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 of china's critics

living inside the u.s. more than 40 charged for, quote, creating and using fake social media accounts to harass and intimidate dissidents of china's regime living here and seeking to suppress their free speech. the defendants remain at large. the other case sur real. two men in court yesterday, federal agents arrested them for operating a secret chinese police station in new york city. the d.o.j. calling it a significant national security matter. despite that, the suspects were able to get out on bond with just a few hours. it is new york city. one hour, one house foreign affairs republican says this is just the beginning. >> i think this is a coordinated plan. i this i the chinese are embedding chinese nationals throughout our country. this police force here will be a

big part of making sure they can coordinate and keep them on the same page for whatever their intended goal is here. not good. i think that they are a force that is intended to coerce and intimidate those here. they have more on the way. i think this is very concerning. >> harris: who is living among us? general jack keane in "focus" in moment. let's begin with nate foye at the site of the police facility in new york city. >> both the men accused of running this secret police station in lower manhattan are u.s. citizens, both residents of new york and both are free men this afternoon. they both received bail after making their initial court appearance in federal court in brooklyn. federal prosecutors don't believe they are a flight risk or a danger to the community. they had to give up their passports and have limited financial capabilities. look at this video as one of those defendants left court in

brooklyn yesterday. the two men are accused of not only running the secret police station but also destroying evidence of their communications with chinese officials. the extent of their cooperations and the real operations that were going on here still have yet to be determined. back out here live i want to show you where all of this was allegedly happening. be mind me this glass building to the right of the fairfield inn and suites reportedly on the third floor is where this secret police station was headquartered and controlled by the chinese government. an f.b.i. official talked about this, harris, after they shared that in one case, one of the defendants here helped the chinese government track down a living in california. >> this is clearly a blatant violation of our national sovereignty and the audacious activity to government of china

has carried out right here on american soil. >> separate from all that u.s. officials also accuse the chinese government of deploying 44 people, many of them secret officers of the mps, to spread disinformation and threaten dissidents. in one case an employee at zoom is accused at using his position to silence political discourse. the 44 people in that part of this investigation still remain at large. all but one of them live in china. the two people u.s. citizens accused of running this secret police station face up to 25 years in prison. but again, neither one is locked up this afternoon. we'll send it back to you. >> harris: not in soft on crime new york city apparently. nate foye, thank you. general jack keane, retired four star army general, also chairman of the institute for the study

of war. thank you for being in "focus" today. first of all, what pops as the biggest problem ordaininger in what we're learning today? >> first of all, it is part of the most comprehensive penetration of american society in our history. we know what the soviet union did for 45 years during the cold war. it pales by comparison with china. china is concerned about chinese americans speaking out in america against china. not just in beijing, not just in shanghai which they certainly do. here in america. and they put together an extensive program to shut that down and using american citizens of chinese nationalism to do it. this is part of this comprehensive program but also in my judgment, harris, reveals an achilles heel that they have.

they are so concerned about their own people dissenting against them and also the world dissenting against them they do anything to shut it down. they fear that dissent in their own country i'm convinced more than they fear the american military. they know it is their achilles heel. they are a repressive regime exercising control as much as they possibly can and as much as that demonstrates strength, it is their fundamental weakness because it can implode on them. what we need to do is push back on this. remove the scab. every time china is pushing on us, make it a public thing. look how they react every time that happens and make certain the people in china know the extent of what is happening. that's called an influence campaign on the part of the united states. coordinated, make it comprehensive and penetrate that society there so they

understand. get our allies and partners involved as well. >> harris: so that's really fascinating. do you think, general, based on what you just said there is any possibility that when china was flying that spy craft from one of the end of the united states to the other that they actually thought they could get away with that? that maybe america wouldn't talk about that publicly and maybe the biden addministration. >> there are four other spy balloons involved us. one circled the globe and there were three who came up from the southern part of the united states and there was no mention of any of that because we didn't detect it. so i think yeah, i think your observation is a good one, harris. they thought they would get away with it.

