alarm for mr. monihan other than sitting in his driveway trying to get gps and cell service and then determining they were in the wrong place and turning around. certainly in our mind there was no threat to mr. monihan at all. in fact, like i said, leaving is the key thing. you are not under threat if the vehicle is leaving. >> bill: the woman was only 21 years old and she is not coming back. sheriff, thank you for your time. we hope the best turns out in your county in this case. thank you, sir. >> thank you very much. >> dana: catastrophic pull-out from afghanistan in the spotlight with new testimony today on capitol hill two weeks after the white house put out a 12-page report attempting to spin blame away from biden and blame president trump. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino. >> bill: wednesday. indeed it is.

that's a fact. that's not a.i. i'm bill hemmer. good morning at home. today's house oversight hearing looking at the chaotic withdrawal of kabul and the way it was handled that allowed u.s. military equipment to fall into the hands of the taliban, destabilizing the entire region and resulting in the deaths of 13 u.s. service members and hundreds of americans left behind. a separate hearing on afghanistan yesterday taking direct aim at previous denials of the chaos by the white house. denials like this. >> and so for all this talk of chaos, i didn't see it. not from my perch. at one point during the evacuation there was an aircraft taking off full of people americans and afghans alike every 48 mission and not one mission was missed. i don't buy whole argument of chaos, i'm sorry. >> administration continues to downplay what happened is an insult to the service members sitting here and throughout the

united states of america. one doesn't have to see the horrific images or footage of the evacuation for more than a couple of minutes to make a keen observation that there was a lot of chaos and desperation involved. >> dana: if you thought it could get worse you were right. now the u.n. is threatening to pull out of afghanistan next month unless the taliban allows afghan working to allow working for its programs there. not going to happen. aishah hosni has more on capitol hill. >> good morning to you both. i can tell you there is no doubt about one thing and that is that country is in dire straits a year and a half later. there are dozens of americans who want to come home but are still stuck there. no one, guys, has been held accountable for this very chaotic exit, although you mentioned the white house refusing to call this chaotic. in their report they took some

responsibility but then really laid most of the blame on the trump administration. so this morning you can bet that house oversight republicans are definitely going to attempt to rip that argument apart. >> 13 brave service members died. we left billions of dollars of equipment behind in taliban hands. we left american citizens and allies behind. this was a debacle. the biden administration needs to level with the american people and admit to it. that's what house republicans on the oversight committee will be focusing on today. >> on the witness list today multiple inspectors general from the defense department, state department, pay close attention to the special inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction. that's because chairman comer says the biden white house has been obstructing his investigation. comer writing this. this administration not only continues to provide excuses for the self-inflicted humanitarian

and national security catastrophe but senior officials are actively obstructing meaningful congressional oversight. we have a lot of republican fire brands on this committee like jim jordan, scott perry, marjorie taylor green. expect a very feisty, heated hearing this morning. >> dana: glad you're covering it for us. >> got it. >> bill: now there are increasing concerns over chinese ownership of american farmland. north carolina officials are worried that china is deliberating making purchases near some of its largest and busiest military bases in the world. lawmakers telling fox business legislation barring foreign investment could be passed as early as next week. lydia hu is on that story from fox business. she is in north carolina with more on that today. hello. >> we are in hog country north

carolina. earlier this year the chinese spy balloon flew over these north carolina blue skies and security knee around foreign investment and agricultural lands like these shining a spotlight on one company. the world's largest pork producer with operations across 29 states including here. north carolina, smithfield. it was acquired ten years ago by a chinese company known as w.h. group. they insist the chinese communist party has no interest. they say smithfield employs 40,000 workers and owns 500 farms and works with more than 2100 local hog farmers. but now with growing tensions between china and the u.s., i asked smithfield how can the chinese-owned pork producer protect american operations here? watch. >> is there a contingency plan

for something of that nature if there is conflict or growing tensions between china and the u.s.? >> again that's something i won't speculate on. we hope that doesn't happen. we will focus on doing what we do best, which is raising affordable, nutritious healthy protein. >> the smithfield processing plant is located near where i'm standing on this hog farm. the world's largest animal processing plant. 30,000 animals in a single day. many local farmers depend on them. some i've talked to tell me they are worried about that processing plant being owned by a foreign entity because it means information about that plant, how it apartments, is accessible to foreign entity to potentially be exported out of the united states. bill. >> bill: thanks. the way technology is going, a little too close for comfort.

