he says it's the only explanation. beijing firing back. the hearing starts in 30 minutes. first there is this. sounding the alarm on government surveillance. elon musk says your government had full access to your private tweets whether you knew it or not. that's just the tip of this tweet iceberg as we say hello on

tuesday. i'm bill hemmer. welcome to the program. big two hours. it could be a tweet bird. >> dana: i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." the big interview aired last night. before he bought twitter the company gave unfettered action cess to u.s. and foreign intelligence agencies and a way to encrypt messages to insure user privacy. >> bill: how he managed to slash staffing at twitter in effort to turn a profit which hasn't been easy. what he told tucker on that. >> how do you run the company with 20% of the staff? >> turns out you don't need all that many people to run twitter. >> 80% is a lot. >> yes. i mean if you are trying to run some sort of glorified activist organization, then you don't care about censorship you can

let go a lot of people. >> the fact that the federal government and other governments had access to twitter user's private messages, their dms came as a shock to those who use the platform but also to elon musk himself. >> the degree to which various government agencies had effectively had full access to everything that was going on on twitter blew my mind. >> would that include people's dms? >> yes. >> the twitter files and hearings on capitol hill revealed the cozy relationship before musk took over after the direct messages revelation republicans want to find out whether that's also the case with other tech platforms. >> raises an obvious question about the rest of big tech. is google allowing the federal government to monitor g-mail?

is facebook allowing the federal government to monitor messenger and whatsapp? big tech needs to be accountable. are they helping the government spy on american citizens? >> musk has said in the past and reiterated in his interview with tucker that he wants to make direct messages encrypted as you noted. that way the federal government and even twitter employees would not have access to user's dms. >> dana: grady trimble thank you. >> bill: mike el shellenberger. welcome to our coverage here. what did you think of last night and what he revealed to the american people? >> it's all very shocking. we were in the process of reporting on the twitter files and knew that the twitter staff was being very biased in their censoring of ordinary americans for saying things like woman is

not a man or man is not a woman. we also know that there were strong efforts by government-funded agencies to try to censor people for expressing and describing vaccine side effects. i think it's really quite disturbing. we're about to make a big call for my wise will blowers to come forward and more people inside social media companies to come forward. i think people don't appreciate how close we came to really having government censorship of all the major social media platforms. if it hadn't been for elon musk buying twitter we would never have realized how close we came to a total all -- tow tall -- in your reporting did you have a sense of how many people had this kind of access and if they were in particular doing anything specific with it?

>> you know, it's hard to know. i think it's telling that the former chief counsel to the f.b.i. went to twitter to be deputy chief counsel and one of the things i keep hearing if my research on this is that nobody ever leaves the intelligence community. we kept seeing the f.b.i. badgering twitter for more information and saw former f.b.i. employees like clint watts running disinformation campaigns claiming there were russian bots. they were ordinary citizens on twitter using it to discredit -- particularly trump voters -- and so you would just see a little like what elon said. a lot of discussion by mid-level, junior, senior employees over who should be censored, whether they should be censored. my assumption is senior staff had access to all those dms and when you saw that level of federal -- when you see that level of interaction with federal law enforcement

agencies, it is not a hard stretch to imagine that they had access to the dms. >> bill: let's see where that goes. just play clip number four, guys. this is on a.i. he thinks he can make a better model that's more trustworthy i think is the words he uses. watch. >> i will start something which you call truth gpt. a truth-seeking a.i. that tries to understand the nature of the universe and might be the best path to safety in the sense that an a.i. that cares about understanding the universe is unlikely to annihilate humans because we're an interesting part of the universe. >> bill: do you think that's possible? >> yeah. first of all, i think elon is having a very good moment here. he confronted the bbc last week when they claimed there was more hate speech online. the bbc reporter could not give

a single instance. you saw musk opening up and raising the alarm about a.i. aprop naturally. he called for government regulation. not something you hear from big ceos of big tech companies. ceos don't like regulation. it is a big pain. here we are with this radical technology we truly don't understand, including the people that created the technology don't understand. so i think credit to elon for raising the alarm and calling for pretty moderate regulatory solution and revealing the extent to which you have bad government involvement, illegal potentially government involvement in twitter and you also have a need for government involvement in regulating a.i. we have to mature and evolve a bit to deal with some of the complexity created by these new technologies. >> dana: a lot to think about. a lot of food for thought there.