listen, we need to get the answers in terms of how comprehensive and what kind of penetration do they really have? looking at what we know now, it was probably pretty serious and i'm not convinced the administration is accurate when they said they defeated china's capability to sur veil us early on before it spent a week over the united states territory. i suspect that may not be accurate. >> harris: it is hard not to talk about that when you consider secret police stations set up on american soil so they can hunt down people who don't agree with the chinese government by using our land and our chinese nationals to do that. of course you will think what else are they doing? oh yeah, the spy balloon and we simply don't know what we don't know. i'm hoping that at the top of biden's government they do know. okay, right now house republicans are holding their second hearing trying to get to the bottom of the origin of the

coronavirus pandemic. china's government can't come complete a sentence without saying china's government. they are in the midst of everything. they sent a stark warning to a subcommittee chair, brad wenstrup. it called the hearing of grave concern adding we firmly oppose it. a bit of the action this morning. watch. >> what is clear, though, is that china does not want the globe to know the origins. they dodge and duck every legitimate attempt to investigate this question. my informed assessment as a person with as much access as anyone to our government's intelligence during the initial year of the pandemic has been and continues to be that a lab leak is the only explanation credibly supported by our intelligence, by science, and by common sense. >> harris: there is only one thing that matters in all of this really, how far would a communist government, china, go

to quiet our lawmakers as we dig deeper to find out what happened at the beginning of covid, general? >> it is time for the united states government really to pin the rose here on china and the laboratory causing the leak that eventually spread around the world. the f.b.i. has concluded that, this very lengthy report has concluded it. we should stop dodging the issue from the administration's perspective and pin the rose and let's go after president xi for permitting international flights out of wuhan city after he shut down domestic flights, knew he had covid there, but let it spread around the world. i believe that is a criminal act and he should be held accountable for that. >> harris: what does it look like if we go after him, real quick? >> he will deflect all of that but we can penetrate to his people. that is the thing that he is concerned about most.

loss of confidence by the chinese people and the chinese communist party. that's his number one concern as the leader of china. >> harris: i appreciate you laid it out in such a way that shows the weakness at the top with president xi and there is ground to run against him if we are willing to do it. you are willing to do it. we have to get everybody on board. everybody has to be willing to do it. general jack keane, a pleasure to have you in "focus" today. thank you. >> always great seeing you. >> harris: a judge is forcing the f.b.i. to hand over all records related to that 2021 national school board association letter. you know, the one that called on the administration to target concerned parents. they use the word terrorists in that. plus border officials bracing for impact as we near the end of title 42 at the border. >> as soon as title 42 is lifted, it will be an invitation

to everyone to hit our border as hard as they can. >> homeland security secretary mayokas has even more to answer for apparently. a stunning new report that says the biden administration did not want to hear about a surge in dangerous migrant child labor. tennessee republican senator marsha blackburn in "focus" next. ♪ my name is brian delallo. i teach ap and honors economics in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. financial well-being to me is knowing that i can be free to do the things that i love to do.

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>> harris: happening right now, secretary mayokas live on capitol hill right now again in front of the senate homeland security committee trying to answer for the biden administration's raging border crisis. he has a lot of questions hitting him right now. the hearing comes as "the new york times" reports the white house was ignoring repeated warnings of skyrocketing migrant child labor numbers. not only did they ignore the problem, ignore the danger for those little ones, dhs ultimately fired a whistleblower who had come forward with a lot of information on it. customs and border protection have released march's southwest border numbers. encounters down over march of last year but up 25% from february. texas governor greg abbott warning about what will happen when title 42 restrictions

expire next month. >> as big as the challenge has been already, the magnitude and size of that challenge is about to get a whole lot bigger with the lifting of title 42. because of the magnitude of the challenges that we deal with today, every county in texas is now a border county. >> harris: in the senate a bipartisan group of senators spearheading a bill to fight human smuggling and trafficking of young women and girls across the border with mexico. one of those leading the charge is republican senator marsha blackburn of the great state of tennessee. you have been on it and building and this is the culmination of all that work. what's the latest? >> yes, you are right about that because we hear from local law enforcement precisely what the governor was saying. every town is a border town. every state a border state in this country.