lydia hugh south of raleigh by about 15 minutes. thank you. >> scientific community led by nih went on an attempt to deflect and i think you heard that in the hearing to deflect anyone talking about the possibility this could have come from the lab. we have no further evidence of ratcliffe said and have substantial evidence that this most likely came from the lab. >> bill: robert redfield as a new report points to a lab leak in wuhan as the only credible explanation for the covid pandemic. a former advisory committee member of the world health organization. great to have you on set. wonderful to met you in our program. >> as the researchers were getting sick we saw some interesting things taking place in wuhan where they put in a new ventilation system and they started to destroy their data. and this civilian supposedly

entity the wuhan institute of virology was taken over by the military. we see a present pond rains of evidence. >> absolutely. from the earliest days of 2020 i've been saying we need to look at this very seriously. there is still circumstantial evidence only buheavily weighs as an accident. >> bill: they are talking about two leaks. the first leak happened in september. they took care of that and covered it up and then the second leak came several months later. what do you think about that theory? >> it's viable. senator marshall is a friend and we worked together on the issue for more than two years. it is still a hypothesis by his own account but we need to look into that and everything. it is outrageous that now more than three years after the start of this pandemic we don't have

the kind of full investigation that we need. the biggest reason for that is the chinese government has done everything in its power to block it. it has destroyed samples, hidden record, imprisoned journalists and a gag order preventing chinese scientists from saying or writing anything. it is outrageous. our government can be more transparent. >> dana: given that with china, then do we have to just go with our evidence and if they aren't going to participate we'll have to conclude that what looks obvious it was a lab leak is the case? >> well, i think certainly that is my view that it looks most likely like a lab leak. research related accident. we need to dig into all the available evidence. certainly our evidence, we need to do everything possible, look under every rock because unless we understand what went wrong. >> dana: you're saying we won't get to do that in china.

>> we probably won't be able to do it in china but keep demanding it. set up secure whistleblower provisions so if there are people in china who want to speak they have a way to do so. we need to analyze the records that we have. we need to -- there are a lot of places to look. best if we could do a full scientific and forensic investigation of the lab and access to blood samples in their blood banks. if they block us we need the best possible investigation. >> bill: gain-of-function research was happening. american taxpayer dollars went to support it. >> yep. >> bill: if they aren't coming clean and the ccp will never come clean, where are we? >> two questions. one is in terms of investigating. as i said before we know need to keep looking. the united states government shouldn't have been funding

research in another institute where there is no transparency and accountability. we need to look at ourselves in terms of gain of function research going forward, certainly we need very strong restrictions on gain of function on pathogens with pandemic potential. that's a problem. >> bill: i would agree with the future. >> if we want to say we're imagining a safer future based on principles of transparency and accountability there is no way we can build that future if we don't have transparency and accountability for what has happened to date. it has to do with china and ourselves. >> bill: i wonder if we'll ever get there. the government has to be more open. >> but we need to do absolutely everything possible. if we just say this is going to be impossible, let's stop

investigating, we certainly won't find the answer. we need to do everything possible and we'll get more information. we're already getting more information. the hearings happening in the united states congress, those are really positive. these reports that are coming out, those are positive. it is not going to be maybe we jump and make huge leaps at once but little by little we're making progress. >> bill: please come back. nice to see you here. the mobs of teenagers now committing mayhem in downtown chicago. new video now. you will hear from a couple assaulted with no way out. >> everything went crazy. they said they are going to kill us. they turned around and started fighting. they were jumping him in the middle of the street. it got pretty bad. >> dana: still ahead a migrant backlog in the courts. stunning time it now takes to hear asylum cases. >> bill: keeping that rocking chair in storage, right? what a survey is saying about

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that stepped in to help them. garrett tenney has the story and fallout in chicago now. garrett, hello. >> this was supposed to be a fun weekend getaway for this young couple. instead it turned into a nightmare. they just finished up shopping around the magnificent mile area saturday night heading to dinner when a crowd of a few dozen teenagers blocked their path, knocked ashley to the ground, started pummeling d.j. and then robbed them both. here is some of what they told sandra smith. >> everything went crazy. they said they were going to kill us. they turned around and started fighting. >> i have a black eye, my face is messed up. shoulder is pretty sore. it is out of place or something. my back sore and my nose. >> the couple says things could have turned out a lot worse if it wasn't for a good samaritan who stepped in.