>> bill: part two coming up tonight. i strongly encourage you to check it out. when you sit there, dana, and listen to elon musk talk and you think about how many big projects he is behind in american life. tesla, twitter, artificial intelligence, spacex. the questions are thin because you want to hear what he has to say about all this stuff. tucker's program went an hour last night and see how much he airs tonight. this could go for six hours and i think you would still be en thrilled with how much he is thing about and how much he shapes our lives today and will continue to for a long time in the future. >> dana: religious freedom on the docket. supreme court hearing oral arguments in a workplace discrimination case. evangelical christian mail carrier claiming the u.s. postal service refused his request not to work on sunday based on his faith. shannon bream is live on the

supreme court. how might this court rule on this different than 15 or 20 years ago? >> what they have to do is wade through old cases to decide how to apply the law to this case with garel groff. he started out filling in for other people's shifts and a backup. when he started working he said he didn't want to work on sunday and observes it as the sabbath. for a while it worked out. there came a point when amazon started working with the postal service to have sunday deliveries. what that meant is they needed more people on deck to work on sunday. they worked around this for a little while with accommodation if he could find people to cover his shift or they could find people he could continue to take sunday off. there was a lot of back and forth with the postal service. he began to get in trouble for not working sundays. it put a burden on the employer to constantly cover for him. that's the question we get to. he thought i'm about to get fired and resigned instead.

here we are years later at the supreme court. about what constitutes an undo hardship on the employer. did they have to find people to cover his shift. sundays weren't an issue when i started working there. it has been problematic for what undue hardship mean. he became a hassle. every week other employees worked the shifts. it wasn't workable. is that enough? the law says you can't discriminate against someone against their religion. he says this is what happened here. now we'll see how it plays out today between the nine justices with different viewpoints on who is the winner in this case. >> dana: shannon bream at her home away from home. thank you, shannon. >> see you later. >> the president of the united states will have a very hard time explaining how so many of his family members have received so much money from our adversaries around the world.

>> bill: house republicans making new claims about nine members of the biden family that they found, they believe, made money off suspicious business dealings from around the world. question today is the investigation heating up and what can they prove? >> dana: what the i.r.s. is doing with the $80 billion budget boost. >> bill: ran desantis rubbing elbows on the hill. are more republicans flocking to his corner? we'll check in on that, too, on coming up. the heartland of america. we rely on hard work and honest manufacturing to deliver high quality, heirloom inspired bedding, bath towels and more, all made in the usa. experience the farm to home difference for yourself. go to red land cotton dot com and receive 15% off your order with code fox news.

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>> bill: so fox news alert now from russia. a moscow court today uup holding the detention of evan gershkovitch, he was arrested two weeks ago. denied bail. remains in custody for trial. this is the first time we've

seen him in public since his arrest last month. gershkovitch, the u.s. and the journal deny the allegations. looked good in court. seemed to be a positive sign, i would say. stay strong. a lot of people pulling for you. the u.s. designated him as wrongfully detained and calling for his immediate release. we'll stay on his case as it goes. >> dana: house judiciary committee holding a hearing in manhattan on new york city's rising crime and taking aim at far left district attorney alvin bragg. democrats calling it nothing more than a political stunt. >> republican witnesses who have used their time to criticize district attorney bragg have served as props in a maga broadway production. >> dana: the mother of an army veteran who was stabbed and killed in new york city is taking on that congressman saying he and others need a reality check. >> challenge him to step one

foot in the hood. he is a rich black man just telling poor black men that they're props and that the crime and the things that they are experiencing is not as bad as they think that they are. not just him, all the elected officials. you know? all of them. especially the ones that are running new york. >> dana: we'll hear much more from madeleine brame when he joins us live next hour. i look forward to talking to her. she said something interesting about the listening part. what's the harm as a member of congress to come up and listen to witnesses. >> bill: her personal story is extraordinary. she is coming up next hour. >> dana: we'll look forward to having you hear. tax day, deadline to file your returns as the i.r.a. goes on a spending spree.