harris, our state agencies and bureaus of investigation, need access to funds to help them fight this. we know that health and human services office of refugee resettlement has completely lost track of 85,000 children that have come into this country. we know that you have got over 250,000 unaccompanied alien children and they can't find 85,000 of them? you reference the whistleblower and what we're hearing is that many of these children are going to individuals who want to use them as child labor. this is something that has to stop. the fact that they do not know if these children are being trafficked, if they are in gangs, if they are being used for drug trafficking, sex trafficking. harris, they cannot answer the

question. but what they do know, it is very intentional what they are doing at this southern border with allowing the border to be open and having all of these cri criminal non-citizens coming into the country, 11,000 so far this year. hundreds of gang members so far this year. >> harris: i want to sit on that 85,000 children that the federal government has lost track of for just a moment. it was you to this program when we first found out about the sur -- flights at night even in your state. they were very young. the federal government has been misusing and losing track of children for a very long time. that number, 85,000, didn't just happen overnight. i want to point that out because people may realize and remember you were the first to tell us

that and then we got the video in that matched your words. unbelievable. it is a mark against the soul of this administration. >> you are right. these children being sent to people that are using them for labor or putting them into gangs or sex trafficking. this is modern day slavery and the humanitarian crisis that this has caused. the fact that this administration continues to say come on, border wide open. imagine if you are a parent from one of the 176 countries who had people present at our southern border from those countries and all of a sudden you thought your child was going to america for education and opportunity. you can't find them or hear from them and you have no idea where they are and the federal government who said we're in charge cannot find them.

does not know where they are, and is not making the effort to find these children. >> harris: quite possibly wouldn't get on the phone or horn to help you find that child even if they could. we also have over a million gotaways in this country. haven't heard any movement on finding any of them. we're too busy at the biden border crisis right now. the judge ordered the f.b.i. to release records on the 2021 national school board association letter. that was the memo you will recall which asked the biden administration to label parents as domestic terrorists for their protests over curriculum in schools and lockdowns and so on and so forth. we were in a world of hurt coming out of the height of the pandemic in 2021. the national school board on september 29, 2021, decided to write a letter that said parents were committing acts of violence, threats against public school officials that needed the

classification of heinous actions equivalent to the form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes. the judge denied two motions from the f.b.i. to dismiss the case or have it decided in their favor. attorney general merrick garland dodged the question all together on the memo during a senate hearing last month. let's watch. >> your employees helped them write the letter, didn't they >> i don't know anything that suggests that true. >> the white house helped them write the letter. >> i have no knowledge. >> did you issue a directive to your criminal division to start investigating parents who are angry. >> nothing in my memorandum says to investigate parents who are angry. >> this looks like you were just giving into the teachers unions and politicizing the disagreement, the honest disagreements. don't you think parents had a right to be upset? >> harris: fourth paragraph. it was five days after that original national school board

association. how fast the d.o.j. even acted for these teachers. he said that he was directing the federal bureau of investigation to work with each constituency, tribal, local, state and hold meetings addressing the threats against school administrators and come up with dedicated lines of communication for finding those parents, paraphrasing the last part there. senator. >> the american people and these parents have the right to know who was in that white house meeting how many times did the teachers union go to the white house. who did they work with at d.o.j. to cook up this plot to label parents who were concerned crt and the fact that is being taught, are concerned about masks on their children when it makes no difference. they are concerned about those things. they show up to ask questions of their elected representatives and all of a sudden they are subject to an f.b.i.

