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isolated. this is only tied to this single product human growth hormone replacement and very, very rare. it shows that the abnormal proteins might be something that you could transmit infectious transmission. why does it matter? could a virus pre-dispose to alzheimer's? what genetic factors predispose to that? how much are these abnormal proteins related? we're looking at that. it adds more information for us in science. >> dana: you can't get it from coughing, someone is coughing. >> exactly. >> dana: you don't want to scare people. >> it was a one-time thing. nobody will get alzheimer's because somebody next to them has it. it is not contagious like that. you don't get it from casual exposure. it will never be a major issue. >> dana: dr. marc siegel, thank you. >> bill: thank you. >> dana: fox news alert protecting our nation's kids
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from sexual predators on social media. big tech titans set to testify before the senate judiciary committee. lawmakers will hold their feet to the fire about the lurking dangers and filth allegedly on their platforms that target some of the most vulnerable victims. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino. >> bill: hot first hour. more coming now right now. i'm bill hemmer, good morning. a who's who of silicon valley. some of the biggest ceos face questions how they are safeguarding your kids that are threats only a click away. it could get contentious. grieving families who lost loved ones say words are no longer enough. >> i don't know how long we have to keep bringing the same message to the same people. these platforms are responsible for the unsafe product that they have in everyone's hands. and i want action. i want action on the part of the social media empire to use their
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billions to protect kids. >> bill: ceos are at the table live from the hill. grady trimble. >> all five ceos are in the hearing room and so are parents who say their kids have been harmed by those ceo's social media platforms. the main focus is child exploitation on the internet. don't be surprised if a whole host of other topics come up related to protecting kids online from cyberbullying to harmful content on social media sites. in the case of tiktok its chinese parent company. lawmakers are grilling some of the most powerful names in tech right now. meta ceo mark zuckerberg, x and the tiktok ceo.
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zuckerberg will say they protect kids online and call for legislation to give parents more control of what their kids see and tout new safety features the platforms have added in recent weeks. it will also downplay social media's role in the increase in mental health issues in children saying this. mental health is a complex issue and the existing body of scientific work has not shown a causal link between using social media and young people having worse mental health outcomes. of all the five companies here today, snap is the only one that is publicly supporting the kids online safety act. that's bipartisan legislation introduced by two of the lawmakers on the judiciary committee. >> they need to be put on the spot and all of them need to be asked will you endorse kids online safety act? we can't rely on them anymore. they've lost trust. >> when our children are online
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they are the product. addiction to social media is the business model. >> for its part x says only 1% of its users are between the ages of 13 and 17. but it says it's investing heavily in keeping kids safe including by building a new trust and safety center in austin. it also says it is increased by ten times the number of employees who can report to the national center for missing and exploited children. >> dana: a lot of parents paying attention. this might be one of x's first appearance since she took over as the ceo from must musk. >> bill: sometimes we get little out of these hears. we'll see if it is different
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this time. >> dana: we'll have more on the hearing and what you can do to keep your kids safe. a panel of teenagers know their way around social media and have a lot of concern later in the broadcast. look forward to bringing them to you. >> bill: stand by for more. president biden says he will hold iran accountable with a three u.s. service members killed during a drone strike in northeastern jordan as the risks of a direct conflict with tehran rise and domestic troubles boil over. the man with no plan is on the cover of the post today. biden's border lie, i've done all i can. his response to the death of the soldiers that he doesn't want a wider war. again we're getting pickup on that today from senator marco rubio who stands by. north lawn and peter doocy to bring us up to speed now. good morning. >> good morning. just because president biden has made a decision about how to hit back at these militants bankrolled by tehran, doesn't mean he is confident in it.
