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. >> there'll taking viruses that

were already very and mangeing them more virulent. >> dana: we are digging into the new covid report. >> this is a 300-page report. senator marshall tells me it involved 20 months of pretty extensive research using classified and unclassified information with dozens of experts. the report's conclusion is an accidental chinese lab leak back in november of 2019 is likely what started the covid-19 pandemic weeks before china ever even acknowledged the virus was out there publicly circulating. here is part of that conclusion. it reads the an unintentional research-related incident that

resulted from failures of bio safety containment during cars covid two related research. it suggests covid-19 may have leaked twice at the wuhan institute. once in september or october of 2019, which was contained. then again on a much bigger scale in november 2019 when chinese researchers were conducting highly risky gain-of-function research in an effort to develop a covid vaccine. senator marshall says they were handling the virus in labs that were not up to bio safety standards. >> i do think it was incompetence. number one, they knew they were having problems with containment, bio containment of viruses. when a virus becomes an aerosol it is hard to contain. this would go back to the faulty construction of their laboratory and then using improper techniques to clean the laboratories between experiments. so we think that led to

corrosion and then was very hard to contain the aerosol. >> happening right now as you can see the republican house subcommittee investigating the origins of covid-19 are in the process of holding their own hearing right now with fox news learning that former dni john ratcliffe will be testifying that the chinese lab leak is, quote, the only explanation as to how the pandemic started in the first place. in the meantime, a very irritated chinese embassy has penned a letter to the republican leader of that committee essentially telling him to back off. here is part of that letter quote, we call on the u.s. side to respect science and facts. refrain from targeting china in holding the hearings and put a stop to the intelligence led, politics division origins tracing and help promote solidarity against the pandemic and global cooperation

on tracing. marshall says he is 90% confidence in his conclusion that the covid pandemic likely started as a leak in a chinese lab in wuhan. he tells me because the chinese aren't releasing their data he can't be 100 percent confident and the f.b.i. recently told fox news they recently decided their assessment is this likely started as a chinese lab leak as well. >> dana: there you have it. thank you. >> bill: also in d.c. secretary mayokas testifying today before the senate homeland security committee. he faces questions about the administration's failure to protect migrant children. chad pergram is live with more on what to expect today. good morning to you. >> good morning. to many republicans mayokas embodies what they believe is wrong with the biden administration. they want to know if the u.s. has control of the southern border. mayokas says yes, others are

skeptical. >> sectors are experiencing a higher level of flow than we have seen previously and that creates some unique challenges for us and puts a strain on the overall immigration system. not just for myself but for our partner agencies, sheriffs departments and police department. >> stats over the weekend the border patrol says it apprehended 16,000 people. arrested three gang members and seized 459 pounds of cocaine. there is concern that those coming to the u.s. know how to game the system. >> you go to el paso, texas. the vast majority of people we're dealing with now are people giving up. they want to be apprehended. they know they will be released into the united states. >> there is a report in the "new york times" which says the white house does not want to hear about increases in child labor as a result of a lax border policy. concerns about kids working in unsafe conditions after they

gain entry. republicans say the border is an after thought to the administration. >> secretary mayokas has failed at his job utterly. i have been firm on calling for us to be continue to hold him accountable. he will be before congress this week. he will be asked questions by our colleagues and he should have answers. >> house homeland security committee chairman mark green is preparing a packet making a case against mayokas. green says if it rises to impeachment he will present it to jim jordan, the chair of the judiciary committee. >> bill: we're watching. thank you, chad pergram on the hill. >> dana: there is a new drip in the hunter biden investigation. republicans on the house oversight committee now say they have identified six additional members of the biden family who may have benefited from biden family business dealings which could pose a national security threat. >> treasury to review over 100

suspicious activity reports on the biden family. i have to tell you, there are more bidens involved than we knew previously. and every time you overturn or look under a stone there is so much more you have to investigate. the amount of money we're talking about in these suspicious activity reports is astronomical. >> dana: jonathan turley is a george washington university law professor and fox news contributor. call for number one. comer, the chairman of the committee, he says the biden family enterprises centered on joe biden political career and connections and made an exorbitant amount of money for the biden family. they are not just thinking it might or supposing it might. as nancy mace said they looked at the records at the treasury department. >> indeed. i think we may be at the tipping point.

