suspect police say is a cold blooded killer entering the fourth day in texas. the 38-year-old suspect accused of killing five of his neighbors shooting them execution style insaid their home. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino. >> bill: i'm bill hemmer. the suspect 38-year-old mexican national with a history of deportations is considered armed and dangerous to this hour. 250 law enforcement officers along with canine units and drones part of the growing search in rural parts spanning hundreds of square miles. the white house turning the deadly dispute into another call for gun control. >> all five people were murdered by an individual armed with a powerful ar-15 style rifle. congress must act. what makes tragedies like this one all the more heart wrenching is the fact that it is entirely within our power to take these

weapons of war off our streets. >> dana: former u.s. marshal's regional commander joining us in a moment. let's get to former d.c. homicide detective ted williams live from cleveland, texas. hi, ted. >> hi, dana and bill. i am here on the scene in cleveland, texas, where five -- five individuals, two include a 9-year-old child, was executed by their neighbor. the suspect in this case is a man by the name of francisco orepesa. he was here illegally. the man was in his yard shooting his gun. his neighbor came over and asked

him to go on the other side of his home and shoot because they were disturbing their young child. it was at that time about ten minutes later that this illegal alie alien comes over to the neighbors home and shot and killed five people in that home before going on the run. right now the f.b.i., local and state police are looking for this man. >> dana: we know they don't have any leads right now. thank you for being there for us. we'll check in with you. >> bill: police have been to the house before. lenny paul from the fugitive task force. fill in the holes right now. police had been there before and now looking for this man again. he turned in a vicious way the other day. >> unbelievable. good morning, bill. yes. still an active manhunt going on down there. an intense manhunt. there is also a fugitive

investigation going on behind the scenes. the u.s. marshal service, fugitive investigations, the gulf coast violent offender task force who has the lead are turning his world upside down. they are looking at everybody. digital footprint will be important. they found a cell phone in the woods. who knows what will turn up on that thing if he did slip through the cracks, what is his last phone call he made? so there are a variety of things they are doing to put together the puzzle and connect the dots. >> dana: he is good at getting in and out of the country. if he left the country what happens with the marshal. they have a footprint in mexico. is that a seamless operation, then? >> i don't know about seamless but you can go to the moon nowadays. tough to stay on the run. the u.s. marshal service is global. it will be difficult. we have -- we work well with the mexican authorities. if he did cross the border, yes, he is an illegal reentry. he knows the system

unfortunately. so if you get lucky and slip through the cracks hopeful three they put this thing to bet sooner rather than later. >> bill: we are reporting he was in contact with relatives or friends or both. that has to be a strong lead, i would imagine. >> it is huge, bill. like i said they're flipping his world upside down. the trusted circle of friends, digital footprint, historically who did he talk to? i don't think it was premeditated but still they are knocking on doors and question and answer, old-fashioned police work. the streets talk. 87,000 for information. >> dana: what do you know about the local sheriff >> he works well with our agency. a joint effort right now. you have a guy on the run. chasing a ghost. all systems go. all hands are on deck. manpower, state-of-the-art equipment. aviation support, blood hounds. whatever it takes to find this guy. >> bill: thorax lenny.

we hope it happens soon. they might have a lot of folks looking for him. so far he has been elusive. stand by for more. >> dana: if anybody can find him it's the u.s. marshals. also the senate judiciary committee holding a hearing today on ethics reform for the supreme court following reports that some justices and their families have benefited from luxury gifts and other perks. chief washington correspondent mike emanuel is live in washington with more. there is more to the original story here. >> no doubt about it. good morning to you. it gets a little touchy as you deal with separate branches of the government. congress versus the courts. let's take a look at the senate judiciary committee hearing room. democrats on the committee are pushing for ethics reform for the supreme court. chief justice john roberts declined to testify before the panel and says the justices are following ethics principles and practices that have long guided the court saying i'm not aware

of any instance in which a justice and the committee. given the history of resolving such issues i'm not aware of penalties imposed of justices for failure to abide by principles and practices recited in the statement. the committee chair is justifying the effort based on report about justice clarence thomas. >> cannot excuse what has been reported already about justice clarence thomas. how does the justice explain that this billionaire decided to buy his mother's home as a gift to him, $1 hundred thousand plus he put into his home and never reported it? never reported it. this sort of thing is unacceptable at every branch of our government, at every level of the courts. >> a key republican says the committee is getting into dangerous territory here. >> some of my democratic colleagues do not agree with opinions issued by the united