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>> what will be different this time? >> president biden: we'll see. [shouted questions] >> president biden: we'll see. >> three times there we'll see, we'll see, we'll see. republicans don't believe we'll see any successes protecting future attacks against american interests in the middle east unless the president starts targeting tehran's inner circle. >> what we need to hit iranians assets themselves. that doesn't mean send the marines into tehran or doesn't have to be inside of iran. that can be iranian operatives all over the middle east. >> president biden is insisting he doesn't want a war with iran and doesn't think iran wants a war with the u.s. progressives in congress wish he would come to them for permission to use military force
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abroad. something president biden himself stressed is very important as a candidate in this clip four years ago. >> president biden: donald trump does not have -- make it clear -- does not have the authority to go to war with iran without congressional authorization and without working with congress, it is not optional. it is not an optional part of his job. >> officials tell us president biden will attend the dignified transfer of the remains of the three fallen service members from this drone attack friday in delaware. >> bill: thank you, peter doocy, north lawn. thanks. >> dana: florida senator marco rubio sits on the foreign relation committee and joins us now. a lot has happened over the last several days and i think people are curious about your views on what biden should or should not do at this point. >> well, i recall back in october or november of last year i said it would happen unless we made it clear to iran they would be held directly responsible for
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the attacks on of these they will attack and the attacks will spread and eventually we would lose americans. two months later that's what happened. for iran this is easy, right? they have these groups they supply weapons to and supply targeting information. these groups don't have satellites and targeting information. they know where to hit. guided munitions, all of that logistical support comes from the iranians. they have another group do the work and they get all the credit and none of the blame. they can hide behind it. why? they want to inflict pain on america because of our support for israel. the other underlying thing they want us to leave the region. they don't want 2,000 american troops fighting isis and syria in iraq. they don't want us to have an outpost in jordan. the more americans this threat en and kill the more likely we'll leave. we have to reestablish deterrents. difficult to do. iran doesn't care how many members of these groups die. you have to ultimately
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understand the deterrence has to be something iran cares about losing, something they're worried about. a delicate balance and difficult to reestablish them. if there is no belief the president will do anything about it. i wound talk about tactics. i don't think it's appropriate to telegraph that. we have to reestablish dethe terrence or more strikes against americans and other parts of the world potentially. >> bill: what iran does in terms of funding. hezbollah 700 million dlrs a year. 100 million and proxies throughout syria and iraq on top of that. there is a suggestion today "wall street journal" and others it is difficult for iran to get its proxy groups to refrain from taking action whether the houthis in yemen or all over that sphere of the middle east. reports suggest that they will stand down. do you have any reason today to believe that? there is some sort of back channel happening there? >> i think one of the groups,
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announced they would stand down. there are ongoing negotiations about the u.s. leaving iraq. that's not the group that attacked us in jordan. it is not easy for them to deter these groups. they don't exist without them. they don't just provide the weapons and training, they provide targeting and logistical support. these bases are not big places and the reason why they know where they are and have the coordinates and targeting information it's being supplied by iran. someone else is pushing the trigger but their targeting information and their weapons and they're responsive to iran and holding their hand every step of the way. >> dana: what about the american hostages that we believe are still being held in israel? the qatari prime minister is out doing a lot of interviews. not a lot of answers on that. you don't hear too much talked about them anymore. >> part of it is you are trying
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to get people freed you don't want attention being paid. you don't want people to forget there are hostages but you also don't want to be out there doing it in public for a variety of different reasons. i will say that that's why people take hostages because they know we value life. hamas doesn't care how many of their fighters die. to them it's a martyrs death and glorious. they know we care about life and that's the fundamental thing to understand. when your enemy does not value human life including their own and believe it is glorious to die in the name of their cause you have a difficult enemy to confront. we do value human life and want every one of those hostages released. every day they are in captivity and abused is a reminder of the evil we're confronting. not us and israel but the broader world with groups like these around the world war. >> bill: ridiculous they're still holding women and children and wounded people. it really defies logic for perhaps what governments in that
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region are allowing hamas to do at this moment. we have a ton to get to. thank you for your time. right now back on the hill lawmakers about to grill the biggest names in tech on keeping kids safe online. senator lindsey graham giving his opening as we wait to hear from the witnesses. we'll talk to two teenagers who are advocating for tighter restrictions making their case coming up. >> dana: better late than never. president biden finally set to visit the site of that ohio train derailment. why did it take a nearly a year? >> bill: house republicans advancing articles of impeachment against secretary mayorkas. do they have the vote and how democrats are reacting now. >> do you think secretary mayorkas is doing a good job? >> i believe we need to strengthen border security. ourn is to provide complete, balanced nutrition for strength and energy. yay - woo hoo! ensure, with 27 vitamins and minerals, nutrients for immune health. and ensure complete with 30 grams of protein.