the agency's $80 billion windfall will put the focus on enforcement. the mainstream media played fast and loose with the truth about that. joining us now is a former partner at pwc and make row trend advisors. missed your face. remind us what's the biden administration said they wanted to do with the i.r.s. agents. >> really what they want to do is run down tax cheats. they feel there is a tremendous amount of lost revenue in billions of dollars because people aren't truthful in filing their tax returns. that requires two things. it requires people and it requires technology. they haven't really beefed up any of those things yet. technology spend will be massive and probably take ten years to get implemented. the people, they want to increase their workforce by 50% in three years. that's great but i come from that world and i know the big accounting firms are struggling

to find talent. i can't imagine how the government will hire people at a lower pay scale. >> dana: let's put it up for everybody from "politico" call for number one. i.r.s. aims to he employ 105,187 workers by 2025. that's a huge number. increase workforce levels by 50%. they promised middle class taxpayers would not see any effect from this. how do you think that looks now? >> i don't think that's the case. if they can do what they say they are going to do and they can match up people's banking information assuming the banks will provide it with what's reflected on their tax returns, they will find discrepancies and need people to conduct audits. but at the end of the day it is not going to be the people making over $4 hundred thousand a year that are going to get letters from the i.r.s. i think it will be virtually every taxpayer will get a letter

about some discrepancy. the middle class will probably feel it the most. it is really a big departure from the messaging from the administration. >> dana: one of the things that happened over the weekend i read an article about an audit of the i.r.s. and found that the technology they are using is so antiquated it is probably costing taxpayers more money just to try to deal with that. >> right. there is only one silver lining in all of this. people who file tax returns for a living who have to call the help center or even taxpayers who have to call the help center waited on hold endlessly. good news they staffed up the call center so people can get questions answered. you mentioned technology. i know this from advising businesses for decades. when companies decide to upgrade their technology in the private sector it is a very long, laborous, expensive process. when the government decides to

do it, it is even longer and often doesn't happen as expected. >> dana: by the time they do that it's outdated. janet yellen, this is what she said in august of 2022. a year ago. the inflation reduction act provides the i.r.s. what it needed for years, a stable stream of funding to allow the agency to serve american taxpayers the way they deserve. they point to more calls being answered. if you are trying to call the i.r.s. that's a comfort. as a last question talk a little bit about how the inflation reduck re-- reduction act what kind of drag is that on economic growth right now? >> i will give you a statistic in today's "new york post" which i still get at my door if florida, which is the average household is paying $4800 a year more in tax burden than

pre-pandemic. the average household is paying more in taxes and have less money to pump into the economy. then the reality is it's going to hurt the economy. that's the harsh reality of all of this. >> dana: black and white mathematics right through. mitch, we'll wish everyone well on this tax day. thank you for coming on the show. go mail that. >> this isn't just about the president's son or the president's brother. we've identified six new biden family members involved in shady foreign transactions that we believe were a direct result of influence peddling. >> bill: james comer promising to keep looking into the biden overseas dealings and if enemies targeted them. it could pose a threat to national security. from the north lawn jacque hein

reich has the story. >> he said the treasury department made thousands of pages of financial records available connected to the biden family, their companies and their associates. after viewing them, he said, quote, the biden family enterprise is centered on joe biden's political career and connections. we'll continue to pursue additional bank record to follow the web of transactions to determine if the biden family has been targeted by foreign actors and if there is a national security threat. house oversight democrats are down playing the significance of these revelations saying once again this probe uncovers 0 evidence of wrongdoing by president biden and committee republicans continue to mischaracterize suspicious activity reports as evidence of misconduct or criminality instead of calling them what they are, unsubstantiated tips that rarely result in follow up

by law enforcement. house republicans aren't dissuaded here vowing to keep digging. >> from what we can see you have many members of the family getting money. it appears to come from chinese and russian companies and various places around the world. this is not good. this is actually a very serious thing and it is a web of corruption. >> neither the white house nor treasury department responded to requests for comment from fox news. this follows news from last month that members of the biden family received more than a million dollars in pay-outs related to hunter biden's business associate rob walker and their chinese business ventures in 2017 according to records obtained by house oversight. a spokesman for hunter's legal team last month confirmed those payments but stressed that they belonged to hunter, his uncle, and hali the widow, nobody else.

in the meantime federal authorities are conducting their probe of hunter biden's tax affairs. that's being overseen by a trump-appointed judge in delaware. >> bill: a lot to follow. we'll put some of these questions to jonathan turley next hour. >> dana: two chinese american men arrested and charged with working for beijing on u.s. soil. they have been granted bail but prosecutors say they are a ring of chinese operatives. the weekend teen takeover of chicago is an embarrassment for the city and state so why are show leaders defending the chaos? >> they came with different intentions and they have and will be dealt with. i'm not going to use your language which i think is out of line. my retirement funds allow me to enjoy what i love to do.