states supreme court and therefore they feel the need, misplaced in my judgment, to undermine the legitimacy of the united states supreme court as an institution. >> kennedy suggests it is about frustration for democrats with a conservative majority. >> dana: thank you for that. we'll pay attention to the hearing today. >> thank you. >> what you gleaned from today there were unanswered questions. >> hunter biden's lawyers heard it from the judge yesterday in the child support hearing. where the case goes next. >> dana: the autopsy on bob lee telling a shocking new story. prosecutors piecing together the chaotic hours before his murder. >> bill: you are taking the photo shoot outdoors and invaded by bees. what do you do next? for one family, this nightmare happened. >> please send help.

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>> i have to get them in the car. they're being attacked by bees. >> bill: the scene in arizona west of phoenix. a woman was stung more than 75 times trying to protect her two children. this after bees swarmed their family photo shoot. the video shows firefighters using foam to calm the bees after the 911 call came in. buckeye valley, southwest of phoenix. mother raced to protect her children appeared get them to the car to safety. she was unable to escape, however, that swarm. good more the firefighters to be there. i have never seen that before.

>> dana: not like that, no. it looks like a horror movie. thank goodness she was there to protect the children and hope she recovers quickly. let's talk about hunter biden in an arkansas courtroom for a child support hearing. you can see on screen the timeline of what led him there. his daughter was born in 2018. dna testing proving the paternity that he had denied. the president's son taking the baby's mother to court arguing his payments to care for the child are too high. yesterday's hearing was just the start. the judge demanding answers saying his team kept his financial records hidden. a deposition and trial are set for later this summer. let's dig into this with former federal prosecutor. good to have you here. tell me a little bit about what the judge said yesterday and let me read to you one thing. she says to hunter's lawyers, you can't just say these are my

tax returns, good luck, you figure it out. this cryptic hide the ballgame won't cut it when we get to trial. >> the judge was no nonsense yesterday. what she is communicating this request to lower child support really is going to open up all of the books and allow for a deep dive into hunter biden's financial history. everything that he has been involved in not only the income that he has but the expenses, where additional resources are coming from, every little bit is going to be opened and he has really asked for this. it makes you wonder what he is thinking going into this. >> bill: there was a moment there, i'm paraphrasing where the judge asked does the laptop belong to your client? and biden's attorney said i'm not prepared to answer that or i'm not in a position to answer that now. how does this play? >> the laptop will be a big issue because it has so much data on it. whatever answers hunter biden's attorneys give and ultimately what he gives in a deposition

will be compared against the data on the laptop. are the lawyers going to want to deny the laptop was his? probably not. perhaps they are going to say that some of the data wasn't his or that it's not reliable or they didn't use reliable ways to gather that information. ultimately i think it will be something that is going to put him in a bind and could ultimately show that he is maybe making false statements or get him in more trouble. >> dana: i have two questions. one is that he claimed poverty yesterday. he had to get rid of his porsche. we know a democratic donor is helping him with back payments to the i.r.s. how does it go over with a judge like this when he is claiming well, i had to get rid of my porsche and sleep on a cot in my dad's room on a trip to ireland? >> the least sympathetic child

support lowering request. he is begging for the child support payments to be reduced. $20,000 is quite a bit of money but with all that he has. i will tell you one way he could get the child support reduced would be to go to the judge and seek some sort of visitation with the child or provide for the child in other ways he is not right now. of course, hunter biden hasn't formed a relationship with this child. arkansas courts specifically allow for consideration of a reduction in child support when the non-custodial parents is providing time or other resources, just not the case here. >> dana: i was going to go into that. i wonder if all of a sudden hunter biden said i want to have a relationship with my daughter, would the mother, lunden roberts say great now for the first time in four years just to get out of paying more of what you owe, now you want to have a relationship with her? i wouldn't necessarily from my perspective be against that. i feel like this is -- i want

what's in the best interest of the child. i imagine being able to know her father and grandfather regardless of who they are, would be a good thing for her in her life. >> lunden, the mother, has had interest in the child being part of the biden family. in fact asking for the last name of the child to be biden. i don't know that there is evidence that she would resist that. i think ultimately there are many people on both sides of the aisle saying what's going on with the biden family rejecting this child to the extent that they are and now going through this very difficult and very contentious child support demand, why can't they find some sort of reconciliation? what's the damage that's being done? there is no answers to that. i think that on the mother's side, she is looking sterling in this at the moment. >> bill: the judge said we need to know a lot about her. she decides this. not a jury. >> this is a judge case. from the beginning the relationship she forms with the lawyers will matter.