investigation? you better believe they deserve to know what was behind this, who was colluding with who, who was working with who, who participated in writing that and why did the f.b.i. and d.o.j. jump on this issue immediately when it takes them sometimes six months to answer a question that we have sent to them? or they can't find hunter's laptop and it is taking them years to look at that? it shows you their priority is to do what the white house tells them to do. now harris, that is not their job. they are to be the primary law enforcement organization and to do the work of we the people with a capital p, and that is not what they are doing. they are doing the bidding of joe biden and the white house. >> harris: look, why can't

attorney general merrick garland remember his own handwriting? i know you are working to get to the bottom of it on the hill and we'll be watching an covering. great to have you in "focus." thank you. the battle to protect women and girls sports, the white house says a republican bill to do just that is already dead on arrival. he says he will veto it. new reaction over elon musk bombshell interview with tucker carlson. >> what elon is saying that the government is intercepting and monitoring dms raises an obvious question about the rest of big tech. >> harris: how bad did the government spying get? are the feds still watching your private messages? hum. jason chaffetz in "focus" next. (vo) red lobster presents fun dining: taste buds need not be faithful to one shrimp dish. thrill them with shrimp three ways.

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>> harris: president biden says he will stamp it with a veto. republican bill to protect girls and women's sports. how republicans have set up vote this week on legislation to keep biological males out of female sports. it would require any institution that gets title ix funding to ban transgender women and girls from competing against biological females. the white house again says the president will say no, veto it, kill it. part of a statement reads like this. congressional republicans have chosen to prioritize policies that discriminate against children. that quote coming from the white house. the bill's sponsor congressman greg steubey who you know joined "focus" last week. here he is. >> title ix was created by congress 50 years for women's sports to allow women to compete with each other at coll edge yacht levels in activities in sports. this completely does away. what the left has done in attempting to erode that by

allowing biological males to compete with women in women's sports. >> harris: apparently they are willing to kill title ix. riley gaines, who has been outspoken in protecting women's sport fired off this tweet. the biden administration the actively and aggressively working to pass laws which erase decent and fair treatment for women in sports. olympic gold medalist says gaines has a lot of support. >> riley gaines is not alone. she has a lot of us veterans behind her. where is middle america? wake up mothers and fathers. start speaking out. >> harris: jason chaffetz in "focus" now. part of the issue for middle america from teachers and coaches. they don't know how to get into the fray and where it is going. title ix was the answer. now the white house is turning a

blind eye to what democrats are in favor of. >> we need parents to get involved and engaged. the core question is are we going to have women's sports in this country? if we will have one sport and just one team and come one come all, it doesn't matter how you dress or identify yourself. that's where this is going. i find it really strange, harris, here you have joe biden who goes out and says the supreme court justice that i will be a woman. the vice president that i pick will be a woman. why does he do that? why does he discriminate like that? because he needs votes that's right but when it comes to sports they want to go an eliminate women's sports. me and my wife have a couple of girls. you and your husband have girls. their participation in sport is really important. they learn so much in those developmental years and in college as well.

this is a fundamental questions. the democrats are just off the rails on this one. put the question up, do we or do we not want women in sports? >> harris: i'm not a doctor nor are you but i interview many of them, medical experts who say we don't know yet where we're going with all of the transgender physical operations and changes that may turn out to be permanent on kids who were minors at this point. the conversation is all encompassing. how early can you trigger those things to turn a boy into a girl? by the way, not an even playing field. to get me to be you i have to take testosterone. that's not allowed in sports today. it will never be an even playing field, at least not where women are concerned. all right. former swimmer and activist riley gaines will join "focus" on thursday. when we could see a house vote on that republican bill to protect women and girls sports. that will be an exclusive.

we look forward to welcoming her to the program and hearing her perspective. jason let's move forward. influence peddling plot is thickening. house republicans say it is not just biden family members that profited from hunter's sketchy foreign business deals. james comer says he uncovered this new information from reviewing treasury documents. watch. >> we've identified six new biden family members involved in shady foreign transactions that we believe were a direct result of influence peddling. that brings the number of biden family members now to nine that were involved in the biden family influence peddling. 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. >> harris: democrats fired back in a statement. after years of pursuing political dirt against the biden

family chairman comer proves he has failed to uncover evidence of any wrongdoing by president biden. nine family members from any family would be a lot. jason. >> well, when $100,000 is deposited into the account of joe biden's grandkids you have to ask why. it was a gift. it was there as a thank you for the bidens providing business to, you know, some people overseas. so there is very specific examples here. they have to explain why $1 hundred thousand winds up in their grandkids' account. more than $30 million that has flowed into the biden family. that's some of the estimates. these are suspicious activity reports. when a financial institution sees odd amounts of money and transactions flowing, they are required by law to fill these forms out and give them to the