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>> mr. zuckerberg, you and the companies before us, i know you don't mean it to be so, but you have blood on your hands. you have a product -- [applause] >> bill: wow. lindsey graham concluded his opening comments and this is senator dick durbin, chair of the senate judiciary committee. five of the richest, most successful tech executives in the world are before them and what lindsey graham said during the commercial is interesting. he said mark zuckerberg, you created a product we all use and wanted to connect people and that was your idea. things have gotten so far down the line we need to put guardrails on this. graham said tiktok is being used to destroy the jewish state of israel and said a.i. is just getting started. this is top of the mind for many of these senators in that room. >> dana: he added to all of them that they have blood on their hands so i think this is how you see how this hearing is going to go.
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perspective from people who are living this. we will bring in two teenagers, a 17-year-old and a 19-year-old. both social media advocates and you want safety for people of your age. i want to show people here. pew research shows that teenagers are online almost constantly. 24% said almost constantly. 2023 up to 46%. it might be higher. people might pretend they aren't on it as much as they are. kala, why are you concerned and what have you seen that led you to that conclusion? >> i've seen a lot of child exploitation online. my friend was a victim of a deep state video being spread around at the age of 15 and it just shows how a.i. is facilitating sextortion and ceos don't care until a celebrity is a victim of
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this. >> dana: judah, you? >> i have would say i've seen so much. i see around me every single day all of my friends have a story of some kind of negative impact from social media and yeah, i have definitely seen that, you know, the issue is very prevalent. it is everyone. >> dana: sexual exploitation in particular? >> i would say all kinds of exploitation. we feel like we're addicted. like we're hooked. we know the apps are designed that way. sexual exploitation i've no tons of people who got instagram at the age of six, nine, ten and experienced that for sure. >> dana: what would you likeo hear from the ceos today. is there some sort of law to get passed to help curb the topic of this, sexual exploitation online? >> yeah. i think it is important to have option to opt out of these
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recommendations. i know ten, 11 and 12-year-old using anti-aging products from a makeup store because it is what tiktok and other social media platforms are advertising. upholds a beauty standard not attainable. i see it a lot. it's prevalent. >> dana: at what point do you think parent involvement is important in this regard? >> i would say parent involvement is super important. the reason that we're pushing for an older age limit is because we want parents to know that not every other kid has social media. what they are seeing is they have to send their kid to school with no social media. all their friends have it. at the age of ten, 12, 13, and they don't know what to do. i when think encouraging parents that we're in the fight together as teens and parents is super important. >> dana: i interviewed a man a year ago and he has been on my mind ever since.
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he lost his 16-year-old son to suicide after being targeted for sextortion on instagram. watch here. >> there is a lot of criminal activity that originates within social media. our tech companies have the ability to filter and special for minors and they aren't investing in those technologies as aggressively. if you could make an instant difference in your family don't allow your children by themselves in a bedroom, in a bathroom, anywhere with these phones without supervision. they aren't capable of understanding the dangers on the other side of it. >> dana: i always think about that because the son did not reach out to the parents right away. it happened super quickly and they lost their son. they said if he had come to us we would have helped him and it would have been okay. is it realistic to think it's possible that parents can help protect kids in a way that the tech company ceos are not incentivized to do?
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>> i don't think so. i feel like parents aren't really aware of what is happening on social media. they grew up in another generation that wasn't as impacted by social media. they don't know the true harms of it. d.c. knows it causes suicide and causes body image issues. they know the problems yet and they have the resources to fix these problems. there is age verification technology out there that they aren't using because they would rather make a profit over protecting the children. so they need some form of responsibility for sure. >> dana: judah, how would you like legislation might help, what would it look like to you? >> i would say legislation is super important because it sets a precedent. it requires these companies to act. i think at this point we've been asking and asking and just like what was just said, you know, these companies haven't come through yet and we've been asking for change and they say they change things but we
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haven't seen it. >> dana: thank you both so much. you speak very well for the issue you are advocating for and thank you for your time today. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> do you think mayorkas is doing a good job? >> i think secretary mayorkas is doing as good a job as he can with the legislation that is in place. >> you don't think he can do a good job because congress hasn't given him the tools? >> i think he is handicapped to be doing that. >> bill: there you have it. republicans would say the laws are already on the books, just enforce them. house democrats defending secretary mayorkas says he faces impeachment for his handling of the border, two articles advancing on the house floor after yesterday's mark-up session. question today is do the republicans have the votes without a two-vote majority in the house. chad pergram has a rundown of that now. >> bill: good morning. we doubt any democrats will vote