the democrats blocked any investigation into the bidens for years. after the gop takeover of the house, they demanded to see some of these suspicious transactions and bank reports. the result has been to confirm what many of us have been writing about for years. the biden family business is largely influence peddling. that's the favorite form of corruption in washington. the bidens took it to a degree that i this i is unprecedented. i have been a credit of influence peddling for 30 years. this is how many is made in washington. but i have never seen anything like what we are witnessing with the bidens. this is a direct threat to the president. in the emails on the hunter biden laptop people are told to use code names for the president like the big guy or celtic. witnesses said he was expressly told to not mention the president's name. there are references to a

percentage going to the president. hunter biden himself complained about having to give a cut to his father of his earnings. all of that is corruption. what the democrats have largely said is well it's not necessarily a crime. okay, but it is corruption. we should be concerned about millions of dollars of influence peddling. >> bill: i think that's the central question. you just put your finger on it. it could be obscene amounts of money and unseemly, but the way washington works, as you just said, is this written in the code somewhere that would prove that it is illegal to conduct business this way? >> well, i think you have to keep in mind that the house looks at it not just crimes but corruption. they look into whether foreign policies might have been influenced, whether there were other influences that were able

to be essentially purchased through this money. all of that is legitimate. we should want to know that. keep in mind that even though influence peddling itself has been carefully kept legal. there is a reason for that. this is the cottage industry of washington. it still tends to spin off crimes. lies to federal investigators. transactions that were not lawful can cause problems under the criminal code. but even without that, we should want to know. this is a lot of money that was spent to gain influence. the question is, what did they buy and who did they buy it from? >> dana: so those questions are out there and we have a little bit more information now. on another topic look at the "new york post" cover today. clever as always. mouse trapped. this has to do with call for number three, disney's financial fairytale in florida is coming to an end. the company has woke in its

policies. this is a crossing of the rubicon plunging into politics. disney game the symbol of increasing corporate activism. ron desantis made a move no more of this agreement you have had for so long. how do you see it playing out? will there be legal action here? >> there may be. i have to tell you i'm baffled by the legal strategy by disney. i don't see a strategy. it is not wise to go against something with taxing authorities. i can't see a scenario where disney wins but they really doubled down at the last minute when the old disney-controlled board essentially transferred its powers to disney for 30 years. it even prevented the new board from using the names of disney characters. now first of all, that move is going to on wednesday likely to be declared null and void by the

new board. i think it may be. i think it was in violation of state law. but i think the state will win this. the question is, what is disney thinking? they have billions in fixed assets in real estate in florida. they can't just get up and leave. and so this strategy of doubling down is going to radically increase the cost to this company. >> bill: sir, thank you for your time. jonathan turley. see what comes next, right? >> dana: you were right, tomorrow is wednesday for everybody keeping count of their days. >> bill: if desantis does get in the race interesting to see how it plays out in the primary. in every one of his appearances and speeches he says florida is where woke goes to die. how does that resonate with republicans who will be the ones who are voting in this iowa, new hampshire and south carolina? it is almost like issue number one for him at the moment.