we tracked down the woman. len nor was shopping with her sister when she saw the attack. she ran over, screaming at the teens and was able to break up the crowd and get ashley and d.j. to safety. >> i felt like if i did not intervene, that young man would have gotten killed right there. so it was just something that i had to do. >> lenore took them to the police station and went back home to grab two pairs of shoes for the couple to have since theirs got stolen during the attack. >> my daughters work downtown and my son works downtown. the only thing i really thought about was if that was happening to them and how would i want somebody to try to help them in that situation? >> despite this horrific attack ashley says she is open to coming back to chicago but also wants to warn other tourists thinking of visiting the city that they need to be on their

guard, even when they are just walking down the street. >> bill: garrett tenney, thank you in chicago reporting on that. here in new york the new mayor gave a raise to the cops. part of the reason why you want to do that now is because of the number of police leaving the force. chicago has faced the same thing. now we commonths and the weathe better. >> dana: you need to make sure the someone arrested and released the next day. one of the things that happened in the chicago police were outnumbered and didn't have the tools they needed. so many of the tools have been taken away from them and a mayor is blaming corporate america for it. a lot more to come on that. thank you for doing what you did. we are sorry you had to do it. next how let's talk about the economy a little bit. a comfortable retirement looking like a very distant dream for millions of americans. a new survey finds 25% of those

in generation x have no savings for when they are he tire and even higher for those 59 or older. 27%. joining us now is personal finance expert dave ramsey host of the ramsey show. survey is 41% millennials, 38%. is this a big deal if you don't have money for your retirement saved now and you are generation x which i'm right in the middle of? >> it's a big deal if you don't do anything about it. obviously you need to use it as a wake-up call. any of us when we wake up broke we need to do something different here. so again z and x, the ones we're talking to that are excellent and way ahead of the game and then you have the other end of the spectrum where they have done absolutely nothing, every generation has that and as you can see the 59 plus the boomers,

we aren't any better sitting at about the same rate. good news for the gen x and z they have plenty of time if they decide to. >> dana: three things they should doing starting this next paycheck. >> let's get on a written budget so we make the money we have behave. start telling money what to do instead of wondering where it went. we get out of debt so we have plenty of money. instead of paying car and student loan payments let's use the money to build our 401k so we aren't one of the broke statistics for retirement. >> dana: a trend you wrote about is i've helped americans with money problems for decades. parents should not pay their adult children's bills. call for two shows bank rate survey of parents who sacrificed savings to support adult kids is high. retirement savings, emergency savings, all of this really tough. you think parents should not do

this. why? >> well parents should be a safety net. i've talked to lots of people in their 20s or 30s that went through a horrible medical event or domestic violence and into a divorce event and they come back home or mom and dad support them to get back on their feet. a safety net is an act of love. a hammock is when it keeps going and you have helicopter parents into their 30s and the irony of ironies is you have a 28-year-old male perfectly able to go to work and he lives in his mother's basement. the irony is he is playing call of duty all day long. >> dana: you have a new livestream with you and mike rowe on dirty jobs. >> we're excited about this. we're tracking the work ethic problem out there, the labor crisis in america. we have a shortage of labor in america today. we have 4 million jobs that

could be filled today and we have an economist with us today talking about the 7 million men sitting on the couch not working when we have a shortage. we'll talk about all those things and for small businesses trying to hire this is a real problem. we'll talk how to hire in this environment and some of the sociological things. may four free livestream. check it out at ramsey solutions.com. >> dana: appreciate it. >> the far left wants the full senate to move a senator off a committee so they can ram through a small sliver of their nominees who are especially extreme or especially unqualified. >> bill: republicans blocking democrats in a request to replace senator feinstein on the judiciary committee. her sick leave will stall the president's judicial nominees,