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round of covid hearings after a senate report raising the possibility of not one, but two lab leaks. china is already angry. john ratcliffe testifies today, the star witness. we'll keep an eye on that as it gets underway on the hill. there is this from new york. >> it's our belief the ultimate purpose of this illegal police station was not to protect and serve but rather silence, harass and threaten individuals in the united states. >> dana: the f.b.i. arrested two men in new york city yesterday accusing them of setting up a secret police station in manhattan's chinatown. that was to spy on critics of the chinese government. nate foye with more on this from new york city. >> both those men are u.s. citizens. both residents of new york. both are free men today. they were let out on bail after appearing in federal court in brooklyn. they did have to surrender passports and limited financial

capabilities right now. the government did not seek their detention so neither of them are locked up. take a look at this video. one of the defendants leaving court in brooklyn yesterday. both men accused of not only running this secret police station in manhattan's chinatown but also destroying evidence of their communications with chinese officials. right now the extent of their cooperation and the operations in the secret police station has yet to be revealed. i want to show you behind me this building, the lettering you can see reports are the third floor of this building for months last year is where this operation was taking place behind these walls. a concerted effort to track down chinese dissidents and in some cases threaten them. u.s. officials pointed to a woman born in china but living in california was tracked down as a result of the efforts in this building. that was only part of what we learned yesterday. we also learned that the chinese

government used 44 people, many of them mps officers, to create fake social media accounts and spread disinformation online including about the origins of covid and anything that the chinese communist party does not like. now, on top of that there was an employee at zoom who is accused of using his position, dana, to censor political discourse. back out here live of those 44 people in the second part of this investigation that i just outlined, none of them have been arrested. all but one live in china. the two people arrested for running this police station face up to 25 years in prison. send it back to you. >> dana: thank you. >> bill: florida governor ron desantis making his way to capitol hill today. speculation growing for 2024. he is joining some republican members of congress in an event hosted by conservative group. could be a sign he is gaining

support on the hill as an alternative to former president trump. one lawmaker taking part in today's event is illinois congressman. just about a month ago this is what our poll showed. trump at 54%. desantis at 24 among republican presidential nominees. is this the sign today that you support desantis? why don't we start there. >> listen, i served with ron desantis in the house, bill, from 2015 to 2018. so i know ron. we are happy to welcome him back to capitol hill today with a number of my other colleagues. one of the strongest conservative voices across this country and done remarkable work in florida, right? best economy in the country, 50-year low in crime. what he did through covid is remarkable. to be honest with you, bill, i'm jealous coming from a state like illinois where we continue to emoti emotion -- hemorrhage people out of illinois.

people are going to florida. i look forward to hearing from governor desantis today and looking forward to having him in d.c. >> bill: i didn't hear a commitment on your part. that's fine. greg steubey, a congressman out of florida as you well now. has now over the past 24 hours joined five members from the florida congressional delegation that support donald trump. seems that he is building his own support as well, huh? >> governor desantis hasn't announced he will run for president. that time will come, i'm sure. today is just an opportunity again to hear the great success story that governor desantis has had in florida and for my colleagues to get reacquainted with him today and looking forward to having that conversation. >> bill: you mentioned crime in your first answer. can we talk about your town of chicago back in your home state? and what happened this past weekend? we talked about go to number three, state senator robert peters whose district is the chicago area.