it wasn't a good day in court for biden's lawyers yesterday. he is setting a timeline and has to be there for future hearings. right away with the stern tone she is taking this seriously. i don't think she will allow any sort of nonsense. wasn't happy about the redactions that the biden team produced with all the documents. >> bill: last question, $20,000 a month. that's not nothing. how do you determine that figure? >> it's quite simple in arkansas, as in many states. there is a calculator. you put in your income, some other factors and it produces a number. when you have income at the level that hunter biden is talking about, it isn't on the calculator and there is quite a bit more forensic accounting that takes place and that's what this is about. >> bill: he said i used to make a lot of money but i don't make much money now. that would be his argument, right? >> that's a substantial change in circumstances directly to his income and exactly what courts

look into. that's what he has to establish here. it is on him to establish that. so he has a high hill to climb here and have to produce all the data. >> dana: whatever comes out in this court in the family court, can it be used at the justice department or even elsewhere? >> it can. i think in the deposition they will have far greater access to demanding answers that the justice department doesn't. remember, he is a criminal -- it's a criminal matter with the justice department and he has fifth amendment rights to remain silent there. >> dana: they could have avoided the whole thing if they had done the right thing by acknowledging the child. >> and maybe pay less in the end. >> bill: depositions are in june. bring you back then. 20 past. here we go. >> what i've been very clear with from the very beginning is how humbling it is for my name to be in this circle. >> bill: months of speculation, virginia governor glenn youngkin announces his decision on a run

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>> i think people are paying such attention to virginia because of the things that we've been able to accomplish in a purple state. we've been able to drive through economic growth by cutting taxes, we are reforming our schools. we back the blue and we're seeing crime come down. we're standing up for the things that virginians wanted us to

stand up for and i think americans are watching it. it is a humbling conversation. >> bill: asked this a lot and now we have the answer. he is out. glenn youngkin will not run for the -- he says he has got work to do still in virginia. the white house will have to wait or run for it will have to wait. >> dana: now we know. we cross another one off your list. the field is not growing by the day. if you think back to 2016 and there were 17 candidates. on the republican side. you won't be at 17 this year. might be at seven. >> bill: the interesting thing about youngkin. the night he won he stunned a lot of people. virginia had been democratic for some time. the same night new jersey had a close razor thin margin. in virginia you only get one term for governor. and then you are done.

and you can wait another four years but i think just watching his -- watching what he decides at the end of this term in 2025 will be interesting. >> dana: who does he endorse if he does? that will be interesting. virginia, of course, the state that helped make education the top issue for voters with parents protesting mask mandates and school closures many parents across the country say their kids are still struggling to catch up after dramatic learning loss from those shutdowns. madison has more in new york city. >> we're speaking to voters all week. when it comes to education, what we heard are that there are concerns around lack of teachers, the quality of education and a need to make up for pandemic learning losses. voters feel like the education system is not living up to expectations and this is what we're hearing from coast to coast. >> more needs to be done. should this happen again we should reconsider closing schools completely. >> we don't have the same

quality of teachers in the classroom due to money. >> a loss of teachers during this time period. >> school wasn't really ideal. especially for the younger children. >> the education system in general is pretty stuck behind. >> we know differently. now it is our responsibility to make sure kids get caught up. >> students are falling behind academically at record levels. according to the latest reading of the national report card test scores in math and reading fell 3% during the pandemic. the national assessment of education progress says students on average are a quarter of a school year behind today. teachers union president randi weingarten testified on capitol hill they worked from early 2021 to get schools back open. now local leaders, even including mayor of chicago lori lightfoot are disputing those claims. voters we spoke to are not focused on the past. when we asked about school closures doesn't want to play