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prevent them from pitching in and being part of the recovery of this city and if not this entire country. what are they waiting for? what do they want to happen in this city before they finally resolve that this issue is under mining new york city, if not the entire state? we know the republican leadership have failed to put in place comprehensive immigration reform. we got that. but we cannot allow one failure to be duplicated or matched in another failure. the actions we are requesting can be taken by the executive branch of the federal government immediately and unilaterally. without legislation being passed, we don't need legislation to do this. we just need the will to do this. it only takes the action by the white house. new york city and much of our country was built by immigrants. we know that. all of us came from a lineage of

immigrants. we know the responsibilities that come with it. open, helping and keeping the city strong and newcomers integrated to communities and allow the communities to go. the labor of immigrants have allowed this country to be what it is. we want to continue to allow that possibility. our future is connected to their future. we are in this the same. i stand here with a dreamer who came to this country and now is the commissioner in charge of those who come here to give. >> dana: he is talking about a serious situation in new york city but many other cities including those small towns along the border. casey stiegel is live in el paso, texas with more. this is on the minds of people across america. >> it really is, dana. one of the things that has been under reported is the immigration court backlog. there was a lot of talk about

this yesterday on capitol hill. it shows this think-tank out of syracuse university that analyzes immigration court data in the country shows that among the 2.1 million pending cases currently before the court, nearly 530,000 of those were added to the docket just in this fiscal year. democratic congressman henry cuellar of texas shared concerns about not enough housing for extended periods of time while grilling the acting ice director about what is being done to help ease this backlog pointing to the top five states with the most pending cases, florida, texas, california, new york, and new jersey. the department of justice says it is looking to hire 150 additional immigration judges, ice says this. >> we are working on the technological piece of it so that we can do these telephonic and virtual interviews and have

individuals not have to wait ten years to have their charging documents issued. >> out here in the field preparations are underway for an additional migrant surge once title 42 ends. you are looking at a mass migration response training exercise. yesterday on the international crossing bridge in eagle pass, texas, these are now held weekly up and down the border as many border communities, frankly nervously await may 11th, the day title 42 goes away. >> dana: that's what the official end of the pandemic on may 11. casey stiegel, thank you. >> senate republicans will not take part in sidelining a temporary absent colleague off a committee so democrats can force through their very worst nominees. >> bill: republicans blocking an effort by democrats to

temporarily replace senator dianne feinstein on the judiciary committee. that would have to happen to get some judges through. she is recovering from shingles now in california. john kennedy, republican member of that committee. good morning to you and thank you for your time. just going through all this stuff. she hasn't voted since february. she made the request herself the other day. to change a committee assignment you need 60 votes in the senate to pass. 51-49 democrats right now. senator mcconnell calls her a deer friend, titanic figure and he says it's unusual to do this. you put that together and conclude one thing, it isn't going to happen, is it? >> no. here is my opinion what's going on. senator feinstein is sick. she is recuperating. she says she will be back soon. i take her at her word. her absence is not preventing

chairman durbin of the judiciary committee from moving nominees. we heard three nominees yesterday. one of whom is from louisiana who will receive republican votes. what senator feinstein's absence is preventing, my friend senator durbin from doing is ramming through a handful of president biden's nominees who aren't qualified to be federal judges. they either think the u.s. constitution is the name of a ship or based on their record, they want to ignore the constitution. they are from the loon wing of the democratic party and they won't receive republican votes and senator feinstein's absence stops senator durbin from ramming those nominees through. >> bill: you dropped a name there of a judge from baton

rouge, louisiana. but it is possible that you could put that judge through the committee based on what you just said. he would pass tomorrow. >> yeah. so likely would the other two nominees from whom we heard yesterday. now, i'm not sure how i will vote on the other two, but based on my experience with judiciary i think all three if senator durbin called a vote would pass. and there are others. but senator durbin, he is my friend, but he -- he is running the judiciary, but he is worried about these radical folks that president biden has nominated. and if you just go look at the hearings of these nominees, you will see that they -- that they either got their law license at

costco or they didn't pay attention to class. they don't understand the constitution. they don't even know what's in it. and if they do, they have demonstrated records as activists. they want to rewrite the constitution every other thursday to advance a social and economic agenda that the voters have not accepted. in my opinion. >> bill: senator feinstein, don't know how long she will be out. she is recovering at home in california. one last point on this. how many judges could pass committee while she is out? >> oh, i don't -- at least ten, probably more. but while she is out the radical ones cannot. and i also think that senator feinstein has been treated very shabbily for two years now. some of the radical members of the democratic party have been

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>> dana: oh oh, california governor gavin newsom's staff may have broken the law when their boss took a political trip through red states. william la jeunesse has more from los angeles. what's going on? >> bill: candidates always walk a tight rope running for one job and doing another on taxpayers dime. while the poll situation has latitude, it is not the case with staff. they are government employees. what's unusual here is governor newsom himself declared his campaign for democracy wasn't state business but a political crusade accusing republicans of wanting to ban books, kidnap migrants and stoke racism on his recent tour of florida, me is -- mississippi, alabama. he set up a separate fund to pay for this campaign.

yet back in sacramento april 10th around noon aide alex stack blasted desantis saying the gop wants you to be silent as they ban books and promote a.r.15s. april 4, 5, 7, deputy communications director slams the harmful policies of desantis and quote authoritarian republicans. april 5th, a communication director. is it wrong? the law says whether it's the building you are in, the phone you are using or your time all are considered a public resource. not for campaign activity. so we asked about it and the governor's office said quote, all those are personal accounts and any tweets were all sent from personal devices. okay. we asked why were they sent during business hours? we got silence.