>> dana: we'll see. people are also clamoring for some sort of discussion amongst all the candidates, including the democrats, about an economic growth plan. what are we going to go to get this economy moving forward? >> florida has been growing, that's for sure. >> dana: we might hear more about that. take a look here. >> there is no way this is a scam. this is my daughter's voice. this wasn't just some person pretending. as a mother you know your daughter's voice. this was my daughter. >> bill: it was not her daughter's voice in this case. how criminals are taking advantage of artificial intelligence to trick and extort people. fascinating. >> dana: the mother of an army sergeant murdered in new york city, one of the witnesses at the house field hearing on crime yesterday. she joins us next on her push to stand up for victims of violence in the city and who is ultimately to blame. >> as far as the manhattan district attorney's office, if he is receiving one penny of

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>> bill: federal appeals court has struck down a natural gas ban in democrat-led berkeley, california. biden administration supported the ban passed in 2019 as part of the city's climate agenda. but the judges rule it violated federal energy policy and conservation act of 1975 by banning gas pipes in new building construction. got that? the law prevents local regulations from impacting natural gas appliances. >> dana: also with the rise of artificial intelligence comes a rise in a.i. scams. be watching for these.

criminals are using voice clones to convince people their loved ones have been kidnapped in an effort to extort money from them. diabolical stuff. alicia acuna is in denver with more. >> this is a terrifying example out of scottsdale, arizona. jennifer answered call from a number she did not recognize and heard her 15-year-old daughter's voice say mom, plus some sobbing and crying. >> i picked up the phone and he says i have your daughter. this is what's going to happen. you call anybody, call the police i will pop her full of drugs and have my way with her and drop her off in mexico and you'll never see your daughter again. >> the mother believed it. her daughter has a distinct way of crying and that's what she heard coming through the phone. her friends scrambled to reach her husband, their daughter was safe with him. the supposed kidnapper was using an artificial intelligence cloned voice.

this form of a.i. is so sophisticated now some need a mere 3-second voice sample to recreate an authentic sounding person. right now the applications are outpacing the law. >> the crooks are having a field day trying to make a certain amount of money before it all becomes truly unlawful. >> if you get an alarming call and trying to distinguish between a cloned voice and loved one the federal trade commission recommends don't trust the voice. call the known number to verify the person. try family and friends. scammers will almost always ask you the pay in ways that make it hard to get known back like gift cards or crypto. jennifer said when she talked to her daughter on the phone, even for that moment she couldn't tell real from the unreal which is so scary. >> dana: that is an important story for us. thank you.

>> your experiences are devastating. but the problem is that this is a charade to cover up for an abuse of power. the purpose of this hearing is to cover up for what they know to be an inappropriate investigation. now, i look forward, many of you are -- >> can i respond to you please? >> not right now. >> don't insult my intelligence. >> hang on. >> you are trying to insult me like i'm not aware of what's going on here, okay? i am fully aware of what's going on here. >> bill: our next guest testified about the city's handling of her son's murder case that goes back to 2018. the d.a. downgraded and dismissed charges against two of the people accused of beating and stabbing her son to death. madeleine brame is her name. chairwoman of the victims right

reform council. good morning. you have been through the ringer the past five years. isn't over just yet. two others involved received life sentences and two others were indicted on lesser charges. was justice served in your case? >> absolutely not. the two that were sentenced were both offered plea deals.life. even the actual stabber avoided trial by pleading guilty. if he went to trial he would have got 25 to live. bragg offered a stabber 25 to life. >> bill: why would that offer be on the table? >> because of day one memo. the ideology, the way his approach to reimagining what public safety is supposed to look like. and which includes not holding criminals responsible for their criminal behavior, all right?

emptying out jails. that's what we see happening here. >> dana: ask you about yesterday's hearing. i was just surprised here is an opportunity for the people of new york, including members of congress who were there yesterday, to hear from constituents. i know you have been trying to meet with them and offered to meet with them. even when you are there in front of them and you are telling your story and ask if you can respond and they try to shut you down so they can make a point that they wanted to make to say the hearing was because of donald trump and politics. how did you feel right then? >> disrespected and insulted like he was trying to insult my intelligence just like i said. i felt exactly what i said. >> dana: if the congressman goldman had said i would love to have more time with you come and visit me and let's meet i want to talk to you. he is a former prosecutor, right? would you take that meeting? >> absolutely.