monday morning quarterback. it is easy to see what went wrong. he wants solutions and people in power to make things better for kids. >> dana: and quickly as we head into another summer. >> bill: a very interesting development on a.i. a google engineer known as the godfather quit his job at the company and warning about further development of artificial intelligence. his name is geoffrey inton. he said if i hadn't done it somebody else would have. it is hard to see how you can prevent bad actors from using it for bad things. alec, thank you for being here. good morning to you. one more quote. look at how it is five years ago and how it is now. take the difference and propagate it forward. that is scary. hinton is from london. in toronto for 40 years. the canada government threw the

doors open for him to develop this artificial intelligence. now he is saying we've gone too far. how do you square that? >> well, i have to be honest with you. i'm deeply skeptical about his analysis here. first of all the reason he ended up in canada in the first place is because he left the u.s. is because he didn't want the help of the u.s. military. he goes to canada and sells his company for 40 some million dollars to google. spends a decade developing the technology and said oh my gosh, oops, this stuff is scary. he is worth tens of millions of dollars and run away from the united states because he doesn't like the pentagon and now he is sounding the alarm about a.i. it is very reasonable for us to scrutinize a.i. but i also think we need to scrutinize this godfather of

a.i. as well. >> bill: he said jeff dean is their chief scientist and remain committed to a responsible approach to a.i. and continually learning about emerging risks and innovating boldly. i want to go to polls in a moment. how could -- give me an example of how a.i. could work positively for us in america, or around the world? >> sure, bill. my family, like so many of our listeners, have been affected by cancer and detecting cancer and stage 3 or 4 when it's oftentimes very late or too late to make an intervention. one of the really powerful really positive implications of a.i. is that it can often detect cancer very, very early when you are just going through a normal everyday checkup and you don't feel bad early in stage one when it's much more treatable. if a.i. can help us fight cancer that's a positive example of it.

>> bill: i want to come back to the -- i want to show you what we found in the fox polls. we asked the question for society a.i. technology is a good thing, bad thing or it depends. if you look at good thing among all voters you are at 38. bad things 46. if you move to the far right column whether or not you are familiar with it. 46% say it's a good thing. but at the bottom of your screen in both categories you check in at 12% who say it depends. you are a part of that category. how come? >> that's right. because i think that this technology, it is like nuclear power. it can be used to fuel a city or used to destroy a city. i shared the example of how a.i. can be used for detection, early detection in cancer. by the same token it can now do things like produce video that is so realistic nobody can tell the difference. i think back to the example when the a.p. twitter account was

hacked and reported there was an explosion at the white house and markets crashed. imagine if that were done now with video. imagine some of the mayhem that people who want to disrupt our economic systems or who want to disrupt our security using powerful a.i. tools how they could use it. so this technology is value neutral. it can add a lot of benefit, do a lot of harm. it all depends on who is using it and how, which brings into the question of should it be regulated or not? >> bill: yeah. how do you answer that? do we need a new fda or whatever you want to call it? >> a lot of people are calling for a new fda. when theodore roosevelt created it. congress understood we needed to protect our food and drug supply. the problem with creating a new fda today. voters are skeptical about

government being able to effectively regulate a.i. in this case, i agree with them. my kids' public high school is full of people who understand technology a lot better than congress. i am very skeptical about saying we need to regulate this. remember who will do the regulating. i personally don't have much confidence in this. >> bill: we had 76% of all voters in america believe that to be the case. alec, thank you. we'll speak again, i know we will. thanks for coming on today. >> thank you, bill. >> bill: you bet. >> do you think the world is a safer place under the biden administration than under the trump administration? >> i think our standing, the standing of the united states around the world in the last few years is much stronger than it was. >> dana: benjamin hall getting a one-on-one interview with antony blink phren the war in ukraine to his alleged role in the

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>> we have seen a number of americans held by the russians and yet it seems to me that they aren't really facing any repercussions for doing so. sanctions if place because of it. but no message to the russians if they take americans there will be severe consequences. what would you say to that? >> we have taken a number of matters including sanctions across years and cases. what you are seeing again is maybe the biggest sanction of all is to further isolation, an isolation that began when they

invaded. >> it has than stopped them from taking americans. >> at some point along with the isolation, along with measures that we can take, others can take and we're working with other countries to build an even stronger coalition to make sure that there are strong consequences for any country that engages in these practices. >> dana: secretary of state antony blinken defending the white house response to russia holding americans hostage. part of benjamin hall's wide ranging interview with the top diplomat. great to see you. >> it was nice to be back at the state department yesterday. we did try to touch on almost every issue the state department is facing. another journalist who has been attacked in a sense by russia and here is what he said where the case stands with evan's case at the moment. >> the dialogue is irregular. we've been in contact and remain in contact through our embassy.

