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it got the catalytic converter stolen. >> i would rather be driving a frank mobile than a wiener mobile, personally. the slogan, do not lick, put on the end of that? like really -- >> harris: we got to go. >> not necessary. >> everybody named frank should get a free hot dog when you go to the frank mobile. >> harris: that's sweet. dvr us when you can't watch us like this. "america reports" now. >> fbi has turned into the enforcement arm of the democratic party. they have created a russia, russia, russia hoax. >> vehicle to legitimize the events of january 6th. >> only ones displaying mock-outrage is the democrats. >> you are not sharing. >> the whistleblower saw what you did with mr. fred and others. >> why does that not apply? where is the whistleblower
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exception in the rules of congress. >> we have the whistleblower testimony, the whistleblower does not wish that to be made. >> john: fireworks on capitol hill, barbs at the house weaponization subcommittee hearing. fbi under a microscope after several whistleblowers accuse the agency of unfair treatment. >> sandra: employees had security clearances revoked against the politicized rot. republicans accuse the bureau of a partisan agenda. we'll take it up with katie pavlich and ben coming up. >> john: first, the supreme court granting a huge win for big tech and a pair of liability cases as the fight to protect free speech continues on capitol hill. i'm john roberts in washington, great to have you here today. >> sandra: great to be here again, john. good to be with you.
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this is "america reports." nation's highest court has now determined that twitter was not responsible when third party content was posted on its platform by the terror group isis. >> john: and side stepping on a case against google that would narrow section 230, that is the federal law protect big tech from lawsuits arising from content posted by users. >> sandra: and it all comes as lawmakers try to make significant reforms to the liability shield. accusing big tech as an excuse to unfairly censor content. >> john: shannon bream has been watching all the goings on at the court. >> big win for twitter, unanimous decision of the supreme court, case brought by the family of a man killed in a 2017 isis terror attack. they had argued twitter was at fault for allowing isis to post content on its platform and they sued under the anti-terrorism act. during arguments that lasted
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nearly three hours, it really sounded like the conservative and liberal justices, they seemed a bit split about this, whether twitter should bear any responsibility for hosting terror-related content. in the opinion, authored by justice thomas, they were united. found the plaintiffs didn't have a case. "plaintiffs had failed to allege that defendants intentionally provided any substantial aid to the attack or otherwise consciously participated in it." much less assisted isis to render them liable for every isis attack. aclu saying twitter and other apps are home to an immense amount of protected speech and it would be devastating if those platforms related to censorship to avoid a deluge over the users' posts. the court did not get to the big question that folks on both sides of the social media debate want answered, what about
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section 230. does it provide a liability shield for social media giants moving forward? the court declined to get to that question. so left for another day, another case. waiting on opinions in cases dealing with affirmative action. the president's student loan forgiveness plan, john, you've got a busy studio going on here, send it back to you. >> john: we do have a busy studio. it's like pit row at the indianapolis 500. >> grand central station, you guys are getting work done. >> john: thank you, shannon. now sandra. >> sandra: thank you shannon, john. three fbi whistleblowers testifying before a house panel today accusing the agency of retaliation and abusing its power. we have fox team coverage now revealing who is in the studio for all the chaos, katie pavlich is here, she'll join us in just moments, first to david spunt, it has been quite a tumultuous day for the fbi, right?