>> dana: what would you tell him? >> i'm not really sure. i'm not really sure what i would tell him. i've been so ostracized. i have been so shunned and ignored by these people that are in power, all right, for all these years. just -- not just me but all the victims. i would be very angry. i would be very angry if he was willing to listen to me express myself, all right, and then we can put our heads together and try to come up with some solutions that would work. on the onset, i'm angry not just for the way me and my family and my grandchildren were treated and my son, but for all the hundreds of thousands of others. >> bill: we heard your clip say i'm fully aware what's going on. we had the words on the screen. you were speaking with a congressman that dana just

mentioned. you went on to say that's why i walked away from the plantation of the democratic party. >> exactly. >> bill: where did that come from? >> from being a 40 year loyal democrat voting democrat since i'm 18 years old, all right? because that's what black people do is vote democrat, all right? getting nothing in return for our vote, dilapidated housing, poverty, crime, unemployment and we're voting the same way generation after generation after generation. until 2020 when i started listening to trump, all right? i started really tuning in to what he was saying and i'm like this guy is right. this guy is right. so i changed my political affiliation from democrat to conservative because black people don't like the word republican. republican reminds you too much of racist, okay? but black people need to understand that they don't have

to register as a republican. they can be a conservative, a black conservative and vote based on the values that we were raised with, god, nuclear family and country. all of us were raised with those values and those are conservative values. democratic party has done nothing but help our community self-decimate from the inside out. that's what it is doing. it is rotting from the inside out. >> bill: you are having quite a moment. we've seen you on tv a lot. your story continues. sorry about the loss of your son. >> dana: your light shines bright and we thank you for it. madeleine brame. thank you. we'll stay in touch. >> bill: thank you. [shouting] >> dana: mayhem in chicago over the weekend as hundreds of teenagers took over the streets. the city's mayor elect is giving

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bite. i'll save time. karl, what do you think of mccarthy's move yesterday? did he put points on the board for republicans? >> i think so. he laid out a proposal, the outlines of a proposal basically to raise the debt ceiling for a year and to accompany it with what he called trillions of dollars in savings over the next decade. the problem is that he has got a very narrow majority to work with. 222 house republicans. they need 218 votes to pass a debt ceiling measure that includes spending cuts. no democrat or very few democrats. maybe 1 or 2 would vote for it. even then they're likely to vote for it if the republicans deliver 218 votes. there are 16 republicans in the house today who have never, never voted to raise the debt ceiling even when it was donald trump asking them to do so.

so if you have 222 and 16 never voted that puts you short by about 14 votes i guess it is. >> dana: you think it might not be true in the end that they will be united? >> they are not united today. when you have a texas congressman chip roy, go out and refer to the republican members of the problem solvers caucus that is trying to find common ground and get a bipartisan solution to the debt ceiling that involves spending cuts and restraint and calls them s.o.bs. he spelled out all those words. for doing that there is not unity among the republicans. i think i'm right in this, chip roy was working for senator ted cruz when he shut down the government by driving the house republicans who were in the majority into voting to shut down the involvement unless the obamacare was repealed when the republicans were seven votes down in the senate -- down 53-47

and no chance of passing a repeal of obamacare unless seven democrats voted to it. he was happy to participate in driving republicans into a box canyon then and hurt us in the next election. there is an element of the house freedom caucus is willing to do that in the house freedom vote. >> bill: jim jones, i don't know if you are familiar with him has a piece on the hill. jim jones was the a.g. in idaho for eight years and on the idaho supreme court for 12 years. he writes this. the republican party may see a wave coming bop it painted itself in a corner that it can't escape in time. it will be swamped by a wave of suburbanites, women and young people who had enough and won't take it anymore. i don't know how you feel about that today. trump has the mojo in all the polling right now, karl. >> i think the issue will be for

attorney general jones, he is framing the issue as are the republicans have an election like michigan or will they have an election like ohio, georgia and florida. in michigan the republicans got swamped because they didn't have a good answer on abortion. and democrats had a constitutional referendum to add abortion rights into the constitution. the republicans were at first all over the board and then they were in a place where it was hard to defend to the average voter in michigan. on the other hand, in ohio a strong pro-life governor and georgia a strong pro-life and florida won re-election by making the campaign about bigger things than just abortion alone but willing to defend in reasonable terms what they had done to protect the right to life in their state. the question i think general jones is correct the republicans face a choice. the question is will they be more like michigan or ohio,