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to impeach mayorkas. republicans want the full house to vote next week. the homeland security committee finished prepping two articles overnight. >> no. >> the cartels with secretary mayorkas are making over 13- >> explore the world around them and feel more connected people they care about. >> mark zuckerberg. >> some face challenges online. we work hard to provide parents and teens support to reduce potential harms. being a parent is one of the hardest jobs in the world. technology gives us new ways to communicate with our kids and feel connected to their lives and make parenting more complicated. it is important our services are positive for everyone who uses them. we're on the side of parents. we've built more than 30 different tools, resources and features that parents can set time limits for teens using
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apps, see who they are following, or if they report someone for bullying. for teens we've added nudges, to remind them when they have been using instagram or late and go to sleep and ways to find words or people. we put special restrictions on teen accounts by default. accounts for under 16 are set to private. the most restrictive content sentence and can't be messaged by adults for -- it's important to look into the effects on teen mental health and well-being. i take it seriously. mental health is a complex issue. the existing body of scientific work has not shown a link between using social media and young people having worse mental health outcomes. a recent national academy of science report evaluated 300 studies and found that research quote did not support the conclusion that social media
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causes changes in adolescent mental health at the population level, end quote and suggested can provide significant benefits when young people use it to explore and connect with others, still we'll continue to monitor the research and use it to inform our roadmap. safe online has been a challenge since internet began. as criminals evolve their tactics we have to evolve our defenses, too. we work closely with law enforcement and bad actors to help bring them to justice but the difficult reality is no matter how much we invest or effective the tools are there is always more to learn and more improvements to make. we remain ready to work with members of this committee, industry and parents to make the internet safer for everyone. i'm proud of the work that our teams do to improve online child safety on our services and across the entire internet. we have around 40,000 people overall working on safety and security and we've invested more than $20 billion in this since
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2016 including around $5 billion in the last year alone. we have teams dedicated to child safety. we built technology to tackle the worst online risks and share it to help the industry get better. project lantern that helps companies share data who people break child safety rules and take it down that prevents nude images being spread online and go beyond legal requirements and use technology to proper actively discover abusive material and as a result, we find and report more inappropriate content than anyone else in the industry. as the national center for missing and exploited children said this week meta goes above and beyond to make sure there are no portions of their network where this type of activity occurs. end quote. i hope we can have a substantive discussion that drives improvements across the industry
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including legislation that has a clear system for age verification and control over the apps their kids are using. app store age verification and four out of five want parental approval of whenever teens download apps. we support this. parents should have the final say on what apps are appropriate for their children and shouldn't have to upload their i.d. every time. that's what app stores are for. we also support setting industry standards on age appropriate content and limiting signals for advertising to teens to age and location and not behavior. at the end of the day, we want everyone who uses our services to have safe and positive experiences. before i wrap up, i want to recognize the families who are here today who have lost a loved one or lived through some terrible things that no family should have to endure. these issues are important for every parent and every platform. i'm committed to continuing to
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work in these areas and i hope we can make progress today. >> thank you, mr. speaker. >> he said 40,000 people working on safety and security. he will emphasize that to defend his company and said there is always more to learn. i imagine that's right, too. >> dana: he said i shouldn't have to upload your i.d. every time. that's what app stores are for and the fight between facebook and apple that we've been watching for a while. >> bill: they'll give opening statements and go to questions. stand by. more to come from capitol hill on that. in the meantime there is this. check it out. >> i have not used any federal tax dollars for personal security services. any reporting that i have used funds for personal security is simply false. >> dana: cori bush under federal investigation for allegedly misusing campaign money. why she says she did nothing wrong and how she spent the
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>> dana: right now the hearing on capitol hill on sexual exploitation on social media underway. tiktok ceo is giving his opening statement now. they haven't gotten to questions yet. we'll bring it to you as it gets fiery. >> bill: one squad democrat accused of cooking the books. d.o.j. investigating if cori bush out of missouri used campaign money to pay her husband for private security. the congresswoman walked out of the capitol yesterday and denied all of it. watch. >> in recent months right wing organizations have lodgeed baseless complaints against me peddling notions that i have misused campaign funds to pay for personal security services. that simply is not true. >> bill: all right. cheryl casone and tyrus are here today. the total amount of money she
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has paid for security since she was elected $723,000. a good bill. you know about that, don't you? future husband $105,000 saying it was all fair market price. that's her defense. >> we've all seen the movie. you know how easy it is to fall in love with the bodyguard. we're handsome, usually bigger than everybody else, protectors. the person who opens doors for you making sure you are safe. it's a natural thing to fall over the bodyguard. it is on the bodyguard to be sorry. >> dana: did snoop fall in love with you? >> many times. we decided it wouldn't work and went our separate ways. everyone loves the bodyguard. don't blame her for that. the other $6 hundred thousand let's get into it. >> bill: to the money gal, then. can she prove fair market value and does she stay on this allegation? >> a little federal election commission complaint against her. was she using campaign funds to do this.