>> this was an affirmative action on their part to do something during state time that related to the campaign. he designated these trips as political. he is the one saying it is political. >> why many candidates have two staffs. one to run state offices and another to run campaign. trump said desantis was traveling the country on tax pair dollars. >> bill: a song by drake in the weekend went viral. it is not real. it was made using artificial intelligence. it is pretty good. it racked up 15 million views before it was yanked off line for copycat violations. a clip. we got our hands on it before they took it down. roll it. this is unbelievable. ♪

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terms of the automation of factories. >> used to be this hub. now abandoned buildings. it is crazy. the one thing you never expect it to impact was music and art. >> bill: every day the a.i. stories shock us. the woman in korea who used the viewing to her daughter who died. >> dana: can you joke about that? >> you have to joke about everything. i will make jokes until the day i die. you have to. we are all in this together and you are going to cry, everything is crazy every day. a new story every day can you believe this? if you treat something like it's serious and solemn it gives it power and makes it untouchable that makes the scarier. >> dana: you wrote a book, supper proud of you. it will do very well. you wrote every word. i could tell because your humor is so distinctive. we know that from your

appearances at fox, stand-up you've done and co-host on the gutfeld show. is there something that you've been surprised and you joked about something and someone was shocked by it? >> yeah. definitely i've been shocking people with the way i talk about my mom's death for years and years and years except for people who have kind of gone through the experience. at my age people have two living parents a lot. when i was 26 most people did. how could you speak like that? because it's how i deal with it and the only way i can. people have read the book and said thing we got my mom cremated and we didn't know what to do. we had her ashes in the trunk. how can you not laugh about that? it is not funny but if you sit and dwell on that you will never be able to get through it. >> bill: seeing your doorman in new york and said how are your parents he said. >> my dad is coming to visit. >> what about her mom?

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>> harris: big day an capitol hill. senators are pressuring the epa chief to prove the government can legal eye force us to buy electric vehicles, use gas stoves and more. democrats dismissed a gop led hearing in new york city and the

crime here as a political stunt. maybe they should ask the nypd police officer bashed in the head with a bottle what she thinks. biden's education secretary refusing to define wha doesn't ? no one knows i administration? senator rickn d >> dana: karen bass rolling out her 2024 budget proposal including rebuilding the lerch apd force and adding hundreds of news officers to the force. they need to do that because they lost so many officers in the recent memory. >> that's right, dana. here in l.a. within the past decade police department hit 10,000 officers. newly elected mayor karen bass said the number could drop to below 9,000, the lowest number

in more than 20 years. now bass is calling for urgent action to hire hundreds more officers to get back to at least 9500. the city is launching a recruitment campaign offering financial incentives to new hires and asking recently-retired officers to come back. it is an uphill battle in a demoralized department and profession. adding to the problem more than 300 undercover police officers in l.a. filed legal claims after their names and photos were released through a public records request. >> i'm concerned that the department's recent release of information will cause even more officers to leave. our officers are already facing the threats they put their lives on the line every day. >> a short while ago i spoke with the la police source who said some officers retired because they don't feel backed up by their police chief michael moore and live in fear of being accused of misconduct.

back to you. >> dana: thank you. >> bill: before we go want to show you something cool now. surprising light blue swirl spotted in the skies above alaska. viewers thought it went on social media. it with as a spacex fuel dump after a california rocket launch likely caused it. that's like van gogh. >> dana: harris faulkner is up next. here she is. >> harris: a fox news alert. it is big rick it's green, progressive. is it legal? the head of the environmental protection agency right now expecting a storm of questions from house republicans demanding answers on the federal government forcing us to buy electric and kill gas for our cars and our stoves. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." we're looking at capitol hill. there is a lot going on this hour. house agriculture committee coul