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>> very much so, tumultuous week with the durham report released on monday and typically don't hear the fbi or see the fbi fight back in any way and talk about specific cases, but we obtained a letter from the fbi to congress that explains why these three whistleblowers were suspended. just take a listen to this. >> you may think i'm a political partisan. you may think i am a grifter. you may think i'm a conspiracy theorist. it does not matter. this committee should avoid the temptation to impune the character and the motivation of the messengers seated before you. >> steven friend, his file, september 2022, fbi space and downloaded documents to an unauthorized removable flash drive. the fbi then required mr. friend to attend a security awareness briefing regarding his actions
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but he refused to do so. another one. >> fbi suspended my security clearance accusing me of actually being disloyal to my country. this outrageous and insulting acquisition is based on unsubstantiated organizations, regarding the events of january 6, 2021, and that i allegedly sympathize with criminal conduct. i do not. >> according to the fbi on september 29, 2021, allen sent an email using his fbi email account to multiple colleagues links to websites and urged recipients to exercise extreme caution and discretion in pursuit of any investigative inquiries of january 6th, he served his country proudly as a u.s. marine, clearly a lot of tension between republicans and democrats and really seeing a vast different story between the
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whistleblowers and the fbi we don't usually hear from. we could read the letter and find out more about the cases, sandra. >> sandra: all right, david spunt at the justice department. thank you. >> john: katie pavlich, town hall.com editor and quite a story they were telling, said bad guys are running part of the government, making them sound like the fsb. >> a lot of concerned raised not just the whistleblowers in front of congress, but also the 80-page report the weaponization of government committee put out with the examples they brought up and retaliated against, for example, questions about the whistleblower about the january 6th investigation and going after people who were getting on busses and going to a rally rather than going to the capitol. also some mention by some lawmakers of bank of america involved here. and flagging certain transactions for everybody in washington, d.c., not just people who were engaged in criminal activity on january 6th
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at the capitol, but participated. so, big questions about the violation of civil liberties coming from the lawmakers and this report, not to mention the heels of the durham report which completely evisceated the fbi, and pattern of behavior from the fbi about their political posture and they said, the fbi in response to the durham report, that they changed the culture, that new things and reforms have been implemented, but durham said if the political posturing and attitude and bias does not get out of the fbi with the return to defending the constitution and focusing on the rule of law, that those reforms have been fruitless. seems nothing has changed given what the whistleblowers are saying. >> can you talk about the pattern of behavior out there, retaliation against several agents among the miskubt the fbi is accused of, no real evidence for the trump-russia probe and
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targeting parents who have spoken out at school board meetings, and near moments in american history, targeting of pro life activists. where does this leave us, katie? >> republicans on capitol hill are calling for major reforms at the fbi. they also have now articles of impeachment introduced against fbi director christopher wray, accused of corruption by the new representative of wyoming, big questions about whether the environment, the culture has been cleaned up at the fbi, given this pattern of behavior and the continued examples that people are seeing inside the bureau and the types of cases they are targeting. another thing that came up today that was really interesting, recused the fbi of cooking the books on domestic extremism cases, aftermath of january 6th, talking point of democrats, talking point of the white house, but when it comes to the cases saying people who are simply at a rally exercising their first amendment rights have been classified as domestic
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extremism cases. they say they are going to investigate this and try to get whistleblowers on the record, a very, very difficult thing to do. the u.s. attorney tweeted it's extraordinary to get three people on the record because of the retaliation that does go on inside the federal bureaus. >> john: a lengthy letter to jim jordan, the fbi explained why they lost their security clearances their evidence they say is out there. i want to ask you this question. go back to 2018, and an essay written by mpr editor, none of this should be a surprise. he said the fbi has and always will be political. he says as a matter of reality, the fbi has been political from its outset. always had an ethos of professionalism and objectivity and devotion to law, the people in charge of it and in charge of the administration's under which it has served have been as
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political and partisan as it is possible to be. remember the great reign of j. edgar hoover, and teddy roosevelt, a political as spent of the leadership of the fbi. >> and that's why i think you are hearing from lawmakers on capitol hill about big changes to the fbi, including cleaning house, moving the headquarters out of washington, d.c., so it's not such a political animal. >> john: where you going to put it, greenland? >> maybe that would help a little bit. certainly it's a problem, politics are clear and a lot of that out by objections from people who want to deny the facts. >> sandra: before you go, out of the look back machine and closer to 2024, ron desantis could be closer to launching his bid, polling shows donald trump top of the list, 51% in the latest washington post abc news poll,
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desantis 25%, and other are down the list. what does this tell you, katie, where this is going? >> ron desantis is not in the race and yet is the number two guy against donald trump. average polling shows trump ahead of desantis, even though he was not in the race. trump has tried hard not to get him into the race, going after him almost solely what he's been doing on the campaign trail. ron desantis is not deterred, national tour, and international tour and has not taken the bait when it comes to responding to trump's attacked focused on his record in florida. so, we are off to the races, if he decides to get in along with a few others, tim scott included. here we go. 2024 is here. >> john: he's big in japan as the song says. >> great to see you both. >> sandra: thank you, great to see you. >> john: it's the way back machine. >> sandra: got it.