government. so the oversight committee, of which i used to chair but now james comer is chairman looks at the suspicious activity reports. bidens start popping up like popcorn. there are at least nine of them and they haven't gone through all of them yet. come on, democrats. if this was trump, you would already have him convicted. you wouldn't bother with the trial. at least have some intellectual curiosity to look at what the oversight committee is doing rather than shooting out a press release saying there is nothing here. >> harris: jason chaffetz, always great to have you in "focus." thank you. >> thank you. >> harris: you knew there might be more to come. cameras from inside the violence when teenagers took over, the mob of teenagers took over downtown chicago recently for three nights of chaos, vandalism. some democrats are down playing the violence as we bring you brand-new video that is jarring. one state senator democrat even says the teenagers were engaged

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>> harris: fox news alert now. elon musk doesn't hold back in part one of his interview with

tucker carlson. the twitter ceo had this revelation. >> the degree to which various government agencies had effectively had full access to everything that was going on in twitter blew my mind. i was not aware of that. >> would that include people's d.m.s? >> yes. >> harris: the things you think nobody sees, your direct messages. grady trimble is live on capitol hill for us. >> harris, elon musk revealed to tucker why government agencies were able to see those private messages or dms before he took over. he also talked about what he is going to do about it. >> the data will be encrypted. one of the things we're about to release is the ability to encrypt your dm and no one can see what you are talking about. i couldn't tell if you put a gun

to my head. >> the twitter files and subsequent hearings on capitol hill revealed the cozy relationship between the government and social media company. shadow banning and other topics. republicans want to find out whether that's also the case with other tech platforms as they suspect it is. >> i this i the -- i think the idea that they were doing that is disturbing and congress need to act on this as far as big government collusion to bigtech and monitor and spy on people. we believe the first amendment gives people the ability to express themselves and the government doesn't get the ability to shut it down. >> elon musk talked twitter a glorified activist organization before he bought it and why he was able to lay off 80% of twitter's employees and keep

functioning. >> harris: thank you. part two of his exclusive interview with tucker carlson airs tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on fox news channel. the video coming up is frightening and tough to watch. more terrifying images from that violent teenage takeover in downtown chicago from over the weekend. [shouting] >> harris: you see that large mob? cornered that young woman in an apartment building doorway. they knocked her down and dragged her. through it all fox spoke with her mother. she is 20 years old. that victim says she will be okay. you can't see her after a while. she goes to the bottom of the pile as they continue and continue and continue. a lot of cameras on this violence. so this is just the latest look

inside. awful. at least three teenagers were shot and you could see people scattering if you watch enough of this video people scatter when they hear the gunshots but they don't leave the scene. they sort of create a bigger perimeter. hundreds were seen smashing car windows and setting fires. a democratic state senator seems to defend the teenagers when he tweets i would look at the behavior of young people as a political action statement. it's a mass protest against poverty and segregation. outgoing chicago mayor lori lightfoot also down played the violence. >> there are a few that came with different intentions they will be dealt with. but i'm not going to use your line which is out of line to say there is -- >> harris: the teenage takeover part of chicago's weekend. dozens of other shootings left ten people dead, 26 others

injured. the crime crisis is said to have played a key role in lightfoot's loss in the recent election where voters chose an even more progressive candidate who is thirsty to defund police, brandon johnson. a headline today. when a city plagued by crime votes for more crime and here is a quote, in a heavily democratic city, it didn't really matter which candidate might more effectively reduce crime. it was which candidate was on our team and on that johnson won. david avella, gopac chairman. scott bolden former democratic party chairman. david, our country is changing. >> no question about it. what the response from the elected official in chicago is all the more troubling because they are doubling down on destructive. it is why cook county and chicago next to l.a. had the most people leave in the last year and move somewhere else.