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i don't know if it's a good idea even if he is a hot guy. it's not a good plan. these are serious charges against her. this is a serious investigation. she is very vulnerable in her district. she barely won the seat the last time she ran. fair market value you can show he was being overpaid but if she comes back and says i needed the extra security. my life was under -- i was being threatened in washington, d.c. has a big crime problem already she might have. >> dana: these are serious charges and provides an opportunity for everyone on capitol hill to have a serious conversation about what funds should be allowed for increased needs for personal security. because should you use official funds? >> if your whole campaign is to defund the police, but yet you need extra security, isn't that a conflict of interest because you are getting rid of security for everybody else? why do you need the extra security? defunding the police apparently we don't need the protection.
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>> dana: she and other members of the squad are facing primary challenges for lots of different reasons. defund the police is one. anti-israel stance is another one. for cori bush she is under d.o.j. investigation. jamal bowman was promoting 9/11 conspiracy theories. i don't know how the opposition research team didn't see that and omar said somalia is her first priority. >> they show the people they voted for were not the priority. their mission was to get in and exploit and use the group thing where they blame white america for all their problems and everyone stepped back and let them get away with these things and outrageous behaviors and now being held accountable. just when people who do these things who are wolves in sheep's close they go back to the old card, racism, right wing maga. it is so clear. you said it as clear as day. somalia is my first interest. her faith was second.
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america wasn't mentioned in the speech. her intentions remain clear. they can't be upset when the american people are questioning them why are you sitting in this office? >> i think israel is the bigger problem for many in the squad right now. they have all gone after israel. they have now got serious challenges in the primaries. bowman, mr. pull the fire alarm guy is one thing that is hurting him but also when it comes to cori bush, omar and it has been their stance on hamas and israel and calling israel -- you said accused them of genocide when it comes to gaza. that's where the political story will play out for these guys. for all four of them. >> dana: who gets money and who doesn't. >> they have all got serious challenges. believe me it will be the israel story that could really hurt them. >> dana: we're still monitoring the hearing on the hill.
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we have more on this. >> street scandal over u.n. staff in gaza working with activities is larger debate if the u.s. should be funding united nations at all. >> allows taxpayer dollars to fund unrwa. >> not one penny of american taxpayer dollars should be going to fund a terrorist organization. essentially unrwa has become a branch of hamas. >> funding is on pause until the u.n. investigates how its employees ended up committing terrorism and whether the u.s. has funneled taxpayer money that ended up in their hands. this just in to fox as well. senator tim scott later today will introduce new legislation that will completely prohibit u.s. funding going to the u.n. until unrwa has been permanently disbanded. take a look at what he tells fox news. not a single cent of american
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tax dollars should go toward the beheading of innocent babies, rape of women or murder of civilians. the state department said they have full confidence in the u.n.'s ability to investigate itself in this ongoing issue. this comes as yet more allegations continue to arise hourly now against the u.n. and gaza. >> dana: gillian turner, thank you. >> bill: martha maccallum now joins us, host of the "the story." one u.n. staffer kidnapped an israeli woman. one raided a kibbutz. one doled out ammunition to hamas fighters. mike pompeo said there are dozens who operated this way. there was one report from gillian yesterday suggests that thousands may be involved. think about that. >> it is so disheartening and it raises very legitimate questions about the united nations and whether or not funding them is
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something that genuinely is a humanitarian effort, right? and you have this ongoing angst over this investigation into whether or not sexual assaults happened during the hamas raid on october 7th. it is something that they have struggled with a lot at the u.n. you remember when sarah hendricks came out and said that basically gender-based violence as a weapon of war is reprehensible but couldn't bring herself to talk about hamas and the evidence that was mounting of what had been carried out. you know, you can go back to june of 2023, 11 u.n. peacekeepers accused of sexual exploitation abuse in the central african public. who is overseeing the people part of these organizations. wrapping but to gillian's reporting. if they cannot guarantee that they have removed anyone who was involved in this attack from this organization, then funding to this organization has to be a legitimate question. i understand aid flows to this