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i did get that one wrong. president biden meanwhile meeting with japan's prime minister ahead of the g7 summit, china is the top priority in the packed agenda, but debt ceiling happening here at home and how the default or potential default could up end financial systems worldwide. peter, what are the chances this even comes up in these meetings? what are you hearing? >> sounds like it's going to be pretty slim, we are standing right now a few blocks away from the spot that an american nuclear bomb exploded in 1945, and that is what the host, the japanese prime minister wants to be talking about. nuclear disarmament. he's trying to show that it is possible to protect your country wrought nukes, why japan has doubled spending on nonnuclear weapons in recent years but already heard from president biden on the ground here in japan, the u.s. is not ready to
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decommission its arsenal just yet. >> and tracking the global challenges from strengthening our community and commitment to nuclear nonproliferation, to assuring a free and open indo-pacific, at the heart of all this. >> that open indo-pacific line is rubbing the chinese the wrong way. the chinese side does not want officials here talking about an independent taiwan. they said in a statement stop making provocations and playing with fire on the taiwan question and never stand on the opposite side of over 1.4 billion chinese people. those playing with fire will get burnt. the stops president biden already canceled on the trip were designed to show force against china, but the president is prioritizing debt talks back home as half a dozen democratic senators are saying in a new letter don't negotiate, just cancel the debt limit with the
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14th amendment already. >> i'm not saying that this should be the first choice that we would have, but if it is the last choice between doing this and experiencing a default, clearly to me this is the best solution. >> and the tough thing about president biden being here while negotiations on the debt limit are happening back home, it's the middle of the night here. 2:14 in the morning in hiroshima, and if president biden is going to get any rest ahead of a full day of meetings during the day here, it's got to be right now. sandra. >> sandra: we are left wondering if that's happening. peter, thank you very much, in japan for us. thanks, peter. >> john: why asia trips with the president are great, you are up all night, up all day. a california county trying to clear out thousands of recreational vehicles that popped up during the pandemic. but you can imagine, all the wheels easier said than done. live from los angeles on the
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marine veteran charged in the chokehold death of jordan neely may not come until monday, when the next court term will begin, and the case could be present today a grand jury.
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alvin bragg has charged penny with manslaughter. witnesses say neely was acting erratically and making threats before he was restrained by penny and two other men. >> the united states has a moral and legal obligation to provide reparations for the enslavement of africans. >> we are looking at the black-white wealth gap, and which is about $14 trillion. >> reparations now, reparations forever. >> sandra: the debate on reparations comes to capitol hill and squad member cori bush announcing a 14 trillion plan for reparations, and says it will help close a wealth gap stemming from racist u.s. policies. the proposal is facing a lot of pushback as you can imagine,
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charles payne, appreciate you joining us. the debate continues and it's now on capitol hill. those who support reparations, when asked, should the government pay money to black americans whose ancestors were slaves, it's not popular. those that say they should not, 65%. those who say they should, 28%. where do you stand, charles? >> charles: no, you know, that's -- it's a bad idea and at this stage of the game it's a poor excuse. i mean, listen. obviously to this day racism exists and it does harm black people but it's not something that is so insurmountable that it should be the main focus. you know, when you went to break, one woman said our vote is for sale, you should be in a transactional relationship with people you give your power to. voting is not power, it's the ability to give someone else power and trust they will do the
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right thing. unfortunately for black america we have voted for the wrong people for so long they have taken us for granted for so long and they don't believe in us. the people that we give this power to give us back watered down education, so our children cannot compete in a modern day world. if we truly want to be competitive and we truly want to close the wealth gap, as it were, then we need to get up to snuff and we need to demand more from the people we give power to and stop telling our children the only way we can catch up is through things like reparations. >> sandra: there was a man on the screen a moment ago from the task force when asked how do you pay for this, the answer seems to be tax the rich, have them pay for it. this is the reparation task force member to which i just referred, saying of all these billionaires in san francisco, you could establish a reparations fund, ok. is it that simple, charles?