it is also why you see across the country this rise in gun ownership as so many americans now believe they have to take their personal security into their own hands. >> harris: you know, scott, as parents, i think all of us here on this panel. i know david. it is hard to watch this specifically and particularly because we all have dreams for our kids. and in one part of this the kids that would take those dreams away because of bad judgment and bad behavior and violence. on the other side is the loss of hope from kids who only can see their way out of it through i don't even know what if you are in downtown chicago. how do you get out? >> yeah, you know, listen, as a parent my kids are all grown and gone thank goodness. but when i look at that video, i'm not going to take any gop bait about dems being soft on crime. crime is not a political issue

to me. the dems and gop have struggled with it because you can lock people up for bad acting, right? but the incarceration rates in the u.s. and chicago and d.c. where i live is at an all-time high and yet crime continues. >> harris: they keep getting them let out and circle back to soft on crime. when you take away designation from a higher crime and make it a lower crime you get repeatism that seems like a professional job. i want to get back to the issue here. the issue wasn't whether or not republicans can identify what was going on. why would democrats want to defend what's going on and simply call it politics? do you think these kids are into politics all that much they would show up like a mob and riot? >> i wish i had a chance to talk to the democrat in the state senator who said what he said. i would have coached him against that. here is the broader issue. you cannot attack crime. i'm a former prosecutor and

criminal defense lawyer. you can't fully attack it by locking up people. a continuum of care of people who are poor, uneducated and -- >> is this an excuse. >> the lost and left out. you have to give them alternatives to hopelessness. job training, good public education and if you do that, get the church involved in the private sector it's a continuum of care. how come we aren't doing that. >> harris: lock churches down during the pandemic. >> i want church involved. >> harris: david, i want to get to what scott is saying. if you give them enough they'll stop breaking the law. we know it's not true. plenty of people are suffering even more than some of those kids in the streets from this weekend economically and they are not out there tearing stuff up and burning down businesses. >> the question becomes is the elected leaders why aren't they

prioritizing budgets to put the money where it needs to go. whether it's education or job opportunities there in chicago. but scott is a former prosecutor and he knows it is common amongst progressive prosecuting attorneys now not to enforce the law and not even report all the crimes that do get committed or don't have them as crimes now so they don't have to count them. when people aren't held accountable this is the result you get. >> harris: i want to squeeze this in quick. democrats like representative hank johnson called it a sham and criticized the witnesses for participating. now one of those witnesses is firing back. watch. >> the republican witnesses who have used their time to criticize district attorney bragg have served as props in a maga broadway production. >> step one foot in the hood and tell me if those people in the hood are props as well. you know?

he is a rich black man, all right? he is a rich black man just telling poor black men that they're props. >> harris: we went to chicago d. that was madeleine brame. her son was beaten and stabbed to death by multiple pooh emotion in 2018. prosecution of the suspects went on and on for years. bragg ultimately removed indictments against two of the suspects and lowered the charges against them. i mix cities here. we can bring in ten more unfortunately. i want to get your thoughts. >> this idea this is a political issue. there are lots of parts to the criminal justice system including proving a case. is judges and just that are required. you can't blame it on democrats or the gop. it takes more than just law enforcement. >> harris: doing the soft on crime policies at district attorney. >> if you are a progressive democrat. i don't know how george soros

gets into supporting them. he supports them and a lot of different democratic colleges. >> harris: ideology. one last word and we have to go. >> 2024 elections give voters a chance to weigh in and say what direction they want to see crime policies go. >> they just voted in chicago for a progressive mayor despite the crime in chicago. >> harris: "outnumbered" is next. soup and salad. thank you! like your workplace benefits and retirement savings. with voya, considering all your financial choices together... can help you make smarter decisions. for a more confident financial future. hey, a tandem bicycle. you can't do that by yourself. voya. well planned. well invested. well protected.

>> hello, everyone. this is "outnumbered." i'm emily compagno. here with my co-hosts kayleigh mcenany and harris faulkner. and also joining us today, "fox & friends" co-host ainsley and first legal advisor and author of "parents of the world unite" ian pryor.