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group and aid is very important but maybe it needs to be picked up by other entities to better police the people who are part of their organization. if they are committing attacks you are creating work for yourself and funding that will be required in the wake of these attacks. it is really -- i also think it speaks to a larger narrative that is accepted in many of these organizations. i think that's the scary underbelly of this. >> dana: on monday i scrolled through a newsletter i get and a bullet said the u.n. is landing today in israel to finally investigate the sexual crimes from october 7th. four months later. i wonder if there will be bipartisan agreement about the taking away of the funding now. trump took away the funding initially. biden put it back. now after that you have some -- i wonder what chuck schumer would say. >> undoing everything the former president did just because he
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did it. we've seen that has amounted to a lot of mistakes that have been made and things that needed to be re-- it would make more sense for an incoming administration to say let's take a look. why did they pull back the funding? maybe it was a good idea. let's leave that in place. this undo everything mentality. look what happened at the border. >> dana: he did 94 -- biden did 94 executive actions in the first 100 days border relate i had issues to take things back. >> the irony is trump turned over a lot of tables at the u.n. when president. nikki haley was there to do it for him. >> absolutely. >> dana: her recommendation. >> she said there is no surprise in what we're learning from u.n. organizations. she worked hard to get a better look at what was going on in these organizations and not at all surprised what she is seeing here. >> bill: see you at 3:00.
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>> harris: democrat-led cities are buckling under the pressure of biden's border crisis. alleged illegal immigrants pummeling new york city police. they were arrested and then let go 0 bail. so they are like american criminals now. a full year after that horrific train accident in ohio, and finally the president has time to visit. for a long time he didn't. a border crisis american soldiers killed, impeachment proceedings and two wars. but he has time now because ohio
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could be a swing state. is that why? house foreign affairs committee chairman michael mccaul. phil holloway, jason rantz. "the faulkner focus" top of the hour. >> dana: big tech ceo hearing is underway. lindsey graham is starting to question now. we're monitoring all of this. keeping it live for you. >> bill: it will go for several hours. well oh he see what we get in the end. stand by for more. the commonwealth of massachusetts now grappling with an overwhelming surge of migrants. asylum seekers at the airport. the governor has a new proposal where to house them next and some people are outraged. molly, what did you find out? >> we're outside of this community center in the city of boston. a center that is used by the elderly as well as underprivileged youth and predominantly black community in
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the city of boston and now being turned into a temporary shelter for migrants here in the city. this is part of the challenge that has hit across the state. the influx of migrants created a shelter system completely packed beyond capacity. boston's mayor, a democrat not thrilled with the state's plan here. the recreation complex is state owned and capacity to house up to 400 people. mayor whew traveled to washington expecting to meet with mayorkas lamenting the city's overburdened shelters. >> there are no good options. i know this from conversations with mayors around the country. a good 25% of the beds are for recently arrived new migrant individuals and again we're having now to accommodate and put more resources in. >> state officials estimate that nearly half of those using state shelters across massachusetts
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are new arrivals like those sleeping at boston's logan airport and many relocated to this newly opened facility. word of the switch has come as a shock and surprise to the residents in this neighborhood. >> i think the community loves to support that type of activity that is needed for folks who are homeless and need a place to stay but again, to be asked to do something without asking us is not the right approach. >> the democratic governor as well as boston's mayor will arrive at the complex shortly to tour the facility with media availability after that and a small handful of protestors in the distance here to greet them as well. one of the posters says boston is full. our kids come last. >> bill: molly line trying to deal with that in boston. >> dana: senate judiciary hearing with big tech ceos failure to protect children
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online is what the hearing is called. if you look at the graph here it shows a spike in depression as usage of smartphones rose' hmong teams. you look at 1990, 4%. just as smartphone use takes off after 2010 it goes way up. one of the issues on the minds of parents and the hill today. >> bill: i thought what lindsey graham was interesting. i use your product. we all use your product. let's get it right. we've seen the hearings before where they go nowhere and seen where they talk circles around the lawmakers. i would argue the lawmakers have more education into technology now. they use it and staffs use it and see whether or not. -- >> dana: there is bipartisanship on this hearing today. we'll pay attention. now over to harris faulkner. >> harris: this is happening right now and we're all over it. two important hearings right now. senate lawmakers are demanding answers from five big tech ceos

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