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>> charles: he could have simply said the government could come up with money. and believe me, between the federal reserve and what we just saw, you know, they can come up with 14 trillion. the bigger question is what's the aftermath to that. what's the aftermath of all the free money that was used, you know, first we obviously we needed cash at the beginning of the pandemic, when you shut the whole country down. later on trillions poured into the country, mostly as a theory, modern monetary theory, free money cures all. it has made things worse. we are suffering from inflation. people are doing worse now than they were doing before trillions of dollars hit. so imagine if it was 14 trillion. and here is the irony. the sad irony, a lot of people who are extraordinarily wealthy now, would be more wealthy five years from now. a study in stanford about the stimulus money, they say over the next five years, it will end up in the pockets of the top 1%. if we don't have a way of
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educating people, all people, by the way, on how to handle windfalls, make adjustments. they call it a propensity to spend and how to curb our propensity to spend wind falls and those kinds of things, all of these are moot points to begin with and if they ever went through, you would be shocked and saddened to see five years later where all the money would be. >> sandra: that's a great point, charles. finish off by asking about biden's energy crisis. a major warning about the u.s. power grid as we enter the summer months, a map of the blackout risks in the country as the grid faces an elevated risk of shortages in the coming summer months amid a nationwide push as we have seen to replace fossil fuels with green energy alternatives. the top grid watchdog warning of this. the north america electric reliability corporation is warning the vast majority of the u.s. grid, excluding a lot of the east coast, may have
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insufficient reserves during high demand periods. quite a warning as we head into the summer months, charles. >> it's going to be so scary. we have already seen examples of this in europe, no power. sometimes the wind doesn't blow, you can't really store the stuff, it's hard to transmit it. we have seen examples in california, right, where you could not use your power overnight. this is nuts. what we are doing, this is -- this is self-sabotage in the name of appeasing the climate gods, one of the most crazy things -- one of the most crazy things, economic suicide at the pace that we are going with this thing, and so a tough summer blackouts just the very beginning. just the very beginning. we have a century old antiquated electric grid and we are going to retrofit it for wind and solar? give me a break. it's just nuts. we don't have to do this but we are. it's crazy what we are doing to ourselves. >> sandra: this was your big
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warm-up, we got you going, charles. off you go to your show. >> charles: see you later. >> john: warm-up before the main act. tiktok on the chopping block. montana is the first state in the nation to ban the social media app outright, and the decision as you could imagine is attracting just a little bit of backlash. straight ahead, the governor joins "america reports" for an exclusive interview one day after signing the bill into law. >> sandra: plus thousands of r.v.s causing chaos in los angeles county as the homeless crisis spirals out of control. are officials doing anything about the encampments? >> first thing in the morning they are going to be here and yeah, they came. >> it's very nerve racking and stressful. >> literally is the wild, wild west.
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>> sandra: a massive clean-up is underway in los angeles county. officials there are trying to get rid of over 7,000 r.v.s parked outside of homeless encampments. the run down motor homes are causing safety concerns. jeff paul is live in los angeles with the latest on the efforts to clear these out this. is not just happening in one city or area, is it? >> no, it isn't. and no matter how affluent the neighborhood is, you are going to see scenes like this. r.v.s on the sides of roads in some form of decay, but it's harder than just getting the people inside to leave. >> they go door to door. hoping someone who calls this home will willingly move out. >> nobody want to live like this. they want their own place and things like that, but life is
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getting so hard. >> diamond ruiz is scared to leave the motorhome she's lived in the past couple years. despite being offered shelter and potential employment, she's undecided. >> it's not sustainable the people out here are suffering from addiction, mental health issues, and it's causing stress on the communities involved. >> l.a. county sheriff lieutenants william kitchen says even when they do leave, finding a place for the r.v. can be even more difficult. >> sheriff's department. >> that's one of the biggest challenges that we have. is finding the space to tow these while we do that due process. >> there isn't much incentive for tow trucks to respond. it's a health hazard, take up a lot of room and the owners rarely pay to get them back. >> now some cities have passed overnight parking bans but in communities like the one we featured in our story it's an unincorporated area of l.a. county, so the county working on
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some solutions, one of those being creating a designated parking lot to tow these r.v.s to while they let the legal process play out. sandra. >> sandra: jeff, thank you. >> john: a fox news alert to some video that has just come in to us from new york city, in recent days we have seen bus loads of migrants arriving in new york city from the border to be dispersed throughout the city to hotels, etc. now we are seeing video on migrants loaded to a bus, 42nd street and 11th avenue, or sorry, 9th avenue, bound for locations that we do not know. it's a city-looking type of bus, commuter bus, as opposed to a bus travelling a long distance. again, we don't have any idea where these folks are being