we have a channel that president biden and putin established some time ago to deal with the arbitrary detention of our citizens. so we'll continue to pursue that. the fact is that evan is unjustly being detained. he needs to be released immediately. >> how do we do more to stop the russians taking americans? >> we've taken a number of measures including sanctions across the years and across cases. i think what you are seeing again is maybe the biggest sanction of all, is to further russia's isolation. >> we talked about china, the growing threat from china. the spy balloons, chinese police stations in the u.s., all the hacking going on. i wanted to hear from secretary blinken just how the u.s. and how the administration was trying to push back against china. here is what he said. >> i think what we've seen over the last couple of years is the united states putting itself in a much stronger position to deal with the competition we have

with china that we fully acknowledge. first we've made historic investments in ourselves to compete evil. investments in infrastructure and semi conductors and climate technology. >> that's not holding china back. it is not stopping china. >> the issue is, i think, less holding china back and more making sure we're able to run faster. >> i think a lot of people would have been hoping to here a more forceful response from blinken when it came to dealing with china, holding them back. he seems to think the best way was to make the u.s. stronger rather than trying to contain china. >> dana: i notice he said that china's involvement and interest in peace in ukraine was saying we welcome anybody who wants to come to a peace agreement. but do you think that's really true that they want china involved here? >> i asked him that. we hear reports the chinese are thinking about giving more weapons to russia. we know what the chinese are doing around the world and i

would say he would push back but he said the opposite. we welcome any country who comes in. with everything the u.s. has done in ukraine it's funny if we were to see china being the one that led to peace. >> bill: he said a couple times he doesn't do politics in his job. you asked him about the letter signed by 51 intel agents saying the hunter biden laptop was russian disinformation. how did that come out? >> well, it was the first time he has publicly admitted clearly in his words he had nothing to do with the letter. he didn't instigate it or wasn't behind it. that is counter to some of the things we've heard in the past. he reverted back time and time again to saying in my current job i don't do politics. i focus on the world and the role of the state department. it was hard to get anything more out of him. interesting to hear him flatly deny any involvement in the

letter. >> bill: it will likely come up again down the road. nice to see you stateside. >> great to be back. >> dana: amazing to have him. he got a standing ovation at the state department press briefing room and a well deserved one yesterday. >> bill: oklahoma is the latest state to make performing irreversible gender transition on minors a felony. 15 other states have similar bans. the oklahoma governor said this, quote. we cannot turn a blind eye to what is happening across our nation. as governor i'm proud to stand up for what's right and ban life-altering transition surgeries on children in the state of oklahoma. outkick charlie on this today. >> thank goodness. nice to see another lawmaker taking measures to protect children. we are dealing with a social contagion. there are so many sources we can

point figures out. teachers, administrators, social media. this is a phase that will pass but a sad result. a lot of kids will find themselves in irreversible and life-altering situations. >> dana: a map with more bans. we can put it up for you so you can see the states there. they have banned similar to oklahoma. then the penalties listed under the bill just signed by the governor in oklahoma is possible prison sentence of up to ten years. potential fine of $1 hundred thousand and possibility of medical license suspension or revocation. those are some very serious penalties. >> yeah. they should be. the big question is what is the rush for doctors to provide chemical castration or surgical muti mutilation? think about when you were a child. i was a huge tom boy growing up. i can't imagine there would be

have been a circumstance maybe you're a boy in a girl's body and i would have gone to extreme lengths and i would be living in a sad situation right now. so it's really silly to indulge every little whim a child goes through. it is going to change and it will be a sad thing. what will we do down the road when so many people are facing this? >> bill: in oklahoma now. under 18 you are not legally able to get a tattoo. you can't buy cigarettes, can't drink. >> these are all such way smaller things than being chemically castrated or surgically mutilated. another phenomenon going on trends abled. a person identifies as a disabled person. the same logic of gender-affirming care should we lop off arms and legs of those who consider themselves trans abled? if you believe in that argument the answer would be yes. >> dana: sometimes i think i'm at an age that i'm too old to

understand what younger people are thinking and feeling about this. let me ask you. when you talk to friends or family or maybe not your friends and family but around -- is there a big generational divide between someone like a governor in oklahoma and gen z? >> social media has completely taken over. i'm addicted to it and it is even more extreme for younger children. a lot of them are going through the growing up phase coming to realize who they are and what they want to be. this is being forced down their throats. once you hit an algorithm on social media and start getting the same content over and over and you are insecure or looking to get a little bit more attention and you say hey, these people are transitioning and they are getting more attention. maybe i should do the same thing. >> all over tiktok. >> all over social media. >> bill: you are hosting outkick's hot mic. >> yes, 3:00 to 6:00 eastern tomorrow, thursday and friday.