georgia and florida? >> bill: i'm taking notes. >> dana: have to work on the board later. we are already getting ready. karl rove, thank you so much. when i say we're getting ready we are. fox news will host the first republican debate in milwaukee this very august. not too long from now. >> bill: in the meantime also in the midwest progressive leaders in the town of chicago appear to be excusing this chaos that erupted there over the weekend. large groups of teens and young adults ascending on a popular downtown district destroying property and attacked tourists. it was a mess. garrett tenney has the fallout from chicago with more today. hello. >> bill, good morning to you. you have elected officials at every level who are either defending what happened or explaining it away instead of outright condemning it. we just got this new video in that's disturbing and tough to watch but you can see here a young woman being surrounded by

a couple dozen young people who proceed to beat her. another young man that she is with there on the street saturday night. our colleague matt finn spoke to the young woman's mother who said there was no reason for the attack. her phone was stolen. she got a scratch on her face and taken to the hospital to get checked out. it was only thanks to a good samaritan who took them to the hospital. this gives you a sense of the total disregard for law and order and the braise brazenness on some of the youth. smoking in their cars on a crowded street in front of cops. >> no loitering please disperse. >> >> state senator tried to describe this as a mass protest against poverty and segregation. one alder woman is blaming the city saying it's the lack of

investment and trouble there is what led to scenes like this. >> i don't justify this behavior but think about this. would they be downtown if they had things in their own community? >> >> these teen takeovers have become a regular event the past few years when the weather warms up. some local activists are fed up with what's its doing to the folks who live downtown, the city and its reputation. others are criticizing incoming mayor brandon johnson for urging folks not to demonize the youth responsible in his response to the destruction. >> he is giving them a way to continue this, which i find reprehensible, unacceptable. there has to be a clear line drawn between good and bad behavior and we cannot give an ounce to those who seek to manipulate our sensibilities for their own criminal actions. >> chicago police leadership isn't inspiring a lot of confidence that things will be different the next time this

happens. in a statement released yesterday police detailed what steps they plan to take to prevent this. those items look a whole lot similar to what we saw a year ago that they said they plan to do to keep it from happening again. >> bill: seems like you have issues there. good luck in chicago, garrett. garrett tenney live in chicago. quickly now a hockey star posting an impressive performance in the boston marathon this weekend. dana, you know him well among 30,000 participants and finished in just over 3 1/2 hours. won the stanley cup for boston in 2011. the catch. he ran 26 miles. he is six feet nine inches tall. how do you drag a human body across 26 miles through the hills of boston that much? well done. >> dana: very impressive. if i ran a marathon i would want

to hide in the crowd because i don't think i would make it. i admire marathon runners. that's impressive. he can't hide. no way he could hide. want to get you this. breaking news out right now. southwest airlines flights are grounded at this time. apparently it looks like due to a computer issue. the faa says southwest airlines requested the faa pause airline's departures. all flights, nothing leaving now. fox news reached out for confirmation. so far no response. airlines telling customers it hopes to resume operations as soon as possible. southwest airlines. if you are flying today be aware it could cause significant problems and we'll update you. >> bill: you think about christmas this past year. for 1 time "wall street journal" reporter evan gershkovitch has been seen inside a courtroom on camera. the judge's ruling on his appeal in a moment coming up.

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>> bill: america's kids struggling to read. the education system failing them. frustrated with record low test scores states and parents are changing the way they teach their children. author and mother bethany mandel is here to talk about this. nice to see you. a couple things here. this is the states that have passed laws that have the science of reading or evidence-based reading instruction. up to 23. states that mandate it in school are seven. next slide there in green on screen. nations report card going back to 2019. eighth graders down three points. fourth graders down three points. dropping to the levels we have not seen since 1992.