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loaded up to be taken to, but we'll keep watching this, and see if we can find out. of course, we have been covering in recent days the battle between new york city and rockland county, where new york city has been trying to put the migrants in hotels in places like orangeburg and causing a feud between administrators in rockland county and the mayor of new york city. we'll keep watching this and see where the bus might be off to. montana, might be the first state in the country to ban tiktok. lawmakers are raising concerns over the threat to national security. some people are calling the new law unconstitutional, joining us for an "america reports" exclusive interview is the montana governor, greg gianforte. what did you and lawmakers in the state of montana see as the necessity for banning tiktok? >> well, john, thanks for having me on. i would first say the ability of the chinese communist government
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to use tiktok to spy on americans is well documented. that's why that we ban the application here in montana. i wish the bill actually was broader. i would have liked to have picked up other social media apps that by, owned by foreign adversaries, but this is a good step in the right direction. >> john: you would have liked to have banned other platforms like telegram, wechat, capcut, my son uses to edit his videos, not sure if we are comfortable about, and timu, gaining in popularity. american civil liberties union thinks it was too broad saying the government cannot impose a total ban on a communications platform like tiktok, and immediate harm to national security, but no public evidence of harm that would meet the high bar set by the u.s. and montana constitutions, and a total ban
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would not be the only option for addressing such harm if it did exist. your response, governor, to what the aclu is saying? >> well, they are just wrong. the montana constitution has a very broad protection for individual privacy and tiktok violates that. and this is why we banned it here, i mean. spying on americans, enough -- is enough. we are not going to let foreign adversaries surveil the people of montana. >> john: the ban does not take effect until january 1st of next year. do you expect there will be court challenges mounted against it by organizations like the aclu and others? >> probably will be challenged. that's ok. we have looked at it from all facets and we believe we are going to stand up and protect the people here in montana. i think that's what americans want, and we have taken this decisive action to do so. >> john: a couple months ago
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quite the hearing in washington, d.c. of the c.e.o. of twitter appeared before a congressional committee and it's one of the only times in recent memory that we have seen such bipartisanship here in washington as members from both sides of the political aisle took baseball bats, basically, to poor mr. chu. listen to some of these exchanges here. >> to the american people watching today, hear this, tiktok is a weapon to spy on you, manipulate what you see and exploit for future generations. >> congressman, i have seen no evidence the chinese government has access to that data. >> i find that prepostorous. you damn well now -- it is an extension of the ccp. >> john: at the same time, there are some democrats, jamal bowman one of them, who say let's not be racist toward china and
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express xenophobia, still some democrats are supporting this. where do you come down on this argument, this idea that tiktok is nothing more than a trojan horse, very addictive for young people and vacuuming up all of their data and potentially shipping it off to beijing? >> well, we have all kinds of apps on our phones. the issue with tiktok and these other applications owned by foreign adversaries is they are able to steal data about americans and ship it back for nefarious purposes. it's not what the app does, it's where the personal data goes. this is a national security issue, it's a violation of the montana privacy clause in our constitution, and we are pleased that we are the first state in the country to outright ban the application. again, i wish it was broader, i wish it picked up the russian apps and the other chinese apps. we just ran out of time in our legislature to get that done.
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>> john: we'll see if any other states pick up on this. i know the federal legislation to ban tiktok from federal phones gained momentum when the feds saw what montana was going. greg gianforte, the governor, thanks for joining us. good to have you on. >> sandra: bathing suit backlash. adidas is in some hot water for the new swimsuit ad. why some critics are accusing the company of erasing women. fox nation host tammy bruce will join us live to break down the controversy. >> john: but first, moments of terror at the southern border as states are looking for aid from the biden administration as more suspected terrorists are crossing over. texas congressman tony gonzalez is with us to discuss what needs to be done on that front.
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>> sandra: for the send time since title 42 was lifted a child has died in border patrol custody after crossing into the united states. even as overall encounters are down at the moment, terror arrests at the border are up, and rising at a troubling rate. texas congressman tony gonzalez sits on the homeland security committee and joins us now. what update can you give us on another child dying in u.s. custody? >> this is the sad part. everyone thinks it's normal. nothing normal about a child dying in custody, i don't care legal status or not. second time in less than a week in el paso, i was in el paso last week and showed some images of the processing center, can hold 1,000 people and it was holding 3,000 people and folks were crammed in a building, as many as 700 in an area to hold 100. i just got off the phone with some city officials there in el paso, that facility has gone
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from 3,000 people on friday to now 4,000 people today. so what does that mean? it's going the opposite direction. everyone says the numbers are going down, everything is getting better, it's not, right. you may not have the video there unless fox is showing it, bill melugin down in the south or something along those lines, things are getting worse. >> john: there's no question even while the numbers are down over the last four days prior to that, the numbers were way, way up, 2, 3 days in a row where 10,000 people were coming across the border, and even if you have a dip, there is still a lag in the system as you point out, where these border patrol facilities are overcrowded. that's not the only problem. because what we have seen is a rise in the number of people who have been coming across the border who are on the terror washington list. put this up on the screen, six people on the terror watch list were apprehended, 16 in the month of april, more than in all of fiscal years 17 to 20 combined.