i hope everyone tunes in. >> dana: what happens on hot mic? i know a lot about sports. >> all the sports you could ever want and need and addressing issues like this. things that are culturally relevant and people need to be talking about. >> dana: hot mic. thank you, good to see you. >> they're half the length, ten episodes of a network series. less work for writers to do. more writers but less work. a basic mismatch in the labor market. >> dana: you will see a lot of reruns of favorite tv shows as hollywood writers go on strike. the live report in los angeles. the rich and famous gather together for fashion's biggest night. the annual met gala in new york city. bill was there and we'll show you details straight ahead in hemmer celebrity news. ♪

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>> harris: the secretary of state blinken said he didn't do it. a fake intelligence letter that had the hunter biden laptop as disinformation. the president had to give in and meet with republicans. he is going to. house speaker kevin mccarthy in charge with a debt limit idea to save the country from default. biden has to get on board. plus 1500 troops could be headed to our southern border. senator joni ernst, presidential candidate nikki haley and jason chaffetz. "the faulkner focus" top of the hour. >> dana: screenwriters and tv writers walking off the job for the first time in 15 years after talks on a new contract failed. the union representing more than 11,000 film and tv writers

voting unanimously to call a strike that starts today. senior national correspondent william la jeunesse outside culver studios in l.a. county. can you feel a difference? >> probably around 2:00 today is when the strike lines will form here. amazon studios, sony a block away. when writers go on strike it isn't just them. when productions go dark, actors, prop houses, set design, catering, all those people become unemployed. the first thing viewers will notice off the air tonight the late night talk shows and soap appear ras. most series from episodes in the can. the fall schedule. shooting begins in june, those are dead for now. what people will see more news, sports, reality, repeats and foreign series from europe and asia. >> this is something that has a real effect. if the strike continues for a

significant duration, people start to have trouble putting food on the table and roofs over their heads. >> the 2008 strike lasted 100 days and cost the l.a. economy $2 billion. the media landscape different and more fractured. streaming and cord cutting are killing the networks. writers are not getting the residuals they used to. the sticking points writers want the same pay for streaming, cable and network shows. studios say no minimums. writers can be hired on a daily basis. >> the companies say look, we're spending billions of dollars to build out these platforms. it is just a very tight economic position. the writers guild response is if you will spend billions of dollars to build worldwide enterprises based on our content, we need a fair piece of that and we need to be able to

sustain careers. >> so they are far apart on pay an issues. it could last a long time. >> thanks for the update. >> bill: thank you, william from hollywood we go to new york city and last night's annual met gala. what an event it was. that's today's celebrity news. the rich and famous strutted their stuff to benefit the metropolitan museum of art costume institute? did you know? >> dana: i didn't know i had one. >> bill: there i am. it wasn't halloween, it was the met gala. >> dana: was it hot in the costume? >> a little bit. it is actually gerad leto. this was the cat. >> dana: just to be clear. >> bill: i got this. i got this. the night was dedicated to him and his work he did for leading all the fashion for -- >> dana: would you rather be at

the white house correspondent's dinner or the met gala? >> this year the met gala for sure. >> dana: all right. i think i would go to d.c. actually. i would be so out of place at the met. can you imagine? i don't know. i could serve drinks at the met. i am not material for the red carpet. >> bill: good people watching. >> dana: i would watch all the people. i wouldn't want to be one of the people. >> bill: i work with sandra today at 1:00 and give j.r. the day off today with his family. >> dana: harris faulkner is here as always. "the faulkner focus" here it goes. >> harris: fox news report now secretary of state antony blinken caught in some trouble. allegations that the nation's highest diplomat crafted a letter to protect the biden family. it was that now infamous document used to discredit the existence of hunter biden's laptop. and it matters because the truth about that laptop and at