he said i would look at the behavior of young people as a political act and statement. a mass protest against poverty and segregation. is that how you saw the events of this past weekend with hundreds in downtown chicago ripping through that city? >> no, not at all. bill. this is an embarrassment to the city of chicago and the state of illinois. this type of violence from youth running through chicago. unfortunately this is becoming more and more routine, bill. i spent ten years as a state and federal prosecutor in chicago. this is simply unacceptable. yet we have democratic elected leaders in chicago that do nothing about it. we're losing families and businesses out of chicago. when you have police that are demoralized because of the policies of the current mayor and the state's attorney it is ridiculous. >> bill: the mayor elect is

brandon johnson, all right? you heard what he said, right? i in no way condone the december tribadyive activity. however, it is not constructive to demonize youth otherwise starveed of opportunities in their own community. he will be the next mayor and he has talked a lot about social services and raising taxes. what's the fate of that town? >> well, i worry about it. when you have a mayor coming in that refuses to support law enforcement. talk to any police officer in chicago, bill. they are demoralized because none of these people that were involved in the violence you just showed there get arrested. they don't have to show up in court. no one gets charged. he is talking about having safe places for youth. you have to listen to law enforcement. this happens so routinely in chicago now. look at other states. look at other cities what they have done. support law enforcement. listen to law enforcement. that's what needs to be done

here. unfortunately it is going the wrong direction and we'll continue to see people react with their feet leaving chicago for other states like florida where they support law enforcement and don't let this ridiculousness go on. >> bill: thanks for coming on. republican from illinois. we'll watch ron desantis on the hill and see what comes from it. thank you for your time. thank you. >> dana reads sports. >> dana: so green ejected from the warriors playoff game against the kings. he apparently stepped on a sacramento player's chest. >> technical has been arrested. >> let me say this. >> dana: defending his actions saying his leg was grabbed and needed somewhere to land. that happens.

the warriors lost down two games to none. it is draymond. >> bill: did he hurt him? >> dana: that would have probably hurt. >> bill: you don't want to step on anybody. >> dana: sometimes you do have to land. >> bill: sometimes these guys roll on the ground and just scream, scream bloody murder like an english soccerman sometimes. >> dana: like soccer matches. hopefully everyone is all right. >> bill: shouldn't have done it. >> dana: have to be careful where you step. >> bill: secretary mayorkas back on the hill today. we're on that as well. a case that's fueling nationwide protests. in kansas city a teenager there shot after knocking on the wrong door. authorities charging the homeowner, 84 years old. and the mayor on what happens

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>> bill: case of a kansas city

teenager shot after going to the wrong home to pick up his two siblings. now authorities charging the elderly homeowner with first degree assault. he says he thought the teen was trying to break in and prosecutors say there is more to it. >> was there a racial component to this case? >> as the prosecutor i can tell you there was a racial component to the case. >> bill: the city mayor is quintin lucas. we'll begin with reporting from c.b. cotton in the newsroom in new york. the teenager is alive. what else do we know? >> good morning. the teen ralph yarl told police when the door opened he was immediately fired at. the man behind the trigger of the officers say it was 84-year-old an drew lester charged with two felony counts. he was taken into custody thursday night and charged with aggravated assault and released pending further investigation.

officers say lester shot the teenager. the teen's parents called their son an accomplished musician who is studious and kind. thursday night he went to the wrong house to pick up his younger twin brothers and told officers he rang the doorbell and took a while for someone to answer. when lester did, he had a gun and fired. lester says yarl was pulling on the locked storm door handle. something yarl denies. the teen says he fell after being shot and at that point he was shot again. yarl says he got up. ran away as he heard lester say, quote, don't come around here. the 84-year-old says he thought someone was breaking in and scared of the teen's size and that's why he fired his 32 revolver through the glass door. the arresting documents say no words were exchanged before the shooting. the teen is at home recovering. his mom telling cbs news it's a miracle. >> he is physically mornings are

hard but his spirits are in a good place. i borrow from his spirits. he is in very good hands. >> yarl's family is set to meet with the district attorney today and says president biden has called to wish the teenager a swift recovery. >> bill: thank you for that story reporting in new york. >> dana: let's bring in kansas city mayor quintin lewis. i understand yarl will make a full recovery. as the mayor of the city, somebody who oversees everybody. the prosecutor there says as a prosecutor he can say there is a racial component to this. can you speak any more to that? >> i think he also noted yesterday that he will say for the trial phase more details on that. i think generally there is a racial component with a white shooter, a black victim, a youth. that description of fear.