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88 in total in 2023, according to customs and border protection. so, there is an ongoing threat on our southern border here of people who are not supposed to be coming into this country coming in. >> that should make all of us mad, and how about the got aways, when the terrorist action strikes, they don't care if you are democrat or republican, they are just trying to kill americans. things are deteriorating along the border. i got a report last night, 40 migrants travelling from basically guatemala, mexico border to monterrey, and they got kidnapped and found them last night, so what does that mean. that means this dangerous trek that has been going on continues to be a dangerous trek. and it doesn't stop on the southern border, does not stop where u.s.-mexico starts and ends, it continues on. it gets worse.
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we have to enforce the laws on the books. this only changes unless we hold them accountable, every mechanism we have. let's use the power of the purse to force them down a route they have to secure this border. >> sandra: live pictures of brownsville, you just referenced some of the border a few moments ago of the shelters there, the overcrowded facilities you just mentioned. we are showing your video here, congressman. and your observation is that this is mostly middle-aged men. >> oh, yeah. 3,000 people in that facility that day, and 2800 of them were single adult males. what does that mean? that means that the bulk of people are coming over looking like this, that was last week. so now i'm getting reports that there is now even more people in that facility. we are going the exact opposite direction. we have to do more in order to secure this border and can't be
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everything is ok. it's not as bad as we thought it was. it can't be the president laughing it off as if it's a joke. it's a serious threat and not only a serious threat along the border, these folks are going everywhere. i sat down with one individual and how long have you been there? he said he had been there 18 days. i asked where were you headed to, heading to new york. everyone seems to be going to new york or miami or chicago, so it's a dangerous for everyone in the country. >> john: in terms of the numbers going down, this idea that smugglers are taking a wait and see approach, see what happens, but they might flood in. >> sandra: and you are detailing the threats to us as terrorists are slipping through, i mean, there's a serious economic price to all of this for those in your state and all over the country as well. we have to leave it there. thank you very much for joining us. >> john: murder suspect accused of killing cash app founder mike lee entering plea in court. his connection to the victim is
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>> sandra: the man accused of stabbing to death cash app founder bob lee last month in san francisco appearing in court for his arraignment. his lawyer entering a plea of not guilty. senior correspondent claudia is live outside the courthouse. what happened today, claudia? >> hi, sandra. after numerous delays to get this arraignment going, it finally did happen today. he was arraigned, his lawyer entered a plea of not guilty and the judge denied his request to post bond and ordered him to stay locked up until trial. now, as he has in previous court appearances, he wore an orange jump suit and a face mask. he didn't speak or look into the packed courtroom at all. today's arraignment comes almost a month and a half since cash app founder bob lee was stabbed in the chest on april 4th after
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a late night fueled by drugs and alcohol. surveillance video obtained by the daily mail shows lee stumbling on the sidewalk and bleeding out at around 2:30 a.m. according to the medical examiner, he died on the operating table almost five hours later with alcohol, cocaine, and ketamine in his system. there is speculation he had been partying with momeni's married sister at her luxury condo. drove him to a secluded area and stabbed him over a dispute involving here. the lawyer claims lee's death was an accident and a matter of self-defense after the two got into a fight. she says momeni was shocked to learn bob lee had later died but the d.a. pointed out the knife police recovered from the scene had his dna on the handle and bob lee's dna on the blade and that the murder weapon likely
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came from a knife collection his sister had in her kitchen. all the lawyers are back here, he faces 26 years to life in prison if convicted. >> john: new at 2:00, a bad week for the fbi. fbi whistleblowers coming forward with explosive testimony on capitol hill as they accuse the agency of unfair treatment. so, will the fbi be held accountable and will there be any reform coming down the pike? we will have ben coming up. plus, charlie hurt on one democrat putting his foot down on biden's new agenda, and adidas ad campaign, and keith kellogg on ukraine. all that and more.
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