>> dana: those scores are worse in the cities. >> bill: what do we do about it? >> they've shifted away from phonics-based reading. how they are teaching reading. incredible podcast that devils into the science of what happened to all these readings scores. they show a kid a page and say pick up context clues what it is saying instead of sounding out every word, cat cat. they say look at the picture. see a picture of the cat. it is a very round about way of teaching reading that has no basis in how any of us learned how to read. it is why we can read and why kids can't. >> dana: a lot of reading consultants made a lot of money when they had to change. i don't mind innovation saying we have a better way to learn. we actually know that this is failing kids all across the board. recently we did a story about baltimore school system. it is the scores.

two weeks later chicago scores come out and as bad as baltimore. chicago's answer was we're in line with everybody else. that's not good enough. the long-term consequences of this for their life. you are raising several young children and you know they have to be educated. i just wonder if you think about that from a broader perspective as you look at education from a bigger picture. >> in first grade and third gate you can't read and consider the impact of covid and the fact children were taught how to read on zoom. you can't be taught that way and you can't be taught how to read wearing a mask. we homeschool and i say cat, look at my mouth. if you can't look at someone's mouth you can't learn how to read. fast forward in eighth grade and given a textbook about science or history, if you can't read that textbook you can't glean

information necessary out of that. >> bill: you have a new book. i want to get to this. stolen youth, how radicals are erasing innocence and indoctrinateing a generation. you were on tv recently. you had a brain bubble. you write about that. you talk about that. tell us about the book. how have you reacted since? >> it has been a whirl wind the last six weeks. i had a baby six weeks prior to starting the book. it is tied into this idea that the experts are in charge of our children and we should just trust the experts. all this reading stuff the reason that this came into existence and people looked at what was going wrong in education they saw on zoom school how are you teaching my kid how to read? of course they can't figure out how to read if you're teaching it this way. it opened parents' eyes and reading and indoctrine nation.

all these experts are teaching our kids there are 67 genders and how to cache empathy and emotion. you are told if you question this you are wrong, you are an idiot a bigot and how they silence opposition. it is the same with reading and test scores and we're told to be quiet by people who are educating children who at the end of the day can't read and graduating ill literate children. don't question the way we're teaching empathy and how they teach empathy is teaching children that everyone and everything is racist and you have to operate in a crt sort of mindset in order to raise children who don't have racist tendencies. >> dana: you go through that in the book. congratulations and great to have you up here in new york with us. >> thanks for having me. >> dana: you have a little one in the greenroom. southwest weighing in as all flights are grounded now. an update on air travel troubles

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grounded. we'll update you when we get more. >> dana: a moscow court upheld the detention of "wall street journal" report evan gershkovitch. an appeal from the 31-year-old attorney denied. greg palkot has more. >> we were hoping to give you good news about evan gershkovitch. we knew it was a long shot. we got to see him for the first time since his captivity by russia on the espionage charges. he paced inside a glass box in the moscow courtroom. smiled from time to time. seemed in good shape after three weeks in prison. there were no smiles. his appeal to get a change if prison, allowed out on house arrest or bail were all denied. that means gershkovitch will remain in that tough prison for at least until his trial set for the end of may. that carries with it a 20-year sentence, the espionage rap. it's hard to beat. u.s. ambassador to russia was at

the hearing today and she again called for his release. the only way he will get out is perhaps after he is convicted and then a prisoner swap is what many people believe. >> dana: not the news we wanted to get. >> bill: before we go. north carolina, this guy is reading in his backyard hanging out enjoying the afternoon when this little guy wants to say hello and they both go hello, what are you doing here? the bear, i think i need to go. >> dana: harris faulkner is next. here she is. >> harris: fox news alert now. chinese communist party as a foothold. is it something even that we could think about tolerating? no. the ccp has set up operations of different kinds inside the united states. why? what are they doing? i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." the department of justice has just announced three separate cases. two of those involving online harassment o