it sounds like a number of incident with black teenagers involved and siege like they are a threat even in situations where they aren't. i this i that's what i've heard broadly articulated thus far on the criminal justice side of things with the trial itself i won't get into any details any more than the prosecutor. >> dana: we showed a map and maybe we can put it up here again of the mistake made going to the wrong house. so one, you have a block away from each other. that might help everyone to understand how a mistake of going to the wrong house could happen. i do think that it's important to note -- he is studious and kind. the "washington post" reports this if we can put it up on the screen. that when lester was taken into police he is not in custody now. he was released on bail but told police it with as the last thing

he wanted to do but he was scared to death because of the teenager's size and his age and inability to defend himself according to the criminal complaint. he also said he believed he was protecting himself from a physical confrontation and couldn't take the chance of the youth coming in. he expressed concern for the victim and he was very upset. as you lead your constituents in a time like this, does that remorse help at all? >> you know, i don't know if it is. we have people i think justifiably, myself included, who are heartbroken and angered like something like this happens. i understand the defendant feels a bit of remorse. i have talked to any number of responsible gun owners. this is something that you just cannot do. shooting through your two locked doors. a locked screen door and an additional door in defense of

yourself just shooting. to shoot twice seems to reach an extreme that is, as we saw yesterday from the prosecutor's announcement, something that is unforgivable and worthy of the serious charges the defendant is facing. i think that while we understand his words and perhaps his remorse now, this 16-year-old should not have been shot in the head and then shot once more. that's the reason for the outrage and why the police department, prosecutor and so many others in the criminal justice system have brought charges in this situation. >> dana: let's zoom out. i had an opportunity to meet your chief of staff at a bipartisan meeting of former and current press secretaries. it was a great discussion. one of the things your staffer brought up what are the ways to communicate when it comes to crime overall that gets away from it being partisan. kansas city is similar to many other urban areas in the united states. crime is up. i think we have the city

homicides by year have gone up from 2017 you had 151 to today in 2022 up to 169. so i know that you probably spend most of your time thinking about crime and how to deal with it. let me put it to you if you could help us think about how to talk about crime in a way that we can find solutions without polarization. >> it shouldn't be a partisan issue. i talk to my fraternal order of police and visit with them. sometimes we disagree mightily but you have to have an understanding that everybody is rowing in the same direction. what happened is i think there has been a strong either/or. what i have sometimes said, sometimes it's controversial. our police departments are core utilities, right in the same way you would not get rid of the water company and the same way you wouldn't get rid of the power company, the things that are essential. the police are as well and are a vital part of how our society and cities can be stronger long

term. and then from the police side what i say and said it in this situation. people who are angry about the time in which it took to file charges. what i say is we welcome conversation and investigation, oversight, questions. there is no fear from that. at the same time we have to actually find ways to get on the same page because we have too many people dying. too many people in shoot-outs and too many things that make it look like the wild west in cities like this and so many around the country and we have to not say it's a partisan issue. it is not partisan to say it's a problem and finding ways to build it. the other thing i might say just because i happen to live in the midwest. i don't do national messaging for political parties either my own or the other one and sometimes i feel like the answers the speakers that come from other areas perhaps get a lot more play because they say wackier things. for us in a place like kansas city we're interested in working

with our police and law enforcement and prosecutors, leaders in the black community and clergy and how do we say how to get on the same page. >> dana: before we go i want to have ralph yarl's aunt said this on his gofundme page. ralph's teacher and say she is a kind soul. always willing to help, super smart and musical genius and grateful you came on the show today and wish everyone the best in kansas city. thank you. >> thank you so much, god bless you. >> bill: six minutes before the hour. not over yet, right? the feud between the governor of florida and disney going to another level. the latest on this. some call it a slugfest. that's coming up next. f-r-e-e.

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senate panel taking aim at the border crisis and warnings ignored by the biden administration that migrant children are being trafficked across the u.s. and forced to work dangerous jobs. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino. good morning. >> bill: new hour begins now. i'm bill hemmer. homeland security secretary mayokas in line of republican fire today facing a lot of tough questions as the administration struggles to contain the ongoing border crisis. among the questions we have this. how he is dealing with dangerous cartels, migrant children working in unhealthy conditions, and fentanyl flooding into the u.s. from mexico. >> dana: meanwhile the bombshell report on the origins of covid in the works for nearly two years finding evidence that suggest the deadly pandemic started as an unintentional leak of a lab created and altered virus. senator roger marshall placing the blame squarely on china. >>